Yesterday I stared in a film called GrapeJuice and now I am anxiously awaiting a call from Steven Spielberg...
GrapeJuice is about a coloured girl, Joy, born and raised on a South African wine farm who later moves to Europe in order to leave her past behind. She meets a European guy and they decide to visit South Africa to see where Joy came from. The film starts off on a tour bus in Cape Town and ends up in the Stellenbosch wine area with Joy, at first embarrassed of her heritage, is forced to come to terms with her South African past. It shows the two sides of the wine culture here and how it is hard for many of the farm workers to ever truly escape the lifestyle they are born into.
I really was part of the film but I don't think Hollywood is in my future. Since Women on Farms Project deals a lot with issues brought up in GrapeJuice, they helped with the organization of the film and I was roped into being a snooty, white tourist extra. I got two friends, Whitney and Kate, to join me and it ended up being fun, though a bit long! We were picked up at 5:30 in the morning, headed into Cape Town where we were given stereotypical white tourist clothing, and began shooting with the sunrise. The first half of the movie was shot on a tour bus and we just chatted in the background. The second half took place on Beyerskloof wine estate and then at a slave memorial in the area. It was a super long day and required a lot of patience as we ran through scenes over and over and over again. Definitely have a new respect for the film industry!
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| in our American Tourist outfits. |
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| filming the last scene. |
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| some of the 'tourists' |
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