News: 2007
JUNE | JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER
December
- Film Indaba ‘a success’
- Gauteng Film Partnership Announced
- ‘Project Gaullywood’: Phase 1 research findings released
- Discovery Launch at Promax Africa
- Film industry encouraged to support tree fund
- ‘Gauteng Bioscope’: Call for Submissions
- Mukunda and MorrisJones make magic
- Lights, Camera… Buffet!
- Little Bird Feathers Its Nest from Joburg
- The Leading Light in South African Casting
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November
- Gauteng to host Film Indaba
- Acclaimed Screenwriting Workshop at No Charge
- Out in Africa waltzes into town
- Joburg 100 and the ‘Creative City’
- Eat My Video Joburg screening date confirmed
- Changing Perceptions of Africa through Surprise!
- Local company SUB URBAN produces a Webisode
- Cutting Silence
- The Mills, Newtown
- IN FOCUS talks to the Commercial Producers Association
- The Darkest Comic Take on Joburg comes from Clay
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October
- 2007 Film Indaba announced
- Ster-Kinekor Junction opens in Soweto
- JMPD and industry thrash out permit procedures
- Film Event Management launches ‘Go Green’ initiative
- GFC hosts workshop on film finance
- Eat My Video screening set for Johannesburg
- SAFTA nominees announced
- Emmy Winner, Judy Davis, joins Rough
- New local Television comedy shoots in Gauteng
- Technical training in Gauteng
- By Accident into Design
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September
- Jozi And The Movies – A history
- 2007 Tri Continental Film Festival goes red hot
- ‘People to People’ Documentary Conference announced
- Arts Alive and AFDA present ‘Young Filmmakers’ expo
- MAPPP Seta announces Gauteng-based New Venture Creation Skills ProgrammeMAPPP Seta announces Gauteng-based New Venture Creation Skills Programme
- MultiChoice VUKA! Awards call for entries
- Orange Grove gets West African make-over in Diageo Africa’s Guinness commercial
- 44 Stanley Ave
- The adventures of Supermama
- Triomf is re-birthed on screen
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August
- Joburg to host 2010 broadcast centre
- SABC News International live from Gauteng
- Loerie award winners announced
- Sasani Studios – the home of film
- Architect Africa Film Festival: ‘Fuelled by magic, fired by desire’
- Call for nominations: ‘Passing the Torch’ Women in Film awards
- Fox street gets Black Sheep
- Yokohama tires uses Gauteng for international commercial
- Glen Afric
- Creative Industry – finally, those who can…teach!
- Nash’s Farm
- Megan makes the cut
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July
- Joburg Central
- Encounters back in town
- Film and TV: a view from the North East of England
- Record number of visitors at Mediatech Africa
- The no-budget movie with legs
- Location Gauteng on the commercial map following aggressive campaign at 2007 Cannes Lions Advertising Festival
- More than simply documenting history
- In Focus talks to Trevor Jones
- Joburg in UCLA’s Director’s Spotlight competition
- Q-Studios
- Broadcast House
- Fuel for new filmmakers
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June
- Major movie chooses Gauteng for its post production.
- In Focus chats to Edwin Santiago
- Joburg prepares for Input 2008
- Top UK scriptwriter conducts Johannesburg workshops
- CNBC Africa, Live from Gauteng
- GFC appoints Deloitte Consulting to assess the state of the Gauteng film industry
- Going Digital Downtown
- First season of ‘Township Bioscope’ comes to a close