Showing posts with label Cape Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cape Town. Show all posts
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Issued Cape Town film permits up 22% as movie-making becomes all-year business while feature film production make steady gains.

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by Thinus Ferreira International and local TV commercials filmed in sun-drenched Cape Town still reign supreme as the bulk of film permits i...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Filmmakers flocking back to Cape Town post-Covid pandemic.

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by Thinus Ferreira Cape Town's film biz is on the rebound with local and international filmmaker flocking back to the Cape Town after th...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

'Cannes in Cape Town' is back: kykNET's Silwerskermfees is back and does a roll-over for the 10th edition of its annual film festival now set for March 2022 in Camps Bay.

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by Thinus Ferreira kykNET has decided not to hold its annual film festival in 2021 due to the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and will...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Cape Town's Draft Film Policy 2021 open for comments as city seeks to reclaim its position as significant film destination and wants to attract more local and international productions while facing challenges like rising production costs.

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by Thinus Ferreira Cape Town is now asking for public comments on its Draft Film Policy of 2021 as the city tries to reclaim its position as...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

'Stop it or I'll stop it': South Africa's police boss Bheki Cele damages the image of the country's struggling film biz after holding Cape Town crew 'hostage' with shocking shutdown of TV advert beach shoot despite valid permit.

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by Thinus Ferreira "Stop it or I'll stop it," said South Africa's uninformed police minister Bkehi Cele on Wednesday when ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Coronavirus: Cape Town partially reopens the city's film permit office, only accepting and processing applications online amidst Covid-19.

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by Thinus Ferreira Cape Town has partially reopened the city's film permit office after it was completely shut down amidst the Covi...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Second Deon Meyer crime drama TV adaptation, Cape Town, set to start on the Universal Channel on 7 September as a 6-part mini-series.

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Cape Town will again be the backdrop of another international TV series this month when Cape Town , the TV adaptation of Deon Meyer '...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Ster-Kinekor launches Cape Town's first IMAX at Cape Gate shopping centre after long absence, South Africa a key market for IMAX again.

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Cape Town has an IMAX movie theatre again with IMAX now saying that South Africa is, and will remain a "key focus" for the bi...
Friday, May 16, 2014

BREAKING. Fire close to SABC's newsroom inside the SABC's Sea Point building in Cape Town extinguished.

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A fire that broke out this morning at the SABC's building in Sea Point, Cape Town has been brought under control and extinguished....
Saturday, April 5, 2014

BREAKING. Homeland's 4th season to be filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, to double as the Middle East.

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The fourth season of the spy drama Homeland will be filmed in Cape Town in November;  Deadline 's Nellie Andreeva first reported...