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CTIFMF’s Jehad Kasu in China to further partnership and collaboration

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CTIFMF’s Jehad Kasu in China to further partnership and collaboration

Jehad Kasu, Marketing & Communications director of the Cape Town International Film Market & Festival was recently invited to the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), where he spoke about the continuing partnership between the CTIFMF and China’s Global Max Media Group.

Last year the Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFMF) announced its collaboration with the China-Africa International Film Festival (CAIFF) that aims to strengthen the exchange of learning culture between China and Africa, through film.

The partnership will not only continue to introduce Chinese cinema to South Africa and vice versa, it is hoped that the two festivals will encourage cooperation in the film sector, making Chinese and African films more available in one another’s regions.

Last year the CTIFMF hosted Chinese dignitaries including Mr Cao Li, acting consul general of the Chinese Consulate-General in Cape Town; Mr Zhang Jian, deputy chairman of Academy Council of Beijing Film Academy; Mr Luo Xubing, deputy director of Overseas Promotion at China Radio International; Ms Wan Minfang, producer of the Chinese film When Africa Meets You; Mr Miles Nan, president of GMMG; and Ms Tao Hong, 2017 Image Ambassador of China Africa International Film Festival.

Kasu was invited this year to speak at the Shanghai International Film Festival about this continuing partnership. His presence at the festival represents the commitment of the CTIFMF to lead the way for South Africa in collaborating not only across Africa, but globally.

As Kasu explained in his speech at SIFF, this partnership is pivoted on the People to People Exchange Mechanism entered into between South Africa and China during 2017 via their respective departments of Arts & Culture, in an effort to exchange knowledge in the fields of inter-alia, tourism, education and culture.

He continued to explain further, “The time has now come for intentions to be converted into action. As such, we call on our respective governments to formalise and expedite an official co-production treaty between South Africa and China. While we understand and appreciate that there are many diplomatic, policy and other considerations that are tangled up in red tape, due diligence and administrative processes, more and more clear evidence demonstrates that the film industry is an underrated catalyst for job creation and economic growth.”

Kasu also reiterated the call that was made at last year’s CTIFMF for the private sector to partner with film promotion agencies, commissions and platforms such as the CTIFMF and SIFF and pledge real resources to a severely underfunded industry in order to fast-track the extraction of sustainable economic, social and cultural value for our respective countries.

The NFVF and the Beijing Film Academy recently entered into a five-year Student Exchange programme and the CTIFMF would like these kinds of collaborative efforts to serve as the training ground for the development of inter-cultural content created between China and South Africa.

To this end, the CTIFMF invites all Chinese film and television stakeholders to visit the CTIFMF between 9 and 19 October 2018, to explore collaborative opportunities with African film industries.

Entries are still open for high quality Chinese films with subtitles to enter the CTIFMF film competition. Last year the festival received more than 800 film competition applications from more than 85 different countries. But very few came from China. At the same time, South African producers are encouraged to submit their works and projects to all future SIFF’s.

CTIFMF 2018: Create. Collaborate. Celebrate

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CTIFMF 2018: Create. Collaborate. Celebrate

The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival will take place from 9 to 19 October 2018 at venues across the V & A Waterfront as well as in select sites across the city of Cape Town.

The CTIFMF 2018 is a film industry platform to create, collaborate, and celebrate the exciting and often untapped potential of this eclectic industry. Guided by the festival’s core vision of transforming the African film industry through these the pillars of creation, collaboration, and celebration, the CTIFMF will be incorporating a host of key initiatives and projects aimed at the local and Pan-African film industries, film lovers across the city, as well as emerging and new audiences from across Africa and beyond.

CTIFMF executive chairman Rafiq Samsodien has the following to say of this year’s festival; “We are leading the charge to re-build this industry from the bottom up. This year will see the birth of an entirely new way of collaborating and working towards a common goal for a sustainable industry.  So let’s start by building meaningful partnerships that enable and empower the spirit of filmmaking and the filmmakers.”

Create

Creation within the film industry is not limited to content, but extends to relationships too. For filmmakers, the creation of both content and relationships is essential. However, with mounting business, financial, and logistical challenges faced by filmmakers, it is harder than ever for them to focus on their core creative function.

The CTIFMF is in-and-of-itself a platform created to converge the African film industry at a single point at which these stakeholders will have unfettered access to create new business, personal and strategic relationships as well as opportunities.

Core programmess at the CTIFMF 2018 will focus on supporting filmmakers in specific areas including the hosting a gathering of the Emerging Talent Labs from across Africa. The aim of this is to foster the launch of an African Film Institute, a partnership between Ouaga Film Lab (West), Maisha Film Lab (East), Carthage Pro (North) and Realness & Electric South (South), that will have a sizable footprint, real credibility, and extensive access to talent in all corners of the continent.

CTIFMF marketing director Jehad Kasu explains further: “Innovation is the cornerstone of the team’s endeavours to transform the landscape of the African film industry at the levels of ownership as well as industry stature. While some of what we are doing may have been done at other festivals before, the manner in which we are doing it within our platform is remarkably different. It is this difference in innovation that we trust will steadily build the CTIFMF to establish itself as Africa’s leading film industry platform.”

 Collaborate

The African film industry needs collaboration. Supporting colleagues, promoting our own stories, and finding innovative solutions together in the face of adversity must be the hallmark of our industries. However, the South African film industry is largely very fractured and the emergence of a Pan-African industry is more dream than reality.

While competition is healthy, industry events and businesses that solely compete with one another, rather than complementing each other, makes for a situation that threatens the industry’s sustainability – let alone growth.

Collaboration means local collaboration with filmmakers, film schools, government, business, and other allied industry bodies such as tourism authorities, investors, and community organisations. Collaboration means a sharing of skills, an amplification of resources, and a support of people and organisations amongst the emerging filmmaker community.

To embody the spirit of collaboration, the CTIFMF is inviting the festival directors of some of Africa’s top film festivals to join together in a day of discussions, practical networking amongst filmmakers, and a sharing of awardwinning films.

This collaborative effort strives to enhance connectivity between South Africa and its African counterparts, to unlock co-production opportunities, identify synergies and provide traction to projects in the making.

Celebrate

The CTIFMF believes that celebrating our industry’s best and brightest is essential. Celebration is the best way to reward hard work and perseverance. Celebrating achievers is a way to highlight our stories and inspiring and motivating new talent.

This year the CTIFMF will celebrate local content from South Africa and Africa in public spaces through a series of public screenings that will be presented at the V&A Waterfront’s amphitheatre and beyond.  Red carpet premieres and a host of related public events will ensure that the African narrative is celebrated throughout the year, and not just during the CTIFMF. “We are excited about making a landmark announcement on this component of our programme in coming weeks,”adds Kasu.

The City of Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith has this to say of this initiative: “The City of Cape Town is proud to be associated with the CTIFMF’s plan to revive the local film industry. Off the back of our successes, let us collaborate and build on these and tell our African stories, loudly and proudly. It is time to be up there on the global stage amid the big names of the world. The City will fully support the initiatives of the industry.”

Throughout this year’s CTIFMF the film industry, those hoping to enter the industry, and those who just love the movies will all have something to celebrate.

Visit the CTIFMF website for updates as the festival approaches.

Cape Town International Film Market and Festival  2018 call for entries

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Cape Town International Film Market and Festival  2018 call for entries

The 2018 Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFMF) will take place from 9 to 19 October 2018. This year’s edition will build significantly on the successes of last year with an increased focus on collaboration and the celebration of the local, regional, pan-African, and international film industries.

Through various collaborations we will be supporting colleagues, promoting our own stories, and finding innovative solutions together, creating an enabling environment for growth and development for filmmakers across Africa.

The CTIFMF through a variety of programmes that will be announced in the upcoming months will be the pivot on which we will endeavour to exponentially grow the distribution of African content across the world.

Having set itself the goal of leading the transformation of the film industry in Africa, the CTIFMF is excited to announce the first and most fundamental stepping stone to achieving this goal: the official opening of the call for film submissions for the CTIFMF 2018.

Filmmakers from all over the world are invited to submit their films in the following categories:  feature films, documentary, animation and short films. We especially encourage producers, directors and scriptwriters from South Africa and Africa who are creating local/African content to submit high-quality entries into the competition.

This year’s CTIFMF will present an exciting and diverse array of quality films that showcase the immense talent of filmmakers from Africa and the rest of the world.

Only films completed not more than 18 months prior to the Call for Entries of the Cape Town International Film Market & Festival will be considered for competition purposes.

Films completed before this time will be eligible for screening in the Panorama Section but not considered for the competition section. Awards in the competition section are as follows:

Film Awards
Grand Prix
Best Director
Best New Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Script
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Documentary Feature
Best Short Film
Best Animation Short Film
Best South African Feature Film
Best South African Short Film
Audience Award for Best Film at the Festival

Deadlines

  • 1 May 2018 – Opening Date
  • 10 July 2018 – Regular Deadline
  • 31 July 2018 – Final Deadline
  • 7 August 2018 – Notification Date

For the entry form, rules and regulations, visit CTIFMF FILMFREEWAY.

For more information concerning the CTIFMF,  contact the festival director and festival manager at info@filmfest.capetown.

CTIFMF announces new market director

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CTIFMF announces new market director

Preparations are already well underway for The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFMF) 2018. Building on both the successes and learnings of the inaugural event in 2017, the CTIFMF has announced the appointment of a new market director, Elias Ribiero.

Ribeiro is well known and respected across the industry as a producer and will bring his strong and extensive worldwide network, skills range in international co-productions, financing, content distribution and 13 years of experience in the film business to the CTIFMF directing team.

Ribeiro, through his production company Urucu Media, in partnership with Cait Pansegrouw, has produced numerous shorts, a feature documentary and five award winning feature films in just five years. The work they have produced is often audacious and challenging of the status quo. They have also become known for having a great eye for talent, with both of the first-time feature directors from the last two productions going on to sign with CAA in Los Angeles. 

Urucu’s break was Necktie Youth (South Africa/Holland) by Sibs Shongwe LaMer, followed by The Wound (South Africa/France/Germany/Holland)) by John Trengove and The Train of Salt and Sugar (Mozambique/South Africa/Brazil/Portugal/France) by Licinio Azevedo; both were selected as their country’s official entry to the Academy Awards, with The Wound making it to the December shortlist of nine out of a record entry of 92 foreign language films. The Wound also won 26 prizes internationally, including the Sutherland Award at the London BFI for best first feature and six SAFTAS. 

They have licensed content to Netflix, HBO, ARTE, ZDF, SABC and M-Net. Urucu’s films have competed at Sundance, Berlinale, Tribecca, Toronto, Locarno and Venice among others and have sold to more than 50 territories worldwide.

Ribeiro is excited to engage with the various industry stakeholders to ensure that this year’s event is collaborative, representative and valuable. With this wealth of experience, Ribeiro understands the need of the industry from a global perspective. He is the ideal person to lead the business-oriented side of the event in its goal to re-create the African film industry from the bottom up.

This audacious yet essential aim is at the core of the planning for this year’s market and festival and Ribeiro has this to say of his plans for the year, “I am thrilled to spend the next few months talking to people both locally and internationally to seek guidance and get feedback in order to develop a market that truly meets the needs of the African film industry.”

Ribeiro is committed to transforming the market in 2018 by spending the next few weeks researching and discussing the needs of the African industry from multiple perspectives. For those interested in taking part in this process, contact elias@filmfest.capetown.

The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival will take place from 10 to 19 October.

CTIFM&F announces festival winners

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The Cape Town International Film Market & Festival announced its winners at a red-carpet event at the Westin Hotel, hosted by Pearl Thusi and Maps Maponyana.

Over the ten days of the festival, energy of local young filmmakers combined with the enthusiasm from the many local and international experts, professionals and guest speakers, has proven that Cape Town’s film industry is thriving.

The Festival would not have been possible without the Festival’s visionary sponsors including the city of Cape Town, The One & Only Hotel, the V & A Waterfront, Absa Bank, and the China Africa International Film Festival – all of whom were integral to the success of the event.

Jury members from across the globe viewed all the films in competition and the following is the full list of winners.

Pitching Competition

This year the festival selected 8 projects from numerous entries who each had to hand in a comprehensive proposal to get selected. They went through workshops & pitch mentoring with the Writers’ Guild of South Africa, to get them pitch ready.

The winner of this year’s prize worth $20 000 and sponsored by the Moving Billboard Company is Nathan Theys, for the project Ronald.

The runner-up prize, also sponsored by the Moving Billboard Company, and worth $10,000 was awarded to Brett Michael Innes for Callus.

South African Short Film –Honourable Mentions

The Cape Town International Film Festival has a passion for short films, and particularly our South African Short films. There are two films that the juries acknowledged for Honourable Mentions.

Jaap by Ian Morgan
Meticulously crafted, Jaap may start off with stereotypes, but the characters turn out well-rounded in the end. Director Ian Morgan has created a quirky, funny, poignant and endearing road trip movie.

Post by Jesse Brown
Post is an immersive sensory experience. A short, hand-held camera documentary it paints a portrait of filmmaker Jesse Brown’s grandfather, showing off an intimacy between the two that is both playful and real, yet sublime.

Best Short Film
Intergalactic Samurai by Hagar Ben-Asher
Well-rounded, polished, emotionally visceral and with an ending to make your hair stand on end, this story of two young Ethiopian girls in Israel will subtly teach you something you didn’t know. The story about identity is universal but will be of relevance to South Africans.

The superb performance Hagar Ben-Asher gets out of her two characters immediately grabbed us and left us gasping is Intergalactic Samurai.

Best Actor
Pankaj Tripathi as Salim in Mango Dreams

Best Actress
Antoinette Louw as Molly Fischer in An Act of Defiance

Best Script
Jean van der Velde for An Act of Defiance

Best Editing
Mustafa Presheva for Ayla: The Daughter of War

Best Cinematography
Massimo Moschin for The Last Prosecco

Best Documentary Film
Hana by Giuseppe Carrier
Giuseppe Carrieri “s Hana was selected for its real documented incidents in four different countries concerning a human issue, connecting through the pain and the high film language – a well-made storytelling documentary.

Best LGBT Films

Special Mention Award
KA Bodyscapes by Jayan K. Cherian
The role of film festivals is to make visible emerging filmic voices that counter dominant cultural representations in which certain lives are frequently left out. In India homosexuality is criminalised in law, with high levels of persecution and harassment. In this context, KA Bodyscapes is a courageous film. It is a film about working class LGBT people struggling against both homophobia and sexism. Set in Kerala, the film weaves together several narratives that highlight the vulnerabilities of economic marginalisation, violence, state harassment, and powerful queer resistance, in the daily realties of women and LGBT people.

Best LGBT Film
Heartstone by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
This is an extraordinarily crafted film, dealing with the crisis in contemporary masculinity and how a heteronormative structure damages all genders and sexualities. It is a coming of age story of young people that mirrors the harsh and isolated, yet breathtaking, Icelandic fishing village in which it is set. Heartstone is a stunning debut feature with raw, visceral performances, sensitive directing, truthful screenwriting and poetic cinematography.

Best South African Feature Film
Catching Feelings by Kagiso Lediga
The film is a refreshing film that not only showcases the talent of its writer and director but also introduces the audience to characters and conversations that they will recognise instantly from their own lives. Well executed and vibrant, it is a love letter to Johannesburg and a deserving addition to the canon of South African cinema.

Director’s Awards

The director of a film is responsible for interpreting the vision of the script. They are there to give live to the words on paper and creates them on screen. The Festival honoured both a new director, who has produced their first feature film, as well as an established director with the accolade of Best Director.

Best New Director
Manouj Kadaamh for Horizon

Best Director
Visa Koiso-Kantilla for Star Boys

Grand Prix Award
Kivanç Sezer for My Father’s Wings

The highest honour for any feature filmmaker, is to be awarded the Best Feature Film Award. This year the competition was exceptionally tough but the prize was awarded to Kivanç Sezer for My Father’s Wings.

The CTIFMF thanked all the experts, and special guests who had given off their time, their skills, experience and talent to make the last 10 days so very special. They also gave a special thank you to the filmmakers for sharing their vision and their passion with the audiences who attended the Festival.

An Act of Defiance; The Bram Fischer Story to open CTIFM&F

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The Cape Town International Film Market & Festival (CTIFM&F) will open on Thursday, 12 October with the powerful and highly relevant South African story: An Act of Defiance; Die Bram Fischer Storie.

The film tells the story of a man who did not become legendary like his client, Nelson Mandela, but who was one of the key people in the fight for democracy in the country in the fifties and sixties.

Bram Fischer managed to reconcile his white Afrikaner roots with his desire for justice, joining the struggle against apartheid out of principle. He defended Nelson Mandela and his comrades in the Rivonia Trial of 1963 and 1964 – playing a crucial role in preventing the ANC-leaders being sentenced to death – and was an underground guerrilla at the same time.

The film is a co-production between Dutch and South African teams that have worked closely with the Fischer family and others, including some of the Rivonia triallists to create a highly authentic and accurate historical film.

Jean van de Velde directed this political thriller from his adapted screenplay based on Joel Joffe’s book The State Vs. Nelson Mandela. Van de Velde has this to say of the film, “I never fully realised the commitment and sacrifice these brave men and women who fought Apartheid made, until making this movie; and I dare say this also on behalf of our very talented and motivated crew and cast, it once again opened our eyes.”

Producer Michael Auret expreses his thoughts on the film, “It’s appropriate that across the water from Robben Island, home to so many that gave their lives for the establishment of a non-racist and democratic South Africa, we can have the African Premiere of a film which celebrates the life and work of some that we have not heard before.”

South African actor Sello Motloung, who plays a young Nelson Mandela in the film visited the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg as part of his preparation for the role. The Foundation gave Motloung access to the audio records of “Speech from the Dock’, which Mandela delivered on 20 April 1964 during the Rivonia Trial to help him to re-create these powerful moments.

Much of the cast, the director, Jean Van De Velde, producers Hugh Rogers, Richard Claus and Mike Auret, co-producers, Lwazi Manzi and Pat Van Heerden will all be in attendance on Opening Night as well as Bram Fischer’s daughters, Ruth Rice Fischer and Ilse Fischer.

The cast members attending include Antoinette Louw, Morne Visser, Sello Motloung, Izel Bezuidenhout, Jose Domingos, Fezile Mpela, Conrad Kemp and Nico Van Diemen amongst others.

The Opening Night event is an invitation only Black Tie event that will see a host of celebrities and dignitaries walking the Red Carpet at Nu Metro at the V & A Waterfront.

The Cape Town International Film Market & Festival 2017

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The Cape Town International Film Market & Festival (CTIFMF) will take place from 12 to 21 October 2017 at the V & A Waterfront with events that focus on both the business and beauty of film.

Within the 10-day celebration of world cinema, there will be a four day business-to business exhibition and networking event, as well as a full programme of speakers, workshops and discussion, all focused on collaboration and supporting the development of the film industry across Africa.

The Cape Town International Film Market

The South African film industry (through direct and indirect businesses) generated in excess of R12 billion in 2016 (according to the NFVF), and with only 20 per cent of this activity taking place in the Western Cape, the time is now for the regional industry to collaborate, cooperate, and network both internally and with regional, national, and Pan-African partners.

A unique business focused event, The Cape Town Film Market will take place from 18 to 21 October and will include an exhibition space, panel discussions, targeted workshops and networking opportunities that will enable film production companies to interact with the range of affiliate and support industries required for the growth of the sector.

Government and associated city support agencies will also be part of this event with a focus on informing and educating producers on issues ranging from funding and tax incentives to permits and location opportunities.

All industry stakeholders, and specifically all the industry support services such as logistics, location support and scouting, crew hire, equipment sales and rental, security, catering, transport, post-production, technology and software, and other related services are invited to take part by exhibiting their products and services in the official expo space.

The Cape Town International Film Festival

The Cape Town Film Market will run alongside the Cape Town International Film Festival that will see films from over 50 countries being featured in competition.

Categories of films shown include features, documentaries and short films, many of which are award-winning and critical favourites at several of the world’s major film festivals such as Cannes, San Sebastian, Berlin, Chicago, Thessaloniki, Trømsø, Warsaw, Edinburgh, Goteborg, Transilvania, Cairo, Marrakech, Tribeca and Venice.

While some of the films to be screened are on the official list for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film for next year’s Oscars, there will also be a diversity of African and South African films on display.

According to festival director Leon van der Merwe, “one of the main objective of the festival is to provide a window into world cinema and to celebrate the voices of some of South Africa’s most independent film directors – fearless artists, who are creating visionary works against all the odds such as limited funding or narrow corporate interests.’

A strong component of this year’s festival is the short film category, that includes fascinating work by young South African directors such as Liana Hassim, Jesse Brown and Devon Delmar. With a total of 641 short-films from 60 countries submitted forentry, the short film competition will include 44 short films that deal with relevant subjects as seen by young filmmakers today. “Short films are a significant and popular way filmmakers can connect with audiences.’ Van der Merwe explains further, “The CTIFMF has always been proud to treat short films with the highest regard and to give a home to new projects for audiences to discover and enjoy.”

The sheer diversity of quality films on the menu will appeal to a range of movie-lovers with themed sections such as, Films from the Nordic, The Panorama 360 (World Cinema focus), that will provides South African audiences with a great opportunity to view some international film highlights of the past few years, and a strong LGBT focus this year including, for the a first-time, a special jury that will announce the award for Best LGBT Film at the Festival.

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Woodwind in competition at Cape Town International Film Festival

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South African director Fin Manjoo’s debut feature film, Woodwind has been
selected in the official competition at the 10th Cape Town International Film Festival.

This year the festival moved from the Cape Winelands to Cape Town’s Waterfront and
will also boast an international film market.

Woodwind is nominated for the Grand Prix Best Film, Best Director, Best
Debut Film, as well as Best South African Film and is also in contention for other cast
and crew awards, to be determined by an international jury.

Woodwind’s international cast and crew hail from five continents. The drama
about a music composer, Bonifaz who goes to India to solve a mystery, stars
Argentine actor Leandro Taub, who’s also starring in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s
Endless Poetry (Poesia sin Fin) which is currently released across the United
States and Europe. An emotional Taub dubbed Woodwind his best
performance.

The lead actor
“My entire life has been preparing me for acting in Woodwind and be Bonifaz. I am
very happy to say today that I’ve met the Bonifaz in me. This film made me grow,’
added Taub.

After the World Premiere in Cape Town, Woodwind is expected to play in
cinemas around the world at film festivals in a circuit running until around July 2018.
Thereafter the usual cinema, television, DVD/Bluray and video rental distribution
channels will follow.

Writer-director Fin Manjoo graduated with an Honours Degree in Film from the
University of Cape Town in 2003. He lived in many countries, expanding and maturing
his understanding of the world, before jumping straight into a story project. The
intention was to create deep, thought-provoking films.

The director
“Cinema always exhibited the potential for viewers to be involved beyond light
entertainment. With Woodwind our mind’s potential is far stronger than what
filmmakers have been able to tap into, or are even aware of. My intention was to push
these boundaries using age-old techniques that achieve this with sound (music) and
poetry with motion pictures,’ said Manjoo.

The cinematographer
Woodwind’s Swiss cinematographer Nicolas Joray”s body of work spans over
four decades. He’s worked with Francesco Rosi and Pasqualino de Santis (Death in
Venice), and was the DOP on many films such as The Yellow Star, Bye Bye
Berlusconi and Baltic Storm. Having shot around the world, including
tough environments such as Chernobyl and with extensive experience in Africa, Joray
proved to be a strong choice to work under testing conditions in the Himalayas.

“I loved the room for multiple interpretation between the lines. The storyline itself has
a simple structure, but in a more metaphysical direction based on pure existentialism.
The searching of Bonifaz really opened a philosophical dimension,’ said Joray.

The music
In a film about a young composer’s personal and musical journey, Austrian composer
Stefan Fraunberger was the choice due to his art with unconventional instruments
such as dulcimers or baroque church organs. In his own words his music “reshapes
the liminal conditions of culture & perception, while evoking images of sonic
ambiguity.’ His compositions mutate beyond the realm, “capturing otherworldly
fragments.’

Fraunberger has developed his music from the Vienna music schools to Romania,
Syria (before the war), Yemen, Central Asia, Iran, London, Belgium, Turkey, Pakistan
and India. With Woodwind telling us how the power of natural sound
transforms our sense of reality, it was essential for Fraunberger to not only compose
music, but also design the psychological soundscapes in Bonifaz’s world.

The actresses
American actress, Jasmin Jandreau, won Best Actress at the 2013 Breckenridge
International Film Festival and the 2014 Texas Attic Film Festival in Austin, for the film
The Trail. Having studied singing, dance, ballet and acting, Jandreau has
acted in a number of features in Europe and America, and will star in the new screen
adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights as Catherine Earnshaw.
In Woodwind Jandreau plays Agna, the woman who inspires Bonifaz to make
his first big leap to travel to India.

Germany based actress, Andrea Christina Furrer, also hails from a ballet, singing and
drama background, boasting dozens of performances from theatre to television in
Europe. She played Maria in the theatre version of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Offret
(Sacrifice), where she won the Ingmar Bergman Scholarship. Next she will be the
lead character in Tragači (2017). Now in Woodwind she plays
Bonifaz’s other half, Alina.

Produced by Fin Pictures, other than the Asian, European and American crew, there
were many key members from South Africa. Local member Marcel Duvenage was the
sound designer. In the acting department there’s Gopala Davies, known for his
performances in SA television series and theatre. Then there’s Cape Town musician
Naresh Chauhan (the son of Jamnadas Chauhan) who performed the sitar and tabla.

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