THOUGH the film hasn’t been finished, the trailer of The Bang-Bang Club has already hit the Cannes film festival.

Actors Ryan Philippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch are in the resort town promoting the movie, which was made in SA, about four news photographers who documented the violence at the end of apartheid.

Greg Marinovich, the photographer who co-authored the book and whose character is played by Philippe, said that though he wasn’t sunning himself on French beaches, he was happy the film was being promoted in France.

“The film is in its final [post-] production stage where the directors are editing and putting the final touches to it,” he said.

Filming was wrapped up earlier this month. The film’s director, Steven Silver, told a press conference on Friday that he had had an interest in the photographers who called themselves The Bang-Bang Club ever since he saw an article on Marinovich and Silva’s book in Time magazine.