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...
Job Opportunity: docSHARE Mentors
DOCSHARE is an initiative of the Documentary Filmmakers Association of South Africa to create opportunities for experienced film professionals to share their knowledge and engage with the work and concerns of our existing and prospective members. We will offer five...
Job Opportunity: Programme Manager docSHARE 2023
DOCSHARE is an initiative of the Documentary Filmmakers Association of South Africa to create opportunities for experienced film professionals to share their knowledge and engage with the work and concerns of our existing and prospective members. We will offer five...
5 Minutes with… new DFA member Eugene Bogatov
Welcome new member and highly experienced DOP Eugene to the DFA! Tell us about yourself – who are you and what do you do? I am Eugene Bogatov, a new to Cape Town documentary cinematographer originally  from Russia and now happily in SA. I am a three times Arctic...
docLOVE Screening of The Territory
Thank you to all who joined our screening of The Territory at Bertha House in Cape Town and The Bioscope Independent Cinema in Johannesburg on 26 October 2022! Something very powerful happens when we watch a film together and then take the time to talk about it. A...
The Whickers’ Cost of Docs Report 2021/22
The Whickers' Cost of Docs Report, revealing the changing landscape for documentary makers in the UK and internationally, has been released. "Supporting documentary” Internationally is not just an easy phrase for The Whickers’ team, but the result of months of...