South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson’s “Apetown,” one of 20 projects selected for this year’s CineMart, the co-production market at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, describes it as a “hard-hitting love letter to Cape Town.”
The film is a South African urban story “weaving together hip-hop, graffiti, segregation and camaraderie,” told through the eyes of “a charismatic graffiti artist” and his “allies at war with a city hell-bent on reinforcing apartheid’s social caging,” he says.
After a violent encounter with private security, a rebellious graffiti artist is swept into a parallel universe he creates through his art. The altered state heightens his already volatile nature, leading him to make a connection between graffiti and the rock art of his ancestry. While on the run from authorities, he must choose between his ambition for fame or exploring the truth of who he is.
Orderson says: “I’m from the community that ‘Apetown’ originated in.
The film is a South African urban story “weaving together hip-hop, graffiti, segregation and camaraderie,” told through the eyes of “a charismatic graffiti artist” and his “allies at war with a city hell-bent on reinforcing apartheid’s social caging,” he says.
After a violent encounter with private security, a rebellious graffiti artist is swept into a parallel universe he creates through his art. The altered state heightens his already volatile nature, leading him to make a connection between graffiti and the rock art of his ancestry. While on the run from authorities, he must choose between his ambition for fame or exploring the truth of who he is.
Orderson says: “I’m from the community that ‘Apetown’ originated in.
- 2/3/2023
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Disney has tapped top toon talents from across the African continent for “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire,” a Disney Plus Original anthology of animated films set to premiere on the Mouse House’s streaming platform in late 2022.
Inspired by the continent’s diverse histories and cultures, the 10-part anthology brings together a slate of rising animation talents from six African nations to produce action-packed sci-fi and fantasy stories that will present bold visions of advanced technology, aliens, spirits and monsters imagined from uniquely African perspectives.
Oscar-winning director Peter Ramsey (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) will serve as executive producer, with Tendayi Nyeke and Anthony Silverston as supervising producers. Cape Town-based animation house Triggerfish, which received the prestigious MIFA Animation Industry Award in Annecy this year, will be the lead studio for the anthology, working in collaboration with animation studios across the continent and globally.
“We are bringing the work of a visionary...
Inspired by the continent’s diverse histories and cultures, the 10-part anthology brings together a slate of rising animation talents from six African nations to produce action-packed sci-fi and fantasy stories that will present bold visions of advanced technology, aliens, spirits and monsters imagined from uniquely African perspectives.
Oscar-winning director Peter Ramsey (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) will serve as executive producer, with Tendayi Nyeke and Anthony Silverston as supervising producers. Cape Town-based animation house Triggerfish, which received the prestigious MIFA Animation Industry Award in Annecy this year, will be the lead studio for the anthology, working in collaboration with animation studios across the continent and globally.
“We are bringing the work of a visionary...
- 6/17/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Durban — As the Durban Film Fest and its parallel industry program, the Durban FilmMart (Dfm), unspooled this weekend in South Africa, a focus on issues facing women in the industry has dominated the program.
“Dfm is unapologetic about putting women on the agenda,” said producer Zoe Ramushu, who moderated a round table on transformation in the South African industry on July 21. Assessing the state of the local biz – a day after a similar discussion sparked a divisive debate on the industry’s track record for promoting black women – Ramushu noted that in spite of the challenges that still exist, “women are succeeding, women are being given space, women are being given opportunities” more than ever before.
“It’s so important to take into account the successes that exist for women in the industry,” she said.
Illustrating that point was veteran producer Bridget Pickering. Born in Namibia, and trained in the...
“Dfm is unapologetic about putting women on the agenda,” said producer Zoe Ramushu, who moderated a round table on transformation in the South African industry on July 21. Assessing the state of the local biz – a day after a similar discussion sparked a divisive debate on the industry’s track record for promoting black women – Ramushu noted that in spite of the challenges that still exist, “women are succeeding, women are being given space, women are being given opportunities” more than ever before.
“It’s so important to take into account the successes that exist for women in the industry,” she said.
Illustrating that point was veteran producer Bridget Pickering. Born in Namibia, and trained in the...
- 7/22/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Irène Jacob and South African actress Thishiwe Ziqubu are attached to star in Saturn, a supernatural thriller which would be the first official Australia-South Africa co-production.
African-born, UK-based Elan Gamaker is the writer-director and the co-producers are Mark Overett.s New Holland Pictures Two and Fireworx Media.s Bridget Pickering, who was one of the producers of Hotel Rwanda.
Set in South Africa in the 1980s, the screenplay follows Patience (Zigubu) a young African woman who is asked to babysit two white children by her mother, who is campaigning against Apartheid.
Jacob (Three Colors: Red, The Double Life of Véronique) will play the children.s French mother, while a high-profile Aussie is in talks to play her husband.
The twist: the ghost of the children.s older brother Ben, an Army conscript who was reported to have died, tries to take them away.
Overett, who recently returned from a recce in Cape Town and Johannesburg,...
African-born, UK-based Elan Gamaker is the writer-director and the co-producers are Mark Overett.s New Holland Pictures Two and Fireworx Media.s Bridget Pickering, who was one of the producers of Hotel Rwanda.
Set in South Africa in the 1980s, the screenplay follows Patience (Zigubu) a young African woman who is asked to babysit two white children by her mother, who is campaigning against Apartheid.
Jacob (Three Colors: Red, The Double Life of Véronique) will play the children.s French mother, while a high-profile Aussie is in talks to play her husband.
The twist: the ghost of the children.s older brother Ben, an Army conscript who was reported to have died, tries to take them away.
Overett, who recently returned from a recce in Cape Town and Johannesburg,...
- 12/2/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
As we continue to celebrate and push for more diversity in front of the camera, across the globe there continues to be a rising number of women behind the camera calling the shots. Bridget Pickering, the Namibia born and South Africa-based producer of “Hotel Rwanda,” “Taste Of Rain” the top audience rated television drama series “Redemption Usindiso,” and “Dreamworld,” a successful series based on Shakespeare's “Mid Summers Nights Dream,” is a rising powerhouse in African cinema, and has her eyes set on a global audience.“I have always been disturbed by how Africa is portrayed in media and film,” says the Syracuse University graduate.African creatives like Bridget are unpacking and...
- 1/30/2014
- by Karen Marie Mason
- ShadowAndAct
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