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The Centre for Film and Media Studies and UCT Television’s annual community engagement video training programme,Stepping Stone has begun! Sixty-eight applications, thirty-four interviews, and sixteen prospective participants later the studio filming course began on Monday, July 24th 2017.
There’s Still Good, a 2016 University of Cape Town's Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS) graduation film, has officially been selected to screen at the 38th annual Durban International Film Festival in July 2017! The film is focalized through Will, a young black student who travels to the suburbs of Cape Town to meet his white boyfriend’s mother. It is a film about the danger of a single story, about how stereotypes can be damaging to personal relationships, especially in a post-apartheid, South African context.
Congratulations to Ciaran and crew!
UCT Television Studio / Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS) / Stepping Stone are presenting a multi-camera training course during the June / July university holidays. Only a limited number of applicants can be accepted. The course is free of charge to deserving applicants. Participants will learn and practice basic skills in studio camerawork, vision mixing, directing, sound recording and floor management. In addition to the above skills, participants will gain experience in working as part of a multi-camera studio crew and recording a live talk show with presenter and guests. The course runs from the 18th of June 2018 till the 6th July 2018.
Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS) alumnus Aliki Saragas’s documentary film, Strike a Rock will be screened at two prominent film festivals. Strike a Rock, will be screened in South Africa at the Encounters International Documentary Film Festival on the 1st of June and in the United Kingdom (UK) at the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival on the 11th of June.