Upcoming screening
FWFC Proudly Presents...
WITS SHORT FILMS - THE NEXT GENERATION
| May 2nd | 7:30/8:00 pm | Studio 4 |
| FILM: | IT WAS A CLEAR OPERATION |
| DIRECTORS: | Samkelisiwe Makhoba and Portia Ramoabi |
| LANGUAGE: | English, Zulu |
| STARRING: | Sandile Mazibuko, Matthew Henderson, Zimkhitha Motlabeng, Anabelle Kole |
| DURATION: | 3min17sec |
| GENRE: | Experimental |
SYNOPSIS
A poetic rendition of a TRC-hearing on the disappearance of anti-apartheid activists Sipho Hashe, Champion Galela, and Qaqawuli Godolozi, known as the PEBCO Three.
| FILM: | ONGKGOPOTSE |
| DIRECTOR: | Adelaide Moeng |
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| DURATION: | 9min 35sec |
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A young man in an empty house is visited upon by a loved one.
| FILM: | WOMEN IN THE DARK |
| DIRECTOR: | Shameelah Khan |
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| STARRING: | Jubaida Thomas, Kareemah Thomas |
| DURATION: | 9min 27sec |
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Three generations of women, including the director, candidly and generously share experiences, thoughts and dreams about intimacy and sexuality in this winner of the award for Best Documentary, Wits Student Film Awards.
| FILM: | I AM A MONSTER |
| DIRECTORS: | Daniella Boalhosa, Crystal Wilton, Ayanda Sibisi, Jessica Wan |
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| FEATURING: | Daniella Boalhosa, Crystal Wilton, Ayanda Sibisi, Jessica Wan |
| DURATION: | 7min 30 sec |
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Four directors in a humorous rebellious response to impossible standards of beauty that are tailor-made to keep every woman on her toes.
| FILM: | BULLET IN THE SCARF |
| DIRECTOR: | Nikita Morare |
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| STARRING: | Jamie Lee Botha, Francesca Mattys, Nobuhle Ngwane, Michelle Dezulovic, Sandile Mazibuko |
| DURATION: | 9min |
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The winner of the award for Best Editing and Best Overall Project at Wits Student Film Awards and of Rapid Lion Film Festival’s Award for Best Student Film profiles around high-profile Somalian social activist Ilwad Elman.
-Courtesy of Wits School of Arts - Film & Television, University of Witwaterrand
- Limited seating
Collaborations
First Wednesday Film Club often partners with organizations, institutions and distribution companies, among them the Gauteng Film Commission, Big World Cinema, Indigenous Pictures, the Bioscope Independent Cinema, Alliance Française, the Goethe-Institut, the British Council, One Fine Day Film Workshop as well as the Encounters and Tri Continental film festivals.Do you want to collaborate with First Wednesday Film Club or do you want us to consider your film for screening?
Contact us: info@atlasstudios.com
First Wednesday Film Club
About the Film Club
What started out as an informal gathering aimed at local film makers in 2004, hosted by Atlas Studios and ran by filmmakers John Barker and Ziggy Hofmeyr, has, one decade later, become South Africa’s best attended regular screening event outside the film festival circuit, and a reputable launching platform for new films, curated by filmmaker Akin Omotoso and writer Katarina Hedrén.Today the First Wednesday Film Club’s reach extends far beyond the filmmaking community and includes a broader gathering of cinema lovers who are interested in watching films of all genres from across the world that usually are not available on the local circuit. For its unique offering of films and its chilled atmosphere with people from across the world, the film club has also become a "must attend” event for many visitors to Johannesburg.
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