Roll Call Africa
MultiChoice’s new call for unscripted projects is more than an opportunity notice. It indicates the type of African television the group may find commercially useful.
Durban FilmMart has put equitable coproduction into its training programme. The real measure will be who owns the…
Tshedza Pictures has moved from award-winning broadcaster drama to Showmax slate supplier and now a four-series Netflix partnership.…
Four DStv channels are closing, but the industry consequence is larger than a smaller channel guide. Local producers…
Jabu Nadia Newman reached TIFF’s Directors’ Lab as its only African filmmaker. The important measure now is whether…
South African cinemas are benefiting from major imported releases, but local films are not leading the recovery. A…
ARP Sélection has acquired French rights to John Trengove’s The Smell of Apples. The deal offers a useful…
Thuthuka will provide €40,000 each to four South African-Dutch projects. RollCallAfrica examines why majority-producer status matters more than…
A long-running South African television producer has converted daily-drama discipline into one of Netflix Africa’s clearest global audience…
Netflix has attached 8,000 jobs and more than 300 titles to its first South African decade. Those figures…
