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WoS is a member based non-profit support- and advocacy organisation for African women filmmakers. The organisation is based in South Africa but works actively with members in Angola, Namibia, Nigeria, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in addition to the members in South Africa.

The organisation is project driven and works to create a forum for African women filmmakers to share their visions and experiences More ...  

  


 

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WoS Last Thursday Showcase

This month will be celebrating the Johannesburg Premiere of this multi award winning feature film by a talented women team!!

 

 


  WoS In the News

 

 

  • Congratulations to Claire Angelique on being the first female recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for film.

Durban’s youngest and most prolific film maker, starts shooting her new feature film early March 2010, called PALACE OF BONE.

Inspired after winning the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist of The Year 2010 for her first feature film 'My Black Little Heart' tha WoS screened in 2008. Angelique has set herself a challenge to write and direct yet another film exposing and focusing on Durban’s sub culture, to debut at this years NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL in Grahamstown.  More...

 

  • Thumbs up to all the women filmmakers who won awards at the 2010 SAFTA's!
    Two of the films screened on The WoS Last Thursday Showcase won awards, including:
    Best Art Direction in a Student Film (Dorotea Vucic "Wamkelekile"),
    Best Short Film ("Superhero" By Hanneke Schutte), Best Cinematographer in a Short Film Willie Nel "Superhero".

Katinka Heyns was honoured with a Lifetime Achievers   More about SAFTA winners

 

  • WoS talks with SA Arts and Culture Minister at Meeting with Film Sector

WoS's Eve Rantseli was amongst those who met with the Minister of Arts and Culture (DAC), Honourable Ms. Lulu Xingwana, on 12 October 2009, in an open industry meeting,ion industry's concerns over SABC's financial crisis, and the general sate of the industry and how DAC can facilitate a way forward...

  


 

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South African Costume Designer Moira Meyer has clothed some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and now she has an Oscar-winning film to add to the list: Kathryn Bigelow’s multi-award-winning The Hurt Locker, about a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team in the Iraq War.
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Kathryn Bigelow's historic Oscar win for best director didn’t just punch through the American movie industry’s seemingly  atterproof glass ceiling; it  has also helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct  More...

 

The british director Andrea Arnold was awarded with the BAFTA for Fish Tank as the Outstanding British Film 2010. More...

 


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