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Bang Bang Club Premiere  E-mail
Written by Lorenzo Tartamella, Photos: Joey Franco   
Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:43

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During the second day of the Tribeca Film Fest, The Bang Bang Club Premiered at the BMCC/TPAC Theatre at 199 Chambers street in lower Manhattan.  The red carpet event featured the stars of the film Ryan Phillippe (The Lincoln Lawyer), Taylor Kitsch (NBC's Friday Night Lights), and Malin Akerman (Happythankyoumoreplease) as well as Greg Marinovich (Photojournalist and subject of the film.  The Bang Bang Club opens theatrically on April 22nd, 2011.

The Bang Bang Club is a biopic which tells the story of four young combat photojournalists- Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter, and Ken Oosterbroek.  The four young photographers are bonded by both their friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth by virtue of their cameras. 
 
The true story takes place within the townships of South Africa during the Apartheid period, particularly between 1990 and 1994.  In 1994, these men risked their lives to tell the stories of brutality and violence which occured during the first free elections of post-Apartheid South Africa. 
 
Greg Marinovice (Ryan Phillippe) is the new guy on the team of The Star, a South-African newspaper and quickly becomes known as a fearless photoreporter who will go trough great lenghts to tell his story.  Greg goes from freelancer to star photojournalist at The Star after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1991 for his coverage of the killing of Lindsaye Tshabalala.  Greg struggles with his purpose as a photographer and is aided by his Photo Editor and love interest Robin Comley (Malin Akerman). 

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