The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture has commissioned groundbreaking research to create an understanding of South Africa’s audience landscape and attitudes to local film. According to Peter Kwele, NFVF Head of Marketing and Communications, the...
Science fiction films have always been able to expound dark truths about the human condition, as well as cultural issues of modern importance. Based on Robert C. O'Brien's novel, the film represents a post-apocolyptic world where it explores race and gender in the throes of...
The Indie Horror feature It Follows, written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and starring Maika Monroe, can serve as inspiration for independent filmmakers the world over. This art house horror was picked up by RADiUS-TWC (a subsidiary of the Weinstein company) and received a...
Brit Marling is a rising filmmaker who has written, produced and acted in her own independent films such as The East, Another Earth and Sound of My Voice, who has recently had her first television drama, named The OA, picked up by Netflix following a...
The Live Series is an exclusive comedy special produced by the award winning production company Mannequin Pictures. In the second part of this series, we present top South African comedian Marc Lottering- filmed live at The Lyric Theatre in Gold Reef City. Expect pure gold from...
The French New Wave arose out of the 50s and 60s in France. A small group of film makers who didn't have major equipment but had something to say decided to make films. Why are those films so important? Hollywood films at that time followed a...
A brief history: social progressivism was a global movement borne from the Industrial Revolution resulting in positive social changes through government regulations and social organizations. An example would be censorship in films. The first ever censorship law was passed in 1897 in Maine, USA, regarding a...
"Uncanny valley" is a hypothesis coined in the 70s regarding an image that doesn't feel right, for example how a person would react negatively to a humanoid cyborg in a movie or game. After knowing that Paul Walker's face was CGI'd onto his two brothers...
Andrew Sarris'sWhy do you watch a film? To see your favourite actors? Or do you follow a specific director's body of work? Looking at a (very brief and diluted) history of film we go to France, where the Lumière brothers and George Méliès were seen as an artistic...
Popcorn is synonymous with the movie theatre. Here are some interesting facts following how this came to be so: Initially, in the 20s in America, movie theaters were to mirror stage theaters which were very grand, so no was popcorn allowed inside as it would sully...