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| 3rd Talent Campus Durban Participants |
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| Hyacynthe Ndongo (Cameroon) |
| Priye Amachree, Nigeria |
| Raisedon Baya, Zimbabwe |
| Aster Bedane, Ethiopia |
| Richard Bezuidenhout, Tanzania |
| Nadine Cloete, South Africa |
| Lee-Ann Cotton, South Africa |
| Olga Fantognon (Benin) |
| Hawa Essuman, Kenya |
| Kyla Herrmannsen, South Africa |
| Ricky Joaquim, South Africa |
| Mark Kaigwa, Kenya |
| Christian Katembe, Democratic Republic Of Congo |
| Sifiso Khanyile, South Africa |
| Kerrin Kokot, South Africa |
| Abalotu Komou Patchidi, Togo |
| Botlhe Lesetedi, Botswana |
| Karen Logan , South Africa |
| Vusi Madondo, South Africa |
| Zarina Maharaj, South Africa |
| Veronica Mahlaba, South Africa |
| Sejake Matsela, Lesotho |
| Michael Moagi Matsie, South Africa |
| Sizwe Mkhaliphi, South Africa |
| Tsholofelo Monare, South Africa |
| Daniel Mtthee, South Africa |
| Kimeshree Munsamy, South Africa |
| Tiécoura N'daou, Mali |
| Idi Nasiru, Nigeria |
| Yeukai Ndarimani, Zimbabwe |
| Hyacynthe Ndongo (Cameroon) |
| Matt Nefdt, South Africa |
| Ernest Nkosi, South Africa |
| Neo Ntlatleng, South Africa |
| Melissa Parry, South Africa |
| Henry Joe Sakala, Zambia |
| Neerhan Samy, Egypt |
| Haytham Saqr, Egypt |
| Patrick Sekyaya, Uganda |
| Moses Serugo, Uganda |
| Megan Steyn, South Africa |
| Mark Strydom, South Africa |
| Joselyne Umutoniwase, Rwanda |
| Solomon Yeboah, Ghana |
| Please remember to also apply for the Berlinale Talent Campus (applications open in July). Participant bios will also be made available there. |
3rd TALENT CAMPUS DURBAN 23 - 27 July 2010 at the 31st Durban International Film Festival (22 July - 1 August 2010)
Talents Announced
The Durban International Film Festival has announced that the selection for this year's edition of Talent Campus Durban has been finalised. Over 40 young filmmakers representing nearly 20 African countries, including Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and of course South Africa, will participate in an intensive five-day programme of workshops and masterclasses. The Talents, who were selected through a rigorous application process, will also have the opportunity to attend screenings and events at the 31st Durban International Film Festival.
The 3rd Talent Campus Durban, themed Focusing on Africa: Unleashing Talent in 2010, will centre activities on the development and strengthening of partnerships between African filmmakers. Talent Campus Durban is held in cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, the eighth edition of which formed part of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in February this year. Talent Campus is a global partnership and apart from the main event in Berlin, Talent Campus partnerships take place at selected festivals in Buenos Aires, Guadalajara and Sarajevo. It is a considerable privilege and sign of success of the first two editions that DIFF has again been invited to host a Talent Campus.
Monica Rorvik, Assistant manager of the DIFF, comments: "This year's influx of Talent brings an exciting skillset to Campus, with their range of expertise covering acting, editing, directing, producing, and script writing. The Campus will facilitate opportunities to bring Africa's stories to life through the creative vision of these filmmaking talents. While we welcome the new talents with pride we also received the sad news that one of Talent Campus Durban 2009 alumni, El Hadji Samba Sarr (Senegal), died from malaria this month. Samba had also been selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010 and had a project entered into the inaugural Durban FilmMart. The Durban FilmMart, which specifically targets African projects, launches at the festival and runs parallel to Talent Campus."
Another positive sign is that Durban Talent Campus alumni films appear in all sections of this year's festival, including the feature film category. Ugandan Talent Caroline Kamya will attend DIFF to present her debut feature, Imani, which also appeared at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year. The festival will present two first feature length documentar ies by previous participants in Talent Campus. Koundi and the National Thursday by Cameroonian Ariane Astrid Atodji is a gorgeous and heartfelt look at life inside a communal society that is negotiating the demands of globalization and the search for uniquely African solutions. South African Carlos Franciso's American Foulbrood looks at the global environmental crisis through the crippling effects of a deadly disease on African honey bees and its possible impact on food production. Short fiction films and documentaries are also in the festival from a number of other Durban and Berlinale Film Festival Talents.
The 3rd Talent Campus Durban is a partnership project between the Durban International Film Festival in cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival, and is supported by the German Embassy in South Africa, the Goethe-Institut, the Department of Economic Development and Tourism, KwaZulu-Natal and the Commonwealth Foundation.
Phone: +27 (0)31 260 2506/1367
Fax: +27 (0)31 260 3074
Email: talent@ukzn.ac.za or talent.durban@gmail.com
The Durban International Film Festival is organised by the Centre For Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal) with support by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (principal funder), National Film and Video Foundation, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism, HIVOS, City Of Durban, German Embassy, Goethe Institut, Industrial Development Corporation, Commonwealth Foundation, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts and Culture, and a range of other valued partners. |
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