Award-winning Shore Break set for Durban premiere

Nonhle Mbuthuma where the river meets the sea. (Photo: theshorebreakmovie.com) The Shore Break, a documentary about a close-knit rural community divided by plans for the development of their homeland on South Africa’s Wild Coast, will have its South African...

Local presence at global event

As many as 34 local filmmakers have made their way to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) – with 22 documentaries in tow – to showcase locally made productions at the prestigious event. It is the largest South African industry delegation yet to...

Night Fever infects city

Night falls over the city, bringing with it the Night Fever series, which begins at the First Wednesday Film Club with Relentless by Andy Amadi Okoroafor. Night Fever features films from Africa that deal with the city by night. The films are screened once, monthly, at...

GFC announces 2nd-quarter projects

Film industry luminaries gathered at an intimate candlelit celebration on 28 September at The Venue in Joburg’s Melrose Arch, where the Gauteng Film Commission announced projects supported in the second quarter of the 2012/13 financial year. These included Little One,...

Get ready to go extreme

There are those people who do, and those people who sit and watch. At the Banff Mountain Film Festival you get to sit and watch as adrenaline junkies do some truly crazy things. And the festival’s World Tour 2012 will make a stop in South Africa from 26 October...