The Jozi Film Festival and AFDA Alumni Community announced that they are partnering for a weekend of film industry talks as part of this year’s Jozi Film Festival programme. The talks will take place at the Goethe Institut on Jan Smuts Ave in Johannesburg over the weekend of 17 and 18 September, with speakers including Paul Raleigh (Hollard), Dan Jawitz (Fireworx Media), Ernest Nkosi (director), Jeremy Nathan (producer), Robbie Thorpe (producer), Danie Bester (producer) as well as Lee Hobbs, vice president of Channels, Emerging Business at Discovery Networks in attendance.
“The AFDA and Jozi Film Festival talks is an ideal platform for young filmmakers to get together to discuss the challenges and opportunities of future content production and distribution,’ says AFDA co-founder and chairman Garth Holmes.
“We are thrilled to be working alongside AFDA in bringing relevant speakers to the table to discuss the future of the local film industry – from film finance and distribution to script development and the latest advances in technologies, we feel we have a wide-ranging and thought provoking series of talks of offer. We are a community in this industry and supporting a growing network of local filmmakers is part of what we do. Our thanks to Goethe for hosting us again this year,’ says JFF’s Lisa Henry.
Tickets are available via Quicket through both the Jozi Film Festival website and the AFDA website as of Tuesday. An all weekend pass, inclusive of lunch on both days is R200 and a one-day pass including lunch is R120. Talks run from 10h00 to 17h00 on Saturday and 10h00 to 15h30 on Sunday. A detailed breakdown of the programme will be available on both JFF and AFDA websites this week.
