The Wound to premiere at top US, European festivals

Still from The Wound. (Image: Urucu Media / Sundance Film Festival) Independent production house Urucu Media, the company behind the multiple award-winning drama Necktie Youth, could not have asked for a stronger start for their latest film. The Wound will make its...

A woman’s tips for marketing your own film

Claudia Tos speaks during a European Women’s Audiovisual Network (EWA) workshop. (Photo: European Women’s Audiovisual Network) If no one will market your film for you, and your belief in it remains unshaken, you’ll just have to do it yourself. And to...

GFC news roundup: October-December 2015

Scene from ‘Don’t Trust No One’, part of Mboswobeni Mulugana’s 30 cent Comedy Show – see Mbosobweni Comedy Film Production below. From alternative distribution of low-cost comedy DVDs to a startup multichannel video application, from...

Yanaya Gender Film and Dialogue Workshop 2016

Yanaya Communications and the Gauteng Film Commission invite aspirant film makers interested in women’s and children’s issues to a Beginners’ Film Workshop. Workshops will take place in Diepsloot on 16 January and in Orange Farm on 17 January –...

Fifti Festival to celebrate, empower women in film

CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW LARGER VERSION The 2015 Females in Film and Television Industry (Fifti) Festival will take place at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg during national Women’s Month, from 6 to 10 August. Founded by young filmmakers Mbali Nokukhanya Ngwenya...