THE noir thriller Impunity, the latest film by South African director Jyoti Mistry, will be screened at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), giving audiences a sneak preview prior to the film’s release in August. Continue reading
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Triggerfish is conducting a continent-wide search for storytellers
AFTER the international success of its first two feature films, Adventures in Zambezia and Khumba,Triggerfish Animation Studios is establishing The Triggerfish Story Lab with the support of The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) and The Walt Disney Company.
Triggerfish will be investing up to $3.5m over the next three years in The Story Lab, which aims to give Africa’s most talented storytellers and filmmakers the opportunity to develop their ideas alongside its international network of mentors. Selected storytellers will potentially have their concepts developed into episodic TV content or an animated feature film for the global market. Continue reading
DIFF short films at the KZNSA
THE KZNSA (KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts) Gallery in Bulwer Road, Glenwood, is once again the Short Films hub for the Durban International Film Festival 2015, with screenings in the Main Gallery from July 21 to 25. Continue reading
A Dry White Season to be screened at DIFF
TWO films from Euzhan Palcy, Sugarcane Alley (1983) and A Dry White Season (1989), will be showcased at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), which runs from July 16 to July 26. Continue reading
Film celebrates the unity of music
IN an era where strict racial segregation and oppression plunged South Africa into intolerance, conflict and civil unrest, hundreds of voices joined in a united call for peace. When Voices Meet — a film documenting one woman’s journey to bring about change in apartheid South Africa through the universal language of music — documents that musical moment. Continue reading
Business Canvas Model Boot Camp at DFM 2015
The Durban FilmMart (DFM), in partnership with the Documentary Filmmakers’ Association, the Canadian Film Center (CFC) Media Lab and the National Film and Video Foundation, will be hosting one-and-a-half day closed workshops on the powerful Business Model Canvas (BMC) tool for South African filmmakers at this year’s DFM which takes place during the Durban International Film Festival from July 17 to 20. Continue reading
Independent Mzansi short films on Vidi
Short films by South African filmmakers will be available from this month on VIDI including the acclaimed Welcome to Hawaii and The Gunfighter. Continue reading
Cannes’s La Semaine de la Critique (Critic’s Week) films at DIFF
TOP films from the prestigious Cannes’s La Semaine de la Critique (Critic’s Week) will be screened at this year’s Durban International Film Festival. Continue reading
Manfred Zylla and the Art of Resistance
Cult Cape Town-based artist Manfred Zylla is keeping things fierce at this year’s National Arts Festival with the launch of a new book of hard-hitting images that pays homage to Pasolini’s last film Salò. Continue reading
The NFVF takes film to Grahamstown National Arts Festival
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture, will once again host the National Arts Festival’s film component. The festival, which takes place in Grahamstown, runs until July 12 and the NFVF participation will run from July 7 to 10. Continue reading
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