The award-winning local movie Izulu Lami (My Secret Sky) is a feature film directed by Madoda Ncayiyana. The film has been lauded with awards in international film festivals; it features a number of young children with no professional acting skills who were discovered in KwaZulu-Natal's townships and informal settlements.
The nominees of the South African Film and Television Awards (Safta) for 2010 were announced with the film White Wedding, and news programme Carte Blanche receiving a bulk of nominations. .
The nominations list reveals, unlike like the previous year, a lot of feature films. According to the committee this is a clear reflection of vigorous film activity over the last year.
In previous awards it was noted that the entries into the television categories have been mostly comprised of programmes produced for SABC, with very little representation from M-Net and free-to-air channel e.tv.
“We have had several meetings with M-Net to prompt them to encourage independent producers to enter their programmes into the Saftas, as it is the producers who must enter and not the broadcasters,” said Safta committee member Robbie Thorpe.
“You have to remember that the bulk of local programming in South Africa is made by the SABC, so it’s only to be expected that they would have more programming competing than that of either of the other two broadcasters.”
Thorpe pointed out that e.tv’s flagship programmes, namely its two soapies Scandal and Rhythm City, had both been entered into the competition.
This year there were 221 entries and a record 100 judges drawn from the industry.
The awards ceremony will take place at the State Theatre in Pretoria on February 20 2010.
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