Catch a Fire (film)

Catch a Fire
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPhillip Noyce
Written byShawn Slovo
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byJill Bilcock
Music byPhilip Miller
Production
companies
Distributed byFocus Features (United States)
StudioCanal (France)
Universal Pictures (International)
Release dates
  • 27 October 2006 (2006-10-27) (US)
  • 23 March 2007 (2007-03-23) (UK)
Running time
101 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • France
  • South Africa
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14 million
Box office$5.7 million

Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.