Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) 2011
4ème édition
Festival
du 16 au 26 Mars 2011
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Cape Town & Stellenbosch – Afrique du Sud
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The 4th edition of Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), which is scheduled to take place from 16-26 March, 2011, in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, has launched its call for entries today. Feature films, Short Films and Documentaries submissions are eagerly awaited. Entry forms, rules, and regulations are available on the Festival Website (http://films-for-africa.co.za/).
1. Features:
Features are all fiction films more than 50 minutes of length
2. Shorts:
Shorts are all fiction films up to 15 minutes in length. However all fiction films between 16 to 49 minutes in length will also be considered under the shorts category.
3. Animation:
Animation are all non-live action films, including claymation, computer and standard animation; of all lengths
4. Documentaries:
Documentaries are all non-fiction films of all lengths
The Early Bird submission deadline is November 15th, 2010 and all entries till then are FREE. After that a normal 50 USD entry fee will be charged until the final deadline on 15th December 2010. Although the electronic submission form must be filled out and submitted (email to [email protected]), applicants must also print the form, sign it, and include it in their Submission Package.
Cape Winelands Film Festival 2011, presented by Films for Africa and the City of Cape Town, will screen approximately 250 films during the 10 day festival in Cape Town and the heart of South Africa’s wine region Stellenbosch. The film selections will be posted on the festival’s website in the second week of January 2011.
The 2010 festival received more than 450 submissions from all over the world, though only 250 Feature films, documentaries and short films could be selected. Films without domestic theatrical distribution and films from first-time feature directors are especially welcomed.
The films will compete for the following awards :
Grand Prix Jury Award.
Best Feature Film Award
Best South African Feature Film
Best Documentary Award
Best South African Documentary
Best Short Film Award
Best South African Short Film
Best Animation Award
IFG Inspiration Award (First time feature film directors)
CWFF serves as a platform for the discovery of new and emerging talent and we are devoted to the nurturing and development of new filmmakers and their cinematic vision. The feature competition programs presents a special award for first time directors working with limited budgets, thus enabling the Festival’s mission to give exposure to emerging filmmaking talent.
CWFF also features workshops and writing competitions for screenplays.
Leon vd Merwe
Festival Director
director@ films-for-africa.co.za
–
Third edition of the Cape Winelands Film Festival: 17 – 27 March 2010
At the Awards celebration of the Cape Winelands Film Festival on 27 March 2010 the following Awards were presented by the International Film Festival Jury.
SHORT FILMS
Special Mention: Dance Macabre – Dir. Pedro Pirez
Best Short Film: Hammerhead – Dir. Sam Donovan
Best South African Short Film: Filho / Hidden Places – Dir Jamie Beron
DOCUMENTARY
Special Mention: Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation Dir Catherine Meyburgh
Best Documentary: War Against the Weak – Dir Justin Strawhand
FEATURE FILMS
International Film Guide Inspiration Award: The Other Bank – Dir. George Ovashili
Best South African Feature Award: – Gugu and Andile – Dir. Minky Schlesinger
Grand Prix Award: Eyes Wide Open – Dir. Haim Tabakman
Special Mention
1. Denise Newman for her searing performance in the title role of Oliver Hermanus’ Shirley Adams. She offers a moving account of a life that lies behind news stories about gang violence. Shirley Adams’ heroism is not the stuff of Hollywood filmmaking. There is no crusade against gun culture or a successful battle to stop the violence that is tearing communities apart. Her bravery lies in facing each day with the determination to survive it. Denise Newman presents us with the real face of motherhood; with the smallest of gestures that underpin her anguish and pain, she captures the spirit of a woman who will go to any lengths for her child and whose resilience knows no bounds.
2. Heikki Nousiainen for conveying the frailty of age, in his role as a priest desperate to finding meaning, in Klaus Härö’s Letters to Father Jacob. When a blind priest opens his doors to an ex-convict, peace returns to his life as he can continue his communication with the outside world through letters to his parishioners. Heikki Nousiainen’s quiet performance subtly details the everyday existence of this private man who, as he comes to the end of his life, wants nothing more than to serve his god. It is a performance of grace and humility that befits such an involving story.
AUDIENCE AWARD
Master Harold…and the Boys – Dir Lonny Price
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Since the first edition the Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) has significantly grown in size and international participation. More than 70 features, documentaries and short films from over 35 countries were in competition during 2009. More than130 productions formed part of the festival programme, in total 62 features, 27 documentaries and 44 shorts from more than 35 countries. The 2nd edition of the festival had 32 international guests. The festival had more than 300 screenings in March 2009.
The main objective of the CWFF is to provide a window on world cinemas. Highlights during 2009 included a focus on the cinemas of Egypt, Israel, Brazil, Italy, Iran, as well as the former Yugoslavia (Balkan states). South African movie lovers had an opportunity to see a rich diversity of films from more than 35 countries including Brazil, the USA, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Israel, the UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Chile, Cuba, Italy, France, Thailand, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Russia, Serbia, Rwanda and South Africa.
The festival also aims to build a rich film culture among South African audiences by celebrating great achievements of the past. During the first edition of the Cape Winelands Film festival the oeuvres of giants of the cinema such as Ingmar Bergman, Youssef Chahine and Ousmane Sembene have been highlighted. The intension is to create an awareness of past and present milestones in world cinema. The festival again paid homage to the great Egyptian master, Youssef Chahine, who past away during 2008. His famous Alexandria… Why?, a brilliant blend of autobiographical concerns and a portrait of Egypt was screened for the first time at a South African film festival.
The festival organisers were also delighted to include a tribute to the great Portugese director, Manoel de Oliveira, an international film treasure. During 2008 De Oliveira was honoured at the Cannes Film Festival with a Palme d’Or for his lifetime career achievement in film, which spans more than five decades. Born on December 12, 1908, in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, De Oliveira began his directorial film career in the 1930s. Since he had turned 80 years old the master of Portuguese cinema directed more than 19 feature length films, some of them masterpieces of recent European cinema. De Oliveira is famous for his cinematic adaptations of literary work by Camilo Castelo Branco (1862-1890), José Régio (1899-1969) en Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922-), as well as his use of theatrical conventions in his films.
The organisers also celebrated the work of the great African director, Idrissa Ouédraogo, winner of various international awards at major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and FESPACO. His great films, Tilai, Yaaba, Anger of the Gods and the small gem La Mangue, which forms part of the powerful compilation film Stories on Human Rights, were screened in collaboration with M-Net’s African Film Library and the African Cinema Unit at the University of Cape Town.
Apart from the current partnerships with the City of Cape Town, M-Net’s African Film Library and the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town the festival organisers have formed new exciting partnerships with various international institutions, which will result in a rich blend of retrospectives, competition components and workshops.
Please visit http://films-for-africa.co.za/
1. Features:
Features are all fiction films more than 50 minutes of length
2. Shorts:
Shorts are all fiction films up to 15 minutes in length. However all fiction films between 16 to 49 minutes in length will also be considered under the shorts category.
3. Animation:
Animation are all non-live action films, including claymation, computer and standard animation; of all lengths
4. Documentaries:
Documentaries are all non-fiction films of all lengths
The Early Bird submission deadline is November 15th, 2010 and all entries till then are FREE. After that a normal 50 USD entry fee will be charged until the final deadline on 15th December 2010. Although the electronic submission form must be filled out and submitted (email to [email protected]), applicants must also print the form, sign it, and include it in their Submission Package.
Cape Winelands Film Festival 2011, presented by Films for Africa and the City of Cape Town, will screen approximately 250 films during the 10 day festival in Cape Town and the heart of South Africa’s wine region Stellenbosch. The film selections will be posted on the festival’s website in the second week of January 2011.
The 2010 festival received more than 450 submissions from all over the world, though only 250 Feature films, documentaries and short films could be selected. Films without domestic theatrical distribution and films from first-time feature directors are especially welcomed.
The films will compete for the following awards :
Grand Prix Jury Award.
Best Feature Film Award
Best South African Feature Film
Best Documentary Award
Best South African Documentary
Best Short Film Award
Best South African Short Film
Best Animation Award
IFG Inspiration Award (First time feature film directors)
CWFF serves as a platform for the discovery of new and emerging talent and we are devoted to the nurturing and development of new filmmakers and their cinematic vision. The feature competition programs presents a special award for first time directors working with limited budgets, thus enabling the Festival’s mission to give exposure to emerging filmmaking talent.
CWFF also features workshops and writing competitions for screenplays.
Leon vd Merwe
Festival Director
director@ films-for-africa.co.za
–
Third edition of the Cape Winelands Film Festival: 17 – 27 March 2010
At the Awards celebration of the Cape Winelands Film Festival on 27 March 2010 the following Awards were presented by the International Film Festival Jury.
SHORT FILMS
Special Mention: Dance Macabre – Dir. Pedro Pirez
Best Short Film: Hammerhead – Dir. Sam Donovan
Best South African Short Film: Filho / Hidden Places – Dir Jamie Beron
DOCUMENTARY
Special Mention: Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation Dir Catherine Meyburgh
Best Documentary: War Against the Weak – Dir Justin Strawhand
FEATURE FILMS
International Film Guide Inspiration Award: The Other Bank – Dir. George Ovashili
Best South African Feature Award: – Gugu and Andile – Dir. Minky Schlesinger
Grand Prix Award: Eyes Wide Open – Dir. Haim Tabakman
Special Mention
1. Denise Newman for her searing performance in the title role of Oliver Hermanus’ Shirley Adams. She offers a moving account of a life that lies behind news stories about gang violence. Shirley Adams’ heroism is not the stuff of Hollywood filmmaking. There is no crusade against gun culture or a successful battle to stop the violence that is tearing communities apart. Her bravery lies in facing each day with the determination to survive it. Denise Newman presents us with the real face of motherhood; with the smallest of gestures that underpin her anguish and pain, she captures the spirit of a woman who will go to any lengths for her child and whose resilience knows no bounds.
2. Heikki Nousiainen for conveying the frailty of age, in his role as a priest desperate to finding meaning, in Klaus Härö’s Letters to Father Jacob. When a blind priest opens his doors to an ex-convict, peace returns to his life as he can continue his communication with the outside world through letters to his parishioners. Heikki Nousiainen’s quiet performance subtly details the everyday existence of this private man who, as he comes to the end of his life, wants nothing more than to serve his god. It is a performance of grace and humility that befits such an involving story.
AUDIENCE AWARD
Master Harold…and the Boys – Dir Lonny Price
_________________________________
Since the first edition the Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) has significantly grown in size and international participation. More than 70 features, documentaries and short films from over 35 countries were in competition during 2009. More than130 productions formed part of the festival programme, in total 62 features, 27 documentaries and 44 shorts from more than 35 countries. The 2nd edition of the festival had 32 international guests. The festival had more than 300 screenings in March 2009.
The main objective of the CWFF is to provide a window on world cinemas. Highlights during 2009 included a focus on the cinemas of Egypt, Israel, Brazil, Italy, Iran, as well as the former Yugoslavia (Balkan states). South African movie lovers had an opportunity to see a rich diversity of films from more than 35 countries including Brazil, the USA, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Israel, the UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Chile, Cuba, Italy, France, Thailand, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Russia, Serbia, Rwanda and South Africa.
The festival also aims to build a rich film culture among South African audiences by celebrating great achievements of the past. During the first edition of the Cape Winelands Film festival the oeuvres of giants of the cinema such as Ingmar Bergman, Youssef Chahine and Ousmane Sembene have been highlighted. The intension is to create an awareness of past and present milestones in world cinema. The festival again paid homage to the great Egyptian master, Youssef Chahine, who past away during 2008. His famous Alexandria… Why?, a brilliant blend of autobiographical concerns and a portrait of Egypt was screened for the first time at a South African film festival.
The festival organisers were also delighted to include a tribute to the great Portugese director, Manoel de Oliveira, an international film treasure. During 2008 De Oliveira was honoured at the Cannes Film Festival with a Palme d’Or for his lifetime career achievement in film, which spans more than five decades. Born on December 12, 1908, in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, De Oliveira began his directorial film career in the 1930s. Since he had turned 80 years old the master of Portuguese cinema directed more than 19 feature length films, some of them masterpieces of recent European cinema. De Oliveira is famous for his cinematic adaptations of literary work by Camilo Castelo Branco (1862-1890), José Régio (1899-1969) en Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922-), as well as his use of theatrical conventions in his films.
The organisers also celebrated the work of the great African director, Idrissa Ouédraogo, winner of various international awards at major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and FESPACO. His great films, Tilai, Yaaba, Anger of the Gods and the small gem La Mangue, which forms part of the powerful compilation film Stories on Human Rights, were screened in collaboration with M-Net’s African Film Library and the African Cinema Unit at the University of Cape Town.
Apart from the current partnerships with the City of Cape Town, M-Net’s African Film Library and the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town the festival organisers have formed new exciting partnerships with various international institutions, which will result in a rich blend of retrospectives, competition components and workshops.
Please visit http://films-for-africa.co.za/
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