South Africa’s Known Associates, the fast-growing parent company of Johannesburg-based Known Associates Entertainment (KAE) and Cape Town-based Moonlighting Films, is launching into unscripted programming, Variety can reveal. The company… Read More »South Africa’s Known Associates Launches Unscripted Division, Acquires Production Outfit Zero Gravity
Probably the most shocking whistle blower killing to occur in South Africa in recent times was the brutal assassination of Babita Deokoran, mother, family woman… Read More »‘Corruption emergency‘ calls for whistle blower intervention
South African filmmaker John Barker (“Bunny Chow,” “Umbrella Men”) is developing a six-episode, “Last Dance”-style documentary series about the South African national soccer team’s stirring triumph at… Read More »‘Umbrella Men’s’ John Barker Prepping ‘Last Dance’-Style Docuseries About South Africa’s 1996 Championship Soccer Squad
South Africa thriller Death of a Whistleblower has been compared to Spotlight and Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and will debut at TIFF. The… Read More »Exclusive Death of a Whistleblower Trailer Teases a Powerful Undercover Thriller
South African rural community thriller “Snake,” the closing film of the 6th Joburg Film Festival, is a feature that wouldn’t have been made if it wasn’t… Read More »Rural Community Thriller ‘Snake’ Shows How Streamer Support Makes Smaller South African Stories Possible
As South Africa marks three decades since its first democratic elections, a historic moment that dismantled the apartheid system and ushered in Black-majority rule, the… Read More »South Africa’s Screen Industries Face ‘Beautiful,’ ‘Chaotic’ Period of Transformation, Reinvention Three Decades After End of Apartheid
After taking home the Best South African Film accolade at the Durban International Film Festival for his father son road trip comedy Runs in the Family,… Read More »Whistleblower story wins Best African Film award
The nights were dark and stormy for many of the days on the five-week call sheet of “Death of a Whistleblower” but although South African… Read More »Ian Gabriel on Why ‘Death of a Whistleblower’ Is a Salute to Journalists in an Era of Manufactured Reality
A review by Riley Hlatshwayo Every once in a while, I come across a film or television series that I know will stay with me… Read More »Lights, Camera, Chaos! A young filmmaker needing inspiration for his first film gets more than he bargained for.
Jonathan Parkinson’s first foray as a film director is a biting, razor edged success. It’s not everyday that you get held hostage at gunpoint while… Read More »JONATHAN PARKINSON MAKES HIS DIRECTORIAL FILM DEBUT WITH THE DROP