Film

Durban Film Office partners with soapie, ‘Uzalo’, to train local filmmakers

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From left to right: Durban Film Office trainees Slindokuhle Msomi (Umlazi), Ntombifuthi “G-2” Zakwe (Mobeni Heights), Philipe Masondo (Ntuzuma), Thokozani Mahaye (Inanda Newton) and Mbusi Harrison Msane (Wyebank) with Pinky Sozombile (Newlines West) in front, on the set of Uzalo in Durban.

Six aspiring Durban film-makers have been given the opportunity to work behind the scenes on one of South Africa’s most watched soapies, Uzalo, which boasts a viewership of almost three million per day. Continue reading →

The Zanzibar International Film Festival is set to recognise women doccie makers

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ziff-anniversaryThe Zanzibar International Film Festival is excited to announce a new special jury award category open specifically to women documentary filmmakers from Africa.

The Adiaha Award for Best African Female Documentary Filmmaker will be offered for the first time at the 20th edition of ZIFF, taking place from July 8 – 16. Continue reading →

Get your exclusive tickets to ‘Keeping up with the Kandasamys’

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Mishqah Parthiephal and Madhushan Singh star in ‘Keeping Up With The Kandsamys’.

Be one of the first to watch the new comedy, Keeping up with the Kandasamys, at one of the exclusive screenings taking place at selected Ster-Kinekor cinemas around the country on Sunday, February 26.  Bookings open on February 22 and tickets are limited. Continue reading →

The magic of the Bolshoi Ballet comes to the big screen at Cinema Nouveau

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Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Rodkin in Swan Lake. Photo: Damir Yusupov

A new season of seven wonderful ballets from Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet company – one of the world’s great powerhouses of classical ballet – is currently being screened at Ster-Kinekor’s Cinema Nouveau theatres.

The next ballet to be enjoyed on the big screen is one of the classical ballets of all time, Tchaikovsky’s timeless Swan Lake, which releases on Saturday, February 18 for limited shows. Continue reading →

Jailoshini Naidoo and Maeshni Naicker star in the new family comedy, Keeping Up With The Kandasamy’s

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Jailoshini Naidoo (left) and Maeshni Naicker star in ‘Keeping Up With The Kandasamy’s’. Photo: Helena Spring Films/Junaid Ahmed Productions

FROM the producers of Hard to Get and Happiness is a Four Letter Word, comes the two-sided, family comedy, Keeping up with the Kandasamy’s, directed by Durban filmmaker Jayan Moodley (White Gold) and produced by Helena Spring and the late Junaid Ahmed. Continue reading →

Applications are now open for the Realness Pan African Scriptwriting Residency 2017

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Following the success of the inaugural scriptwriting residency, Realness is calling for submissions for the 2017 edition.

This pioneering residency provides filmmakers with the opportunity to hone and develop their creative scriptwriting skills. It also serves to address the need for promising African film projects to be supported in their development phase to be able to realistically compete in global film markets. Continue reading →

Cinema Nouveau screens National Theatre Live’s broadcast of Harold Pinter’s classic play No Man’s Land

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From left: Damien Molony, Patrick Stewart, Owen Teale and Ian McKellen in ‘No Man’s Land’. Photo: Johan Persson

The first broadcast of 2017 from National Theatre Live to be screened at Cinema Nouveau is Harold Pinter’s classic play No Man’s Land, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart and directed by Sean Mathias.

The West End run follows a massively successful staging of the play on Broadway in New York.

Filmed live at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre for broadcast to cinemas globally, it releases at Cinema Nouveau theatres on Saturday, January 21 for four screenings only. Continue reading →

Domhall Gleeson to play ‘Winnie The Pooh’ author A.A. Milne in new biopic

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Domhall Gleeson plays author A.A. Milne — who would take inspiration from his son’s toys to create Winnie-the-Pooh — to write the children’s classic. Photo: David-Appleby/Fox Searchlight Pictures

FINDING Neverland turned the creation of Peter Pan into an Oscar-nominated drama back in 2004, and Fox Searchlight is hoping to follow in those footsteps with its new film, a biopic of A.A. Milne, author created the children’s classic Winnie the Pooh. Continue reading →