Film Festival has landed: ENCOUNTERS DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
We hope all film lovers have been working up a good appetite because you are about to be well fed. The Encounters Documentary Festival is here and it promises to be worth more than your money’s worth. Do yourselves a favour and indulge. Here’s all the info you need to relish the festivities!
8th edition of Encounters SA International Documentary Festival
Johannesburg:<...
/STRONG> Nu Metro Hyde Park 14 July – 23 July 2006
Cape Town: Nu Metro V & A Waterfront 21 July – 6 August 2006Every year Encounters brings to South African audiences ‘factional’ films. Films that often contradict popular beliefs, but that still allow people to make up their own minds about what is happening in the world – the intimate, the political, the musical and the personal.
This year, Encounter’s 8th, is no different – the 56 titles (21 South African, 5 African and 31 international) provide fascinating subject matter. The excellent line up has been chosen from over 550 films, a record number that is a sure sign that Encounters is now recognised as
an important festival by local and international filmmakers alike.
Loose themes encompass the full spectrum of human experience, and include inspiring Journalists on the Edge, provocative Food For Thought, an unconventional look at The Race Debate and Revisiting Colonialism, revealing investigations into the Results of War, a focus on Africa, highly personal Questions of Family and Society, and a rocking Business of Music section.
This year the Festival has moved to new venues – Nu Metro Hyde Park and V & A Waterfront. Two influential directors are receiving special attention this year. In his lifetime, the great French auteur Jean Rouch created a formidable body of work, mostly in West Africa. The tiny selection Les Maitres Fous, Petit A’ Petit, and Chronique D’Un Ete (Mad Masters, Little by Little and Chronicle of a Summer) at Encounters gives audiences a taste of his groundbreaking approach and innovative style that gave birth to Cinema verite.
Encounters, assisted by the French Embassy, will host Bernard Sugurue, Claude Haffner and Sue Levine, colleagues of Rouch, who will provide an invaluable glimpse into Rouch’s world.
Always managing to endearingly bumble himself into the most outlandish situations, Nick Broomfield is one of Britain’s most respected documentary filmmakers. His lens has captured and investigated the personalities of many of the world’s most infamous people, among them
Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss and Margaret Thatcher. For this Encounters, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love (Kurt & Courtney), Biggie Smalls and Tupac (Biggie & Tupac), and our very own Eugene Terreblanche (His Big White Self) come into not so flattering focus.
Polygamy, misinterpretation, religion, regal matriarchy and madness – these are the visions of other African cultures from across the continent. The five titles of the African Focus are Si-Gueriki La Reine Mere, Le Malentendu Colonial, Cinq x Cinq, Une Fenetre Ouverte, and Mo
and Me (Si-Gueriki The Queen Mother, The Colonial Misunderstanding, Five x Five, A Window Opened).
Jean-Marie Teno, director of The Colonial Misunderstanding will be attending. As will Salim Amin for Mo and Me, a film of his father’s life as a photojournalist in Africa. Others in the Journalists on the Edge theme are the Oscar nominated The Death of Kevin Carter , a member of the South African Bang Bang Club, and The Black Road, an affecting portrait of Aceh’s little known war.
Encounters is not just about the titles – though that is a major part of it. It is about developing new documentaries and taking a wealth of films to other areas.
Visit www.encounters.co.za for full information on the Films, Master Classes, Workshops, Guest Filmmakers and screening schedules.
For further press enquiries please contact :
Lungeleni Zondi on 083 738 5977 or email : project@encounters.co.za
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CALL TO ENTRY – January 2006
Doccie makers, here is your chance to get your work seen by both the local and international film industry at the ENCOUNTERS SOUTH AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2006. Get them in by the 5th May. Click here to go to the site.
The organisers of ENCOUNTERS, the annual South African International Documentary Festival, are calling for entries from South African and International filmmakers for 2006,the 8th edition of the festival.
ENCOUNTERS 2006 dates:
Johannesburg: Friday 14 July – Sunday 23 July
Cape Town: Friday 21 July – Sunday 6 August
ENCOUNTERS will show a selection of documentary films from around the world, with a particular focus on South African work. The festival will screen South African Premieres only.
Filmmakers must guarantee, should their film / video be selected, that permission from the rights holder are secured for a minimum of four screenings at this Festival.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 5th May 2006
Please find the attached word entry form to be submitted with the VHS/DVD PAL screener.
For additional information feel free to click here and email Nazeer Ahmed
The Encounters Team
Tel: +27 21 465 4686
Fax: +27 21 461 6964
ENCOUNTERS WEBSITE
Postal Address:
Encounters Doc Fest
P O Box 2228
Cape Town
8000
South Africa
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