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The multiple award-winning and much loved Afrikaans fantasy love story Die Windpomp has been selected into the Long Beach International Film Festival in New York. Die Windpomp will be screening amongst 50 internationally acclaimed films that will compete for a series of Jury, Festival Honors and Audience Awards from September 24 – 27 2015. Explains… Continue reading Die Windpomp Heads To The USA, Again

On the first Thursday of every month, the Cinema Club opens to offer you a refreshing collection of short films – screening every hour, on the hour from 17h30. Each month sees a new guest curator scouring the globe for a 30min visual feast to be screened in the plush, intimate Odeon Cinema at the… Continue reading First Thursdays Cape Town Adopts A Cinema Experience

Cult Cape Town-based artist Manfred Zylla will be keeping things fierce at this year’s National Arts Festival with the launch of a new book of hard-hitting images that pays homage to Pasolini’s last film Salò, writes ALEXANDRA DODD Lewd, crude and packed with fervid social and political critique, Manfred Zylla’s new art book, 120 Days… Continue reading Manfred Zylla And the Art Of Resistance

It’s ‘Bump and Grind’, ladies! The hot, sexy, steamy boys from Magic Mike are back and ready to show off all their moves on the big screen from today, 3 July 2015. To celebrate the occasion, an XXL-sized treat or two were sent to Johannesburg DJs to hand out MAGIC MIKE XXL goodies and to… Continue reading DJs Get The “Magic Mike XXL” Treatment

Ayanda, the new film by award-winning director Sara Blecher and produced by Terry Pheto, Busi Sizani and Robbie Thorpe was awarded a “special mention” by the prestigious Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) Jury when the 2015 festival winners were announced, following its screening in the World Fiction Competition. Ayanda had its world premiere in Los… Continue reading Contemporary SA Film Wins Coveted Jury Award At Los Angeles Film Festival

Now in its sixth year, the Durban FilmMart (DFM) has become an integral part of the fast-growing South African film industry. Since its inception in 2010, DFM has helped to facilitate more than 80 African co-production projects, many of which have subsequently been produced as acclaimed films. As the African and South African industry grows,… Continue reading Durban FilmMart Success Stories 2010-2015