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Close up Seen at IBC, Amsterdam Events OCTOBER 3 – 4 MIPCOM JUNIOR cannes, France www.mipcomjunior.com Kevin Manas (Hi-Tech) Dave Short (Digivision) Adriaan Shipalana (Harambe), Gelfand Kausiyo (SABC RBF) and Raymond Buckle (SilverstoneCIS) 5 – 9 MIPCOM cannes, France www.mipcom.com 9 – 12 AES US new York www.aes.org Photos by Trevor Ou Tim Harris’ Monica Heck and Sally Wallington Sasani Africa Party Egoli’s Leon Nortje, Willie Coetzee, Burgert Muller and Marge Fieldgate Mohamed Amin Foundation’s Christel de Wit and David Johnson ZSE TV’s Anna Segoe, Tebogo Chauke and Lizzie Naledi Alan Worsley (Visual Impact) and Tony Niemeyer (AJ Niemeyer) Sasani’s Dudu Nkuna and Charles Chababala with Screen Africa’s Delight Ngwenya 11 – 14 Southern African Broadcasting Association Annual General Conference Maseru, Lesotho www.saba.co.za 19 – 22 SIEL/SATIS Paris www.siel-satis.com 16 Promax/BDA Africa 2009 sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg www.promaxafrica,tv 22 10th Screen Africa Annual Industry Golf Day cMR Golf Club, Maraisburg, Roodepoort competition: Better Ball Stableford for the Screen Africa Floating Trophy Bookings: Ellen Oosthuizen – 083 268 6868 or e-mail: ellen.oosthuizen@pixie.co.za Gaby Keyser 082 967 7669 or e-mail: gkeyser@absamail.co.za 27 – 30 6th Abuja International Film Festival Musa Yardua Center /Bolingo Hotel Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria Festival Director Fidelis Duker www.nffo.org /www.fadfilms.7p.com Charles Junior Mokoka, Charles Senior Mokoka (Sasani) and Tony Boyers (Film Lab) Sasani’s Shawn Ludwig and Andre Vorster, Deon Kritzinger (M-Net) and Zac Almeida (Sasani) Thabo Bohula (Film Lab), Kenneth Nkuna (Ingada), Phineas Mkhize (Film Lab), David Chauke (Sasani) and Eugene Botha (Sasani) People to People International Documentary Conference NOVEMBER 3 SES Birmingham www.sbes.com 4 – 11 American Film Market santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA www.americanfilmmarket.com 18 – 20 InterBee tokyo www.inter-bee.com Rehad Desai (Tri Continental Film Festival) and Peter Anders (Goethe-Institut) Lolli Goodson (SABC) and Harriet Gavshon (Curious Pictures) Mandisa Zitha (Encounters) and Makela Pululu (filmmaker) Motsepe Nkoliswa (filmmaker), Brian Koma (DTI) and Siyabonga Lerumo (filmmaker) LOG ON TO NEWS: www.screenafrica.com • TBC Copley for Ridley Scott film? M-Net VUKA! Awards www.vuka.multichoice.co.za • BBC Worldwide may be privatised partially • • White Wedding enters Oscar race Botswana TV commissions soapie • • Digital TV battle goes to court TV industry job losses to be addressed to DTI • • 1918 SA film goes online A vision for public broadcasting • Mobile phone applications launched in Uganda • • TV hunger strikers speak out Biggest summer box office ever On the move New CEO for ZSE TV Eileen Sandrock has been appointed CEO of Sasani Africa. Sandrock joined ZSE TV, a division of Sasani Africa, in 2007 as managing director – a position she still holds. Sandrock has 23 years of progressive experience in TV, from vision mixing and video editing, to directing and producing. In her seven year-stint as a commissioning editor at pay-TV broadcaster M-Net, Sandrock worked on productions such as Carte Blanche, Big Brother, Skouspel, Egoli and Survivor. A d v e r t i s e r s L i s t Atlas Studios .................................43 Avmark ..........................................42 Black Magic Design........................7 Blade/BFX........................................1 Case Connection, The.................44 Chameleon Casting.....................36 Christie...........................................21 Durban Film Office (DFO)...................................24 – 25 Digitalfilm.......................................17 Gauteng Film Commission (GFC)..............................................33 General Post ................................44 Glasshouse ...................................42 Glory Computers........................39 HDHUB..........................................35 Heritage Insurance .....................44 Howard Music ..............................42 IDC..................................OBC Kodak..............................................15 Media Film Service.......................34 NDS.................................................29 Panasonic........................................11 Pro-Sales.........................................14 Puma Video.........................FC Q-Studios.......................................37 SABC...............................................23 Screen Africa.................................36 Shoot Casting................................34 Sony...................................................5 Visual Impact.................................19 VUKA! Awards.................. IFC 48 SCREENAFRICA – October 2009
A N SCREENAFRICA N I V E R S A R Y SCREENAFRICA Zooming in on the film & Television production industry in Africa NEWS MAGAZINE Bang Bang Club pg 36 Post-production pg 26 21st Anniversary pg 42 BROADCAST • FILM • COMMERCIALS • TECHNOLOGY • DIGITAL MEDIA SABC signs contract with Siemens The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) signed a contract with Siemens IT Solutions & Mauritius digital upgrade Mauritius Broadcast Corporation (MBC) has been upgraded with a R7m Avid Unity ISIS media storage solution by South African-based Spescom Media IT. This upgrade which boosts storage capacity and postproduction efficiencies, signals a further evolution towards a fully digital environment for the broadcaster. MBC's television network currently consists of three analogue channels and six digital channels. Two new digital terrestrial channels were launched in 2008 and a project for a 24- hour rolling news station is well under way and will provide an interactive platform for local, regional and international news. – to page 51 Services at the beginning of April to oversee the roll out of digital technology solutions across the corporation. The contract encompasses an agreement that will allow Siemens to oversee, project manage, consult and deploy the necessary technology for the roll out of a number of specific digital projects. Priority areas are projects relating to infrastructure for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) including new Final Control Centres (FCC), playout and storage, infrastructure for supporting the SABC’s coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and, Township film goes to Cannes The Game of My Life, a soccerthemed feature film shot over seven days in the Duduza township just outside of Johannesburg, will be represented at the Cannes Film Festival in May by its writer/producer Michael J Rix. Directed by Dumisani Vusi Nhlapo in his feature film debut, The Game of My Life is going straight to DVD for distribution in South Africa’s townships via a network of vendors. “I’m also hoping to CR archiving libraries enabling easy access to content material. Siemens and the SABC, as the managing client, will work in close co-operation to get the best possible equipment for the projects. In some cases, the SABC will purchase the equipment, in others, Siemens will evaluate and buy the equipment on the SABC’s behalf from suppliers. “This will, in effect, allow us to choose the best possible systems available throughout the world,” says Richard Waghorn, Chief Technology Officer at the SABC. Siemens, in its project – to page 51 get the DVDs into stores like Reliable. We will be doing a lot of word of mouth marketing and taking ads in the Daily Sun. There is also the potential of selling the film to a local broadcaster,” explains Rix. In January Rix, who singlehandedly made South Africa’s first ever claymation feature, Tengers, put out a call to interested parties to each buy a 2% share in The Game of My – to page 51 www.screenafrica.com VOL 21 – MAY 2009 R27.00 EIGHTIES TO NOUGHTIES: Southern Screen & Stage, the first trade magazine for the South African film and television industry launched in May 1988. It changed its name to Screen Africa in 1992 and for a while was published in A4 size. Today Screen Africa is a glossy, world class trade monthly magazine which reflects the South African and African industries to local and international readers. M-Net’s new local content strategy All local series produced for South African pay-TV broadcaster M-Net will now be piloted as a means of testing content before series go into production. In other firsts, the broadcaster is to issue commissioning briefs for its Series and Action channels and focus strongly on development. Newly appointed head of Local Development & Production Helen Smit emphasises the importance of the development element. “We’re really keen to develop our own formats in all genres. As a broadcaster we want to perform on all platforms and to do that you need to own all rights. However, we wouldn’t necessarily exclude coproductions.” It’s no secret that local content performs well in South Africa and M-Net’s locally produced shows are no exception. “Local content, which accounts for about 18% of the M-Net schedule, really works for us. As long as we tell stories that are relevant and that people can relate to, they will resonate with the audience and generate good ARs. We always set AR targets for each local show and that target is tied to the time slot and to the record for that time slot. Carte Blanche, for example, performs remarkably well for an – to page 51 DIRECTORY & INTERNATIONAL GUIDE EMAIL NEWS EVENTS www.screenafrica.com For more information Tel: +27 (0)11 719-4380 Fax: +27 (0)11 719-4392 Email: editor@screenafrica.com
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