{"id":965819,"date":"2024-07-15T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965819"},"modified":"2024-07-15T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:30:50","slug":"durban-filmmart-festival-zooms-in-on-local-global-film-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/durban-filmmart-festival-zooms-in-on-local-global-film-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban FilmMart festival zooms in on local, global film industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th Durban FilmMart will be looking into projects that are still in development from across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The movie and documentary festival themed &#8220;African Visions Unleashed: From Disruption to Accountability&#8221; is set to take place from July 19th until 22nd of July 2024 in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>Film industry makers will discuss what&#8217;s happening on the continent in terms of the film industry and where investments should be directed.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Durban FilmMart Institute, Magdalene Reddy says this year they are bringing together 30 projects in development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are 10 documentaries and section 8 animation projects that have been selected. The projects have gone through a process of mentorship to prepare them for the market where they will be pitching to sales agents&#8217; broadcasters, finances and funders with the hope that this content would be made and reach screens big and small.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Global Stage, Local Stories: DFM\u2019s \u201cGlobal Journey\u201d panel with intl. pros! Learn how African films can captivate audiences worldwide. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DFM2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DFM2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Aio9CM2L1g\">pic.twitter.com\/Aio9CM2L1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Durban FilmMart SA (@durbanfilmmart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/durbanfilmmart\/status\/1812841344018051339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban FilmMart will be looking into projects that are still in development from across the globe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1855],"class_list":["post-965819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-durban-film-mart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}