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Famed America drag performer RuPaul stars in Starrbooty, one of the films to screen at the Pride Film Festival which runs from 26 September to 9 October at Cinema Nouveau screened by Fish Eagle.

More than 14 cinematic wonders will be screened at the Architect Africa Film Festival which runs at Cinema Nouveau screened by Fish Eagle sites in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town during October.

Nine South African feature films, 14 documentaries and 24 short films will be screened at the Apollo Film Festival, which runs from 2 to 5 October at the Apollo Theatre in the Karoo town of Victoria West.

President of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille, will be keynote speaker at the Cape Film Commission (CFC) AGM to take place on 30 September at the Protea President Hotel Bantry Bay, Cape Town.

The 3rd South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS) will take place in early February 2009 at the State Theatre in Pretoria. Previous editions of the SAFTAS took place in October 2006 and October 2007.

The UK’s second public broadcaster, Channel 4, is potentially facing a cash shortage by 2012 of £100m (R1,500m) according to UK regulator Ofcom (pictured, left).

The sitcom 30 Rock scored three awards at the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held on 21 September at the Nokia theatre in Los Angeles.

Any South African filmmakers out there despondent about not being able to find finance for their films may take scant comfort from the fact that even filmmakers of the stature of Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones franchise) and Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings franchise) sometimes get turned down.

Discovery Communications’ Founder and Chairman John Hendricks and President and Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav today rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange to commemorate the first day of trading as a public company for the world’s number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries.

Tech companies have put on the strongest showing, and financial companies the weakest, in an annual study on the most popular brands in the world.