Khumba
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| Directed by | Anthony Silverston |
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| Story by | Anthony Silverston |
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| Music by | Bruce Retief |
| Edited by | Luke MacKay |
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Millennium Entertainment (USA) Cinema Management Group (South Africa) Indigenous Film Distribution (International) |
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85 minutes |
| Country | South Africa |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $28.42 million |
| Khumba: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | 1 December 2013 |
| Recorded | 2012-2013 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack, Pop |
| Length | 45:18 |
| Label | labelzero.com |
| Producer | Bruce Retief, Ebrahim Mallum, David Langemann, Ashley Valentine |
Khumba is a 2013 3D South African computer-animated comedy film directed and produced by Anthony Silverston, written by Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne. The film stars Jake T. Austin, Steve Buscemi, Loretta Devine, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E. Grant, AnnaSophia Robb, Catherine Tate, and Liam Neeson. It was made by Triggerfish Animation Studios and is distributed by Millennium Entertainment in the US. The International distribution rights are being licensed by Cinema Management Group. The film is about Khumba, a zebra who is half-striped like a quagga and blamed for the lack of rain by the rest of his insular, abusive, superstitious herd, except his dad, mum and Tombi. He embarks on a quest to earn his stripes.
The film was dedicated in memory of The Quagga Breeding Project founder Reinhold Rau, who died on 11 February 2006. Rau was known for efforts to use selective-breeding to recreate the extinct quagga, a close relative of the plains zebra. The film premiered at the TIFF on 8 September 2013 and was released on 25 October 2013 by Indigenous Film Distribution. The film earned $28.42 million on a $20 million budget.
In South Africa within the Great Karoo, a half-striped zebra named Khumba (Jake T. Austin) is born into an insular isolated herd of all-striped zebras where his mother is Lungisa (Anika Noni Rose) and his father is Seko (Laurence Fishburne). Rumors that the strange foal is cursed spread and before long he is blamed for the drought that sets into the Great Karoo. As he matures, Khumba is picked on and remains ostracized by most of the herd with the exception of Tombi (AnnaSophia Robb), a young female zebra friend close in age - whom Khumba has a crush on - and uncomfortable in the herd due to her tomboyish manners.
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