The Association for Transformation in Film and Television (ATFT) is proud to announce that it will host an export market introduction and readiness workshop ahead of the Toronto International film Festival in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban during the Durban International Film Festival.
The ATFT has developed this workshop as part of its on-going commitment to create opportunities and to up-skill filmmakers in South Africa, in financing, distribution, sales and co-production and has managed to secure space during the Durban Film Market for the first of the three workshops taking place across the country in July.
The ATFT is especially excited to announce that Todd Brown, Head of Acquisitions for XYZ Films in Toronto will be the facilitator of the workshops. Brown is internationally respected and is the founder and editor of the international film website TwitchFilm.com and the director of international programming for Fantastic Fest, where he makes good use of his moderate obsessive tendency to bring strange things to audiences around the world.
Brown is especially interested in South African film and has this to say of his on-going commitment to developing the South African film industry,
As a company XYZ Films takes immense pride in finding emerging talent and helping bring that talent to the widest possible audience around the world. And over the past few years we have become convinced that all the elements are in place for South Africa to absolutely explode onto the global scene. There is an amazing base of talent here and when that talent learns how to best read and engage with the world at large there's no limit to the possibilities.
As a Toronto native with a long and varied history with the TIFF and festival / market world at large, I hope to bring a different perspective on how to approach TIFF to maximize the festival's impact. My goal is less a top-down lecture than an interactive forum, a discussion on how to embrace the needs and demands of the marketplace and make that marketplace work for you.
The workshops will be split into two parts, with the morning introductory session open to all interested filmmakers. The session will be an overview of the Toronto International Film Festival taking place between 10th and 20th September 2015, including a general overview of the festival, the background and mandate of this festival, as well as how to pitch and package your project for Toronto.
The session will also include an introduction to the ATFT and how its delegations work, as well as information on the DTI EMIA scheme that is used to finance the delegations to attend these markets. Filmmakers will learn how to apply for funding through the ATFT or as individual companies through the Individual Exhibitor scheme in order to be part of the South African Indies delegation to the Toronto Film Festival and other markets it attends.
The afternoon session is for TIFF delegates only and comprises of one on one meetings with Todd Brown, giving delegate the opportunity to discuss their projects and to learn the best ways to sell or find financing and distribution at the festival. Attendees will have this unique opportunity to ask Brown for advice, pitch their project and receive valuable feedback.
The workshops will take place on the following dates and in the following venues:
Durban - 21st July 2015 - during Durban Film Market
Room 5, Elangeni Hotel
63 Snell Parade Durban
Johannesburg - 22nd July 2015
The Big Fish School of Filmmaking 7th Floor, 25 Owl Street Auckland Park
Cape Town - 24th July 2015
Wesgro NO parking available - use PIC-BALE or other parking 18th Floor SARB Building, 60 St Georges Mal. Please provide your ID number when you RSVP and also on the day of the workshop
Spaces at all workshops are limited and entrance is conditional to pre-registration by sending an RSVP email to zukiswa@filmandtvtransformation.org
For more information on the ATFT please visit www.atft.info
Training and Courses
South Africa
News
Most recent headlines
09/11/2025
Dalet today announced a transformative leap forward for media operations: Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) that unifies the Dalet ecosystem under one natura...
28/10/2025
ESPN Announces Monsters Funday Football', Its Latest Real-Time Animated Bro...
28/10/2025
SVG All-Stars: Catherine Chalfant, Manager, Remote Operations, ESPNThe Ole Miss alum is an operational force behind ESPN's extensive college-football catalo...
28/10/2025
Elevating the experience: AI and data take Ryder Cup to the next level By Joe OHalloran
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - 10:25
Print This Story
NBC produced th...
28/10/2025
Conquering the Air (waves): Taking a close up look at the IBC Accelerator Priva...
28/10/2025
World Series 2025: Spectrum SportsNet LA Brings Dodgers Fans Closer to the Actio...
28/10/2025
Dylan Southern and Benedict Cumberbatch at the premiere of The Thing with Feathers (photo by George Pimentel / Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival)...
28/10/2025
For three weeks in Lagos, Spotify's Greasy Tunes Caf pop-up brought the cit...
28/10/2025
Once a niche subculture, German rap has evolved into an influential cultural movement. Now, Spotify is giving the genre a new home with OFFCULT, a playlist dedi...
28/10/2025
Shane Delia's Malta serves up the Mediterranean this summer
28 October, 2025
Media releases
Feast on 9,000 years of culinary history Mondays from 24 No...
28/10/2025
SBS's global sporting festival continues with the FIVB Beach Volleyball Worl...
28/10/2025
Bilbao, October 28, 2025 - AgileTV, a leading technology solutions company for t...
28/10/2025
Disney, NBCUniversal, FOX, Paramount Each Achieve Double-Digit Monthly Growth
...
28/10/2025
CINCINNATI The E.W. Scripps Company has announced an agreement to sell WRTV, its local ABC-affiliated station in Indianapolis, to Circle City Broadcasting for $...
28/10/2025
Berklee College of Music and Berklee Valencia Named to Billboards 2025 Top Music...
28/10/2025
NEW YORK As AI usage continues to spike, a new study from IAB delves into an important aspect of how AI is transforming the advertising business with new data s...
28/10/2025
Charlie Jablonski, a broadcast tech pioneer who helped shape the modern era of Olympics television coverage, died Oct. 25 at his home in Lake George N.Y., the N...
28/10/2025
VIENNA, Austria Bitmovin has launched Bitmovin Observability, a new stand-alone video data solution that delivers real-time insights into video playback. The so...
28/10/2025
LOS ANGELES LucidLink, the file streaming platform, has announced a Frame.io integration and expanded mobile capabilities at Adobe Max....
28/10/2025
Mediagenix, a global leader in smart content solutions to profitably connect the right content to the right audience, today announced that it has joined the Ama...
28/10/2025
Lightware, an industry leader in connectivity and signal management solutions, has announced a major update to its Taurus
platform, which now delivers flawless...
28/10/2025
Following a successful mid-September International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, Hiltron Communications will promote its full range of satellite communi...
28/10/2025
Open Broadcast Systems has chosen MC&S (Media Consulting & Services) as a reseller to help strengthen its presence in France.
With over twenty years of experi...
28/10/2025
Bitmovin, leading provider of video streaming solutions, has launched Bitmovin Observability, a new stand-alone video data solution that delivers real-time insi...
28/10/2025
Ease Live, the leader in interactive TV technology, today announced the successful launch of interactive graphical overlays for UEFA Champions League matches fo...
28/10/2025
LucidLink, the file streaming platform, today at Adobe MAX announced a Frame.io integration and expanded mobile capabilities, streamlining collaboration and hel...
28/10/2025
ATLANTA Gray Media has promoted Nick Hasenecz to general manager of WNDU, its NBC affiliate in the South Bend-Elkhart, Ind., market....
28/10/2025
Applications Open for Berklee Fenway Neighborhood Improvement Grant Boston nonprofits can apply by December 12 for funding to support community projects that ...
28/10/2025
28 Oct 2025
VEON's JazzCash Wins Silver Award for Innovation in Lending at ...
28/10/2025
Guests include Wayne Rooney, Maya Jama, Dame Laura Kenny, Chloe Kelly, Chris McC...
28/10/2025
The two-hour special, recorded live from the iconic Dolby Theatre in LA, will ai...
28/10/2025
Eutelsat upgrades teleports with Rohde & Schwarz satellite uplink amplifiers High efficiency and resilient Ku-band amplifiers for excellent RF performance
...
28/10/2025
These appointments come at a pivotal time for ABC, as the organisation continues to evolve to meet the changing needs of a digital-first media ecosystem. The ne...
28/10/2025
Scripps Research awarded $4 million to advance platform for neurodevelopmental disorders The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) grant support...
27/10/2025
You can touch this: Haptics becoming central to the virtual live experience By Adrian Pennington
Friday, October 24, 2025 - 09:12
Print This Story
The vid...
27/10/2025
A tale of two trailers: France's Stop & Go doubles up with its new hybrid tr...
27/10/2025
Pro Padel League Stages City's Cup Finals Inside NYC's Hammerstein Ballr...
27/10/2025
World Series 2025: Sportsnet Delivers Made-in-Canada' Moment for a Nation U...
27/10/2025
ESPN Extends Partnership With Sony's Beyond Sports To Expand Animated Altern...
27/10/2025
Reid Davenport attends the 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Life After at The Ray Theatre on January 27, 2025, in Park City, UT. (Photo by Robin Marsha...
27/10/2025
As the days grow shorter and the nights get darker, there's nothing like getting swept up in a story that sends shivers down your spine. In honor of spooky ...
27/10/2025
UPDATE: Both parties have reached a new carriage agreement....
27/10/2025
LONDON As Hollywood jumps into the production of mini-dramas, a new study from Ampere Analysis finds that more than one in 10 internet users have watched drama ...
27/10/2025
LONDON Yealink, a provider of unified communication and collaboration solutions, has joined the NDI ecosystem with the availability of its SmartVision 80 premiu...
27/10/2025
ATLANTA Gray Media has named Chris Conroy as general manager of its stations in Cleveland, leading WOIO, a CBS affiliate, The CW station WUAB and Telemundo outl...
27/10/2025
ESPOO, Finland European connectivity leaders Nokia and Ericsson, have partnered with Berlin's Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), to shape and drive ...
27/10/2025
PHILADELPHIA Comcast has expanded NOW TV Latino, its Spanish-language live TV and streaming offering, adding five more channels from Univision, ViX Premium with...
27/10/2025
Test & measurement innovator, Leader Electronics, will present its latest products and solutions at InterBEE 2025 (Hall 5, Booth 5218) Makuhari Messe in Chiba, ...
27/10/2025
Back to All News
City of Shadows, the New Netflix Thriller Arrives on December 12
Entertainment
27 October 2025
GlobalSpain
Link copied to clipboard
Downl...
The Association for Transformation in Film and Television (ATFT) is proud to announce that it will host an export market introduction and readiness workshop ahead of the Toronto International film Festival in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban during the Durban International Film Festival. 
