Professional Development

15th May 2018 In Festivals, News, Professional Development By DFAEditor

Doc Tour Training and Knowledge Share at Encounters

Doc Tour 2018 is a one-day event in collaboration with Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. It is aimed at young professionals and seasoned filmmakers. In the morning is a training workshop and, in the afternoon, a general forum will address crucial issues in the...

6th May 2018 In Festivals, Funding, News, Professional Development By DFAEditor

Sheffield Doc/Fest Pre-Market Workshop

Nineteen filmmakers have been approved to represent the Documentary Filmmakers' Association at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in June in the UK with the financial assistance of the Department of Trade and Industry's SASS scheme. The opportunity to apply to these missions is only available to paid-up...

25th Jul 2016 In News, Professional Development By DocFilmSA

Wrapping the Business Model Canvas for 2016

South Africa took a bold step forward in its training community in 2016. For the second year in a row at the Durban FilmMart Tina-Louise Smith and Orla Garriques ran the Business Model Programme. This Programme is a series of dynamic, interactive workshops, running over...

20th Jun 2016 In Professional Development By DocFilmSA

Day 3 of The Business Model Canvas Workshop

The third and final day of the Business Model Canvas workshop started off with twelve filmmakers, this time with a much stronger emphasis on documentary feature projects. The filmmakers were drawn primarily from KZN, and thre trainers, consisting of Nisha Naidoo, Jane Thandi Lipman and...

19th Jun 2016 In Professional Development By DocFilmSA

Day 2 of The Business Model Canvas Workshop

Thirteen eager filmmakers congregated early in the morning in the Congella Room of the Maharani hotel for the first workshop around the business model canvas. The session opened with an introduction by Orla Garriques, in which she explained the principles behind the tool and gave...

17th Jun 2016 In Professional Development By DocFilmSA

Day 1 of the Business Model Canvas

Fifty people crammed themselves into Suite 5 of the Elangeni hotel on Friday 17th of June to attend the panel discussion around the Business Model Canvas and its application to the film industry. Documentary filmmaker Tina-Louise Smith (Mr. Table Tennis) introduced the rest of the...

20th Jul 2015 In News, Professional Development By DocFilmSA

BMC Workshops Day 4

The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...

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18th Jul 2015 In News, Professional Development By DocFilmSA

BMC Workshops Day 2

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17th Jul 2015 In News, Professional Development By DocFilmSA

BMC 2015 Underway

Three years in the making, the DFA's Business Model Canvas workshops are underway! The workshops are taking place at the 2015 Durban FilmMart and have kicked off with an intensive first day. Canadian facilitator, Orla Garriques, led the group of South African trainers in activities designed...