The GFC’s latest projects

Over the past three months, the last quarter of the GFC’s financial year, the commission has supported a range of feature and short films, TV series, documentaries and other programmes. We bring you a summary. Feature and short films Semi Soet Workaholic Jaci will go...

A day in the life of The Wild

Location shooting The Wild at the Go-Tladi ranch near Heidelberg. Andy Stead A daily drama is a mammoth task to produce, with a full episode produced at least once a day, and a buffer of several weeks required between shooting and airing, in case something goes wrong....

First Shot winners announced

Each First Shot winner will fly to Los Angeles to shoot their script and direct Kevin Spacey, all with the backing of his production company, Trigger Street Productions. Jameson Irish Whiskey has announced the three winners of Trigger Street Presents Jameson First...

Media Career Guide auditions

Now in its second season, the Media Career Guide is a show on SABC1, brought to you by the Gauteng Film Commission, that takes viewers behind the scenes of film, television, music and radio industries of South Africa. Each episode features interviews with...

The best opening weekend ever

Anton Burggraaf The weekend of 17 to 19 February 2011 will go down in South African cinema annals as a first. Two wholly local films took one third of the box office takings. This has never happened in an opening weekend before. The films are Semi-Soet and Material,...

36.3 MP: the Nikon D800 has arrived

Low light, high quality: the Nikon D800 shows its capabilities. Andy Stead Probably one of the most highly anticipated DSLRs of the past few months, the Nikon D800 was launched globally on 7 February. With its astonishing 36.3-megapixel full-frame FX sensor, Nikon is...