Escape from Pretoria still

The first Escape from Pretoria still, taken during filming in Adelaide, Australia, has been released by Arclight Films, MEP Capital and the South Australian Film Corporation. Both Arclight Films and MEP Capital announced that they have come on board and that it's the start of production. The still features Daniel as Tim Jenkin and Daniel Webber as anti-apartheid activist Stephen Lee.

The film is an Australian/UK co-production between Arclight Films, Beagle Pug Films, and Footprint Films.

Based on an extraordinary true story, Escape From Pretoria follows Jenkin and Lee, two white South African twenty-somethings who were branded ‘terrorists’ and imprisoned in 1978 for their involvement in covert anti-apartheid operations for the ANC (African National Congress).

Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, Jenkin and Lee – joined by a fellow inmate – decide to send the regime a clear message and escape.  After months of meticulous surveillance, breath-taking ingenuity, and in a race against time as the authorities strengthen the prison security defenses, the group craft wooden keys for each of the ten steel doors between them and freedom.

Photo: Ian Routledge