08-FEB-12
A host of pre-release screenings at 8pm on Tuesday, 14 February is offered by South African cinema chain Sterk-Kinekor, including This Means War, My Week With Marilyn and Semi Soet.
08-FEB-12
On Tuesday 21 February the Origins Centre at Wits University will show the National Geographic Channel documentary, Kissinger. Henry Kissinger is a former secretary of state of America and a former national security advisor.
08-FEB-12
To coincide with Oscar season, the art house circuit of South African cinema chain Ster-Kinekor will screen a host of Oscar-nominated films, including Hugo, The Descendants, The Artist, The Iron Lady, My Week With Marilyn, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
07-FEB-12
The fabulously romantic 2004 film, The Notebook, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel MacAdams, will be screened on Valentine’s Day, 14 February at Rhebokskloof Wine Estates’ scenic open-air Theatre on the Lake in Paarl, Western Cape.
07-FEB-12
The closing date for the nationwide DStv Film Talent Celebration short film competition is 29 February. Films have to be between three and 10 minutes in length and can be in any genre as long as the entry is a high impact offering.
This competition focuses on the ability of South African filmmakers to tell wonderful authentic stories through very short films.
This competition focuses on the ability of South African filmmakers to tell wonderful authentic stories through very short films.
07-FEB-12
The Daniel Espinosa-directed Safe House, the first major Hollywood action film to be set in Cape Town, releases on 10 February.Starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, this Universal Pictures production was shot in and around Cape Town with Moonlighting Films.
07-FEB-12
The Josh Trank helmed sci-fi / superhero adventure motion picture, Chronicle, distributed by 20th Century Fox and shot in South Africa by Film Afrika last year, took the No.1 spot in the US this weekend - raking in $22m in domestic box office receipts.
06-FEB-12
I Don’t…! a film about the scourge of domestic abuse in South Africa and the first film in the A Love Promised trilogy from producer / actress Nonkululeko Ndlovu will be launched on 29 February at Montecasino, Johannesburg.
02-FEB-12
Channel24 reports that director Regardt van den Bergh's new film The Lamb will have Hollywood producer Frank Yablans, a former president of Paramount Pictures, on board.
01-FEB-12
South African cinema-going opera fans can delight in the next instalment of the 5th season of The Met Opera, The Enchanted Island, which releases exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and Select Ster-Kinekor theatres on 10 Feruary
01-FEB-12
The UK and the US will take the spotlight at the Strategic Partners co-production market, which runs from 13 to 16 September in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A production of the Atlantic Film Festival, it focuses on feature film, television and multiplatform fiction projects.
01-FEB-12
Superimposing an African imagination on filmmaking processes, the 5th Talent Campus Durban (20 to 24 July) will ignite the creativity of 40 selected filmmakers from Africa in a series of masterclasses, workshops and industry networking opportunities during the Durban International Film Festival.
01-FEB-12
Award-winning director and producer Junaid Ahmed’s film production company Fineline Productions was recently announced as recipients of the 2012 National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) Slate Funding. His goal is to create a multi-million rand fund to develop and harness the skills of a ‘Born-Free’ generation of upcoming black filmmakers in the country.
31-JAN-12
South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) will have a presence at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival, which runs in France from 16 to 27 May 2012.
26-JAN-12
As part of its Movie Connoisseurs programme, Ster-Kinekor’s art house circuit Cinema Nouvea presents a special screening of My Week With Marilyn on 29 January at Cinema Nouvea in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Renowned film critic Barry Ronge will introduce the film
25-JAN-12
South African producers who work with European co-production partners might be interested to learn that according to a new report from the European Audiovisual Observatory, an estimated 2.1 billion euros flowed to the film and television sector from public funding bodies based in Europe in 2009.
25-JAN-12
South African filmmaker Ettiene Kallos received a Global Filmmaking Award from the Sundance Institute and Mahindra at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in the US this week in recognition of his visionary project.
25-JAN-12
The Walt Disney Company Africa is proud to announce that Disney and Disney-distributed film properties have acquired a combined 12 Academy Award (Oscar) nominations in this year's competition.
25-JAN-12
SANAD, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s (ADFF) fund for Arab filmmakers, is issuing a final call for submissions for its current application cycle.
The deadline, which was formerly 26 January, has been extended to 5 February. The deadline for the following SANAD cycle will be 26 June 2012.
24-JAN-12
South African cinema chain Ster-Kinekor releases the Bollywood blockbuster, Karan Johar’s Agneepath, on 26 January in Gateway (Durban), The Zone (Johannesburg) and Arcades (Lusaka).
