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.

 

From the imagination of Factory Fifteen

 

A Stray Bear Production in association with Jellyfish Pictures

 

Town VFX by Factory Fifteen 

Big fish and underwater VFX by Jellyfish Pictures

 

Directed by Kibwe Tavares
Written by Jack Thorne
Produced by Ivana MacKinnon

 

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 & Jonathan Gales

Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Nicholls

Fish Concept Art – Warren Holder
Composer – Mark Sayfritz
Sound Recordist – Will Whale
Costume Designer– Celia Lusted
Casting Directors – Aisha Waters Saheem Baig