May 2012
30 posts
Stage Acting showcases @ AFDA Cape Town
Come and support the AFDA Cape Town Stage Acting Showcase
Titled: Her Cries Date and time: Wednesday 30 May at 12h30 Venue: Amphitheatre Duration: Approximately 20 minutes The play addresses gender-based violence. It reaches beyond a discussion of victimology and in addressing patriarchy challenges the audience about how men need to organize to change oppressive power dynamics that effect...
AFDA takes over the cinema at the V&A Waterfront
Nu Metro cinemas at the V&A Waterfront invited AFDA Cape Town to create some buzz and hype at the premiere of the new MIB3 movie on Friday 25 May. AFDA took over the cinema as the public was given the chance to interact and get their picture taken with weird and wacky aliens. Everyone got their pictures taken and some walked away with scars and gashes as the CMS team worked their magic.
AFDA GOES HONG KONG
The Centre for Cinema Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong has invited AFDA to participate in a conference on “The Education of the Filmmaker: Views from Around the World” in the last week of May 2012.
AFDA has been recommended to Lingnan by top local film educator, researcher and practitioner; Prof KeyanTomaselli, to represent South Africa in this international research project on different...
The AFDA Google Student Ambassador - Taleni...
AFDA Johannesburg 3rd year student; Taleni Shimhopileni has been selected to serve as a Google Student Ambassador for one year. Taleni Shimhopileni has been invited, along with other selected ambassadors from over 100 African Universities, to attend a 3-day Google Ambassador Orientation Summit in Nairobi, Kenya between 11th and 13th June 2013. The Ambassador program is part of the ongoing...
Catch AFDA Films at the 2012 Durban International...
Durban International Film Festival: 9 AFDA films will be screening:
Dearly Departed
The Man from Earth
There Are No Heros
Walter
Anders
Away With Love
In Decline
Die Winpomp
Petulia
Well done to all the casts and crews.
AFDA Film Festival at the National Arts Festival...
This is a four-package collection of the best of AFDA films 1994 – 2011, documenting and tracking our new democracy over the last 15 years. Although many of these films have received critical acclaim worldwide, more importantly they have contributed to the emergence of a unique cultural voice (post 1994) and have been key to developing local South African talent like Norman Naake, Dean Blumberg,...
New AFDA Cape Town Campus, A big hit with the...
The 6 Million Rand upgrade of the AFDA Cape Town Campus was incredibly well received by students returning for the second term. After 10 weeks of bull-dozing, Plumbers, Electricians, Brick Layers, Architects, Project Manages Boiler Makers and the Sort making up to a 100 Artisans on site at a time. The Project Manager Hugo Patenfus, AFDA Principal Jaco van Rensberg and Operations Manager Adeeb Khan...
Q &A with Garth Holmes, AFDA Chairman
How was AFDA involved in this year’s Cilect Congress? AFDA was the host, funder and organiser of the CARA (Cilect Africa region) and the CILECT Congress. How long has AFDA been a Cilect member and what have been some of the major benefits to being a member? AFDA has been a Cilect member for the past 8 years. Benefits include Global access and connectivity to over 160 of the top institutions...
