Women continue to make their mark

The recent employment audit carried out by the Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) on Gauteng companies in the audio-visual sector has confirmed that the role of women within the Vicci Turpin feeding a baby elephant sector is significant, comprising 43.3% of direct...

Four Shadows

Sweet Spot Content (formerly Sub Urban Films), a multi-disciplinary integrated media company, recently completed a McDonalds commercial, entitled Four Shadows, filmed in Bez Valley Park, Johannesburg. Linda Notelovitz, CEO and Executive Producer, provides some detail:...

3D coming at ya from Diepsloot!

3D film and television requires cutting edge technology – and local company Haptics is right up there with several world firsts in this area of technology. Indeed, their contribution to the Don Searll FIFA 2010 World Cup Trophy tour, shot entirely in 3D,...

Hybrid pioneers above-the-line digital media

Johannesburg-based Hybrid Entertainment is an exciting new media channel that already is, or soon will be, screened across an exclusive network of South Africa’s most popular Hybrid Entertainment pioneers venues as well as airtime vending machines, airlines and...

Transparency in transformation

The GFC’s 2009 Sector Employment Audit, which includes statistics on black ownership and equity within the Province, raises the important issue of the rate of transformation in the industry. According to Faith Mokale of Eclipse TV (Big Up, The Chatroom, I want...