Scheduled to screen at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, which kicks off tomorrow, February 5, and runs through the 16th, is a crime drama that was South Africa’s contender for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award last year (although it didn’t make the final cut), titled "The Four Corners" – ‘Die Vier Hoeke,’ which is South African prison slang for the four corners of a prison cell.
Director Ian Gabriel’s gang-lands coming of age thriller centers on a 13-year-old chess prodigy who’s drawn into Cape Town’s "notorious child-gang culture." His absent father, recently released from prison, tries to break the…
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