If it’s month-end it must be Coalstove
Celebrate month-end Sundays in an arty way with a bunch of enthusiastic film-loving supporters at the jaw-dropping Private Practice rooftop venue in Jozi inner city. They’ll be showing three films made by emerging South African film makers. Sold? If not, read on for Coalstove‘s description, if yes, read on anyway: From the rip-roaring to the ravishing, the energizing to the engaging… FINEST SHORT FILMS BY EMERGING YOUNG FILMMAKERS FROM JOBURG & BEYOND. SUNDAY, 30TH AUGUST 2009 ENTRY R20 6.30 PM FOR 7.00 PM @ PRIVATE PRACTICE NO. 195 JEPPE STREET (ENTRANCE ON BREE…See map below for directions) Kamakastig Land The South African entrant ‘Kammakastig Land’ which was written and directed by Brandon Oelofse, tells the story of Fourie (H.O.Meyer), a young Afrikaans man who sets out on a journey from Johannesburg to Cape Town to scatter his fathers’ ashes into the ocean at Cape Point. Fourie journeys the distance finding along the way a true sense of the man his father was, and by confronting the past ultimately finds his future in the process. The film is said to be a meditation on the current identities that have emerged out of the transition towards the new South Africa and in particular the psyche of the White Afrikaans Male. According to the filmmakers the narrative uses a number of devices – the classic American Western, the Road Movie and parallel narratives to guide its translation, meaning and style. The film was completed in 2007 and as an AFDA honours graduate film garnered ten awards at the AFDA Johannesburg film awards including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. Dir: Brandon Olofse & Prod: Anthonie van der Walt & Peter Adolphis Nine Miles Beautiful Rebuilding faith, love and family is the long journey home. After a stint in jail, Darren arrives at his run-down family home to confront the aftermath of the tragic event that tore his family apart 18 months ago. He finds a resentful brother confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, a worn-down mother at breaking point and the rusting wreck of the car that he was driving when their lives changed forever. Now Darren must find a way to bridge the gap between guilt, anger, despair and forgiveness to bring his family together again, and begin the journey towards healing they must all share. Prod: Peter Blackburn Prod: Graham Young Love in The Time of Blackouts Directed by : Thabang Phetla FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH THE FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE For more information: Call 011 836 8911 Cell: 083 280 1181 Email: info@coalstove.co.za Visit...
More rooftop film in Jozi this Sunday
A(nother) SHOWCASE OF JOBURG’S HOTTEST EMERGING YOUNG FILMMAKERS SUNDAY, 26TH APRIL ENTRY R20 6.30 PM FOR 7.00 PM At Private Practice… (map below) The Crazy Fight Beast Song. This 25 minute collaborative film takes you through a series of hilariously fortunate and unfortunate events. Consisting of four short stories, each of a different genre, the film is written and directed by four filmmakers: Morne du Toit, Stefan Niewoudt, Quinton Weihahn and Pieter Joubert. Burning The Bridges by Simon Makwela. Set in the wake of the 2008 xenophobic chaos that rocked the country, Burning the Bridges traces the journey of a perpetrator who digs a hole for himself and becomes the victim. A compelling story that blurs the lines between fiction and reality. Thembalethu by Neo Ntlatleng and Ksenija Micic. A fictional story set in a South Africa dismantled by a ten year civil war that rages from 1994 to 2004. The story follows Khatu, a young woman transformed into a killing machine who meets an optimistic young prisoner of war. A story of hope in the midst of despair FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH THE FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE. For more information: Call 011 836 8911 Cell: 072 317 5145 Email: info@coalstove.co.za Visit www.coalstove.co.za PROUDLY SPONSORED...
Cheer up your Sunday night with Coalstove
The crew from COALSTOVE have consistently brought you fabulous film nights in the heart of Jozi city this year, the last few taking place at our favourite 360 degree view of the city venue Private Practice… so make sure you get there for the last big one for 08, word has it Kenny Kenzhero is gonna be rocking the decks. SUNDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER 6.30 PM FOR 7.00 PM AT PRIVATE PRACTICE NO. 195 JEPPE STREET (ENTRANCE ON BREE…See map below for directions) Featuring Call Girl by Samantha Nell. The story of a lonely long-distance vacuum salesman who finds solace and love in an unlikely place: an SOS Callbox in the middle of nowhere. Air Who?Foreunners of a Movement by Chris Green. A hilarious mockumentary on the air guitar craze. Beauty and the Surgeon, an experimental film by Michelle Sellwood and Nobuntu Dubazana that questions our understanding of personal beauty and the lengths that people go to achieve it. Special sneak preview of 1Hundred Movie, the much anticipated comedy by Vusi Magubane and Thomas Gumede. For those who have been eagerly awaiting the trailer, now’s your chance! FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH THE FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE AND AN AFTER PARTY HOSTED BY DJ KENZHERO ENTRY R20 For more information: Call 011 836 8911 Cell: 072 317 5145 Email: info@coalstove.co.za Visit...
Off the Shelf on the Rooftop of Jozi
The crew from Coal Stove films will be having another filmfilled night in the city of Jozi at the mind-blowing Intermission space at the Private Practice venue in Bree street on the last Sunday in September. Four local SA short films will be shown – the film makers will all be on hand for questions afterwards. Get amongst! Map and more info below: SUNDAY, 28th SEPTEMBER. 6.00 PM for 6.30 PM AT PRIVATE PRACTICE NO. 195 JEPPE STREET (ENTRANCE ON BREE…See map below for directions) Featuring: “DE LA REY “, a documentary by Panayota Athanasiou on the controversial popular Afrikaans song of the same name. “UBOMI”. A community’s struggle against crime and child abduction leads them to startling self-realization. By Themba Oliphant. “DAY 7596” by Xolelwa Nhlobatsi and Carl S. Nkosi. Three best friends in their twenties are startled out of the humdrum of Coaltheir ordinary lives when one of them is tragically murdered. “ACE OF HEARTS ” by Andrew Macdonald. When a serial killer turns on the cop who is out to get him, a gripping cat and mouse chase ensues. FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH THE FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE. ENTRY R20 For more information: Call: 011 836 8911 Email Visit Coalstove. Click below for the...
Filmmakers – just do it – without funding!
For various reasons, and not only because Editorista was hanging out in ‘film city’ Cape Town with the rest of Jozi this Krismuzi, films and how to make them seems to be highly topical. Well in our world anyway. Ed’s got friends moving to Durbs to make wildlife documentaries (lions in Durbs?), chomees in the Eastern Cape building their own crew accommodation ’cause there’s none available, Jozi film mates driving frantically round dodgy areas looking for a cheap laugh on HD and amazing travelogues being produced on a song and a prayer using 30 second still cameras (Ed will remain the originator of this one!Trademark.) So we decided to ask one half of one of our favourite film teams, CoalStove, to give us their predictions for all filmmakers in SA in 2007. Scotnes Smith, you rock! Leading Questions. There is something about leading questions that gets one so much quicker to the point then an ordinary monologue. Phrases like, “Did you have sexual relations with you secretary Mr President?” or “So you took a shower before or after the affair sir?” always get a conversation moving along swiftly. So imagine my surprise when Editorista herself dropped me a line and asked me to do an article for the glossy pages of Represent. What was surprising wasn’t that she asked, but that she asked me to do it by myself. That left me with that slightly vacant look of someone being caught enjoying a really good fart. Faced with the terrifying task of spilling my guts alone, I had better go big. Last time I was talking about an event we at Coal Stove launched last year called Off the Shelf. Its about celebrating young film talent. We hope when people leave they do so with a warm feeling that something is being done to change the face of filmmaking in South Africa. It’s something fuzzy feeling you get watching Bambi. That is not the sense you get sitting in the auditorium at the Gauteng Film Commision’s first annual Film Indaba though. Picture this: a room full of weather-beaten filmmakers, going at the throats of a group of flustered civil servants trying to explain that the ways of getting the money are complicated but do exist. Flying insults, cups of tea and the occasionally pantaloons; besides, it was a decidedly drab affair. Everyone in the room is convinced that the only way to build the local film industry is by having the government sponsor films which don’t make their money back. Here is where I get gutsy. THAT IS NOT THE ANSWER! The way to get the film industry going...
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