Documents

Annual Report

Funding Application - Bursary Application

Co-production Treaty - South Africa and Germany

Co-production Treaty - South Africa and United Kingdom

NFVF Holland MOU (2005)

NFVF Tshwane University of Technology MOU (2008)

NFVF Funded Projects 2005 - 2006

NFVF Funded Projects 2008

5th Issue - 2008

NFVF logo as a .psd (photoshop) file - all layers included. 3600x3000

NFVF logo on a white background. High resolution .jpg 3043x2303

Income Tax Act 28 1997

Lotteries Act Regulation 1997

NFVF Act 1997

PAJA

The National Film and Video Foundation invites interested parties to submit written comments on the proposed Definition of a South African Film. The objective of the Definition of a South African Film is to set criteria for the assessment of whether a film is South African.

The Cultural Laws Amendment Act 2001

The Microeconomic Strategy 2002

Final report of box office report 2010.

Box office report firts term 2011

Review of the 10 years of co-productions

A half year review of co-productions.

The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), official organizers of the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS) calls for South African productions to submit their entries for SAFTAS 2011. The 2011 entries open on Monday the 17th of May 2010 and will close on Friday the 16th of July 2010 at 16h00. The Feature Film and Life Time Achievement category entries will close on the 31st of December 2010.

30 January 2012: The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) will embark on a trip to the 65th Cannes International Film Festival being held from the 16th to the 27th of May 2012. The festival, which is internationally recognised as the premier film festival and marketing event, brings together filmmakers and key decision makers from across the globe to conduct the business of film.

16 February 2012: The nominees for the 6th annual South African Film & Television Awards were announced on Thursday 16th of February 2012 at a glittering event held at The Venue in Melrose Arch, North of Johannesburg. Isidingo's Jack Devnarain & Thuli Thabethe served as MC's for the night, while joint Chairpersons Jackie Motsepe & Feizel Mamdoo announced the nominees.

Call for Entries – Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2009 16h00
South African filmmakers are invited to submit their films for consideration into the Academy 82nd annual Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Awards Best Foreign Language Film category.

South Africa to have a strong presence at the AFCI Locations Expo in Los Angeles

Soweto audience report

07 November 2011: Last week the people of Bojanala district showed their eagerness to pursue careers in filmmaking and that they are passionate about the film industry. This was evident during the Bojanala Film Week that took place between the 26th and 29th of October 2011 at the Bafokeng Plaza in Rustenburg.

The NFVF celebrates its 10 years of existence at the Cannes Film Festival

10 May 2012: The Documentary Filmmakers Association (DFA) delegation to Hot Docs 2012 has just returned from Toronto and delegates have headed home to Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Durban. The 16-strong delegation was the biggest at Hot Docs, and stood out at the festival.

The National Film and Video Foundation is proud to announce that Bhekumuzi Sibiya's FATHER CHRISTMAS DOESN'T COME HERE has scooped the Best Narrative Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival.

South Africa to have a strong representation at Africa's leading film festival, FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou.

Izulu Lami (My Secret Sky) opens nation-wide at cinemas from today 21 August 2009. The release comes after an unprecedented interest globally, including the President’s office and the Department of Arts and Culture.

The South African Academy Award Selection Committee and the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) announce the selection of Life, Above All for consideration as South Africa’s official entry into the Best Foreign Film category for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (Oscars). If approved by the Oscars Academy Award Selection Committee, it will represent South Africa as the nominee for Oscars 2011.

National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), partners with SABC, M-Net and FPB for the 45th MIPTV

The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has completed a feasibility study for the establishment of a National Film School. This was in response to Section 4 (2) e of the NFVF act, which calls for the investigation into the establishment of film school in collaboration with the Department of Education, and of Trade and Industry.

The NFVF is proud to announce that "Shirley Adams" an NFVF funded film has been selected into the main competition at the prestigious A-festival Locarno.

10 May 2012: The National Film & Video Foundation is offering FREE part-time training opportunities to individuals who wish to train as script editors in the film and television arena. The successful candidates will go through an intensive Sediba "Spark" Screenwriter's Training Programme where they will be required to team up with a writer in developing concepts which are engaging & have wide audience appeal.

In 2007, the National Film and Video Foundation sent out a call to up and coming young filmmakers to submit short film scripts in any genre but with two stipulations - the films had either to be in an indigenous language and or be written and directed by women.

22 February 2012: The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) congratulates Ross Van Leeve for being shortlisted in Kevin Spacey Jameson’s First Short Film Competition. Ross is an NFVF bursary recipient and has completed the Sediba Spark training programme. A film director and scriptwriter, he stands the once in a lifetime chance to have his script turned into a short film, starring the one and only Kevin Spacey.

The National Film and Video Foundation will this week promote the movie "Skin" among grade 12 pupils from disadvantaged areas in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape, as part of its audience development programme. The campaign is a pilot programme that will be extended to other regions in the future.

Moviegoers are in for a treat as Encounters Documentary Festival’s Johannesburg leg commences tomorrow at The Bioscope. One documentary not to be missed is Rehad Desai's The Battle for Johannesburg. The film will be screened on Friday 20th of August at 20:30, followed by a Q & A.

The nominees for the South African Film and Television Awards were announced today at an event held at Johannesburg’s Atlas Studios. Both members of the industry and the local media attended the event.

SAFTA Judging process commences

Sediba graduate moves on to become a resident writer on Isidingo, an SABC 3 local soapie

The National Film & Video Foundation sent a call to the industry a few weeks ago inviting all Producers to apply for the Sediba International Financing Programme, aimed at experienced and emerging Producers.

The National Film and Video Foundation congratulates Shirley Adams on winning three awards at the 30th Durban International Film Festival, which took place from 23 July until 03 August. Winners of the 30th Durban International Film Festival were announced on Sunday 02 August in Durban.

The National Film and Video Foundation is proud to announce that SKIN continues to dazzle the world with its unique, inspirational South African story.

Skin, a true-life story about South Africa's Sandra Laing, accumulated R194.151 at the box office during it’s first weekend of release (22 – 24 January) making it the number one film on he Cinema Nouveau circuit. The figure was recorded after the film was released only in selected cinemas (eleven prints) around the country. As of 28th January,Thursday night, Skin had registered R288,000.

11 May 2012: The National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF) in association with the Department of Arts & Culture (DAC) will as from 16th until 27th of May 2012 lead a South African delegation to the 65th Cannes International Film Festival. Cannes International Film Festival is an annual prestigious event that allows global filmmakers and key decision makers in film to gather with the core aim of conducting film business.

South Africa picks up six awards at Fespaco

17 April 2012: Two South African documentaries, Sands of the Skei Queen by Ryley Grunenwald and Buddha of Africa by Nicole Schafer are set to shine at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival scheduled to take place from the 26th of April to the 6th of May 2012. Founded in 1993, Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference, and market held annually in Toronto, Canada. Each year South Africa’s documentaries are showcased and represented by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), and individual producers.

20 February 2010: Winners of the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS) were announced tonight at a glittering award ceremony that took place at the State Theatre in Pretoria. The crème de la crème of South African Film and Television industry gathered at the State Theatre to witness as the best in the country received honour for their creative excellence. The show was broadcast live on SABC 2 from 20:00.

13 October 2011: The National Film and Video Foundation have published its 2nd Trimester Box Office report for the review period from 29th of April until 31st of August 2011.

15 July 2010: The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS) committee have announced that the period to submit projects for the SAFTAS 2011 has been extended. The new closing date for submission is Friday 13th of August 2010 at 16h00.

The Bang Bang Club is a powerful real life story about four remarkable young men, photographers, friends and rivals who were sometimes banded together to lessen the danger as they covered the violence that erupted in the township of Thokoza in 1994 when the first democratic elections in South African were held.

27 October 2011: The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) is proud to announce that Mukunda Michael Dewil’s riveting thriller Retribution was the opening film of the Bojanala Film Week.

The National Film and Video Foundation welcomes the unequivocal statement of commitment to supporting the development and growth of the film industry by the new Minister of Arts and Culture Mr. Paul Mashatile.

At a meeting held on 2nd September 2010 on the occasion of the 3rd cycle meeting of the NFVF Council, NFVF management recommended funding across the usual range of programmes and projects the institution supports.

The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) takes pleasure in announcing winners of the essay writing competition that took place on February 11 2010, when different schools were treated with a trip to the cinema to view SKIN.

Audience Development Research 2010

Second trimester report on the market activities of the distribution/exhibition sector

The study examines the feasibility of establishing a National film School in South Africa

HSRC Industry Survey 2004

The 5th South African Film and Television nominees list.

03 August 2011: The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) organizers of the popular industry awards, South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS) calls for local productions to submit their entries for 2012.

13 October 2011: The judging process for the 6th annual South African Film and Television Awards began on a positive note with the pre-judging session held at the NFVF offices on the 12th of October 2011.

Advance programme application form

Cape Town world cinema - Sithengi

The launch of DV8

NFVF CEO Eddie Mbalo's speech at the Film Indaba 2009 held on 26 and 27 November 2009.

Eddie Mbalo, CEO of the National Film and Video Foundation's (NFVF) address at the launch of CFC Resource Centre - Cape Town

The National Film and Video Foundation was established 12 years ago with the ambitious ideals of creating facilities for ordinary South Africans to bear influence in the expression of their own images, thereby deepen democracy and create prosperity.

Opening speech at SACOD forum

List of feature films released at South Africa's cinemas.