by MediaAxisAdmin | Dec 3, 2020 | Awards, News
AFDA Johannesburg alumna, Faith Riyano who graduated in 2018 with a BA. Motion Picture Medium, majoring in cinematography recently was selected as one of the 10 winners of DFA docLove Citizen Journalist Award for her first micro-documentary “Inseparable”...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Dec 2, 2020 | News
The AFDA Johannesburg honours Stage Acting students welcome all back LIVE and to return to the theatre with them with a double bill of exciting new works, Wet Behind the Ears, and Kapow-HER. These will be performed as the premiere of the AFDA Hybrid Graduation...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Nov 27, 2020 | Awards, News
AFDA alumnus, Jarryd Duthoit, a finishing artist at Left Post Productions along with Tshepo Tumahole, a copywriter at Joe Public, was awarded the 2020 Loeries Brand South Africa Young Creatives Award earlier this week. The Award is open to 27-year-olds and under, and...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Nov 20, 2020 | News
AFDA is as proud as punch to announce that two AFDA alumni feature films have been selected as candidates for the holy grail of film awards – the Oscars. The multi-award winning Basotho film, “This is not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection”, produced by AFDA alumni Cait...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Nov 19, 2020 | News
Realness Institute, founded by AFDA alumni Elias Ribeiro and Cait Pansegrouw announced its partnership with global streaming service Netflix, to create an Episodic Content Development Lab for writers in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria. The South African-based NPC,...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Nov 11, 2020 | News
A grand total of nine 2019 undergraduate and postgraduate AFDA films from our Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth campuses have been selected to screen in competition at the Kukastream Online African Film Festival (KOAFF). The films selected are...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Nov 3, 2020 | News
The AFDA Cape Town 2019 graduation film, “In Sight”, directed by Ying Zhang and produced by Yolisa Letshwene has been selected as a finalist at the International Student Creative Award 2020 in Japan in the International Video Content category. Five other films from...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Nov 2, 2020 | News
With the annual AFDA Graduation Festival around the corner it is great to see 2019 graduation festival films doing so well on the international film festival circuit. After been selected as a candidate to the Student Academy Awards and the CILECT PRIZE 2020 AFDA...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Oct 30, 2020 | News
At the beginning of the lockdown AFDA alumni Grant De Sousa and Tyrone Rubin brought the global #Masks4All movement to South Africa and started #AfricaMasks4All, a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing 1 million face masks to less fortunate communities. They...
by MediaAxisAdmin | Oct 22, 2020 | News
Mbaliyekhethelo is a business owner, digital content creator, social media strategist & manager, bedroom DJ and podcaster extraordinaire. She tells us her story from selling lollipops from her school blazer pocket to running her own successful business. “As a...
