NFVF Opportunity: “We Choose Each Other”Â
We’ve been through resistance from our relatives; we’ve been through resistance from our societies … After all of that damage, we still chose each other - Siyabonga Ngcobo, South African Vlogger The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) would like to invite TIER 1...
NFVF Opportunity: “We’ve always been here”
“I think for a very long time, the ways in which trans people have been represented on screen have suggested that we’re not real, …that we’re mentally ill, that we don’t exist. And yet, here I am. Here we are. And we’ve always been here”- Laverne Fox, American actress...
Whickers Film & TV Funding Award
The Whickers Film & TV Funding Award is awarded annually to an emerging filmmaker from anywhere in the world with the most promising pitch for a director-led documentary which fulfils the core criteria. A key criteria is that it must be the filmmaker or...
A Message from our Programme Officer, Lameze Allie
It has been a very exciting few months as the Programme Officer of the DFA. doccLOVEÂ was rebooted with a very well-supported screening of Softie: it was exhilarating to engage with people face to face again. Â The screening was perfectly timed pre Elections, which made...
Electric South Job Opportunities
Electric South are calling all Project Managers and Coordinators based in South Africa! Electric South are looking for self-initiated individuals to support their team in managing and coordinating numerous projects taking place in 2022.As a Project Manager at Electric...
Encounters invites entries for the 24th edition
23 June – 3rd July 2022: Cape Town & Johannesburg, and Online The organisers of Encounters, Africa’s home of documentaries, are calling for feature, mid-length, and short documentary film entries for the 2022 edition of the Festival. Encounters is returning to...
SAFTAs now open for entries
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture, the custodians of the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs), has officially opened submissions for local production companies to submit their entries...
Doc Society’s Climate Story Fund
The next round of the Climate Story Fund is open to January 7th 2022Â and is open to all storytelling mediums. Following the conclusion of the COP26 climate change talks and noting the questions reverberating around the creative industries around the role of culture in...
Opportunity at UCT Centre for Film and Media Studies
The Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS) in the Faculty of Humanities wishes to appoint a suitable candidate to help develop the Centre’s teaching, production and research in digital and mobile media studies, as soon as possible. Requirements: A relevant...