Major series asks: Why Poverty?

Adam Benzine, RealScreen Next year South Africa-based activist organisation Steps International, along with UK public broadcaster the BBC and Danish pubcaster DRTV, will be spearheading Why Poverty?, a multimillion-dollar series of films examining the issues...

Cannes triumph for SA films

London Film School graduate Oliver Hermanus, director of the Cannes Queer Palm-winning South African film Skoonheid. Janine Erasmus, MediaClubSouthAfrica.com The South African film industry had a strong presence at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, with 24 films and...

‘Let he who is without sin …’

A child plays in the streets of Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg. Two-thirds of Cast the First Stone will be shot in Alexandra and the rest in Soweto. Johannesburg’s townships have been plagued with protests, xenophobia and crime. Cast the First Stone, a film...

Tri-Continental Film Festival

The Tri-Continental Film Festival, South Africa’s only dedicated human rights film event, attracts a large and diverse audience of film lovers, activists and socially conscious folk from all walks of life and social strata. Film that promotes democratisation, deepens...

How to Steal Two Million

A cool, neo-noir South African heist drama, How to Steal Two Million is set to hit local screens in late July, with a cast that includes veteran actors John Kani and Rapulana Seiphemo, as well as Menzi Ngubane of Generations fame, Terry Pheto of the Oscar-winning...

On-demand TV for South Africa

The VOD:TV television-on-demand interface. Duncan McLeod This article was originally published on TechCentral. Read the original here. South African couch potatoes, rejoice! The country is getting another challenger in the TV market. And the man behind it, SouthTel...