SAFTAs 06 red carpet presenters announced

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SAFTAs 2016 red carpet presenters announced --

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:21

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Two of the country s top talents have signed on as red carpet presenters for the South Africa Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) 2016: actor, dancer and choreographer, Somizi Mhlongo; and arts and entertainment journalist, Nadia Neophytou.

Somizi Mhlongo presented and appeared as a guest on shows such as 10 Over 10, City Sesla, Dance Your Butt Off and Zero Tolerance. He was also a judge on Idols SA. He has also appeared in movies such as Sarafina!, Cry, the Beloved Country and Scavengers.

Mhlongo says, Taking this gig was less about the money and more about being a part of history, and the biggest event on the awards calendar in South Africa. I m looking forward to bringing something different, something rattata , something Somizi, to the SAFTAs 2016 red carpet as a presenter.

Born in Benoni and now based in New York City, Neophytou has interviewed the likes of Oprah, Forest Whitaker and Meryl Streep. She s covered amongst others the Cannes Film Festival, the Oscars, Nelson Mandela s 90th Birthday Concert in New York, and the Royal Wedding. She s received the Nedbank Arts Journalist of the Year award and her work has appeared in various print publications and reports regularly for a local news site.

I am very excited to be heading home to SA to co-host the SAFTAs red carpet. Whenever I cover a film festival or awards ceremony and see a South African doing well, it makes me incredibly proud, so I m looking forward to interviewing the filmmakers, producers, actors and TV stars who ve been nominated. I m looking forward to seeing who takes home the Golden Horn, says Neophytou.

For the full list of SAFTA nominees, click here.

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