SA artist’s short film selected for Edinburgh
Paul Emmanuel’s artist’s film, 3SAI: A Rite Of Passage has been selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Africa-in-Motion Film Festival 2009. The festival opens on 26 October.
Global animation market suffers impact of downturn
The Global Animation Industry, a new report from media analysts Screen Digest (www.screendigest.com) features exclusive research indicating which countries and companies are leading the industry in annual animation output.
TVIEC makes progress
The website of the South African Screen Federation (www.sasfed.org) reports that the SABC interim board has committed to paying independent producers the outstanding amounts owed to them by the crisis-stricke public broadcaster.
French public broadcasters increase film support
Proving that there are some places in the world where public broadcasters actually support their indigenous feature film industries, France Televisions ( the country’s public television group) has increased investment funding from 2009 to 2012 in film co-production and pre-sales.
Fox to produce video games
While major American film and television studio Twentieth Century Fox has licensed out video games in the past, it hasn’t produced any of its own. Variety reports that this is about to change with the appointment of Andre Emerson as vice president of video game production.
SABC denies suspension of executives
The SABC interim Board denied on Wednesday 30 September that four executives, namely Robin Nicholson (Chief Financial Officer), Mvuzo Mbebe (Group Executive-Content Enterprises)
denies suspension of executives
The SABC interim Board denied on Wednesday 30 September that four executives, namely Robin Nicholson (Chief Financial Officer), Mvuzo Mbebe (Group Executive-Content Enterprises), Mabela Satekge (Head: Procurement) and Anton Heunis (Head: Audience Services), have been suspended.
Debora Patta resigns as eNews chief
Debora Patta has resigned as eNews Editor-in-Chief, following her decision to focus solely on e.tv’s current affairs programme 3rd Degree.
Final call for music videos
Plus Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art Of Cinematography, is still accepting entries to the Music Videos Competition. The deadline is 15 October 2009.
Karate Kallie in Top 8
The new South African comedy, Karate Kallie - Die Hele Movie made the number eight spot in Ster-Kinekor’s Top 8 for the week 18 to 24 September, having generated box office of R173,778 in its first week of local release.
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