On 15 June 2013, two commissioning editors from Al Jazeera will listen to pitches from 16 African filmmakers. Each person has a maximum of five minutes to pitch their film, with an additional 10 minutes allocated for feedback and questions from the panel. Visual aids will be provided for those that have DVDs or presentations during the pitch.
22 May 2013 11:35Bizcommunity.com
[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] If you are a branding, design or advertising student in Johannesburg, by Thursday next week your life may have changed! After years of negotiations, the largest one-day advertising portfolio review in the world,
Portfolio Night, is finally making it to Johannesburg, South Africa - and
Bizcommunity, in conjunction with
McCann Johannesburg, has one coveted ticket to give away.
15 May 2013 11:32 [Elsie Eyakuze] I have always wanted to claim some kind of artistic savvy, the more so now that I write for public consumption. Alas, that is not the case. I live on a steady diet of DVDs and genre fiction, driven entirely by an insatiable appetite for entertainment that feels good.
8 May 2013 12:02 Africa's filmmakers will gather for the 9th Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) congress, taking place at the Sandton Holiday In in Johannesburg, South Africa from 3-5 May 2013, to discuss new policies and strategies to assist with the growth and development of the industry.
25 Apr 2013 14:01
LONDON, UK: Here are the nominations for the D&AD Awards. See this year's In Book winners and Nominations below. Yellow Pencil winners will be revealed on Wednesday 12 June at the
Awards Ceremony.
22 Apr 2013 11:05The Committee to Project Journalists condemns a recent decision by the Nigerian government to ban the exhibition and distribution of a documentary film, entitled 'Fuelling Poverty'. The film exposes corruption in the state's management of oil wealth.
18 Apr 2013 11:17
African filmmakers are invited to submit short films of no longer than 30 minutes for Africa in Motion's (AiM)
annual short film competition, to which a substantial cash prize is attached. Africa in Motion 2013 will take place at the end of October/beginning of November 2013.
10 Apr 2013 09:23
An upcoming action-packed feature film takes a pantheon of ancient West African deities known as Orishas and resurrects them as modern-day superheroes.
9 Apr 2013 14:42[Steve Song] Inspired by the recent successful launch of the
Television White Spaces pilot in South Africa, I am once again tempted to engage in providing mostly unsolicited advice about what Google's strategy in Africa ought to be. What I want to propose today is the launching of a Netflix-like streaming television service aimed at African markets and serving African and international content.
3 Apr 2013 12:30 
Winners in the
Afrinolly Short Film Competition were on 22 March 2013 presented with cheques for their respective cash prizes. The ceremony was part of the MTN Link Forum that took place at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.
27 Mar 2013 12:46