The 2nd Jozi Film Festival
Despite the fact that Johannesburg is thriving with various film activities, schools, clubs, studios and many cinema complexes, it was only in February 2012 that the first Jozi Film Festival was inaugurated.
Category Archives: Features
Which Hitch is which?
HITCHCOCK and THE GIRL use cinema to simultaneously observe and attack Hitch whilst airing the dirty laundry of a man who can no longer answer back, writes Ed Frost.
TAKE ONE Awards 2012
TAKE ONE writers have voted on Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short and Best Festival for 2012 as well as some one-off awards from individual writers. Cover image by Harry Hunt.
Leaving Baghdad
Koutaiba Al-Janabi’s LEAVING BAGHDAD is an intimate, unpolished road movie in which we accompany a gentle immigrant on his journey from Iraq to London. The Independent Film Trust and the Cambridge Film and Media Academy are organising a free screening at Magdalene College in March.
Future Shorts: Autumn Season 2012
With the gathering momentum of Future Shorts, the world’s biggest global pop-up film festival, Spring 2013 is certainly going to be worth seeing, writes Edd Elliott.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Guest writer Simon Baron-Cohen, who introduced the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse screening of WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?, looks at the film’s portrayal of autism.
Takeover: Network
As Roger Ebert said, watched today this film reads like prophecy. NETWORK is the latest in our TAKEOVER series.
The Lights And Then The Noise
Liam Jack reports back from the London Short Film Festival, where he spoke to filmmakers Fran Broadhurst and Mathy Tremewan about guerrilla filmmaking, the power of music and alien abduction.
Takeover: Back To The Future Pt. II
Corporate takeovers – love ’em or hate ’em, when a pesky bully from the future is involved, you ain’t got nothing coming.
Takeover: I ♥ Huckabees
Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are existential detectives who you could hire to investigate the meaning of your life. Their nemesis is Isabelle Huppert. Hilarity ensues.