All Africa articles – Page 20
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NewsJessica Chastain, Sigourney Weaver amongst jurors at Marrakech
The Marrakech Film Festival, which runs December 2-10, will be bookended by Moroccan films The Rif Lover and Death For Sale.
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NewsLocarno's Open Doors to focus on Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
The Locarno film festival will concentrate on Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa for the 2012 edition of its Open Doors co-production lab.
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NewsAfter leaving NFVF, Mbalo ramps up ambitions for Forefront
Eddie Mbalo, well known in the international film industry from his decade as CEO of South Africa’s NFVF, has now left his post there (as of the end of June) to concentrate on running his Johannesburg-based Forefront Media Group.
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Africa First Awards five emerging filmmakers $10,000 apiece
Focus Features’ Africa First programme has awarded five emerging filmmakers $10,000 each to finance pre-production, production and/or post-production on their short films.
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NewsFrench producers head to Tunisia for first ever co-production forum
Ten months after Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power, a delegation of French producers headed to the country last weekend to forge new links with its fledgling, post-dictatorship film industry.
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NewsFilmmakers launch Golden Rhino festival to boost South African talent
Durban festival’s Noshen Moodley to serve as artistic director.
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News234 Media to release Viva Riva! in West Africa
The gangster thriller will be released in 18 African countries, starting in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the film was shot.
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CommentPaul Walker burns rubber in Vehicle 19
I spent the bank holiday weekend in Johannesburg (as you do) watching Paul Walker drive a car into a supermarket window.
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NewsFilms announced for San Sebastian’s Films In Progress, Cinema In Motion sections
Films from Marcelo Gomes, Annemarie Jacir, Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas among selections.
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NewsBarry Berk's Sleeper's Wake starts shooting in South Africa
Berk has writen thes script for the erotic thriller which is the second co-production between Bioskope Pictures and Videovision Entertainment.
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NewsA Separation wins in Durban, First Grader takes audience award
Films by Farhadi, Hermanus and Chadwick among winners at South Africa-based film festival.
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NewsShaw Brothers movies to make debut on African pay-TV
Hong Kong’s Celestial Pictures has licensed a package of martial arts titles from its Shaw Brothers library to Sony Max, the 24-hour action and reality channel operated by Sony Pictures Television in Africa.
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NewsMicrophone, Koundi Et Le Jeudi National win at Tarifa
SIGNIS award for best feature film goes to Daoud Aoulad-Syad’s A Jamaâ.
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NewsTarifa African Film Festival announces lineup; Abderrahmane Sissako to attend
Microphone, A Screaming Man, Shirley Adams and Venus Noir among competition entries.
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NewsPTZ takes on Eve Ensler’s directorial debut starring Jane Fonda
EXCLUSIVE: PTZ International is packaging a new project from Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler
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NewsBavaria goes to Morocco with new Caroline Link film
Bavaria Film International is again working with Oscar winning director Caroline Link and producer Peter Herrmann on their next film.
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NewsKeisha Castle-Hughes to star in Greener Grass
The Light & Dark Films production is an adaptation of Hagen Engler’s novel about post-Apartheid South Africa.