TEN Big Ideas
filmed in Gauteng

  • Catch a Fire (Philip Noyce)
  • Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
  • Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)
  • Red Dust (Tom Hooper)
  • Cry the beloved country (Darrell Roodt)
  • Sarafina (Darrell Roodt)
  • Gandhi, My Father
    (Feroze Khan)
  • Goodbye Bafana
    (Bille August)
  • Shakalaka Boom Boom
    (Suneel Darshan)
  • Stander (Browen Hughes)



Film Indaba 

South Africa's leading annual networking platform for the film and TV industries

In 2007 the GFC hosted the first of what it hopes will become an annual industry conference. The event doubled in audience attendance in the second year, 2008 making it one of the largest industry networking events in South Africa.

To download the report of the 2008 Film Indaba please click here

The Gauteng Film Indaba is intended to serve as a networking platform where those involved in the industry get to share thoughts on the performance and direction of the industry as well as address critical issues including:

  • Policy development
  • Location marketing
  • Skills development and training
  • Infrastructure development
  • 'Film friendly' location practices
  • Audience development and independent distribution
  • Industry coordination
  • Provincial incentives
  • Technological innovation
  • Lobbying


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