Shoki Mokgapa in Sink
Following its multiple awards at the kykNET Silwerskermfees last year, Bret Michael Innes’ moving drama Sink has been named as one of the first films officially selected for this year’s Atlanta Film Festival line-up which runs from April 1 – 10. Continue reading
With many Oscar-nominated feature films now screening at Cinema Nouveau and Ster-Kinekor theatres countrywide, and with #OscarBuzz in full swing, lovers of all things celluloid film are in for another Oscar treat. Cinema Nouveau has secured the exclusive rights to screen the 2016 Oscar Nominated Short Films in the Live Action and Animation categories. Continue reading
FilmClub will be hosting a screening of Spanish director, Pedro Almodovar’s Volver at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg at 7 pm on Tuesday, February 16. Continue reading
FILMCLUB will be screening Paweł Pawlikowski’s powerful film, Ida, at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg, at 7 pm on Tuesday, February 9. Continue reading
The official trailer of MODDER EN BLOED (BLOOD AND GLORY), the new film by Dark Matter Studios (Leading Lady) and Collective Dream Films (Platteland, ‘n Man Soos My Pa) has just been released and you check it out here: https://youtu.be/Vxw8IeqY3IM Continue reading
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. Continue reading
FANS of arthouse movies rejoice – FilmClub is back at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg, for a new season, starting at 7 pm on Tuesday, February 2.
The Last Mistress, directed Catherine Breillat (France, 2007) kicks off a special focus on women directors. It is a slightly a-typical film from Breillat – a sumptuous period drama which chronicles the intense love affair between a young libertine and an outrageously unconventional, sexually assertive woman some years his senior – the latter played with ferocious sensuality by Asia Argento.
In November 2015, Urucu Media announced the call for submissions for REALNESS, a Pan African screenwriter’s residency. Thus far over 80 submissions have been received, with 40% of them coming from outside of South Africa. The scope of writers ranges from established writer/directors to self-taught, emerging talent. REALNESS recently partnered with EAVE and Torino Film Lab. Continue reading
Fulu Mugovhani and Jafta Mamabolo in a scene from Ayanda.
South African film Ayanda, which was acquired for distribution in the US, is now available in the US and Canada from on-demand Internet streaming media company Netflix through Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY Distribution. This follows the film’s successful US release on the theatrical arthouse circuit in the last quarter of 2015.
Locally, the film premiered on DSTV Box Office until 25 January. The DVD will be released in South Africa in February. Continue reading
THE next production from National Theatre Live series to be screened at Cinema Nouveau is Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre. Filmed at the National Theatre in London, Jane Eyre releases on Saturday, January 23 at Cinema Nouveau theatres countrywide, for limited screenings. Continue reading
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