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From the editor Time-out to tee-off
Is it an eagle? Is it a birdie? Yes, it's both! Or at least it will be on next Thursday, 16 February at the Screen Africa Golf Day in Johannesburg.
For one glorious day, broadcasters, technicians, filmmakers, studios, post-production facilities and equipment suppliers can abandon the handicaps of industry issues, stay under par and let their stroke play follow-through on the rolling fairways of the CMR Golf Course in Roodepoort.
And now, a shamelessly promotional rhyme for this long-running, popular industry event:
Get out the clubs and take a swing,
Screen Africa's Golf Day is a great thing....Read more
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The chairperson of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), Dr Stephen Mncube, has issued the following statement detailing the Authority’s plans for the year ahead. |
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The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition has written the following open letter to Minister of Communications Dina Pule regarding its position on executive appointments at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). SOS has also requested clarity on the Mavuso Mbebe legal case. |
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South Africa’s Minister of Communications Dina Pule has issued a gazette to extend the date for public comment on the two policy directions that relate to two frequency bands to 29 February 2012. |
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The inaugural Luxor African Film Festival will take place from 21 to 28 February in the city of Luxor, Egypt. |
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Three-in-one East African service provider Zuku, part of the Wananchi Group, has signed a carriage agreement with the African Movie Channel (AMC) to screen Nollywood and other top quality movies from the continent. |
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AfricAvenir presents the Namibian premiere of the award-winning South African Afrikaans language film, Oliver Hermanus’ Skoonheid, on 25 February at 7pm at Studio 77, Old Breweries Complex, Windhoek. |
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MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…The World Has Malaria, a one-minute film by Resource Africa UK, recently won a special COP 17 prize in Durban, where the prize was awarded by Connect4Climate. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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TopTV CEO Vino Govender has announced that he will be stepping down with immediate effect and Eddie Mbalo, chairman of ODM, will fill the role of interim CEO until a replacement for Govender is appointed. |
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South African satellite pay-TV operator TopTV has lined up a host of romantic movies for its Top Movies channel (100) in February to celebrate Valentine’s Day. First up is the Mike Meyers / Jessica Alba comedy, Love Guru, on 10 February at 7pm.
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Africa, represented by pay-TV broadcaster M-Net, is one of the 195 territories that have purchased clearance rights to broadcast the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which take place on Sunday, 12 February. |
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Advertiser Funded Programming (AFP) is being used by clients of ComutaNet, South Africa’s largest commuter media owner, to communicate brand messaging on Rank TV, a television network targeted at the country’s taxi, bus and rail commuters. |
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SABC1 Mzansi Fo Sho and the popular Friday-night music show, Live, present Phase 1 of the Live Talent Search process by calling on all aspiring presenters to enter the national auditions process online via the channel’s website, at www.sabc1.co.za. |
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South African zef-rap duo Die Antwoord performed live on top US talk show The Late Show with David Letterman on Monday, joining guest Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cruel Intentions) on the line-up. |
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Popular soap star Dumisani Mbebe will play one of the lead roles in Mzansi Magic’s first homegrown telenovela, due to launch on the channel on Monday 19 March at 8:30pm. |
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Season one of the hit Twentieth Century Fox comedy series Modern Family premiered on e.tv on Sunday 5 February at 7:30pm, offering an honest and often hilarious look at the complexity of family life. |
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Pay-TV channel M-Net’s decision to move ground-breaking outdoor soap The Wild to a 7pm time slot on DStv is paying off, based on interaction from viewers in the past few weeks. |
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Pay-TV music channel Channel O and youth channel Vuzu will be airing a slate of specially created packages during a week-long build-up to the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday 12 January. |
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Film school produces 14 TV docs |  |
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The Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking is currently producing 14 documentaries that have been commissioned by South African broadcasters e.tv, Mzansi Magic and Mindset. To find out more read the February issue of Screen Africa.
To subscribe CLICK HERE |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Cinemark, the official South African representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and its affiliated global advertising awards programmes, has announced the appointment of three more jury presidents for this year’s event taking place 17 to 23 June in Cannes, France. |
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Design gets filmic | |
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The African premiere of Urbanized, the final film in the Gary Hustwit design trilogy, will take place at the third annual Design Indaba Filmfest, which unfolds at the Labia on Orange in Cape Town from 19 February to 4 March. To find out more read the February issue of Screen Africa.
To subscribe CLICK HERE |
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Draftfcb South Africa’s Chief Creative Officer, Brett Morris, has been invited to judge the radio category at the CLIO Awards, one of the world’s most recognised international advertising, design and communications competitions. |
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Fifty-two percent of businesses globally and in particular 55% of businesses in South Africa are using websites such as Twitter to engage, connect with and inform existing customers, according to a survey conducted by Regus. |
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Research company Informa Telecoms & Media predicts that the smartphone market will see a huge shift over the next five years, moving from predominantly premium devices aimed at advanced users towards cheaper, mass-market devices.
According to the company’s latest research, 81% of all smartphones shipped in 2011 were sold at a wholesale price above US$300. |
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As of December 2011 Facebook has a staggering 845 million users, a fact confirmed on 1 February when the social networking giant filed an initial public offering (IPO) on the stock market, according to www.pcmag.com. |
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The Afrikaans-language musical, Platteland (2 prints), is still on the local circuit after 11 weeks and had made R8.1m as at 5 February. Another Afrikaans film, Hoofmeisie (12 prints), had made R4.2m at the end of the weekend after seven weeks of release. |
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No grey area for Rwandan film | |
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A new Rwandan film, Grey Matter by Kivu Ruhorahoza, has been released into the US market and is scooping up awards. To find out more read the February issue of Screen Africa.
To subscribe CLICK HERE |
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Australia's leading free to air broadcaster, Seven Network, has invested in an Enterprise sQ news production system for its Queensland regional operation. |
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Autoscript, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, will launch several new products and developments at the upcoming BVE 2012 in London to enhance the prompting process, from professional quality prompting on Apple i-Series products to wireless presenter controls. |
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Thomson Video Networks announced today that the BBC is ready to broadcast five high-quality general entertainment HD channels from a single DVB-T2 multiplex using Thomson Video Networks' ViBE EM3000 encoders. |
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Harris Corporation will unveil its next-generation family of file-based analysis solutions at upcoming shows in South Asia, the Middle East and North America — bringing top-tier quality control without compromise to broadcasters, content producers, cable networks, post houses and other digital media operations. |
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XLVideo supplied a camera and PPU system, media server control, projection and scenic Barco MiStrip LED elements to the UK leg of Kasabian’s recent hugely successful Velociraptor! world tour. |
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Blackmagic Design has released Desktop Video 9.2 beta 1, a software update for its capture and playback products that adds broadcast monitoring support with the new Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 update. |
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Vislink will launch its new Advent Mantis "MSAT" Man Portable Data Terminal, a highly portable tri-band satellite antenna system specifically designed for rapid deployment in hostile environments, at CABSAT 2012 in Dubai at the end of February. |
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AmberFin will showcase the latest developments in its iCR file-based content ingest and transcoding system on the stand of its UK channel partner ATG Broadcast, B28, at BVE (Broadcast Video Expo) 2012 in London from 14 to 16 February. |
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Miniature camera specialists SeeSense recently supplied four of their IK-HR1P cameras for use in sub glacial Antarctica on the Lake Ellsworth Expedition.The IK-HR1P is in fact a Toshiba IK-HR1S 1-CMOS HD C-mount camera especially modified to CS-mount by SeeSense. |
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Anton/Bauer, part of Vitec Videocom (a Vitec Group company) has introduced its QRC-CA940 Gold Mount solution for the new Canon EOS C300 camera. |
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Rizzoli & Isles DOP Anthony Hardwick has purchased a second OConnor head for the hit TNT series that is currently airing. Hardwick, who has added a new 2575D to his support package, says: “Season Two has become more ambitious and we need to capture more action in the same timeframe set for a television shoot.” |
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Treasuring African stories and wanting to enable young talented filmmakers to reach a larger amount of viewers, the independent film production company ONE FINE DAY FILMS developed with DW-AKADEMIE and GINGER INK a training workshop concept called One Fine Day Film Workshop. |
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MAIN RESPONSABILITIES: Budgeting, Book Keeping and Financial Planning. Maintain and develop the financial status of major media accounts. Managing the cash receipt of the corporation; preparing MPO’s, company budgets, invoices and receipts for the corporation. |
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Sun Circle Publishers is looking for a committed, dynamic and experienced journalist for a new technical trade print and online publication, in the fields of Professional Audio and AV. |
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25 January 2012: Applications from suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply for the vacant position of Receptionist |
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