Africa on Screen calls for entries

Submission guidelines:

Filmmakers must guarantee, should their film be selected, that permission from the rights holder are secured for a minimum of five screenings at the festival.

Required information:

• Place and date of first public / television screening
  
• Festivals and other events where film has screened
  
• Has the film been screened in South Africa at another festival or on television. If so, specify.
  
• Has the filmmaker given permission for screenings in South Africa (at another festival or television) on dates prior to Africa on Screen 2010 dates? If so, specify.
  
• Worldwide copyright
  
• Company name, individual's name, and address
  
• South African distributor / broadcaster

Terms and conditions

• All DVD's to be clearly labelled.
  
• All submissions to include the following: approx. 200 word synopsis, two stills from the film either in hard copy or as a JPEG (300 dpi), complete filmography/biography of the director.
  
• Screeners and any promotional material submitted will not be returned to the sender.
  
• No material sent at charge of festival will be accepted.
  
• All DVD preview screeners to be submitted in PAL format.
  
• In the event of your film being selected it must be available in Beta SP, or DIGI BETA SP in English or with English subtitles.
  
• The holder of copyright authorises the festival to make excerpts, of a maximum of three minutes, available to television channels and for use in the promotion of the film and the festival.

Send entrie to Africa on Screen, Lara Preston, PO Box 785722, Sandton, 2146 or 50 Keyes Ave, Rosebank, 2193

For more information, contact Lara Preston on tel +27 (0) 11 447 8283 or email .

The 2010 festival plans to offer an expanded programme based in Newtown, Johannesburg, with other possible spin-offs in other cities
and other African countries.

Breakdown of the festival elements planned for the 10 days

Free film screenings will take place at Museum Africa, alongside a 10-day programme of facilitated workshops and film
discussions open to the public. The Newtown Programme also includes the supplemental Soccer Film Festival.

Main festival programme: A full programme of daily free screenings of films will be created for this programme so as to
ensure a diverse and accessible mix of films. The festival brings in top quality audio-visual equipment to the venue that is run by professional staff for the duration of the festival. This equipment ensures that the films are screened in a quality environment that does justice to the films being shown.

Soccer film festival: A host of soccer films from across the continent will be screened Museum Africa for free. A number
of facilitated discussions will also accompany these films.

Workshops and facilitated discussions: A ten-day programme of workshops and facilitated screenings and discussions will be hosted at Museum Africa, free to the public. Many of the workshops content will be developed in line with the themes coming out of the films that are screened. The Museum Africa venues will be equipped with top AV equipment run by a sound engineer, ensuring the workshops are
professionally run. Expert panelists and moderators are secured to create a diverse range of workshops that speak both directly to the film
industry and filmmakers, and also to the general public. These workshops will also be an important component of the community outreach programme with communities being invited and included in these events.

Community outreach: Africa on Screen also embarks on a major community outreach project that will see in excess of 500 students and / or community groups being given the opportunity to attend screenings at cinemas and at Museum Africa.