by EarleH@afda.co.za | Feb 17, 2023 | Alumni, News
AFDA alumnus and student Oscar winner Tristan Holmes’ debut feature film ‘The Fragile King’ will be screening at Film Mondays at AFDA, brought to you by the Goethe-Institut, Sacomm and AFDA on Monday 20 February at 17h30 on the AFDA Johannesburg campus....
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Feb 17, 2023 | News
AFDA Higher Certificate graduate and content creator, Ethan “Bob” McKay is becoming a social media sensation on the Tik Tok and Instagram platforms. In the Creative Economy the phrase you will most hear is, “content is king” coined by Bill Gates in 1996. Ethan, now in...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Feb 3, 2023 | Awards, Film School, News, Radio and Podcasting
AFDA is proud to announce the selection of three 2022 graduation films to compete for the prestigious CILECT Prize 2023; the first-ever award bestowed to a student film based on the review from the whole community of CILECT Full Member Schools. This community includes...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Feb 1, 2023 | Alumni, News
The IYABUYA iPOPArt festival is a live and mixed media arts festival presented by POPArt Productions running from 21 January – end March 2023. POPArt Theatre, which opened in 2011 in Johannesburg’s Maboneng Precinct, had established itself as the front runner in...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Jan 27, 2023 | Film School, News
AFDA is proud to announce that the 2021 honours graduation films, ‘Ihsaan’ and ‘Where is Mr Adams?’ from AFDA Cape Town and ‘Tart’ from AFDA Johannesburg have been selected to screen at the Joburg Film Festival 2023. The festival is set to showcase some of the...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Jan 27, 2023 | News
A deeply missed Johannesburg tradition is coming back to life: Weekly film screenings aiming to shape not only a community of practice in the industry but also to develop academic dialogue around films, and to strengthen the ties within the creative community. Weekly...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Jan 20, 2023 | Alumni, News
The Cotton Fest team recently launched the Cotton Fest Creative program founded by the late Riky Rick, to give back to the students in the community while creating outlets to empower young creatives to succeed in their studies and career. Considering Riky himself was...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Dec 9, 2022 | Alumni, Awards, News
Film and Television AFDA alumni win 21 Golden Horns at SAFTAs 2022 After receiving a massive 64 nominations for the 16th annual Saftas (South African Film and Television Awards) AFDA alumni picked up 21 Golden Horns at the Safta awards held virtually on 2 & 3...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Dec 5, 2022 | News
Our 3rd year and honours students from our Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth campuses have once again pulled out all the stops this year at the annual Graduation Festival. Our Motion Picture Medium students very successfully screened their films, tv...
by EarleH@afda.co.za | Nov 14, 2022 | News
AFDA is proud to announce that the annual AFDA Graduation Festival showcasing work from our final year Undergraduate and Postgraduate degree students will kick-off from the 15-27 November 2022. The festival will be hosted by our 4 campuses in cinemas, theatres and...
