The Sunday Mail
ADORATION Bizure, whose full-length movie “Camouflage” opened to warm critical appeal last month, has another feather on his film-making eagle’s cap.
Under his Eagle Eye Films, the young enterprising film-maker and director has just signed a deal that will see the nation’s leading and only integrated media house, Zimpapers, selling copies of his latest baby through its vendors strewn around the capital Harare.
“It is true that we have signed a deal and we shall start distributing the movie through a network that is wide and trusted through the newspaper vendors,” Bizure confirmed.
Following his inaugural film “Deception”, Bizure has worked full steam ahead producing what is an obvious labour of love “Camouflage”, which he did despite the non-availability of resources forcing him to invest a lot of time and money into the project to ensure its success.
“Riddled with one or two glitches owing to a funding crisis, the product has, however, shown that with support from funding agencies and Government, Bizure may well be the next big thing to come out of Zimbabwe’s film industry. Befittingly, he has named his production company Eagle Eye.
From the onset, he has kept an eagle eye on the ultimate prize of delivering sound products in spite of the almost insurmountable difficulties in an economy struggling to get out of the woods.
And because the economy is still in the woods, Bizure has chosen not to stay stuck in the woods but to mount up with wings like an eagle and soar above the economic jungle.
“It is not easy coming up with such a production and yet here I am and I have achieved what many would find insurmountable had they been in my shoes,” he says confidently.
The movie “Camouflage” is a story of love, deception and betrayal, themes that seem to run through Bizure’s scriptwriting lifeblood and tells a tale of the extents to which people will go in pursuit of love and the objects of their affection.
It stars amongst its star-studded cast, radio personality Phathisani Sibanda, Anthony Togani and a rich cameo by enigmatic evangelist Prophet Passion Java as well as Adoration Bizure as male lead.
“Many people were wondering where they could at least get a copy after our glitzy and certainly glamorous launch in July and we have answered that need with this partnership. People should start expecting to see vendors with copies as early as this week,” Bizure said.
Should the young enterprising filmmaker and journalist with the heart of a bison continue with his relentless pursuit of making more productions, then certainly the future of film is bright.
“We just urge people to buy a copy and help finance the industry, which has been killed by lack of funding and certainly by the scourge of piracy,” Bizure implored.
