DFA Sessions at Encounters
DFA docSHARE presents: Get your film out there! An interactive panel discussion about distribution strategy 18 June 2021 at 11:00 - 12:30 REGISTER HERE DFA invites you to the launch of docSHARE - an interactive learning session where the film teams from I. Mary, ...
Encounters Talks: The Future of the Documentary Industry
From 10-20 June 2021, the festival brings a slate of meaningful documentaries about humanity, creativity, activism, investigation and revelation, accompanied by live webinars, debates, Q&As and the opportunity to virtually meet directors locally and from around...
NFVF Call for International Bursaries Applications
The National Film and Video Foundation would like to invite eligible applicants to apply for International Bursaries in Film and Television Post Graduate Studies. The NFVF’s bursary programme is aimed at building capacity by upskilling film & TV professionals for...
‘Disrupt! The Shape of Stories to Come’
Africa’s premier film industry event, the Durban FilmMart, is embracing the disrupting effect the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the film industry when the event kicks off virtually in July. Under the theme, ‘Disrupt! The shape of stories to come’, the 12th edition of...
UCT Sunshine Cinema Film Impact Screening Facilitator Short Course
Encounters South African International Film Festival presents one week of exclusive, free access to the brand new online UCT certificate short course UCT Sunshine Cinema Film Impact Screening Facilitator Short Course Do you make films about social issues? Are you an...
Detainees in Japanese immigration centre speak out in secretly recorded documentary
DFA member Daniel Ndevu is the Impact Campaign Producer for this exciting film which will have its world premiere from Tuesday, 1 June to Sunday, 6 June, online with German film festival, Nippon Connection. There is a free, online and worldwide preview screening...
SA & African Films Come To Encounters
From the mysterious assassination of a South African icon, to an animated documentary of one of Sea Point’s legendary figures, as well as activists, miners, circuses and athletes, the 2021 Encounters South African International Documentary Festival once again brings...
Encounters is back, announces first films in the lineup
Following on from its hugely successful virtual festival in 2020 — a year that will surely go down as one of cinematic history’s most challenging — the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will once again be coming to screens ‘virtually...
What I’ve been watching: Morgan Morris
Film: MAYOR Director: David Osit Year: 2020 ‘MAYOR’ is almost the antithesis to ‘What Walaa Wants’, the 2018 doccie on a strong-minded young woman trying to forge her own path – in the face of her family’s objections – in a refugee camp on the West Bank. If on the...