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From AI and funding uncertainty to performer ownership and the future of documentary, Durban FilmMart’s SA in Focus programme is putting some of South Africa’s most difficult screen-industry questions on the table.
24 Aug 20265 min read
Nico Scheepers’ intimate family drama collected seven awards across the 2026 Silwerskerm ceremonies, while Rian van Heerden completed a remarkable three-award sweep across three different television formats.
23 Aug 20265 min read
The London documentary company behind Free Nelson Mandela is establishing its first permanent international base in Johannesburg, with links to Cape Town — another sign that South Africa is being seen as more than somewhere international productions simply arrive to shoot.
22 Aug 20266 min read
Chris Q. Radebe financed Shut Up! Men Are Talking himself, built an audience online and kept ownership of the project. Now Movie Room has acquired the film for television — after the audience had already said yes.
22 Aug 20262 min read
Season 4 of Izingane zeS’thembu turns the Mseleku family’s accumulating relationships, conflicts and history into something that sits naturally between reality television and the momentum of a family telenovela.
22 Aug 20261 min read
From The Rookie and Judging Amy to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Richard T. Jones has spent more than three decades moving across television genres. This September, South African fans get to meet him in Johannesburg.
20 Aug 20263 min read
Within days of release, the South African crime drama has reached number one on Netflix at home and number six on the platform’s global non-English television chart, turning local attention into measurable international reach.
18 Aug 20265 min read
A new Silwerskerm short film follows two siblings whose attempt to honour their grandmother becomes a confrontation with grief, ownership and a past they are no longer permitted to enter.
15 Aug 20267 min read
The new Silwerskerm documentary follows Terence “The Highlander” Opperman into a competitive arm-wrestling world built on technique, discipline, rivalry, pressure and an unexpectedly close-knit community.
15 Aug 20266 min read
With The Road Home now filming in South Africa, Thabo Rametsi is carrying Hugh Masekela through an international production that places the politics of Graceland, apartheid and South African musical resistance at the centre — alongside Cynthia Erivo, Johnny Flynn, Guy Pearce and now John Legend.
11 Aug 20265 min read
In Netflix’s South African crime drama Umthetho, Nqobile Nunu Khumalo plays a young prosecutor pulled between justice, family and survival when her brother becomes the centre of the criminal world she is supposed to fight.
11 Aug 20267 min read
Through the impeccable performances of Hamilton Dhlamini and Thulani Mtsweni, Woza Albert! returns not simply as a historical work, but as a living confrontation with power, memory and the unfinished promises of freedom.
31 Jul 202610 min read
South African Latin champion Lethabo Monametsi is joining Strictly Come Dancing’s 2026 professional cast, turning a childhood screen inspiration into one of the biggest television platforms of her career.
25 Jul 20263 min read
The first official images from Children of Blood and Bone place Thuso Mbedu at the centre of a live-action fantasy world built around African characters, mythology, power and political conflict.
20 Jul 20263 min read
More than two decades after Disney introduced a generation to coordinated tracksuits, fearless friendship and Cheetah-licious confidence, The Cheetah Girls is roaring back to life — this time on South African soil.
20 Jul 20269 min read
After believing his acting career might be over, Abdul Khoza has returned to television through Uzalo as Ma-Ten-Ten, a character that connects his comeback to KwaMashu, Stained Glass Productions and a first-season role transformed by time.
19 Jul 20264 min read
Nico Scheepers’ stark, black-and-white psychological horror has become the first African film to win Neuchâtel’s highest honour, offering another emphatic sign that South African cinema is ready for the world.
16 Jul 20264 min read
Through fellowships, dive labs, eKhaya and Africa Refocused support, NEWF is changing who gets to tell African wildlife stories by training African filmmakers, scientists, divers, composers and conservation storytellers.
13 Jul 20262 min read