The Adiaha Award includes a $2000 cash component to be used on the director’s next film, as well as an invitation to attend the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund/ Colgone (Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund | Köln) in February 2021. The...
4 - 14 June 2020 Cape Town & Johannesburg www.encounters.co.za The organisers of Encounters are calling for feature, mid-length and short documentary film entries for the 2020 edition of the Festival. Encounters will deliver a line-up of riveting documentaries from around...
Atanásio Nyusi, a compelling storyteller and legendary Mapiko dancer, takes us on a visually dramatic journey through Mozambique’s past and present. The Sound of Masks, directed and produced by DocfilmSA member Sara Gouveia, is a beautifully moving ode to the cultures of Mozambique told primarily...
Powerful films telling powerful stories, such as about the #FeesMustFall movement and South Africa’s first female public protector, Thuli Madonsela, are among 20 thought-provoking documentaries that have been announced for the 4th Cape Town International Film Market and Festival. This year will see 20 documentary films...
Professionals of the film and audio-visual industry are kindly informed that registration for the selection of films as part of the 26th Edition of Fespaco, due from 23rd February to 02nd March 2019, is open. The Official competition section for films by African and Diaspora directors. It...
The top 10 finalists for the 2018 "Don't Stop Wondering" Award at Jozi Film Festival have been selected and viewers will get a chance to decide the final winner. A jury of Discovery Channel and Jozi Film Festival panellists have filtered through all the entries received...
Local rhino documentary, Stroop - Journey into the Rhino Horn War has been awarded the 2018 Green Tenacity Award by the judges of the eighth annual San Francisco Green Film Festival. This comes ahead of the film's world premiere at the festival which runs from Thursday, 6...
The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFMF) will take place from 9 to 19 October 2018. While the festival promises to be a feast of film screenings designed to celebrate the best in regional and international cinema, the Market programme, taking place from...
Winners of the Best International Documentary and Best SA Documentary awards at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) will now automatically qualify for Oscar consideration. The festival has been notified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of this inclusion, which effectively means that the...
The 39th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), which takes place from 19 to 29 July, has announced its films and jury members for this year’s competition. Award categories are Best Feature Film, Best South African Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best SA Documentary, Best Short Film, Best...