Joburg creatives bring films from scratch to screen in just 48 hours
The director talks about his third film, ‘Hotel On the Koppies’, making indie movies and finding outlets on streaming services
In the acclaimed ‘Minari’, now streaming on Showmax, a Korean family start farming and fuming in the Ozarks
Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness
Nollywood’s production values have undergone tremendous change over the past decade, but is the effect sustainable?
In ‘Rafiki’, director Wanuri Kahiu tells positive stories about queer, black lives. Her success has landed her new film projects in the United States
Khulekani Mayisa’s new film, Power to the Purple, is an intensely personal collaborative project
Sifiso Khanyile, the maker of Uprize! and A New Country, selects five documentaries that influenced his latest film
Ramadan Suleman’s documentary, ‘By All Means Necessary’ honours the struggle against colonialism. It will be showing at the Encounters Documentary Film Festival from August 20
Cabin Fever writer and director Tim Greene, whose filmography includes crowd-funded movie A Boy Called Twist (2004) and Skeem (2011), runs down some of his favourite low-budget films
Recognition for filmmaker Ramadan Suleman is from conversations created around his films, not the numbers at the box office, writes Katlego Mkhwanazi.
A study has shown that only a fraction of the major studio films last year featured gay characters, most of whom were painted in a bad light.
The Africa by Women project has resulted in 10 short films that deal with different facets of life in the country 20 years after democracy.
Through his father Clive, Ben Stillerman delves into the relationship between the efforts we put into our work and our private lives.
As big-name actors prove a box-office turn-off, now may be the time for mainstream Hollywood stars to take a hike, writes <b>Peter Bradshaw</b>.
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/ 13 January 2009
Construction recently started on Africa’s first state-of-the-art film studio near Cape Town, which once completed will be worthy of Hollywood status.
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/ 17 October 2008
Is there room among the pratfalls and bedroom tirades of YouTube for an experimental, full-length film?
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/ 13 October 2008
Zinaid Meeran attended a crash course on the status of the national identity at the Apollo Film Festival in Victoria West.
Michel Houellebecq’s debut film was panned after its first screening this week. The French enfant terrible talks to Geoffrey Macnab.
As a women’s film festival starts, Andrew Worsdale finds women are becoming potent players in the industry.
Bruce Conner, an iconoclastic artist and avant-garde filmmaker of the Beat era who gained international admiration for his work, died on July 7.