What is it about?
By referring to developments in Nigeria and by analyzing historical and contemporary developments in the South Korean film industry, some practical propositions are presented in relation to content creation and the expansion of the big-screen cinema infrastructure to transform and grow South African cinema.
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Why is it important?
South African filmmakers who were marginalised from the film industry under apartheid are today making feature films but primarily for the small screen. The few making theatrical films for cinema face massive systemic challenges to produce and get their films to market, in particular filmmakers of colour and especially those on the intersections of race, gender, and sexual orientation. This article shows ways to transform this situation
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I am both a filmmaker and an academic, a perspective that is not often published in academia. Here the real world situation is analysed to find new ways of changing and developing the film industry in South Africa, changes that would require the government departments promoting film to pivot and for private enterprise to invest in exhibition not just production.
David Max Brown
AFDA
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This page is a summary of: The Survival of Big-Screen Cinema in South Africa, Black Camera, December 2022, Indiana University Press,
DOI: 10.2979/blackcamera.14.2.08.
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