The murder of Lucky Motshabi adds to the growing crisis facing South Africa’s LGBTIQ+ community
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Anna Marie de la Fuente Latino-owned Fuse Media has marked its first foray into the global media marketplace on the eve of MipTV with licensing deals to language learning platform Lingopie and South Africa-based Telkom SA.“Today’s licensing agreements signify the early innings of Fuse Media’s global expansion,” said Fuse Media head of digital, Patrick Courtney, who added: “It is also inspiring that these companies are eager to provide their customers with content that not only engages young,
.The murder of Lucky Motshabi adds to the growing crisis facing South Africa’s LGBTIQ+ community
Bulletproof, the British cop drama starring Noel Clarke, has been pulled from The CW’s streaming services after bombshell misconduct allegations against the actor.
Fremantle and Passenger, the company founded by True Detective producer Richard Brown, are teaming with sports marketing company Infront to make a documentary series about the launch of the NBA-affiliated Basketball Africa League.
Elon Musk is rich – very, very rich.
EXCLUSIVE: Mongoose mania returns to South Africa’s Kalahari Desert as discovery+ unveils Meet The Meerkats, a series narrated by Emmy nominated actor Rob Delaney.
Daniel Kaluuya for a different Black actor minutes after he won an Oscar. Margaret Gardiner, a South African journalist and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, confirmed on Monday (26 April) that she had been involved in the interaction with Kaluuya in the Academy Awards press room the night before.
Daniel Kaluuya for a different Black actor minutes after he won an Oscar. Margaret Gardiner, a South African journalist and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, confirmed on Monday (26 April) that she had been involved in the interaction with Kaluuya in the Academy Awards press room the night before.
HFPA and South African journalist Margaret Gardiner has apologized on Twitter for mistakenly asking Judas and the Black Messiah Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya what it was like working with director Regina King. The Warner Bros. movie, which won two Oscars last night, was directed by Shaka King. One Night in Miami, another Oscar contender last night, was directed by Regina King.
NEW YORK -- “My Octopus Teacher,” the tale of an eight-limbed creature and her human companion, has won the Oscar for best documentary.Ten years in the making, “My Octopus Teacher” began as a personal video project by South African filmmaker Craig Foster to rekindle his connection with nature by observing an inquisitive female mollusk while free-diving near Cape Town.He filmed their interactions and became increasingly dazzled by how she could fashion tools from shells, furl herself in ribbons
My Octopus Teacher wrapped its tentacles around the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, corralling a win for Netflix in that category for the second year in a row and third time in the last four years.
Love Island winners Paige Turley and Finn Tapp have shared their advice to the new islanders heading into this year’s series. Scottish beauty Paige, 23,and former semi-pro footballer Finn, 21, won the last series of the show, filmed in South Africa before the pandemic locked the country down.
Emiliano Granada Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel’s second virtual edition frames multiple titles – “The Bubble, “My Old Man” and “The Home” portraying an ever growing and aging demographic and the conditions in which its members live the final stage of their lives.The debut feature documentary of Chase Musslewhite and Jesse Zinn, the later also VdR with short film “Wavelengths,” “The Home,” like “The Bubble,” plumbs the world of residential homes with an empathetic eye.Having passed through IFP
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Locarno Film Festival’s Industry Academy workshop is extending its global reach to Africa.The prominent Swiss festival’s formative initiative dedicated to training young professionals working in sales, traditional or online distribution, theatrical exhibition and programming for festivals – which is an intergral part of Locarno’s Locarno Pro industry side – has forged a new partnership with the Realness Institute, the South Africa-based non-profit
coronavirus are constantly being researched and discovered, with some spreading faster than others. Different strains happen when changes build up in the genetic code of the virus before the new version is then passed from person to person.
Christopher Vourlias Australia’s Goalpost Pictures and South Africa’s Quizzical Pictures are teaming up on the crime series “Detective Cooper” for South African broadcaster M-Net, marking the first TV co-production between the two countries.The series will be adapted from the book “A Beautiful Place to Die,” part of the multi-award-winning Detective Emmanuel Cooper book series by Australian-South African writer Malla Nunn (pictured).