Thursday 10th September 2009 |
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AUDITORIUM
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION by Rehad Desai |
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AUDITORIUM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Vision for Public Broadcasting
Actively involved in lobbying and advocacy for the shape of public broadcast, Harriet Gavshon head of Curious Pictures will focus on the intersection of
practice and policy, and in doing so look at how and where the vision for public broadcasting is working and where it is struggling or has failed. |
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AUDITORIUM
PLENARY SESSION
Public Broadcasting Ecology in Crisis:
The advent of private free to air stations, followed by a rapidly evolving multi-channel environment, has seen the powerful public broadcasters of yester
year respond in a myriad of ways to falling audience share. In the process the Public Broadcast Service mandate has been interpreted in a number of
ways to regain and or maintain audience loyalty. But have these interpretations been adequately interrogated?
Professor Jane Duncan (SA)leads international perspectives from Pepita Ferrari (Canada) Lucinda Broadbent (UK)
Bob Coen (USA) and Hamid Rahmanian (Iran) |
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TEA |
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SEMINAR ROOM
DEBATE
Gazetted: The Discussion Document for Repositioning
Broadcasting for National Development
An interrogation of the Department of Communications recent
discussion document on a developmental mandate for public
broadcasters.
DOC Ministerial task team’s Themba Langa, David Niddrie (SACP consultant on PBS), Feizel Mamdoo (SASFED chair)
and Kate Skinner (SOS co-ordinator) respond to this discussion
towards a draft SABC Act |
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AUDITORIUM
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Regional Filmmakers Respond to South Africa’s National Chauvinism
Following the outbreak of xenophobic violence last year, Mozambican producer
Pedro Pimenta cut all relations with SA, including its filmmakers.
With excerpts from Frontier of Love and Hate (Moz) and Filmmakers against Racism
(SA) as a backdrop,
Dr. Brigitte Bagnol encourages filmmakers from beyond our borders, including
Jean-Pierre Bekolo Obama (Cameroon), Claude Haffner and SACOD
representatives (regional) to address their South African counterparts. |
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LUNCH |
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CLASSROOM 1
MASTER CLASS
Hamid Rahmanian, award-winning director
of The Glass House, gains exceptional
access to his characters, allowing viewers
an intimate journey through the lives of his
subjects while still prioritising a beautiful
frame. The filmmaker shares his methods
of working with characters, negotiating the
balance between narrative and aesthetic
choices and his unique approach to
filmmaking.
* Due to limited space pre-booking essential |
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AUDITORIUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
The Right to Own - The Intellectual Property
debate Continues.
The creators of cultural content worldwide are raising
their voices. Their argument is that they have a right
to utilise their inherent Intellectual Property in order
to economically benefit from the many new formats
and mediums that have sprung up.
Broadcasters who “own” commissions contest these
rights as they’ve paid for the creation of content.
- Hugh Melamdowitz (Spoor and Fischer),
- Shamima Vawda (Industry consultant)
- Nhlanhla Sibisi (SABC IP specialist)
- PuleDiphare (SASFED IP Subcommittee)
- Desiree Markgraaff (IPO)
- Moderated by Neil Brandt (SASFED IP
subcommittee)
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SEMINAR ROOM
MASTER CLASS
Pepita Ferrari director of Capturing Reality: The Art
of Documentary, deals with
• Finding the story
• The Production Process
• Documenting “Truth”
* Due to limited space pre-booking essential |
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TEA |
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SEMINAR ROOM
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION
Finding Finance for your Doc
Nadia Sujee and Julia Nzimande executives of Creative Industries at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), address documentary producers on finding finance with specific focus on incentives provided by the department and engage with Ingrid Gavshorn and Marc Schwinges from the DFA on how the local production rebate scheme could be more “doc- friendly”. |
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CLASSROOM 1
PANEL DISCUSSION
Starting from Scratch: The State of Documentary
Today
The impact of global commercialization has seen
factual content boxed into prescriptive formats.
Many of the fine traditions of the genre are thereby
threatened with extinction.
Kgomotso Matsunyane (SASFED) chairs
a discussion between Pat van Heerden (SA
filmmaker), Lauren Groenewald and Dylan Valley from the DFA, Steven Markovitz (SA filmmaker), Clarence
Hamilton (NFVF) and Dominique Olier (FRANCE AFRICADOC) |
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AUDITORIUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
On Convergence
“Media convergence in reality is more than just a
shift in technology. It alters the relationship that
already exists between industries, technologies,
audiences, genres and markets” Henry Jenkins
A
Panel discussion led by Adam Clayton Powell III (Convergence Expert) with Yusuf Nabee (SABC
DDT Expert) and Indra de Lanerolle (Ochre
Media) |
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| Friday 11th September 2009 |
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AUDITORIUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
Challenging Distribution
The ever-shifting distribution landscape has made filmmakers less
dependant on middlemen as the old bottlenecks and blockades for
content distribution are burst wide open. How is the documentary
industry reflecting this change?
With Steven Markovitz (Encounters Distribution) Janice Boris (Next
Video) GFC Independent Cinema Rep and Jeremy Nathan (DV8)
Moderated by Tendeka Matatu (Ten10 Films) |
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SEMINAR ROOM
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION
Development Bank: A contradiction in Terms?
Basil Ford, head of the moving pictures division of the Independent
Development Corporation, explains the role and vision of the IDC in the
development and transformation of the South African film industry.
Respondents include Paul Raleigh (Film Finances) and
Renee Williams (SABC) |
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TEA |
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AUDITORIUM
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Media Uprising: Citizen Journalism,
Activism and Revolution
As seen in Burma VJ and A Little Bit of So
Much Truth, the lines between amateur
videographers, media activists and filmmakers
have been blurred by the mass availability of
cheap cameras, be it video phones in Mexico
or handy cams in Burma. An opportunity to
celebrate?
Chaired by Pat van Heerden (SA filmmaker)
with Lucinda Broadbent Red Oil, Prishani
Naidoo (Indy Media/ WITS) and Eugene
Paramoer (SA Filmmaker) |
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SEMINAR ROOM
PANEL DISCUSSION
Ghosts of the Past: Documenting Memory
Scratchy home-video, dusty photographs,
crackly sound recordings and fragile
memories… how do filmmakers deal with the
past?
Key inputs by Phillip Miller and Liza Key Rewind, Claus Löser Counter Images, Mark
Kaplan Highgate Hotel Massacre, Khalo
Matabane When we were Black and Vincent
Moloi A Pair of Boots and a Bicycle |
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GALLERY
CLOSED SESSION:
Interim Board Engages Industry Organisations |
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LUNCH |
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SEMINAR ROOM
PANEL DISCUSSION
DOC POLICE: Recent Threats to Freedom for
Documentary
A key social role of the documentary is the
spotlight it turns on state and society. This
is often resisted by means both blatant and
devious.
With Hamid Rahmanian The Glass House and
Steven Markovitz Behind the Rainbow and
others |
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AUDITORIUM
ROUNDTABLE
Opportunities and Challenges for
Producers Today.
Active filmmakers are feeling the crunch as the
economy has gone into global recession and
the SABC has slashed spending. What are the
opportunities and prospects for coordination
of government agencies and what are the
challenges that filmmakers face at a project
and industry level?
Basil Ford (IDC), Clarence Hamilton (NFVF), Julia Nzimande (DTI) and Jacky Lourens, Ingrid Gavshorn and Marc Schwinges from the DFA discuss. Moderated by Robbie Thorpe |
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CLASSROOM 1
MASTERCLASS
Bob Coen director of Anthrax War covers the ins and
outs of investigative documentary making including
gaining access, how journalistic inquiry translates
into film narrative and pitfalls and advantages of the
medium of film for serious journalism.
* Due to limited space pre-booking essential |
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TEA |
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SEMINAR ROOM
PITCHING SESSION
If I were Commissioning
Commissioning editors pitch their strategies for brief writing and content
selection to filmmakers in attendance.
Chaired by Pat van Heerden (EX SABC) and Beathur Baker (EX
SABC), with commissioning editors from SABC, ETV and MNET. |
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AUDITORIUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
Camera Writers: The Essay Film Today
“The essay film has often lived on the margins, but its importance is tied not
to its position inside or outside of the power structure, but to its potential for
questioning that power.” But what are the qualities that define the essay film?
With Sean McAllister Japan: A Story of Love and Hate Bob Coen Anthrax War Pepita Ferrari Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary and Neil
Brandt Sea Point Days |
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| Saturday 12th September 2009 |
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CLASSROOM 1
MASTERCLASS:
Sound Memory Meaning
Often cast in a supporting role, sound
and music can lead as character,
narrative and meaning.
Pepita Ferrari Capturing Reality: The
Art of Documentary chairs a panel
including composer Phillip Miller Rewind, Feizel Mamdoo Of Journey,
Home and Treasure and Holly
Lubbock Fezeka’s Voice |
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AUDITORIUM
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Lives of Others
Making the long form character documentary
means filmmakers become part of the lives of
their subjects, often for long periods of time. What
emotional bonds are formed in the process, what
are the ethics involved, what becomes of these
relationships once the film is complete?
With Lloyd Ross The Silver Fez Hamid
Rahmanian The Glass House and Sean
Mcallister Japan: A Story of Love and Hate |
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SEMINAR ROOM
PRESENTATION:
Africadoc
Dominique Olier presents Africadoc, a
programme for the development of African
Documentary Cinema- a subsidiary of Lussas:
Les Etats Generaux du Film Documentaire
France’s premiere documentary festival. |
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TEA |
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CLASSROOM 2,3,4
BREAKAWAY SESSIONS:
- TVIEC MEETING
- SACOD MEETING
- NETWORKING TIME
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SEMINAR ROOM
MASTER CLASS:
Auteur filmmaker Sean McAllister Japan: A Story
of Love and Hate discusses the importance of
casting and other processes that guide him when
finding his story. |
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CLASSROOM 1
MASTER CLASS:
Lucinda Broadbent, director of Red Oil and
Sex and the Sandinistas, discusses recurring
themes in her films. |
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| 13h00 |
LUNCH |
| 15h45 |
AUDITORIUM
PLENARY SESSION
TOWARDS A CAMPAIGN
It has been a remarkable year so far for the South African film industry. The industry has displayed a unity, identity and organisation not seen
before, led by established industry bodies and new coalitions. What lies beyond the industry’s immediate battles? Can professionally centred
organisations generate the necessary unity of vision to sustain a campaign of action? Or should the federation simply work as a tactical
alliance, where campaigns are generated on the basis of common agreement amongst all practitioners?
- SASFED speaks on Challenges and Opportunities ahead
- SOS and TVIEC respond to Government Gazette Public Broadcasting Report
- The global economic crisis and proactive industry stimulus measures.
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WRAP and drinks |
