The 2018 Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFMF) will take place from October 9th – 19th, 2018. This year’s edition will build significantly on the successes of last year with an increased focus on collaboration and the celebration of the local, regional, pan-African, and...
My name is Joëlle Chesselet and I am currently dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s on “Pluck – a film not just about the chicken” which Lloyd Ross directed & filmed and I researched & produced. It’s premiering in Cape Town (1st June at...
Registration is open for the second edition of the Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers Congress (NEWF) which will take place at the Durban Botanic Gardens from July 16 – 18, 2018. “The Nature, Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers Congress is designed for passionate filmmakers around the world to...
A total of sixteen fiction feature film and documentary projects from Africa have been selected to pitch at this year’s Durban FilmMart (DFM), which takes place from 20 to 23 July 2018 during the 39th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) which runs from 19 to 29 July. A joint...
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...
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...
BACKGROUND The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) is calling for proposals for a Documentary Slate to the value of R4.5m over a period of 3 years. The slate is targeted at Tier 2 Production Companies with an aim of cultivating sustainability and viability. Tier 2 Production...
Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund Applications are now open, and the deadline is in just under a month: Friday August 19, 2016. The NFVF are collaborating with Hot Docs in assisting them in actively seeking applications. Applications are open to professional filmmakers who are citizens and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...