8th Doc Film Fest

RUTV4 Doc Fest 2012

Pics of the fab event are found here.
Thanks to the The Big Wang Club Nightlife Project

Down Babylon

Produced by Ross Alford. Daniella Potter and Mokgaetji Shadung – Shaky Panda Productions
TV Intensive 2010 – 5min

The documentary is on a group of Rastafarians who live in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. They are finding it hard to balance practising their religion and living in the market driven economy of the western world, which they refer to as the Babylon society. We follow Rastafarians in their attempt to obtain a lease for a piece of land which they hope to use to grow their own crops, live and worship on the land. The Rastafarians had built their Church on the land and had a promise from the municipality that they would be able to secure the land before we started filming the process. Our documentary shows what happened.
down-babylon – wmv | down-babylon – flash

Phoenix

Tamzyn Degoumois – 5min

Phoenix follows ex-crack cocaine addict Gavin Pearson through his emotional and psychological journey at a rehabilitation centre. Through this process Gavin is trying to pull himself back from the brink, take what he can from his mistakes and move on to strive to live better.
phoenix-flash| phoenix-lo res | phoenix – hi res

uMemulo: A gift from my mother

Nontobeko Sibisi

In Zulu tradition, when a woman turns 21 and has not disappointed her family or brought their name into disrepute she receives uMemulo from her mother in recognition of her successful passage to maturity. We follow Nomzamo through her coming of age ceremony.
umemulo-flash|umemulo-hi res|umemulo-lo

5th Doc Fest gala

You are warmly invited to the 5th RUTV Documentary Film Fest on Wednesday 20th of October at the Roxbury Cinema. Last year’s festival packed all three cinemas of the Roxbury and this year’s is sure to do the same.

The festival showcases the final productions of the final year television students in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University.
They promise a diverse programme of long form documentaries and a selection of individual 5 minute documentaries. The evening allows you to sit back and enjoy insightful, provocative and entertaining productions filmed in locations around South Africa and some close to home.

The 5th Documentary Film festival will include a very intimate insight into the stories of issue of ex-offenders and re-integration in rural Kwazulu Natal, a disturbing new wave of an addictive toxic drug issue in Durban, and an extraordinary insight into the lives of Somali refugees in the Eastern Cape. The short individual films explore a range of characters and issues that will be remembered.

All the documentaries will be posted here soon!!!