The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture, and the custodians of the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs), has released a national call for jury members for the 19th Annual South African Film and Television Awards (#SAFTAs19).
The SAFTAs are reaching out to the country's film and television industry to nominate and submit experienced, passionate, measured, and insightful industry practitioners to serve as members of the #SAFTAs19 Jury.
The #SAFTAs19 Jury will have the significant responsibility of upholding the integrity of the SAFTAs' judging process and ensuring that judging is carried out in accordance with the highest standards of film and television awards.
The nominated individuals will also need to be actively involved in the judging process to ensure a credible outcome.
The SAFTAs jury process functions as follows:
The jury application, verification and project evaluation process will be managed by the NFVF team where the NFVF's appointed auditors, SNG Grant Thornton, will monitor the process from the evaluation of jury member applications to the resolutions on category nominees and winners.
Once applications are submitted from the open call, the NFVF's appointed auditors will evaluate all applications for compliance and will monitor the selection process of jury members.
The list of selected jury members will remain confidential in accordance with the POPIA Act, where requests for the names of the jury members will not be entertained in order to comply with legislation and to protect the integrity of the process.
Once selected jury members are appointed, they will be expected to declare their conflict of interest on projects they have been assigned to evaluate prior to commencing the jury evaluation process, in accordance with the NFVF's Conflict of Interest Policy.
Once selected jury members are appointed, they will be expected to declare their commitment to confidentiality and impartiality in the interests of protecting the integrity of the process.
The SAFTAs have 102 categories, where 97 are evaluated by the SAFTAs jury and 5 discretionary award categories are evaluated by the SAFTAs Committee.
The judging process will have 2 phases (nomination phase and selection of winners' phase) where 97 categories will be deliberated on across 20 panels.
Each jury panel will be comprised in a manner where they are diverse in terms of age, gender, experience, ethnicity and industry skills.
Jury panels should ideally consist of an odd number of judges, with a recommended minimum of 7 and a maximum of 11 members per panel.
It is preferred that 70% of the skilled members of a particular jury are practitioners working within the category they are judging to ensure technical and intellectually informed decision-making.
The two phases of judging are:
Phase 1: Individual project jury evaluations in determining category nominees
Phase 2: Jury deliberations on all category submissions and to determine category winners
The categories the jury will evaluate on are as follows:
SAFTAs19 Categories Evaluated By the SAFTAs Jury for Nominees and Winners
No. Craft/Main Show Category
1. Craft Best Achievement in Sound Documentary
2. Craft Best Achievement in Editing Documentary
3. Craft Best Achievement in Cinematography- Documentary
4. Craft Best Achievement in Directing- Documentary
5. Craft Best Made forTV Documentary
6. Craft Best Documentary Short
7. Craft Best Documentary Feature
8. Craft Best Factual Programme
9. Craft Best Current Affairs Programme
10. Craft Best Structured or Docu Reality Show
11. Craft Best Lifestyle Programme
12. Craft Best Educational Programme
13. Craft Best Children's Programme
14. Craft Best Student Film -Live Action
15. Craft Best Student Film Animation
16. Craft Best Achievememt in Make-Up and Hairstyling-TV Comedy
17. Craft Best Achievement in Wardrobe-TV Comedy
18. Craft Best Achievement in Art Direction TV Comedy
19. Craft Best Achievement in Sound TV Comedy
20. Craft Best Achievement in Editing- TV Comedy
21. Craft Best Achievement in Scriptwriting TV Comedy
22. Craft Best Achievement in Cinematography- TV Comedy
23. Craft Best Achievement in Directing TV Comedy
24. Craft Best Achievement in Make-Up and Hairstyling TV Drama
25. Craft Best Achievement in Wardrobe- TV Drama
26. Craft Best Achievement in Art Direction- TV Drama
27. Craft Best Achievement in Sound-TV Drama
28. Craft Best Achievement in Music/Original Score-TV Drama
29. Craft Best Achievement in an Orginal Song -TV Drama
30. Craft Best Achievement in Editing- TV Drama
31. Craft Best Achievement in Cinematography-TV Drama
32. Craft Best Achievement in Scriptwriting-TV Drama
33. Craft Best Achievement in Directing- TV Drama
34. Craft Best Made for TV Movie
35. Craft Best Animation
36. Craft Best Achievement in Make-Up and Hairstyling- TV Soap/Telenovela
37. Craft Best Achievement in Wardrobe- TV Soap/Telenovela
38. Craft Best Achievement in Art Direction- TV Soap/Telenovela
39. Craft Best Achievement in sound- TV Soap/Telenovela
40. Craft Best Achievement in Original Music/ Score-Telenovela
41. Craft Best Achievement in an Orginal Song-Telenovela
42. Craft Best Achievement in Editing-Telenovela
43. Craft Best Achievement in Scriptwriting-Telenovela
44. Craft Best Achievement in Scriptwriting-TV Soap
45. Craft Best Achievement in Cinematography-Telenovela
46. Craft Best Achievement in Directing-TV Soap
47. Craft Best Achievement in Directing-Telenovela
48. Craft Best Achievement in Make-Up and Hairstyling- Feature Film
49. Craft Best Achievement in Costume Design- Feature Film
50. Craft Best Achievement in Production Design- Feature Film
51. Craft Best Achievement in Sound
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The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture, and the custodians of the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs), has released a national call for jury members for the 19th Annual South African Film and Television Awards (#SAFTAs19).
