Technology

Telecommunications operator Sentech announced its three new offerings on its MyWireless internet platform, MyWireless Plus, MyWireless Lite & MyWireless Family, at a Press launch on Wednesday, 28 February. Sentech maintains these new deveopments place it on the next competitive level in wireless broadband internet services.

According to the Los Angeles Times (27 February), Tom Cruise and longtime business partner Paula Wagner have raised nearly all of the $500m required to rebirth United Artists (UA).

Some 1 608 children aged 10 to 16 across nine provinces have written and submitted stories about something important to them for the Lights Camera Action story writing film competition launched by SABC Education in June last year.

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.

Apple IMC Southern Africa today announced its "Phofilmusigner' event series, set to launch on the 7 and 8 March 2007.

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.

Eighteen writers from 10 countries will descend on Durban for a stimulating feast of words, ideas, and discussion at the Time of the Writer international writers festival.

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.