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Namib Film represents NFC at 2009 AFCI Locations Trade ShowNamib Film, co-sponsor of the Namibia Film Project, will be representing the Namibia Film Commission (NFC) at the 2009 AFCI Locations Trade Show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles from the 16 - 18 April. 2 Apr 2009 International radio playwriting competition deadline loomsThe closing date for the BBC World Service and British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 is on 31 March 2009. 25 Mar 2009 Encounters Africa Shorts focus on loveEncounters South African International Documentary Festival 2008, the Jan Vrijman Fund of IDFA and the SABC this year produced five short documentary films on the theme of love with filmmakers from Malawi (Virginia Ndasowa), DRC (Makela Pululu), South Africa (Joanne Levitan), Zambia (Mali Kambandu) and Zimbabwe (Dorothy Meck-Chimbuya). 8 Jul 2008 Activating future starsExp. 30 May 2007 More animated Vuka!s this yearMore than 160 Vuka! entries have been received this year, with an increase in the number of animated VUKA!s (as they are often cheaper to produce), as well as the first cellphone entry ever received. 17 Nov 2006 Call for entries: Fespaco 2007The bi-annual Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) takes place 23 February - 3 March 2007 in Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou. 14 Nov 2006 Combine photojourn theory with practiceRegistration closes end of November 2006 for the Market Photo Workshop's year-long course in photojournalism and documentary photography, which begins in January 2007 at the Workshop's premises in Newtown, Johannesburg. 3 Nov 2006 Film & TV Unit wins M&G awardThe Mail & Guardian last week recognised the Film & TV Unit for its contribution to youth empowerment, poverty alleviation, support of woman and transformation in the audio-visual sector with a Merit Award for Investing in Education. 30 Oct 2006 TV documentary on Samora MachelUnder the title "A Luta Continua", a 48-minute documentary on the late Mozambican president Samora Machel is being released by African Universal Media (AUM) to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Machel's death. 13 Oct 2006 Make a film for Robbie WilliamsRockstar Robbie Williams is inviting independent filmmakers to provide a film for his track "The 80's" on his new album Rudebox. 9 Oct 2006 New digital SLR camera with interchangeable lensPentax has released the K10D lens-interchangeable digital SLR camera, which features a large, high-performance 23.5mm x 15.7mm CCD with 10.2 effective megapixels . 3 Oct 2006 Hood to direct Hollywood filmGavin Hood, the Oscar-winning South African director of Tsotsi, will be directing a movie which may star Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon. 2 Oct 2006 Solid PDA, Sunrise Productions mergeSolid PDA and Sunrise Productions recently announced that they will be joining forces, with the Solid PDA team to move across Cape Town to Sunrise's Westlake studio. 18 Sep 2006 Upping the Flint, Flame game in SAThe Refinery Johanneburg has acquired the latest versions of AutoDesk Discreet's new Flint and Flame technology (v9.5). 18 Sep 2006 Tshwane University of Technology students win photography competitionJuly 2006 saw three promising photography students from the Tshwane University of Technology selected as the winners in The South African Magazine Photography Competition. 1 Aug 2006 Developing homegrown APTItudeThe Animation Production Training Initiative (APTI) and its partners are calling for artists, recent fine arts, graphic design and animation graduates to apply for the second Annual APTI Internship 3D Animation Programme. 1 Aug 2006 How is your VUKA entry coming along?Entries for the eighth annual MultiChoice VUKA! Awards close on 29 September 2006, with this year marking the introduction of a new short film-category, VUKA! Short Cuts. 28 Jul 2006 Rapid Blue scoops Promax goldProduction house Rapid Blue won one Gold and one Silver award at Promax New York in June 2006, both for promotions produced for SuperSport campaigns. 26 Jul 2006 Short feature being shot exclusively in KZNOil on Water, Tidal Wave Productions' first short feature film, is being shot and produced exclusively out of KwaZulu-Natal during July 2006. 13 Jul 2006 SAFTA entry deadline extended to 14 JulyThe South African Film and Television Awards executive committee announced that the deadline for entries has been extended to 14 July 2006. 2 Jul 2006 Three wildlife filmmaking scholarships up for grabsThe Wildlife Film Academy (WFA) is offering scholarships, sponsored by the National Film and Video Foundation, to three prospective wildlife filmmakers from previously disadvantaged communities for a one-month course in Oranjezicht, Cape Town. 1 Jun 2006 Student Academy Award winner from SAOn 15 May 2006, African Film Development Agency (AFDA) student filmmaker, Tristan Holmes, was informed that his film 'Elalini' had been selected by the Academy membership as the winning film in the 33rd Annual Student Academy Awards Honorary Foreign Film category. 29 May 2006 SA-UK co-production treaty win-win for allAccording to South African film producer Anant Singh of Videovision Entertainment, the signing of the co-production treaty between South Africa and the UK formalises the process of co-productions between the countries, opening up new avenues of financial support and allowing SA to benefit from the UK's very diverse and comprehensive pool of expertise and skills. 28 May 2006 Reflecting SA's film industryThe Filmmaker's Guide to South Africa 2007 is currently in the last stages of its advertising cycle. 28 May 2006 Accounting for SA's film production industryInternationally successful film production and entertainment accounting services company, Moneypenny Services, is increasing its presence and further developing its range of activities in South Africa through its BEE transaction with black-owned marketing and business investment company, Mazole Holdings and the establishment of a Johannesburg base. 9 May 2006 White Lion to go to CannesWhite Lion, which wrapped up phase two of principle photography in South Africa two weeks ago, is now prepping for Cannes, where it will be available for international sales. 3 May 2006 New film from Oscar nominated SA director opens in AprilNumber 10, the new feature film from Oscar-nominated director Darrell Roodt, opens countrywide on 7 April. 1 Mar 2006 Paradise Now back on circuitParadise Now, which has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language category, will be brought back to Durban screens by popular demand. 1 Feb 2006 Tsotsi makes the Bafta listTsotsi, the film adaptation of Athol Fugard's novel and South Africa's official submission to the Academy Awards this year, has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards. 22 Jan 2006 Get SA's latest movie onlineThe short film "Alive in Jo Burg" directed by SA born Neill Blomkamp and produced by Simon Hansen/Sharlto Copley - producer/directors of South Africa's most popular short film of all time, the Space Shuttle Landing in Cape Town - can be viewed at http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/shortfilm/2175/ or downloaded from: www.ratel.ca. 8 Jan 2006 |
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