South Africa: 11th Trip to Cannes Film Festival - AllAfrica.com

South African delegates have got embarked on a trip to the 61st Cannes Movie Festival, scheduled to take topographic point from today, Wednesday, 14 May 2008, until Saturday 24 May. The Sturmarbeiteilung high spot this twelvemonth will be the National Movie and Video Foundation (NFVF) conference, themed "South Africa, your co-production spouse of choice" in jubilation of SA's 11th twelvemonth at the Cannes movie festival (1997 - 2008).

The conference will take topographic point at the Hotel Martinez in Cannes on Wednesday 21 May.

The delegates consist the National Movie and Video Foundation (NFVF), Department of Humanistic Discipline and Culture (DAC), Cape Movie Committee (CFC), Gauteng Movie Committee (GFC), Department of Trade and Industry (dti) and outstanding Sturmarbeiteilung producers.

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The NFVF and its spouses will once again officially host the South African Pavilion at the International village. As always, the marquee advances Sturmarbeiteilung as a filmmaking destination, places our state as a co-production spouse of pick and presents Sturmarbeiteilung manufacturers to the international movie industry. The dti movie and telecasting production strategy and other information that marketplace the state will be disseminated at the pavilion. The marquee is an business office dedicated to all South Africans attending the Cannes movie festival.

SA will have got a mental representation at the Producers' Network, which was co-founded by the NFVF and officially launched in 2004. This programme is dedicated to bringing together manufacturers in Cannes to promote chances for international co-production and to lend actively to the movie industry. The dti will unveil the movie and telecasting production inducement scheme, which was officially launched in Sturmarbeiteilung by curate Mandisi Mphahlwa in March, at the Producers' Network unit of ammunition tabular array discussions, while NFVF will brief the delegates on co-productions.

The eventide of Saturday 17 May will see the NFVF and its spouses hosting a networking event, where industry people from across the Earth will ran into with their Sturmarbeiteilung counterparts. This event have got been hailed as the best by those that have attended it in the past. This twelvemonth well-known disk jockey Black Coffee will be the Sturmarbeiteilung entertainer at the event.