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Now the first festival on the yearly South African film festival calendar, Jozi Film Festival is a new annual event that showcases the latest films made by Johannesburg and Gauteng film-makers as well as provides a space for film-makers, local or international, to tell stories about Jozi and her inhabitants. This year, we are happy to announce that the South African premiere of Man On Ground, a film by Akin Omotoso, will be opening the festival at The Bioscope Independent Cinema at Main Street Life, Fox St on Friday, 10 February at 7:00pm. Films will also be shown in the unusual venue of the Kensington Club, Ivanhoe Street, Kensington which will also host the final film of the festival: Semi-Soet, the new Afrikaans romantic comedy on 12 February. That screening will take place at 4:00pm to be followed by the JFF Awards Ceremony, presented by John Vlismas and Nthati Moshesh.

So what makes JFF different from the rest is a drive to make the films accessible to a wide audience and to attract those who don’t traditionally attend film festivals; an attempt to engage and inspire the ordinary people who make Jo’burg tick. With no intention of becoming the Cannes of Southern Africa, Jozi Film Festival rather aims to reflect the energetic and creative vibe of the city and the continent and wants to encourage Jo’burgers to see their city as a fantastic place to meet new people, experience something uniquely “Jozi” and leave with a sense that we live in an incredible metropolis where there’s truly never a dull moment. In keeping with this idea, admission is a very low R20 and some screenings will be free. JFF hopes to grow the satellite festival in 2013 and reach many more Gautengers across the province as time goes on.

The festival will also provide opportunities for new-comers and industry professionals to network. Jozi Film Festival also offers provocative Q&A sessions with the filmmakers in attendance as well as a number of workshops. Within the festival is also a Short Fiction Festival (The Bioscope, Saturday 11 February at 4:00pm) and a Student Festival (The Bioscope, Saturday 11 February at 8:30pm). Competition categories include: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary Film, Best Fiction Short, Best Student Film, and an

Audience Choice Award. Winner of Best Feature Film will receive a one-year unlimited music license from Final Mix Online (cleared across all media, in perpetuity) while Best Documentary Film and Best Fiction Short will each receive an unlimited music license for a single production. Recipient of the Audience Choice Award will win the chance to kick back and enjoy an all-expenses paid dinner for 6 at Jo’burg’s trendy Darkie Café.

Wits School of Arts Film and TV Division is partnering with the festival – they will provide technical support, promote the festival to their students as well as students from other universities as well as host a series of seminars between screenings. Various sponsors have ensured that this event gets off to a strong start – all involved in the organization of the festival are voluntarily donating their time and expertise out of a passion to see JFF become a high point on South African film festival calendar.

The final list of films, along with screening times and a schedule of all events taking place over 10-12 February will be released shortly.

Please visit our website (www.jozifilmfestival.co.za) and Facebook page (Jozi Film Festival) for more information about this new experience about to hit the vibrant city of Jo’burg.

Alternatively, contact the organizers:

Brendon Burmester: brendon@jozifilmfestival.co.za

Shareen Anderson: shareen@jozifilmfestival.co.za

Lisa Henry: lisa@jozifilmfestival.co.za

The Bioscope Independent Cinema in partnership with the Goethe Institut Johannesburg will be presenting a selection of renowned German documentarian Thomas Heise’s films in March 2012. Mr Heise is one of Germany’s foremost filmmakers and his award-winning and controversial work has documented both a divided and reunified Germany over the past 30 years. The selection will be one of the first times that his work is presented in South Africa.
Proposed Schedule

8.3.: “Vaterland” / Fatherland (by Thomas Heise, 102 min., 2002)

9.3.: “Sonnensystem” / Solar System (by Thomas Heise, 100 min., 2011)

10.3.: “Kinder” (student film by Bettina Büttner, 65 min., 2011) + “Herr Berner und die Wolokolamsker Chaussee” (student film by Serpil Turhan, 38 min., 2010) + 1 to 3 short “student-silent-16mm-films”

10.3 Im Glück (Neger) or Material

An intimate friendship between two women dissolves as they are drawn into an irrational, destructive spiral of jealousy and paranoid fantasy in this haunting examination of the female psyche.

BUY TICKETS FOR THE OPENING NIGHT 17th FEB. 7:30pm. R40

Genevieve, a New York intellectual, moves to the country with her self-involved journalist boyfriend, Sebastian, while he works on his latest project about sustainable farming.
Bored and neglected, Genevieve turns to Robin, a working class local, for companionship. When Sebastian forms a bond of his own with Robin, Genevieve finds herself overpowered by jealousy and insecurity. Tensions mount between the two women and soon reality and jealousy fantasy become inseparable in this haunting meditation on jealousy and the ways women mistreat and manipulate one another.

BUY TICKETS FOR THE 16TH FEB. 7:30PM. R40

DOC NIGHT is a new regular favourite at The Bioscope that shows the very best in local & international documentaries.

FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

This month we have Jihan El-Tahri’s BEHIND THE RAINBOW, one of the most insightful political films to ever come out of South Africa. BEHIND THE RAINBOW explores the transition of the ANC from a liberation organization into South Africa’s ruling party, through the evolution of the relationship between two of its most prominent veterans, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.

BUY TICKETS FOR FRI 3 FEB 7;30PM with musician McCoy Mrubata (saxophones) to the film Nosferatu.

CINEMA IMPROVISANDO

Originally organized in 2006 in commemoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250th birthday anniversary, the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival has developed into a highly successful and well-loved annual classical music event, with popular conductor Richard Cock at the helm as Music Director, together with concert pianist Florian Uhlig as Artistic Director. Composer in Residence Paul Hanmer will be hosting two performances at The Bioscope, where Paul along with other musicians will provide an improvised soundtrack to two pieces of classic cinema.

14th Feb - HIGH FIDELITY (Perfect for Valentines Day)

15th Feb - IDENTITY

Its the week of Chinese New Year, and we are entering into the year of The Dragon, so naturally, this month’s Noodlebox could only be the Bruce Lee classic Enter The Dragon.

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A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

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The Bioscope, and our new friends Jo and Kris have taken the liberty of representing South Africa and we will be hosting this 2011/2012 Future Shorts Global Film Festival. The Future Shorts Festival is the first ever global pop-up festival, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world.

The festival currently takes place in 142 cities in 54 countries and comprises a worldwide audience of more than half-million people, on and offline. Best enjoyed in conjunction with a meal and saunter through MARKET ON MAIN, the food and design market at Arts On Main, open from 9am-3pm.

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The internationally acclaimed documentary film PUNK IN AFRICA will make its first appearance in local cinemas this month. Directed by Keith Jones and Deon Maas, the film will be screened at the Labia Cinema on Orange in Cape Town on 17 January and the Bioscope in Johannesburg from 20-27 January.

The film has been invited to be officially unveiled at the world-renowned International Film Festival Rotterdam on 29-31 January, following successful local and international premieres at the Durban International Film Festival in July 2011 and the Festival Do Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in October 2011. The film has also been selected as an official entry at the One World Film Festival in March 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic, Europe’s most prestigious festival of human rights and political documentaries.

PUNK IN AFRICA is the untold story of the multi-racial punk movement within recent political and social upheavals in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In this context the punk subculture represented a genuinely radical impulse, set against political struggle, economic hardship and even civil war. The story unfolds from the Johannesburg underground rock scene of the 1970s, the multi-racial punk bands formed in the wake of the Soweto Uprising and the anti-apartheid sounds of the 1980s to the rise of African-inspired ska-punk from Cape Town to Maputo in the democratic 1990s. Today an emerging generation of new music confronts contemporary political challenges in Zimbabwe and Afrikaans identity politics in South Africa, as the scene also begins to spread across the African continent.

“…bursting with the heyday of the multiracial punk scene…with a loving emphasis on the surprising – and often overlooked – role that punk music played in Africa.” – NAT GEO MUSIC

“…a period which remains a mystery even to most connoisseurs of the genre…regardless of whether or not you have any vested interest in punk music, the film is compelling and socially valuable.” – OKAYAFRICA

“Deon Maas and Keith Jones’ doccie Punk In Africa…aims to liberate pop-culture discourse from its silly racial laagers.” – Bongani Madondo, ROLLING STONE SA

The film is a co-production between SAFTA-awarded Johannesburg production company Meerkat Media and Prague-based independent producers Peligroso Productions and Bohemian Lion and is represented for international sales and festivals by Rise and Shine Films in Berlin, Germany. Production was sponsored in part by the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, Red Bull Media Group (Austria) and the noted European post-production studio UPP (Czech Republic).

For more information, please contact: Deon Maas 083 231 8910 or deon@meerkatmedia.co.za
www.punkinafrica.co.za http://www.facebook.com/PunkInAfrica