As filmmakers, we've needed to navigate a number of disruptions of the past year. Join us at this year's 12th, all-digital Durban FilmMart where we will celebrate African ingenuity in overcoming these challenges, foster community amongst film industry professionals and provide a platform to network with investors and buyers.
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Project Dossier www.durbanfilmmart.com
DFM Mentors
Talents Durban Mentors Jumpstart Mentors
OFFICAL DFM PROJECTS - Documentaries DOCUMENTARIES - Defying Ashes (Kenya) - Producer: Joan Njeri Maina, Director: Karanja Ng'endo - Doxandem, les chasseurs de rêves (Dream Chasers) (Senegal) - Producer: Yanis Gaye, Director: Saliou Sarr - Dusty & Stones (Swaziland) - Producer: Melissa Adeyemo, Director: Jesse Rudoy - Eat Bitter (Central African Republic) - Producer: Mathieu Faure, Co producers: Orphe Zaza, Emmanuel Bamoy, Sol Sun, Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, Excutive Producer: Steve Dorst, Director: Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, Co-director: Sol Sun - Ethel (Egypt) - Producers: Mohamed Siam and François Artemare, Director: Mohamed Siam - My Plastic Hair (South Africa) - Producers: Mamokuena Makhema, Yolanda K Mogatusi, Director: Yolanda K Mogatusi - NZONZING (Democratic Republic of Congo) - Producers: Nelson Makengo, Moimi Wezam, Director: Moimi Wezam - Part of the Pack (South Africa) - Producers: Emily Cross, Michael Cross (South Africa), Director: Emily Cross - The Possessed Painter: Abbès Saladi (Morocco) - Producer Mehdi Okacha, Director: Reda Lahmouid - The Woman Who Poked The Leopard (Uganda) - Producer: Rosie Motene, Director: Patience Nitumwesiga - Time of Pandemics (South Africa) - Producer: Anita Khanna, Director: Rehad Desai - Unfinished Journey (Uganda) - Producer: Liezel Vermeulen, Director: Joanna Higgs - Untitled: Miss Africa South (South Africa) - Producers: Bridget Pickering, Darren Kerr, Aliki Saragas-Georgiou and Jacqui-Lee Katz, Directors: Aliki Saraga-Georgiou and Jacqui-Lee Katz - Wataalat Loughatou él Kalami (Such a Silent Cry) (Tunisia) - Producer: Mehdi Hmili, Director: Walid Tayaa - Windward
OFFICAL DFM PROJECTS - Fiction - 2065 (working title) (South Africa) - Producers: Carol Kioko, Carmen Sangion, Director: Carmen Sangion - Akashinga (working title) (Zimbabwe) - Producer: Jérémie Palanque, Director: Naishe Nyamubaya - Combat de nègre et de chiens (BLACK BATTLE WITH DOGS) (Senegal) - Producers: Charles de Meaux, Yanis Gaye, Director: Joseph Gai Ramaka - Come Sunrise, We Shall Rule (Zimbabwe) - Producer: Bramwel Iro, Co producer: Sue-Ellen Chitunya, Director: Nyasha Kadandara - Conversations with my Mother (Uganda) - Producer: Juliana Kabua, Director: Samuel Tebandeke - Drummies (South Africa) - Producer: Dries Scholtz, Director: Hanneke Schutte - Forget Me Not (South Africa) - Producer: Cati Weinek, Director: Sibusiso Khuzwayo - Frontier Mistress (South Africa) - Producer: Mfundi Vundla, Director: Charlie Vundla - Hamlet from the Slums (Egypt) - Producer: Ahmed Amer (Egypt), Director: Ahmed Fawzi-Saleh (Egypt) - Requiem of Ravel's Bolero (South Africa) - Producers: Sara Gouveia, Lindiwe Letwaba, Inka Kendzia, Directors: Gregory Maqoma, Sara Gouveia, Inka Kendzia - Sakan Lelmoghtrebat (A House For Expats) (Egypt) - Producers: Naji Ismail and Abdo Samir, Director: Naji Ismail - The Day and Night of Brahma (South Africa) - Producer: Carol Kioko, Director: Sheetal Magan - THE KILLING OF A BEAST (South Africa) - Producer: Naledi Bogacwi, Director: Vusi Africa Sindane - The Mailman, The Mantis, and The Moon (Namibia)- Producer: Valcerine Mouton, Director: Cecil Moller
Fund Fellows - The Mother of All Lies 80 The Wall of Death 82 What's Eating My Mind
Talents Durban - Feature Fiction: - Bosryer (Bushrider) - Rosa Baila! (Dance Rosa) - Kinafo - L'Aurore Boréale (The Northern Lights) - The Path of Ruganzu Part 2 - Yvette
Talents Durban - Short Fiction: - Crisis - Mob Passion 94 La Lanterne (The Lanterne) 95 The Pet 96 Wahala (Trouble) - Whispers From My Mother 98 Why The Cattle Wait
Talents Durban - Documentary: - A History of Distance - Fanta Sacko - HearMeOut:TheColouredBoxofEnigma - Searching for Woody - Solo Moms - Terror Scars
Talents Durban - Episodic Projects: - Adam to Eve - Choice Assorted - Meet My Family - Outer Rim Job - Pretty Hustle
Talents Durban - Animation Projects: - YAI (Egg) - La Lionne Noire (The Black Lioness)
Talents Durban - Jumpstart - Bedrock - God's Work - Soweto on Fire - The Farmer's Tale - The Story of a Thorn - Who Keeps The Silence?
The Chair Jacintha de Nobrega Chairperson - Durban FilmMart Institute
DFM MENTORS - Don EDKINS (South African documentary filmmaker and producer based in Cape Town) - Doctor Dieudonné ALAKA (Cameroonian film producer and lecturer at the University of Yaoundé I) - Layla SWART (South African producer) - Lucas ROSANT (French Film executive, producer and consultant) - Sylvia Vollenhoven (South African multi-award winning author, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker) - Themba Bhebhe (South Africa) is in charge of diversity and inclusion for the European Film Market (Berlinale)
Talents durban MENTORS - Djia MAMBU (journalist, film critic and author from the Democratic Republic of Congo) - Fanta Régina NACRO (Burkinabese filmmaker) - Iman DJIONNE (Senegalese director and writer) - Lydia MATATA (kenyan journalist and filmmaker)
- Marc DEY (Scriptwriter and creator)
- Neiloe WHITEHEAD (Producer, filmmaker) - Sean DRUMMOND ((screenwriter, creative and conceptual producer and documentary director) - Teboho EDKINS - Tracey-Lee RAINERS (story consultant) - Wilfred OKICHE (Nigerian critic)
The Durban FilmMart 2021 is produced by the Durban FilmMart Institute with principal funding from the Durban Film Office and Ethekwini Municipality. The DFM 2021 virtual event is supported by the National Film and Video Foundation, KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission, Film and Publications Board, International Emerging Film Talent Association, Institut Francais - South Africa, Wesgro and Namibian Film Commission with the following programme partners - AfriDocs and Avek, Berlinale Talent, Cape Town International Animation Film Festival, Digital Lab Africa, Documentary Filmmakers Association, Documentary Association of Europe, DOK.fest München, Dok Leipzig, Dolby, Durban International Film Festival, FidaDoc, Hot Docs Blue Ice Fund, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Independent Producers Organisation, Miradas Doc, Norwegian South Film Fund, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Produire au Sud, Rotterdam, Cinemart, South African Guild of Actors, SASFED, SWIFT, Trace TV, Writers Guild of South Africa.
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