Local movie Lobola Man is the latest offering on Netflix from Burnt Onion Productions
South Africa’s youth take centre stage in film boom
Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape are making strides in developing the local industry to attract more international filmmakers
Local films are finally depicting black lives but the ditzy heroine and her man preserve gender roles.
Former "Yizo Yizo" star Israel Makoe – who acts as a gangster in "Hard To Get" – says playing the role of a villain is "a way of educating people".
This year’s iMPAC festival includes three one-hour short-film selections of work by founder Pluto Panoussis’s students. The M&G caught up with him.
Nobody wants to see a South African thriller with two unknowns in it — movie stars attract audiences.
A scriptwriting system named Sediba has scuppered creativity in cinema in South Africa.
"Sleeper’s Wake", a powerful, stylish "sexual thriller", is the feature-film debut of acclaimed TV director Barry Berk. He spoke to Shaun de Waal.
The South African film industry could be facing its best year ever, with more local releases than ever before.
An ambitious project to lure big film productions is paying off.
Film industry insider <b>Ronnie Apteker</b> says South Africa has all the right ingredients — except world-class scripts.
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/ 7 December 2009
Have you heard? American star Jennifer Hudson will be playing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in an upcoming biopic.
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/ 20 February 2009
Lionel Newton, who plays Treppie in the much-anticipated screen adaptation of <i>Triomf</i>, speaks to Jeremy Kuper about the film.
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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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/ 11 December 2008
Arguments about terms of trade and commissioning procedures should now become a thing of the past.