Friday, July 30, 2010

Durban Filmmart a resounding success!

Sharlene Versfeld of Arts link reports:  

"The inaugural Durban FilmMart (DFM) ended with the announcement of the winner of the Hubert Bals Fund Award in the ‘Specialist Projects' category.

The award of €5000 towards script and project development for ‘the most promising African project presented at the DFM' was presented to Jenna Cato Bass for her project ‘Tok Tokkie'.

The winner, chosen by a jury comprising Matthew Plouffe (Focus Features/USA), Peace Anyiam-Osigwe (Africa Film Academy/Nigeria) and Iwana Chronis (Hubert Bals Fund / Netherlands), was one of 12 projects selected for the Durban Film Mart, from a total of 80 projects submitted from South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Zambia and Burkina Faso, with contributions in both feature film and documentary genres." 
Read the full report here...

2 comments:

belle said...

:)))))

Diabetic Life said...

The Producers Forum was very helpful and the masterclasses were great. Very experienced presenters made a big impact.