NATHAN Rice, director of the superb short film, Homeless, has been nominated for an Academy of Motion Picture Award 2015 in the best short foreign student film category.
Rice, whose film won the lion’s share of the awards at AFDA Durban’s third year graduation ceremony last year, was the highest scoring of over sixty short films, based on the Audience and Critics scores during the AFDA graduate festival held at Cinema Nouveau and Suncoast Cinecentre.
The film will also be AFDA’s nomination for the CILECT prize, the largest and most prestigious international association of film and television schools.
Rice said of the nomination: “This is the greatest honour of my life to be nominated for such a prestigious award. It means that the film has resonance and that people have acknowledged that the themes in the fil are relevant in South African and today’s society.”
Veteran film producer and multiple award winner Richard Green, the Durban Film School head said of Rice: “Nathan is an unassuming young man with a back – bone of steel. He truly found his voice and what he wanted to personally express in Homeless.”
AFDA Johannesburg has previously won the coveted and highly contested Oscar for best short foreign film in 2006 with Eleleni directed by Tristan Holmes and was nominated as a finalist in 2013 for Kanye Kanye directed by Miklas Manneke.
This year also saw AFDA alumni Ernest Nkosi nominated as the South African candidate film for the equivalent feature film award with his multiple award winning and festival feted film Thina Sobabili.
For more information go to http://www.afda.co.za/student-work/253/1/homeless/
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