Blomkamp casts Die Antwoord

Neill Blomkamp has cast Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yo-landi in his new sci-fi comedy, Chappie, which is scheduled to be filmed from September to December this year in Johannesburg, with a budget of $50-million (R460m), reports Die Burger newspaper. According to...

South Africa’s most prolific filmmaker

Phillip Altbeker, Business Day With a career that spans more than 30 years, Darrell James Roodt, whose Little One will be released on Friday, must rank as South Africa’s most prolific filmmaker. But it is not just the quantity of his movies – many of which have been...

SA delegation headed to Hot Docs 2013

The Documentary Filmmakers’ Association (DFA) will be sending its second official delegation of South African documentary filmmakers to the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto on 23 April. Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary...

SA film bags US award

The South African Sesotho film, The Forgotten Kingdom, has bagged the Audience Award for Best Feature at this year’s Ashland Independent Film Festival in Oregon. This jam-packed event took place from 4 to 8 April in the American city. The audience at...

Submit your showreel for Annecy

Outdoor screening of Rango at the Annecy festival in 2011. (Image: CITIA, www.france.fr) Animation SA is calling on animators to submit examples of their work and company details for a brand new South African animation industry showreel and industry information...