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).
20-JAN-12
Popular South African singer, songwriter and entertainer Nataniël will hit local cinema screens for seven days only in his theatre production COMBAT. The film opens on 3 February and will play at selected Ster-Kinekore and Nu Metro cinemas throughout South Africa.
20-JAN-12
Filmmakers from the African continent and the diaspora are reminded to submit their film projects to the Durban FilmMart (DFM) before 15 February 2012. Producers with projects in development are encouraged to apply for this valued pitching opportunity and co-production funding event.
19-JAN-12
British ‘It Girl’ Sienna Miller (Alfie, Casanova ) is in Cape Town shooting the UK TV movie, The Girl, a film that explores the relationship between the late iconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Rear Window) and his leading lady in films such as Marnie and The Birds, Tippi Hedren.
18-JAN-12
Over half of Europe’s cinema screens are now digital according to a new report by the European Audiovisual Observatory and MEDIA Salles. Some 185,000 digital screens were installed in Europe by the end of 2011.
18-JAN-12
C21 Media reports that British broadcasters Sky and ITV are under government pressure to increase their support for local film production.
18-JAN-12
South African art house cinema circuit, Cinema Nouveau, is proud to announce that bookings are now open to the public to join renowned film critic and radio personality, Barry Ronge, for a pre-release screening of the film, J. EDGAR on Sunday, 22 January at Cinema Nouveau in Rosebank.
18-JAN-12
Manifesto Films (Northern Ireland) in association with Pistoleros Films (South Africa) and the newly formed feature film company, Jet Black Entertainment (South Africa), are currently in production with the South African part of the Independent Irish / South African feature film, The Good Man.
18-JAN-12
South Africa’s first full length Afrikaans dubbed spoof movie, Spoofie! Die Wilde Weste, has launched its teaser trailer and official website.
