A South African fund that develops southern African content stories for feature films has been established. The fund provides finance and investment in promising projects.
Aptly named "Once Upon a Story" (OUAS), the fund focuses on projects that may possibly attract foreign and local finance and have the potential to sell in local and international markets.
Key players in OUAS are fund director Paul Raleigh, Janine Eser, head of development and Leigh Pretorius, project coordinator.
"Paul and I initially discussed something like OUAS when we were at the Oscars together in 2006 for Tsotsi," says Eser, script editor and associate producer on the Academy Award winning movie Tsotsi.
Read more in the September 2010 issue of Screen Africa
