Studios for hire: the Gauteng report

Q-Studios in the industrial suburb of Kew provides truly massive spaces, allowing the facility to cater for big film clients as well as commercials and TV series. South African film and TV content production has an annual turnover of about R5.5-billion...

Made in 48 hours, Joburg style

Every film produced for the Johannesburg 48 Hour Film Project had to include a car-guard character called Desmond or Dineo, a soccer ball as a prop, “I’m gatvol” (I’m fed up”) as a line of dialogue – and a city landmark, such as the...