Entries for the 11th Tri Continental Film Festival will open in January 2013.

About Tri Continental Film Festival

The Tri Continental Film Festival is an annual, South African festival that focuses on documentary and narrative films from or about Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East. It aims to showcase outstanding cinema that deals with socio/political and human rights themes pertinent to these regions and also help filmmakers reach South African audiences enabling its public to experience the power of cinema. It is well known for being a diverse film festival that supports African talent and encourages dialogue between filmmakers, film themes and audience. It is the only human rights dedicated film festival in Southern Africa. Founded by Rehad Desai in 2002 to spur the growth of the African documentary film industry through an annual celebration, the festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling.

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10th Tri Continental Film Festival Announce: Winner of the audience awards

JOHANNESBURG, 11 October, 2012 - The winners of the 10th Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF) were announced today with Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras taking home audience award for Best International Film, Akin Omotoso’s Man On Ground being recognised with Best South African film and Mthokozisi Lembethe’s Paving Forward Best Short.

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15 South African Premieres Among Special 10th Edition of Tri Continental Film Festival

Festival’s Opening Night Film is Big Boys Gone Bananas

Johannesburg, (August 22, 2012) - The Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF) today launched its 10th program, announcing Fredrik Gertten’s critically acclaimed documentary Big Boys Gone Bananas will open the Festival on Thursday 6 September. The festival, the largest festival of human rights cinema in Africa, will take place from 7-23 September in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria and Soweto.

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10th Tri Continental Film Festival 2012

Festival Dates: 7-23 September 2012
Participating Cinemas: Sterkinekor, Cinema Nouveau, The Bioscope

The 10th Tri Continental Film Festival, the largest festival of human rights cinema in Africa today, returns to screen at South Africa cinemas this September.

The beauty of Tri Continental Film Festival is the broad range of quality films from across the world. The festival celebrates its 10th edition and this year’s program will include a variety of past festival favorites in a special “best of” section, in addition to environmental and freedom of expression themed films. African film and the best shorts from Big Fish film academy are also headlining the program.

Festival tradition dictates having retrospectives and, this year to mark the completion of Micha X Peled’s anti-globalisation trilogy and to support the Western Sahara and Palestine fight for self-determination, there are a string of stunning documentary films. Q&As and some great gala parties are just some of the highlights of this vibrant and thoughtful celebration of documentary film.

FESTIVAL DATES

JOHANNESBURG
Dates: 7 – 16 September

PRETORIA
Dates: 14 – 23 September

CAPE TOWN
Dates: 14 – 18 September

SOWETO
Dates: 7 – 16 September

Stay up to date with the festival at: http://www.facebook.com/groups/tricontinental/

The much anticipated TRI CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL is coming to select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau theatres this September!

The People to People Documentary (P2P) Conference 2011 was a considerable success for an event only in its 3rd edition. Over 300 documentary filmmakers, commissioning editors, funders and related professionals from across the African continent and beyond participated in the 3 day talkfest. P2P is dedicated to the art, business and technology of documentary in Africa and in 2011 the event boasted a number of feature sessions and a line-up of master-classes designed for students and emerging filmmakers under the P2P Doc-school banner. The event is aimed at supporting and stimulating the vital documentary genre, a practice threatened by economic and political realities.

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The much anticipated TRI CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL is coming to select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau theatres this September!

The Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF) is South Africa’s only dedicated human rights film event and consists of films that promote democratisation, deepens understanding, and affords those marginalised a substantive voice, proving to be more vital than ever in our rapidly changing world.

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The final countdown to P2P 2011 has begun. The 3rd Edition of the Southern African documentary conference will set a new benchmark for the event, with an unprecedented number of guests travelling to Johannesburg for three days of discussion and debate around documentary filmmaking in Africa. Among them are documentary legend Peter Wintonick, Lisa Cortes, the powerhouse producer behind the Oscar-winning ‘Precious’, and Moussa Sene Absa, one of the godfathers of African cinema. They will be joined by a strong contingent of filmmakers, film professionals and a dynamic group of emerging talents from across the continent.

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Tri Continental Film Festival is South Africa's only dedicated human rights film event. The festival attracts a large, diverse audience of film lovers, activists and socially conscious folk from all walks of life and social stratum. Film that promotes democratisation, deepens understanding, and affords those marginalised a substantive voice is more vital than ever in a rapidly transforming world. Tri Continental Film Festival has played a significant role in creating a sustainable and continually growing audience for social justice cinema over the past nine years, through film selection that is nuanced, relevant, informative and well-balanced. Organisers will continue this tradition in 2011 with a programme that reflects global currents of change and action.

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• Best Local Film : Surfing Soweto, directed by Sara Blecher
• Best International Film : Sweet Crude, directed by Sandy Cioffi
• Best Short Film : Atrophy, directed by Palesa Shongwe

We would like to congratulate the three winners and to extend our thanks to all the filmmakers involved in what has been a very successful festival.
Entries for the 9th Tri Continental Film Festival will open in January 2011

The Tri Continental Film Festival will take place in Cape Town at Cinema Nouveau, V&A Waterfront, from 26th to 31st October. This late addition to the festival has been possible thanks to the support of the Cape Film Commission.
Cinema Nouveau V&A Waterfront (Cape Town) 26-31 October- click here for screening schedule

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The 8th annual Tri Continental Film Festival together with the Goethe-Institut and the SABC present the Tri Continental Mini-Conference, 2010. This year’s sessions will focus on industry development across the film industry’s value-chain – from pitching to distribution and exhibition. The mini -conference will be hosted at the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, on the 1, 2 and 3rd of October 2010.

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