Celebrating Africa in Motion

The 2010 Africa in Motion film festival will include the the UK premiere of Nathan Collett’s Togetherness Supreme, a youthful and fast-paced tale set in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya. The 2010 Africa in Motion (AiM) Edinburgh African Film...

Another unqualified audit for NFVF

The National Film and Video Foundation is a statutory body funded by the Department of Arts and Culture to help develop the South African film and video industry. For the 10th year in a row, South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has received an...

Five-year forecast for South African entertainment

  South African Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2010-2014 includes of annual historical data for 2005 to 2009, as well as forecasts for 2010 to 2014, for a wide range of local media. Despite the severe global economic crisis, South Africa’s entertainment and media...

Film appreciation school for Gauteng

FILM+SCHOOL screenings are targeted at a younger audience – ages 10 to 17 – and will take place every Wednesday at 11h00. The new Bioscope FILM+SCHOOL series is a film awareness and appreciation initiative by the Bioscope Independent Cinema in cooperation with the...

More than just a celluloid Mandela

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in a still from the Clint Eastwood movie Invictus.(Image: Warner Brothers Pictures) Bongani Nkosi Morgan Freeman is Nelson Mandela. Well, the Oscar-winning Hollywood star played Mandela in Invictus, the Clint Eastwood-directed drama...