Court drops X rating, allows Inxeba to be screened in cinemas under 18SNL rating pending review
Source: News24
The matter involving the film, Inxeba (The Wound), has been postponed to March 28, which will be heard as an urgent application, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled. In the meantime, the movie is allowed to be screened at cinemas with an 18SNL rating.
The matter is called up.
Budlender:”This is a matter involving a film that has been prevented from being screened in the movies. A draft order has been agreed upon that the matter be heard on March 28 as an urgent matter.”
Advocate Dali Mpofu SC is representing CONTRALESA while Advocate Steven Budlender will be representing Indigenous Film Distribution and Uhuru Media.
Inxeba producers ask court to intervene in porn rating matter
The producers of the film, Inxeba (The Wound), will on Tuesday ask the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to overturn its porn rating.
In a statement released by Mad Moth Communications, David Alex Wilson said the producers of the film, through their attorneys Webber Wentzel, filed an application on February 24 for an urgent interdict to overturn the reclassification of the film.
The Film and Publication Board Appeals Tribunal overturned the original classification of 16LS and gave the film a rating of X18, classifying the film in the same category as hardcore pornography, Wilson said.
The film, which is about a gay relationship set in the context of a Xhosa initiation ceremony, was pulled from cinemas after it was slapped with a X18 classification.