IN IMAGES. 29 photos of kykNET's 2019 9th Silwerskermfees Afrikaans film festival held at the Bay Hotel in Camps Bay, Cape Town.

kykNET's 9th Silwerskermfees Afrikaans film festival kicked off on Wednesday, 21 August 2019 at The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay, Cape Town.

The festival lured Afrikaans and other filmmakers, including film and TV execs from across South Africa, Africa, and the world to the 4-day festival screening an array of dramatic features and short films, including documentaries across a wide range of topics.

Workshops and panel discussions took place in conjunction with Wesgro with subjects under discussion this year that ranged from financing the making of a film, how to get a film included in a film festival line-up and how the digital revolution is reshaping the film and TV biz. 

 The British producer Peter Cowley and German filmmaker Dorothee Wenner from the Berlinale both attended, alongside Arnold Vosloo, the South African born actor based in Los Angeles who flew to South Africa for the première of Griekwastad. 

The 2019-version of Fiela se Kind with director Brent Michael Innes releasing on 13 September opened this year's film festival.

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