“Dangerous Boys for Life” filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are set to direct a movie in regards to the tragic true story of Sanda Dia, a Black pupil who died in 2018 after enduring a violent fraternity hazing ritual at an elite college in Belgium.

Brussels-based manufacturing firm Komoko, based by Nabil Ben Yadir and Marc Goyens, is producing the movie.

Penned by El Arbi and Fallah, the script was impressed by the books penned by Dia’s father, Ousmane (Papis) Dia, “ze hebben mijn zoon vermoord” (“They Killed My Son”), and “De doop die leidde tot de dood” (“The Baptism That Led to Demise”) by journalist Pieter Huyberechts.

Dia was 20 years outdated when he died within the hazing ritual on the Catholic College of Leuven, the place he was compelled by members of an elite – and principally white — fraternity to swallow a dwell goldfish, and drink great amount of fish oil and alcohol throughout a brutal initiation ritual. Dia collapsed and died in a hospital two days later after struggling

Information Dia’s loss of life sparked uproar in Belgium and name for justice because the 18 members of the fraternity who had been concerned within the hazing didn’t obtain a jail sentence and had been as a substitute sentenced between 200 and 300 hours of neighborhood service, and fined about $430 every.

“Like everybody else, we had been in shock of what occurred to Sanda throughout these two days,” stated El Arbi and Fallah on the undertaking. “After we obtained in contact together with his father, Papis Dia, we had been impressed by his braveness and his willpower to struggle for justice. This movie is a love letter from him to Sanda. We acknowledge ourselves in Sanda and our dad and mom in Papis,” stated the administrators.

The untitled undertaking marks a milestone for Komoko which was “based with a mission to help daring and visionary filmmakers,” stated the corporate. The outfit lately produced “Têtes Brûlées” by Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama, which premiered on the Berlinale Era part earlier this week.

The corporate’s formidable slate consists of the function debut of celebrated choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The producers are assembly potential companions for the untitled undertaking on the Berlinale.

El Arbi and Fallah lately directed “Dangerous Boys: Trip or Die” and “Gangstas,” the coming-of-age story of Jamal ‘Juice Sinclair’ and his rise to fame.

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