The Cape Film Commission at Sithengi
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23 November 2006. It’s been an amazing Sithengi Market and Cape Town World Cinema Festival- and the CFC was there to support it every step of the way.
As per usual, the CFC was available at its very prominent stand to provide any information on filming in the Western Cape, as well as showing off some of the great product currently being produced by Capetonians both in print and film.
We were honoured to host a fantastic Japanese Delegation, which has resulted in a deal for a featurette to be shot in Cape Town during 2007 and over 4 products being bought by Japanese Distributors. The SA Embassy in Tokyo has also again confirmed their commitment to the “Cape Town to Tokyo” film festival, which was very successfully held for the first time this year in September, in Tokyo. The CFC also hosted Delegations from the UK, LA and Norway, including Andrew Deane of “Requiem for a Dream” fame.
But that’s not where it ended! The CFC facilitated the outreach programs on behalf of Sithengi this year in Mitchell’s Plein, Nyanga and Gugulethu in the furtherance of its audience and skills development strategy with great success! The Outreach program this year included a mini Hip Hop festival in Mitchell’s Plein, and SABC’s broadcast of Gospel Gold in Gugulethu- ensuring maximum attendance at both venues, and ensuring that The Cape Town World Cinema Festival and its great films reach as many citizens as possible! Bunny Chow was the Premier at all venues, and new to the event was a shorts section which proved immensely popular.
And then there was the opening of the Market itself- a very exciting occasion hosted by the CFC on behalf of the MEC Essop and Premier Rasool, who wanted to ensure that visitors, distributors, delegates and film professionals know that Cape Town and the Western Cape is a home for Film. Labelled as one of the best events of the week, the networking function ensured that Internationals in particular could find out about film in the Western Cape.
The CFC is currently hard at work preparing for 2007, and we look forward to sharing our plans for this year with the industry very shortly!!
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Bianca Mpahlaza