Call for entries for Encounters 2020
Encounters invites entries for the 22nd Encounters South African International Documentary Festival 4 – 14 June 2020 Cape Town & Johannesburg The organisers of Encounters are calling for feature, mid-length and short documentary film entries for […]
Adiaha Women’s Documentary Award
The Adiaha Women’s Documentary Award at Encounters 2020 The Ladima Foundation will be awarding its Adiaha Prize for Best Documentary by an African woman filmmaker at the 22nd Encounters Documentary Film Festival taking place in Johannesburg […]
Backsberg Encounters Audience Awards Announced
Encounters reveals the winners of the Backsberg Encounters Audience Awards at the 2019 South African International Documentary Festival. It has been announced today that the local documentary STROOP: JOURNEY INTO THE RHINO HORN WAR has been […]
Winners of the EYE Awards
1st: Waves This film stood out to us as a group, and we selected it as a winner because we were all so inspired by how impactful it was, in such a short amount of time […]
UCT ScreenCubator / Encounters Impact Springboard seed funding
We’d like to congratulate the productions Dulcie September (Enver Samual, Liezel Vermeulen) and A Killing in the Winelands (Daneel Knoetze) on both winning UCT ScreenCubator/Encounters Impact Springboard seed funding grant packages. Over the coming months, as […]
Encounters Documentary Festival ending on Sunday 16 June
Thank you to everyone who has attended the Encounters Documentary Festival – they have had packed cinemas, sold out screenings, Q&As with the Directors, workshops, industry events and it’s not over yet! Encounters have added […]
Johannesburg Industry Events at the Goethe-Institut
119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg SATURDAY, 8th JUNE 2019 10am – 12pm – Impact Workshop – Where Art Meets Activism Presented by Anita Khanna & Sylvia Vollenhoven. This workshop will unpack the blueprint for an Impact Strategy using examples of […]
First local and African films confirmed for Encounters 2019
Following the announcement of the first international titles for this year’s 21st Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, the first South African and African films are as compelling as their global counterparts. From the vivid specifics of underground Cape […]
Encounters announces Opening Night Film and more of the hottest 2019’s acclaimed documentaries
The 21st Encounters South African International Documentary Festival has announced the opening night film as well as a host of the most talked about non-fiction films from the past year. Fresh from the world’s leading festivals, Encounters has secured the […]
First confirmed titles are the cream of the global crop
This year’s Encounters South African International Documentary Festival is excited to announce the first international documentaries that have been confirmed. The line-up has been chosen from the past year’s most riveting documentary cinema selected from the […]