Roadshow on Film and TV Incentive Guidelines

The Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) in partnership with The Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI ) will be conducting a Roadshow on the revised Film and TV Incentive Guidelines. This roadshow will provide participants with more details on the changes and most...

Film contest winner Yoza Mnyanda speaks

Talented young film-maker Yoza Mnyanda won a competition backed by the Gauteng Film Commission, in which five young Gauteng-based women were each asked to create short 20 minute films that focussed on music, art, food and lifestyle. The GFC partnered with the...

Mayfair’s Ronak Patani to visit SA

UK actor Ronak Patani, who plays the lead in award-winning director Sara Blecher’s new film Mayfair, will be in South Africa from 8 to 12 October to promote the film. Patani, one of the UK’s brightest, up-and-coming British Asian actors, stars in the role of estranged...

Boot camp for emerging writers and performers

In partnership with Canadian Poet Tanya Evanson and the University of Johannesburg’s Izimbongi Festival, The Word N Sound Academy will be hosting a boot camp for emerging writers and performers on the 4th and 5th of October 2018. Both workshops are free of charge and...

Career Expo for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

The Gauteng Film Commission will participate at the Inaugural Career Expo for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing scheduled to take place on Friday 21st September 2018 as part of the International Week of the Deaf. The Week  is commemorated annually during the last week...

Basics for screenwriters

You can still enroll for the remaining classes! Filmmaking isn’t easy. Great cinematic story telling requires craft and insight and it all starts with the screenplay. The screenplay for a film’s cast & crew can be compared to a music score for an orchestra or an...