Gauteng to host Film Indaba

Under the banner ‘Big Ideas, Perfect Locations’, the Department of Economic Development in association with the Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) will host the 2007 Gauteng Film Indaba on the 6th of November at the Forum in Bryanston. The Indaba will bring together...

Acclaimed Screenwriting Workshop at No Charge

Local training initiative Creative Industry, supported by the Embassy of Ireland is offering six screenwriters the opportunity to attend a fully funded Advanced Screenwriting Workshop in Mary Kate says she currently has a ‘batting average’ of 50% from her...

Out in Africa waltzes into town

Out in Africa, which will run at the Killarney Mall from the 2nd until the 11th of November, has become a much anticipated event on the local film and cultural calendar. The festival is one of the country’s longest running and most successful festivals and has built...

Joburg 100 and the ‘Creative City’

The City of Johannesburg has launched ‘Joburg 100’ an initiative that is aimed at fostering greater cohesion within the city’s cultural sector as well as raising the profile of the cultural industries within the metro area.  Amongst others the project seeks to...

Eat My Video Joburg screening date confirmed

The Bowling Club – a new initiative devoted to local and international cultural exchange – has confirmed the date of Eat My Video (EMV), a screening of the best of current international Eat My Video Joburg screening date confirmed music videos. This follows on from...

Changing Perceptions of Africa through Surprise!

Andrew Worsdale takes a look at the inventive comic Dutch road-movie Surprise! which is also a foreign affair development initiative for the Netherlands.  The film wrapped in Gauteng last month. “Four years ago, I stuck a fictional film review on the door of the...