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CityVarsity at Cannes Film Festival 2013
By Danni Flockton | Friday May 24, 2013 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. Read more... |
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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 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. Read more... |
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Shirley Johnston takes a term off to write a TV series for ETV
By Shirley Johnson | Thursday May 02, 2013 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’. Read more... |
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Queueing, a romantic film in the slow lane
By Chanel Engelbrecht | Tuesday April 30, 2013 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. Read more... |
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Taste of Rain makes its Cape Town launch at the Labia (Orange Street) on April 19th at 18:15
By Fireworx Media | Monday April 15, 2013
Following it’s European release in Stockholm to enthusiastic audiences in March Taste of Rain will have a screening at the Labia in Cape Town starting on the 19th April 2013. |
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CityVarsity's Barbara Wildenboer exhibits in Asia
By Press Release | Tuesday April 02, 2013 Amelia Johnson Contemporary presents Disjecta Membra, South African artist Barbara Wildenboer’s first solo exhibition in Asia. The latin phrase, disjecta membra, is often used to refer to surviving fragments of ancient poetry, manuscripts and other literary or cultural objects. In this her new body of work Wildenboer intertwines contemporary and ancient texts to create two dimensional works that often take on a three dimensional form. By her deconstruction and reconstruction of texts the artist conveys the notion that narratives are not linear but rhizomatic. The assumed authority of the author is undermined in favor of a myriad of abstract interpretations; emphasis is placed on the weaving of disparate and seemingly disjointed parts to create fresh stories. Ultimately in this work we are confronted with the infinite possibilities of meaning. Read more... |
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Loeries Exhibition goes to CityVarsity Cape Town
By Chanel Engelbrecht | Tuesday April 02, 2013 Staying in Cape Town for the second leg of its tour, the Loeries Exhibition will visit CityVarsity at the Kloof Street campus from 2 – 5 April. It will showcase the recent award-winning work in a gallery format, providing the perfect platform for students and industry professionals to view the best brand communication from our region. “CityVarsity is thrilled to host the Loeries Exhibition at our campus once again. We look upon this as an opportunity for our students to be inspired and rub shoulders with creatives working in advertising, marketing and the media arts. We extend the invitation to the industry and the public to come view the best brand communication produced in South Africa,” says Anita Kruger, Academic Manager at CityVarsity. Read more... |
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Follow the CV Bench team in Hollywood
By Dani Flockton | Wednesday March 06, 2013
Dani Flockton blogs about the CV Bench Teams time in Hollywood. Wed 6th March Two very weary travellers after 33 hours of planes, terminals, buses and trains walked up the final flight of stairs laden with luggage we stepped into the neon lights of Hollywood Boulevard. Shell shocked and exhausted we looked across the road to see the three smiling faces our crew waving down to us from a balcony across the road - we had arrived! Alan, Simon and Hisham showed us the way into our hostel - a generic dorm style hostel on Hollywood Boulevard. After a well needed shower and cup of tea the CityVarsity Bench Team was ready together to take on Hollywood. A gentle drizzle rained down on us as we walked the streets. Famous Hollywood names framed in stars dot the walkway the Chinese theatre lit up, a special press screening of Oz the Great attracts hundreds of camera flashes and high heels. Read more... |
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CityVarsity filmmakers win at Los Angeles’ Filmapalooza International
By Karen Jayes | Monday March 11, 2013 The Cape Town-based film company BENCHfilms, comprised of CityVarsity staff Dani Flockton, Riaz Solker, and Simon Antonelli, as well as graduates Hisham Samie and Alan Shelley, have been honoured with two nominations and an award at the Los Angeles’ Filmapalooza Film Festival. ‘People loved the film,’ said director Riaz Solker. Their film, ‘Past Tense’, an eight-minute quirky time travel romance, was awarded the Third Runner Up for Best Film in the competition by an International Jury. The Festival, the culmination of the international 48-Hour Film Project (48HFP), was comprised of over 22 000 films from 115 cities around the world. Read more... |
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Ratcliffe clinches SAFTA Award, and two international prizes
By Karen Jays | Tuesday February 19, 2013 CityVarsity sound engineering lecturer Simon Ratcliffe walked away with the South African Film and Television Award for Best Sound Design for a Feature Film for his team’s work on the film ‘Retribution’. Ratcliffe, who is head engineer at Sound & Motion Studios, said he got ‘the fright of his life’ when the team’s name was called, since the competition was ‘very stiff’. The accolade for Best Sound Design for a Feature Film, known as the Golden Horn, is highly sought after. Read more... |
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