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In its continuing effort to promote original filmmaking by individuals from the developing world, The Global Film Initiative is pleased to announce a Call for Applications for the Spring cycle of its feature-film Production & Distribution Grants programme.

The South African Script Writing Institute (SASWI) recently received R2.8m investment from the National Lottery for the development and support of South African scriptwriters.

In all the hoo-hah of Oscar weekend it’s easy to overlook another important awards event that took place in Los Angeles on 24 February (the night before the Oscars), the Independent Spirit Awards.

The 1st March 2007 sees the start of the Johannesburg leg of the Out In Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, exclusive to Nu Metro. The Deputy Chief Justice, Justice Dikgang Moseneke, will officially open the Festival at the cinemas in Hyde Park.

Painter Louise Hall was inspired by a memory of the magical and transcendent experience of watching movies. It gave rise to a series of five paintings under the title Cinema Series.

The star-studded 4th Naledi Theatre Awards 2006 took place at the University of Johannesburg Arts Centre on Monday 19 February.

Despite moderate research estimates, the Western Cape Film industry is showing remarkable success above all previous expectations. This is the result of a research report commissioned by the Cape Film Commission to determine updated figures for the industry.

The deadline for the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards has been extended to 21st March 2007. This is the final deadline and no further extensions will be made.

Financial Services company Metropolitan recently chose Sentech's Vivid satellite platform for the delivery of a business television solution that now enables its largest business unit, namely Metropolitan Retail to simultaneously broadcast empowering and entertaining content to all its regional offices across the country.

The results of The Creative Circle judging of the January 2007 entries have been published.