Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.
A Stray Bear Production in association with Jellyfish Pictures. From the imagination of Factory Fifteen
Directed by Kibwe Tavares.
Written by Jack Thorne.
Produced by Ivana MacKinnon.
Starring.- Daniel Kaluuya, Malachi Kirby and Louis Mahoney.
Executive Producers - Katherine Butler, Ollie Madden, Chris Collins, Phil Dobree, Eva Yates
Co-Producer Fiz Oliver
Line Producer – Sarah Jane Wheale
Editor - Adam Biskupsi
Cinematographer - Chloe Thomson
Production Designer: Paul Nicholls and Jonathan Gales
Fish Concept Art – Warren Holder
Composer – Mark Sayfritz
Sound Recordist – Will Whale
Costume Designer– Celia Lusted
Casting Directors – Aisha Waters Saheen Baig
