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Mummy star returns to South Africa for Forgiveness
The Mummy star Arnold Vosloo is to return to his native South Africa to star in Forgiveness, which is written by prolific scribe Greg Latter (Mr. Bones) and to be directed by acclaimed commercials director Ian Gabriel.The film is the second to come out of South Africa's Dv8 initiative, which ...
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Schuster teams with Ster-Kinekor for Shucks
Leon Schuster, South Africa's highest grossing local star, has signed a deal with leading South African distributor/exhibitor Ster-Kinekor for his latest outing Oh, Shucks, I'm Gatvol. The exclusive theatrical/non-theatrical and broadcast deal marks a return for Schuster to Ster-Kinekor, the local distributor who was responsible for a number of his ...
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South Africa to host second '3 Continents' film festival
South Africa will host the second 3 Continents Film Festival this September, showcasing recent documentary and feature-length films from Latin America, Africa and Asia that explore human rights issues. The 3 Continents Film Festival is an initiative of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Southern African Communications for Development (SACOD) and ...
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Music documentary Amandla! sings to South African audiences
On a screen for screen, basis music documentary Amandla! A Revolution In Four-Part Harmony, which was released in South Africa on Friday, June 20, outgrossed the Oscar-winning documentary, Bowling For Columbine on its first weekend of release. Amandla! earned $9,583 (R76 168) with eight prints, outgrossing Bowling For ...
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Anant Singh invites public participation in film project
Anant Singh, South Africa's leading producer, is launching a unique contest for the production of his Durban-based company Videovision's new film. The movie is based on the book Echoes Of Love From Heavens Above, by New York's Mickey Nivelli and Singh is offering a prize of $12,000 (R100,000) for public ...
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South African film studio edges closer to reality
The establishment of a film studio in Cape Town moved closer to reality following the submission of six business plans, Ebrahim Rasool, the Western Cape's finance Minister, said yesterday.The preferred bidders would be named in August and building of the studio could start as soon as December, he said, adding ...
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Sithengi reveals pan-African ambitions
The annual Southern Africa International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) is reaching out to the rest of the continent. Sithengi is translating its website (sithengi.co.za) and editorial material into French and Portuguese, introducing audio-visual competitions, and setting up partnerships with African festivals like the Pan African Film and Television Festival ...
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Reese Witherspoon to play slain American activist
Reese Witherspoon is attached to star in a South African film about slain American activist Amy Biehl for Anant Singh's Videovision. Durban-based producer Anant Singh said this week: "When the movie's ready to go, she will be the star playing Amy." Witherspoon's manager, Evelyn O'Neill, told South African press that ...
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Cape Town film permit office suspends staff
South Africa's Cape Town city council's film permit office has been closed until further notice after six staff members were suspended pending an internal investigation into alleged irregularities in the issuing of film permits. City of Cape Town spokesperson Charles Cooper said in a statement that the Cape Film Commission, ...
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Cape Town studio project attracts massive interest
South Africa's Western Cape government's plans to establish a $27m film studio in Cape Town has received a staggering 13 expressions of interest in the project. The public/private partnership project is seen as vital for the future of the local film industry, which has been constrained by the lack of ...
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Oil rig drama Blasts off in Cape Town
Principal photography is currently underway on Blast, one of the biggest action features to be shot in South Africa's Cape Town to date. The film - described as Die Hard on an oil rig - also marks the first time, anywhere in the world, that an oil company has granted ...
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Morgan Freeman to play Nelson Mandela
Morgan Freeman is to play Nelson Mandela in a film version of his autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom, according to the film's director Shekhar Kapur. Kapur, a British-Pakistani director who made the transition from "Bollywood" to Hollywood with films such as The Four Feathers and Elizabeth, made the announcement at ...
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CGI-heavy fantasy Sumuru wraps in South Africa
Production has just wrapped on Sumuru, a fantasy boasting the highest use of CGI ever for a feature produced in South Africa, which has been shooting for the past six weeks in and around Johannesburg. The film is produced by Brigid Olen and Marlow De Mardt of DO Productions, Harry ...
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Film Studio planned for Cape Town
South Africa's provincial minister of finance and economic affairs has announced plans to build a $27m film studio in Cape Town.The minister, Ebrahim Rasoo, also called for expressions of interest from the private sector, which was followed up by a nationwide campaign in the country's press calling for tenders to ...
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African film industry buoyed by record breaking Sithengi
South Africa's Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri may have failed to show at the opening party for the seventh edition of Sithengi, Southern Africa's Film and TV Market. But that did not dampen the spirits of delegates who acknowledged that, despite organisational hiccups, it was the best Sithengi so far. ...
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Canadian-South African co-production Proteus starts shoot
Canada's iconoclastic "queer' filmmaker John Greyson has teamed up with his South African equivalent Jack Lewis, a gay activist and filmmaker, on the $550,000 gay and historical feature film Proteus which has just begun its third week of shooting in and around Cape Town. The Canadian/South African co-production is produced ...
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Diageo finances African feature
Brewing giant Diageo is attempting to cash-in on the widespread popularity of Michael Powell, a fictional journalist and star of its recent pan-African TV campaign for Guinness, by financing a $3m (£2m) feature film based around the character.The action thriller, which has just started principal photography on the outskirts of ...
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Sithengi film festival first targets world cinema
Sithengi, Southern Africa's Film and TV Market, is to hold a legitimate film festival for the first time in its seven-year history in an attempt to establish a greater role for world cinema.Sithengi, which will be held in Cape Town 9-16 November, said it expected to announce the appointment of ...
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Anant Singh's Videovision to build South African film studio
Leading South African production company Videovision Entertainment is to build a $5m (R50m)international film studio in Durban over the next 18 months, local producer Anant Singh said yesterday.The studio will be one of two in the country with all the facilities necessary for international film makers. Singh, who sits on ...
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South Africa cracks down on DVD piracy
A passenger carrying 3,800 pirate DVDs, including 1,400 copies of Men In Black II was intercepted at Johannesburg International airport over the weekend by South Africa's Federation against Copyright Theft, in its latest drive to stem the counterfeiting market which is costing the industry some $6.1m per year.In just two ...
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