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Loeries showreels screened at Labia
The 2009 Loerie Awards will be screened at the Labia in Cape Town, South Africa from Friday, 24 September - Sunday, 3 October 2010. The 2010 winners showreel will be screened 4-7 October. Admission is free.
Award-wining Cannes ad to screen in local cinema

Cinemark, at all digital cinemas, will screen the Gold Cannes Lions award-winning 95" film advert, produced by Ogilvy Johannesburg for The Topsy Foundation, that depicts 90 days in the life of an HIV/AIDS patient, Selina, revealing her dramatic recovery after administering ARVs. 31 Aug 2010 11:05


Sign up - let the truth be told

Let the truth be told! Stop the secrecy law (Protection of Information Bill). Sign up to Right2know.org.za. A civil society campaign - Right2Know - supported already by over 180 organisations and 400 individuals, is being launched today, Tuesday, 31 August 2010, at 1pm. 31 Aug 2010 10:23




Goethe-Institut SA launches platform for women filmmakers

The Goethe-Institut will be hosting two events 1-4 September 2010 that will focus on professional women in the African film industry. 30 Aug 2010 08:37


Shucks it's the best

On Wednesday 18 August Ster-Kinekor Theatres hosted a tribute event celebrating the extraordinary contribution to the local film industry made by Leon Schuster. It was attended by various people from the local film industry, who have worked with Leon on producing his magic over the years. 20 Aug 2010 09:08


POWA ad running at Ster-Kinekor

People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) is re-running its commercial, first seen on local cinemas in a January, during August 2010 at Ster-Kinekor cinemas to highlight the abuse of women. [video] 16 Aug 2010 10:09


NFVF releases Skin audience research

National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has released a study this week, intended to establish the attitude of the learners towards local films, while looking at their viewing trends and barriers to attending cinemas. 4 Aug 2010 10:39


Loeries TV Crafts panel announced

The Loerie Awards has announced the TV Crafts judging panel for the 2010 awards. TV Crafts categories include Art Direction, Animation and Special Visual Effects, Cinematography, Direction, Editing, Original Music and Sound Design, and Writing for TV and Cinema. 4 Aug 2010 08:38


Green Encounters to move audiences

Encounters - the documentary film festival showing in Cape Town 12-29 August 2010 at the NuMetro, V&A Waterfront and the Labia on Orange and in Johannesburg 18-29 August at The Bioscope, Ground Floor of Main Street Life, 286 Fox Street, Maboneng Precinct - offers viewers a 'green' component. 3 Aug 2010 08:18


31st DIFF award winners announced

The winner of the Best Feature Film at the 31st Durban International Film Festival is The White Meadows (Iran). Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, the film was lauded by the International Jury as a "timeless and poetic narrative." The festival ran from 22 July to 1 August 2010 in South Africa. 2 Aug 2010 07:47


Movies in August... - Ster-Kinekor

Coming to the movie circuit in August is The Grown Ups, an Adam Sandler comedy, Please Give, writer/director Nicole Holofcener's perceptive and funny take on modern life's contradictions, good intentions and shaky moral bearings, and The Sorceror's Apprentice, a Walt Disney comedy adventure starring Nicholas Cage. 2 Aug 2010 07:40


South African winner at Durban FilmMart

The Durban FilmMart (DFM), which ran 23-26 July 2010, offered an inaugural finance forum to provide selected African filmmakers with the opportunity to pitch film projects to leading financiers. The Hubert Bals Fund award in the 'Specialist Projects' category went to South African Jenna Cato Bass for her project 'Tok Tokkie'. 28 Jul 2010 09:12


New strategy for Western Cape film industry

Through funding provided by the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape provincial government's Department of Economic Development, the Cape Film Commission (CFC) is to develop a new strategy for the Western Cape film industry. 26 Jul 2010 11:05


Daring documentary film festival in Cape Town

A new documentary film festival, by Flamedrop Productions, will be screened at The Labia Theatre, Cape Town from 29 July - 5 August 2010. Billed as a daring festival, the organisers state that the various brave and determined filmmakers pull no punches as they tackle subjects that affect us all and the planet we share. 23 Jul 2010 11:18


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