More exciting feature documentaries announced for Encounters 2020
The documentary features coming to the Encounters 2020 Documentary Film Festival have been announced, and they promise audiences some of the freshest content from the world’s great, as well as local up-and-coming, documentary filmmakers. Best of all the 2020 festival...
5 Minutes with Sandz Tshefu
Tell us about yourself – who are you and what do you do? My name is Sandiswa Tshefu, I am a video editor and film trainer. I have worked on both international and local feature films, documentaries and television shows since 2013. What are you currently up to?...
Cape Town beaches open for permitting
Cape Town’s pristine beaches and stunning parks will again feature in films and commercials currently being shot in the Mother City. This after the City’s Film Office was given the go ahead to issue permits for filming along the coastline under stringent conditions,...
NFVF invites nominations for Oscars selection committee
Invitation for South African film practitioners to participate as jury members for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) for International Feature Film category The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sports, Arts and...
5 Minutes with DFA Member Mpho Mabodimo
Tell us about yourself – who are you and what do you do? My name is Edwin D. Mabodimo Mphaga born and raised in Tafelkop, Limpopo. I am a father and I identify myself as a Poet, Photographer and a Filmmaker, I studied film and television production operations course...
First Encounters Line-up Announced
The new multi-platform Encounters International South African Documentary Festival is bringing you some of the globe’s greatest award-winning documentaries, available virtually. Long-awaited political documentaries and an eye-opening look into the world of one of...
5 Minutes with Nikki Comninos
Tell us about yourself – who are you and what do you do? I am an editor and sometimes director, I have worked across many genres but documentary is my firm fave. I also have one toe in academica and completed my Ph.D. focusing on home video, personal history and...
TRIBUO: New support fund for the arts
The performing arts have been hit hard by the Covid pandemic. The local industry has ground to a halt with the ban on public gatherings, the closing of theatres and entertainment centres and the cancellation of various arts festivals. The arts industry in South Africa...
Virtual 22nd Encounters Doccie Fest
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 - to South...