Following the Let Your Voices Roar animation training for women from East Africa, and the successful completion of a six-month incubator phase, The Ladima Foundation, in partnership with Culture and Development East Africa (CDEA), is proud to award the five selected East African women. The five women were selected to take part in the six-month incubator in partnership with CDEA and The African Animation Network (AAN). They are Nsile James Uiso (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Adelaide Barnabas Jachi (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Zuwena Hamad Othman (Zanzibar, Tanzania), and Gwantwa Lucas Mwakaling ..read more

The organisers of Encounters, Africa’s home of documentaries, in partnership once more with the Ladima Foundation, are calling for feature and mid-length documentary film entries for the  Adiaha Award 2023. Encounters returns to cinemas to celebrate its 25th anniversary from 22 June to 2 July and is excited to once more present this award in partnership with the Ladima Foundation. The Award, now in its 3rd year at Encounters, rewards excellence in documentary filmmaking by African women. With a cash award, invitation to a top international festival, and high-profile accolades, the award h ..read more

The annual Durban FilmMart is a pan-African finance and co-production market designed to create partnerships and further the development and production of African cinema, the DFM was named in UNESCO’s 2021 Film Trends in Africa Report as ‘the continent’s best film market’. The next edition of the Durban FilmMart will return fully as an in person event in Durban, South Africa in July 2023. “Over the last 13 years, projects pitched at DFM have attracted attention from both the local and international film industry, DFM Alumni projects continue to have success on both sma ..read more

Pictured: Filmmaker, Akuol De Mabior The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival is pleased to announce its film awards, including the Encounters Programmers Choice Awards, Adiaha Award and Free Film School Award, following the resounding success of the first in-person festival since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. “We screened 26 feature-length documentary films at five venues in Cape Town and Johannesburg – with excellent overall attendance, and many sold out houses,” enthuses Festival Director, Mandisa Zitha. “We had numerous robust on-topic panel discussions, the m ..read more

The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) will host the Durban International Festival (DIFF) from 21 to 30 July 2022. This prestigious South African film festival will be celebrating its 43rd year with cutting-edge cinema from all around the world with the theme Adaptation, Survival and Sustainability. The festival will be opening with 1960, a drama feature film set in SophiaTown and directed by duo King Shaft and Michael Mutombo. The film follows a retired singer that revisits her past to assist with an investigation around an Apartheid-era policeman. Actress Zanil ..read more

Since relocating to the US some years ago, the noted South African film editor Eileen de Klerk (a Cape Town AFDA graduate) has continued to achieve considerable success, with a string of high-end TV series and other projects in Hollywood. Ms. De Klerk has recently notched up her career trajectory by working on one of the international film industry’s most notable projects of 2021 – the dark comedy drama, The Shrink Next Door. Starring Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Kathryn Hahn, Casey Wilson, and Cornell Womack, the eight-episode mini-series is inspired by the true story of Marty and the therapist w ..read more

The 24th edition of the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival unveils the first four South African films to be screened this year. For the first time in two years all films will be shown in selected cinemas in Cape Town and Johannesburg from 23 June to 3 July 2022. The Opening night film is the much-anticipated homage to Joseph Shabalala and his legendary music group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Music is My Life and receives its World Premiere at Encounters 2022. Directed by emerging young filmmaker Mpumi “Supa” Ngcuka, a graduate of the Chelsea Arts School, N ..read more

Following on from the successful Let Your Voices Roar Animation Training in East Africa, The Ladima Foundation, in partnership with Culture and Development East Africa (CDEA) and The African Animation Network (AAN), is proud to announce the next phase of the project; the incubation of five women in professional animation studios. The five women selected to take part in the six-month incubator are: Nsile James Uiso (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Ruth Nazzinda (Kampala, Uganda), Adelaide Barnabas Jachi (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Zuwena Hamad Othman (Zanzibar, Tanzania), and Gwantwa Lucas Mwakalinga ..read more

Pictured: A scene from Tug of War (Tanzania) The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) will host the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) from 21 to 30 July. The 43rd edition of the festival programme speaks to the curatorial theme of: “Adaptation, Survival and Sustainability”. The festival will present a carefully curated selection of South African premieres, screening virtually on www.durbanfilmfest.com and in person at CineCentre Suncoast Casino. On 21 July, DIFF2022 opens with the live and virtual screening of 1960, directed by Michael Mutombo and King ..read more

Four powerful documentary films in The Generation Africa project, produced by Cape Town-based production company STEPS, are being screened at the Encounters South Africa International Documentary Film Festival which runs until 3 July at venues in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The films reflect personal experiences and connected narratives of Africans living on the continent and in the Diaspora, focusing on what “home”, belonging and migration mean. Winner of the 2021 DOK.horizonte prize at DOK.fest München 2022, No Simple Way Home (Kenya / South Africa) directed by Akuol ..read more