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2 unusual facts about The Constant Gardener


Lake Magadi

The lake is featured in Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John le Carré, although in the film the shots are supposed to be at Lake Turkana.

Magadi, Kenya

Magadi was a filming location for Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John le Carré, although in the film, the shots are supposed to be at Lake Turkana, which are actually at Lake Magadi.


ARC Music

In recent years ARC Music has been used in various films, including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Casino Royale, Burn After Reading, The Kingdom, The Constant Gardener.

Fernando Meirelles

He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, film which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress to Rachel Weisz.

Loiyangalani

Loiyangalani was the setting for John le Carré's novel, The Constant Gardener, and was also a location for the film of the same title.

Lokichogio

It was featured in the John Le Carré book on which the 2005 film The Constant Gardener was based, and served as the setting for much of Philip Caputo's novel, Acts of Faith.

Nicola Emmanuelle

Whilst concentrating on Movie Soundtracks over the next six years; including Pride, Duma, Racing Stripes, Tsotsi and The Constant Gardener Emmanuelle started writing again, culminating in her returning from 2007 to her first love of jazz and has been working with her band ever since, performing at venues across the UK and Europe, writing and singing her own material as well as original arrangements of the classic American Songbook.

Thin Man Films

Thin Man films shares its offices in London's Greek Street with Potboiler Production, a production company started by Simon Channing Williams and producer Gail Egan in 2000, which produced seven films before Channing Williams died, among them Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby and Fernando Meirelles' Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener.


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