Creating an audience for local film

Every first Wednesday of the month, alternative cinema enthusiasts in Johannesburg are treated to a host of local and indie films at Atlas Studios in Milpark, northeast of the city centre. It’s an opportunity to watch films not found on the main cinema circuit....

Tell your Joburg story at the Jozi Fest

Organisers of the second annual Jozi Film Festival, set for 15 to 17 February 2013, are inviting Johannesburg and Gauteng filmmakers to submit movies that tell stories about the city and its inhabitants. The deadline for submissions is 16 November 2012. The first...

Major US award for SA documentary

The White Picket Fence Project, an inspiring South African-US documentary coproduction in which two young men from different continents filmed their own coming-of-age story over seven years, has won the RIIFF International Ambassador Award at the Rhode Island...

Diverse human rights film at TCFF

The Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF), the largest festival of human rights cinema in Africa, will take place from 7 to 23 September in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria and Soweto at Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau. Fredrik Gertten’s critically acclaimed documentary...

Seminar on women in film

The status of women in film and television will be explored on Friday 31 August at the Gauteng Women In Film and Television Partnership Seminar, an event supported by the Gauteng Film Commission and National Film and Video Foundation. Hosted at the Open Window campus...

Out in Africa seeks short films

The third and final edition of this year’s Out In Africa South African Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will take place from 19th to 27th October 2012 at the Nu Metro V&A Waterfront in Cape Town and Nu Metro Hyde Park in Johannesburg. Organisers are seeking South...