{"id":10858,"date":"2020-09-23T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=10858"},"modified":"2020-09-23T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:01:49","slug":"durban-international-film-festival-celebrates-success-and-online-platform-stays-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/09\/23\/durban-international-film-festival-celebrates-success-and-online-platform-stays-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban International Film Festival Celebrates Success And Online Platform Stays Accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DIFFextend1.jpg?resize=600%2C335\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DIFFextend1.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DIFFextend1.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), is hosted the Durban International Festival (DIFF) from 10 to 20 September 2020. This year, for its 41st edition, the festival successfully presented a programme of close to 60 feature films, documentaries and short films alongside exciting industry programme: isiPhethu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DIFF accomplishments have gone beyond the organiser\u2019s expectations. The festival hosted around 3,500 film lovers and the 58 films were streamed close to 7,000 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We did not know what to expect when we had to move our festival to a virtual platform, but attendance and feedback have been wonderful. It has certainly given us quite a lot to think about and work with as we revision the future of the festival.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>says Chipo Zhou, the festival\u2019s Head of Programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate its success and by popular demand, the festival is keeping a selection of 17 films on the platform accessible until 30 September. These films include seven documentaries: The Art of Fallism, Janitou, 143 Sahara Street, Days of Cannibalism, How to Steal a Country, The Letter and In your Eyes, I see my Country. Also, five shorts will be still available: EsCape Town, Grey Matter, Henet Ward, Sandpaper, Sadla and the DIFF2020 award-winning Exam. Lastly, the following four features are still available: Just Like That, Shaft 6, Our Lady of the Nile and Burkinabe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The films can be watched for free until 30 September on www.durbanfilmfest.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DIFFextend2.jpg?resize=550%2C308\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DIFFextend2.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DIFFextend2.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), is hosted the Durban International Festival (DIFF) from 10 to 20 September 2020. This year, for its 41st edition, the festival successfully presented a programme of close to 60 feature films, documentaries and short films alongside exciting industry programme: isiPhethu. The DIFF accomplishments have gone beyond&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/09\/23\/durban-international-film-festival-celebrates-success-and-online-platform-stays-accessible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Durban International Film Festival Celebrates Success And Online Platform Stays Accessible<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-10858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival","tag-diff","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}