DIFF opening & closing films

Jun 19, 2022 ipoadmin 0

The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts will host the Durban International Festival (DIFF) from July 21 to 30, 2022 as the film spectacular celebrates its 43rd year with cutting-edge cinema from all around the world with the theme of  ‘Adaptation, Survival and Sustainability’. The festival will be opening […]

Encounters calls for entries

Nov 26, 2021 ipoadmin 0

23 June – 3rd July 2022: Cape Town & Johannesburg, and Online The organisers of Encounters, Africa’s home of documentaries, are calling for feature, mid-length, and short documentary film entries for the 2022 edition of the Festival. Encounters is returning to celebrate the best of independent filmmaking for the 24th anniversary […]

Africa Rising International Film Festival partners with TikTok

Nov 25, 2021 ipoadmin 0

Africa Rising International Film Festival (Ariff) revealed it has partnered with short-form video content giant TikTok to take African filmmakers, film talent and storytelling to the platform’s global audience estimated at one billion users. Ariff returns for its fourth annual instalment taking place from 25-28 November 2021. Since its inception […]

International Tourism Film Festival Africa

Nov 24, 2021 ipoadmin 0

The International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFFA) has opened entries for the international version of the event; the deadline for submissions is 31 January 2022. The ITFFA, founded in 2019, is hosted in proud cooperation with the International Tourism Film Festivals Committee (CIFFT). CIFFT’s partnership with the ITFFA is their […]

Silwerskerm Film Festival for March 2022

Nov 3, 2021 ipoadmin 0

kykNET has decided not to hold its annual film festival in 2021 due to the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and will now instead do a roll-over with the 10th Silwerskerm Film Festival set for a week in late March 2022 at its usual berth at the Bay Hotel in Camps […]

Durban International Film Festival announces awards winners

Aug 2, 2021 ipoadmin 0

The Durban International Film Festival announced its award winners on Saturday 31 July during the live Facebook award ceremony of the festival’s 42nd edition. The news comes as the festival wraps up a fantastic year, with a huge increase in online attendance. CCA Director Ismail Mahomed says of this year’s […]