The 18th Annual South African Film and Television Awards nominees have been announced and AFDA is proud to announce that AFDA students and alumni have received over 50 nominations in the various categories.
The AFDA Johannesburg 2023 third year graduation film, “Anguish”, produced by Raheem Razak and directed by Mandisa Mary-Jane Mtembu was nominated in the Best Student Film category, making it 18 years in a row that AFDA student films have been nominated.
AFDA alumni dominate the feature film category. Tristan Holmes’ debut feature film, “The Fragile King”, received 5 nominations including Best Feature Film and Best Actress (Antoinette Louw). Liese Kuhn’s directorial debut, “Seconds”, also received 5 nominations including Best Feature Film and Corne and Rene van Rooyen’s award-winning feature film, “Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor”, received 4 nominations.
In the TV Comedy category AFDA alumni received 8 nominations for the series “Miseducation”, including Best TV Comedy.
In the TV Drama category AFDA alumni received 3 nominations for their work on “Shaka Ilembe”.
Behind the scenes AFDA alumni cinematographers are nominated in all the different categories with Tom Marais receiving 3 nominations.
AFDA alumnus Ebenhaezer Smal (Haezer) received 5 nominations in the sound and editing categories and Mandle N is once again in the running, he received 3 nominations in the Telenovela category for his show “Isitha”.
Congratulations to all the AFDA students and alumni on their nominations.