M-Net Literary Awards
Pay-TV broadcaster M-Net has issued a call for entries for next year’s M-Net Literary Awards, which will be in their 19th year in 2010. Entries close on Monday, 30 November.
Raindance winners
The UK’s London-based independent film festival Raindance has announced that its Best International Feature Award is shared by Patxi Amezcua’s 25 Kilates (Spain) and David Lee Miller’s My Suicide (USA).
Mipcom attendance up
Despite the recession, the 25th Mipcom television market in Cannes, France attracted more than 12,000 participants and attendance was up 4% from the MipTV market held earlier this year.
Audio Matrix wins international award
Audio Matrix at The Refinery has scored an award at the Jackson Hole International Wildlife film festival for work completed on the Animal Planet film, Swamp Troops.
Viewers chose to stay home and watch TV
A total of 99 Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators beam over 13,800 channels to 114 million subscribers generating over $65 billion in subscription revenue as of the end of 2008 - and the collective pie continues to grow according to a new NSR report, Global Direct-to-Home (DTH) Markets, 2nd Edition.
Establishment of the Green Carpet Club
In the 2008 and 2009 editions of the Cape Winelands Film Festival, the event screened several films under the theme Ecology.
Big list world premieres for AFM
At the 30th American Film Market (AFM), 445 motion pictures will be screened in 27 languages to more than 8,000 buyers and industry professionals from 70-plus countries. The AFM takes place from 4 to 11 November in Santa Monica.
Blurring of transfronteir television boundaries
In today’s audiovisual world, boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred, whether they are of a geographic nature or the traditional separation between the various forms of media.
Romcom takes box office
The newly released romantic comedy, The Ugly Truth, starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, was the biggest earner at the South African box office for the weekend of 9 to 11 October. It made R2.1m.
2010 Africa Festival
The 2010 Africa Festival of the Arts (AFA) will be staged in May 2010 in Soweto as part of the build up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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