Creative arts fellowships for 2010 open for application
UCT's Gordon Institute for Performing & Creative Arts (GIPCA) is offering four Creative Arts Fellowships for 2010.
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.
Twitter declares war on spam
Users of micro-blogging website Twitter can now flag spammers by clicking a "report as spam' button their profile, rather than direct messaging an @spam account.
Africa almost a “no-show’ – time for a continental stand
Last week Balancing Act’s Sylvain Beletre attended MIPCOM, the international event for co-producing, buying and selling media content, held in Cannes, France, 5-9 October 2009. He went in search of news that might be useful for those working in the African industry.
Fopspeen Moving Pictures wins in the Ukraine
Animators Diek Grobler and Charles Badenhorst of Fopspeen Moving Pictures have just returned from the Ukraine, where their short film Little Bird ABC received the award for Best Animation for Children at the prestigious KROK International Animation Festival.
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).
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.
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