The 34th Durban International Film Festival
(DIFF) has finalised participants for the 6th edition of the Talent Campus
Durban from July 19 to 23.
DIF, which runs from July 18 to 28, is
hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, with
principal funding by the National Lottery Development Trust Fund.
Some 40 African filmmakers and film experts
will come together in Durban to be inspired and enlightened in the medium and
industry of cinema. The programme provides the selected participants with a
unique opportunity to meet with international industry professionals, experts
and mentors in various aspects of the filmmaking business through participation
in a five-day programme of masterclasses, workshops and industry networking
events.
This year’s candidates, chosen from over
450 submissions, hail from 15 different African countries, including Algeria,
Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria,
Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, and Uganda. Participants will also be
able to attend the DIFF.
Running in parallel to the general Festival
programme, this year’s Talent Campus Durban will offer three hands-on training
programmes: Doc Station which will
focus on documentary-making, Talent Press
which is dedicated to film criticism and Script
Station which will foster story development.
For the third consecutive year, Doc Station will offer three selected
Talents the opportunity to refine and polish documentary projects for pitching
at the 4th Durban FilmMart’s DOC Circle. Meanwhile, Talent Press will mentor
four African journalists in the art of film criticism with access to all the
screenings of the 34th Durban International Film Festival. This initiative,
promoted in collaboration with FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film
Critics) and the Goethe Institute of South Africa, will welcome film writing
experts Didi Cheeka (Nigeria), Espera Donouvossi (Benin and South Africa), Leon
Van Nierop (South Africa) and Katarina Hederen (Ethiopia and South Africa) as
programme mentors.
For the first time, Script Station will offer the opportunity to four selected writers
to develop their stories in the Writers Circle, while being mentored by
qualified script editors Tracey Lee Dearham-Raniers and Karima Effendi. This
new activity is presented in collaboration with the NFVF’s Sediba SPARK
Scriptwriting workshop.
In 2013, the Talent Campus Durban theme is Memetic Africa? highlighting and
interrogating the continent of Africa as a source of myriad narratives which
offer possibilities to be re-imagined, re-told, overlapped and adapted within
numerous contexts.
Talent Campus Durban is presented in
partnership with the Berlinale Talent Campus, with support from the German
Embassy of South Africa, the Goethe-Institut of South Africa, and the KwaZulu-Natal
Department of Economic Development and Tourism. Through the international
programme, which extends to Talent Campuses in Buenos Aires, Guadalajara,
Sarajevo and Tokyo, as well as Durban, participants are initiated into a global
community of filmmakers and connected via a wide social network operated
through the Berlinale.
Talent Campus Durban 2013: Drifa Mezenner
(Algeria), Pierre Loti Tawokam Simo (Cameroon), Tumbo John Wani (Democratic
Republic of Congo), Alia Hassab (Egypt), Kamal Elmallakh (Egypt), Dawit Zewedu
(Ethiopia), Hiwot Getaneh (Ethiopia), Anita Afonu (Ghana), Joseph Wairimu
(Kenya), Mercy Mkaiwawi Mwakaba (Kenya), Sarah Muhoho (Kenya), Ng’endo Mukii
(Kenya), Saad Eddine Said (Morocco), Inadelso Cossa (Mozambique), Oshosheni Hiveluah
(Namibia), Aderinsola Ajao (Nigeria), Adeyinka Edward Daniyan (Nigeria),
Kayambi Musafiri (Rwanda), Thiaw Rama (Senegal), Antoinette Engel (South
Africa), Ari Kruger (South Africa), Caitlin Pansegrouw (South Africa), Dylan
Bosman (South Africa), Howard Fyvie (South Africa), Katey Lee Carson (South
Africa), Maanda Ntsandeni (South Africa), Nduduzo Shandu (South Africa),
Nosipho Sharon Mngoma (South Africa), Pierre Paul De Villiers (South Africa),
Rolisizwe Nikiwe (South Africa) Siphamandla Ngcobo (South Africa), Siphiwe
Dominic Mpanza (South Africa), Sivela Mgudu (South Africa), Zethu Mashika
(South Africa), Zwelethu Radebe (South Africa), Ahmed Jlassi (Tunisia), Narjes
Torchani (Tunisia), Nathan Magoola (Uganda), Polly Kamukama (Uganda) and Tapiwa
Chipfupa (Zimbabwe).
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