Fresh Encounters
RUTV4 reviews Encounters Film Festival. So many docs to see for free
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Fresh Encounters
So no, Makhanda is not Wakhanda, people, we’re the hometown of Rhodes University and the School of Journalism and Media Studies where we are all studying TV. For us, it’s brilliant that Encounters Film Festival is online this year. In past years we could never see the film festival out there in Cape Town, Joburg and the bigger smokes.
Now you can watch the Encounters Film Festival 2020 anywhere you are… whether you’re in iBayi, in Alice, eMonti or out in Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Jozi etc – Shoutout to all the Journalism and Media students out there! And if you want to know about documentary film, and what to watch at the Encounters Film Festival this year, we’re here to guide you, cos we actually produce and study this stuff.
So deal with your #FOMO and book a doccie to watch! (more…)
For Sama – the experience
Clair O’Reilly experiences For Sama – at the virtual Encounters Film Festival 2020.
The documentary from Syria is pipped for a documentary Oscar and provides a rare account of the female experience of war. Taking the form of a love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of journalist Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo.
Good Hope for all
Temba Mkosi takes a roller coaster ride to the future
A rise of pessimism in South Africa is a worrying factor as social and economic inequality widens due to the current state of the nation and its complex history. Good Hope is a documentary for those who still believe in a positive future for South Africa. Director Anthony Fabian explores the complex state of the country and takes the viewer through scenarios of pessimism, solutions and optimism for the future. (more…)
A zoom for two – From Underground to the Corridors of Power
A zoom review for two that opens a lot of conversation after watching a documentary about earlier times and Cyril Ramaphosa and the mines. From Underground to the Corridors of Power.
Have a look and listen at a new review style.
Production by Catherine White