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The Market Photo Workshop reminds all photographers that applications for the 2013 Tierney Fellowship close on Friday, 3 May 2013. Applicants are encouraged to contact Bekie Ntini on +27 11 834 1444 with any queries. For more, go to www.tierneyfellowship.org or www.marketphotoworkshop.co.za.... read more 30 Apr 2013
The White Picket Fence Project has recently been accepted into the Rolling Film Festival in Kosovo, The Big Muddy Film Festival in Illinois, The American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs (4-8 April) and, most recently, The United Film Festival in Los Angeles (26 April-2 May at the Los... read more 15 Apr 2013
Be sure to catch Bizcommunity.com's editor-at-large, Simone Puterman, on the repeat show of SABC1's Media Career Guide Show tonight, Monday, 11 February 2013, from 11pm-11.30pm. She will provide insightful career guidance for the marketing, advertising, media and retail industries. The show is... read more 11 Feb 2013
With thanks to the NFVF, Siphiwe Linda will be attending the Berlin Film Mart, after having submitted his film Basotho Blankets produced by Little Pond and funded by the NLDTF, alongside Khululekile Banzi, whose film African Negroes was funded by the DSTV Grooming Exceptional Talent Programme. He... read more 8 Feb 2013
MTV Base VJ Search has selected its three finalists. They are Naledi Radebe (21), Nomzamo Mbatha (22) and Nomuzi Mabena (19), who will appear on camera as they get a makeover and record an episode of the Official African Chart for MTV Base and a TV clip for Club 808. Viewers on DStv Channel 322 and... read more 19 Sep 2012
From Friday 24 August until Sunday 26 August 2012, the Bioscope Independent Cinema, in partnership with the Drama for Life, will screen the 'Sex Actually' festival, a selection of films that explore the role of sex in cinema. Through a series of films ranging from the 1970s to the present, the... read more 23 Aug 2012
Gallo Images, which represents Getty Images in sub-Saharan Africa, now offers M-Net's video clip debut, which was shot in Madagascar, Maldives, Kenya, Namibia and South Africa. The locations and aerial, underwater, wildlife, landscape and sunset shots have a broad range of conceptual and... read more 30 Jul 2012
The Jupiter Drawing Room (Utopia) has ensured South Africa a spot in the 2012 NYF International Advertising Awards shortlist for its BirdLife SOS Festival poster campaign (Save Our Seabirds) in the environmental issues category. Apart from being awarded In-Book status last week at the 50th D&AD... read more 25 Apr 2012
A new Ron Howard film, scheduled for release in early 2013, stars South African born Vanessa Zachos, acting opposite Chris Hemsworth (Thor and Avengers). The film, Rush, a Peter Morgan screenplay, recounts the 1976 rivalry between British Formula 1 driver James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian... read more 24 Apr 2012
Capitalising on the success of the radio soapie, Lollipop Lane, broadcast daily for four years, local award-winning writer Clinton Marius, returns with, Eh Heh, a comedy serial set in a hair and beauty salon. Producer and co-writer Zookey, who has her own show on Gagasi FM, has a team of... read more 16 Apr 2012
This Sunday, 15 April 2012, the programme for Ashraf Garda's Media@SAfm show, 9am-11am on 104-107 FM nationwide, will include:Celebrating with some of the big winners at the MTN Radio Awards and an analysis of the overall standard of the entries from convenor of judges Lance Rothschild (@lancerza).... read more 13 Apr 2012
Alan Shelley, the African winner for the Trigger Street Productions and Jameson First Shot Scriptwriting Competition, leaves for Los Angeles on 15 March 2012. As a 26-year-old scriptwriter, director, editor and vfx supervisor from Cape Town, he will be representing South Africa in the finals of the... read more 13 Mar 2012
JC Le Roux offers purchasers an exclusive, unreleased new single, Le Good Life from GoodLuck through a unique code printed on neck tags in participating stores or by liking its Le Good Life page on Facebook. Selected bottles will also have a limited-edition flash drive attached, containing a link to... read more 27 Feb 2012
As part of the Design Indaba Film Festival, which opened at the Labia on Orange cinema on 19 February 2012, the Goethe-Institut will present Werner Herzog's latest documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, in 3D on 4 March 2012 and Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow about German artist Anselm Kiefer... read more 23 Feb 2012
The deadline for submissions for the Durban FilmMart project has been extended to 29 February 2012, at the request of African filmmakers currently busy at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and Berlinale Film Festival. Ten fiction projects and 10 documentary projects will be selected for... read more 21 Feb 2012
Cape Town socialites, Liz Stone and Elena Pappas, will host the new season of the MTV show, My Super Sweet World Class, starting on DStv Channel 321 at 11pm on Sunday, 19 February 2012. 'A Magical Garden of Eden' is the theme they chose for their party, with the help of party planner Tam Lederly,... read more 14 Feb 2012
Gallo Images has announced it now exclusively represents two of the world's leading creative subscription brands by Getty Images; iStockphoto and Thinkstock. The licences include use by all industries, including the pharmaceutical and health-related sectors, and allow for larger print runs of up to... read more 13 Feb 2012
This Sunday, 12 February 2012, the programme for Ashraf Garda's Media@SAfm show, 9am-11am on 104-107 FM nationwide, will include:Round Table discussion on ethics of journalism, following the "brown envelope scandal" in the Western Cape regarding alleged bribery of journalists by Ibrahim Rasool's... read more 10 Feb 2012
Dineo Lusenga, who hosts the 1am-4am weekend slot on 5FM, makes her first appearance on TV, as she hosts a 13-episode youth-orientated talk show 'Ek Se Lalela' on Mondays from 5-5.30pm on SABC 1. Described as 'edutainment', the show will cover a variety of topics pertinent to aspiring young people... read more 25 Jan 2012
Commenting on social media chatter, Ezra Ndwandwe, entrepreneur and creator of the Big Break Legacy reality TV show, says the winner of the R5million prize will be determined by merit, not race, gender or cultural background. Ndwandwe says entrepreneurship is colour-blind and the best ideas that are... read more 25 Jan 2012
The M-Net soap, The Wild, will feature Drum magazine editor, Makhosazana Zwane-Siguqa (Khosi) as herself in a cameo appearance on 18 and 19 January 2012. Without giving away any of the storyline, it involves a wedding and viewers will have a chance to get to know a little bit about the editor. The... read more 12 Jan 2012
Available for Windows and Mac as a free public download from Adobe Labs, Lightroom is the essential digital photography workflow solution helping amateur and professional photographers quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase their images. Lightroom 4 beta is a preview of new features and... read more 11 Jan 2012
The Sound on Screen Music Film Festival opens on Friday, 2 December 2011, at the Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Gardens in Cape Town until 9 December. It goes online on 10 December. It is described as South Africa's first dedicated music-themed film festival, which will include documentaries,... read more 1 Dec 2011
Word of Mouth pictures will be running auditions in search of talent for SABC 2'S Muvhango. The venues and dates of the auditions are: Lesotho (28 November) - Lesotho Sun Conference Centre ( Hilton Road; Maseru); Bloemfontein (29 November) - Pacofs (12 First Avenue; Westdene Side; Bloemfontein) and... read more 28 Nov 2011
A reminder that seats are limited for the Johannesburg leg of the 2012 Apex Awards workshops on Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 2pm-4pm, at TBWA (in the auditorium). Entrants are encouraged to attend the free workshop to learn more about the entry process, how to compile a winning entry and to hear... read more 28 Nov 2011
A South African producer, Cindy Maciver of the Picture House, has uncovered a scam aimed at production houses in South Africa, coming out of China. Reminiscent of Nigerian frauds, the producers are asked to come to China to sign contracts to produce TV episodes on South Africa. The two unfortunate... read more 23 Nov 2011
DOP/director Roy Zetisky has joined London commercials company, Spoke Films, which recently opened offices in Dubai and Cape Town. Zetisky, Best Cinematography award winner at the 2009 M-Net Vuka Awards, has had Coca-Cola, Fanta, Kellogg's, Ravensburger, Bavaria Breweries, Vodacom and others as... read more 21 Nov 2011
Each week since the launch of its fourth season in September 2011, the satirical web and TV puppet show ZANews, has been reaching the #1 and #2 podcast positions on the South African iTunes store, ahead of productions from the BBC, HBO, TED, Universal and other local and international digital... read more 18 Nov 2011
The series, Play your Part, which runs on SABC at 12.30pm every Sunday, will feature Jodi Bieber, the award-winning world-renowned South African photographer whose work has graced galleries, museums and magazines around the world, in episode 5 on Sunday, 20 November 2011. She will share the... read more 16 Nov 2011
Yesterday, Wednesday, 15 November 2011, saw the launch of a 3G-streaming mobile TV service that will allow MTN subscribers to pay to watch 11 DStv channels on their handsets. The partnership offering will be available to all its subscribers and works on 3G compatible handsets that can connect to MTN... read more 16 Nov 2011