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.
www.shnit.org
Most recent headlines
06/10/2025
France T l visions, France's leading broadcaster, has received the 2025 EBU ...
04/09/2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), in collaboration with Dalet, has been a...
07/08/2025
July 8 2025, 22:30 (PDT) Tata Motors & Dolby Bring Dolby Atmos to Harrier.ev, R...
12/07/2025
As the death toll continues to mount, with at least 120 killed and more than 170 people still missing on July 10 from devastating Texas floods, a number of broa...
12/07/2025
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., and MIAMI -DirecTV and TelevisaUnivision have signed a deal that will make the ad-supported premium subscription tier of ViX, ViX Premium wi...
11/07/2025
PARK CITY, UTAH, July 11, 2025 - The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the 11 producers chosen for its annual Producers Labs, returning to Ucross Fou...
11/07/2025
If you've ever wondered what might be playing in Clark Kent's headphones...
11/07/2025
L3Harris Technologies President of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Jason Lambert and General Manager of L3Harris Waco facility Sean Ling held a ce...
11/07/2025
ARLINGTON, Va. WETA, the flagship public media station in the national capital area, has launched WETA+, a new streaming service tailored for the local Washingt...
11/07/2025
The Federal Communications Commission has emerged as one of the central players in the broadcast TV landscape in 2025, with its deregulatory policies sparking h...
11/07/2025
Calrec will introduce usability, customization and system enhancements across its entire range of Argo consoles during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Amsterda...
11/07/2025
LONDON Encompass Digital Media said it will support live and on-demand viewing of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup across multiple global regions for sports enterta...
11/07/2025
Two-thirds of broadcast engineers reaped the benefits of a pay raise within the last year....
11/07/2025
CARY, N.C. SmallHD has launched the Quantum 27, a new 26.5-inch Quantum-Dot OLED monitor designed to deliver postproduction image quality in a compact, set-frie...
11/07/2025
The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau and Tegna have entered into a consent decree that will settle an investigation into the accidenta...
11/07/2025
WASHINGTON Following news in early July that Paramount had settled President Donald Trump's lawsuit, Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Ben Ray Luj n (D-N...
11/07/2025
Model/Actriz Performs Lead Single Cinderella on The Late Show with Stephen Colbe...
11/07/2025
Behind the Mic: Amazon Prime Preps for First Season of NBA Action; MSG Networks ...
11/07/2025
SVG New Sponsor Spotlight: Suite Studios' Craig Hering on Adapting to Client...
11/07/2025
2025 SVG Content Management Forum Breaks Down AI's Impact, Continued Transit...
11/07/2025
A Journey HOME: University of Nebraska's HuskerVision Goes IP Leaders from the HuskerVision and Lawo share their IP learnings By SVG Staff
Friday, July 1...
11/07/2025
CMSI, Remote Picture Labs, Ace ESPN's Cloud-Based Editing Efforts for Wimble...
11/07/2025
Netflix Enters the Live-Boxing-Production Ring for Round 2 With Historic Taylor-...
11/07/2025
Back to All News
Too Hot to Handle: Italy Is Coming on July 18 Only on Netflix
Entertainment
11 July 2025
GlobalItaly
Link copied to clipboard
July 11, 20...
11/07/2025
Back to All News
Netflix Will Release Death Inc. Seasons 1, 2 and 3
Entertainment
11 July 2025
GlobalSpain
Link copied to clipboard
Season 1
Season 2
Se...
11/07/2025
AI and Multimedia Authenticity Standards Collaboration launches two papers to guide the future of AI integration, today at the AI for Good Global Summit
The...
11/07/2025
Ceramics - the humble mix of earth, fire and artistry - have been part of a global conversation for millennia.
From Tang Dynasty trade routes to Renaissance pa...
10/07/2025
The current holder of the prestigious Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year Award has been forced to stop reporting over fears for her safety in Afgha...
10/07/2025
Spotify is turning up the volume on Australian music with a multipronged initiative designed to highlight the dominance of Australian artists on the global stag...
10/07/2025
This is not a drill: Oasis is back on the road-marking its first live performanc...
10/07/2025
The music industry depends on fresh ideas, bold voices, and emerging talent. Yet across the U.K., too many young musicians lack the space to develop their craft...
10/07/2025
NEW YORK - July 10, 2025 - Nielsen, the global leader in audience measurement, data and analytics, today announced that it appointed Richard Pacheco as head of ...
10/07/2025
Local newscasts don't exist in a vacuum. News directors and station management constantly evaluate what's working, what isn't and perhaps most impor...
10/07/2025
Lawo has announced that Stuttgart Media University (Hochschule der Medien, HdM) has comprehensively modernized its central recording studio after selecting an I...
10/07/2025
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has opened early-bird registration for the Media Technology Summit, which will take place in a ne...
10/07/2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. TNDV Television has launched Aspiration 35, a new version of its 40-foot Aspiration truck reimagined for cinematic multicamera productions....
10/07/2025
BURBANK, Calif. Key Code Education, a provider of instructor-led postproduction training, is growing its curriculum with new programs for beginner and intermedi...
10/07/2025
HACKENSACK, N.J. Actus Digital will demonstrate how broadcasters can transform compliance monitoring from a necessary expense into a strategic revenue driver at...
10/07/2025
The Federal Register has published a summary of the Federal Communications Commission's Public Notice seeking comments on its ownership rules that lists a d...
10/07/2025
Back to All News
Netflix Presents the Official Trailer for SuperestarPlay Video
Play Video
Entertainment
10 July 2025
GlobalSpain
Link copied to clipboard...
10/07/2025
In the race to understand our planet's changing climate, speed and accuracy are everything. But today's most widely used climate simulators often strugg...
10/07/2025
As one of the world's largest emerging markets, Indonesia is making strides toward its Golden 2045 Vision - an initiative tapping digital technologies and...
10/07/2025
10 Jul 2025
VEON and Cohen Circle Secure Investor Commitments for Kyivstar Listing Kyiv, New York, Dubai, and Philadelphia - July 10, 2025 - VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq:...
10/07/2025
5G for all? What the DFL's use of Easy5G and RefCam could mean for events in...
10/07/2025
Save the Date: PGA TOUR Studios Welcomes SVG Remote Production Summit on Oct 14-...
10/07/2025
Cloud on the Road: How Remote-Production-Service Providers Are Adapting to a New...
10/07/2025
Seattle Kraken's Ryan Schaber on the NHL Team Taking Live Game Productions I...
10/07/2025
FOX Sports Reboots Small Control Room in Los Angeles as Hub for Vertical-First P...
10/07/2025
SVG Sit-Down: MSE's Zach Leonsis, ViewLift's Rick Allen Go Deep on Joint...
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. 
