Studios for hire: the Gauteng report

Q-Studios in the industrial suburb of Kew provides truly massive spaces, allowing the facility to cater for big film clients as well as commercials and TV series. South African film and TV content production has an annual turnover of about R5.5-billion...

My normal, crazy, mixed-up country

White Wedding came about from a road trip Kenneth Nkosi, Rapulana Seiphemo and Jann Turner took across the country seven years ago – two black dudes and a white girl – and all the bizarre, funny, typically South African things they encountered.(Image: White Wedding)...

Out in Africa in its 17th year

A still from Lesedi Mogoatlhe and Inger Smith’s Road to Pride. Springtime means all things queer are top of the Johannesburg events menu. The first weekend of October saw gay pride marchers take on Zoo Lake and now it’s the cinephiles’ turn with the 17th Out in...

Mbalo celebrates a decade at the NFVF

Eddie Mbalo, CEO of South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation. Andy Stead For South African film veteran Eddie Mbalo, 2010 marks a decade as CEO of the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), 10 years that have seen him make an outstanding...

Final seven for loveLife film competition

The 28 film enthusiasts, chosen from 120 competition entrants, are working in groups of four to complete the seven chosen documentaries. The loveLife Film Competition has finally reached the stage of “lights, camera, action”, after a tough round of documentary pitches...

Global acclaim for Hopeville

  Hopeville stars Themba Ndaba as a recovering alcoholic who tries to rebuild his relationship with his son, played by Junior Singo. South African feature film Hopeville has shot to international fame, first for winning the award for Best Drama and Miniseries at the...