The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) releases Cycle 2 2020/21funding approvals.
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), is pleased to announce the following funding approvals for funding Cycle 2 FY 2020/21 NON-FICTION PROJECTS
Development – Documentaries
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated Mandela Man of Peace Xoliswa Sithole N/A R180 000.00
SHIFTY - House on Fire Joëlle Chesselet Valley Studio cc R150 000.00 The Furiosus Liza Jane key Key Films cc R146 100.00 Accused Boipelo Masilabele Lerato Lihle (Pty) Ltd R155 000.00 Chagos Jacintha Timothy Arclight Distributors (Pty) R180 000.00 Ltd t/a Arclight Productions (Pty) Ltd Classified As Missing Lungile Mapukata Playful Native Studios R150 000.00 Pop Goes Freedom Vusi Zion Kaimal Pictures R180 000.00 Stripped Lee McCabe Kaizen 1 Pictures R180 000.00 Thabantšo Dithapelo Segodi YaDithapelo PTY LTD R180 000.00 The Home Stretch Nqaba Ngoyi Fort Films R180 000.00 The Unchosen World Danile Mohlamme Masbonisanenisonke R180 000.00 Trading and Projects 27C
Production – Documentaries
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated A Gift from the Dying Anita Khanna Uhuru Productions R700 000.00 African Moot Shameela Seedat Undercurrent Film and R500 000.00 Television Banned: Joe Bullet Naledi Nonofo Trial by Media Films R500 000.00 Bogacwi Black Women and Sex Godisamang Khunou Mogale Pictures R500 000.00 Death at the Airport Markus Davies Hipster Media (Pty) Ltd R500 000.00 Downtown Studios Nhlanhla Ndaba Doti Productions R500 000.00 Iilifa Lomboko Ntsikelelo Mavata Kwanontsomi Enterprise R500 000.00 Ingula: Moving a Anne Linda Du Toit Sommatel T/A Du Films R500 000.00 Mountain Makoti Pragna Parsotam-Kok Red Nature Films R500 000.00 Mhudi: The Making of Tshego Molete Yeziru Projects R500 000.00 the Renaissance Man (Working Title)
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Nemesis of a Rapist Sandile Sethi Treehouse films R500 000.00 Notes From The Kurt Orderson Azania Rizing Productions R500 000.00 Underground: A Cape Town Hip Hop Story The Story of Afrikaburn Janette de Villiers Groundglass Media (Pty) R500 000.00 (Working Title) Ltd
Short Film Development - Documentaries
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated Pointe Shoes, Prayers Ferdinand Gernandt Michelle Leibrandt School R100 000.00 and a Pandemic of Dance Re-writing history: The Warda Mallick Shoot97 Productions R100 000.00 South African Indonesian Connection Transition to Peter Joshua Hall Kalahari Film & Media R99 365.00 Acceptance After S'gela with the Onkemetse Mosek African Monarch R100 000.00 graduates Productions Chrome or nothing Makgalema Thobela Rural Films Production R100 000.00 Heritage In Music Innocent Zungu N/A R100 000.00 iGwijo and Frontier Anele Matoti Ohana Media R100 000.00 Country Ikosi Yekhethu Given Sethole Ivens Alive (Pty) Ltd R78 960.00. In the Name of Love: Peter Lynch Marketing and R100 000.00 The Skwatta Kampain Entertainment Communications Agency Mirrors Muofhe Raphunga N/A R91 650.00 Queen Modjadji Godisamang Khunou Mogale Pictures R100 000.00 Sathwalwa Khuselwa Sipayile Zanokuhle Productions R100 000.00 Soweto Documentary Linda Ginya Phusha Phanda Trading R100 000.00 (Pty) Ltd The Girl Who Went to Morgan Morris 1808 Films (registered as R100 000.00 Norway and Came Back Pitstop Auto Parts The Usurper Siphumeze Tase Artmostfeared Productions R100 000.00 Who Will Save Us Rinnet Lebohang N/A R100 000.00 Sekgobela
Short Film Production - Documentaries
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated The Last Blue Ride: The Anthony Molyneaux Anthony Molyneaux (Pty) R150 000.00 murder of a young Ltd student by 'reformed' prison gangsters Wounds of the Past Josephine Ramohlale I-info media R100 000.00
FICTION PROJECTS
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Production – Animation
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated Troll Girl Kay Carmichael Giantslayer Studios (PTY) R 550 000.00 LTD
Production – Feature Length
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated Hotel Nowhere Roberta Durrant Penguin Films R 1 300 000.00 Mandela’s Guerrillas Catharina Weinek The Ergo Company R 1 800 000.00 The Bursary Brett Michael Innes The Bursary SA (Pty) Ltd R 1 800 000.00 The Honeymoon Bianca Isaac Chick Flick Movie RF (Pty) R 1 800 000.00 Ltd The Umbrella Men Linda Eedes Bogle We3Films R 1 800 000.00 Angeliena Uga Carlini Towerkop Productions R 1 800 000.00 Inhlawulo (Damages) Mpho Ramathuthu Tshanduko Media (Pty) R 1 800 000.00 Ltd Lucky Fish Meren Reddy RHP International (Pty) R 1 300 000.00 Ltd Pieces of Salma Khosie Dalie Miss K Productions R 1 800 000.00 The Beast Norman Maake African Entertainers R 1 300 000.00 Consultancy Valley of a Thousand Hills Bonie Sithebe Durban Motion Pictures R 1 800 000.00
Production – Short Film
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount allocated It has to do with Emilia Bridget Pickering Bump Films R 250 000.00 Omowale Kagiso Latane Canvus Productions R 230 000.00 The Garden of Rein Tracey-Lee Dearham Stiletto Entertainment R 250 000.00 Rainers Burning Blue Thabiso Xolo Lexy Productions R 197 000.00 Cognito Nhlakanipho Mashinini Skr Skr LTD R 200 000.00 Coming for you Romanuse Lindelani Langa Langa Post-Productions R 200 000.00 Grand$ Sandile Sibiya SBL Films R 200 000.00 His James Johannes Mzwandile Spirit Bunduzboi Pictures (PTY) R 200 000.00 LTD Love in the Hell David Boyes Painted Story Productions R 200 000.00 Maestro’s Hand Khanyo Mjamba Gaba Media (PTY) LTD R 200 000.00 Maleeto Pretty Mangena iQhawe Media R 150 000.00 MIER ( The Ant) Oliver Swartz Nitfia Pictures R 200 000.00 Millennial Dad Maishe Mosala Deconstruct Pictures R 200 000.00 Umendo Nobulali Kama Coffee Stain Productions R 200 000.00
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Production – Web Series
Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated Four Walls Kgosana Monchusi Weldun Media R 200 000.00 This is How Sello Magaga Top Afrika (PTY) LTD R 200 000.00
SPECIAL PROJECTS Covid-19 Documentaries Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated My Patient My Enemy Zola Maseko Black Roots Pictures R446 627.00 Botshelo: Born in a Kagiso Latane Canvus Group R331 100.00 Pandemic Solos Shoal Julie Laurenz Pillay Laurenz Media & R348 350.00 Communications (PTY) LTD A Joburg Shopper And a Themba Vilakazi Mvura Ya Afrika R200 000.00 Hungry Country Productions Bogale! Ulrich Bopape Afrika Kuinuka. PTY R350 428.40 Dustlands - Kalahari in the Edwin Angless Mushroom Films R325 600.00 Age of Covid
CMF/NFVF Co-Development Incentive Project Name Applicants Name Production Company Amount Allocated Blood Horn Helena Spring Helena Spring Films (Pty) R396 739.00 Ltd The transmogrification of Brigid Olen Do Productions (Pty) Ltd R400 000.00 St. Bunnycrisp Rio Ten Kim Williams Spier Productions (Pty) Ltd R400 000.00
MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION
Project Name Applicant’s Name Production Company Approved Amount Deep End Jacintha Timothy Arclight Distributors R100 000,00 The Road Less Cycled John Hlongwane Untitled Entertainment R249 748,00 SunDance! Edwin Angless Mushroom Films R100 000,00
Special Project: Drive-in’s
APPLICANT COMPANY NAME APPROVED AMOUNT
Buli Ngomane Rhizome Creatives R145 000,00
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Eric Thoka Monate Africa R150 000,00
Frikkie Cornelius Bevyethu R150 000,00
John Pheko Maphakela JohnPheko M Maphakela R150 000,00
Karabo Tlholoe aka Karabojoy R140 500,00 Moriri
Keoagile Mokate Outdoor Movie Nights R138 260,00
Kgosi Khumalo Vusa Isizwe Investments R129 200,00
Lerato Maunatlala Silvercon R146 289,00
Lesego Mphake Traffic Events and R150 000,00 Entertainment
Linda Ginya Pusha Panda Trading R150 000,00
Luzuko Dilima New Brighton Entertainment R146 000,00
Motheo Seleke BushCoffee Tradeworx R150 000,00
Sibusiso Buthelezi Blackchannel Productions R120 000,00
Sicelo Mamle Sicelo Linda Mamle R150 000,00 Foundation
Sydelle Willow Smith Sunshine Cinema R148 235,00
Thapelo Mokoena Kasi Distribution R150 000,00
Theo Davids Gemini Twins Films R150 000,00
Tshepiso Tjeeko Tshwantshiso Films R150 000,00
Vicky Chili Ekasi Bioscope R150 000,00
Vusi Nhlapo DV Nhlapo Productions R150 000,00
NATIONAL BURSARIES
Project Applicant’s Name Institution Approved Amount Number 2648002 Tlholohelo Sefalane University of the Witwatersrand R78 594 2784502 Lawrence Mahlangu University of Johannesburg R55 000 3388601 Tummie Mehlape Tshwane University of Technology R50 660 3468501 Realeboga Oagile Tshwane University of Technology R53 830 2193503 Karabo Modiba City Varsity Johannesburg R61 000
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2664102 Leon Ledwaba Sae Institute R115 000 3259601 Sinethemba Maphumulo AFDA Durban R91 235 3270201 Nhlanhla Mkhize The Animation School Johannesburg R88 000 3306401 Liam Pillay The Animation School Cape Town R88 000 3323201 Katlego Mmako AFDA Johannesburg R95 000 3393302 Nandipha Madondo AFDA Durban R90 000 3490701 Siwaphiwe Mfaku The Animation School Johannesburg R90 000 2687402 Vusimuzi Shiburi Tshwane University of Technology R68 420 3148002 Lebohang Seemane Tshwane University of Technology R127 510 3150501 Lebogang Monakedi University of Johannesburg R35 000 3157201 Bongani Ndlovu University of the Witwatersrand R52 728 3161401 Sipho Nuse Cape Peninsula University of Technology R36 245 3177201 Sibulele Gxasheka University of the Witwatersrand R58 318 3182201 Bongani Maluleka University of the Witwatersrand R47 400 3189301 Bonolo Sethabela Tshwane University of Technology R90 000 3210301 Soliana Tewolde Tshwane University of Technology R64 730 3316401 Lai Mokoena Tshwane University of Technology R90 070 3320401 Xolo Busakwe University of the Witwatersrand R72 240 3442801 Xola – Sispho Limba University of the Witwatersrand R60 738 3568401 Kagiso Qwesha University of the Witwatersrand R93 558 3603801 Mahlatse Moeketsi University of the Witwatersrand R47 600 2219103 Khuselwa Sipayile AFDA Johannesburg R98 790 2275802 Nelisiwe Nkosi AFDA Johannesburg R81 770 2828502 Nsovo Pepete AFDA Johannesburg 100 000 2881002 Reaobaka Matlala The Animation School Johannesburg R88 000 3142501 Reece James AFDA Durban R91 235 3152601 Nkululeko Mkhomazi AFDA Durban R90 000 3157901 Ntate Phakela City Varsity Johannesburg R59 640 3162201 Aphelele Matika City Varsity Johannesburg R59 640 3198402 Nkosinathi Nzima The Animation School Johannesburg R88 000 3201102 Charity Gordan Sae Institute R86 500
3252501 Samantha Maposa AFDA Johannesburg R98 790 3274001 Ukho Samela City Varsity Johannesburg R60 000 3306701 Ella Pascucci The Animation School Cape Town R88 000 3371702 Kyle Sibanda The Animation School Cape Town R88 000 3395201 Moegamat Ikhlaas The Animation School Cape Town R88 000 3467601 Anella Grimsley AFDA Johannesburg R50 000 3493901 Londiwe Chili AFDA Durban R90 000 3604701 Sipho Ngcizela AFDA Port Elizabeth R87 655 3607401 Reynard Lotteriet AFDA Cape Town R91 235 3165801 Charl Timotheus University of the Witwatersrand R50 000 3205601 Phindi Ubisi Tshwane University of Technology R54 040 3228501 Mthokozisi Msomi Cape Peninsula University of Technology R36 245 3260601 Tshepiso Molobela University of Johannesburg R37620 3316701 Tefo Moloi University of the Witwatersrand R75 852
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3317202 Zolani Shingange Tshwane University of Technology R90 070 3400101 Tlotloyarona Letshwene University Of Cape Town R35 200 3414001 Mothusi Molaudi Tshwane University of Technology R50 000 3460601 Kgothatso Ben Ncube Tshwane University of Technology R65 880 3566401 Masana Maluleke University of the Witwatersrand R50 000
INTERNATIONAL BURSARIES
Project Number Applicant’s Name Institution Approved Amount 3201001 Catherine Benz Gobelins, L'École de L'Image R250000
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