Showing posts with label 13th South African Film and Television Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 13th South African Film and Television Awards. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2019

The NFVF belatedly hands a win to the Someone to Blame documentary as the 13th Saftas Best Documentary Short prize; says it will try to improve its vetting and submission processes.

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South Africa's embattled National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) on Thursday evening belatedly awarded Someone to Blame - The Ahmed...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

M-Net's Carte Blanche entry in Best Documentary Short category for 13th Saftas disqualified and removed; NFVF will now choose a winner from the remaining two nominees.

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The entry of an insert submitted by M-Net's Carte Blanche current affairs show in the Best Documentary Short category for the 13th S...
Monday, March 4, 2019

The NFVF and Safta organisers quietly dumped awarding a winner in the Best Documentary Short category at the 13th Saftas due to a content ownership fight of one of the nominees.

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The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and organisers of the 13th South African Film and Television Awards ( Saftas ) decided to...

TV REVIEW. The 13th Saftas of 2019 was an embarrassment. Again.

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Yet again the mediocre and mistake-riddled broadcast production of the 13th South African Film and Television Awards on Saturday night on...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

2019's 13th Saftas again botches the In Memoriam segment by forgetting or simply not knowing, and then blatantly leaving out names because it's too difficult to keep track of who dies in its industry.

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The National Film and Video Foundation's (NFVF)  13th South African Film and Television Awards ( Saftas ) once again very disrespect...

How far away keeps the press at bay and media coverage muted: How shows - from the Saftas to Survivor SA - will likely get less coverage this year taking place so far away with expensive travel costs that makes productions drop the media.

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The media coverage in and by the press of some shows broadcast on South African television in 2019 will be notably down and less this ye...

TV CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK. A KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission 'Beach Party' at Sun City, a Gauteng Film Commission brunch: The bizarre sideshows at the NFVF's 13th Saftas that look like a waste, with money that could actually directly support film making in their provinces.

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You won't think that there are a serious shortage of funds to support struggling and emerging South African filmmakers, or that produ...

MultiChoice grabs over half of all the awards at 2019's 13th South African Film and Television Awards as pay-TV productions become the big winners.

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MultiChoice won over half of all of the Golden Horn trophies handed out at the 13th South African Film and Television Awards ( Saftas ),...

Why the NFVF's South African Film and Television Awards risks becoming even more out-of-touch and irrelevant with viewers.

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The National Film and Video Foundation's (NFVF) yet-again disastrous 13th South African Film and Television Awards risk becoming eve...

Showmax makes South African TV history as it wins 5 awards at the NFVF's 13th Saftas and the first for a video streaming service.

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From left: Ari Kruger, Julia Anastasopoulos, Daniel Zimbler, Keren Setton, and Candice Fangueiro  Showmax has made South African TV h...

NFVF's 13th Saftas marred by winner envelope mistakes as actress Crystal Donna Roberts and McDonalds SA boss Greg Solomon are awkwardly left struggling on stage with no and wrong envelopes.

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The bad and shoddy production values at this year's  13th South African Film and Television Awards  was once again in full display an...

2019's 13th South African Film and Television Awards (Saftas) sees M-Net's The River on DStv's 1Magic channel win the most awards at 10, while Showmax makes history winning the first awards for a video streaming service.

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In another embarrassing broadcast production of the South African Film and Television Awards on Saturday night the National Film and Vid...