NEWS ARCHIVES | January 2012
2012 | January 27
Talent Campus Durban to feed creativity of African filmmakers and critics
Talent Campus will take place during the 33rd Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) to be held from 21 to 29 July 2012. Application to participate is open to filmmakers and critics who are resident in Africa. The five-day programme entices filmmakers to enhance skills, develop collaborations and interface with the dynamic future of the film industry in Africa, and the world. The programme also includes the 2nd edition of Doc Station, where selected documentary projects submitted by accepted talents will be finessed and packaged for presentation within the DOC Circle at the 3rd Durban FilmMart.
2012 | January 19
All systems go for Arterial Network's new Steering Committee
The ten members of the committee was appointed by a conference of close to 200 delegates representing more than 30 African countries. Since its inception in 2007, Arterial Network has established chapters in 33 African countries. Arterial Network's 2012/2013 Steering Committee members are: Korkor Amarteifio (Ghana) is the Chairperson of ARTerial Network Steering Committee. She started her career in the seventies in Montreal, where she created a platform for artists from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. She was also a member of the Canadian Arts Council. In Ghana she worked for the
2012 | January 17
Creator of Trafalgar Square's ship in a bottle takes new work to NYC
The following from www.africancolours.com Shonibare is well-known for creating multi-faceted, conceptual art work. In this multi-part exhibition of new sculptures, photoworks and the premiere of a new film, he explores the concept of destiny as it relates to themes of desire, yearning, love, power and sexual repression. Following the installation of his Ship in a Bottle on Trafalgar Square the artist continues his explorations of Lord Nelson, the figurehead of the British Empire at its apotheosis. Nelson’s destiny was to fall a hero at the Battle of Trafalgar just as the British Empire’s ultimate destiny was
2012 | January 16
More African sci-fi to hit the big screen
With the success of 2009's film, District 9, still fresh in their minds, producers are cherry-picking African and South-African sci-fi properties, making it one of hottest genres this side of Swedish crime fiction.Producer Helena Spring (Yesterday) has just bought the film rights to Zoo City, her fellow South African Lauren Beukes' 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner,. a gritty urban noir fantasy about a woman who carries a sloth on her back, writes email scam letters, and has an ability to find lost things. When she's hired by a reclusive music producer to