{"id":155184,"date":"2016-02-15T10:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T08:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=155184"},"modified":"2016-02-15T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T08:14:41","slug":"oscar-pistorius-documentary-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/155184-oscar-pistorius-documentary-in-the-works.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius documentary in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oscar Pistorius: Killing A Dream&#8221; is being produced by Western Edge Pictures on the back of the success of its boxing documentary Mr Calzaghe, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/festivals\/berlin\/oscar-pistorius-documentary-in-the-blocks\/5100097.article\">ScreenDaily reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of Western Edge and the director of Mr Calzaghe, Vaughan Sivell, will direct the Oscar documentary &#8211; and plans to deliver it by early 2017.\u00a0The film will start shooting in March.<\/p>\n<p>According to ScreenDaily, Sivell will make the film in collaboration with journalist Gareth Davies, who has known Pistorius since he was 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The production will try to interview Pistorius, as well as the Steenkamp family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe appeal ruling starts with the line, \u2018This is a tragedy of Shakespearean scale.\u2019 It\u2019s fascinating to me that a judge was to write that\u2026 the story mirrors when Mandela was released, and we saw this nation of reliance and courage, and now there is so much violence and corruption,\u201d said Sivell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Pistorius] self destructs in a way the country of South Africa destructs\u2026There are so many levels to it. It\u2019s what makes great films.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Oscar Pistorius<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/148415-oscar-pistorius-guilty-of-murder-faces-15-years-in-prison.html\"><strong>Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder \u2013 faces 15 years in prison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/100224-oscar-pistorius-lies-tweet-from-ex-causes-buzz.html\"><strong>Oscar Pistorius \u201clies\u201d tweet from ex causes buzz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/99268-oscar-pistorius-phone-history-revealed.html\"><strong>Oscar Pistorius phone history revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/98946-no-web-history-on-oscar-pistorius-ipad.html\"><strong>No web history on Oscar Pistorius\u2019 iPad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Edge Pictures is producing a documentary on the Paralympian convicted of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,35478,14331,35476,35474],"class_list":["post-155184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-gareth-davies","tag-oscar-pistorius","tag-vaughan-sivell","tag-western-edge-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155186,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155184\/revisions\/155186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}