| CityVarsity at Cannes Film Festival 2013 | |
| By Danni Flockton | Friday May 24, 2013 | Share |
Danielle Flockton, CityVarsity’s Head of Department in Film, is currently attending the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, representing a film “Past Tense” which was made by CityVarsity lecturers, students and alumni. The film was chosen as the 3rd runner up in the 48 hour Film project in Los Angeles and as a result was invited to Cannes. Dani will be blogging her experiences from Cannes. |
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| So Many Men, So Little Ego BALBESIT – a play by Saartjie Botha featuring 24 men | |
| By Lucinda Jolly | Thursday May 23, 2013 | Share |
Senior lecturer in Acting for Television and camera at CityVarsity, Cape Town Mark Hoeben recently returned from performing in award winning playwright Saartjie Botha’s play Balbesit (possession of the ball in rugby lingo) at the KKNK festival in Oudtshoorn. Balbesit won the Kanna best actor award. This is the first time best actor award goes to an entire cast in this case twenty - four men. |
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| Shirley Johnston takes a term off to write a TV series for ETV | |
| By Shirley Johnson | Thursday May 02, 2013 | Share |
A year ago I submitted a proposal for a crime series to e-tv through Penguin Films. Because I was so distracted with ‘Felix!’, my feature film, for the remainder of the year, (rewriting the screenplay, auditioning around the country, casting, coaching the young actors and then working on the production) I forgot all about the series. This is the third series I have pitched, and in the previous two cases, I heard nothing back from the channels. You submit these things to the vast anonymous ‘channel’ along with probably hundreds of other proposals and tend to just write off all the hard work as ‘experience’. |
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| Queueing, a romantic film in the slow lane | |
| By Chanel Engelbrecht | Tuesday April 30, 2013 | Share |
There is no time to waste for last year’s CityVarsity Film graduates. Following the success of 2012’s '3rd year screening' they are about to launch a romantic movie called 'Queuing’.Understandably, the excited team were reluctant to give away too much information. "Like we've said to everyone who asks, it's a Surreal romantic comedy, that's got ample intrigue. The romance kicks off in the queue of a supermarket, a pretty unlikely romantic environment " they said. |
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