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Short films not short on audiences at recent Short film festival
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![]() The recent Cape Town International Short Film Festival (CTISFF), hosted by the Cape Town Festival in collaboration with the Cape Town World Cinema Festival (CTWCF) has come and gone, but proved another outstanding success.
08-Apr-2005
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SASWA Course for Writers - Write Treatments that Get Read
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![]() The next South African Script Writers Association workshop will help writers to develop the treatment, a vital stage in getting work considered by producers and directors. It is facilitated by screenwriter and international lecturer Dermod Judge.
04-Apr-2005
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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha in Khayelitsha
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![]() If you have not yet seen the award-winning U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, then don't miss out on this amazing opportunity.
30-Mar-2005
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The Writing Studio presents Workshop for Film Directors
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![]() The Writing Studio presents a four-Sunday workshop in Cape Town for Film Directors, hosted by the SABC.
30-Mar-2005
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Cape Town Festival: 'Local Goes Vocal' at the Distrix Cafe offers a potent blend of spoken word and music.
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![]() The Distrix Café situated in District Six will form the backdrop to a gathering of Cape Town's most esteemed poets and musicians for a groundbreaking fusion of poetry, drama, music and storytelling aptly named ‘Local goes Vocal' on this year's Cape Town Festival programme. Running from 16 to 19 March nightly, the line-up of poets and musicians includes storyteller Malika Ndlovu, poetess Diane Ferrus, vocalists Tara Fataar, Erica Lundi, Michelle Maxwell and Cofield Mundi and Black Noise frontman, Emile Jansen. Each night is uniquely themed to showcase a particular genre within this sphere.
18-Mar-2005
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The Cape Town World Cinema Festival on 'Festivals and Economic Development' at the Cape Town Festival, 18 March 2005
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![]() Michael Auret, CEO and Festival Director of the Cape Town World Cinema Festival (CTWCF) will participate in the Cultural Talks presented by the Cape Town Festival on the issue of 'Festivals and Economic Development' on Friday, 18 March, Centre for the Book, 4 - 6pm.
17-Mar-2005
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Sithengi's Esther Henderson talks to Ross Garland, Producer, on the success of U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
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16-Mar-2005
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MAX and MONA Triumphs at FESPACO
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![]() On the weekend that Dv8’s second feature film, MAX and MONA, received its South African mainstream theatrical release through distributor Ster-Kinekor, it also garnered a Best First Time Feature (Prix Oumarou Ganda) award at the FESPACO Film Festival in Ouagadougou – Africa’s premiere Film Festival. This prize goes to the first feature film by a director whose creative efforts are highly remarkable and deserve encouragements. It is worth 2 million CFA francs (US$4 000).
16-Mar-2005
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Playtime is over for SA Film
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![]() What a great start to the year for SA film. We were just settling down after all the excitement over u'Carmen eKhayelitsha taking the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, when Yesterday was nominated for an Oscar, and now Drum, the Opening Film of the Cape Town World Cinema Festival last year, has won the Gold Yenenga for Best Film at Fespaco.
16-Mar-2005
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Film and fresh air
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![]() The Cape Town Festival in collaboration with the Cape Town World Cinema Festival (CTWCF) proudly hosts the Cape Town International Short Film Festival (CTISFF) at the V&A Amphitheatre, Waterfront, 7 - 20 March 2005, between 8pm and 10pm daily. Short films are supplied courtesy of the Film Resources Unit (FRU), CityVarsity Film School and AFDA Film School.
04-Mar-2005
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Real Stories, Real Business at Africa's only Film & Television Market
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![]() Not only does the Cape Town World Cinema Festival provide a breathtaking cinematic experience of international World and Independent Cinema, but offers a hub for business in the Sithengi Film & Television Market, 15 - 18 November 2005.
21-Feb-2005
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SABC 3 Brief for Trauma Series
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![]() SABC 3 has established itself as a home for innovative programming, delivering talked-about programme content to its audiences. It is our vision to strengthen our hold on successful genres that we have established.
18-Feb-2005
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Film by Design
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![]() The Cape Town World Cinema Festival (CTWCF), curated by Sithengi, captivated audiences around Cape Town during November last year with many screaming for an encore with the final credit roll. Well, be our guest. Sithengi, in collaboration with the Cape Film Commission (CFC), brings an awesome lineup of world class home grown films to the Design Indaba Expo, 25 – 27 February 2005 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
17-Feb-2005
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REMINDER: Call for Entry: Festival de Cannes Residence welcomes 12 young filmmakers from all over the world
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![]() Every year, the Festival de Cannes Residence welcomes 12 young filmmakers from all over the world who are working on their first or second feature film. A jury presided by a renowned director selects 6 candidates for each of the two four-and-a-half-month sessions per year.
15-Feb-2005
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Shout Africa - A True African Cinema Experience
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![]() The majority of our nation has never had an opportunity to make use of accessible and economical cinemas. Furthermore most films shown in South Africa were, and still are, in English. Which precludes a vast number of our population from being able to enjoy going to the movies. This is all about to change. Thanks to a new company called Shout Africa.
15-Feb-2005
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Shout Africa Management Structure
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![]() The Shout Africa Management Structure consists of highly trained entertainment industry professionals and business executives, who are committed to making Shout Africa a huge success within South Africa and abroad, and firmly believes that the results will have a profound and inspirational effect on everyone involved.
15-Feb-2005
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Producers' Professional Development Programme
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![]() AVEA Centre Audio Visual Entrepreneurs of Africa Developing a generation of professional film and television producers in the Southern African region – developing their projects, refining their business strategies, targeting their markets, both nationally and internationally and establishing a common language, methodology and approach to the stages of development and production.
14-Feb-2005
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ALTER-CINE FOUNDATION Documentary Film Grants Year 2005
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![]() ALTER-CINE FOUNDATION The Alter-Cine Foundation was created in the memory of Canadian filmmaker, Yvan Patry, who passed away on October 14, 1999. The Foundation offers a yearly grant to young film and video makers from Africa, Asia and Latin America to enable them to study or complete training in cinema, or to direct a documentary film on the theme of rights and freedoms, including social and economic rights, women's rights, the right to culture, art and artistic creation.
14-Feb-2005
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High Definition sharpens The Cutting Edge
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![]() The Cutting Edge are leading a change in the Cape Town film industry after investing in the Avid DS Nitris system, recognized globally as the world leader in finishing and mastering of High Definition.
09-Feb-2005
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BTA cracks Roman Film Festival
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![]() The Italian Film Documentary Festival, MUSIC DOCFEST, has selected the filmed live production of Ballet Theatre Afrikan's recent season at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre to participate in the Festival which takes place in Rome from the 19th - 27th February 2005.
09-Feb-2005
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Call for applications to the HIVOS/Sithengi Film Fund
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![]() Sithengi invites first-time and established filmmakers from SADC countries, excluding Tanzania, to apply to the HIVOS/Sithengi Film Fund. Dutch NGO, HIVOS, recently handed over the administration of its film fund to Sithengi for 2005.
27-Jan-2005
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Call for Panelists to the Selection Panel / Board of the HIVOS/Sithengi Film Fund
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![]() Sithengi Calls for Panelists to constitute the Selection Panel/Board of the HIVOS/Sithengi Film Fund
25-Jan-2005
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HIVOS/Sithengi film fund favours those out in the cold
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![]() A fresh supply of funding for filmmakers in SADC countries, will come on stream in 2005, as Dutch NGO HIVOS hands over administration of its film fund to Sithengi, the Cape Town-based film and television market.
24-Jan-2005
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Berlin World Cinema Fund comes to SA
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![]() At the same time, they will also launch the Berlin World Cinema Fund in South Africa.
06-Nov-2004
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Come duze, Brazil! Brazil and Angola get up close and personal
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![]() Three new film projects are being negotiated between South Africa and Brazil, according to the chief executive officer of the Gauteng Film Office, Themba Sibeko.
06-Nov-2004
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