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10-13th October

A NEW
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WElCOmE NOTE Dear Market and Industry Guests, We will be presenting three innovative
programmes in our landscape: ADAPT,
Welcome to Cape Town and thank you for which looks at forging links between the film
joining us on this journey. and publishing industries; ENGAGE, which
will explore ways of growing audiences for
We live through interesting times. Our African cinema; and WIPs: Works in Progress
system has been quite dysfunctional for to allow makers of unfinished films to access
some time, but we feel in the air the winds of expert feedback when they need it most.
change blowing in from all four corners of the Other aspects of the programme include
world. Old models no longer serve and it is opportunities to hear from and engage
now that we have the opportunity to look at with leaders in disciplines as blockchain,
the world from more diverse perspectives. It cryptocurrency and VR . We will explore the
is time to acknowledge the black, the queer, possibility of cohesion between some of the
the womxn, the colonized and the privilege. most notable talent labs taking place in the
It is time to redistribute, to decolonize, to African continent. We have also designed a
transform, to nurture and to support a more programme of panels and workshops to be
balanced and fair ecosystem. in equal parts stimulating and informative.

In our Industry Program, we paid great Prioritising the development of much
attention to the historical lack of balance, needed links between emerging industries,
and we hope that through our candid we have invited Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria and
conversations we arrive at conclusions that South Africa to convene to explore how
plot a way forward. I invite you to participate, new financial instruments that serve the
make your voice heard and confront the Global South can be implemented. We
elephants in the room. It is also time to stop will engage with our European and North
being just polite or politically correct, and I American partners towards more inclusive
invite you to be constructive and to hold fast and balanced depictions of stories, fairer
against any possible toxicity that may arise business models and re-positioning Africa
from these dialogues. There has been a lot as a continent that is vibrant, forever
of anger percolating in this country that is innovative, resilient, wealthy in spirit and
hosting you, and that anger is valid. resources. The time for Africa is NOW. As
with all explorations of new territory, this
In my eight years in South Africa, I have may not be the smoothest ride, but it will be
learned a great deal about this very complex an exciting one. So dig in with us as we break
place. Through my last film as a producer, new ground with the limited resources we
I came to understand that there are deep have available to us.
wounds, some so deep as to put real lives,
and a solid business, at stake. I have to admit This market has been fuelled in the most
that when I was approached by CTIFMF to part by a lot of good will from a small but
step in as the Market Director, and take up passionate team who is proud to have you as
a leadership position that meant I would their guests. Be generous as we fine tune the
have to negotiate the interests of ALL South vision, and I take up my position at the helm
African filmmakers, I found the prospect of an industry gathering for the first time.
incredibly daunting. The reason I agreed Welcome to Cape Town, explore it, you will
was because I strongly believe in the nation- understand why I chose it as a home, Thank
building power of cinema, and am prepared you for being a part of the emergence of a
to do all in my power to help unite this new space. Enjoy.
divided community, through the art and
business of film.

In the next decade, our Market and Industry Sincerely,
Programme will strive to become the most Elias Ribeiro
relevant GATHERING space for the film Market Director
community of the Global South. In this first
edition, we will be inaugurating a number of
initiatives, and welcoming many guests.

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ONTENTS CHAIRMAN & CEO’S WELCOME 5
EVENT SCHEDULE 6
MASTER CLASSES 14
ADAPT 18
ADAPT EXPERTS 19
ADAPT PARTICIPANTS 20
ENGAGE 24
ENGAGE EXPERT 24
ENGAGE PARTICIPANTS 25
WIPS 28
WIPS MENTORS 29
WIPS JURY 30
WIPS EXPERTS 32
WIPS PARTICIPANTS 38
THINGS TO DO IN CAPE TOWN 48
EAVE INDABA 50
EAVE PRODUCER’S 52
WORK CAFÉ 54
SPOTLIGHT ON ITALIAN CINEMA 56
EMERGING TALENT LABS 57
MEET THE MAKERS 60
VR 62
SNAKE NATION 65
WGSA PITCHES 66
AFRICA HALAL WEEK 68
UGA COUCH SESSIONS 71
INDUSTRY NETWORK LUNCHES 72
MARKET ATTENDEES 74

CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME CEO’S FOREWORD

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The 2018 edition of the Cape Town International
As organising executive chairman of Film Festival is a reflection of the hard work, passion
this event, we have brought together a and dedication of many individuals both within the
good programme that stimulates both organising team as well as countless other partners in
our clinical knowledge and human Cape Town, across South Africa, the rest of Africa, and
development to share and build our indeed the world. As the CEO of the CTIFMF I could not
creative industries together. This will be be more proud to present the incredibly diverse and
through a combination of interesting exciting program across both the Festival and Market.
lectures, and engaging “hands- Both in terms of film selection, guest speaker
on” workshops that will enrich our invitations, jury representations, special events and
current knowledge and clinical skills. partner activations, great care and thought has gone
A holistic and interactive approach in to securing a program that is reflective of the South
has been employed in planning the African and African film industries. As an event, the
workshops and programming which CTIFMF has grown in leaps and bounds since our
we shall discuss and share the latest inaugural edition in 2017, and we are grateful for
techniques and the management the support of many in the regional, national, and
and practices to enhance our personal international film industries. It is through this spirit
growth. of collaboration, one of the core themes of this year’s
On behalf of the organising committee, festival, that the industry will grow from strength to
I would like to extend a warm invitation strength.
to all our international and local guests, I have watched over the past year as the team has
colleagues and friends. grown and been inspired by the diverse expertise,
The committee looks forward to opinions and voices that have all contributed to
meeting you all at the Festival this year. building what promises to be more than just a film
Welcome to the CTIFMF 2018 Edition! festival, but rather a powerful gathering of expertise
where professionals can network, promote their films,
Sincerely, share ideas and skills, and emerging filmmakers can
Rafiq Samsodien also have the opportunity to learn, engage, and most
importantly, also be inspired by the excellence of their
fellow filmmakers.
It is also important though to remember, that at its
heart, the event is also a celebration of the creative art
of filmmaking. The CTIFMF’s 2018 theme also includes
the calls to CREATE and CELEBRATE and celebrate we
shall. Throughout the 10 days of the CTIFMF we invite
all film lovers to immerse themselves in the dozens
of creative masterpieces from across the globe. The
film selection this year is a representation of African
excellence, as well as global feast of cultural diversity.
The CTIFMF 2018 will be a landmark event for the city
of Cape Town and will undoubtably contribute to
promoting the city as film and tourist destination. So
as an industry and as a city, let us join together in the
creative spirit of film and CREATE. COLLABORATE and
CELEBRATE!

Sincerely,
Nazeera Hartley-Roach

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WEDNESDAY | 10Th OCTObER

MEZZANINE LEVEL EVENT SPACE SEMINAR ROOM SMALL MEETING PODS
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17)

09:00 09:00 09:00 - 11:00
VR Experience MEET THE MAKERS:
11:00 Come and Lo Fi Cinema:
13:00 experience Vr, Working with
15:00 full programme the Youth
on page 60 Moderated by
Sarah Dawson
LUNCH
AYA
Khalid el - Jelaialti

Black President 
Mpumi Mcata

The Unseen
perivi Katjavivi

11:00 - 13:00
MEET THE MAKERS:

Lol With Mandela

Running With The Wind

Mandela the Real
Pan-Africanist

Faith Isiakpere
(Director)
Firdoze Bulbulia
(producer)

13:00 - 15:00 | Sales & Distribution lunch at Vista Marina

15:00 - 17:00
WIP Feedback
(Closed Session)
Mmabatho Kau and
eric lagesse

15:00-16:00
Freedom

16:00-17:00
Knuckle City

17:00 COCKTAIL HOUR

6

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MEETING ROOM 2 MEETING ROOM 3 COMEDY CLUB CINEMA 6
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (By the Watershed) (Inside Mall @ H&M)

09:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 11:00
Black Rhino 360 Emerging Talent W.I.P. 1 (invitation only)
Story Lab Lab Circle Freedom
Brian Afande Cait panesgrouw Jafta Mamabolo
(realness) (Director)
Ingrid Kopp Tendeka Matatu
(electric South) (producer)
lynda Belkhiria SA | 96m
(Carthage pro)
Menzi Mhlongo 11:00 - 13:00
(Talents Durban) W.I.P. 2 (invitation only)
Muriel Perez
(ouaga Film lab) Knuckle City
Toni Monty (DFM) Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
(Director)
layla Swart
(producer)
SA | 105min

LUNCH

14:00 - 18:00 15:00 - 17:00
ENGAGE Positioning Africa
Valeria richter Moderated by
(Closed Session) Tiny Mungwe
Participants: International Guests
Carolyn Carew Antonio Falduto
Faye Kabali Kagwa Cara Cusumano
Moses Seguru Dorothee wenner
Motheo Matsau Keith Shiri
Nolwazi Magwaza And Film Makers
Sarah Summers Amirah Tajdin
Sean Drummond Don edkins
Thandeka Zwana
phillipa ndisi-Herrmann
Zamo Mkhwanazi

COCKTAIL HOUR

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ThURSDAY | 11Th OCTObER

MEZZANINE LEVEL EVENT SPACE SEMINAR ROOM SMALL MEETING PODS
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17)

09:00 09:00 09:00 - 11:00 09:00 - 11:00
VR Experience Masterclass- ADAPT EAVE Indaba Taster
Come and From Book to Screen Coproducing with
experience Vr, Selina Ukwuoma North America
full programme linda Beath
on page 60

11:00 11:15 - 13:00 11:15 - 13:00
Reframing gender Take it To The Web
and intersectionality Dorothee wenner
in the South African Kinshasa Collection
film industry:
towards a greater Kelly-eve Koopman
inclusion and Coloured Mentality
empowerment of
black women. Klinka Qiniso
Curated by (Foxy Five)
Themba Bhebhe
Moderated by
Tiny Mungwe with
Bianca Issac
Bridget pickering
Jacky lourens
Maganthrie pillay
Zoe ramuschu

13:00 LUNCH 13:00 - 15:00 | International Co-Producers Lunch at Vista Marina
15:00 13:00 - 15:00 | Emerging Talents Lab Circle Lunch

15:00 - 17:00 15:00 - 17:00 15:00 - 17:00
ADAPT Book MEET THE MAKERS: WIP Feedback
Presentation Performance (Closed Session)
Moderated by
Selin Ukwuoma with Die Stroopers 15:00 - 16:00
Angela Makholwa Dr Lwazi Manzi Toorbos
Imraan Coovadia eric lagesse and
pieter louis Myburgh Alex van Dyke Mmabatho Kau
Sue nyathi Brent Vermeulen
Yewande omotoso Morne Visser 16:00 - 17:00
Zukiswa wanner The Home
Sarah Dawson and
Don edkins

17:00 - 19:00 COCKTAIL HOURS

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MEETING ROOM 2 MEETING ROOM 3 COMEDY CLUB CINEMA 6 PEPPERCLUB
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (By the Watershed) (Inside Mall @ H&M) HOTEL

09:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 13:00 MEET THE MAKERS: 09:00
Black Rhino 360 Documentaries W.I.P. 3 (invitation only)
Story Lab Emerging Talent Toorbos
Brian Afande 09:00-10:00 rene van rooyen
Lab Circle Everything Must Fall Danie Bester
Strategy Meeting rehad Desai SA | 110min
(Closed Session)
Cait panesgrouw 10:00-11:00
(realness) Amal
Ingrid Kopp Mohamed Siam
(electric South)
lynda Belkhiria 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 13:00
(Carthage pro) Diamonds, Backpacks, W.I.P. 4 (invitation only)
Menzi Mhlongo and a Matchbox The Home
(Talents Durban) Amirah Tajdin Jessie Zinn
Muriel Perez Chase Musslewhite
(ouaga Film lab) 12:00-13:00 SA | 65min
Toni Monty (DFM) Sisters of the
Wilderness
ronit Shapiro
Karen Slater

LUNCH

14:00 - 18:00 16:00 - 17:00
ENGAGE Couch Sessions
Valeria richter Moderated by
(Closed Session) Uga Carlini with
Participants: Himesh Kar
Carolyn Carew
Faye Kabali 9
Kagwa
Moses Seguru
Motheo Matsau
Nolwazi Magwaza
Sarah Summers
Sean Drummond
Thandeka Zwana

COCKTAIL HOURS

FRIDAY | 12Th OCTObER

MEZZANINE LEVEL EVENT SPACE SEMINAR ROOM SMALL MEETING PODS
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17)

09:00 09:00 09:00 - 11:00 MEET THE MAKERS
11:00 VR Experience Masterclass- ADAPT 09:00 - 11:00
Come and legal Aspects of Focus on
13:00 experience Vr, Adaptation Sound
15:00 full programme lara Brandini
on page 60 (Webber Wentzel) Five Fingers For
21:00 Marseille
11:00 - 13:00 Craig parker
10 Panel Discussion (Visual effects)
ADAPT James Matthes
Moderated by (Composer)
Selina Ukwuoma Michael Matthews
with (Director)
Brigid olen Simon ratcliffe
(producer) (Sound Designer)
Corne van rooyen
(Director) 11:00 - 13:00
Duduzile Mabaso Festival Hits
(publisher) Moderated by
Imraan Coorvadia Muendo Muindi
(writer)
lara Brandini Inxeba
(legal) Cait pansegrouw
Helen Kunn

Nommer 37
nosipho Dumisa
Travis Taute

LUNCH 13:00 - !5:00 Lunch with Festival Programmers at Vista Marina

15:00 - 17:00 15:00 - 17:00 MEET THE MAKERS 15:00 - 17:00
World Building WIP Feedback
Pioneering Spaces Panel Discussion (Closed Session)
Brian Afande 15:00 - 17:00
Ingrid Kopp Co-pro Therapy 15:00 - 16:00
Rafiki Buddha In Africa
Moderated by Christopher wessel Sarah Dawson and
elias ribeiro (Cinematographer) Mmabatho Kau
with Arya laloo
Himesh Kar (production Designer) 16:00 - 17:00
linda Beath The Letter
Diana elbaum Sarah Dawson and
Bridget pickering Mmabatho Kau
Steven Markovitz

MARKET & INDUSTRY PARTY AT HARRINGTONS

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MEETING ROOM 5 MEETING ROOM 3 COMEDY CLUB CINEMA 6 EXPO
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (By the Watershed) (Inside Mall @ H&M)

09:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 11:00 09:00 - 11:00
Black Rhino 360 EAVE Indaba Taster: WGSA Pitch 1 W.I.P. 5 (invitation only)
Story Lab Producers circle 20 Teams Buddha in Africa
Brian Afande Diana elbaum nicole Schafer
(Closed Session) (Director &
producer)
Malawi | 85min

11:15 - 13:00 11:00
LADIMA Women In Film W.I.P. 6 (invitation only)
Mentorship The Letter
Moderated by Chris King
Tiny Mungwe with Maia lekow
Catherine Gitahi (Co Directors &
Mildred okwo producers)
phillipa ndisi Herrmann Kenya | 90min
SwIFT representative

LUNCH

14:00 - 18:00 15:00-16:00
ENGAGE Talent Agents:
Valeria richter How to get Rep’d
Knuckle City Case Cynthia okoye
Study with Jahmil (Curtis Brown)
X.T. Qubeka and David Kayser
layla Swart (Casarotto & ramsey)
(Closed Session)
Participants: 16:00 -17:00
Carolyn Carew Uga Couch Sessions
Faye Kabali Kagwa Uga Carlini
Moses Seguru Toni Caradonna
Motheo Matsau
Nolwazi Magwaza
Sarah Summers
Sean Drummond
Thandeka Zwana

MARKET & INDUSTRY PARTY AT HARRINGTONS

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SATURDAY | 13Th OCTObER

MEZZANINE LEVEL EVENT SPACE SEMINAR ROOM SMALL MEETING PODS
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17)

09:00 09:00 09:00 - 11:00 09:00 - 11:00
11:00 VR Experience WGSA Pitch 2
Come and DFA Marketing and 7 Teams
experience Vr,
full programme Distribution
on page 60 Don edkins
Kelly-eve Koopman
richard Gregory
Miki redelinghuys

and Samkelo Donisi

11:00 - 13:00 11:00 - 13:00

EAVE Indaba Taster Biz Transformation
Coproducing with
europe with Roundtable
Mike Auret
linda Beath
Dr Lwazi Manzi
Maganthrie pillay
(Facilitator)

13:00 LUNCH Lunch with Local Post-Production Facilities at Vista Marina

15:00 15:00 - 17:00 15:00 - 15:30 15:00 - 17:00
17:00 - 19:00 MASTERCLASS: AFRICA HUB WIP Feedback
Cryto-Block Chain Eurpoean Film Market (Closed Session)
Toni Caradonna Jana wolff Mmabatho Kau and
15:30 - 17:00 eric lagesse
COCKTAIL HOURS The Art of Curating
Moderated by 15:00 - 16:00 Salvation
Silas Miami with 16:00 - 17:00 Lusala
Benjamin Illos Mmabatho Kau and
remi Bonhomme Don edkins
Tessa Boerman 17:00 - 18:00 Bolomboto

SEMINAR ROOM SMALL MEETING PODS MEETING ROOM 2
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17)

Sunday 09:00-17:00 09:00 -17:00
14 Oct
2018 ENGAGE & WIPS Linda Beath
w.I.p. producer& Director Company Doctoring
Monday
15 Oct + engage Strategies Sessions
2018
09:00-17:00 09:00 -17:00 09:00 -17:00
Tuesday
16 Oct ENAGE Linda Beath WIPs Participants
2018 Strategists prep for public Company Doctoring
presentation Sessions Post facility Tour
12 08:30 Departure from
Stay easy, Bree Street

10:00-13:00
ENGAGE
Audience Development
Strategy presentation

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MEETING ROOM 32 MEETING ROOM 43 COCMOMEDEYDCYLCULBUB CINECMINAE6MA 6 VEEXNPUOE TBC
(WORKSHOP 17) (WORKSHOP 17) (B(yBtyhtehWe Wataetreshrsehde)d) (Insid(IenMsidaell M@aHll&@MH) &M)

10:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 13:00 09:00 - 11:00 09:00-13:00
WORK CAFé W.I.P.7 (invitation only) SNAKE NATION
Kenya and South ABC of Applications: Salvation WORK SHOP
Africa Carmen Sangion (Director)
(Closed Sessions) Writing & Complying Kim Sangion (producer)
SA | 99min
with NFVF and DTI
11:00 - 12:15
applications. W.I.P.8 (invitation only)
Lusala
Moderated by Mugambi nthiga (Director)
Tiny Mungwe Guy wilson (producer)
Kenya | 56min
with
Liezel Vermeulen
Izette Mostert (DFA)
nelly Molokoane (DTI)
nFVF representative

LUNCH 12:15

14:00 - 18:00 15:00 - 18:00 15:00 - 17:00 W.I.P. 9 (invitation only)
WORK CAFé
ENGAGE: Brazil and MEET THE MAKERS Bolomboto
Valeria richter Nigeria Tovoniaina rasoanaivo
(Closed Session) (Closed Sessions) Box Office Success (Director)
Participants: luck Razanajaona
Carolyn Carew Ellen: The Ellen (Director/ producer)
Faye Kabali Kagwa Madagascar | 70min
Moses Seguru Pakkies Story
Motheo Matsau Schalk w. Burger
Nolwazi Magwaza (producer)
Sarah Summers paulo Areal
Sean Drummond
Thandeka Zwana (producer)

COCKTAIL HOURS

NOTES:

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ASTERClASSE Create, Collaborate
and Celebrate film
with the CTIFMF

Industry programme:
Panels, Workshops, Masterclasses

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PANEL: POSITIONING AFRICA (Coloured Mentality), Klinka Qiniso (Foxy Five)
Series like The Misadventures of an Awkward
10 October, 15:00-17:00, Comedy Club Black Girl have punched through into the
Panellists: Antonio Falduto, Cara Cusumano, foreground of pop culture by circumventing
Dorothee wenner traditional channels and using the more
And Filmmakers Amirah Tajdin, Don edkins accessible medium of web series to bring us
Phillipa Ndisi-Herrmann, Zamo Mkhwanazi intimate views of lives and worlds that are
Moderator: Tiny Mungwe often marginalised in mainstream media.
This panel will bring us up to speed with the numerous such successes from the margins
technological progress that has been made demonstrate the way in which the form can
in the industry. Moving through Vr and Ar be used to dispel myths that veil the high
this discussion will focus on the need for demand for visual content by and for Africa
updating modes of viewing, and still putting and the diaspora. Makers share their insights
emphasis on the African context. into the challenges and possibilities.

PANEL: REFRAMING GENDER PANEL: LADIMA FOUNDATION:
AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE PAN-AFRICAN COMMUNITY
SOUTH AFRICAN FILM INDUSTRY: BUILDING FOR WOMEN
TOWARDS A GREATER INCLUSION
AND EMPOWERMENT OF 12 October, 11:15-13:00, Comedy Club
BLACK WOMEN Panellists: Catherine Gitahi - Kenya Film
Commission, Mildred okwo - producer and
11 October, 11:15-13:00, Event Space Director (nigeria), phillipa ndisi Herrmann –
Curator: Themba Bhebhe (Flourishing Films) Filmmaker (Kenya), SwIFT representative
Panellists: Bianca Isaac, Bridget pickering, Moderator: Tiny Mungwe
Jacky lourens, Maganthrie pillay (Masala Film The ladima Foundation has a pan-African
works), Zoe ramuschu and collaborative vision that prioritizes
Moderator: Tiny Mungwe partnerships, cooperation, and inclusion.
This will be a much-needed, frank discussion ladima will strive to forge long-lasting
on the urgency of prioritising the creation partnerships with like-minded organisations
of opportunity for black female filmmakers and to be a platform that celebrates tolerance,
in Africa. #MeToo has become an all too diversity and Afro-positivity through the art
familiar cry, as the hostility of the film of filmmaking and related fields. For 105
industry as experienced by women becomes minutes during this session, the conversation
undeniable, and black women face double will be guided to focus and highlight if there
exclusion on the basis of both their gender is a need to build networks and collaborate
and race. But where do we practically go as African women in film. Is it necessary for
from here, now that recognition of this truth African women in film to collaborate? Will
is becoming more widespread? what kinds having a pan African approach to filmmaking
of interventions might be effective? How do improve opportunities for African women in
we act on this moment? film?  The conversation is a preamble to the
official launch of the Ladima Foundation A
PANEL: TAKE IT TO THE WEB list, a database of women professionals in
film, TV and content across Africa. The list
11 October, 11:15-13:00, Seminar Room (W17) aims to become the most comprehensive
Panellists: Dorothee wenner database of professional women in Africa. 
(Kinshasa Collection), Kelly-eve Koopman It will be open and accessible to all – shared
widely especially with companies and
agencies who may be looking for talented
women to work on various productions and
projects.

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PANEL: PIONEERING WORKSHOP: ABCOFAPPLICATIONS:
SPACES CIRCLE WRITING & COMPLYING WITH NFVF
AND DTI APPLICATIONS.
12 October, 15:00-17:00, Mezzanine Level
Panellists: Brian Afande (Black rhino), 13 October, 09:00-13:00, Comedy Club
Ingrid Kopp (electric South) Panellists: Liezel Vermeulen,
This round circle will bring us up to speed Izette Mostert (DFA), Nelly Molokoane (DTI),
with the technological progress that has nFVF representative
been made in the industry. Moving through Moderator: Tiny Mungwe
Vr and Ar this discussion will focus on the This workshop offers a hands-on approach
need for updating modes of viewing, and to documentary budgeting, and goes one
still putting emphasis on the African context. step further by looking at specific funding
The blockchain revolution is transforming application like the Hot Docs Blue Ice.
the relationship of content creators with This workshop will provide an in-depth
their audiences, encouraging direct value look at the various funding opportunities
exchange over the internet. Its gradual available through the nFVF, as well as
mainstream adoption is helping overcome the DTI Film & TV production and post-
some of the issues that surround exchange production Incentive and the emerging
online. What might be the ways to find Black Filmmakers Incentive.
finance for VR? Will the structural advantages
of blockchain and other new platforms WORKSHOP: DFA MARKETING
for marketing and exhibition, for example, AND DISTRIBUTION
present more opportunities than challenges?
13 October, 09:00-11:00, Event Space
PANEL: CO-PRO THERAPY – Panellists: Don edkins, Kelly-eve Koopman,
RULES OF THE GAME richard Gregory, Miki redelinghuys and
Samkelo Donisi
12 October, 15:00-17:00, Event Space This workshop takes a broad look at how to
Panellists: Bridget pickering, Diana elbaum, get your documentary film to its audience:
Himesh Kar , Linda Beath, Steven Markowitz From building an online audience as
Moderator: elias ribeiro independent filmmakers, to structuring
Based on the principles of couples therapy, a crowd-funding campaign and creating
Co-pro Therapy creates a safe space to a following, his panel will engage with
talk through the murkier questions of questions related to reaching high end
uneven power relations in international co- markets with comprehensive global
productions. elias ribeiro asks linda Beath strategy or maximising impact through
and Himesh Kar to take a seat on his sofa mobile screenings.
to talk through some of the pitfalls and joys
of these “it’s-complicated”, long-distance BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
creative and business relationships. while ROUND TABLE
also hearing the other side of the discussion
from local filmmakers such as Steven 13 October, 11:00-13:00, Seminar Room
Markowitz and Bridget Pickering. How do Panellists: Mike Auret, Dr Lwazi Manzi
we deal with our partners’ baggage, set Facilitator: Maganthrie pillay
healthy boundaries, and find a way forward The transformation agenda remains a key
to our best selves? Couple goals! issue in the film industry: everyone agrees
there is still a lot of work to be done and it’s
16 happening too slowly. However, there are
a few case studies where there is success:

Spier Films being one of them. what does PANEL: THE ART OF CURATING
transformation look and feel like in real life
on a day to day basis? Dr Lwazi Manzi and 12 October, 15:30 - 17:00, Seminar Room
Michael Auret talk about the new Spier Panellists: Benjamin Illos, Jim Kolmar,
partnership with Kule Chitepo, how it came remi Bonhomme, Tessa Boerman
about over time and what the key factors Moderator: Silas Miami
are to meaningful transformation within ever wondered what goes into curating a
a company. Additionally Mike and Lwazi, film festival programme? This panel brings
having both sat in various boards including together curators and programmers from
IPO (where Lwazi was co-chair 2016), South the best film festivals from around the globe
African Film Academy, SwIFT etc, and both as they break down what they look for in
having a firm track record of fringe industry films to join their esteemed programs.
initiatives (Sithengi, Cinecultureetc) will share
their experience of the machinations of policy
making and the steps to transformation at
every rung of the value chain.

WORKSHOP: HOW TO GET REP’D

12 October, 15:00-16:00, Comedy Club
Panellists: Cynthia okaye (Curtis Brown),
David Kayser (Cassarto & ramsey)
A conversation with experts on artist
representation. what are the advantages of
working with a talent agent? what do agents
look for when considering taking a client?
What should filmmakers look for in an agent?
when is the right time in one’s career to seek
representation? what could a screenwriter,
actor or director expect from the client-
agent relationship?

MASTERCLASS: CRYPTO &
BLOCKCHAIN

13 October, 15:00-17:00, Event Space
Panellists: Toni Caradonna
Toni Caradonna will share first-hand
experience of financing a film with
cryptocurrency, and how innovations in
blockchain and financial technologies could
be utilised in the film industry, especially on the
African continent, where telecommunication
technology is developing alongside a culture
of micro-entrepreneurialism. How does it
relate to crowdfunding as we know it? what
doors does could crypto-technologies open
for filmmakers? And, most importantly, how
does it all work?

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ADAPThey say that film is a language, and a picture is worth a thousand words.
Whether a story plays out on a screen in front of our eyes, or in the
imagined world conjured by the weaving of literary tapestry, the African
continent has a rich tradition of storytelling language that extends to
the earliest reaches of human memory.
The ADApT forum runs over the 11th and 12th of october and is a programme that
exists to create space for collaboration between artists who are working to bring to
light and to life the dreams and realities of Africa in both the medium of the printed
word and the cinematic image. CTIFMF will assemble top creative’s and professionals
from the film and publishing industries in the spirit of collaboration – in line with the
festival’s theme – to pioneer pathways of connection that will allow Africa’s cinematic
talent to shine the work of its immense literary talent onto the big screen.
open to all market delegates, ADApT will feature toolbox sessions, workshops and
masterclasses with experts specialising in the field, that will explore potential models
and practices that prioritise the uniqueness of understanding and capitalising on the
possibilities of a dynamic, young and contemporary Africa. The programme seeks to
delve into the pragmatic mechanisms of the process of translating word to film, from
the technical to the legal, while also providing a look into the current landscape of
publishing by presenting a selection of works by some of the literary world’s brightest
stars, all of which are available for optioning. The programme is designed to facilitate
cross-pollination between writers and filmmakers, with authors receiving coaching
in pitching their work for a filmmaking audience, and producers being offered the
opportunity to take one-on-one meetings with six brilliant African scribes, and the
holders of the rights to their work.
ADApT innovatively combines the forces of our continent’s chroniclers and fabulists
in a positive feedback loop to exponentially increase the power of African narratives,
giving reader-loved stories another life, and new worlds to cinema from the page.

THE LINEUP ADAPT - BOOKS
PRESENTATION
ADAPT - MASTERCLASS:
From Book to Screen 11 October, 15:00-17:00, Event Space
Moderator: Selina Ukwuoma
11 October, 09:00 - 11:00, Event Space Having undergone one-to-one
Speaker: Selina Ukwuoma mentorship in the pitching and
adaptation, six of Africa’s admired
open to all delegates, this session will contemporary authors will present to
see screenwriter and story editor Selina experts in the film industry their vision
Ukwuoma delivering insights into for how their work might translate
the details of transforming a work of into film. The rights to their work also
prose into a screenplay, and ultimately available for option. This is the first
moving image, exploring both the initiative of its kind in South Africa,
creative and technical considerations which seeks to find models for the
of adaptation. creative industry that are suited to
the African context. After the book
18 presentation producers and rights
holders will take one-on-one meeting.
we hope to see business happening!

SELINA UKOUMA THE EXPERTS

Selina is a freelance script consultant who began her career at literary agency
Curtis Brown working on a number of adaptations including 2008 BAFTA
winner BoY A. She has since gone on to advise on award-winning indies such
as 2014 Teddy winner THe wAY He looKS and this year’s Goyas triumph
SUMMer 1993. As well as consulting for production companies and designing
and running development initiatives with various organisations, Selina
teaches screenwriting with the UK’s national Film and Television School and
is currently developing a course on adaptation. Selina also leads workshops
on pitching at various film festivals worldwide.

LARA BRANDANI

lara Brandani is a director in the Technology, Media, Telecommunications &
Intellectual Property Practice at law firm, Webber Wentzel. She specialises in
all types of contentious and non-contentious Ip matters. She has extensive
experience in trade mark applications, prosecutions and oppositions (both
locally and internationally) as well as handling various types of Ip-related
disputes. She advises on the protection and commercialisation of Ip generally,
conducts Ip audits and due diligences, advises on the Ip aspects in corporate
transactions and restructures as well as advising on and drafting all types of
commercial agreements involving Ip (including joint venture / collaboration
agreements, research and development agreements, assignment agreements,
licence agreements, franchise agreements and restraint agreements). lara’s
experience also includes food labelling and advertising and promotional
competitions. She is a UK qualified solicitor and a member of the Law Society
of england and wales, and has an llB degree from the University of Sussex in
the United Kingdom. She has also completed a legal practice Course from
the College of law in Guildford, United Kingdom.

ADAPT - MASTERCLASS: ADAPT - PANEL DISCUSSION:
Legal Aspects of Adaptation From Book to Screen

12 October, 09:00-11:00, Event Space 12 October, 11:00-13:00, Event Space
Participants: Lara Brandani Participants: Duduzile Mabaso (Publisher),
(Webber Wentzel) Imraan Coovadia (Writer), Brigid Olen
Adapting a book to a screenplay involves (Producer), Corne van Rooyen (Director)
a specific set of legalities related to
optioning, intellectual property, and Moderator: Selina Ukwuoma
rights ownership. Before you sign on
any dotted lines, this masterclass will Representatives from the film and publishing
equip you with knowledge that will industries come together to speak through some
help you navigate the process. of the creative concerns and experiences
one might expect to encounter when deciding
to pursue adaptations of literature, hearing voices
from both sides of the line. what relationship does
the author have to their work once it’s been taken on
by a screenwriter? Can an author be a collaborator?
What responsibility does the filmmaker have to “do
justice” to a book? Are there examples we might
learn from?
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RED INk A SPY IN TImE

by AnGelA MAKHolwA by IMrAAn CooVADIA

published by pan Macmillan published by penguin

SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS

red Ink is a gripping thriller, set in present- In enver eleven’s city, fair-skinned people
day Johannesburg, it has a distinctly local are a rarity and have been for centuries.
flavour and brings the city to life through They work as acrobats and jugglers or apply
all its contrasts and contradictions. skin-darkening creams to conceal their
when public relations consultant and condition. Johannesburg is the city that
ex-journalist lucy Khambule receives an survived the end of the world thanks to the
unexpected call from napoleon Dingiswayo shelter provided by the thousands of miles
– a convicted serial killer, nicknamed The of mining tunnels running beneath it. It’s
Butcher – her life takes a dramatic turn. enver’s job at the Agency to make sure that
Dingiswayo wants lucy to tell his story. the end of the world doesn’t come again.
Intrigued by Dingiswayo’s approach, lucy He and his mentor, Shanumi Six, specialise
decides to take this opportunity to fulfil in the hotspots of the twentieth century—
her life-long dream of writing a book. After Marrakech, rio de Janeiro, Tokyo—where
their initial contact, Dingiswayo becomes they travel in search of an elusive enemy,
an all-too- obliging subject and lucy soon guided by the collective intelligence of the
discovers that her choice of topic is not for Agency’s thinking machines which limit
the faint-hearted. Soon after meeting him time travel to the bare minimum. when
in pretoria’s notorious C-Max prison, lucy’s Shanumi vanishes on an assignment
world is turned upside down by a series of Enver finds himself in the middle of a
violent and disturbing events. Dingiswayo catastrophe which will require him to
is behind bars, but lucy begins to suspect put his assumptions to the test in an
that the brutal attacks may have something atmosphere of conspiracy and intrigue
to do with him. who is this frightening that harkens back (and forward) to John le
man, and what motivates him? As lucy Carré and ray Bradbury.
learns that there is more to Dingiswayo’s
story than the police discovered, she is AbOUT ThE AUThOR
forced to decide what price she is willing
to pay to pursue her dream. Imraan Coovadia is a writer and director
of the creative writing program at the
AbOUT ThE AUThOR University of Cape Town. His fiction has
been published in several countries, and
Angela Makholwa lives and works in he has written for The new York Times, The
Johannesburg. red Ink was her best Boston Globe, The los Angeles review of
selling debut novel, first published in 2007. Books, The Independent, Times of India
This was followed by the entertaining and Sunday Independent. He graduated
escapades and sexual misadventures from Harvard College. His work has won
of modern women in The 30th Candle the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the
(2009). These first two novels have now University of Johannesburg Prize and the
been published in new paperback M-Net Prize, and has been long-listed for
editions. Angela’s third novel, Black widow the IMPAC Prize.

20Society(2013), marks a return to a thrilling,
crime-ridden world.

ThE REPUblIC ThE GOlD DIGGERS
OF GUPTA
by SUe nYATHI
by pIeTer loUIS MYBUrGH
published by pan Macmillan
published by penguin
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
The Zimbabwean author recounts the
The republic of Gupta investigates what experiences of her fellow compatriots
the Gupta brothers were up to during trying to make a life in Jozi. The stories
Thabo Mbeki’s presidency and how they of these desperate immigrants is both
got into the inner circle of president heartbreaking and heartwarming. It’s 2008
Jacob Zuma. It shines new light on their and the height of Zimbabwe’s economic
controversial ventures in computers, demise. A group of passengers is huddled
cricket, newspapers and TV news, and in a Toyota Quantum about to embark
coal and uranium mining. And it explores on a treacherous expedition to the City of
their exposure by public protector Thuli Gold. Amongst them is Gugulethu, who is
Madonsela, their conflict with finance hoping to be reconciled with her mother.
minister pravin Gordhan, and the real
reasons behind the cabinet reshuffle of AbOUT ThE AUThOR
March 2017.
Sukoluhle was, in her own words,
AbOUT ThE AUThOR “born, bred and buttered in Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe.” An avid writer, her creativity
pieter-louis Myburgh is an award-winning began at a young age of ten when she
investigative journalist. His series of was cutting out pictures from magazines
exposés on a multibillion-rand contract and writing stories around them. on
for new locomotives at the passenger rail completing her “A” levels, her intention
Agency of South Africa (prasa) earned was to study journalism but at that
him several accolades, including South time no such degree was on offer at any
Africa’s prestigious Taco Kuiper Award for Zimbabwean institution of higher learning
investigative journalism. After completing and so she chose to study Finance and
his Bphil (Honours) in journalism at later did a Masters in that program. Ms
Stellenbosch University, Myburgh cut nyathi has a career spanning over ten years
his teeth as a general reporter at Beeld in the financial markets. She is currently
newspaper in Johannesburg. He found on a sabbatical where she is pursuing her
his feet as an investigative journalist at creative interests. Her debut novel, titled
the Afrikaans weekly newspaper rapport the polygamist was published in 2012
before moving to news24, where he and the film adaptation is set for release
exposed the mechanics of dodgy deals in 2019. Her sophomore novel, the Gold
and crooked cronies. Diggers was released in June 2018.

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bOm bOY hARDlY WORkING

by YewAnDe oMoToSo by ZUKISwA wAnner

published by Modjadji Books published by Black letter Media

SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS

leke is a troubled young man living in Zukiswa wanner sets off on an adventure-
the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops filled road trip with her partner and son.
strange habits of stalking people, stealing Travelling through six borders, on busses
small objects and going from doctor to and on the backs of trucks, wanner
doctor in search of companionship rather celebrates the 10 years since her debut
than cure. Through a series of letters novel, The Madams, was published by
written to him by his nigerian father having a reading in as many countries as
whom he has never met, leke learns about possible. Between protests against bond
a family curse; a curse which his father had notes in Zimbabwe and celebrating her
unsuccessfully tried to remove. Bom Boy birthday, wanner reconnects with good
is a well-crafted, and complex narrative friends and gets the opportunity to give her
written with a sensitive understanding of son an African education that he’ll cherish
both the smallness and the magnitude of for years to come. This comedy of manners
a single life. for Mzansi roasts a desirable woman’s
lobola’s worth of sacred cows. Middle-class
AbOUT ThE AUThOR attitudes on hired help, adultery, Bee,
child rearing, cultural identity, shopping
Yewande omotoso was born in Barbados and HIV-status are lashed by Thandi’s
and grew up in nigeria, moving to South sharp tongue.
Africa with her family in 1992. She is the
author of Bom Boy, published in South AbOUT ThE AUThOR
Africa in 2011. In 2012 she won the South
African literary Award for First-Time Zukiswa wanner was born in Zambia to a
published Author and was shortlisted for South African father and a Zimbabwean
the South African Sunday Times Fiction mother. Her debut novel, The Madams,
Prize. In 2013 she was a finalist in the published in november 2006, dealt with
inaugural, pan-African etisalat Fiction racial role reversals in post-apartheid South
Prize. She lives in Johannesburg, where Africa. In addition to writing fiction, Zukiswa
she writes and has her own architectural has also contributed essays to oprah, elle
practice. Her most recent novel, The and Juice magazines, and literary reviews
woman next Door was published in 2016. and essays to Afropolitan and Sunday
Independent, as well as the international
22 online journal, African writing. She is also a
founding member of the readSA initiative,
a campaign encouraging South Africa to
read South African works.

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ENGAG The famous myth that, “If you build it, they will come,” does not actually, as
one would imagine, originate in the annals of ancient history, but rather in
the 1989 Kevin Costner baseball film, Field of Dreams. But it might be time
to stop taking advice from Hollywood movies, because it will only be through
inventive ways of actively reaching out to audiences close to home that the full
potential of cinema on the African continent will be realised.

enGAGe aims to push the exercise these skills through hands-
importance of audience design and on experience with real case studies.
engagement to the foreground of the Keeping with an ethos of tangible
conversation, to foster a more holistic outcomes, The enGAGe workshop
conception of the film value chain intertwines with the CTIFMF’s works in
and encourage a more sustainable progress programme, and will assign
eco-system for film industries on the each participant a project for which
continent. they will ultimately present an Audience
An intensive seven-day workshop under Design Strategy, and compete for a
the stewardship of creative producer cash prize and the opportunity to form
and consulting specialist Valeria richter an audience strategy for the CTIFMF’s
will see a group of eight marketing next edition.
and industry professionals coming The central premise of workshop is the
together to foreground the importance assumption that it is not enough to just
of engaging local audiences to shift blindly hope that films will reach the
the focus of imaginations and audiences we wish them to, and the
resources, back onto films made on programme will place in a pressure
home ground. cooker some of the sharpest minds in
Going beyond traditional marketing the worlds of distribution, exhibition,
models, participants will be equipped publicity, creative production and
with the most cutting-edge strategies programming to advance Afro-centric
to access and grow targeted audiences ways to ensure a bright filmic future on
in constructive, relevant ways. They will the continent for viewers and makers
alike.

24 THE MENTOR

Valeria Richter

Valeria mainly works as creative producer, scriptwriter and script consultant. She
works in her own company, nordic Factory Copenhagen, and has co-produced
features (Granny’s Dancing on the Table – Sweden 2015, Cora – Brazil 2018), docus
(The Feminist – Sweden 2018) and shorts (nordic Factory at Directors’ Fortnight –
DK/Finland 2014; one film, Listen, won Best Narrative Short at Tribeca FF 2015,
and has won over 50 awards). She was project manager for the nordic Film & TV
Fund led development initiative, nordic Genre Boost (2015-17), and has worked for
TorinoFilmlab (TFl) and the Baltic event (Be) co-production market since 2008
(powr Stories exchange). She developed the Audience Design approach and
workshop programme for TFl and has developed several concepts and formats for
training for them and other clients. She is currently writing and showrunning a TV-
series in collaboration with Finnish production company Bufo. In addition, Valeria has
experience teaching a course in Film Adaptation at the University of Cph. She holds
an MA in Film & Media Science, is a graduate producer from the Danish Super16 film
Collective and since 2009, member of the european Film Academy. Valeria is based
in Copenhagen, Denmark and has worked internationally since 2004.

THE PARTICIPANTS

Carolyn Carew faye kabali-kagwa
Executive Producer Founder
Free Women Films Six Degrees from Home
Carolyn Carew is the Ceo of Free women Faye Kabali-Kagwa was born to Ugandan
Films, and is an award-winning executive parents and grew up in Cape Town is a
producer with 30 years’ experience in collector of stories, a connector of people and
producing world-class and Internationally a wielder of words. She is also the founder of
acclaimed feature films, documentaries, Six Degrees From Home (6DFH) – a project
high end television dramas, youth formatted that seeks to host events and facilitate
shows, commercials, co-productions, social conversations around identity, migration, and
marketing campaigns and servicing. She displacement in the east African diaspora
has served on the inaugural nFVF council using art as a mediator. Currently, she works
(1999-2001) and on the documentary panel as a project co-ordinator and administrator
for the International emmy Awards. She has for ASSITeJ South Africa, an international
produced more than 150 hours of television, theatre organisation. She has worked on a
as well as three feature films and two feature variety of local, national and international art
documentaries in her career. Her work has festivals throughout her time there. These
been screened on major television channels, include the 19th ASSITeJ world Congress &
as well as film and television festivals and International Theatre Festival for Children and
distributed Internationally across the globe Young people: Cradle of Creativity, the South
including 38 African Countries. Carolyn has African national Arts Festival, the Cape Town
been featured in Forbes Africa and was also Fringe Festival, the Obz Family Festival and
selected to participate in the prestigious “10 the Institute for Creative Art’s live Art Festival
000 Business women programme” run by previously known as Infecting the City. Faye
Goldman Sachs/Gordon Business Institute freelances as an arts and culture journalist for
of Business, South Africa in 2014. The Mail & Guardian.

Motheo Matsau Moses Serugo
Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Journalist and Founder of
Sterkinekor African Movie Night: Kampala
Motheo Matsau is Ster-Kinekor’s head of Moses Serugo’s career in the film/ the audio-
Marketing. After working for Multi-Choice for visual sector started in 2009 after he quit
seven years, Matsau joined Ster-Kinekor in his job as an arts journalist at Daily Monitor,
2017. with a strong ideals in both marketing Uganda’s leading daily. That same year, he
and content development, Matsau work’s not attended the M-net Screenwriters workshop
only to aim to bring the international and local for east Africa, the Maisha Screenwriters lab
content to the country cinema goers but to at the Zanzibar International Film Festival
make the experience more pleasurable to the (ZIFF) and the Maisha Film lab in Kampala.
paying customers. Aside from his marketing later appointed the pr Manager of Uganda’s
endeavours, which saw him help launch premier independent film showcase, the
DSTV’s mobile content, he has worked with Amakula Kampala International Film Festival
international brands to enhance the local which led to the launch of the monthly
cinema experience. He also has set us other African Movie night Kampala at the national
grass roots audience development strategies Theatre in January 2016.
such as pop up screenings in schools to reach
audiences beyond the cinema. 25

nolwazi Magwaza Sarah Summers
Account Executive/Co-Owner Filmmaker/ Programmer
Versfeld & Associates Black Filmmakers Festival
Memeza Communications

Durban born and bred, public relations Sarah Summers is a maverick and artivist.
executive, radio presenter, DJ, Mc and She is also co-creator of the webseries
voice over artist Nolwazi Magwaza, joined Coloured Mentality which has become a
entertainment circles in January 2013 as a leading online platform to discuss South
presenter on east Coast radio and Gagasi African coloured identity.As a filmmaker she
FM. Nolwazi has been working in the PR field was selected to direct one of the three 2016
for four years. She currently is an account reeltime Competition Films during the
executive with Versfeld & Associates, well- Shnit International Film Festival. Her student
known South African pr consultants with short, Gatvol has premiered at the Durban
a special interest in film, and she also is a Film Festival. She has just completed a short
Director of Memeza Communications which film which she wrote and directed on the
works closely with the Durban Film Office. nFVF’s Young Filmmakers program. Besides
She works as an MC at a variety of events directing short films, Sarah has worked on
(most recent: Durban International Film radio and in TV and is currently in post-
Festival Awards), sought-after voice over artist production with her feature documentary
(most recent: KZn Shero Awards) and DJ’s The road Back. Sarah is also part of the
(most recent: Soul Sunday at Café Dior). Black Filmmakers Film Festival, curating and
hosting panel discussions with filmmakers.

Sean drummond Thandeka zwana
Producer/Writer/Co-Founder Production and
Be Phat Motel Film Company Development Executive
Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival Indigenous Films
Sean is a screenwriter, creative and conceptual
producer and documentary director, with his Thandeka Zwana joined the film Industry in
own company Be phat Motel Film Company. 2004, working in production at DV8 Films
His debut feature film Five Fingers for on films such as Max and Mona, The Flyer
Marseilles premiered at Toronto International and Bunny Chow. She then worked as a line
Film Festival,  continuing on to many other producer for a number of film and television
international festivals. His shorts  and feature projects, and after doing a course in script
documentaries have screened extensively editing, Thandeka joined the national Film
at festivals around the world.  Sean is the and Video Foundation as a Development
founding manager of Schnit  Worldwide Manager, developing and promoting South
Shortfilmfestival in Cape Town. He has hosted African films, both locally and internationally.
panels on development, production, finance In 2018, Thandeka joined Indigenous Film
and distribution around South Africa and has Distribution as production and Development
served on the writers’ Guild of South Africa’s executive.
executive council. He produced and hosted
three seasons of radio talk show and podcast
Space life and other Dumb Ideas, focussed
on science, technology and pop culture. He is
represented by william Morris endeavor and
Management 360 and is based in Cape Town,
South Africa.

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WiPs
worKS In proGreSS You’ve been through the exhilarating Five promising feature films and four
process of production. The film, as documentaries from across the African
they say, is in the can. Now sunlight is continent have been selected to screen
a distant memory and you’re spending their unfinished works to an illustrious
most of your life in an edit suite, group of authorities in a protected
debating which parts of your vision are environment that is designed to
going to end up on the cutting room be supportive, empowering and
floor. Completion is the only thing on constructively critical. Filmmakers will
your mind. also receive one-to-one mentorship
During the intense focus of post- in a “creative surgery”. The panel has
production, it’s easy to lose sight of been crafted to span a spectrum of
the bigger picture, despite the fact know-how, on a local and international
that the process of the cut is arguably scale, to ensure a careful balance of
the most formative. When you can no considerations in a world-facing Africa.
longer see the wood through the trees, Ultimately, in-kind post-production
wouldn’t it be great to have a panel of support will be awarded to the most
trusted experts to help you step back promising projects (with the generous
and reflect? Is your plot line full of support of Priest Post, Rhapsody, The
holes? Will audiences connect to the Refinery, The Work Room Audio Post,
characters? How might a little spit and Post Production South Africa and The
polish take your movie from mediocre Moving Billboard Picture Company), to
to masterpiece? help these cinematic buds to blossom
CTIFMF recognises the crucial value of into something spectacular, like the
receiving constructive, knowledgeable springtime fynbos in Cape Town.
feedback during the post-production
process. African filmmakers need *WIP screenings are by invitation only
sustained support throughout their and will take place at 09:00 and 11:00
projects’ life cycles to be able to every day from the 10-13 of October
navigate the evolving needs of at cinema Nu Metro 6 in the V&A
audiences around the world, beginning Waterfront.
at home. So we have gathered an
expert cohort of fresh eyes - including
those of international programmers,
sales agents, broadcasters, distributors,
exhibitors and talent agents - to help
filmmakers connect the dots between
making a film and showing a film.

The Cape Town International Film Market & Festival would like to thank
Alessandra Speciale and our sponsors who have kindly contributed to the
Works In Progress programme.

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THE MENTORS

DON EDkINS ERIC lAGESSE
Don Edkins is an award-winning South African Eric Lagesse is the CEO and main shareholder
documentary filmmaker and producer based of Pyramide’s group, running both the French
in Cape Town. He has produced documentary distribution and the world sales branches. Eric
projects that have been broadcast and screened Lagesse has been working at Pyramide since 1992.
to audiences around the world, such as Steps for He started as a sales agent and became Managing
the Future, Why Democracy? and Why Poverty? Director of the company in 2004, taking in charge
He is Executive Producer of AfriDocs, the first the French distribution. In 2008 he bought the
weekly primetime documentary strand across company to the Fabienne Vonier, co-founder of
sub-Saharan Africa, and of Dare to Dream Asia, a Pyramide (in 1989).
new project with Asian filmmakers. He is currently
developing a new documentary film project
Generation Africa.

mmAbAThO kAU SARAh DAWSON
Mmabatho has worked as a producer, broadcaster,
development executive and script consultant for Sarah Dawson divides her time between the
over 15 years. She has produced a wide variety UK and South Africa and has nearly a decade’s
of shows in public service and commercial pay experience in international film programming,
for various broadcasters in South Africa and has having worked with a festivals across the two
worked as a script consultant on films such as My countries. She has contributed in curatorial
Zulu Wedding, Whale Caller, Kalushi: the Solomon and advisory capacities to the programmes of
Mahlangu Story and Beyond The River. Her festivals such as the Durban International Film
varied experiences are testament to her passion Festival, Africa in Motion, and the London Short
for re-telling Africa’s story and finding ways to Film Festival. Currently, she manages the film
contribute towards building a sustainable film programme for one of the world’s foremost
and television industry. In 2017 she joined Urucu documentary festivals, Sheffield Doc/Fest. She
films as a co-story consultant on their Writing holds a Masters degree (cum laude) in the history
Residency programme (REALNESS). She was and theory of cinema and writes professionally,
recently selected to participate as a script editor specialising in contemporary African cinema, and
in the Torino Script Lab 2018. has written a book on best practice for African
arts festivals with the Arterial Network, and
contributes regularly as a freelance film critic to
publications such as the Mail & Guardian.

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THE JURY

ARYA lAllOO CYNThIA OkOYE DOmINIqUE WElINSkI
Filmmaker Talent Agent at Curtis Brown producer Dw
Arya lalloo is a multi-disciplinary
South African filmmaker based Cynthia okoye joined Curtis Dominique welinski founded
in Johannesburg. She has written Brown in 2008 having Dw, a production company,
and directed shorts, music graduated from the University of and developed the concept of
videos and factual programs as nottingham with a law degree. the Factory to pair promising
well as the acclaimed feature okoye work’s at Brown as an international filmmakers to
documentary Jeppe on a Friday agent concentrating on building codirect short films with
(with Shannon walsh). As an editor a list of exciting writers and filmmakers from Taipei, then
she has contributed to the feature directors for film and television, nordic countries, Chile and
documentaries The Giant is Falling so she am always keen to track South Africa, lebanon and
and everything Must Fall and new talent. She previously worked Tunisia. The next one will be
acted as production designer on with Amanda Davis representing See Factory in Sarajevo. All the
Rafiki the first Kenyan feature film an amazing list of both new and Factory films opened at Director’s
to be selected for competition at established writing and directing Fortnight in Cannes. She is also
the Cannes Film Festival. She has talent across drama, comedy and a consultant for international
also worked within the broader documentary. strategy and development
arts and culture environments, around the world. She’s also
including an appointment as been an expert and coach for
the artistic director of the large- numerous films internationally.
scale public arts initiative “Michel Dw is developing Amma by
Gondry’s Home Movie Factory in Sanjeewa pushpakumara,
Johannesburg. Shikolbaha by Kamar Ahmad
Simon (Bengladesh), Hawa Hawai
by Amirah Tajdin (Kenya), even
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mOhAmED SIAm REmI bONhOmmE SATA CISSOkhO
Filmmaker Cannes la Semaine de la Acquisitions at Memento Films
Siam is a Member of The Academy Critique program Manager International
of Motion pictures Arts & Sciences. rémi Bonhomme has Sata Cissokho is in charge of
He’s a a fiction and documentary collaborated with la Semaine Acquisitions at Memento Films
filmmaker whose film WHOSE de la Critique since 2003 and International. She first joined
CoUnTrY? was shown in nYFF, was appointed programme the company in 2014 as Festivals
Karlovy Vary, Vision du réel and Manager in 2009. In 2014 he Manager while also handling
Journées Cinématographiques launched in collaboration with the art-house label ArTSCope,
de Carthage where he won Best the TorinoFilmlab, next Step, a whose titles include Chaitanya
Cinematography. His film AMAL program dedicated exclusively Tamhane’s ‘Court’ (lion of the
was 2017 IDFA opening Film to the filmmakers selected at Future and Orizzonti Award for
that won Sheffield Jury Prize la Semaine de la Critique with Best Film - Venice 2014) and
and FidaDoc Award and went their short films, to support Gabriel Mascaro’s ‘neon Bull’
to Göteborg, CpH Dox, Vision their transition to feature film. (Special Jury Prize - Venice
du réel, Hot Docs, and was rémi is also board’s member 2015). She previously worked at
sold worldwide. Siam has won of Metropolis Art Cinema and new York-based independent
the Robert Bosch Film Prize, cofounder of the company MC distribution company Zeitgeist
the AfriDocs Prize at Durban Distribution (lebanon). He was Films, and assisted the Tribeca
FilmMart and Thessaloniki Docs- an associate producer on the FF’s programming team. She also
In-progress award. He’s a reader, Lebanese feature film Every Day is took part in several co-production
jury in Karlovy Vary, Göteborg a Holiday by Dima el-Horr, which platforms including paris project
Film Festivals and IDFA Bertha premiered at Toronto Festival in and les Arcs Co-production
Fund and Hot Docs among 2009. remi also collaborated as Village.
many others. A fellow scholar a consultant with festivals such
and filmmaker resident in the as Doha Tribeca Film Festival or
American University in paris. Siam Bird’s eye View (london) and
is newly inducted member of the served as Jury in Busan, Morelia,
Academy of Motion picture Arts Thessaloniki, los Cabos, Durban
and Science Documentary guild. and Buenos Aires’ Festivals.

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THE EXPERTS

AbUlElE NjISANE bENjAmIm IllOS CARA CUSUmANO
Durban International Film Festival Cannes Director’s Fortnight Tribeca
Benjamin Illos is a program Cara Cusumano is the Director
Abulele njisane is an emerging adviser for the Directors’ Fortnight, of programming for the Tribeca
scholar at the School of Arts, Media a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, where she oversees
and Cultural Studies Department. Film Festival. Created in 1968, it’s feature film and TV programming.
She has always been intrigued selection has always strived to prior to Tribeca, she programmed
by the role of mass media within be a freedom claim, eclectic and for the Hamptons International
societies and felt the need to receptive to all forms and voices.. Film Festival, including curating
explore its influence on audience He has collaborated for a decade HIFF’s signature Conflict &
knowledge and perceptions. with pierre rissient, promoting resolution competition and
Her honours research focused films and directors. Over the years oscar-qualifying shorts program,
on exploring Durban’s film he has been active in scriptwriting, and has also worked with film
friendliness as a South African film editing, subtitling and writing organizations including the Abu
city compared to other thriving about films. Dhabi Film Festival, the Brooklyn
film cities such as Cape Town and International Film Festival, IFp,
Johannesburg. Her current doctoral poV, Chicken & egg, & Sundance.
research explores the relationship She frequently serves on major
between cinema, the state and festival juries and panels, and is
national identity, particularly in a member of the nominating
South Africa. She is currently writing committees for the Cinema
a paper titled Conceptualising eye Honors, the International
South African national Cinema Documentary Association Awards,
which she presented in a and the Gotham Awards. Her first
conference in Sweden(2017) and in short documentary The Bloop was
one of DIFF’s film workshops(2017). an official selection of a dozen
She has also worked as a sub-editor international festivals was winner
of film review articles on DIFF 2017. of an Audience Award at the 2016
Abulele has also had the privilege new orleans Film Festival. She
of sitting on Durban International holds degrees in Film Studies from
Film Festival’s (DIFF) film review Columbia University’s Barnard
panel for 2018. An opportunity College and new York University’s
to not only critically discuss and Tisch School of the Arts.
recommend what’s regarded as
best film works of the year 2018 but
also a window through which she
observed what other nations are
doing cinematically. She recently
joined AFDA Durban’s exam panel
for student film productions, which
will be screened in november 2018;
she considers it a great opportunity
to contribute her knowledge and
expertise in Film studies to South
Africa’s upcoming film industry
talent.

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ClAIRE GADéA ConfidenCe Vilakazi DAVID kAYSER
MpM premuim SterKinekor Casaratto, ramsay & Associates
Claire Gadéa started her career Confidence has a Diploma in David Kayser is a talent agent at
at JBA production with producer Journalism, Broadcast major. Casarotto ramsay & Associates
Jacques Bidou. As a production She joined SterKinekor Theatres - one of the world’s leading
assistant, she worked on about in September 2016 in the role of creative agencies, representing
ten feature films including regional Content Scheduler, after writers, directors, dramatic rights
one evening After the war by 10 years in the Television Industry to books & estates across film, TV
rithy panh, and lumumba by at Mindset network and open and theatre. The company also
Raoul Peck.  She worked with View HD. Confidence was recently represents heads of department
Steamboat Films as a production promoted to Content Manager for including production designers,
manager and was responsible SKT and in this role she oversees directors of photography,
for the ‘collection design’ for all content placement with a costume designers and line
the Franco-German TV channel focus on improved scheduling producers. He has also worked in
Arte, in co-production with the of local and Studio content on law, but in a supporting capacity.
Centre Georges pompidou. She the circuit. Confidence will also He studied at rhodes University
created the site VoD europa Film be increasingly involved in the before doing post-grad at The
Treasures in 2008 at lobster Films, implementation of SKT’s strategy oxford School of Drama and then
with the support from the Media for developing the local film the Institute of legal executives.
program and in partnership with industry and audiences going
30 European film archives. She forward.
executive produced the film Run
by philippe lacôte, which was
selected in the Un Certain regard
at Cannes and co-produced
the paraguayan documentary
Memory Exercises by Paz Encina,
the feature Zama by the lucrecia
Martel) and Rafiki by Wanuri
Kahiu (with Steven Markovitz). In
2018, she was part of the launch a
new international sales company
MpM premium.

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THE EXPERTS

DOROThEE WENNER FUNA mADUkA hElEN kUNN
Berinale Netflix Indigenous Film Distribution
Dorothee wenner works with Funa Maduka is a creative and Helen Kunn is a South African
Berlinale International Film acquisitions executive within sales agent and distributor. In
Festival. She has been the Netflix Original Films where 2009 she founded Indigenous
delegate to the festival for films she works with the world’s top Film Distribution, an indie film
from Sub-Saharan Africa and global and emerging filmmakers. distribution outfit. Helen has
South Asia since 2000, she also Throughout her tenure, she more than 25 years experience
works as a programmer for the has remained positioned at in marketing & distribution. She
International Forum/Berlinale. the frontline of the company’s served as head of acquisitions
She serves on the jury of world global expansion, managing local content for Ster-Kinekor
Cinema Fund/Berlinale/Africa the launch of the film offering Distribution from 2003 till
programme. For DOK Leipzig, she across 100+ countries. Her film 2009. During her career she
works as a program consultant. acquisitions brought Netflix its has overseen  the release of over
first film nominations at both the 40 local titles including white
34 Golden Globes and the Academy Wedding, Izulu Lami and Bakgat.
Awards. previously she worked Indigenous Film Distribution has
at participant Media developing released more than 60 local films
and managing campaigns for & remains the sole distributor
film and television projects. in SA focused on local content.
She has held leadership and Her career highlights include
strategic positions at McKinsey rolling out District9, the release
& Company, the oprah winfrey of Academy Award winner Tsotsi.
Foundation (where she served Implementation of the oscar
four years as the inaugural roadshow post the film’s win.
Dean of Students at the oprah Most recently IFD released oscar
winfrey leadership Academy), shortlisted ‘Inxeba. Contemporary
obama for America, the Clinton highlights ‘Five Fingers for
Global Initiative and on the Marseilles’. ‘elelwani’, ‘Inumber
trading floor at Goldman Sachs. number’, ‘Four Corners’, ‘Ayanda’,
She holds a BA in History from ‘Liefling’, ‘Semi Soet’, ‘Mrs Right
Cornell University and a Masters Guy’& ‘Khumba’. She has served
in Business Administration from on several boards including Audio
Harvard Business School, where Visual entrepreneurs of Africa
she served on the Board of (AVeA), South African Scriptwriters
Trustees and as president of the Association (SASwA), jury chair
Student Body, respectively. She is member of the South African Film
an awarded filmmaker, credited & TV Awards (SAFTAS). She has
with producing and directing served as a task team member
the first Nigerian film to world of the Department of Trade &
premiere at the Sundance Film Industry Film & TV rebate. She is
Festival. She remains active in a guest lecturer at South African
girls education advocacy and School of Motion picture Medium.
water-access initiatives.

jACk ChIANG jANA WOlFF jIm kOlmAR
Independant programme Advisor european Film Market SXSw
Born in Taiwan, grew up in South Jana studied Communication in
Africa since the 80’s. Jack started Social and economic Contexts Jim Kolmar programs
his interest in films by writing (M.A.) at the Berlin University of international and documentary
reviews on the architecture faculty the Arts. Since the late 90s she films for South by Southwest Film
paper- “Ths wk” during his college has been working for Berlinale/ Festival (SXSw), where he also
days. In 2006, he was invited to eFM and had various positions in leads the experiential Storytelling
join the programme panel for other national and international conference program. He has
Durban International Film Festival, film festivals such as Sarajevo worked with Cine las Americas
the longest running film festival in FF, nordic Film Days lübeck, International Film Festival, and
Southern Africa; and in 2016, he Duisburg Documentary FF, Duhok Austin Film Society (AFS), where
served as Associate programmer IFF, oldenburg IFF, Motovun IFF he programmed a series of
at Joburg Film Festival. Jack and IDFA. She was Head of pr & Welsh films. He has served on
produced various of short films Festival Distribution at the German juries, panels and committees
that were selected for rotterdam Film and Television Academy including Ambulante, BAFICI,
International Film Festival in The (dffb), Head of Acquisition & Sales Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM),
netherlands, Africana Americano at pluto Film Distribution network CpH:DoX, Docaviv, DocsDF, IDFA
Asiano Film Festival in Milan, Italy, and is now in charge of Marketing and Ventana Sur.
and at Tate Modern Museum in at the european Film Market.
London. Those films were also
aired on South African open air
TV channel e-TV. Currently Jack
serves as a programme advisor
for CTIFMF, and also consults for
Busan International Film Festival
of South Korea and Taipei Golden
Horse International Film Festival
of Taiwan and recently Macao
International Film Festival, as
the African selection adviser
and is continuing to assist and
promote young talented African
filmmakers. Jack is based in
Durban and is producing his first
narrative feature film. Shooting
starts in late 2018.

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kEITh ShIRI NICOlETTE SChEEPERS PAPE bOYE
BFI london SterKinekor Versatile Films
Keith Shiri is a film curator and nicky joined the SterKinekor pape Boye is a paris based sales
programme advisor to the BFI Theatres team in August 2016 agent and cofounder of Versatile
london Film Festival and has in the role of Chief of Content Films. After graduating from The
served in the same position for and Scheduling after 19 years International Business School
the Venice Film Festival and the with SterKinekor entertainment, with a Masters of International. He
pan African Film and Television first in Marketing for both Sony worked as an assistant in the sale
Festival of ouagadougou pictures and Disney content department at StudioCanal. In
(Fespaco). He was a member and then moving into the role of 2002 he founded sales company
of the Berlinale world Cinema Sales executive. In this role nicky Funny Balloons. In 2012, he
Fund and a trainer for esodoc/eU oversaw all content placements started Versatile Films with his
(european Social Documentary). and negotiations with local partner Violaine pichon. Versatile
He is also a director of Books of exhibitors, working directly with is a paris-based sales company
Africa london and has served as local producers and Studio dedicated to supporting the
an expert advisor for the eU-ACp representatives in london and widest range of independent
programme, for the ACp cinema lA. with a focus on improved cinema and gifted filmmakers
and audio-visual sectors and the scheduling of local and Studio worldwide. our goal is both to
ouaga Film lab in Burkina Faso. content on the circuit, nicky introduce radical new talents and
He has been on the advisory board also oversees SKT’s sourcing of to establish successful creative
of new York’s Focus Features alternative content to provide a collaborations with already known
Africa First programme, and the more diverse content slate for and respected directors. Versatile
programming committee for the audiences. is passionately committed to
Otherfield Documentary Film nurturing and consolidating
Festival and a jury advisor for the privileged relationships - artistic
annual Africa Movie Academy and commercial – with the
Awards. broadest range of international
filmmakers and distributors, and
to devising strategies to maximize
the launch and continued life of
our films in the market.

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ShARlENE VERSFElD SImbI NkUlU TESSA bOERmAN
Versfeld Associates Black Filmmakers Film Festival rotherdam

Communications specialist Simbi Seam Nkula is a filmmaker, Tessa Boerman is a director and
Sharlene Versfeld, has been editor and director, born in likasi film programmer. In addition
involved professionally in the and raised in lubumbashi (DrC). she is a board member of the
South African arts sector since He is also the director of the Black Dutch Directors Guild, promoting
1987. She is most noted for Filmmakers Film Festival (BFFF), the interest for film directors in
her work as an arts marketer. which he founded together the industry, politics and the
Versfeld began her career at the with a small group of other film public domain and is chairing
natal performing Arts Council enthusiasts in 2015, prompted a taskforce to promote cultural
(now The playhouse) as an arts by the severe lack of support, diversity in the film and television
administrator, education officer opportunities and recognition for sector. She is a member of the
and Marketing Manager. Versfeld black filmmaking and people of student selection committee for
focuses on developing marketing colour in the (South) African film the directors dept of the Dutch
strategies for events and industry. The Black Filmmakers Film Academy School for the Arts.
organisations, across all genres Film Festival currently hosts She has worked in many different
of the arts including dance, monthly screenings in Cape areas in the field of arts and
visual art, film, music, theatre Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban. culture. She was a crown member
and literature. She has also had The organisation also hosts of the Council of Culture, and a
extensive experience working in trainings and helps aspiring black board member of oerol, and a
the corporate sector as well as filmmakers with producing their member of the advisory board
with government departments first shorts through the ‘City of of the Amsterdam Museum. She
on a number of projects such as Color’ project. Simbi studied at is now working as a programme
the Durban International Film City Varsity in Cape Town and advisor for International Film
Festival African renaissance has worked on several television Festival rotterdam. For IFFr she
Festival, United Against racism and commercial productions, has made the esteemed Black
Conference and Cop17. as well as music videos and rebels programme (2017) and
documentaries. pACT-pan African Cinema Today
(2018) in collaboration with IFFr
programmer peter van Hoof.

ThEmbA bhEbhE
Flourishing Films

Themba is a British-born international sales agent. His company
Flourishing Films specializes in the sales, production and North
American distribution of independent films from across the black
diaspora and diverse voices more generally. Themba also works for
the Berlinale’s European Film Market as Diversity Liaison Officer in
connection with the market’s ongoing commitment to the corporate
relevance of diversity for the international film industry. He has served
as Diversity Liaison Office for European Film Market (Berlinale), and
International Sales Manager International Marketing & Sales Coordinator
– pathé International.

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These workshop and learning sessions are for invited
guests and are not open to all delegates or public.

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jAhmIl X.T. qUbEkA kNUCklE CITY WIP | FeATUre FICTIon

Award-winning Filmmaker and DIRECTOR: Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
screenwriter Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s PRODUCER: layla Swart
career has spanned over 15 years
covering an entire spectrum of South Africa
filmmaking disciplines. Most notably, Contact:
his documentary and feature film [email protected]
work has enjoyed screenings at various
prestigious international film festivals SCREENING:
including Toronto International Film 10 OCTObER 11:00
Festival, rotterdam Film Festival,
london International Film Festival, SYNOPSIS
pusan International Film Festival
(Korea), Dubai Film Festival amongst 37 year old, aging boxer Dudu, is given
others. Jahmil was the 2014 South a once in a lifetime shot at a title fight,
African Standard bank Young Artist of but the stakes are raised when he
the year in the Film category. His second discovers that he must win the fight or
feature film Of Good Report (2013) has risk the lives of his family. Knuckle City is
the inauspicious reputation of being a thrilling ride into the heart of a fighter,
the first feature film to be effectively the underbelly of a notoriously complex
banned in post-Apartheid South Africa. township and the soul of a champion.
The fourth feature film from maverick
lAYlA SWART director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka delves into
the psychology of masculinity in one
layla Swart completed her of South Africa’s largest townships.
undergraduate degree in the exclusive Through boxing, a sport this region in
Film and Media production stream the eastern Cape is famous for, Qubeka
at the University of Cape Town, and dissects the journey from childhood
went on to complete her postgraduate for boys and men who have only been
degree in Film practice and Theory in taught to fight for survival.
2009. layla has found success as a Film
producer and editor in South Africa. 39
She is an advocate for authentic South
African cinema and is contributing
significantly to the expansion of the
industry in South Africa.

jAFTA mAmAbOlO FREEDOm

Jafta Mamabolo is a South African actor DIRECTOR: Jafta Mamabolo &
best known for his role as Young Kunene ralph Ziman
in the 2008 feature film Jerusalema.
Jafta’s early work includes presenting PRODUCER: Tendeka Matatu
jobs on The Molo Show, Yo TV Hot
Kids, Craze E, Knock Knock and Xiluva. South Africa
It was his portrayal of Kunene, a lead Contact: [email protected]
role in the acclaimed Jerusalema, that
brought him to international attention. SCREENING:
10 OCTObER, 09:00
He has also appeared in The lighthouse,
red ribbon on SABC2, erfsondes SYNOPSIS
and Brothers In law. He attended the
national School of Arts. He has done a Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and
lot of work within radio and television. punishment, FreeDoM follows the
With his fluency in a couple of languages journey of Freedom, a disillusioned and
he has worked with Motsweding FM, desperate university student, clinging
Lesedi FM, Ukhozi FM and Thobela to an impossible existence in inner-
FM.on the television side he has worked city Johannesburg. Set against the
as a presenter of e.tv’s Craze and other #FEESMUSTFALL movement the film
SABC’s programs. seeks to provide an insight into the
paradoxical concept of “freedom” that
TENDEkA mATATU faces the modern day, born-free South
African youth.
Tendeka Matatu is the founder and
WIP | FeATUre FICTIon managing director of the award-
winning production and distribution
company, Ten10 Films based in london.
He is widely recognised as one of Africa’s
most prolific film and TV producers. In
2018, Tendeka was invited to become
a member of The Academy of Motion
picture Arts and Sciences.

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mUGAmbI NThIGA lUSAlA WIP | FeATUre FICTIon

Mugambi landed his first acting gig DIRECTOR: Mugambi nthiga
at age 5,  as the little drummer boy in PRODUCER: Guy wilson
his nursery school nativity. The reviews
were excellent. His career would really Kenya
begin decades later, with appearances Contact: [email protected]
in plays and musicals in different stages
in nairobi. It’s when he found himself SCREENING
jobless in America in the middle of 13 OCTObER, 11:00
the 2008 recession that things got
exciting. In 2017, he co-wrote “Supa SYNOPSIS
Modo’, a family film directed Likarion
wainaina, which premiered at the 68th lusala (22) is a young man who lives
Berlin International Film Festival 2018, and works in two very separate parts of
and was awarded a Special Mention nairobi. He occupies his days working
from the Generation K plus Jury.  Supa in a garage in lower-class nairobi. every
Modo  continues a spirited worldwide evening, he joins the city’s working class
festival run and is still winning the masses making their journeys home,
adoration of viewers and critics. except he goes to the other nairobi;
upmarket neighbourhood, and the
palatial home of his adoptive family. His
uncle and aunt, onesmus and Beatrice
(late 40’s), adopted him twelve years
ago from rural Kenya, and raised him
together with their daughter Joma (17).
when lusala and Joma’s unabashed
sibling affection raises concerns with
Beatrice, she imposes on her husband to
make lusala move out and start life on
his own. onesmus relents, and despite
his apparent anxieties, so does lusala.
with his uncle’s help, and with Joma’s
moral support, Lusala moves into a flat
closer to his garage workplace. As lusala
settles in, he attempts to fit in with his
mechanic colleagues and shrug off his
anxiety and dejection, but his troubles
take a stronger hold of him. Days later,
lusala’s youngest sister Bakhita, who has
been away in boarding school, runs away
and unexpectedly shows up at his flat.
when he takes her in and opts to return
her to onesmus and Beatrice’s house, she
begs him to let her stay. He begrudgingly
agrees, telling her she can hide out in his
flat for a while. Word reaches Onesmus
that Bakhita has returned to stay with
lusala, and he and the family approach
lusala at the garage to speak with him
about it. The resulting confrontation
reveals that lusala’s mental state is fragile
and in peril, and despite his family’s best
intentions, one bigger, more ominous
confrontation lies ahead.

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CARmEN SANGION SAlVATION

Carmen Sangion made a number of DIRECTOR: Carmen Sangion
short films. A 10-minute film called “My PRODUCER: Kim Sangion
name is Jacob” about a small township
boy who tries to save but loses his sick South Africa
mother. She has also written, directed Contact: [email protected]
and produced a 26-minute short film,
“The lovers” about a woman sinking SCREENING:
into the depths of madness after her 13 OCTObER, 09:00
lover is killed. As well as the 26-minute
film “Southern Cross” which follows the SYNOPSIS
journey of young woman in a small
town struggling to choose between the Chance encounters on the streets of
life she knows and a future she doesn’t. Johannesburg connect Ezra – a young
Her work has been featured and man on the run from the law, roxy – a
recognized by the Durban International dejected stripper, and Father Benjamin
Film Festival, the rialto Film Festival – a despairing priest, in their search
in Amsterdam as well as the Brazilian of answers, acceptance and faith.
Short Film Festival. Charged to revive a struggling church
in a depressed inner city community,
kIm SANGION Father Benjamin is forced to learn
about forgiveness. Ezra’s escape from
Kim Sangion is a Johannesburg based his small town leads him to embark on
producer and  singer/ songwriter who a journey of self-discovery, while roxy
is a passionate about the craft. After finally confronts a past she buried deep
beginning her career as a musicia with in the recesses of her mind. when their
a varied musical background, having paths cross, they form an unlikely bond
studied sound engineering and working that forces them to venture out of their
at a major SA record label in A&r, she comfort zones and find freedom and
shifted her focus to film and works with salvation in truth and forgiveness.
her sister Carmen. Their our vision is to
WIP | FeATUre FICTIon see the establishment of a thriving and
viable, independent film industry with
a strong focus on incorporating African
aesthetics and values

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RENE VAN ROOYEN TOORbOS WIP | FeATUre FICTIon
Rene van Rooyen is a film director and
screenwriter from Cape Town, South DIRECTOR: rene van rooyen
Africa. She is also co-owner of the PRODUCER: Danie Bester
motion picture company red letter Day
pictures, which has produced various South Africa
feature films including “Vaselinetjie” Contact:
and” Hollywood in my Huis”. with over [email protected]
10 year experience directing for film [email protected]
and television, 2019 will see release her
feature film ‘’Toorbos” based on the SCREENING:
acclaimed novel by Dalene Matthee. 11 OCTObER, 09:00
with a Bcom Business degree from
Stellenbosch University, she graduated SYNOPSIS
with distinction, obtaining her BA
Media in Directing and Screenwriting Toorbos is a magical realist period
from the Academy Award winning film romance told through the psychological
school “AFDA film Academy.” point of view of its protagonist Karoliena
Kapp. Taking place during the 1930’s
DANIE bESTER in the Knysna forest, it’s based on the
In 2002, Danie completed his acclaimed novel by Dalene Matthee
honours degree (cum laude) at AFDA and deals with the uprooting of a free-
Johannesburg in Motion picture spirited forest woman during the time
Medium. His graduation film, Skitterwit of the last forest inhabitants of Knysna.
(M-net new Directions), which he wrote An exploration of the Afrikaner feminine
and directed, won the AFDA award for through her fragility and power, we
best picture, screenplay and director. follow Karoliena as she is coaxed into
Danie produced ouma se Slim Kind, marriage to a townsman and has
South Africa’s official entry in the foreign to navigate the realities of progress,
film category of the 2008 Academy oppression of society, denying her true
Awards. In 2011, he was honoured by Mr self, love and war back to her own
Video for his contribution to the local personal freedom.
film industry and received a Maroela
Media award in 2015 for his contribution 43
to the Afrikaans film industry. Pad
na jou Hart won the Huisgenoot
Tempo award for most popular film
of the year in 2014 and Ballade vir ’n
enkeling won the same award in 2015.
Vaselinetjie won Best Feature Film at
the Silwerskermfees in 2017 and Vir die
Voëls won best international feature
film at the Edmonton Film Festival
in Canada. Danie represented South
Africa at the rotterdam lab, an initiative
by the rotterdam Film Festival and also
at the Berlin Talent Campus.

TOVONIAINAWIP |WIFPe |ATDUorCeUFIMCeTInToAnrY bOlOmbOTO
RASOANAIVO WIP | FeATUre FICTIon
After starting in the profession as DIRECTOR: rasoanaivo Tovoniaina
asound technician trainee, Tovoniaina and Razanajaona Luck
Rasoanaivo participated in a 
Screenwriting workshop directed PRODUCER: Razanajaona Luck
byMartin THAU, Screenwriting professor
atthe Munich Film School, at the Madagascar
CercleGermano Malagasy in november Contact: [email protected]
2004and at the end of 2007, he studied
at theDramaturgical writing workshop SCREENING:
taughtby pascale rey (script doctor) 13 OCTObER, 12:00
at theCCAC. From June to July 2009 SYNOPSIS
he trainedin writing and documentary
filmmakingat the Fisis Summer Bolomboto is an immersion documentary
University inparis. From 2009 to 2010, film telling the daily life of young people
he took part inthe training cycle on detained in Madagascar’s prison. Through
the various cinemaprofessions at the different faces, different stories, we learn
CCAC. He is enrolledat the film school their chaotic journey, we listen to their
of Marrakech in theproduction sector story, we hear their distress. Following a
(September 2010 -July 2013). documentary film workshop inside the
prison, we see a smile, a desire for life and
lUCk RazanaJaona a lot of hope through images shot in part
Luck Razanajaona is an emerging by themselves. This film is about Malagasy
filmmaker from Madagascar who youth, a youth who is waking up and
graduated from the Marrakech School thirsty for life.
of Visual Art in 2011. He was invited to
prestigious programs like Berlinale, 44
Durban Talents and la Fabrique des
Cinémas du Monde (2012). He also
attended the Hailé Gerima workshop
at the luxor African Film Festival with
his two shorts Zebu de Dadilahy and
Madama Esther. He was in official
competition and selected at several
film festivals worldwide like Clermont-
Ferrand International Short Film Festival,
and won a prize at FESPACO. He moved
to Moulin d’Andé for residency with
support of CnC France and Institut
Français, and worked with acclaimed
scriptwriter olivier Gorce. He is currently
working on Chants de Tlous and Disco
Africa, a project that has just won the
Step Fund Prize at Luxor African Film
Festival 2015. He works a lot with the
history of his country and its relationship
with Africa; musically, as a composer and
also on social drama.

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bUDDhA IN AFRICA

DIRECTOR & PRODUCER:
nicole Schafer

Malawi
Contact:
[email protected]

SCREENING
12 OCTObER, 09:00

SYNOPSIS

“Buddha in Africa” follows the intimate
story of a boy growing up in a Chinese
Buddhist orphanage in Malawi and the
cultural challenges he faces between his
African roots and Chinese upbringing.
The film has been many years in the
making by first-time director Nicole
Schafer. It received the IDFA Most
promising Documentary Award at the
Durban Film Mart in 2011 and has since
been supported by the Hot Docs Blue
Ice Group Documentary fund, the Alter
Cine Foundation, the IDFA Bertha Fund,
Chicken and egg pictures, the national
Film and Video Foundation and the
KwaZulu-natal Film Commission.

NICOlE SChAFER WIP | FeATUre FICTIon
Nicole Schafer film experience lies in
production of creative documentaries
and has produced content for news
and television broadcast. production
credits include reUTerS Africa Journal,
South Africa’s leading investigative
programme Carte Blanche, lonely
planet, Six Degrees and Sport Traveller
broadcast on Discovery Channel. nicole
has settled down in the KZn Midlands
and is now collaborating with Black &
white Studios in weddings and other
productions.

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WIP | FeATUre FICTIon mAIA lEkOW ThE lETTER
Maia lekow is a Kenyan musician and
filmmaker. Fusing her music with DIRECTOR: Maia lekow and
a healthy fascination of people and Chris King
culture, Maia has worked as director,
producer, sound recordist and music PRODUCER: Maia lekow and
composer on several film productions. Chris King
As a renowned Kenyan musician,
her band Maia & The Big Sky have Kenya
toured across African festival stages, Contact: [email protected]
as well as UK, Australia and north
America. Parallel to directing her first SCREENING:
feature length film The Letter, Maia is 12 OCTObER, 11:00
composing an original score intended
for live performance, accompanying SYNOPSIS
the film’s projection in cinemas. Maia
was named a goodwill ambassador for Filmed with a gentle pace and
UnHCr on world refugee Day 2013, and incredible closeness, The letter is an
has received an African Movie Academy intimate family portrait that weaves
Award for her song ‘Uko wapi” which a complex story of Shakespearean
featured on the soundtrack of Kenyan proportions.
feature film, ‘From a Whisper”. Maia
brings with her extensive management In coastal Kenya, a frenzied mix of
experience having run various exclusive consumerism & Christianity is turning
boutique hotels in the past, as well as hundreds of families against their
coordinating large events in east Africa elders, branding them as witches as a
and Australia. means to steal their land. 92 year-old
Margaret Kamango stands accused
ChRIS kING by her step-sons, while her strong-
Chris King is an award-winning willed daughters try to protect her. This
filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya. Born dangerous dispute is seen through the
in Australia, Chris studied at The School eyes of grandson Karisa, who travels
of Creative Arts at the University of home from the city to investigate the
Melbourne, with honors in Visual Media. rumors against his Grandmother, and is
With a background in the fine arts, Chris ultimately forced to choose which side
has lived in Kenya since 2007, working he is on.
as Cinematographer, editor, Animator,
Director and producer in both factual
and non-factual shorts, features and
music videos. In 2009 Chris received
an African Movie Academy Award in
editing for his work on the Kenyan
feature film “From a Whisper”.

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JeSSie zinn ThE hOmE

Jessie Zinn is an award winning DIRECTOR: Jessie Zinn
writer/director from Cape Town. Her PRODUCER: Chase Musslewhite
workrevolves around spaces and
memoryin post-democratic South and Jessie Zinn
Africa, withan emphasis on hybrid
documentarywork that blends South Africa
elements of fictionand reality together. Contacts:
She graduatedfrom the University [email protected]
of Cape Townwith a Bachelor of Arts [email protected]
in filmmaking.Her short films have
screened atnumerous international SCREENING:
film festivals,including Visions Du Reel, 11 OCTObER, 11:00
encountersInternational Film Festival,
DurbanInternational Film Festival and SYNOPSIS
TampereFilm Festival.
In the heat of drought-stricken Cape
ChASE mUSSlEWhITE Town, elderly residents of a local WIP | FeATUre FICTIon
Chase Musslewhite is a producer Jewish old-age home struggle to elect
and director focusing on creative a new resident committee amidst an
documentaries. She has worked as otherwise mundane schedule within
a writer and producer on projects the luxurious complex. The Home is a
such as Into Us and ourand Foxy Five. documentary comedy that zooms in on
She has worked on music videos and the daily lives of the people living and
advertising campaigns. Her work has working in the home as they prepare
shown at MoMA Doc Fortnight, Durban (or ignore) the impending elections.
International Film Festival and Vision Through humorous observation, this
Du reel. quirky documentary takes a look at
themes surrounding death and a desire
to find purpose at any age, while raising
questions as to who has the privilege to
grow old in comfort.

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Emporium good bet with a wide range helicopter tour around CT
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+27 (0) 21 424 2004 suit any mood. 2-hour boat cruise into the
The Vue (for the view) bay for around r200.
15th floor, 40 Chiappini ThINGS TO DO IN The Woodstock Exchange
Street CAPE TOWN – local talents & designers,
+27 (0) 21 418 3065 Table Mountain – you can small interior shops, leather
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7 weltevreden Street (3-3.5 h) or take the cable designers.
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– this has recently opened in
the Silo District near the V&A
waterfront.

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European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) is THE LINEUP
a professional training, project development
and networking organization for audiovisual MASTERCLASS - EAVE Indaba Taster:
producers, and will this year have a presence at Co-Producing with North America
CTIFMF as they seek to establish networks on (Open to all delegates)
the continent. We are delighted to host, together 11 October, 09:00-11:00, Seminar Room
with the Independent Producers Organisation, our Host: Linda Beath
first collaboration with EAVE, who will present a
programme that will lay the metaphorical fibre- MASTERCLASS - EAVE Indaba Taster:
optic cables to link African producers into their Co-Producing with with Europe
strong international network, which exists to (Open to all delegates)
facilitate the exchange of knowledge and skills 13 October, 11:00-13:00, Event Space
which will strengthen independent production. Host: Linda Beath
The inaugural EAVE Indaba will be a space of
connection. PRODUCER’S CIRCLE - EAVE
EAVE runs leading training opportunities Indaba Taster:
for producers worldwide, and believes that Diana Elbaum Masterclass
“the support of independent voices, creative (Open to EAVE Indaba
imagination and culturally driven companies Selected Producers)
within the global media industries is an urgent 12 October, 09:00 - 13:00,
necessity in the 21st century.” At this edition of Meeting Room 3
CTIFMF, EAVE will provide some tantalising insight Host: Diana Elbaum
into the kind of work that they do, with a view to
expanding their activity at the festival and on the
continent in the future.
EAVE INDABA will select 5 African and 5 European
producers to participate in a year long program,
where 10 film projects will be developed through
three residential workshops and presented in our
2020 Market.
In line with the festival’s objectives, this short,
taster programme will offer real outcomes, with
two leading industry experts, Lina Beath and
Diana Elbaum, attending the festival as mentors
to share invaluable professional knowledge and
tools. They will work closely with 12 handpicked
South African producers in association with the
Independent Producers Organization , presenting
masterclass sessions that will focus on finance and
the intricacies of co-production with the global
North, as well as conducting closed producers’
circle sessions.

Welcome, EAVE!

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