I’m a crime novel junkie. I’ve read every Michael Connelly, every Harlan Coben, every Jeffrey Deaver and every James Lee Burke novel there is. Lee Burke’s main character is Detective Dave Robicheaux of New Iberia Parish in Louisiana, and you can virtually smell the bayou and the grilled crawfish and the pimples of sweat on […]

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I’ve been meaning to write about my other tv obsession - the shrewd and completely brilliant The Closer - for a while now. If you haven’t seen it (don’t wait any longer….) The Closer tracks the caseload of Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (a tour de force from Kyra Sedgwick) who’s been brought in from […]

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The Province of the Eastern Cape has recently appointed a Film Commissioner.
Documents for the Amathole District Municipality Film Development Strategy conducted by Martin Cuff Consulting in July 2007 are available here for cross-reference purposes.

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Back in January 2008, Martin Cuff Consulting assisted the Kenya Film Commission with the planning, scheduling and organisation of a familiarization tour to a selection of Film Commissions, Film Organisations, production houses, film studios and film schools in South Africa. The March 2008 edition of Screen Africa covers the visit here.

Today, the KFC launched […]

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The Cape Film Commission created the IMBONGI AWARDS in 2007. IMBONGI means Praise Singer, and the IMBONGI AWARDS are intended to sing the praises of the film sector in the Western Cape. The goal of the Imbongi Awards is to
• raise the industry’s profile
• recognise its achievements,
• reflect the complex, multi-level nature […]

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Cape Town has had a decade-long reputation as a thriving film hub with a “can do” attitude. However, this season, the sector has been hit by a number of locations management issues that industry insiders are calling a “crisis”. Following an Industry Locations meeting called on 6th December 2007, the Cape Film Commission has responded swiftly and positively:
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Durban’s getting a lot of good word-of-mouth as a production location; the Durban Film Office, its staff and its website are well thought of by the SA industry generally.

Made in Durban: Blood Diamond
But here’s more good news that I missed late last week, reported in the Natal Mercury on Feb 15th; in the flurry of […]

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In an article entitled: Bush challenges America to produce the perfect Romantic Comedy, cutting-edge newshounds at The Onion report a remarkable US federal incentive proposed for the movie industry:
Dubbing his romantic-comedy initiative “Operation Meet-Cute,” Bush proposed that Congress earmark $20 billion to aid Hollywood in creating the film. He called on studio heads to “put […]

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