NFVF call for funding applications is open
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), is pleased to announce that the call for Cycle 1 funding applications for the 2023/2024 financial year is now open for the following funding categories: Development Production Post-Production Archive Individuals,...
Encounters Community Festivals: Doc Activate Season 2023
CALLING ALL ASPIRING COMMUNITY FILM FESTIVAL ORGANISERS Are you looking to start a film festival in your community presenting documentaries to young and mature audiences? Are you passionate about growing the film industry in your province to develop the next...
DFA Skills Audit 2023
The Documentary Filmmakers Association was established to nurture and develop the interests of documentary filmmakers in South Africa as well as foster collaborations amongst DFA members. We are currently compiling a database of our members' skills that will help us...
JBX Content Market and Joburg Film Festival
The JBX Content Market and Joburg Film Festival (JFF) programme have been announced. This follows the recent announcement of the 60+ selected films for the next edition of the JFF that will take place from 31 January to 5 February 2023. The JBX market will be...
Welcome our new docSHARE Programme Managers
The DFA is delighted to welcome our co-programme managers for the docSHARE programme 2023, Elelwani Netshifhire and Taryn Joffe. docSHARE is an initiative of the Documentary Filmmakers Association of South Africa to create opportunities for experienced film...
Job Opportunity: Programme Manager docLOVE 2023
docLOVE is a monthly documentary film screening program of thought-provoking content and facilitated discussions on issues raised in the films. We provide an interactive opportunity for engagement, while at the same time celebrating great documentary films. Since 2018...
Call for Documentary Project: “Language as resistance”
“The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.” – bell hooks, “Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness”...
Call for Documentary Project: “Environment and Belonging”
Africa is on the frontlines of the climate crisis but it’s not on the front pages of the world’s newspapers. Every activist who speaks out is telling a story about themselves and their community, but if they are ignored, the world will not know what’s really...
docSHARE Call for Participants
Do you have a great idea for a documentary but not sure how to realise it? Are you working on a documentary project already and need extra support? Do you want to apply for NFVF development funding but don’t know how to go about it? The docSHARE 2023 programme being...