Tue, 07 Feb 2012
In February 2011 South Africa’s Right2Know Campaign National Summit resolved to broaden its focus from the Protection of State Information Bill (aka the Secrecy Bill) to campaign for the free flow of information - including campaigning for a free and diverse media that can serve the information needs of all living in south Africa.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
South African documentary Captor & Captive – the story of Danger Ashipala and Johan van der Mescht, will be screened at the Luxor African Film Festival in Egypt in February, as part of the official competition.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
Soldiers of the Rock, an award winning feature film produced in 2000 by graduates of AFDA, the South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance, has been selected as part of the Pan African Film Festival’s (PAFF) 20th Anniversary in Los Angeles.
Mon, 30 Jan 2012
South African brand communication awards, the Loeries, are expanding the experience in Cape Town this year, incorporating the Loeries Judging Week and Seminars, as well as welcoming the Pendoring Awards, which celebrate Afrikaans advertising, to the 3rd Creative Week Cape Town
Mon, 30 Jan 2012
The French silent film, The Artist, has won yet another accolade in its long list of wins - the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for its director Michel Hazanavicius.
Mon, 30 Jan 2012
Jean Dujardin, lead actor in the French silent film, The Artist, has won Best Actor at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards held in Hollywood on 29 January.
Fri, 27 Jan 2012
The 5th Talent Campus Durban will aim to 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 in July.
Tue, 24 Jan 2012
Martin Scorsese’s 3D film Hugo has received 11 nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards (Oscars) to be presented next month in Hollywood.
Fri, 20 Jan 2012
The Bang Bang Club, the true story of four South African photographers on the frontline of apartheid, has been nominted for seven Canadian Film and TV Awards at the 32nd Annual Genie Awards.
Fri, 20 Jan 2012
The first ever Jozi Film Festival will take place from 10 to 12 February 2012 at various venues in Johannesburg, including The Bioscope in Fox Street and the Kensington Club.
Thu, 19 Jan 2012
South Africa’s official entry into this year’s Academy Awards category for foreign language films, Oliver Hermanus’ Skoonheid, did not make the shortlist of nine films chosen from 63 entries.
Thu, 19 Jan 2012
The award-winning feature documentary, The Cradock Four, has been selected for official competition in the Long Films section of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF), to be held in the historical city of Luxor, in Egypt, from 21 to 28 February.
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
Seventy-eight young film producers will participate in the Rotterdam Lab, part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) CineMart, which takes place from 28 January to 1 February.
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
Organisers of the Eco Kids Film Festival, to take place in Cape Town later this year, are calling for entries. Through films that are entertaining, educational, and above all inspirational it is the Eco Kids Film Initiative’s goal to inspire real change through the children of today
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
Nominations were announced recently for the kykNET Fiestas, a ceremony awarding the most talented up-and-coming and established Afrikaans artists.
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
Legendary British wit, writer and actor Stephen Fry is set to host the British Academy of Film & Television Awards (BAFTAS) which take place at London's Royal Opera House on 12 February.
Mon, 16 Jan 2012
Meryl Streep and George Clooney took home the Golden Globe awards for Best Actress and Best Actor in the Drama category of the Golden Globes, which were presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles on 17 January.
Thu, 12 Jan 2012
Documentary Punk in Africa will be the only South African film screening at the 41st Rotterdam Film Festival taking place from 25 January to 5 February, according to Channel24.
Thu, 12 Jan 2012
Fifteen films have been selected for the Tiger Awards Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which takes place from 25 January to 5 February.
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
Applications are now open for the PUMA Creative Catalyst Awards Spring Call 2012 in partnership with the BRITDOC Foundation. The PUMA Creative Catalyst Awards is an international documentary development fund of up to €5,000 (about R51,000) per film.
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
The First International Festival of Corporate Films on Sustainable Development & Ecology, including The Deauville Green Awards, take place in Deauville, France on 11 and 12 April.
Mon, 09 Jan 2012
The Chinese Taipei Film Archive plays a vitally important role in the Taiwanese industry, preserving a wealth of films dating back to 1931.
Starting life as a film library in 1978, the facility was officially upgraded to archive status in 1989.
Starting life as a film library in 1978, the facility was officially upgraded to archive status in 1989.
Mon, 09 Jan 2012
The French silent black and white film, The Artist, has earned five nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards, which take place in Santa Monica on 25 February.
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
The organisers or the Aluta Film Festival are calling for entries from South African and international filmmakers for the ninth edition of the festival taking place from 24 to 27 October 2012 in Kimberley, South Africa.
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
DStv music channel MK has announced the nominees for its 2012 awards event, which features a new category called Best Indie.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
The name of French First Lady and former supermodel Carla Bruni appears in the nominations list of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) Awards, which take place on 29 January in Hollywood.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
The name of French First Lady and former supermodel Carla Bruni appears in the nominations list of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) Awards, which take place on 29 January in Hollywood.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
The name of French First Lady and former supermodel Carla Bruni appears in the nominations list of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) Awards, which take place on 29 January in Hollywood.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
A whole spate of Hollywood awards events take place at this time of the year in a run up to the Academy Awards (Oscars) in February.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
The 23rd Annual Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards will be presented in Los Angeles on 21 January.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
A whole spate of Hollywood awards events take place at this time of the year in a run up to the Academy Awards (Oscars) in February.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
A whole spate of Hollywood awards events take place at this time of the year in a run up to the Academy Awards (Oscars) in February.
Wed, 04 Jan 2012
A record number of entries (233) and judges (104) characterises the 2012 South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS), which will be presented on 10 and 11 March at a Johannesburg venue to be announced in February.
Wed, 04 Jan 2012
The fifth edition of the Gulf Film Festival, the home of bold, experimental and
contemporary cinema from the Arabian peninsula, will be held in Dubai from 10 to
16 April 2012.
Tue, 03 Jan 2012
While the Screen Africa print magazine has traditionally focused on the film industries in South Africa and Africa, we have occasionally been exposed to the industries in other continents. Joanna Sterkowicz received a gracious invitation from the Taipei Liaison Office in Johannesburg to attend the Golden Horse Awards, Asia’s Oscars, in Taiwan (Republic of China) in late November.
Thu, 15 Dec 2011
The 8th Dubai International Film Festival, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President & Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, concluded with a glittering award ceremony, where outstanding talent from the UAE and the Arab world, Asia and Africa were presented DIFF’s prestigious Muhr Awards.
Thu, 15 Dec 2011
The People to People Documentary (P2P) Conference 2011 held in Johannesburg in September was a considerable success for an event only in its 3rd edition.
Wed, 14 Dec 2011
The inaugural and historic Tshwane Young Writers Festival and Conference will take place at the West End Theatre (Old Pretoria Showgrounds), Pretoria West, from 21 to 22 December.
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
The 9th edition of the African Film Festival of Reference in Europe (FCAT) will take place between 13 and 21 October 2012 in Cordoba, the ancient capital of Al-Andalus in Spain.
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
Nairobi-based charity specialising in issues related to children, youth and mass media, Lola Kenya Screen, is calling for film submissions and skills development participation for its seventh annual festival which takes place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6 to 11 August 2012.
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
The eighth Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has joined hands with international television content market MIPTV to strengthen the visibility of emerging filmmakers in the Middle East region by exposing their works to a wider international audience.
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
Described as the world's largest, most international and most prestigious wildlife and environmental film festival, the 2012 edition of Wildscreen will take place in Bristol, UK from Sunday, 14 October to Friday, 19 October.
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
Arab filmmakers must strive to make themselves heard to address the new realities in the region's film industry following the epochal changes that swept the Arab world earlier this year.
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
This week at the eighth Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, sees the international premiere of the German film, Three Quarter Moon.
Thu, 08 Dec 2011
Nine of the finest films from Asia and Africa will screen to the public in Dubai from 7 to 14 December as part of the eighth Dubai International Film Festival’s Cinema of Asia Africa programme.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
The Wavescape Surf Film festival, the largest international surf film festival of its kind, will start in Cape Town on 9 December on Clifton 4th Beach, with further screenings at the Brass Bell, Kalk Bay from 11 to 14 December and the Labia Cinema between 15 and 19 December.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the launch of The International Emmy Kids Awards, a new competition and stand-alone ceremony solely dedicated to recognising excellence in children's television programming produced and initially aired outside of the United States.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
The MTN Joyous Celebration concert at Carnival City’s Big Top Arena in Brakpan on Thursday 15 December will offer fans of gospel music the opportunity to appear in footage being filmed on the night.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
FOCAL International, the international Federation of Commercial Audio-visual Libraries, has extended the submissions deadline for the ninth annual FOCAL International Awards to 12 December 2011.
Tue, 06 Dec 2011
Asolo International Art Festival is calling for entries into its 31st edition which will be held in Italy from 18 to 29 August 2012.
