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African women make movies
2 February 2004
To mark South Africa's 10 years of democracy and women's emancipation in 2004, Women of the Sun, a non-profit media network and resource organisation of African women filmmakers, will upgrade its annual Women's Film Festival to make it a fully African event - and a platform for the first African Women Filmmakers Awards.
The African Women's Film Festival will be held in Johannesburg in August 2004 under the theme "film from a woman's perspective". The festival will showcase films of all genres by women, about women, and from women's perspectives, with special focus on the continent.
Although the focus will be on African women, Women of the Sun will also screen films and showcase women filmmakers' perspectives from other developing countries, such as Asia and South America.
The festival will also serve as platform for selecting films for entry in the African Women Filmmakers Awards.
The awards, a first for the film and television
industry on the continent, were launched during the Southern African International Film and Television Market - Sithengi 2003 - last November.
The department of communications and the South African Broadcasting Corporation will sponsor the first African Women Filmmakers Awards ceremony at Sithengi 2004, the key categories being:
- Lifetime achievement award.
- Best film.
- Best director.
- Up and coming filmmaker (including director, writer and/or producer).
- Best actor.
- Most active Women of the Sun member of the year.
Eve Rantseli, executive officer of Women of the Sun, said the awards would mark "a new dawn in the industry. The hard work and competence of women filmmakers will be exhibited in an industry that has always been perceived as a male domain".
Women of the Sun facilitates networking among African women filmmakers to share visions and experiences and to commercially exploit filmmaking opportunities. It has invested resources
to assist both aspirant and established filmmakers, and its members include women filmmakers from South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Namibia.
For further information, contact Women of the Sun.
Source: Women of the Sun
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