AFDA (The South African School of Motion
Picture Medium and Live Performance) alumni and students have been nominated
for a total of 24 awards in the 2013 South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA).
The annual SAFTA awards, which takes place
on March 15 and 16, is the premier film and television industry awards under
the custodianship of the National Film and Video Foundation. The award's main
objectives is to honour, celebrate and promote the creativity, quality and
excellence of South African film and television talent, and encourage
entrepreneurship and the development of new talent in the industry.
“We are hugely proud that 20 of our
graduates or alumni have been nominated in various categories, three of our
current students have been nominated in the three student categories and one
student has been nominated in a professional category.” says a delighted Garth
Holmes, Chairman of AFDA.
The Alumni nominations include:
Amanda Lane for Best Director of a TV drama
series - 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls
Richard Lukunku for Best Actor in TV drama
series for his role as Phaka inMshika Shika
Xolile Tshabalalala for Best Actress in TV
drama series for her role Noma in 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls
Brent Quinn (AFDA’s Head of the Film in
Johannesburg) for Best Writing team of a TV drama series for Soul City
Tom Marais for Best DOP / Cinematographer of
a TV drama series for Soul City
Quinn Lubbe and C.A. Van Aswegen for Best
Editor of a TV drama series –Hartland
Gerrida Venter for Best Production Design of
a drama series for 90 Plein Street
Marna Heunis for 4Play: Sex Tips for
Girls and Larissa Peters for Zone14
Leroy Gopal for Best Actor in TV comedy Ses’Top
La
Best Ensemble in TV comedy – Ses ‘Top La
– Black Brain Pictures cc (Luke Rous, Tumi Masemola, Owen Swanson and Mandla
Ndimande)
Greg Heimann and Koen Kriel for Best DOP/Cinematographer
of TV soap – The Wild
Thomas Gumede for Best Actor in a feature
film - Otelo Burning
Trevor Calverley for Best Cinematographer of
a feature film - Material
Jackie Lotz for Best Production of a feature
film – Zama Zama
Mia Zwiegers for Best Costume Designer in Zama
Zama.
AFDAs 3rd and 4th
year crew have also been nominated for best student films these include:
Miklas Manneke, (whose film Kanye Kanye is
also up for a student Oscar), Jade Galbraith - AFDA Johannesburg for E-lectricity
Rudi Steyn, Martina Della Togna, Gianfranco
Human (who is Dean of the new AFDA school in Durban), Sarah Muhoho – AFDA Cape
Town for Lyfstrafand
Etienne Fourie, Robyn Oetle – AFDA Cape Town
for Die Windpomp.
“This brings the AFDA student film
nomination tally to 19 out of a possible 21 nominations over the past seven
years, which AFDA has won five out of a possible seven times.” says Holmes. “We
are all delighted that our student Kyle Stevenson (AFDA Cape Town) has been
nominated for Best Short Film in the professional category for There Are No
Heroes, a remarkable accolade for this young film-maker. We wish them all
well and look forward to the Awards.”
For more information about AFDA visit www.afda.co.za
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