After winning the Audience Choice Award at the International Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, the documentary film, ‘Rise: The Siya Kolisi story’, co-produced by AFDA alumnus Adam Thal has won the Peace and Sport documentary prize at the Sportel Awards in...
The new highly anticipated MNet crime series Devil’s Peak, based on the best-selling 2004 novel by South African writer Deon Meyer and directed by multi award-winning AFDA alumnus, Jozua Malherbe, airs on Sunday, October 29, at 8pm on M-Net. It will be live-streamed...
Over the past 29 years AFDA has earned its reputation as the top institution of its kind in Africa, and the key to this success is the experienced, dedicated and talented staff body. AFDA boasts over 270 full-time academic, admin and support staff and recruits over...
The AFDA Durban Honours’ team has done it again! Winterslaap, produced last year, has just won Gold at the 2023 Loeries for Best South African Student Film. The film has garnered many awards since it started on the festival circuit earlier this year. So far, it’s won...
Calling all future #HumansofAFDA! Save the date and get ready for an incredible experience at AFDA’s highly-anticipated Open Day & Gear Expo! Where: All AFDA campuses nationwide When: Saturday 14 October, from 10 AM to 1 PM At AFDA Open Day you will discover how...
AFDA alumna Muneera Sallies wins at The Western Cape Cultural Affairs Awards AFDA alumna Muneera Sallies recently won the Most Innovative Contribution of an Artist/Organisation in Film, Audio-Visual, Interactive Media, and Photography at The Western Cape Cultural...
AFDA is proud to announce that AFDA students and alumni picked up 13 Golden Horn awards at the 17th annual SAFTAs held over the past weekend. The AFDA Johannesburg 2022 honours graduation film “Shumba”, directed by Nigel Wurayayi, won the Best Student Film Award...
We are heading towards the SAFTAs weekend and AFDA would like to wish all the AFDA students, staff and alumni nominated for the awards GOOD LUCK. You can watch the Craft Awards ceremony on the SAFTAs YouTube page on Friday, 29 September 2023 @19h00 and the simulcast...
A bunch of AFDA alumni hold key positions on the credits list on South Africa’s first contemporary Western series, “Outlaws”, now streaming on Showmax. AFDA alumna Flavia Motsisi is credited as an Executive Producer on the series, SAFTA award winner Ntobeko Dlamini...
AFDA alumna Evelyn Maruping, founder and owner of Ping TVSA and Northern Cape Starlet recently was announced as the first female entrepreneur in the digital space to represent the Northern Cape in the MTN Women in Digital Business Challenge. Her company was officially...
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