Wed, 08 Feb 2012
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.
Wed, 08 Feb 2012
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.
Wed, 08 Feb 2012
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.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012
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.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012
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.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012
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.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012
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.
Mon, 06 Feb 2012
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.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012
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.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
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
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
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.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
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.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
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.
Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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.
Thu, 26 Jan 2012
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
Wed, 25 Jan 2012
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.
Wed, 25 Jan 2012
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.
Wed, 25 Jan 2012
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.
Wed, 25 Jan 2012
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.
Tue, 24 Jan 2012
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).
Fri, 20 Jan 2012
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.
Fri, 20 Jan 2012
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.
Thu, 19 Jan 2012
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.
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
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.
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
C21 Media reports that British broadcasters Sky and ITV are under government pressure to increase their support for local film production.
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
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.
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
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.
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
South Africa’s first full length Afrikaans dubbed spoof movie, Spoofie! Die Wilde Weste, has launched its teaser trailer and official website.
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
The Fugard Bioscope in Cape Town will continue its World Opera and Ballet Season on Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 21 January until 27 May 2012, in association with The Royal Opera House (ROH), The Royal Ballet Company (RBC) and the Bolshoi Ballet.
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
War Horse, DreamWorks Pictures and director Steven Spielberg's epic adventure, will release in South African cinemas on 24 February.
Thu, 12 Jan 2012
In chilling news for anyone who believes in freedom of expression, The Telegraph reports that the Iranian government is taking steps to lock down its local film industry.
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
Well known South African scriptwriter and film lecturer, Janet van Eeden, is going the crowd-sourcing route to raise funds for the short film version of her feature film in development, A Shot at the Big Time.
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
Channel24 reports that South African actress Khomotso Manyaka has made a Time magazine list of ‘Best performances of 2011’ for her role as Chanda in acclaimed local film Life, Above All.
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
Durban-based Sean Wisedale has joined a crew from The Unlimited as they embark on the Ski the Last Degree South Pole expedition in Antarctica.
Tue, 10 Jan 2012
A new short film installation by South African filmmaker and academic Jyoti Mistry is on display until 20 January at GoetheonMain at Arts on Main in Johannesburg.
Sat, 07 Jan 2012
31 Million Reasons is a new South African film by John Barker and will be released this month by Nu Metro Films. Based on Naresh Veerna’s book of the same name it tells the story of an unexpected haul from a bank heist in Durban.
Sat, 07 Jan 2012
Cape Town-based director SIMON WOOD was invited to take his first film, the award-winning Forerunners, to the recent International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). This is his account of the IDFA experience.
Sat, 07 Jan 2012
Satellite pay-TV platform DStv has launched the Film Talent Celebration Competition and calls on filmmakers across South Africa to enter to celebrate the art of very short-filmmaking. Entries close on 29 February.
Sat, 07 Jan 2012
A feature film on South African Voortrekker heroine Racheltjie De Beer is currently in development by filmmaker Brett Michael Innes.The well-known fable tells of a girl and her younger brother who got lost in a snow storm while looking for a beloved calf. According to the tale, Racheltjie died protecting her brother from the cold
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
Moonlighting Films’ Genevieve Hofmeyr was the supervising producer on Machine Gun Preacher, an action biopic about an American felon turned Christian child activist stationed in Sudan. Released late last year the film, set in the US and Sudan, was predominantly shot in Johannesburg with the American scenes shot in Detroit, Michigan.
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
Local heist film 31 Million Reasons will open at Ster-Kinekor cinemas nationwide on 13 January. Based on true events of 1997, the film tells the tale of the fictionalised local detective, Ronnie Gopal, who has illusions of being above the criminal class and wants to clean up his act...but only by orchestrating the biggest cash heist in South African history.
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
Stefan Enslin of Faith in Motion is bringing awareness to the plight of a young boy and his mother in a new documentary. Damian Gower is 13 but unlike most boys his age he cannot sit, stand, crawl or walk. He is also unable to communicate easily with anyone except his mom Deirdré.
Wed, 04 Jan 2012
A series of open air community film screenings will kick off the 2012 Franschhoek
cultural calendar. Situated along the R45, 3km from the town centre, the event
takes place in the heart of the township of Franschhoek North, at Mooiwater.
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
Cape Town-based wildlife filmmaker Sophie Vartan, founder, CEO, MD and executive producer of NHU Africa, will be leaving the company at the end of December 2011 to move back into freelance production.
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
Director Junaid Ahmed (More Than Just a Game) was the first guest featured in the National Film and Video Foundation’s (NFVF) recently launched In Conversation With.... series of film industry stakeholder interaction sessions.
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
DStv invites South African filmmakers to enter short films of between three and 10 minutes into the DStv Film Talent Celebration Competition. Films may be in any genre but must have a high impact offering.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
Rosebank Cinema Nouveau has teamed up with renowned film critic Barry Ronge to host a special pre-release screening of Hollywood blockbuster, The Ides of March, on 11 December 2011.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
South African producers working on co-productions with English partners will be interested to learn that UK industry body Creative England has opened two new schemes of Lottery funding, delegated from the British Film Institute (BFI), to support the development of filmmaking talent in the English regions.
Tue, 06 Dec 2011
The 1993 comedy, Searching for My Wife’s Husband (A la recherché du mari de ma femme), directed by the acclaimed and prolific Moroccan filmmaker Mohamed Abderahaman Tazi, will screen at the Labia on Orange in Cape Town on 13 December.
Mon, 05 Dec 2011
Inside Story: The Science of HIV/Aids screened for the first time to a packed theatre in Johannesburg on World Aids Day on 1 December.
Wed, 30 Nov 2011
A Kenyan production and a Rwanda-Australia co-production are among the first five projects selected for CineMart 2012, which takes place alongside the International Film Festival Rotterdam from 29 January to 1 February.
Wed, 30 Nov 2011
South African producer Helena Spring has been awarded the highly sought after film rights to Zoo City, the Sci-Fi “cyberpunk” thriller penned by South African author Lauren Beukes, who won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke award for best Science Fiction novel.
Tue, 29 Nov 2011
The Dawn of a New Day was announced as Best Documentary at the recent awards ceremony of the Transforming Stories International Christian Film Festival (TSICFF) 2011.
Mon, 28 Nov 2011
Afrikaans musical Platteland, which opened at cinemas on 25 November, has proven to be a hit during its first weekend on circuit, raking in R1.7m in ticket sales and reaching the top three spot on the film industry’s top ten, after Hollywood blockbusters Breaking Dawn and Happy Feet 2.
Fri, 25 Nov 2011
Bookings are now open to the public to join film critic Barry Ronge for an exclusive pre-release screening of the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris on Sunday 18 December at Cinema Nouveau in The Mall of Rosebank.
Wed, 23 Nov 2011
A feature film about South African born cricket player Basil D’Oliveira, known around the world as Dolly, is currently in development from a screenplay written by Cape-Town born screenwriter Sir Ronald Harwood (Oscar-winner for The Pianist).
Mon, 21 Nov 2011
Twilight fans were out in their numbers the past few days as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 achieved the second biggest opening weekend of all time for South Africa, after The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Fri, 18 Nov 2011
As part of the fifth season of the Metropolitan Opera (the Met) in New York screening exclusively at select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau theatres, Wagner’s Siegfried will release on 25 November.
Tue, 15 Nov 2011
The winners of General Post and Curious Pictures’ South Africa’s Next Top Filmmaker 2011 competition were recently announced at Maximillien in Johannesburg. They are Sbu Zuma and Sihle Ngcamu for What’s In A Name and Keolebongile Moaisi for The Intersection. Both teams have been awarded a paid internship at Curious Pictures in 2012.
Tue, 15 Nov 2011
South African director Sara Blecher was awarded the IFP Adrienne Shelly Director’s Grant in New York last week for her work on the film Otelo Burning.
Tue, 15 Nov 2011
The Cape Film Commission (CFC) has announced an agreement with the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) that will see the CFC act as an agent for the dti within the Western Cape to promote film locally and internationally. The agreement focuses on helping local filmmakers attend international film festivals, markets and trade missions, with budgets allocated through the SSAS process.
Mon, 14 Nov 2011
Alcon Entertainment – the producers of Blind side – will release the star-studded Dolphin Tale on 6 January 2012.
Fri, 11 Nov 2011
A new local action comedy and first feature film by Diprente Films promises spectacular stunts and features some of South Africa’s top comedians.
Thu, 10 Nov 2011
There were two things that happened in 2005: the Japanese tsunami and Progress beat Maties. So claims one of the players of Progress rugby club in a new documentary called Progress.
Tue, 08 Nov 2011
Shot in Johannesburg, Vehicle 19 is a high octane thriller that stars Hollywood name Paul Walker (Fast and Furious, Eight Below) who also serves as executive producer.
Mon, 07 Nov 2011
A new South African film set during the xenophobic violence of 2008 premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival recently. Man on Ground was one of four South African films selected for the 36th edition of
Mon, 07 Nov 2011
Earlier this year, 25 teams of 125 people took to the road in the inaugural Put Foot Rally. A short film documented all the action.
They travelled in a variety of vehicles, from fully kitted 4x4s to standard Citi Golfs.
Mon, 07 Nov 2011
Producer / director Jane Thandi Lipman of Johannesburg-based Current Affairs Films secured deals for three projects in development and pre-production at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, including one with Canadian company White Pine Pictures for the drama series / feature film, The Great Karoo.
Mon, 07 Nov 2011
Triple O is a new South African film that was shot at a comedy festival in Bassline, Johannesburg. It features comedians Thomas Gumede and Tall Ass MO.
The film tracks the comedians before, during and after their stand-up live comedy shows and was produced by Monarch. It will be independently distributed.
Mon, 07 Nov 2011
Naomie Harris, who stars in the UK-Kenya-South Africa co-production, The First Grader, has been cast as a Bond girl in the 23rd James Bond film which is titled, Skyfall.
Fri, 04 Nov 2011
Leon van Nierop’s Wolwedans in die Skemer is an epic journey of adaptation from a hugely successful radio play in 1979 to a book in 1983, a TV series in 1985 and now a film that will be adapted into a book again after the film is complete.
Fri, 04 Nov 2011
Principal photography on Mad Buddies, the new film from South African funny man Leon Schuster, was completed in early November. Directed by Gray Hofmeyr the film releases in June 2012.
Wed, 02 Nov 2011
New Afrikaans musical Platteland aims to attract audiences with some of the biggest stars in Afrikaans music.
Wed, 02 Nov 2011
The producers of Black Butterflies, a film based on the tragic life of apartheid-era South African poet Ingrid Jonker, have announced a slew of deals secured by world sales outfit Bavaria Film International.
Wed, 02 Nov 2011
Stolen Time is a new South African film currently on our radar. It tells the story of Jody Williams (Faheen Khan) who, having inherited a house from his late political activist uncle, decides to create his own ‘rainbow nation’ and turns the house into a commune.
Wed, 02 Nov 2011
ITVS, which funds, distributes, and promotes new programmes primarily for public television, is inviting applications for its international call. The deadline for materials is 9 December.
Tue, 01 Nov 2011
According to the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) the South African and New Zealand governments have signed a co-production agreement which will benefit the creative industries in both countries. The agreement, which came to effect on 20 October 2011, follows the success of 2009 blockbuster District 9, produced by New Zealand's Peter Jackson and directed by South Africa's Neill Blomkamp.
Mon, 31 Oct 2011
The fifth season of The New York Metropolitan Opera, or The Met as it is commonly referred to, will release exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor theatres on 4 November.
Wed, 26 Oct 2011
The Jameson First Shot, a new short film competition designed to discover talented screenwriters and directors from Russia, South Africa and the US, comes with an incredible prize where one winner from each country will have his or her script made into a short film by Trigger Street Productions, starring Kevin Spacey.
Wed, 26 Oct 2011
South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) will participate in the upcoming Bojanala Film Week, the brainchild of the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality. In partnership with the North West Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and Ster-Kinekor, the film week aims to establish and promote film activity in the North West Bojanala District, Rustenburg.
