For the fourth year in Cape Town, shnit launches the Real Time Competition, Tuesday October 7. Three home grown filmmakers drawn from the city's most exciting young talent are invited to take part, each tasked with producing a 5 minute short film over the course of the festival week, in partnership with some of Cape Town's premiere industry facilities.
All three films are filmed with the same equipment and a script written from the same inspiration point, each year rooted in South African mythology, culture or history. Each has just one day to film, one day to edit, and one day for sound design and mix, visual effects and colouring. Script to screen in 72 hours. Ten previous Real Time films have been produced over three years, many of which have gone on to further international festivals and awards.
Kyle Lewis, Kofi Zwana and Jolynn Minnaar will compete in friendly fashion this year, working from the inspiration point Home - the Sarah Baartman story'. The films will premiere at shnit's Awards Night, Sunday 12 October at the Labia Theatre, where the audience chooses the winning film, live and in Real Time. Additional highlights of the night include the awarding of the Made in South Africa awards. Both an audience award and the coveted jury prize, selected by a panel comprising of Jenna Bass, Jahmil XT Qubeka and Terence Neale, and headed by Gavin Hood, will be presented.
Shnit kicks off Wednesday 8 October with typical pizzazz and will screen at the Labia Theatre, Cape Town, and Pulp Cinema Stellenbosch all weekend, with additional highlight screenings at Cinemuse and Short & Sweet Cinema Club.
See www.shnit.org for ticketing info and full line up of five blocks of South African films, 14 blocks of international films, and a number of bright nights. Filmmakers in attendance at all South African screenings.
Real Time is made possible by our partners Zootee Studios, Sound Surgeon Studios, Searle Street Post Production, Annie's Wardrobe and Sitewise. Prizes awarded by Exposure Gallery & Lenbaby. shnit is made possible through the funding support of the National Film and Video Foundation and the Cape Film Commission, and the cooperative support of a number of generous partners and venues.
REAL TIME THEME 2014: HOME
I've come to take you home - home, remember the veld? (Dianna Ferrus, A poem for Sarah Baartman)
Sarah Baartman was uprooted from her home, shipped overseas and then paraded around London and Paris as a freak, La Belle Hottentot'. She died at 25 in a hostile and strange world, thousands of kilometers away from everything that she knew, with no means of ever finding her way home again. In 1994 Nelson Mandela requested that Sarah Baartman's remains be returned to South Africa. Finally, in 2002, her remains were returned home, where she was finally laid to rest in the area of her birth, the Gamtoos River Valley in the Eastern Cape, 187 years after she left Cape Town for London. Sarah Baartman was finally home. The theme for Shnit Realtime 2014 is Home'. Sarah Baartman's story doesn't need to be interpreted literally, this is simply inspiration for the idea of Home' and the ideals associated with it.
THE FILMMAKERS 2014
JOLYNN MINNAAR is an award-winning young South African director, cinematographer, photographer and communications strategist based in Cape Town. Committed to telling stories that matter, her acclaimed debut feature documentary, Unearthed, which uncovers the shale gas industry from an international perspective in order to understand whether or not countries like South Africa should pursue fracking, won the Green Award at the prestigious Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 as well as the Best South African Film Audience Award at the 2014 Encounters Film Festival. Glamour Magazine named Jolynn Woman of the Year: Change Agent for 2014 alongside inspiring female leaders such as Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela. Rarely seen without a camera or notebook in her hand, Jolynn is usually on the outside looking in, questioning or reframing the world around us to better understand where we've come from and where we're headed.
KOFI ZWANA is an award winning commercials director. Having graduated from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance in 2008, he immediately began directing commercials under the production company 7Films. In his short career, he has won a Cannes Bronze Lion Award in 2014, a Silver Loerie Award in 2012, Creative Circle Ad of the Month in 2012, Best Cinematography and Best Script at the South African TAG Awards in 2011, Gold in the International Sports Advertising Awards in 2009. His documentary short Unlearning Violence was selected as part of the Encounters Film Festival 2013 and his photography has been exhibited in France, the United Kingdom, The United States, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Kofi is currently in development with his first feature documentary The Sound of Masks, which has received the IDFA award for Most Promising Documentary during the Durban Film Mart 2014.
KYLE LEWIS was inextricably drawn to the film industry from a very young age, graduating from AFDA with a BA Hons in Writing & Directing in 2010. He has continued pursuing his passion for the industry by making short films, commercials and a host of music videos for local artists. He can list many achievements in his short career culminating in his recent SAMA award for best music video for the Parlortones' Sleepwalker. His short films as well as his first feature film ScaredyKat have been selected in various film festivals locally and internationally. With a firm grip on the pulse of the South African film scene Kyle strives to bigger and better with each project.
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