{"id":7294,"date":"2018-07-30T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=7294"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:17:56","slug":"39th-durban-international-film-festival-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/07\/30\/39th-durban-international-film-festival-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"39th Durban International Film Festival Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 39th\u00a0Durban International Film Festival held its awards ceremony on Saturday (July 28) at Suncoast CineCentre on as filmmakers and film-lovers gathered to watch the official closing film\u00a0Rafiki,\u00a0directed by Wanuri Kahiu.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 17 awards were given out at the ceremony:<\/p>\n<p>Best Feature Film:\u00a0The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, directed by Muayad Alayan, and produced by\u00a0Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan, Hans de Wolf, Hanneke Niens, Rebekka Garrido, Rodrigo Iturralde, Georgina Gonzalez, and Alejandro Duran.\u00a0The award is accompanied by a cash prize of R50\u2005000.<\/p>\n<p>Best South African Feature Film:\u00a0High Fantasy, directed by Jenna Bass and produced by David Horler and Steven Markovitz. The film received a cash prize of R25\u2005000.<\/p>\n<p>Best Documentary:\u00a0New Moon, produced and directed by Philippa Ndisi-Hermann. The film received a cash prize of R25\u2005000.<\/p>\n<p>Best South African Documentary:\u00a0Sisters of the Wilderness, directed by Karin Slater\u00a0\u00a0and produced by Ronit Shapiro. The award is accompanied by a cash prize of R25,000.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Direction: Constantin Popescu for\u00a0Pororoca<\/li>\n<li>Best Cinematography: Liviu Marghidan for\u00a0Pororoca<\/li>\n<li>Best Screenplay: Jennifer Fox for\u00a0The Tale<\/li>\n<li>Best Actor: Bogdan Dumitrache for his role as Tudor in\u00a0Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu<\/li>\n<li>Best Actress: Maisa Abd Elhadi for her role as Bisan in\u00a0The Reports on Sarah and Saleem<\/li>\n<li>Best Editing: Anne Fabini, Alex Hall and Gary Level for\u00a0The Tale<\/li>\n<li>Artistic Bravery: was won jointly by\u00a0High Fantasy, directed by Jenna Bass and\u00a0Supa Modo\u00a0directed by \u00a0Likarion Wainaina.<\/li>\n<li>Best South African Short Film:\u00a0Stillborn, directed by Jahmil X. T. Qubeka and produced by\u00a0Huanxi Media Group, Xstream Pictures, and Yellowbone Entertainment. The film received a cash prize of R20 000 sponsored by the Gauteng Film Commission.<\/li>\n<li>Best African Short Film:\u00a0Aya, directed by Moufida Fedhila and produced by Appel d\u2019Air Films.\u00a0The film also received a cash prize of R20\u2005000 sponsored by the Gauteng Film Commission.<\/li>\n<li>Best Short Film: -The Patience of Water(La Paciencia Del Agua), directed by Guillem Almirall,. The film\u00a0received a cash prize of R20\u2005000\u00a0from the Gauteng Film Commission.<\/li>\n<li>Audience Choice Award:\u00a0The State Against Mandela and the Others, directed by Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte, which received a cash prize of R25 000.<\/li>\n<li>Amnesty International Durban Human Rights Award:\u00a0Silas,\u00a0directed by Anjali Nayar and Hawa Essuman and produced by Appian Way, Big World Cinema and Ink &amp; Pepper Productions.<\/li>\n<li>Best Wavescape Film:\u00a0Heavy Water, directed by Michael Oblowitz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DIFF has recently been included as a Documentary Feature Qualifying Festival by the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences, which means that both the winners of the Best Documentary,\u00a0New Moon\u00a0and Best SA Documentary\u00a0Sisters of the Wilderness, will now automatically qualify for consideration for an Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The Shorts jury included creative media education and development\u00a0\u00a0specialist Alicia Price and Leon Van Der Merwe of the Cape Town International Film Market and Festival. The fiction feature jurors were SA Producer Bongiwe Selane, Nigerian actor\u00a0\u00a0Hakeem Kae Kazim and Nigerian actress Nse Ikpe-Etim. The documentary film jury included South African producer Uzanenkosi, Zimbabwean producer Nakai Matema, Nigerian filmmaker Mahmood Ali-Balogun and\u00a0Berlin-based freelance filmmaker, writer and curator,\u00a0Dorothee Wenner.<\/p>\n<p>The festival continues until Sunday, 29 July,\u00a0\u00a0at various venues around Durban.\u00a0 DIFF 2018 is part of a month-long feast of film in Durban, including the BRICS Film festival and industry programmes, the Durban FilmMart, Isiphethu, Talents Durban, and the Nature Environment and Wildlife Film Congress.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.durbanfilmfest.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.durbanfilmfest.co.za<\/a>\u00a0for more information and the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 39th\u00a0Durban International Film Festival held its awards ceremony on Saturday (July 28) at Suncoast CineCentre on as filmmakers and film-lovers gathered to watch the official closing film\u00a0Rafiki,\u00a0directed by Wanuri Kahiu. A total of 17 awards were given out at the ceremony: Best Feature Film:\u00a0The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, directed by Muayad Alayan, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/07\/30\/39th-durban-international-film-festival-awards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">39th Durban International Film Festival Awards<\/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":[12,7],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-7294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","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\/7294","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=7294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}