{"id":24,"date":"2013-01-29T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-01-29T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:06:12","slug":"afda-film-nominated-for-student-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/afda-film-nominated-for-student-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"AFDA Film Nominated For Student Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Kanye Kanye<\/i>, a fourth year students\u2019 film is the AFDA (the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Short Film.\u00a0 <i>Kanye Kanye<\/i> is a romantic comedy that deals with a forbidden love affair between two young township teenagers.\u00a0 The film is directed by Miklas Manneke whose 3rd year film <i>Electricity,<\/i> won a number of awards in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wonder of film is the ability to change the world by creating another\u201d says Miklas Manneke, who is thrilled with the nomination. \u201cIt is an honour for everyone involved in the making of <i>Kanye Kanye<\/i>, to be selected on this international platform to represent AFDA film school as student\u2019s at the beginning of our careers, especially considering the high standard of the Student Oscars. It is great to know that my voice has had an impact on an audience and that I could bring a drop of enjoyment to the world from a South African point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Kanye Kanye<\/i> won 9 AFDA GOLD Awards at the annual awards including sound design, visual effects, editing, production design, costume- make-up- and styling, screenplay, directing, acting and cinematography.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Kanye Kanye<\/i> is a reflective short film by a student director and team whose attention to detail has made it a work of art which will resonate world-wide,\u201d says Gina Bonmariage, Postgraduate Course Director AFDA Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Student Awards are held in Los Angeles in June at the Academy of Motion Picture and sciences building, the same building where AFDA received their first OSCAR award in 2006 for best foreign student short film <i>Eleleni<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Kanye Kanye<\/i> has also been nominated as the AFDA candidate for best fiction film for the CILECT (International Film School Association) Awards, along with the AFDA Cape Town documentary <i>Crumbs<\/i> in the documentary category and the third year Cape Town animation <i>Like Clockwork<\/i> in the best animation category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Oscar award is by far the most prestigious of all student awards, the CILECT Award is possibly one of the most difficult awards to win as it is contested by over 100 of the world\u2019s top film schools, \u201c says AFDA co-founder and CILECT executive board member Garth Holmes, \u201cbut our congratulations to all the films that have been nominated \u2013 it\u2019s a rare honour and we look forward to the results in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Kanye_Kanye.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25\" alt=\"Kanye_Kanye\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Kanye_Kanye-212x300.jpg?resize=212%2C300\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Kanye_Kanye.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Kanye_Kanye.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye Kanye, a fourth year students\u2019 film is the AFDA (the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Short Film.\u00a0 Kanye Kanye is a romantic comedy that deals with a forbidden love affair between two young township teenagers.\u00a0 The film is directed by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/afda-film-nominated-for-student-oscar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AFDA Film Nominated For Student Oscar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}