The Filmmakers Guide to South Africa 2011

the filmmakers guide to south africa film & event publishing in collaboration with the dti

FMG 2011 ISSUE

DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE IN SOUTH AFRICA When The Filmmakers Guide to South Africa started 10 years ago, the local film industry was a very different place, as the interviews within this commemorative edition demonstrate.

The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has been proud to play a role in a decade of expansion and diversification.

The scale and profile of our projects has increased year on year, as has our expertise and infrastructure. Even our locations have expanded, thanks to the recent launch of Cape Town Film Studios and the massive construction boom preceding The FIFA World Cup. As District 9 and the boom in science fiction and fantasy projects set here shows, South Africa truly offers the universe in one country.

The South African film industry is currently worth an estimated R2.65 billion in the Western Cape, R1.1 billion in Gauteng, and R236 million in Kwa-Zulu Natal.

By 2014, it is envisioned that South Africa will be one of the leading producers of film and TV content from Africa and the Middle East.

The South African government, through the dti, has actively invested in this sector to create the necessary conducive environment for growth.

As such, we have developed a film production incentive which is rated among the most efficient in the world.

The dti regularly reviews this incentive with industry. This led to the introduction of milestone payments in 2009 and the doubling of the cap in 2010, making South Africa a more attractive production partner than ever before.

We congratulate The Filmmakers Guide to South Africa on their tenth anniversary edition and look forward to the next ten years of growth.

Dr. Rob Davies, MP Minister of Trade and Industry

CONTENTS

a lot can happen in a decade 10 years of triumph review of the decade locations 2010: year of the chameleon 2010: the world discovers sa 2010: a photogenic country africa emerging 11 reasons to shoot in sa 5-star reviews learning from the best the new frontier of travel love at first sight 11 things to do in 2011 2011 calendar the dti incentive company profiles industry services directory (alphabetical) directory (categorical)

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A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN A DECADE

TOP: (1) Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Warner Bros’ Invictus, shot here with Moonlighting © Keith Bernstein (2): Nicolas Cage and Jared Leto in Lionsgate’s Lord of War, shot here with Reeleyes © Garth Stead (RIP)

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FROM TOP: (1) The Triangle shot here with Kalahari Pictures (2) Fox Sports’ Grand Prix winner, shot here with Cape Direct (3) Jim Caviezel in The Prisoner, shot here with Out of Africa (4) Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, shot here with Kalahari Pictures BOTTOM RIGHT: Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was based on a novel by South African resident Vikus Swarup, with South African Telfer Barnes pulling focus.

While the South African film industry dates back more than a 100 years, it started to come into its own in the last 10, emerging as a leading service destination and a producer of award-winning content.

Southern Africa has hosted a wide variety of film, television and commercial shoots, including: • Emmy winners for HBO (Generation Kill) and Bad Hat Harry (The Triangle) and nominees for Fox (24: Redemption), Anthony Minghella (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), The History Channel (America: The Story of Us) and ITV/AMC (The Prisoner) • Cannes Lions Grand Prix winners for Traktor (Fox Sports India, China, and Turkey) • Oscar nominees for Clint Eastwood (Invictus); Neill Blomkamp (District 9); Ed Zwick (Blood Diamond); and Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) • A Golden Globe nominee for Pete Travis (Endgame) In the process, we’ve hosted some of the world’s biggest stars, including Robert Pattison, Daniel Craig, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Morgan Freeman, Leonardo di Caprio, Matt Damon, Kiefer Sutherland and Hilary Swank.

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10 YEARS OF TRIUMPH RIGHT: Mallam Galadima Ahmadu with Jamis, Abuja, Nigeria 2005 © Pieter Hugo • Michael Stevenson, Cape Town & Yossi Milo, New York BELOW: Vodacom Single Ladies © Amy Allais • Ola FAR RIGHT: Brothers Bernado Sayovo and Horacio Chikambe © Guy Tillim • Michael Stevenson

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In the pages that follow, we’ll outline some of the highlights from the decade.

There have been South African connections on some of the most important projects of the last 10 years, from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings and Slumdog Millionaire to The Hurt Locker, Wolverine and Avatar.

The highlights haven’t come bigger than the FIFA 2010 World Cup, the world’s most watched

sporting event.

In addition to the massive global exposure, South Africa is reaping the benefits from the construction boom that preceded the event: we now offer worldleading stadiums, airports, film studios and hotels to match our incomparable beaches, vineyards, mountains and wildlife.

From first world to third world to science fiction, South Africa offers the universe in one country.

When it’s a wrap think Winchester.

Winchester Mansions provides the perfect refuge after a hard day’s shoot. Close to the V&A Waterfront and Cape Town city centre, this landmark hotel offers elegant rooms boasting sea or mountain views. Facilities include a pool, Ginkgo Spa, signature dishes from Harvey’s restaurant and full service conferencing.

T: +27 21 434 2351 E: movies@winchester.co.za www.winchester.co.za

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RIGHT: BIC Infinity © Kim Geldenhuys • Egg BELOW: SATOUR Welcome © Keith Rose • Velocity

REVIEW OF THE DECADE

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YEAR 2000 Although the Noughties started with terror as everyone checked to see if the Y2K bug had wiped their hard drives, 2 000 was a landmark year for the internet, as broadband became widely accessible internationally. Email caught on in the film industry.

Egg’s Kim Geldenhuys won a Silver at Cannes Lions for Infinity for BIC Pens and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, who also collected a Bronze for Welcome, Velocity director Keith Rose’s spot for SATOUR. 3rd Degree burst onto the scene, making anchor Debora Patta a household name. 10 years later, the hard-hitting, award-winning e.tv programme is now the most watched current affairs show in South Africa, with at least 1.8 million viewers per episode.

Teboho Mahlatsi’s Portrait of a Young Man Drowning won Best Short at The All African Film Awards.

Jannie van Wyk founded Media Film Service; Mandy Ritchie launched Orange Films; and The Cape Film Commission opened.

TOP: Nestea © Moonlighting MIDDLE: Kelloggs © Moonlighting BOTTOM: VISA © Moonlighting BOTTOM RIGHT: The St. Paul Rhino © Moonlighting

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YEAR 2001 2001 will be remembered primarily for 9/11, which launched a still-ongoing war on terror. In the film industry, everyone started talking about branded content Cape Direct collected a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions for Fox Sports India, China, and Turkey, three Traktor spots they serviced for Cliff Freeman & Partners. These ads recently appeared in Boards’ list of the Spots of the Decade.

Frank Budgen’s Levi’s Twist, shot here with McKenzie Rudolphe, won Gold at Cannes, while Michael Schmid’s Elvisthemed Audi The Fan won Silver after filming here with The Shooting Gallery.

Egg was listed in The Gunn Report’s 25 Most Awarded Production Houses. Kim Geldenhuys, Gunn’s 15th most awarded director, was named as one of AdAge Global’s Top 100 Directors. His BMW Land Speed Record spot was Gunn’s 21st most awarded spot.

AFS’ Warren Kushner appeared in Boards’ inaugural Directors to Watch; Greg Gray’s first commercial at Velocity won a Gold Craft Loerie for direction; and Freshwater Films’ Marc Sidelsky featured as part of Saatchi’s New Directors Showcase.

Jodie Bieber won first and third prize at The World Press Photo Awards. She also won a Gold Society of Publication Designers Award.

Leon Schuster’s slapstick comedy, Mr. Bones, became the highest grossing local film of all time, topping R33 million. It had competition from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, based on the novels

by South African-born JRR Tolkein. Arnold Vosloo starred in another of the year’s blockbusters, The Mummy Returns.

A number of companies launched, including Gatehouse, Groundglass, Monkey Films, Terraplane, The Big Picture Company and Wipspace.

Kathy English Brower left Moonlighting to publish the first edition of The Filmmakers Guide to South Africa.

The Gauteng Film Office was established and The National Film and Video Foundation started operations.

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REVIEW OF THE DECADE TOP LEFT: Metro FM © Net#work BBDO BOTTOM LEFT: Progressive © Warren Kushner • AFS TOP RIGHT: Levi’s Twist © McKenzie Rudolphe RIGHT MIDDLE: BMW Landspeed Record © Kim Geldenhuys • Egg Films BOTTOM RIGHT: Tastic © Greg Gray • Velocity

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LEFT: Ronald Harwood © Gallo Images/AFP RIGHT: Sports Trust © Sunu Gonera • Then Peter Gird, now Egg MIDDLE: Metro FM I am Beat © Daniel Levi • Then Terraplane, now Velocity BOTTOM RIGHT: Nike © Greg Gray • Velocity

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REVIEW OF THE DECADE

YEAR 2002 In December, South Africa’s bid committee notified FIFA of their intention to bid for The 2010 FIFA World Cup. Cape Town-born Ronald Harwood won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Pianist, while former South African resident Dion Beebe was nominated for an Oscar for his cinematography on Chicago.

Scout’s Safari, shot here with Film Afrika, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Show.

Penguin Films’ Madame & Eve won a Bronze TV Sitcom Rose d’Or. All the DoPs were discussing the merits of film versus digital, after Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones became the first blockbuster to shoot on high definition digital video, using a Sony HDW-F900.

TBWA’s Umpire tennis sponsorship commercial for Nashua Mobile won Bronze at Cannes Lions.

Daniel Levi, then with Terraplane, featured in Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Directors Showcase at Cannes and was one of Board’s Directors to Watch.

Velocity’s Greg Gray was featured as one of three CFP-E Shots Young Directors at Cannes.

Kevin Fitzgerald was named SA Fashion Week Photographer of The Year for the second year in a row and joined Egg as a commercials director.

After a meteoric rise, Sunu Gonera, then with Peter Gird Productions, won the Best Overall Commercial VUKA. Debbie Cornell, Glen Wolter and Lance Gibbons formed Rocket Films, while Sean Beukes launched The Asylum.

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YEAR 2003

REVIEW OF THE DECADE

Charlize Theron won the Best Actress Oscar for Monster, while Big World Cinema was nominated for Best Short Film for Steve Pasvolsky’s Inja (Dog).

JM Coetzee won The Nobel Prize for Literature, while a group of children in Johannesburg sat down in a local cinema to watch 33 movies non-stop over two and a half days, earning a place in The Guinness Book of Records.

Fresh Eye Films’ Jonathan Parkinson won Silver at Cannes Lions for Childline Lucy Moonflower. Clive Will, then at Velocity, won two Bronzes for BMW Bi-Xenon and Apartheid Museum Swimmers.

Terraplane’s Trevor Clarence was the Young Gun of the Year.

South Africa signed a co-production treaty with Italy. A growing number of South African features were made, including Bronwen Hughes’ Stander; Jason Xenopoulos’ Critical Assignment; Norman Maake’s Soldiers of the Rock; Jack Lewis’ Proteus; Ntshaveni Wa Luruli’s The Wooden Camera; and David Hickson’s Beat the Drum, which would take 27 awards and another three years to be released.

Guy Tillim won The Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award in Japan. Jodie Bieber won the Special Prix at Festival of the Sea, Vannes, France.

Lance Gibbons launched The Callsheet, now the most read South African trade publication; Sunu Gonera and Diana Keam introduced Faith Creations; Liz Bullen opened Atomic Pictures Africa; Rachel Young started Razor Sharp Films; and Pete Pohorsky and Di Hellman (now du Toit) announced Plank Film Productions.

The Durban Film Office opened.

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LEFT (1): Charlize Theron © Gallo Images / Getty Images (2) JM Coetzee © The Bigger Picture / Reuters MIDDLE: Nat ‘Junior’ Singo in Beat the Drum © David Hickson TOP RIGHT: Landrover © Warren Kushner • AFS BOTTOM RIGHT: Telkom Dog © Herdbuoys eKapa

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YEAR 2004

REVIEW OF THE DECADE

RIGHT: Sasol Two Villages © Laurence Hamburger • Egg BOTTOM: BMW Kinetic Sculptures © Kim Geldenhuys • Egg

On 15 May 2004, Nelson Mandela lifted the FIFA World Cup trophy in Zurich, Switzerland, following the announcement that South Africa would be hosting the tournament in 2010.

Miles Goodall’s Village Old Man AIDES commercial appeared in The Gunn Report’s list of the top commercials of the year and won a Silver at Cannes Lions and two Golds at The New York Festival.

Miles also received at Bronze Cannes Lions for his Audi spot, while his Investec Fork ad won a Gold Cinematography Craft at New York.

Laurence Hamburger’s PF Jones spot for SABC1 was included in The Gunn Report’s top 100. It was his first advert for Egg and also won the Grand Prix at the Loerie Awards.

Egg was listed in The Gunn Report’s 100 most awarded production houses, while South Africa was eleventh overall.

Daniel Levi was named Best New Director at MVPA and Cameron Platter’s Invasion of Zebras was included in Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Directors Showcase.

The Department of Trade and Industry introduced The Film and Television Production Rebate, which immediately attracted projects like Lord of War, with Nicolas Cage; Ask the Dust, with Salma Hayek and Colin Farrel; and To The Ends of the Earth, which was nominated for a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award.

Ntshaveni Wa Luruli’s The Wooden Camera won The Crystal Bear at Berlin.

Wayne Kramer’s The Cooler was an Oscar and Golden Globe nominee.

Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, based on the novel by Bloemfontein-born JRR Tolkein, won 11 Oscars.

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LEFT: Investec Fork - Miles Goodall • Sweet Spot Content BOTTOM: Lord of War © Garth Stead (RIP) for Reeleyes RIGHT: Ask the Dust © Moonlighting BOTTOM RIGHT: Volvic Mineral © Joe Alblas for Egg

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REVIEW OF THE DECADE YEAR 2005

FROM TOP: (1) VWV Beat © Kim Geldenhuys • Egg (2) Virgin Atlantic Love Story © Greg Gray • Velocity (3) Playstation War © Keith Rose • Velocity

At The Oscars, Darrell Roodt’s Yesterday was up for Best Foreign Film, Hotel Rwanda was competing for three more, and set decorator Celia Bobak was nominated for Phantom of the Opera.

At Berlin, Mark Dornford-May’s uCarmen eKhayelitsha brought home The Golden Bear, while Zola Maseko’s Drum won The Stallion of Yennega from FESPACO, where Teddy Mattera’s Max and Mona was named Best First Film.

At Cannes Lions, Danny Kleinman’s Playstation campaign – Golfers, Athletes and Traders – won Gold after shooting at Lindbergh Lodge with McKenzie Rudolphe. South Africa also dominated Best Use of Cinema, with Golds for Nando’s Speed and Salvation Army Freeze. Freshwater Film’s Slim won the CFP-Shots Young Directors Award for TB Church and Cardies Hiccup, with The Asylum’s Anton Visser in second place.

Velocity’s Greg Gray won Silver for Virgin Atlantic Love Story and Net#work BBDO. It also won a Grand Prix Loerie, a Silver Clio and a One Show Pencil, while Campaign placed it top of their Ten Best International Ads of the Year, with Egg director Kevin Fitzgerald’s Wonderbra Deer in the Headlights second.

Velocity’s Keith Rose became the first South African inducted into The Clio TV Hall of Fame for BMW Mouse, while his two Playstation spots, Duel and War, were named Ad

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LEFT: Hyundai Atos © Anton Visser • Then Asylum, now Velocity MIDDLE: Wonderbra Deer in the Headlights © Kevin Fitzgerald • Egg MIDDLE TOP RIGHT: Nando’s Boxer © Laurence Hamburger • Egg MIDDLE TOP LEFT: Yesterday © Darrell Roodt • VideoVision BOTTOM: View of Hillbrow looking north from the roof of the Mariston Hotel © Guy Tillim • Michael Stevenson

Critic’s favourites of the year. Velocity was named as one of Boards top 20 production companies.

Warren Kushner’s SEAT ad with John McEnroe won at Eurobest.

The Gunn Report recognised Sub Urban as one of the top production companies.

Moonlighting opened their Chile office, while Hilton Treves opened BlackGinger.

Design Indaba was named Best Conference in the World at The Meeting and Incentive Industry Awards at EIBTM in Spain.

The Velveteen Rabbit won a Cine Special Jury Award, the NAPPA Gold Award in 2004, and the Notable Children’s Film Award, as South African animation began to take off.

Takalani Sesame won a Peabody.

Penguin Films’ Madam & Eve and About Us were semi-finalists in the Comedy category of the International Emmy Awards, while Lee Doig was up for an Emmy for the cinematography on Survivor: Palau.

Guy Tillim won The Leica Oskar Barnack Award at The Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France for his Jo’burg series. Jodie Bieber came second for Contemporary Issues Story at the World Press Photo Awards.

Leon Schuster’s Mama Jack topped the local box office, earning over R27 million.

Facebook and YouTube launched, while The Go See Film Expo took place for the second and final time.

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BELOW: (1) Solomon Linda in A Lion’s Trail © Francois Verster (2) Dion Beebe © Greatstock/Corbis RIGHT: (1)Bonnie Henna in Philip Noyce’s Catch a Fire © Moonlighting (2) The Triangle © David Bloomer for Kalahari Pictures (3) Frank Rautenbach in Faith Like Potatoes © Global Creative Studios (4) Pedigree Chew © Kim Geldenhuys • Egg

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YEAR 2006 Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi won the Best Foreign Film Oscar; Dion Beebe won for his cinematography on Memoirs of a Geisha; and Ann Peacock wrote The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which won for Makeup. The Death of Kevin Carter was up for Best Short Documentary; Charlize Theron was nominated for North Country; and Tristan Holmes’ Elalini won the Student Oscar.

Lead animator Conrad Murrey won an Emmy for Special Effects on The Triangle; Francois Verster won for A Lion’s Trail;. Yesterday was nominated in the Outstanding Made for Television Movie category; and Orphans of Nkandla, associate produced by Xoliswa Sithole, was up for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form. At The International Emmies, Home Affairs was a Best Drama semifinalist.

Draftfcb won the Press Grand Prix at Cannes Lions for Lego Periscope, photographed by Gerard Turnley. Lowe Bull’s Axe campaign, photographed by Clive Stewart, won Silver. In the Outdoor Category, Golds went to Lowe Bull’s Durex campaign, shot by Jillian Lochner, and Ogilvy SA’s Harley campaign, photographed by Clive Stewart.

David Goldblatt won The Hasselblad Foundation International Award; Pieter Hugo won The World Press Photography Portrait category; and Mikhael Subotzky won the F25 Award for Concerned Photography.

Velocity was named in Boards’ top 20, while The Asylum’s Taryn Kosviner won the CFP-E/Shots Young Director Award. Egg featured in The Gunn Report’s top 25, after Brent Harris won Silvers at Cannes for Axe and The Homestead.

Bioscope Films, Wild Talk Africa and The South African Film and Television Awards launched, while Sithengi and The Cape Town World Cinema Festival closed.

Robin Kleinsmidt’s Ongeriewe was in the short film competition at Cannes, while Morula Pictures started racking up international awards for Magic Cellar.

The first Blu Ray titles went on sale; the verb “to google” entered the Oxford English Dictionary; Twitter launched; and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was released, sparking a global move towards greening.

REVIEW OF THE DECADE

LEFT: Rubbish Monster © Braam Jordaan BELOW: Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Nqobe, Kenneth Nkosi and Presley Chweneyagae in Tsotsi © Moviworld / Tsotsi Films

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REVIEW OF THE DECADE YEAR 2007

RIGHT: Three Amigos © Brent Quinn BELOW: Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly and Leonardo di Caprio in Blood Diamond © Moonlighting

Joburg-born Gillian Gorfil produced and initiated Blood Diamond, which was up for five Oscars after shooting in South Africa. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for Last King of Scotland, shot in Uganda.

SABC1’s Usindiso/Redemption was a finalist for best drama at The International Emmy Awards.

Egg’s Kim Geldenhuys and Velocity’s Keith Rose were named in Shots’ list of the Top 100 Creative Minds, while Virgin Love Story by Velocity’s Greg Gray was one of their Best Commercials of All Time.

Wicked Pixels’ SNVL Little Britain promo won Gold at Epica, as well as Silver at The One Show the following year.

Egg were included in The Gunn Report’s 25 Most Awarded Production Companies; Velocity’s Adrian de sa Garces won a Gold at the Dubai Lynx Awards for Sony Wega TV Kick; and Zamile Vilakazi was named Agency Producer of the Year at The First Boards Awards.

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Deryck and Beverly Joubert won an Emmy for Eye of the Leopard; Camera Carrier’s Louis Gouws broke the world record for side wheel driving through the smallest gap; The Stunt Company made the world’s largest human mobile; and Three Amigos won a Peabody.

Jodie Bieber won The Kodak Best International Calendar of the Year Award; Mikhael Subotzky won The KLM Paul Huff Award and The City of Perpignan Young Photographer Award; and Michael Meyersfeld’s Mercedes Benz shoot won Silver at The London International Advertising Awards.

Rogue Star Films, feelgoodfilms and the iPhone were launched. e.Sat, Telkom Media, ODM (now TopTV) and WOW won broadcaster licenses, which e.Sat later declined.

The Gauteng Film Office became The Gauteng Film Commission.

TOP LEFT: Sony Wega Kick © Adrian de sa Garces • Velocity LEFT: Joseph Fiennes and Dennis Haysbert in Goodbye Bafana © Film Afrika BELOW LEFT: MTN Stickies © Craig Wessels • Wicked Pixels BELOW: The Parlotones I’ll Be There © Bruno Bossi / Lung

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REVIEW OF THE DECADE

TOP: ABSA Feet © Kevin Fitzgerald • Egg MIDDLE: (1) Allan Gray Beautiful © Keith Rose • Velocity (2) Sasol Questions © Keith Rose • Velocity BOTTOM: BMW Test Pilot © Kevin Fitzgerald • Egg FAR RIGHT: Mark, Hout Bay Beach © Mikhael Subotzky courtesy Goodman Gallery

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YEAR 2008 Brent Stirton won his fifth World Press Photography Award, this time in the Contemporary Issues category.

Pieter Hugo won The Discovery Award and The KLM Paul Huf Award at Recontres d’Arles, while Mikhael Subotzky joined Magnum and won The ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer of the Year.

Jodie Bieber won at The First International Photography Biennial in The Islamic World, Iran in 2008.

David Prior’s Viagra campaign won Silver at Cannes Lions, as did Clive Stewart’s Cape Union Mart ads.

Never let their toys die, Clive’s Energizer print campaign for DDB South Africa, won the Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and a Gold at The Clios.

Michael Meyersfeld photographed Proctor and Gamble’s Facelift ad, which won a Silver at London International Advertising Awards (LIAA).

Guy Neveling made Archive’s list of

the 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide, which he’s continued to feature in until the present day.

Other South Africans featured over the decade included David, Clive and Michael, as well as Michael Lewis, David Prior, Gerard Turnley, Des Ellis, Peter Maltbie, Kevin Fitzgerald, Jan Verboom, Marc Grob, Michael Doran, Justin Patrick, Shahn Rowe, Julie Maunder, Mark Lanning, Bryan Traylor, Barry White, Verster Cohen and Crispian Plunkett (RIP).

Don Edkins produced Why Democracy?, the world’s largest ever factual media event. Taxi to the Dark Side won the Best Documentary Oscar.

Home Affairs and Sorted were up for International Emmy Awards, while Okuhle Media and Ochre Media won MIPTV’s Content 360 Competition.

Keith Rose’s Allan Gray Beautiful won the Loeries’ Grand Prix, Gold at Epica and LIAA, and a Silver at Cannes Lions, where

Jump’s Michael Middleton also collected a Silver for Exclusive Books Interview, having won the same at LIAA. At Cannes, Velocity’s Greg Gray’s MTN Clap won Bronze and earned another at The Clios and Silver at New York, where Keith’s Sasol Questions won Gold.

At LIAA, Greg’s VWV Dream ad won Gold and Silver, while Egg director Kevin Fitzgerald’s BMW Test Pilot took home a Silver.

Daniel Levi’s BBC Three Meat spot won a D&AD Yellow Pencil, while Bouffant’s Dean Blumberg cracked The Gunn Report.

2.0 Media, Cape Town TV, RGB and Alpha, and Shy the Sun launched.

Roland Emmerich’s 10 000 BC, shot partly in South Africa, opened at the top of the US box office.

Disgrace, based on the JM Coetzee novel, won The FIPRESCI International Critics’ Award at Toronto after shooting here with DO Productions.

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REVIEW OF THE DECADE YEAR 2009 Five South African crew were nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, with Generation Kill, 24: Redemption and No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency up for 19 and winning three.

Endgame, Invictus and District 9 were up for five Golden Globes, while Diamonds and Crusoe were up for 11 Gemini Awards.

Sokhulu & Partners was up for an International Emmy, while The Devil’s Whore won a BAFTA and two Royal Television Society awards.

District 9 was our first blockbuster, topping the US box office.

The Soweto Gospel Choir won a Grammy for Best Motion Picture Song for Down to Earth, their Wall-E duet with Peter Gabriel. They also performed at The Oscars.

Telfer Barnes pulled focus on Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Oscar for Best Cinematography after being shot on the Si2K digital camera, which was partly developed in South Africa. Slumdog Millionaire was based on a novel by Pretoria-based Vikus Swarup.

Jodi Bieber won first prize for Real Beauty at Picture of the Year International in the USA; David Goldblatt won The Henri Cartier -Bresson Award in France; and Mikhael Subotzky won The Lou Stouman Award from The Museum of Photographic Arts in the USA. The Nike series photographed by Mike Lewis and Chris Saunders won Silver at Cannes Lions, as did Dean Powell’s Greenpeace campaign.

Johnny Green’s Royal Mail Grow spot won Silver at The Clios after shooting in South Africa with Orange Films.

The Profoto Awards were relaunched, while 7 Films, Bird on a Wire, Blue Panther, Catapult, Disko, Hammersmith & Elephant, and Harry & Co opened.

TOP: America: The Story of Us © Joe Alblas for Film Afrika RIGHT: Kiefer Sutherland in 24: Redemption © Moonlighting

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CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 410 5000 fax: +27 21 410 5001 email: info@ctconvention.co.za gps: 33° 54’ 56” S by 18° 25’ 36” E www.capetownconvention.com

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The Fountains Hotel and Apartments

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CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 431 7500 email: info@leisurehotels.co.za www.leisurehotels.co.za

The Strand Tower Hotel

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CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 41 503 7500 email: ndyosopu@mandelametro.gov.za

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YEAR OF THE CHAMELEON YEAR 2010 America: The Story of Us premiered on The History Channel in April 2010 with a foreword from President Barack Obama, bringing the network a record audience of 5.7 million. The show was nominated for four Emmys - Nonfiction Programming: Cinematography, Picture Editing, Sound Editing and Writing. Ironically, the series was shot in South Africa, apart from some establishing shots lensed in the US. This is just the most recent example of the South Africa’s chameleon-like ability to double as almost anywhere in the world.

America: The Story of Us wasn’t the only production with South African links featured at The Emmy Awards.

South African cinematographers Lee Doig and Mike Yelseth won for their work on Survivor, which featured 13 South African camera crew on its latest season.

The Prisoner, which shot in South Africa and Namibia, was also up for two Emmy Awards: Best Actor (Ian McKellen) and Outstanding Cinematography (Florian Hoffmeister).

Endgame received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Made for TV movie; Adrian Bailey and Robyn Keene-Young’s Swamp of the Baboons (aka Swamp Troop) was up for Outstanding Nature Programming; and Nike Human Chain was an Outstanding Commercial finalist.

Human Chain, shot partly in South Africa and starring local athlete Oscar Pistorius, also won a Bronze at Cannes Lions, where the country had a particularly good year.

Egg Films’ Kim Geldenhuys won a Gold for Selinah, an Ogilvy PSA for the Topsy Foundation, while Velocity director Keith Rose’s Allan Gray Legend; Bouffant director Dean Blumberg’s First for Women Insurance So Backwards; and Frolic Swimming Pool, shot here with Metal Tiger, all won Bronze. Productions filmed in South Africa were shortlisted for 33 Cannes Lions in 2010.

South Africa also featured at The Oscars. Moira Meyer was costume supervisor on Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker which won six Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing, Best Director, and Best Picture. Clint Eastwood’s Invictus was up for Best Actor (Morgan Freeman) and Supporting Actor (Matt Damon), while Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 was up for Best Picture, VFX, Adapted Screenplay and Editing. In addition, local visual effects artist Ula Rademeyer was the lead texture painter on the Oscar and Golden Globe winning, Avatar.

The Lost Future © Tandem Communications GmbH • Photographer: Joe Alblas for Film Afrika

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2010 was a record year for the South African film industry, with more than 30 local features released.

Schucks Tshabalala’s Survival Guide to 2010 set a new record at the local box office, making R37.5 million.

As usual, awards followed South African content. Stefanie Sycholt’s Themba-A Boy Called Hope won six; Oliver Schmitz’ Life, Above All competed in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and won The Prix Francois Chalais; Uwe Boll’s Darfur won Best International Film at The New York International Film Festival; and Sophie Okonedo was nominated for a BAFTA for Mrs. Mandela.

Service work continued to flood in.

Pete Travers’ Judge Dredd 3D was the first shoot at Cape Town Film Studios,

South Africa’s new custom-built, Hollywood style studio.

Other high profile shoots in 2010 included Dark Tide with Halle Berry; Machine Gun Preacher with Gerard Butler; Winnie with Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard; and Blue Crush 2 3D, as well as television series like Sky’s Strike Back; BBC’s Outcasts; The Lost Future, starring Sean Bean; and The Sinking of the Laconia for BBC and ARD. 2010 was synonymous with The FIFA World Cup, which won The Judges’ Prize at IBC for becoming the first global sports event to be broadcast in 3D. FIFA president Sepp Blatter gave the World Cup 9/10. “Nobody in the world is perfect, but the organisation of

this first World Cup in Africa was pretty close,” he said.

The World Cup was aligned with the biggest brands in the world, who all came to Africa to shoot their commercials.

South Africa serviced jobs for the likes of VISA, Nike, adidas, ESPN, Orange, Pepsi, Guinness and Coca-Cola, working with award-winning talent like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Emmanuel Lubezki, Lance Acord, Danny Kleinman, and Chris Palmer, among others.

More importantly, the event launched South African culture to the world, who promptly fell in love.

LEFT: The Sinking of the Laconia © Two Oceans Productions RIGHT: FIFA Final Draw © Ian Wilson • The Front

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© Adrian Steirn 2010 • www.adriansteirn.com

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South Africa has a strong stills industry, with local companies expanding into Croatia, Dubai, France, Greece, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, and Zanzibar.

Our photographers have had a good year, winning awards worldwide.

David Chancellor came third in the People in the News: Stories category at The World Press Photo Contest.

At The Sony World Photographic Awards, South African Brent Stirton was a finalist in the Professional Photojournalism and Documentary: Current Affairs category, while Robyn Thompson and Lyndsay Nel were among 12 finalists for its Student Focus Award.

At The One Show, Chris Jordan won two Silvers and a Bronze for his Endangered Wildlife Trust campaign, while Andrew Verster Cohen won a Merit

Award for his Mars is no fun campaign for National Geographic Kids Magazine.

Guy Neveling’s National Sea Rescue Institute campaign was featured in the D&AD Design & Art Direction annual.

Robert Watermeyer was included in reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographer’s Today exhibition in Paris, France.

It’s not just our photographers who collected awards in 2010 though.

Curious Pictures won the Rose d’Or for Best Drama and Mini Series for Hopeville, the moving story of an alcoholic father who tries to win the love of his son by fixing the local swimming pool.

At Tribeca, Bhekumizi Sibaya’s Father Christmas Doesn’t Come Here, about a young black girl who wants long, straight hair, won Best Short.

Lisa Henry and Shareen Anderson’s Saving Soweto, an eight-part documen-

tary series about the world’s largest hospital in Soweto, won Bronze at The New York Festival’s International Television and Film Awards.

At The International Wildlife Film Festival, Adrian Bailey and Robyn KeeneYoung won Best Newcomer, as well as merit awards for Cinematography, Storytelling, Animal Behaviour and Ecosystem for Swamp Troop, about baboons in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

Into the Dragon’s Lair, directed by Craig and Damon Foster, was the runner up for The Best Camera Award at The International NaturVision Film Festival and winner of The Excellence in Underwater Cinematography Award at The Blue Ocean Film Festival. The crocodile thriller documentary was also up for two Panda Awards at Wildscreen, where Shoreline and Live Safari were also nominated.

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AFRICA EMERGING LEFT: (1) Tirza, shot in Namibia and South Africa © DO Productions (2) Pumzi, an award-winning science fiction short directed by Kenyan Wanuri Kahui © Inspired Minority Pictures BELOW: The Prisoner, shot in Namibia and South Africa © Out of Africa

The Durban FilmMart launched this year as a pan-African event in recognition that South Africa isn’t the only film industry on the continent making waves globally.

At Cannes Lions 2010, Egypt won three Silvers and five Bronzes.

At Cannes Film, A Screaming Man, directed by Chad’s Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, won the Jury Prize.

This acclaim isn’t new: Ousmane Sembene’s Moolade won Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2004, while Haile Gerima’s Teza won the Special Jury Prize at Venice in 2008.

Nigeria’s booming local industry, Nollywood, produces more movies than the industry it’s named after, Hollywood.

At the end of 2009, Variety picked Morocco as their favourite international location, thanks to a CV that includes Babel, Gladiator, Alexander, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, Body of Lies, Troy, The Mummy and Prince of Persia.

Kenya’s growing CV is also impressive. Nowhere in Africa won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2003, while The Constant Gardener won Rachel Weisz an Academy Award in 2006. In the last decade the country also hosted Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; The Wild Thornberrys Movie; The First Grader; and In a Better World, Denmark’s 2011 Oscar submission.

Namibia welcomed Emmy winning Generation Kill and Emmy nominee The Prisoner, as well as Beyond Borders, Flight of The Phoenix and Tirza, The Netherland’s 2011 Oscar submission. With a dedicated film commission and plans for a stateof-the-art film studio, the region is set to continue to grow.

Forest Whittaker won the Oscar in 2007 for his role as Idi Amin in Last King of Scotland, which shot in Uganda.

Mozambique’s hosted the Oscarnominated Ali and Blood Diamond .

After Asia, Africa is the world’s second largest and second most-populated continent, home to over a billion people and even more untold stories. In the decade to come, this giant will no longer be sleeping.

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Cost-effectiveness Co-financing, including the dti rebate Varied locations within close proximity World-leading, non-unionised crew English is spoken across SA SA is two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and one hour ahead of Central European Time, so has compatible timezones with Europe.

7. South Africa’s summer is during the Northern Hemisphere’s winter 8. Experienced, ethnically diverse talent 9. High-end post, VFX and animation 10.First-world infrastructure 11.Cape Town Film Studios offers Hollywood-style facilities

TOP LEFT: Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove - Warner Bros © Film Afrika BOTTOM LEFT: Starship Troopers 3: Marauder - Sony © Film Afrika LEFT: The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian - Space Universal © Film Afrika BELOW: Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove - Warner Bros © Film Afrika

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Made in Africa used two Phantom Golds to shoot this commercial in 3D Š Dreamcatcher Productions (behind-the-scenes)

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5-STAR REVIEWS “Shooting 24: Redemption in South Africa was the highlight of my six years on the show. It was nothing short of exhilarating.”

Jon Cassar, executive producer/director ”On The Philanthropist, we had to find one base where we could re-create all the countries of the world. We chose South Africa.”

Gareth Neame, executive producer “Shooting Doomsday in Cape Town was an adventure in an amazing landscape. The crew was awesome. The locations were spectacular. The weather was incredible.”

Neil Marshall, director “The crew is unfuckingbelievable out there... I’ve seen a lot of stunts in my time; that was up there with the top three.

This is the kind of can-do attitude I miss in Hollywood.”

Dante Ariola, commercials director “I love this crew; they’re absolutely fantastic. Nothing’s a problem; everything just works.”

Anthony Minghella (RIP), director “The African location heightens things.

The perfect, sparkly sand dunes and big skies add an epic quality.”

Daniel Craig, actor “It’s a magical place.”

Salma Hayek, actress “It was very moving for me to shoot in South Africa. It gave me a chance to pay homage to a continent I love and it gave us the extraordinary breadth we needed to show Amelia’s travels around the world.”

Mira Nair, director “I loved it here.”

John Malkovich, actor “Their crew could not have been better.”

Clint Eastwood, director “If anyone out there stops having faith, stops believing that there’s a God, come to Africa.”

Jill Scott, actress and singer

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Below: M-Net Firefly © Shy The Sun Right: Zambezia © Triggerfish

LEARNING FROM THE BEST

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What do these global experts have in common: Aardman Animations’ co-founder Dave Sproxton; former Pixar technical director Jessica Abroms; Howl’s Moving Castle casting director Ned Lott; leading British publicist Jonathan Rutter of Premier PR; and award-winning composer Trevor Jones?

They all visited South Africa in 2010 to share their expertise with the booming local film industry as part of Services Sector Educational Training Authority (SSETA) masterclasses.

These masterclasses are just one example of South Africa’s efforts to establish global best practice within the local industry.

SSETA, The Cape Film Commission

and AnimationSA launched The Animation Academy at The False Bay College’s Good Hope Campus in Khayelitsha, a 16-month pilot project to develop young animators in The Western Cape, which included 100 bursaries for underpriviledged students.

This followed The Animation Industry Development Initiative (AIDI), which has seen underpriviledged animators trained and placed in internships at leading South African animation companies, as part of an ambitious plan to create 10 000 jobs within animation by 2030.

SSETA also established an international reciprocity deal with Skillset, the sector skills council for the creative media industries in the UK. They are working together on skills maps, mutual accredita-

tion, and knowledge-sharing.

Most recently, SSETA brought Entertainment Master Class (EMC) to SA. EMC focuses on formats and the entertainment genre rather than drama.

Their Cape Town module explored Entertainment Management.

Speakers included Zimbabwean-born Gary Carter, COO of Fremantle Media; leading researcher and trends scout Keri Lewis Brown; Anna Brakenhielm (Survivor); David Graham, CEO of Attentional; and PR expert Jill Franklin, managing director of Franklin Rae Communications.

With Durban FilmMart and Talent Campus Durban also playing important educational roles, our knowledge-base is improving every year.

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Justin Hawkins in Jacques Marais’ Sony Profoto Awards Gold-winning image. Jacques, a professional photographer and columnist from Cape Town, specialises in photographing extreme events.

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THE NEW FRONTIER OF TRAVEL

The FIFA 2010 World Cup beamed South Africa and its culture to an estimated audience of 26 billion in 214 countries and territories. Since the Rainbow Nation debuted in 1995, it’s been love at first sight, with the country regularly appearing in travel industry awards and at the top of tourism polls. For example: • Readers of the UK’s Daily and Sun Telegraph voted Cape Town as their Favourite World City, with South Africa cracking the top four in the list of the Best Destinations on Earth.

• Table Mountain is a finalist to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature • National Geographic Traveler named Cape Town one of 50 Places of a Lifetime.

• iExplore.com, one of America’s most popular online travel guides, ranked South Africa second in its list of the Top Ten World Travel Destinations.

• At the 2009 World Luxury Hotel Awards, South Africa won two categories and had 25 finalists. Cape Royale won Luxury Suite Hotel, while Lion Sands won Luxury Game Lodge, a category where all the finalists were South African.

• At The International Luxury Awards held in Lugano, Switzerland, Cape Town was awarded top honours in the Best Entertainment Category.

• Readers of Travel & Leisure Magazine voted Cape Town the third best city in the world in 2008, with an average rating of 86.59%.

• South Africa featured in The UK Herald’s list of the top 10 best value-for-money holiday destinations.

• The Country Brand Index Report named South Africa ninth in its Value for Money brand category, not to mention sixth in its Authenticity category.

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At The 2009 World Travel Awards, Pride of Africa: Rovos Rail was voted The World’s Leading Luxury Train; Shamwari Game Reserve was voted The World’s Leading Conservation Company and The World’s Leading Safari and Game Reserve; Thanda Private Game Reserve was named The World’s Leading Luxury Lodge; and The Saxon Boutique Hotel and Spa was voted The World’s Leading Boutique Hotel for the seventh consecutive year. In the Africa category of the 2009 awards, South Africa took home 34 of the 40 awards.

• Readers of Travel and Leisure Magazine voted Singita Sabi Sands and Singita Kruger National Park the Best Hotel in the World for the third time in 2008, a new record.

Readers of Conde Naste Traveller agreed.

• The readers and editors of The New York Times agreed that South Africa is the definitive destination for “affordable luxury,” saying our country is fast “becoming one of the best bets for American travellers looking for high-end experiences at relatively low-end prices.”

• The 2008 Ethical Traveler Report named South Africa as one of the developing world’s Ten Best Ethical Travel Destinations, based on our commitment to environmental protection, social welfare and human rights.

• Tswalu, the largest private reserve in South Africa, won The Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Award in 2007.

• The Ethisphere Institute voted Cape Town one of the ten cities in the world most likely to become global sustainability centres.

RIGHT: Zolani Mahola, lead singer of FreshlyGround © Patrick Ryan • Bird on a Wire LEFT (1) Bush Station - Nova Film © Film Afrika (2) Bush Station - Nova Film © Film Afrika

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11 THINGS TO DO IN 2011 1. Discover award-winning wines along the longest wine route in the world: Cape Route 62, which stretches approximately 850km through Wellington, Tulbagh, Worcester, Roberston and The Klein Karoo.

2. Take the rotating cable car up Table Mountain, which is a finalist to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature. If you’re fit, take one of the hundreds of walks to the top.

3. Dine at La Colombe in Constantia in Cape Town, voted the 12th best restaurant in the world in the annual S. Pellegrino list of The World’s Top 100 Restaurants. Le Quartier Francais in Franschoek is 31 and Rust en Vrede in Stellenbosch is 74.

4. Walk down Vilakazi Street in Soweto, south of Johannesburg.

It’s the only street in the world that has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners. Archbishop Desmond Tutu still lives on the street, while Nelson Mandela’s former home is now The Mandela Family Museum.

5. Bungee 216 metres off the world’s highest commercial jump at Bloukrans Bridge on the border of the Eastern and Western Cape.

Or bungee off the roof of Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, home to a FIFA World Cup semi-final.

6. Take a ferry from The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront to Robben Island, where Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 of his 27 years in jail. Originally connected to the Cape mainland, this World Heritage Site’s chequered history includes spells as a leper colony, mental hospital, and training and defence base in World War 2.

7. Drink award-winning South African beer inside the world’s largest baobob tree, which hollowed out over 6 000 years to create space for a 60-person pub in Modjadjiskloof in Limpopo.

8. See The Big Five at Shamwari, voted the world’s leading Safari and Game Reserve at The World Travel Awards, where all the finalists in the category were South African.

9. Dive with Great White Sharks, the world’s largest predatory fish, at Gansbaai.

10. South Africa’s musicians are breaking out worldwide, from Die Antwoord to Blk Jks. Watch them at Kirstenbosch Sunset Concerts in one of the most beautiful outdoor concert venues in the world.

11. Climb 300m to the top of the world’s highest sand dunes at Sossusvlei in Namibia.

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© Martyn Taylor • M1 Management

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DIARISE YEAR 2011

RIGHT: © Johan Wilke BELOW: Darfur © Graham Abbott for ZenHQ

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JANUARY

New Year’s Day, 1 Jan J&B Met Horse Race, 29 Jan, CPT

FEBRUARY LEFT: Cornel van Heerden, a photojournalist from Pretoria, won Gold at the Sony Profoto Awards for this image BELOW: Tyskie Beer © Joe Alblas for Maximum Films

Discop Accra, 9-11 Feb, Ghana SA Film & TV Awards, 19 Feb, JHB Design Indaba Conference, 23-25 Feb, CPT Design Indaba Expo, 25-27 Feb, CPT

MARCH

FESPACO, 2-8 Mar, Burkina Faso Cape Winelands Film Fest, 16-21 Mar, CPT Human Rights Day, 21 Mar Wild Talk Africa, 28-31 Mar, Spier, Cape Town

APRIL

KKNK, 2-9 Apr, Oudtshoorn, W. Cape Good Friday, 22 Apr Family Day, 25 Apr Freedom Day, 27 Apr

MAY

Workers Day, 1 May Public Holiday, 2 May

JUNE Youth Day, 16 June National Arts Fest, 30 June-9 July, E.Cape

JULY MediaTech, 20-22 July, JHB Durban Int. Film Fest, 21-31 July, DBN Durban Film Mart, TBC Encounters, TBC

AUGUST Encounters, TBC Women’s Day, 9 Aug

SEPTEMBER Tri Continental Film Festival,14-23 Sep, JHB Tri Continental Film Festival, 21-30 Sep, CPT Heritage Day, 24 Sep

OCTOBER The Loerie Awards, 1-2 Oct, CPT Out in Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 13-29 Oct, CPT Out in Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 20 Oct-6 Nov, JHB Horrorfest, 26 Oct - 4 Nov, CPT Photo and Film Expo, TBC, JHB

NOVEMBER VuKA! Awards, TBC, JHB

DECEMBER Kwa Mashu African Film Festival, TBC, KZN Day of Reconciliation, 16 Dec Christmas Day, 25 Dec

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every major filmmaking region introducing highly competitive incentives to attract the remaining film dollars.

The Film Adjudication Committee accepted the proposal in May 2010, which was signed by the Minister in September 2010.

Unlike most incentives, the film incentive attracts a positive cashflow to the South African fiscus and is self-sustaining.

The initial Film and Television Production Incentive committed R370 million to 49 approved projects between June 2004- January 2008, generating R2 445 million in qualifying South African spend.

This was replaced by The Foreign Film and Television Production Incentive and The South African Film and Television Production and Co-Production Incentive, which have committed R630 million and approved 139 projects, generating R3 279 million in qualifying local spend.

Since launching its first rebate in 2004, the dti has committed R1 billion ($144m) to 188 approved projects.

The Foreign Film and Television Production Incentive is available to foreign productions with qualifying South African spend of R12 million. This provides a 15% rebate of the qualifying spend.

Blood Diamond © Moonlighting

District 9 © Kalahari Pictures

The South African government recognises the film industry’s potential. Its growth could have a huge impact on economic development, in terms of employment and exports, while also stimulating supplier industries.

Through The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the South African government has invested in this sector through a film production incentive rated among the most efficient in the world. the dti has now increased its financial support by doubling the cap on its two incentives to R20 million ($2.87 million).

This follows consultation with film industry players, The Industrial Development Corporation, The National Film and Video Foundation, National Treasury and The Department of Arts and Culture, which indicated that the higher cap will be welcomed by all stakeholders.

While the existing incentives had been hugely successful, significant changes in international production made the larger cap necessary.

The recent economic downturn has meant a dramatic reduction in funds available for film production internationally.

Fewer films are being made, with significantly lower budgets. This has led to

The South African Film and Television Production and Co-Production Incentive is calculated as 35% for the first R6 million of the Qualifying South African spend and 25% for the remainder of the spend for local productions and official treaty co-productions with qualifying South African spend of R2.5 million and above.

50% of principal photography must take place in South Africa to qualify.

The incentives are available for television films and series, as well as features, documentaries and animation.

To assist local producers in improving their cash flow, the dti allows milestone payments for bonded South African film and television productions and co-productions. Completion bond subsidies are also available for projects between R2.5 million and R10 million.

Productions over R10 million are normally required by financiers to have a completion bond, so no additional subsidy will be granted.

Since inception of the local and foreign incentive programmes, the dti has supported various award-winning projects and Hollywood box office successes, including Tsotsi, District 9, Invictus, Blood Diamond, and The Prisoner.

“We’ve always had an exceptionally good experience of the rebates; they’re hassle free and very reliable. The turnover from final submission to pay out becomes more efficient with each film.”

Vlokkie Gordon, Film Afrika THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY

CUSTOMER CONTACT CENTRE INTERNATIONAL tel: +27 12 394 9500

CUSTOMER CONTACT CENTRE LOCAL tel: 0861 843 384

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT INVESTS IN THE FILM SECTOR Tsotsi © Moviworld / Tsotsi Films

THE FILM & TELEVISION SECTOR DESK tel: +27 12 394 1143

FILM INCENTIVE SECRETARIAT tel: +27 12 394 1261

www.thedti.gov.za

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Morgan Freeman in Invictus © Warner Bros

Sharlto Copley in District 9 © Kalahari Pictures

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY

Denise Newman in Shirley Adams © Dv8 Films

CUSTOMER CONTACT CENTRE INTERNATIONAL tel: +27 12 394 9500

CUSTOMER CONTACT CENTRE LOCAL tel: 0861 843 384

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT INVESTS IN THE FILM SECTOR

FUNDED PROJECTS 2004-2010 Since launching its first rebate in 2004, The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has committed R1 billion ($144 million) to 188 approved projects.

These include the following:

THE FILM & TELEVISION SECTOR DESK tel: +27 12 394 1143

Supernova Poseidon Adventure Ask the Dust To the Ends of the Earth Lord of War The Breed Heaven/Endless Horizon The Triangle Return to King Solomon’s Mines Catch a Fire The Three Investigators & The Secret of Skeleton Island Avenger Primeval Blood Diamond Wild at Heart 2, 4 and 5 Doomsday 10 000 BC The Deal Flashbacks of a Fool Life is Wild Generation Kill Safari Tsotsi Wah-Wah The Flyer uCarmen eKhayelitsha Faith’s Corner Dollars & White Pipes Jozi H Prey Number 10 Killing Robin White Lion Spoon Two Worlds Goodbye Bafana Flood Three Investigators & The Secret of Terror Castle Starship Troopers Diamonds The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior Mr. Bones 2

FILM INCENTIVE SECRETARIAT tel: +27 12 394 1261

My Secret Sky Hond se Dinges Tankz Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Nelson Mandela, Free at Last Finding Lenny Surviving Evil Lost City Raiders Wit Licht / The Silent Army SW Bones Last House on the Left Crusoe Endgame Devil’s Whore Natalee Holloway White Wedding Everyman’s Taxi Rainbow Skellums Shirley Adams The Philanthropist District 9 Schweitzer Foreign Devil Angel Ambassador Hansie Mouse in the House Bridal Dress Free Willy: Escape From Pirate’s Cove Strike Back America: The Story of Us Congo Janjaweed / Darfur Kennedy’s Brain Invictus Glamour and Gloria The Prisoner Long Street Shark Night Master Harold and the Boys Hopeville Healthy You A Small Town Called Descent

www.thedti.gov.za

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BE PART OF OUR FAMILY! WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? We were four years old, working from a small, one-roomed office in Cape Town, but producing big budget commercials on a scale which one can only dream of today!

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? Email wasn’t that prevalent. There was a lot of faxing and mailing the old slow boat style. You weren’t uploading locations and casting to the web like we do now, so you needed a lot more time.

You would paste up the locations in a book, make two copies, mail one and wait for weeks for your clients to receive it. Not to mention the posting of large umatic tapes of castings to all corners of the globe!

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? HD. It’s not as simple as people think, so we have been concentrating a lot on being at the forefront as formats change.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? Huge leaps in technology.

HIGHLIGHT? Producing Warren Kushner’s SEAT commercial with John McEnroe, which won at Eurobest. And all the great people, the toys and the trips to places like Seychelles, Namibia, Tahiti, Zanzibar and Mali.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To continue to grow every year, but keep that boutique, family feel.

CONTACT DETAILS Dale Kushner Brin Kushner tel: +27 21 424 9999 fax: +27 21 424 9998 email: info@afsproductions.com www.afsproductions.com Metal Lane, 4 Kloof Street, Cape Town, 8001

GENRES OF FILM • Service production, commercial production, feature films, TV, documentary and stills

LANGUAGES SPOKEN English, Afrikaans

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INTEGRITY TO THE FILMMAKING PROCESS Blast Films has an ethic of employing only those of us whose passion, loyalty and film experience most suit the creative and technical requirements of the project.

TRANSPARENCY IN ALL BUDGETING Blast Films provides a detailed cost estimate to agency storyboard and director’s treatment, ensuring transparent and articulate production budget spreadsheets.

CREATIVE PASSION FOR THE CONCEPT Blast Films offers a production infrastructure that caters to the creative needs of filmmakers who strive for excellence and push the boundaries of their craft.

WWW.BLASTFILMS.CO.ZA

+27 83 375 0959

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Cape Direct was formed 18 years ago and was one of the first production service companies to operate in Cape Town. Co-founder Dianne Bramhill, who has 28 years experience in commercial production, is still at the helm of this well-established and highlyesteemed company.

We like to think of ourselves as an extension of our clients, working together as a team to provide cost-effective solutions and great commercials. We offer all services necessary for setting up and executing a successful, cost-effective shoot, from bidding right through to post-production.

Dianne personally budgets every production, providing as many references as possible to help her clients support their bid.

Her budgets are transparent and flexible, while she enjoys working closely with her clients to ensure that the bids are viable and attractive.

Dianne attends each shoot to make sure that all is running smoothly and that any possible challenges are handled immediately.

She communicates openly with her international producer/director team.

CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 424 4495 +27 82 550 6911 fax: +27 21 424 4496 email: production@capedirect.com www.capedirect.com 7 Kloofnek Road, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

CONTACT • Dianne Bramhill: executive producer dianne@capedirect.com

RECENT CV • Knucklehead, London: Nivea, Joe Roman • HSI, London: Aviva, Declan Lowney • Friendly Films, Denmark: Goel Sausages, Peter Balstrup • HSI, London: Timotei, Thomas Napper • Biscuit Films, UK: Guinness, Matt Carter • Nobody, Denmark: Carlsberg, Asger Leth • Alex Myers & Associates, UK: B&Q, Hugh Harkness • Knucklehead, UK: Marks & Spencer, Lighthouse, Joe Roman • Nobody, Denmark: Havana Hills, Christian Lyngbye • Tempomedia, Germany/Knucklehead UK: Audi, Daniel Barber • Wibroe Duckert & Partners, Denmark: Puck, Kent, Stephan Jensen, Peter Boye

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Disgrace

Son of Man

Ring of The Nibelungs

Themba - A boy called Hope

And There in the Dust

The World Unseen

DO is an internationally recognised force in independent film. Their passion, creativity and energy always shines through.

Their hands-on approach and attention to detail provides co-producers and partners with maximum on-screen benefit.

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? Living in Johannesburg with an office in Cape Town. Now the reverse is true. We were filming a feature, Malunde, with Stefanie Sycholt. Ten years later, we have just produced the multi award-winning and theatrically released Themba, again directed and written by Stefanie.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? The world has become a smaller place, more global in terms of content, but there’s less finance and fewer options available for independent film nowadays.

Kennedy’s Brain

Ellas Geheimnis

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? Working with the Industrial Development Corporation and SABC. Understanding the markets our partners operate in and their needs. Taking into account the marketing and distribution requirements.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? The view from our office at The Waterfront. We can step out and view the mountains and the ocean. The dti rebate incentive and Blackberries also get a big thumbs up.

Tirza

Traumhotel

CONTACT DETAILS Marlow de Mardt: +27 82 451 5492 Brigid Olën: +27 82 372 2502 tel: +27 21 409 2233 fax: +27 21 409 2232 email: marlow@doproductions.com brigid@doproductions.com www.doproductions.com

HIGHLIGHT? Producing one of the largest budget television productions at the time – 2003’s Kingdom of Twilight aka Ring of The Nibelungs, which had a vast CGI component with a very large manufacturing demand all in South Africa, from period sets to props to wardrobe to wigs. We dealt with a demanding schedule which required a second unit that continued in the studio after the first unit wrapped, ensuring almost a 24-hour shooting day.

The establishment of Table Mountain Motion Picture Studios, which we managed with Nico Dekker for two good and pioneering years. Annual trips to markets and festivals and accolades for meaningful or significant content. Receiving The Cinema for Peace Honorary Award 2011 for Themba – a boy called Hope.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To make memorable films, to create inspiring content, and to be leaders in the coproduction arena by bringing South African and notable stories to the screen. To be part of a sustainable industry and look at new opportunities.

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CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 426 0728 fax: +27 21 426 0729 email: tim@eggfilms.tv www.eggfilms.tv 168 Buitengracht Street, Bo Kaap, Cape Town, 8001

CONTACT Tim Mahoney - Head of service +27 82 653 4415 Colin Howard - Executive producer +27 83 388 8008 Genre of film: • Commercial service • Film and content • Stills • Music videos • Documentaries

CV Academy Films, UK As: if film matters, Germany Bob Industries, USA Bm8, Germany C3 Produktionhaus, Germany Ed Commercials, Poland Erste Liebe Film, Germany Goodoil Films, Australia Home Films, UK Manifesto Films, Switzerland Markenfilm, Germany Nova Imagen, Angola Pumpkin Films, Switzerland Off Lo Hi, Hong Kong Pony Films, Germany Plush Films, Australia Pumpkin Film, Switzerland Rabbit, USA The Gate Films, UK Who’s Mcqueen Picture, Germany

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? We were a new company with one director. We hadn’t even opened our service division yet.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? The forever-fluctuating rand makes the service industry like a rollercoaster ride. Times were easy when the rand was very weak, but it had a negative effect with costs going up and summer being so busy. It is the good companies that have survived the strong rand and competition as new destinations have opened up. Now we work hard to remain competitive and offer the best service to our clients to keep them coming back.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? Finding a good balance in running a business that is so seasonal. Our directors division dovetails nicely with service, affording us the luxury of being able to maintain a great production team, research department and accounts department, which makes the business a lot easier.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? It has to be technology and the internet. What we can do with a Mac, a camera and a broadband connection is amazing.

HIGHLIGHT? In 2001, being included in The Gunn Report Top 25 Most Awarded Production Companies for the first time. We have been included a few more times since then, but the first time was special and something we hadn’t even considered. Kim being in Shots’ list of the 100 Most Creative Minds in 2007 and winning a Gold at Cannes Lions in 2010.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To be exactly where we are now, working with a great bunch of people who love what they do, doing great creative work with our directors and foreign production houses that we have built up relationships with over the years.

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CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 461 7950 fax: +27 21 461 7951 email: info@filmafrika.com www.filmafrika.com 2nd Floor, Avalon 2, 123 Hope Street,Gardens 8001, Cape Town

CONTACT • David Wicht: executive producer • Vlokkie Gordon: head of production • Nina Heyns: line producer • Meryl Schutte: line producer • Wendy Knill: line producer • Rudi Van As: financial and business affairs • Liesl Ernst: financial manager • Valerie Legrain-Doussau: legal and business affairs • Belinda Johnson: creative producer

PHILOSOPHY Is one of service excellence.

Driven by hands-on management with clear, transparent and rigorous financial control.

AFFILIATIONS • Camanol Film Productions: Production service company, BVI • Fiction Film & Television: Producer-financier: UK WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? We were making Second Skin, a Darrell Roodt noir thriller starring Natasha Henstridge and Peter Fonda. This was the first movie aimed at an international audience with South Africans in all the key roles, other than a few of the cast. We’d just started co-producing with Germans and Canadians, who were the first countries to give South Africa a shot. Our first wholly American serviced film came the following year: Styx in 2001, which unleashed a chain of American financed movies.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? Movies have got bigger while the budgets keep getting smaller! We used to work with crews of between 30 and 50. Now it starts around 80 people. Production had a more leisurely pace. You’d send off an agreement or letter by fax and get a response in two days. Now if you don’t respond within ten minutes, everyone gets nervous.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? That we are managing people, not movies.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? The introduction of the rebate. The skill of our crews, all round.

HIGHLIGHT? The satisfaction of seeing people grow within the industry, step into their power and find their voice. Everything else pales in comparison. We have received numerous international awards, including a Life Time Achievement from my peers. Yet it’s our movies I am most proud of – they outlive all the awards.

TEN YEAR GOAL? On a personal level, it’s about getting back to my roots as a writer and director by becoming more of a creative producer.

On a company level, the challenge is to balance the need to bring in a new generation with remaining committed to those who have been with us since the beginning.

David Wicht

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Grinder Films is Cape Town’s only dedicated tabletop studio: specialists in food, liquid and product commercials. Home to tabletop and performance director/DOP Rob Payton, the studio is available for both full-service productions and dry-hire rentals.

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? Living and working in Munich as a producer, bringing tabletop work from Pepsico to Alchemy in Cape Town. Rob was shooting and directing documentaries and commercials in London. I was aware of his work but it wasn’t till I moved back to Cape Town and Rob emigrated here that we actually met. That’s when the idea for Grinder was born.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? In the tabletop world, it has changed beyond recognition. We used to shoot high speed on PhotoSonics, which were un-wealdy beasts developed for military testing. They would churn through 1 000 ft of 35mm film in 18 seconds and the lighting requirements were unbelievable. For a producer, it was nerve racking and a far cry from the Phantom Flex systems here today. Artistically there is now much more integration of product and live action, so we enjoy much more creative input.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? Starting Grinder after being a photographer and producer all my life has been a near vertical learning curve – between us we need to keep on top of the ever-changing landscape of cameras, post, and shooting styles.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? Digital cameras. You can see what you get on set. Risk and costs have come down and quality has gone up. The food technology and the substitutes we use have also improved greatly.

HIGHLIGHT? Having clients watch our showreel montage and ask if it’s lunchtime. That’s the emotion great tabletop’s supposed to evoke.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To become one of the most respected food and product facilities in the world – a real centre for excellence. To streamline productions so they do not split their shoots but film their product and food shots at Grinder while doing the live action in Cape Town.

David Rowley

CONTACT DETAILS David Rowley, executive producer david@grinderfilms.com Rob Payton, director/DOP rob@grinderfilms.com tel: +27 21 486 8610 fax: +27 86 651 3577 www.grinderfilms.com

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Purveyors of Exceptional Production Services for over 10 Years!

CONTACT DETAILS Libbi Ball tel: +27 21 487 8200 fax: +27 21 487 8201 email: info@miafilms.co.za www.miafilms.co.za 61 Loop Street, Cape Town, 8001

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CONTACT DETAILS Liz O’Shaughnessy tel: +27 21 448 8794 fax: +27 21 447 6732 email: liz@metaltigerproductions.co.za www.metaltigerproductions.co.za Unit G16, Old Castle Brewery, 6 Beach Road, Woodstock, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa

GENRES OF FILM • Commercial service production • Stills production • Music video production • Documentary production

LANGUAGES SPOKEN English, French, Afrikaans

RECENT CV France • BBD Production • Magali Films • N. Europa • Quad Productions • Wanda Productions Germany • Neue Sentimental Film Hamburg GmbH • Tempomedia Filmproduction GmbH • R Force Film GmbH Poland • Dynamo SP z.o.o.

United States • GrandLarge Inc

Metal Tiger Productions is a streamlined production company offering huge experience without the expensive frills. The core team, consisting of Liz O’Shaughnessy and Tracy Raubenheimer, does all the preliminary research to avoid unnecessary extra costs, with Liz doing all the budgeting herself. Metal Tiger has wonderful relationships with the top freelance crews and suppliers, bringing the right people on board for each job. The company also uses stringent accounting practices to ensure fast, efficient and transparent reconciling of all jobs. And, of course, as Noel Coward said, “Work is more fun than fun!”

WhERE WERE yOU TEN yEARS AGO? Running a very successful production house for someone else. I started Metal Tiger in 2004. hOW hAVE ThINGS ChANGED IN ThE LAST DECADE? 20 years ago our equipment was pretty basic, whereas now we have cutting-edge technology, both for film and digital.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? The big move to digital.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? Running my own company. And video take off technology! hIGhLIGhT? Every job has its own highlight. For example, in March this year we shot a spec commercial for Frolic Dog Food for Quad Productions, with absolutely no money, which went on to win a Bronze Lion in June for director Jerome Langlade and the Quad team. I think that being able to work with so many of the top people in the various creative fields is in itself always a highlight - tremendously exciting and invigorating!

TEN yEAR GOAL? To get back into doccies and features through Metal Tiger.

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Moonlighting have been focusing on production services for commercials, feature films, TV, doccies and stills since 1989, providing solutions from a wide range of location and production options through our bases in South Africa (where we began), Chile and Romania.

On location Romania BMW for Film Realite, USA

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? 2 000 was a great year for Moonlighting.

We were recently extricated from a listed company and rejuvenated after the process.

New producers came on board and we grew from there to be the company we are today.

There is generally something positive that comes from trying times.

CONTACT DETAILS Philip Key Nicci Perrow Sylvie DubĂŠ Mihai Cociasu tel: SA: +27 21 447 2209 Chile: +56 2 242 1181 Romania: +40 31 825 7520 email: philip@moonlighting.co.za nicci@moonlighting.co.za sylvie@moonlighting.cl mihai@dominopro.ro www.moonlighting.co.za

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? 10 years ago, we were the only southern hemisphere destination worth visiting, as South America hadn’t come online yet. The commercials service market was still growing. We are now in a mature market and have had to be a lot more competitive. Long form is on a strong growth path through, having added good government incentives to an already attractive shooting environment.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? Reinvent yourself without moving away from your core product. Work smarter and continually improve. In the features market, we have had to become co-producers to gain access to the subsidy programs. Coming from a pure service-based business, it was a fairly radical advance.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? System development, like an online order and bookkeeping system. We have built a flexible, responsive and highly skilled staff complement.

HIGHLIGHT? Our success expanding into Chile. We had learnt a lot from operating in Romania and used this to our best advantage.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To remain at the top of the pile in production services and find complementary, new ways to grow, like ReelPay, our payroll company, and Grinder, our tabletop company. To keep finding ways to manage that growth and keep all Moonlighting participants happy with their association with us.

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Navigator Films ranks firmly among the top facilitation companies in South Africa. We are well established and have strong and steady client relations. Our reputation is of absolute professionalism, respect and integrity.

We operate all year around, throughout the African continent and the Indian Ocean Islands. We believe that every job is distinct and we are accordingly flexible and creative in our strategic planning. We recognise the importance of cost-efficiency and, with our expertise and passion for the job, we strive to maximise production value at all times.

Our turnaround with bidding is fast and our staff long-term, hard-working and extremely dedicated to making each project a rewarding experience.

We are the bravest of them all - king of the jungle!

CONTACT Meike Laesch-Schoeman Executive producer tel: +27 82 658 3031 email: meike@navigatorfilms.co.za Tina Talbot Executive producer tel: +27 82 491 7581 email: tina@navigatorfilms.co.za Nadia Boshoff Producer tel: +27 83 278 5077 email: nadia@navigatorfilms.co.za 5 Roodehek Street, Gardens, 8001, Cape Town, South Africa tel: +27 21 464 6620 email: mail@navigatorfilms.co.za www.navigatorfilms.co.za

LANGUAGES SPOKEN English, German

RECENT CV Bakery Films, Germany Bij Brand, Netherlands Bistro Films, Czech Republic Bonkers, Netherlands Caviar Content, Netherlands Czar, Germany + Netherlands E+P Commercial, Germany Fat Fred Film, Netherlands Five_Three Double Ninety, Germany Hazazah, Netherlands KleinerRessler, Germany Markenfilm, Germany Neue Sentimental Film, Germany Silbersee, Germany Soup Film, Germany Sterntag, Germany Suikerdepot, Netherlands Telemaz, Germany

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CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 447 4840 fax: +27 21 448 9980 email: rachel@razorsharpfilms.com www.razorsharpfilms.com Unit 1&2, Block A, Collingwood Place, 10 Anson Road, Observatory, Cape Town

Established nine years ago, Razor Sharp Films specialises in international production for commercials and stills, TV, film and documentaries. Razor Sharp Films offers quick, cost-effective solutions for each production with a team that is hands-on and professional from start to finish.

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? I was helping run another production company. We were one of 20 in SA; now we’re one of 250, maybe 300. I started Razor Sharp Films in 2002.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? We’re less reliant on Europe and are doing more business with emerging territories like Russia and India. We can do so much more here. Every year, South Africa has more and more to offer.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? Business acumen; running my own company.

Reinventing ourselves on a continual basis through the ups and the downs, through the rand getting stronger and the rand getting weaker, to keep people coming back.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? Access to information. I can access so many more production companies now; everyone has an ID online.

HIGHLIGHT? We do victory dances every time we win a new board with a new client. Working with some of the best people in the world and meeting these amazing creative people on every job. And making The Bird Can’t Fly and seeing it travel the world and win awards – I’ve wanted to make movies since I was a little girl.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To expand the company abroad. To diversify my business, so I’m making a few movies and doing more TV as well as servicing commercials and stills.

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Refinery is a one-stop facility servicing the moving picture industry, with the best creative talent, quality post-production, dedicated service, and a financial solution to ensure your vision.

Facilities include: VFX • Animation • Digital Intermediates• Film and Digital Dailies • S3D post • Dolby Accredited Sound Studios • Film Recording • Mastering and Deliveries WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? A high-end VFX facility, servicing commercials and feature films, that completed the first D.I. in SA HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? Never the same job twice.

While film remains the best origination medium, we have completely embraced the digital camera technology. Each shoot has a different camera and different work-flow.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? The management of data and addressing the perception that digital is quick. 3D stereo is going to be our next big leap.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? The speed of moving data internally on networks and internationally. The tools to achieve realistic, crafted VFX as though the director shot them in camera.

HIGHLIGHT? So many, like Tsotsi, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. So many people around the world were completely fascinated by it.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To make SA a post production capital of the world. We’ve hosted a World Cup; it’s time for a large, CG-intensive film.

CONTACT DETAILS contact: Tracey Williams tel: +27 11 799 7800 fax: +27 11 706 0300 email: tracey@refinery.co.za www.refinery.co.za

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Rolling Pictures have been shooting commercials since 1995 - and not just in our backyard, but in our neighbour’s too.

We’ve been on safari in Kenya for National Geographic, roamed Tanzania with mobile network Celtel, and frequented beach bars from Ghana to the Cameroon for Guinness. We’ve also been to the the desert in Namibia, the beach in Mauritius, the delta in Botswana, and most recently, the Congo.

So, whether you’re considering a shoot in our backyard or our neighbour’s, we’d love to help you.

CONTACT DETAILS

RECENT CLIENTS Bayerl & Partner, Germany Cobblestone, Germany Feel Films, UK Filmservice, Czech Republic Judith Miller Inc, USA

Mad Cow Films, UK Maximillian Film, Germany Quiet Storm, UK Soho Communications, UK ViaUs Productions, India

Christian Sawyer, executive producer Sharyn Knight, producer tel: +27 21 462 5542 email: christian@rollingpictures.co.za email: sharyn@rollingpictures.co.za www.rollingpictures.co.za

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CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 788 3929 fax: +27 21 788 3928 email: info@boomtownfilms.co.za cj@boomtownfilms.co.za bruce@boomtownfilms.co.za murray@boomtownfilms.co.za www.boomtownfilms.co.za Unit 2,165 Main Road, Muizenberg, Cape Town

GENRES OF FILM • Service production • Commercial production • Feature films

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? We were building the company on local retail work and only started moving into service work from 2003.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? Ten years ago, we passed on a R26 million commercial with 500 horses that was the biggest commercial ever done in South Africa at the time. We’re blatantly honest, so we told the client we couldn’t do the job. Based on that honesty, he appointed us as his local representative and we helped them decide which company got the job. We’ve built up the company significantly since then and opened a branch in Dubai.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? Teamwork within the framework of debate always wins.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? Since Craig and Murray joined in 2001, we’ve kept basically the same team for a decade, so there’s a lot of experience and the confidence that comes with it. Email has made it incredibly easy to contact anybody, anywhere on the planet, whereas historically you would have to phone illusive agency producers and set up hard-to-get appointments.

HIGHLIGHT? A Sipchem job Jorge Rubia directed. That was technically as difficult as any commercial could ever be, but each and every member found their strength and just gelled. Straight after that, we did Nokia Walk of Life with Hadi, which won awards across the world, and we moved from a good reel to a great reel.

TEN YEAR GOAL? We’re shooting our first feature film this year and also working on a big studio family film set in The Okavango Delta.

We’re also grooming young talent; we need people with fresh ideas, who challenge you over things they shouldn’t. We started as friends, we’re still friends, and we’d like to stay friends.

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CONTACT DETAILS Claudia Hall, head of production +27 82 466 6356 claudia@theshootinggallery.co.za Claire Richards, executive producer +27 82 466 6400 claire@theshootinggallery.co.za Margie Murray, executive producer +27 82 773 8576 margie@theshootinggallery.co.za tel: +27 21 424 9193 fax: +27 21 424 9194 email: info@theshootinggallery.co.za www.theshootinggallery.co.za 505 Buitenkloof Studios, 8 Kloof Street, Cape Town, 8001

GENRES • Commercial service production • Stills production • Music video production • Documentary production

LANGUAGES English, conversational Italian, French, Spanish, German

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? We were two-years-old, the workload was huge, and there was more money around. I didn’t have any clue about self-preservation; I nearly killed myself.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? My cellphone used to be the size of my laptop now, so technology has definitely changed. Digital is here. There’s so much expertise around now and people have specialised a lot more.

BIGGEST CHALLENGE? As a service destination, we need to keep showing clients something new – new talent, new locations. Keep it fresh.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? Being online. You can back up everything you’re saying with images and references instantly, so there’s no confusion about what you’re saying. There’s so much you can do before the client even arrives.

HIGHLIGHT? Working with Wim Wenders. Whenever I get a board from a client, I’m happy. It means they’re coming back to me and to South Africa, so we’re doing something right.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To remain current. To make a movie, which I’ve never wanted to do until recently.

Claire Richards

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Congo won The Bernd Burgemeister Prize, Munich Film Fest

CONTACT DETAILS tel: +27 21 506 3300 fax: +27 21 506 3300 email: top@topproductions.co.za www.topproduction.de 2 Milner Street, Marine Corner, Metro Industrial, Paarden Eiland, 7405 Cape Town, South Africa 30 Days Fear

CONTACTS Giselher Venzke & Bertha Spieker, directors Sandra Venzke-Krecklenberg, producer / GM The Secret of the Whales

Giselher Venzke and Bertha Spieker are an experienced producers’ team with more than 30 years in the film and TV industry. TOP has proven to be a strong partner in service, executive and co-producing, as well as co-financing of national and international TV and feature projects. TOP is certainly one of SA’s most professional companies, using the boundless possibilities of filmmaking in Southern Africa. Wherever you want to go, TOP takes you there and shoots it! “Impossible” not possible! Filmmography and more info: www.topproduction.de.

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? We’d been in South Africa for five years.

In 2 000, we took the company over from our German partners, so it was our first year on our own.

SERVICES OFFERED Service production, commercial production, feature films, TV, documentary and stills Greed

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? We’ve been able to spoil our foreign clients more and more. Cast, crew, hotel availability, transport, trailers, and general logistics – everything has become better and more professional.

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? To convert commercials crew into long form and combine the structure from the South Africa industry with foreign expectations, so they understand what you need and don’t need here.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? The Department of Trade and Industry rebate scheme. It helped to position us as co-producers.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN English, German

The Sinking of the Laconia

HIGHLIGHT? After more than 50 TV and event movies, it was a highlight to shoot both of The Three Investigators for the big screen, something we continued with Albert Schweitzer. But our biggest and most challenging project was The Sinking of The Laconia, a German/British production for ARD and The BBC. TEN YEAR GOAL? We want to continue co-producing and servicing foreign work, but we have also started to develop our own scripts.

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Nokia - Healthcare © Wieden + Kennedy Delhi

Arno Carstens - Dreamer © Directed by 187 for Sony Music Entertainment

Bitch Slap © 2009 Bombshell Pictures & IM Global

Sir Ian McKellen in The Prisoner © 2009 ITV (UK), AMC (USA)

“Waterfront Studios serves the full spectrum of post production – from the day you wrap the shoot until you send the finished commercial or put the movie up on a cinema screen. We’re the biggest and best one-stop post house in South Africa. No-one else has a creative team as large or varied as ours or our technological infrastructure.”

Laurence Mitchell, Waterfront Studios Group

WHERE WERE YOU TEN YEARS AGO? In 2 000, Laurence Mitchell was head of the SABC in the Western Cape, while Gary Edwardes was running a business in Tzaneen and only dreamt about the film industry. Sasani Studios and The Refinery were based here. Condor Cape was only started in 2003 and Waterfront Studios, Condor’s partnership with The Refinery, began in 2006.

HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED IN THE LAST DECADE? There was a big swing from film to digital. Three years ago we did 8 ½ million foot; we do six million now. But seven years ago, if we did five feature films that was a lot, whereas now we do 18 to 23.

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WATERFRONT STUDIOS tel: +27 21 409 2000 | fax: +27 21 409 2200 | email: info@waterfrontstudios.co.za 1 Port Road, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa

Experiment - Vuka 2009 winner Best Animation © Adrian Bergoff

Scorpion King 2 © 2008 Universal Studios

Hansa - Business Mogul © Lowe Bull CT & Plank Productions

Lexus – Moments © Draftfcb JHB & Velocity

BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE? The move from film to digital. When HD was launched about 20 years ago, everyone said there would soon be no more PAL or NTSC, just HD, one standardised format worldwide. We did a rough calculation the other day and with the different manufacturers, the different frame rates, and the different CODECs, we came up with 600 variants. Every day, the workflow changes.

BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT? Bones Dailies took away the need to sync and log in telecine and allowed us to create a whole raft of deliverables.

HIGHLIGHT? Scorpion King 2: Rise of the Akkadian kickstarting us into long form VFX, which has continued with Hansie, Lost City Raiders, Bitch Slap, Lost Boys 3 and Dark Tide. Working on Allan Gray Legend for Keith Rose, which won The Loeries’ Grand Prix and a Silver at Cannes Lions. Acquiring Clockwork Zoo as a world-class 2D animation studio. Moving into online with NGage and Imagine.

Creating live-enabled broadcast studios and helping Okuhle make HecticNine9 the biggest youth show in South Africa.

TEN YEAR GOAL? To be a people-centered facility, which revolves around the talent and the work, not just the technology.

Our work needs to speak for itself.

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Tanzania is an untapped film and photographic destination. A country of beautiful contrast, from the white beaches of Zanzibar to the snowy peaks of Mt Kilimanjaro.

An explosion of colour and diversity. Archipelago Productions offers you a gateway into this world. With our extensive local knowledge, we make magic happen. We specialise in facilitating international film and photographic shoots on the islands of Africa and will bring in crew and equipment to suit your needs. Karibu Tanzania.

TANZANIA Sarah Scott | +255 767 086 616 | sarah22scott@gmail.com • SOUTH AFRICA Maurice Dingli | +27 83 458 5476 | mojomaurice@gmail.com

Soundstages best suited for TV, drama, commercials, PSAs, corporate videos and casting.

Daylight studios ideal for stills, music videos and chromakey links.

Backup power, support facilities and onsite parking.

BOOK NOW! contact: Rachel Laureles tel: +27 11 482 7111 fax: +27 86 606 1393 email: info@atlasstudios.co.za www.atlasstudios.co.za 33 Frost Avenue, Milpark, Johannesburg

Ergosport Models has earned a reputation as a leading sport talent agency in the Southern Hemisphere.

We offer over 200 of your favorite sport celebrities, professional models and pro athletes to support the production and branding needs of both local and international photographers, magazines, catalogs, showrooms, film, advertising campaigns and more.

Ergosport Models is proud to be in association with Prosport International, who provide exhaustive player management and marketing services to the biggest names in sport.

Sports personalities that they represent are the likes of Makhaya Ntini, Graeme Smith, Kirsty Coventry, Beast Mtawarira, KG Dikgacoi and more.

tel | +27 72 573 8888

email | sandy@ergosportmodels.com

www.ergosportmodels.com

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Changing lives through F.I.L.M. The Film Industry Learner Mentorship programme, as an accredited training provider, offers primarily but not exclusively previously disadvantaged individuals the opportunity to gain vital skills and qualifications under mentorship on local and international film, commercial and television productions.

We assist F.I.L.M. partner companies with skills, development, transformation, B-BBEE and dti Rebate qualification. It’s a chance to give back to the future!

Let F.I.L.M. work for you. directors: David Wicht, Marvin Saven, Bertha Spieker, Kim Williams, Jaco Loubser, Seton Bailey

contact: Seton Bailey | tel: +27 21 461 7950 | fax: +27 21 461 7951 | email: seton@filmsa.co.za | www.filmsa.co.za

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Media Logistics Namibia cc (MLN) is an established film production company based in Namibia.

We facilitate film and video productions shot on location in Namibia and other countries in Southern Africa.

postal address: P.O. Box 9051, Windhoek, Namibia contact: Michaela Bauer tel: +264 61 247 231 fax: +264 61 247 975 email: info@media-logistics-namibia.com www.media-logistics-namibia.com

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premier serviced apartments V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

tel/fax: +27 21 421 3079 email: enquiries@mountainmarina.com www.mountainmarina.com

Unrivalled comfort and elegance on the water’s edge, offering a world-class location with Table Mountain as a majestic backdrop. Mountain Marina is a collection of one, two and three-bedroom apartments, with the penthouses as the premier units.The apartments are fully serviced and equipped to the highest standard. Each apartment comprises modern, air-conditioned, spacious en-suite bedrooms with separate lounge and dining areas. Here in the heart of Cape Town, you can enjoy the luxury of your own spacious residence that not only guarantees peace and quiet, but also complete privacy and independence.

Started in 1991 by model Rod Zane Gallocher, Outlaws Model Agency is an elite international model agency run from Cape Town and home to some of the world’s most sought-after and successful models. Outlaws provides the best talent to both stills and audio-visual media and is a family away from home to our clients and models alike. But mostly we just get the job done.

tel: +27 21 439 3999

fax: +27 21 434 3130

email: info@outlawsmodels.com

www.outlawsmodels.com

StarGate Aviation is a fully integrated flight operation, specialising in propeller and jet aeroplanes, as well as helicopters.

Our unparalleled level of customer service is complemented by 14 years of experience in global aircraft - operations, management and sales. With us, safety is of paramount importance and all aircraft are operated under the applicable rules and regulations. Our air crew are constantly reviewed and regularly receive recurrent training.

tel | +27 11 468 4782

fax | +27 86 601 7827 email | info@stargate-aviation.com

www.stargate-aviation.com

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accommodation

accommodation

Exclusive and private luxury villas, beach bungalows and penthouse apartments offering excellent value for money accommodation perfectly suited to families, groups of friends and business travellers alike.

tel: +27 21 431 9202 fax: +27 21 431 9201 email: harbourbridge@relais.co.za www.relaishotels.com

tel: +27 21 469 1900 fax: +27 21 469 1944 email: adderley@relais.co.za www.relaishotels.com

contact: Nicky Taylor tel: +27 21 783 5809 mobile: +27 86 509 7785 email: enquiries@capevillacollection.com

31 Adderley Street, Cape Town

www.capevillacollection.com

Roggebaai Canal, Lower Long Street, Cape Town

accommodation

accommodation

accommodation

20 minutes from Cape Town International Airport, this award-winning boutique guesthouse offers panoramic sea and mountain views. The five-star Ivory Heights, with its state-of-the-art technology, executive seatings, and peaceful setting, is ideal for teambuilding and training workshops.

Malealea is situated in a remote part of Western Lesotho, breathtaking in its beauty. Offering a chance to experience traditional Basotho life, Malealea is perfect for a two or three night stay from Johannesburg en-route to Cape Town, East London, Port Elizabeth or The Drakensberg.

tel: 021 852 8333 fax: 021 852 8886 email: info@ivoryheights.co.za www.ivoryheights.co.za

tel: +27 82 552 4215 fax: +27 866 481 815 email: malealea@mweb.co.za www.malealea.com

17 Louis Botha Avenue, Somerset West, 7130, Cape Town

Malealea Village, Lesotho

NH The Lord Charles is nestled amidst the natural beauty of the Cape Winelands and a mere 30 minutes from Cape Town International Airport. With 198 elegant rooms, situated within 9 hectares of manicured gardens, and conference space for up to 600 people, we will ensure that your stay with us is outstanding.

contact: Angela Jacobson tel: +27 21 855 1040 fax: +27 21 855 1107 email: a.jacobson@nh-hotels.co.za www.nh-hotels.co.za www.nh-hotels.com

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accommodation

Awarded Best All Suite Hotel for 2010.

30 one or two bedroom sea-facing suites, each with en-suite bathroom, separate lounge and dining room, kitchen, private balcony and free Wi-Fi access. Facilities include The George restaurant, bar and lounge, spa and swimming pool. Specialists in service to the production industry.

The 207-roomed deluxe Vineyard Hotel & Spa is only 18km from Cape Town International Airport, 10km from the city centre and V&A Waterfront, and a short walk from Cavendish Square shopping centre. It’s centrally located in Newlands, Cape Town on six acres of landscaped parkland, with a backdrop of Table Mountain.

tel: +27 21 439 4555 fax: +27 21 439 4747 email: info@romneypark.co.za www.romneypark.co.za

tel: +27 21 434 8448 fax: +27 21 434 8212 email: bantrybay@relais.co.za www.relaishotels.com

Corner Hill & Romney Roads, Green Point, Cape Town, 8005

8 Alexander Road, Bantry Bay, Cape Town

accommodation & location

aerial access equipment

Zulu Nyala is situated on a private game reserve in KZN, with 166 bedrooms and two movie sets. Zulu Nyala has provided accommodation and locations for movies, ads and reality TV shows.

contact: Veena Joory tel: +27 35 562 0177 fax: +27 35 562 0975 email: veena@zulunyala.com www.zulunyala.com

accommodation

African Access Rental specialises in the hire, sales and repair of Powered Access Platforms in Cape Town.

It is the most dynamic company of its kind in The Western Cape and provides a complete hiring solution, including free onsite assessments, training, transport and 24 hour breakdown of Access Platforms. As African Access is part of the Reynolds Group, we can offer a complete solution to all your onsite establishment processes: i.e. generators, lighting towers and much more construction equipment.

tel: +27 21 510 7307 fax: +27 21 510 7793 email: info@africanaccess.co.za www.africanaccess.co.za 19A Auckland Street, Paarden Eiland, Cape Town

reservations: tel: +27 21 657 4500 fax: +27 21 657 4501 email: hotel@vineyard.co.za www.vineyard.co.za Colinton Road (off Protea Road), Newlands, 7700, Cape Town

art director

Cape Town • Johannesburg • Durban • Dubai

contact: Di Sole mobile: +27 82 957 2033 email: disole@intekom.co.za

112 | BLOCKS camera hire

car hire

A one-stop shop for technical co-ordination services and reliable equipment.

A hiring company that specialises in supplying professional broadcast equipment to the broadcast and entertainment industries, anywhere in South Africa and overseas.

We pride ourselves on being able to supply camera, lighting, audio and accessories to facilitate just about any type of production.

Tempest Car Hire are specialists in transport solutions to the film industry.

There is nothing we won’t do to help your production come in on budget. Give us a call and see why so many film and commercial companies have insisted we play a leading role in their productions.

catering

With 13 years experience and over 60 features and TV series completed, we have mobile kitchens to cater anywhere in Southern Africa.

We offer a one stop salution for on location catering and base camp infrastructure.

Now open in Cape Town.

contact: Roddy Barker tel: +27 11 886 9016 fax: +27 11 886 9041 email: roddy@camerafacilities.co.za or rentals@camerafacilities.co.za www.camerafacilities.co.za

film manager: Prinesh Pillay + 27 72 962 3888 cape town sales: Shaun Croeser +27 84 234 1141 johannesburg sales: Tamsin Muller + 27 83 261 7501 email: film@tempestcarhire.co.za tempest head office: + 27 11 552 3700 www.tempestcarhire.co.za

contact: Patrick Gillingham telephone: +27 82 425 8864 or +27 82 772 3158 fax: +27 86 622 2805 email: patrick@mangocatering.co.za

consumables

consumables

costumiers

Sourcing and delivery of consumables to the film, stills and TV industry

contact: Genevieve le Cordeur mobile: +27 82 335 3973 tel: +27 21 447 8857 fax: 086 697 1082 email: hotsauce10@mweb.co.za

FILM AND PRODUCTION SUPPLIES South Africa’s first and only one stop shop supplying consumables to the film and entertainment industry.

Personalised and friendly service with 2 500 specialist products in store.

Extended shopping hours and anytime availability: you phone - we open!

Make use of our extensive database of manufacturers and suppliers.

Appointed agency for Rosco products. contact: Brenton and Clint Lockets tel: +27 21 447 8080 (all hours) fax: +27 86 517 9527 email: info@setsmart.co.za www.setsmart.co.za 33 Salt River Road, Salt River, Cape Town

Hire of costumes/accessories/equipment and space facilities for wardrobe productions and fittings

tel: +27 11 640 5358 fax: +27 11 640 1371 email: ikaya@wol.co.za Orange Grove, 16th Street, House 8

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equipment rental

film industry business forum

Update and refresh your management techniques through professional resource lectures and general discussion sessions with other industry professionals.

We provide a large range of fancy dress costumes for the individual & corporate events

Cam-A-Lot offers a great value for money service, catering for the newcomer as well as the established professional.

Suppliers of broadcast cameras, sound and lighting equipment.

Dig deeper into: • current tax and media law • hr management • marketing and pr best practices • leadership vs management • financial indicators • safe financial practises and much more Monthly meetings. Contact Kathy to join.

tel: +27 11 640 5358 mobile: +27 72 402 5744 email: info@illusioncostumiers.co.za Orange Grove, 16th Street, House 8

contact: Glen Theron tel: +27 11 787 6234 fax: +27 11 789 8586 email: info@camalot.co.za www.camalot.co.za

contact: Kathy English Brower mobile: +27 82 453 6055 fax: 086 677 2434 email: kathyenglishb@gmail.com

film laboratory

film publicist

greens specialist

When processing film, you want to be assured that your laboratory is taking the utmost care of your invested time and money. If a Kodak Imagecare Program logo is displayed, customers can be confident that the procedures and processes are in place for reliable and consistent processing.

It’s been a real privilege working with

Greens specialist

Lance, Kathy and the rest of the team.

for the film industry

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary

& event flowers

contact: Tony Boyers tel: +27 11 719 4600 fax: +27 11 719 4690 email: tonyb@filmlab.co.za www.filmlab.co.za 2 Johannesburg Road, Highlands North, Johannesburg, 2192

edition of The Filmmakers Guide.

contact: Joy Sapieka mobile: +27 73 212 5492 email: joyls@mweb.co.za

contact: Janeen Nichols tel: +27 76 062 1353 email: janeennichols@gmail.com

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hospitality

industry events

Once a month in Cape Town and once a quarter in Johannesburg,

For Goodness Sake! is a boutique of healthy massages.

Take a moment to quieten your mind and join us in our relaxing space that offers deep tissue massage, reflexology, head massage, aromatherapy, lymph drainage, and hot stone. Experience professional and healthy revitalizing stress release - For Goodness Sake! It’s for your health and happiness. contact: Leandra de Villiers tel: +27 21 488 2562 email: info@forgoodnesssake.co.za www.forgoodnesssake.co.za situated next to Protea Fire & Ice! Hotel Cape Town - operating hours 11 am - 8pm

insurance

Your oasis of comfort at the airport

Film & Event Publishing brings the film

While waiting for your flight, relax in comfort and avoid the crowds • Enjoy light meals, snacks and drinks • Freshen up with a shower • Utilise business facilities • Smoking rooms available Premier Lounges available in OR Tambo International, Cape Town International, King Shaka International, Port Elizabeth, East London and George airports.

industry together at an exclusive venue for an evening of laughter and networking.

This is a great opportunity to launch your new product or service, so contact us for sponsorship opportunities.

ILM &

VENT

Terms and conditions apply

tel: +27 11 390 8660 www.comfortguaranteed.co.za Airports across South Africa

location

Specialising in: •Films and commercials •International productions •Media-related insurance •Personal accident and liabilities •Weather day cover

The Coca-Cola dome is the premier multi-purpose indoor entertainment venue, with more than 11 000 square meters of uninterrupted space and a variety of features and structures.

An ideal location for your next film or photo shoot.

contact: Craig Symon or Carey Mottershaw tel: +27 11 694 5000 fax: +27 11 694 5163 email: craig@garrun-group.co.za carey@garrun-group.co.za www.garrun-group.co.za

contact: Mpho Mokgoatlheng or Taryn Moore tel: +27 11 794 5800 fax: +27 11 794 5800 email: mpho@coca-coladome.co.za or taryn@coca-coladome.co.za www.coca-coladome.co.za

contact: Gaye Higgs tel: +27 21 674 0646 fax: +27 21 674 6691 email: gaye@filmeventpublishing.co.za www.filmeventpublishing.co.za

location agent

We are a boutique company representing a collection of properties for both stills and film shoots. Each property is completely unique. The collection has been designed to match the various requirements of advertisers across a wide range of industries.

contact: Romy Anderson / Theresa Tuck tel: +27 21 790 9132 fax: 086 696 22 16 email: info@locationgallery.co.za www.locationgallery.co.za

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Mobile - Artist trailers, Makeup, Production

tel: 0861 782 734 and +27 21 703 0822 fax: +27 21 703 2554 and 086 611 6666 Erf 1149-2, Olieboom Road, Phillipi, 7750, Cape Town. postal: Starfilm Rentals (PTY) LTD, Post Net Suite # 31, Private Bag X26, Tokai, 7966

security

remote camera support equipment

Our company, established in 2002, offers a variety of wireless and remote camera-support equipment to the film and television industry. Our equipment, operated by experienced in-house technicians, is used to support many aspects of dynamic cinematography, including: crane shots, cable rigs, tracking shots, marine work, motion capture and aerials.

contact: Antoinette de Lisle tel: +27 21 785 2786 fax: +27 21 785 2451 email: info@remotecamerasystems.co.za www.remotecamerasystems.co.za

studios

> Film set & event security > VIP chauffeuring > Luxury car rentals > Executive bodyguards

contact: Edward mobile: +27 83 252 1151 tel: +27 21 425 2170 fax: +27 21 425 2163 email: info@proevents-sa.co.za www.proevents-sa.co.za

FLASH CAMERAS D I G I TA L STUDIOS tel: +27 447 6326 mobile: +27 82 654 8870 email: info@roodebloemstudios.co.za www.roodebloemstudios.co.za

27 Roodebloem Road, Woodstock, Cape Town

restaurant

Continental cuisine with Asian influences, based on only the freshest South African produce. Specialities such as game, seafood and vegetarian dishes are highlights of textures and flavours to excite and surprise even the most jaded palate.

The team of Sommeliers will match our cuisine with wine from our cellar, which is both broad in variety and deep in vintage to complete a sophisticated dining experience. tel: +27 21 465 4909 fax: +27 21 461 378 email: info@aubergine.co.za www.aubergine.co.za

39 Barnet Street, Gardens, Cape Town

translation services

Web-lingo is a dynamic, fast-growing South African based translation and localisation service that prides itself on fast, efficient and cost-effective customer services. Having started up in 1997, Web-lingo has been in the translation business for 13 years. We offer general and technical translations, as well as specialised solutions to web development and software localisation companies around the world. No project is too big or too small for our professional teams to undertake.

tel: +27 21 789 0690 email: info@web-lingo.com

www.web-lingo.com

The Callsheet’s new website is now completely interactive.

At no cost, you can now load your own: • press releases, with embedded videos and images • jobs & opportunities • industry events

www.thecallsheet.co.za tel: 021 674 0646 | fax: 021 674 6691 | email: siya@thecallsheet.co.za

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Accommodation Shop Adderley Hotel Adrian Steirn African Access African Photo Productions African Story Wine Tours AFS Productions

Accommodation Accommodation Photographer Aerial Access Equipment Photography Wine Tours Production Company Commercial Service Lighting Accommodation Location Agent Production Company Actors Agency Accommodation Location Production Company Production Company Studio Facilities Restaurant Vehicle Hire Production Company Commercial Service Production Company Directors Production Company Stills Camera Tracking Vehicles Stunt Company Vehicle Stunts Production Company Film and Television Photographer’s Agent Production Company Cinematographer Crew Agent Equipment Rental Equipment Rental Production Company Commercial Service Film Commission Accommodation Location Accommodation

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axisint@telkomsa.net axisint@telkomsa.net www.bickers.co.za www.bickers.co.za www.bickers.co.za www.bioscopefilms.co.za

Web Web 83 83 83 Web

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72 85 Web Web 113 112 86

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info@capefilmcommission.co.za www.capemilner.com www.capenature.co.za bernadette.geldenhuys@caperoyale.co.za

38 Web 36 53

Film Studios Venue

0860 128 3456 +27 21 410 5000

info@capetownfilmstudios.co.za www.cticc.co.za

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Accommodation Film Festival Production Company Directors Cellular Cellular Photographer Production Company Commercial Service Production Company Directors Production Company Commercial Service Production Company Commercial Service Accommodation Industry Organisations

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Web Web

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ian@collectivefilms.co.za

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+27 82 677 8099 +27 21 465 9966 +27 82 957 2033 +27 11 704 1572 +27 21 409 2233

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Photographer Independent Producer Exhibition/Conference Art Direction Model Agency Production Company Film & Television Grips Behind-the-scenes & Research

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Durban Film Office Eastern Cape Film Office Egg Film Service

Film Office Film Commission Production Company Commercial Service Production Company Directors Photographer Photography Sports Model Agency Venue Props Mentorship and Training Production Company Film & Television Film Industry Events Couriers Trade publication Fuji Motion Picture Negative Film SPFX Wellness Production Company Accommodation Insurance Film Commission Photographer’s Agent Equipment Rental Broadcast Television Production Company Film & Television Studio Facilities Location Agent Script-writing Photographer Production Company Directors Post production Photographer Accommodation Photographer Production Company Film & Television Destination Management Agency Armourers Firearms & Weapon Hire Consumables Association Wardrobe & Costume Rental Fine Costume & Dress Hire Accommodation Game Reserve Attorneys Accommodation Greens specialist Photographer Photographer Photographer Equipment Hire Film Publicist Production Company Commercial Service Production Company Film & Television Accommodation Consulting Services Vehicle Hire Cape Town Vehicle Hire Durban Vehicle Hire East London Vehicle Hire George Vehicle Hire Johannesburg Vehicle Hire Port Elizabeth Vehicle Hire Richards Bay

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filmdurban@durban.gov.za www.ecfo.co.za info@eggfilms.tv

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+27 21 426 0728 +27 82 871 3709 +27 82 927 7194 +27 21 785 7035 +27 36 636 9002/3 +27 82 312 5356 +27 21 461 7950 +27 21 461 7950

info@eggfilms.tv www.eightysixphotography.com eorders@elskegallery.co.za sandy@ergosportmodels.com reservations@esiweni.co.za laurenrose@netactive.co.za seton@filmsa.co.za www.filmafrika.com

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Web Web 56, 57 12 Web 114 Web 106 114 1 FC, 74 52 Web Web

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team@smm-solutions.com hagroup@metroweb.co.za www.hirearms.com hotsauce10@mweb.co.za www.idc.co.za ikaya@wol.co.za info@illusioncostumiers.co.za info@inverdoorn.com info@inverdoorn.com guy@irish-inc.co.za www.ivoryheights.co.za janeennichols@gmail.com jessinova@gmail.com joe@africanphoto.co.za shotz@willworks.co.za capetown@jch.co.za joyls@mweb.co.za www.kaapfilm.com

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Kempston Hire Kerry Commins Kidz Casting Agency Knysna Elephant Park L’Ermitage Franschhoek Chateau & Villas Lazer Communications Leisure Bay Luxury Suites Leisure Hotels Libra Vision Limited Edition Lindbergh Lodge Location Gallery Luciana Venter Lucky Fish Productions

Vehicle Hire Windhoek, Namibia Location Scout Model Agency Location Accommodation

+264 61 22 5843 +27 72 743 5910 +27 21 790 3830 +27 44 532 7732 +27 21 876 9200

carolynd@kempston.co.za klap@telkomsa.net www.kidzcastingagency.co.za info@knysnaelephantpark.co.za info@lermitage.co.za

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Equipment Rental Accommodation Accommodation Post production Actors Agency Location Location Agent Location Scout Production Company Commercial Service Production Company Directors Production Company Film & Television Catering Photographer’s Agency Production Company Film & Television Production Company Stills Accommodation

+27 21 510 5450 +27 21 551 7440 +27 21 431 7500 +27 21 465 0311 +27 21 424 0730 +27 11 884 8923 +27 21 790 9132 +27 74 175 7144 +27 21 465 3393

www.lazercommunications.co.za leisurebay@relais.co.za www.leisurehotels.co.za production@libravision.co.za www.ltdedition.co.za lindbergh@iafrica.com info@locationgallery.co.za lucianadocabo@gmail.com platon@luckyfishproductions.co.za

Web Web 46 21 Web 28 114 38, 42, 43, 44, 45 Web

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platon@luckyfishproductions.co.za platon@luckyfishproductions.co.za

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+27 82 800 4309 +27 21 466 8300 +27 21 487 8200

lynmatt@mweb.co.za photographers@m1management.co.za info@miafilms.co.za

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www.magicmountainprod.com www.malealea.com

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