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From the editor Splash
In a week dominated by news of controversial paintings of Presidents and tins of paint splish-sploshed over exposed offending bits, not to mention the fall-out between ruling party fans vs supporters of artistic freedom, it's easy to be distracted from the really important things in life. Important from an industry perspective that is – like proactive participation at the most famous film festival in the world, international awards for local TV productions, and gearing up for an all-important finance and co-production market.
It's comforting to know that South Africa is making a big splash at this week's Cannes Film Festival, not only in terms of the large number of filmmakers attending and all the many new films that are being showcased. Additionally a co-production treaty with Ireland was signed at Cannes on Monday, giving South African filmmakers even more opportunity to enter into international co-productions....Read more Joanna Sterkowicz
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 | The South African TV drama series Intersexions, which is produced by Curious Pictures and Ants Multimedia in partnership with Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa (JHHESA) and SABC Education, was on 21 May honoured as a recipient of a 2011 Peabody Award, the world’s oldest and most respected award for electronic media. |
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| South Africa’s Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile and his Irish counterpart Minister Jimmy Deenihan T.D. signed a co-production treaty between the two countries on 21 May at the Cannes International Film Festival. |
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| Twelve fiction projects and 12 documentary projects have been selected for this year's edition of the Durban FilmMart. |
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| Last week the deadline for public comments to the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) for the digital terrestrial television (DTT) set-top box (STB) specification ended with many submissions focusing on the typical subjects such as conditional access or a return path facility. |
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 | SCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: Global satellite operator SES has opened an office in Johannesburg with newly appointed Africa head Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou at the helm. The office is situated at Montecasino and will complement two other SES offices in Africa – one in Ghana and another to be opened in an East African city yet to be confirmed. |
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| Armed with the success of the previous edition in 2011, mobile phone operator Orange, part of France Telecom, has launched the second edition of its Orange African Social Venture Prize. The goal is to promote social innovation in Africa that supports development through Information and Communication Technology (ICT). |
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| Africa’s A24 Media and MHz Networks (US) have announced a new partnership where the latter will feature news shorts from A24, Africa’s first online delivery site for material from journalists, African broadcasters and NGOs from around the continent. |
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 | Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau Theatres has announced a new addition to the National Theatre Live season, She Stoops to Conquer. The title will be screened on 26, 27, 30 and 31 May 2012. |
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 | Bollywood action film Rowdy Rathore will be releasing at Ster-Kinekor Theatres at Gateway and The Zone at Rosebank on 1 June. |
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 | Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile visited Cape Town Film Studios with producer Anant Singh for a tour of the complex and the sets that are being built for the big screen adaptation of former President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom. |
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 | Kaelo - Stories of Hope returns to e.tv on Tuesday 3 July in the 5.30pm time slot, aiming to take viewers on an inspiring journey highlighting social change in South Africa and how companies, communities and the public sector are working together for a brighter future. |
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| The first three stage shows of Idols SA, a co-production between M-Net and Mzansi Magic, will take place at the newly built Soweto Theatre in Jabulani, Soweto in July. |
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| The Big Brother StarGame VIP housemates got a dose of reality on Monday 21 May, after 14 days in the Upville house, as they had their first nomination session of the show. When the dust had settled, Mampi, DKB and former Downville housemate Maneta found themselves up for eviction this week. |
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 | Channel O, part of the DStv pay-TV bouquet, has announced that Ms Cosmo will be adding her talents to deejay mixed music video show Bass-ment, which airs on Channel O from Monday to Saturday at 4pm and 11pm. |
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 | The opening round of the My Top Billing Dream Presenter Search 2012 kicked off at the Protea Hotel Willowlake, Bloemfontein where young hopefuls started queuing as early as 5:45am for the first auditions. |
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| According to satellite pay-TV provider MultiChoice, approximately a quarter of their South African subscriber base exercised their choice during the recent Dish Magazine Poll. |
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| Genetically modified seed will be the topic of SABC2 agriculture programme Living Land on 2 June at 11:30am. The show will explore the life-giving miracle locked up inside a seed and how new technologies like genetic modification can improve crop yields. |
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| Channel O, part of the DStv pay-TV bouquet, will celebrate Africa Day from Monday 21 May until Friday 25 May with programming that puts African music in the spotlight. |
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 | The SABC1 Live Talent Search 2012 finished with 23-year old Luthando Shosha from Port Elizabeth declared the overall winner and the newest presenter of Friday night music programme Live. |
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A new film called Die Wonderwerker (The Miracle Maker) by acclaimed filmmaker Katinka Heyns will shed light on a period in the life of renowned South African poet and natural scientist Eugène Marais. To find out more read the June issue of Screen Africa.
To subscribe CLICK HERE |
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| South African cinema exhibitor Avalon Group has signed a deal at the Cannes Film Festival with one of India's leading Bollywood studios, Yash Raj Films, to distribute their 2012 / 2013 slate. The deal was signed in the presence of South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Paul Mashatile, by Avalon Group's CEO AB Moosa and Avtar Panesar, VP International Operations, Yash Raj Films. |
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| In a first, the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will host the Al Jazeera English pitching session for African filmmakers during the 14th edition of the festival on Monday, 11 June in Cape Town. |
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| News channel Al Jazeera English has signed on as one of the sponsors of this year’s Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, which runs in Johannesburg and Cape Town from 7 to 24 June 2012. |
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 | ComutaNet has announced the cementing of a strategic alliance with AirMedia that will significantly increase the media owner’s reach into the LSM 4-7 market in Southern Africa. The alliance will allow ComutaNet an advertising channel into the Edcon Discount Division stores, mainly through its Jet and JetMart stores. |
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 | In the last three months, Frieze Films’ rising star Malo 8 has directed commercials for three major cellular brands: MTN for MetropolitanRepublic; Cell C for Ogilvy Johannesburg; and Nokia for JWT. |
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| The entry deadline for The 34th Annual Loerie Awards has officially been extended until 15 June 2012. The eligibility period has also been extended, meaning that all work must be commercially published, launched or aired to a substantial audience for the first time between 1 June 2011 and 15 June 2012. |
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Galloping back in time | |
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An initial idea of making short vignettes about South Africa’s most legendary racehorses has evolved into two separate gargantuan documentary series, each requiring massive amounts of research and elusive archive material. To find out more read the June issue of Screen Africa.
To subscribe CLICK HERE |
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| NAGRA, a Kudelski Group, is to introduce a broadcast-to-IP gateway which will allow live TV to be delivered to IP-enabled devices without impacting a consumer’s existing live TV viewing experience. |
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| Nothing like a blockbuster performance from a Hollywood blockbuster. The Avengers (including 3D) (119 prints) has been on release at the South African box office for a mere four weeks and has made a whopping R30.5m to date. |
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Screen Africa Production Updates | |
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Ensure that your productions are listed in Screen Africa’s online and print publications. Submit the following details – Title, Production Company, Director, Genre – to online@screenafrica.com or via www.screenafrica.com before the 18th of every month and state whether you are in Development, Pre-production, Production, Post-Production or Complete.
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| Telestream, a leading provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, today announced the contribution of OpenCL performance improvements for pre-integration review to the x264 project. This follows Telestream's recent announcement of the integration of x264 across its file-based transcoding product lines. |
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| SES has signed new contracts with the African telecommunications carrier, Gateway Communications Africa for capacity on its NSS-703 satellite at 313 degrees East and its NSS-5 and NSS-7 satellites positioned at 340 degrees East. |
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 | As the US’ largest owner of stations in mid-size markets, Gray Television Group dominates broadcasting across Middle America. With 36 diverse affiliates spread throughout college towns and state capitols, Gray VP of Technology Jim Ocon recognised his company's crucial need to establish a common cost-effective, automated workflow across all its stations. |
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| RGH Entertainment (a division of Rubicon Group Holding) has earned the top prize in the TV Episode category at the Los Angeles Animation Festival (LAFF) for A Very Pink Christmas, a half-hour Christmas special starring Pink Panther, which aired on ABC Family in December 2011. |
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 | FOR-A Company Limited, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, will debut the FT-ONE full 4K high resolution variable frame rate camera—the world’s first full 4K super slow motion camera—at Cine Gear Expo, which runs from 1 to 2 June in Hollywood. |
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 | Leader Instruments has announced a new optional audio card for its award-winning LV5770 multi-monitor. Introduced at NAB 2012, the OP43 audio card incorporates loudness measurement, lip-sync timing analysis and surround-sound monitoring. |
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 | Mike Law of BCD Audio has written the following opinion piece about the proposal for multichannel audio using AES3. Law writes: AES3 is the standard for interconnection of stereo audio signals between studio equipment. It originated in parallel with the SPDIF format during the 1980s, and has evolved to allow sampling frequencies to 192 KHz stereo, and to transport multichannel compressed audio at the 48 KHz sampling frequency. |
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 | On Saturday, 26 May the Writers’ Guild of South Africa (WGSA) will hold a Knowledge Share Session with Craig Freimond, the writer and director of the recent hit feature film, Material. |
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| To support the Chief Executive Officer in managing the affairs of the Council and in the implementation of the operational and strategic aspects of her role including obtaining synergies and ensuring efficiency from the different department. |
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| If you absolutely, positively have the Top Billing stuff then we want to see it and we want to see it now. All this month auditions are happening in every major centre. |
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| We are a Media Company based in Johannesburg looking for Swahili hosts for a game show.
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| MULTICHOICE is looking for Content Co-ordinator Movies. Close Date: 22-May-2012 |
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| At MultiChoice we are constantly look for top caliber individuals to join our teams and we believe that if there is not a perfect role fit for you right now, there may be in the future. |
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Recent jobs: Produced Music Video & Short Documentary for Kickstarter.
On-Set: Camera Assistant & Visual Technician on British Feature Film (Mad Dogs III). | | |
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