Two South Africa-themed, filmed-in-South Africa movies - sci-fi
thriller District 9 and Nelson Mandela/Rugby World Cup drama Invictus -
have been nominated for six Oscar awards between them.
District 9, set in a South African township inhabited by aliens, received Academy Award nominations in four categories, namely: best picture, best editing, best adapted screenplay, and best visual effects.
Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, won nominations for best actor for Morgan Freeman, who portrays Nelson Mandela in the film, and for best supporting actor for Matt Damon, who portrays Springbok rugby captain Francois Pienaar.
Aliens from outer space are practically crawling out of the walls in Soweto, the famous township on the edge of Johannesburg. But it's not an invasion, it's a cause for celebration.
Multi-award winning American alternative rock band The Killers have announced that they will be playing in Cape Town and Johannesburg in December.
District 9, a gritty, low-budget space alien movie set in South Africa with a cast of unknowns and directed and co-written by a South African, opened as Hollywood's No. 1 film, grossing more at the box office its first weekend than it cost to make.
Eleven-year-old Sobahle Mkhabase lives in a township but is headed for the red carpet as the star of a new South African film scooping festival awards and drawing inevitable comparisons with "Slumdog Millionaire".
The Department of Arts and Culture’s Downtown Music Hub will give SA’s music industry a much needed boost as it sets out to become the first entity in the country to provide opportunities across the entire value chain of the local music sector.
The true story of four South African photographers who risked their lives to capture the harrowing political violence of the early 90's will be told in a new feature film currently being co-produced by Canadian and South African filmmakers.
The story of the Bang Bang Club, as photographers Greg Marinovich,
Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva were then known, was first
recounted in a semi-autobiographical book written by the surviving Club
members, Silva and Marinovich.
The movie screenplay has been written by Steven Silver who will also
direct the film. Lance Samuels and Adam Friedlander of
Johannesburg-based Out Of Africa Entertainment will produce the film in
collaboration with Daniel Iron of Foundry Films in Canada.
Arts & Entertainment
| SA needs a news revolutionAuthor: Lisa Roberts Monday, 08 March 2010 Read more... |
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