Durban FilmMart projects: a rundown

Twelve documentaries and 12 narrative features have been selected for this year’s edition of the Durban FilmMart, a gathering of African filmmakers, financiers, broadcasters and top film experts taking place from 20 to 23 July during the 33rd Durban International Film...

3D Zambezia to premiere at DIFF

South African 3D animation film Adventures in Zambezia will have its world premiere as the closing film for the 33rd edition of the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), which runs from 19 to 29 July. A landmark in South African animation, Adventures in Zambezia...

Africa under one roof

For years the massive Ponte apartment building in downtown Johannesburg has been associated with inner city crime and grime – gangsters, drug dealers, fugitives. But a new documentary reveals a different picture, of a colourful and cosmopolitan community, a safe...

The hitchhiker’s guide to Africa

An innovative new television documentary, Thumbs Up Africa, will record a remarkable journey three young Dutch students are set to embark on in October 2012: to hitchhike over 15 000 kilometres from the Netherlands all the way down the continent of Africa to end up,...

A different kind of crossover

Supported by the Gauteng Film Commission, Lucky is a drama about a 10-year-old South African orphan who leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city, only to find no one will help him – except a formidable Indian woman called Padma. The title role of Lucky...

Leon Schuster, SA’s Mad Buddy

South African movie legend Leon Schuster hit the circuit this weekend with Mad Buddies, his 15th feature in a career that has tickled the national funny bone for more than three decades. Anton Burggraaf gets a handle on Schuster, the madness and his rampant success....