Joburg Film Festival
Annual film festival in Johannesburg, South Africa
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🇺🇸 Five Takeaways From the Joburg Film Festival and JBX Market: Rebate Woes, the End of the Streaming Wars and Politics in the SpotlightThe eighth edition of the Joburg Film Festival wrapped Sunday, putting a bow on a busy week that saw organizers fielding a record 700 submissions from...
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🇺🇸 Swiss Period Drama ‘Silent Rebellion’ Takes Top Honors at Joburg Film FestivalSwiss director Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s “Silent Rebellion,” a period drama that follows a rape survivor’s defiant journey of self-discovery, won the top p...
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🇺🇸 ‘The Heart Is a Muscle’ Director on Family, Fatherhood and Moving From Generational ‘Trauma’ to ‘Healing’ in South African Oscar EntryAfter launching last year in Berlin and being tapped as South Africa’s official entry for the international feature Oscar race, “The Heart Is a Muscle...
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🇺🇸 ‘Ngwato’ Director Magangwe Mahlase on Telling a Queer Story With Daddy Issues in a Rural Sepedi Village: ‘I Would Want a Hug From My Father’In “Ngwato,” the story of a young, gay black South African man, travelling from the city back to his ancestral village to tell his parents he’s gettin...
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🇺🇸 Both Worlds, Freeli Films Launch First U.S.-Africa Co-Production Partnership for Microdramas, With Taye Diggs Set to Star (EXCLUSIVE)International Emmy-nominated South African production company Both Worlds and Atlanta-based outfit Freeli Films have launched a co-production partners...
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🇺🇸 South African Film and TV Workers Call on Lawmakers to Rescue Rebate System, Save Industry in Grips of ‘Horrific’ CrisisIt’s déjà vu all over again at the Joburg Film Festival, where South African film and television workers are again calling on the government to rescue...
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🇺🇸 Magical-Realist Comedy ‘The Fisherman’ Literally Tells a Fish-Out-of-Water Story: ‘I Want People to See the Ghanaian Sense of Humor Shine’On a continent beset by problems and challenges, Zoey Martinson’s colorful, postcard-beautiful indie “The Fisherman” literally tells a fish-out-of-wat...
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