The Cape Town World Cinema Festival will showcase the latest International, African and South African films in its programme this year. The focus is on world cinema and more specifically films from the south. The programme consists of feature, documentary and short films with an "In Competition" and "Out of Competition" section.
The Cape Town World Cinema Festival occurs at the same time as the Sithengi Film and TV Market, which will take place from the 15th to the 18th of November in the Artscape Complex, Cape Town. Over 1924 delegates attended the Sithengi Film and TV Market from 46 countries around the world in 2004. Delegates included broadcasters, producers, distributors, sales agents and government representatives. The 3rd Cape Town World Cinema showed a dramatic growth of attendance last year and we hope to maintain this in 2005.
We would like to invite you to submit viewing tapes on VHS PAL and DVD for our film festival selection. See attached entry form for submission. Once the selection has been done we will inform you and you would be expected to submit films on 35mm print or BetaSP.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1 AUGUST 2005
Regulations
- Film entry is free
- Films must be submitted in their original language. Films in English may be submitted without subtitles, but films in another language should be subtitled
- For each film selected the festival must receive detailed Electronic Press kits and other documentation, including a synopsis of the film, a biography and complete filmography of the director as well as stills form the film and a recent photograph of the director
- Producers and Distributors are expected to send promotional and publicity material i.e. posters, press-kits, postcards and video-clips of the film
- VHS tapes are only returned if the sender requests them
- Films must have been produced between 2003 and 2005 and preference will be given to World, African or South African premieres.
Awards will be presented in the following categories:
- Signis Jury Prize
- NLDTF Newcomer Award
- Lionel Ngakane Award
- Best Short film
- Best Documentary
- Best Writer
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- Best Director
- Best African Feature Film
- Best Feature Film
All the tapes can be sent to the following mailing address:
Joy Lekgau, Festival Programmer
Cape Town World Cinema Festival (CTWCF)
SABC Building, 209 Beach Road
Sea Point, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
Enquiries: +27 (0)21 430 8240
Posted on Wednesday 6 Jul 2005
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