White Lion roars onto our screens

  John Kani A new South African movie that features big names such as John Kani and Jamie Bartlett premieres in South Africa this month (February 2010). White Lion is already making waves since it has been nominated by The South African Film and Television Awards...

Bringing Reunion and South Africa closer

With the support of the Embassy of France, a small delegation of film professionals from South Africa recently attended a networking programme in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, hosted by ADCAM – a regional film association responsible for the...

The power and joy of experimenting

The chance to be creative for creativity and entertainment’s sake as opposed to being forced to be socially responsible is an attraction of the US film industry. That’s one observation that emerging filmmaker Cecil Matlou makes, having recently returned...

Promoting Soweto as a home of performing arts

The Soweto Performing Arts Centre (SPAC) is a pre-eminent and vibrant community-based institution dedicated to the development and advancement of the performing and visual arts in historically under-resourced communities. In Focus spoke to Basil Dube, CEO of SPAC,...

Creating written characters for screen or TV

Well-known SA author and lecturer Jo-Anne Richards likens writing great characters for screen or television to ice-bergs. “The sparkling tip of them is what you see on the screen. The vast bulk of them is the back story. You may not see it, but it must be...