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Jun
06
2023
By GABRIELLA OPARA, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Taking Nollywood to the next level with Aki and Pawpaw

Taking Nollywood to the next level with Aki and Pawpaw

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
IN 2002, Nigeria's film industry - widely referred to as Nollywood - presented Africa with a comic relief movie called Aki na Ukwa. The film stars Chinedu Ikedieze and Osita Iheme as two mischievous brothers (Aki and Pawpaw) who cause chaos at home, in their village, and at school. It is widely considered one of the funniest films to come out of Africa. It has been over twenty years since the much-loved characters first appeared on screen but now they are making a comeback in the form of a mobile phone game. On April 28, 2023, Play Network Studios announced…
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Jul
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Tributes for SA actor, filmmaker

Tributes for SA actor, filmmaker

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SHONA Ferguson was one of South Africa’s biggest contributors to the film industry, and his untimely death has left a large hole, his friends and fans have said. Tributes poured in from fans, fellow acting colleagues and industry members - all of whom said the actor was someone who led some of the country’s filming industry to success and opened doors for others. Ferguson died in Johannesburg at the age of 47 from Covid-19 related complications. “The loss of great industry contributor is something that we can never get used to. An iconic man, who led the…
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Dec
22
2020
By The African Mirror
How grassroots video is building a film industry in Zimbabwe

How grassroots video is building a film industry in Zimbabwe

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
THERE is a general perception that there is no film industry to talk about in Zimbabwe. This argument is mostly based on comparisons with other well-resourced film economies, such as Hollywood, or even South Africa’s. OSWELLED UREKE, Midlands State University Based on my study of the Zimbabwean film industry I disagree with this view. Zimbabwe does have a film industry, but perhaps, not one that meets everyone’s expectations and certainly not one that can be comparable to Hollywood’s formal value chain. Zimbabwe, like many other developing countries, faces political and economic challenges and the film industry’s problems are compounded by…
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Aug
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Enter the micro-budget film: lockdown amplifies South African cinema trends

Enter the micro-budget film: lockdown amplifies South African cinema trends

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
LIANI MAASDORP, Senior lecturer in Screen Production and Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town SOUTH Africa’s film industry is the oldest in Africa and one of the oldest in the world, having started in 1896, soon after the Lumiere brothers’ famous first commercial film screening in 1895. The industry is one of the more established and commercially viable on the continent. It doesn’t produce as many films as Nigeria’s bustling industry, but offers a steady trickle of crowd pleasers (with box office records held by the comedies of Leon Shuster) and international award winners like Tsotsi (2006) and…
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