by David | Jun 25, 2020 | Festivals, News
The 22nd Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will be held online and at selected cinemas in Johannesburg and Cape Town from 20 to 30 August 2020. This year, the festival will be freely available – for viewing on virtual platforms –...
by David | May 13, 2020 | Festivals, News
Africa’s premier documentary festival, the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, has been postponed. The festival, now in its 22nd year, was due to run in June, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be postponed until August or September 2020....
by David | Apr 19, 2020 | Festivals, News
In response to the massive disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and the importance of keeping the documentary community’s activities alive, the 2020 edition of Sunny Side of the Doc will move to an exclusively online format for the very first time, taking...
by David | Jan 10, 2020 | Festivals, News
Documentary Okavango: River of Dreamsby Botswana-based wildlife filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert, has been selected to screen in the Documentary Premieres programme at the Sundance Film festival – set to take place from 23 January to 2 February 2020. Okavango is...
by David | Nov 21, 2019 | Festivals, News
The Adiaha Award includes a $2000 cash component to be used on the director’s next film, as well as an invitation to attend the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund/ Colgone (Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund | Köln) in February 2021. The...
by David | Nov 1, 2019 | Festivals, News
4 – 14 June 2020 Cape Town & Johannesburg www.encounters.co.za The organisers of Encounters are calling for feature, mid-length and short documentary film entries for the 2020 edition of the Festival. Encounters will deliver a line-up of...
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