Produire au Sud AT DURBAN FILM MART

Durban Film Mart and Produire au Sud : a lasting partnership

As sisters cities, Durban and Nantes are glad to welcome back successful partnership between their Film festivals industry programmes, respectively the Durban FilmMart and Produire au Sud.
This year, the film development programme Produire au Sud, of Festival des 3 Continents, is a partner again of the Durban FilmMart, which will take place between 20-23 July 2018 at the Elangeni Tsogo Sun Hotel in Durban, alongside the 39th Durban International Film Festival which will run between 19-29 July 2018 in Durban, South Africa.
Africa’s premier film finance and co-production forum, The Durban FilmMart, is a film industry development initiative funded by the City of Durban and founded by the Durban Film Office and the Durban International Film Festival. Celebrating its 7th year of building international partnerships and furthering the development and production of cinema in the African Continent, the Durban FilmMart welcomes back its budding partnership with Produire au Sud/Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, in the hope of establishing a partnership that creates a programme around story development over the next three years : the Script Studio.

The Script Studio 2018

The Script Studio is offering an annual partnership between both festivals, that provides two different exchanges, which alternately will take place in Durban and in Nantes.

In Durban

The Festival des 3 Continents, marking its 39^th anniversary as an annual film festival in 2018, centers its spotlight on films created and produced from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Festival of 3 Continents is a development programme, Produire au Sud, which was created in 2000. This programme focuses on enhancing film co-productions, and is set to help familiarize up-and-coming producers with tools and techniques to enhance their skills to international standards.
June 2018, the third edition of the programme launched by the DFM called Jumpstart will be facilitated by two complementary Produire au Sud story experts around contents which goals support narratives quality: Jérémie Dubois, french filmmaker and scriptwriter, and Sari Turgeman, Israeli-french born script consultant and writer.

JUMPSTART

Jumpstart is an incubator programme presented by the Durban FilmMart in partnership with Produire au Sud to introduce 4 emerging directors from Durban and Kwazulu Natal region to project packaging for the international market. Both consultants will introduce the emerging directors to important techniques & tools surrounding scriptwriting and storytelling.

The selection of this 2018 edition of Jumpstart includes:
AZANIA (the burning children) de Sihle Mthembu
THE DAY AND NIGHT OF BRAHMA de Sheetal Magan
THE CRADLE (Time to meet your Maker) de Sharon Kakora
UHLANJULULO (Laundry) de Zamo Mkhwanazi

In Nantes

On the other hand, the Nantes Produire au Sud workshop 2018 welcomes one film project, which was running the DFM. The producer and director of the film project are offered the opportunity to run the Produire au Sud workshop week along with the others selected film projects, November 19-25, 2018.

This year, the winning film project is the mozambican project

PORTA RETRATO (Picture Frame)
by Orlando Mabasso Jr
and produced by Aldino Languana (Blue Art Films)

A project supported by the French Embassy in Johannesburg

Furthermore, this year’s partnership is supported by the French Embassy in South Africa, which has been instrumental in finalising the programme and providing financial support for the key experts. The objective is to strengthen the links between France and South Africa in the film industry and create opportunities for professions in both countries.

In 2013, Produire au Sud/Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes awarded, for the first time at the DFM, three directors the invaluable opportunity of travel and accommodation to the Script Studio, with two script consultations with internationally experienced script consultants.

DIFF : http://www.durbanfilmfest.co.za/
DFM : http://www.durbanfilmmart.com/

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