The in-person event takes place on October 7 at London’s Picturehouse Central.
Campbell X’s Low Rider and Alex Helfrecht’s A Winter’s Journey are among the five features taking part in the third edition of the BFI London Film Festival Works-in-Progress showcase.
The in-person event takes place on October 7 as part of the festival’s UK Talent Days focus, in partnership with the British Council, at London’s Picturehouse Central.
The event will screen extracts from each project, with an introduction from its filmmaker, to an invited audience of international buyers as well as UK sales agents and festival programmers,...
Campbell X’s Low Rider and Alex Helfrecht’s A Winter’s Journey are among the five features taking part in the third edition of the BFI London Film Festival Works-in-Progress showcase.
The in-person event takes place on October 7 as part of the festival’s UK Talent Days focus, in partnership with the British Council, at London’s Picturehouse Central.
The event will screen extracts from each project, with an introduction from its filmmaker, to an invited audience of international buyers as well as UK sales agents and festival programmers,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Production wraps on BFI-backed UK-South Africa feature ‘Low Rider’; first image revealed (exclusive)
Project from UK writer-director Campbell X is first feature produced by UK production outfit Boudica Entertainment.
Principal photography has wrapped in Cape Town, South Africa, on UK writer-director Campbell X’s Low Rider – a UK-South Africa co-production.
A first-look image has also been released.
Low Rider stars UK actor Emma McDonald and South African Thishiwe Ziqubu, and follows the adventures of a woman named Quinn as she flies from London to Cape Town to search for her absent father. Along the way she forms a bond with a charismatic stranger, Harley, who offers to help her on her quest to find her increasingly elusive father.
Principal photography has wrapped in Cape Town, South Africa, on UK writer-director Campbell X’s Low Rider – a UK-South Africa co-production.
A first-look image has also been released.
Low Rider stars UK actor Emma McDonald and South African Thishiwe Ziqubu, and follows the adventures of a woman named Quinn as she flies from London to Cape Town to search for her absent father. Along the way she forms a bond with a charismatic stranger, Harley, who offers to help her on her quest to find her increasingly elusive father.
- 8/17/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Showmax content chief Yolisa Phahle has revealed how co-producing with international partners has helped the South Africa-based streamer compete with fierce SVoD competition, as a first trailer for its epic fantasy drama Blood Psalms is today unveiled. You can watch it here below.
Blood Psalms, from creators Layla Swart and Jahmil X.T. Qubeka from Yellowbone Entertainment, is a big budget co-production with France’s Canal+ — the latest in several collaborations between the companies — and is billed as Showmax’s “biggest and most ambitious series, completely unlike any other African series you’ve ever seen” by Nomsa Philiso, Executive Head of Programming at the streamer’s parent MultiChoice. The fantasy drama, shot entirely in African languages, has touches of Game of Thrones, set 11,000 years ago in ancient Africa in a world of warring factions and magic.
The synopsis reads: “In Ancient Africa, one thousand days after the fall of Atlantis,...
Blood Psalms, from creators Layla Swart and Jahmil X.T. Qubeka from Yellowbone Entertainment, is a big budget co-production with France’s Canal+ — the latest in several collaborations between the companies — and is billed as Showmax’s “biggest and most ambitious series, completely unlike any other African series you’ve ever seen” by Nomsa Philiso, Executive Head of Programming at the streamer’s parent MultiChoice. The fantasy drama, shot entirely in African languages, has touches of Game of Thrones, set 11,000 years ago in ancient Africa in a world of warring factions and magic.
The synopsis reads: “In Ancient Africa, one thousand days after the fall of Atlantis,...
- 8/17/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Social Impact
Viacom International Studios has launched Vis Social Impact, a new studio division dedicated to developing social impact-driven content focused on topical issues such as climate, equality and health. The division is part of Vis’s larger Content for Change initiative, which was established to counteract racism, bias, stereotypes and hate throughout the company’s culture, creative supply chain and its finished productions.
Georgia Arnold, Vis senior VP of social responsibility will head the new division, reporting directly to Jc Acosta, president of Vis and networks Americas. Arnold brings with her a wealth of experience in large-scale behavior changing and was the co-founder and director of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, which was established to protect young people worldwide against HIV and improve sexual and reproductive health.
The division’s first Social Impact Commission is “Protest & Progress” from photographer and social activist Misan Harriman. A three-part docuseries, the show...
Viacom International Studios has launched Vis Social Impact, a new studio division dedicated to developing social impact-driven content focused on topical issues such as climate, equality and health. The division is part of Vis’s larger Content for Change initiative, which was established to counteract racism, bias, stereotypes and hate throughout the company’s culture, creative supply chain and its finished productions.
Georgia Arnold, Vis senior VP of social responsibility will head the new division, reporting directly to Jc Acosta, president of Vis and networks Americas. Arnold brings with her a wealth of experience in large-scale behavior changing and was the co-founder and director of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, which was established to protect young people worldwide against HIV and improve sexual and reproductive health.
The division’s first Social Impact Commission is “Protest & Progress” from photographer and social activist Misan Harriman. A three-part docuseries, the show...
- 10/12/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- 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
From Rififi Pictures comes a new film titled “Tell Me Sweet Something,” directed by the award-winning filmmaker Akin Omotoso ("Man on Ground"), which was inspired by Omotoso’s love of love songs, the romance classic "Love Jones," and his desire to tell a story that celebrates love in the city he loves - Johannesburg, South Africa. Starring Nomzamo Mbatha, Maps Maponyane, Thishiwe Ziqubu, Kagiso Lediga, Thomas Gumede, Thembi Seete and Mandisa Bardill, “Tell Me Sweet Something” tells the story of Moratiwa (Mbatha): an aspiring novelist with writer’s block. She hasn’t had much luck with love ever since her ex-boyfriend Norman went out to buy milk and never came...
- 9/11/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
From Rififi Pictures comes a new film titled “Tell Me Sweet Something,” directed by the award-winning filmmaker Akin Omotoso ("Man on Ground"), which was inspired by Omotoso’s love of love songs, the romance classic "Love Jones," and his desire to tell a story that celebrates love in the city he loves - Johannesburg, South Africa. Starring Nomzamo Mbatha, Maps Maponyane, Thishiwe Ziqubu, Kagiso Lediga, Thomas Gumede, Thembi Seete and Mandisa Bardill, “Tell Me Sweet Something” tells the story of Moratiwa (Mbatha): an aspiring novelist with writer’s block. She hasn’t had much luck with love ever since her ex-boyfriend Norman went out to buy milk and never came...
- 6/8/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Money is the root of all evil. It may give one a temporary high, but the pursuit of material wealth will eventually be the driving force toward your wreck and ruin, so you need to find that other connection in life if you have any hope of making it in this world. In Hard to Get, a very robust and stylistic South African noir from debut feature director Zee Ntuli, this is exactly what the two protagonists need to figure out if they hope to survive and create a better life.
Tk (Pallance Dladla) is the local lothario of his village, making bets with his friends to see how many minutes it will take for him to talk a girl into sleeping with him in the backroom of the bar in which he works. Enter the gorgeous Skiets (Thishiwe Ziqubu), a woman of mystery who immediately catches Tk’s eye.
Tk (Pallance Dladla) is the local lothario of his village, making bets with his friends to see how many minutes it will take for him to talk a girl into sleeping with him in the backroom of the bar in which he works. Enter the gorgeous Skiets (Thishiwe Ziqubu), a woman of mystery who immediately catches Tk’s eye.
- 10/16/2014
- by Liam Dunn
- We Got This Covered
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