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As antisemitism continues to run rampant in the streets of Europe and in communities around the United States, the groundbreaking new film, Tragic Awakening, gives viewers...
The Shakedown, a South African crime-comedy caper by Ari Kruger (AK) and Daniel Zimbler (DZ), will premiere on Prime Video on 8 August. The SA Jewish...
The prestigious Encounters International Documentary Film Festival (Encounters), which runs from 20 to 30 June across the country, claims to believe in the power of documentary...
In spite of immense social turmoil over the past few decades, the teenage experience of angst and uncertainty remains largely unchanged. Just Now Jeffrey is a...
The SAFTA (South African Film and Television Awards) award for best online content 2023 was given to director Christopher Grant Harvey for his short film titled...
Veteran South African journalist Benjamin Pogrund, who now lives in Israel, initially never wanted his own life story to be part of the narrative of the...
Growing up, filmmaker Gabriella Blumberg was aware that her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother had the BRCA1 gene and that they had all developed breast cancer. This...
When Capetonian David Nivison (23) decided to give up his studies and try his hand at filmmaking, it was a huge risk. Never did he imagine...
JTA- Friday wasn’t just “Barbie” release day – moviegoers also filled theatres across the United States to see Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer biopic. Many hope it will...
JTA – Helen Mirren will soon become linked with Golda Meir in the minds of many when she plays the late Israeli prime minister in a...
Johannesburg executive producer and the founder and chief executive of The Star Film Company, Adam Thal, is still in shock after a documentary he co-produced, Rise:...
The story of Shaka Zulu has been told many times, but never in the way that it will now appear on South African screens. The series...
She may be the sister of the world’s most famous filmmaker, but Nancy Spielberg is a force in her own right. And just like her brother,...
When thinking about the Holocaust in Lithuania, some of us can only think about the horror from a distance or in small doses. But filmmaker Michael...
When local filmmaker Harriet Gavshon produced the eight-part television drama series Reyka through her production house, Quizzical Pictures, she never imagined that it would get International...
“Boys don’t cry”; “man up”; “be strong”. With one of the highest rates of rape and femicide in the world, South Africa has long faced a...
Film makers and directors, Ari Kruger and Daniel Zimbler, are more than just winners of a prestigious South African Film and Television Award (SAFTA). The pair,...
Jessie Zinn is only 28 years old, but she’s already achieved what most filmmakers dream of: recognition and global reach. Zinn reached this apex moment when...
A year ago, the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) banned Israeli filmmaker Yakie Ayalon from screening his film just because he was Israeli. So it was...
“Blumenthal is a vision of vigor and faith” – New York Times. This is the edited version of the show without the documentary movie included –...
When a newborn, abandoned baby was miraculously picked up by a Johannesburg couple walking home one Shabbos night, it not only heralded the start of a...
It’s not often that two Jewish filmmakers win a prize at a prestigious Afrikaans film festival, but this was the case recently for Jordy Sank and...
When South Africans emigrate, many of them shut the door on their former country. But Claire Jankelson and Di Singer, who live in Australia, have not...
Film director Jenna Cato Bass and producer David Horler first met when they were growing up in Cape Town and were in the same year at...
