Product placement on the increase
According to research from Nielsen, which has been tracking product placement for three years, the number of placements in television in 2006 was 108,261, a 30% jump from 2005.
Analogue TV in US to become redundant in 2009
Some lawmakers are worried that too few Americans know that the analogue TVs they have used for years could become "big cathode-ray paperweights' after 18 February 2009, when broadcasters shut off their analog signals, according to a Hollywood Reporter/ Reuters story.
2008 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and Market (1 - 9 February 2008)is one of the most important international short film events.
Earthnotes Environmental Film Festival
The Labia on Orange in Cape Town will host Earthnotes Environmental Film Festival from 27 July - 8 August. The festival will also travel up the West Coast to Namibia.
UK film provides robust revenue stream
Figures published last week by the UK Film Council reveal that British film is a thriving industry. Film provided the British economy with £4.3 billion (approx R60 billion) during 2006, representing a 39% increase from two years ago, the last year for which figures were collated.
Call to Commonwealth filmmakers
Broadcasters and independent filmmakers from across the
five regions of the Commonwealth are invited to submit
initial entries to the Vision Awards by providing a written
scenario for a short film.
M-Net extends Egoli contract for 17th year
For the seventeenth consecutive year, pay-television operator M-Net and Franz Marx Films, producers of South Africa's evergreen soap, have renewed their production agreement on the production of Egoli.
Mail & Guardian silenced
In the early hours of Friday morning, 20 July in the Pretoria High Court, Judge Lettie Molopa interdicted the M&G from publishing the details of a final draft of an internal report into alleged corruption, abuse of power and intimidation at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
Public called on to vote on ROSCARS
The Durban Wild Talk Africa Film Festival is calling on the public to vote on this year’s wildlife, travel and cultural film entries.
Ad spend up in UK
It would be interesting to know whether South Africa is following the same ad spend trend as in the UK where media has experienced yet another upbeat quarter-year in terms of ad spend.
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