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Dora The Explorer set to entertain the little ones

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Nickelodeon (DStv channel 305) has teamed up with Life Like Touring and Blu Blood to bring pre-school heroine and intrepid adventuress Dora the Explorer and her friends to South Africa this winter.

Dora the Explorer Live! Dora’s Pirate Adventure, the ultimate, fantastic family-friendly theatrical experience runs at the ICC in Durban from June 30 to July 3, before moving on to Emperors Palace, Johannesburg (July 7 to 10), and finally dropping anchor at the Grand Arena, GrandWest Casino in Cape Town (July 14 to 17). Continue reading →

Grammy winner, Fantasia, to play herself in biopic

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Fantasia plays herself in the biopic Life is not a Fairytale.

R&B star Fantasia seems to have it all. The winner of American Idol has a Grammy to her name, wowed audiences in the hit Broadway production of The Color Purple and topped the best-selling lists with her memoir. But life was often a struggle for this once unemployed single mother.

“My life looks like a fairy tale in many ways, but you have to remember that life is not a fairy tale. I was the American Idol but at the time I couldn’t even read a fairy tale to my four-year-old daughter,” she revealed in her biography Life is Not a Fairytale.

Her book has been turned into a movie of the same title which airs on True Movies (DStv Channel 138) on March 7 and 14 at 8.45 pm. Continue reading →

Ayanda to screen on DStv and Netflix

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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 →

South African film, Ayanda, opens in the United States

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Fulu Mugovhani and Jafta Mamabolo in a scene from Ayanda.

Fulu Mugovhani and Jafta Mamabolo in a scene from Ayanda.

Hot on the heels of its screening at the 59th BFI London Film Festival in October, South African coming-of-age film Ayanda has been released in theatres in Los Angeles and New York. The film was picked up for distribution in the United States by Selma director and film distributor Ava DuVernay’s distribution company ARRAY. Continue reading →

Don’t miss a documentary celebrating the legacy of Ian Player

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When Gary Player, the famous golfer and brother of Dr. Ian Player (above left), announced that Ian, pioneer of the Dusi Canoe Marathon, had finally rowed his canoe to the other side, it was a moment when many around the world paused to acknowledge the passing of a great conservationist.

Player was instrumental in saving the southern white rhino from the brink of extinction by pushing for the transport of surplus stock to other areas.

Through his work and as the founder of the Wilderness Leadership School he gained international recognition and at home he became the environmental conscience of a nation.

That legacy is celebrated in a documentary, The Legacy of Ian Player, directed by Dr Sandra Herrington, which will be screened at 8.25 pm on October 14 on DSTV’s  Ed Channel (190).