GFC officially joins Sport, Arts Dept

As of 1 April 2012, the Gauteng Film Commission formally joins the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, under the leadership of MEC Lebogang Maile. The GFC was originally housed under the Department of Economic Development. On Tuesday 3 April, a...

GFC serves up Cooking With Azania

Television and radio presenter Azania Mosaka shares her passion for food on a new TV series sponsored by the Gauteng Film Commission. Cooking With Azania debuted on Saturday 31 March at 12h00. Cooking With Azania is a 24-minute, 26-episode show that looks at the...

Out in Africa faces funding crunch

Andy Stead South Africa’s Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, established in 1994 to increase the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals (LGBTIs) in South African social and cultural life and now in its 18th year, may have...

From e’Lollipop to A Million Colours

Actors Wandile Molebatsi and Jason Hartman with former child actor Muntu Ndebele, whose life story is told in A Million Colours. Andy Stead It is Johannesburg in the early 1980s and my kids are watching a video: their favourite, local movie e’Lollipop. It’s a...

GFC moves to Sport, Arts, Culture

The Premier of Gauteng Ms Nomvula Mokonyane has announced that the Gauteng Film Commission and the Creative Industries will move from the Department of Economic Development (DED) to its more suited position within the Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation...

Specialist training for professionals

The newly launched Asikhule Training Partners, the corporate training arm of the Academy of Sound Engineering (ASE), offers training to audio, video and broadcast professionals of all skill levels who are already working in the African film industry. Until late 2011...