mother of girls, arts practitioner, Encounters Documentary Festival Director, currently practising mindfulness
Joined March 2012
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Thrilled that our Festival now going for 25 years has been honoured by SAFTAS. We would not be here without amazing documentary filmmakers, our supporters, and audiences!🙌🏾🫶🙏🏽💕
29 Sep 2023
We are thrilled to be honoured this year with the Provincial Contributor Award at the 17th @SAFTAs_1.
#saftas
#encountersdocfest
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27 Jun 2023
Webber Wentzel partner, Odette Geldenhuys will participate on a panel at the Encounters Festival (@EncountersDoc) tonight at The Labia Theatre in Cape Town. The panel includes Advocate Naefa Kahn, Hugh Corder, Lukasz Konopa (Co-Director) and Helle Faber (Producer) will discuss pursuing justice: navigating the complexities of international law and human rights in theatre of violence and investigating the legitimacy of the ICC in Africa. The panel will be moderated by Advocate Eshed Cohen.
Book tickets: bit.ly/3NpMxPP
#BackTogether #Encountersdocfest
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27 Jun 2023
RSVP to our online panel at 3PM TODAY Fashion Futures: Exploring the path to a sustainable industry. Encounters.co.za/industry-ev…
@climatestoryza
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27 Jun 2023
#ENCOUNTERSDOC DAILY SCHEDULE: 27th JUNE TICKET BOOKING: linktr.ee/encountersdoc EVENT RSVP: Encounters.co.za/industry-ev… Todays Venues:
V & A @sterkinekor
@RosebankTheZone
@the_bioscope
@LabiaTheatre
@buhle_sithela
#vumapopup
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Great memory of amazing films!🥰
30 Mar 2023
#ThoughtfulThursday celebrating some of our Audience Award Winners today with a flashback to the SA/African and International Winners from 2015, 2016 and 2017.
A big shout out to our previous partners @backsberg Wine Estate for supporting our Audience Award.
#celebratingdocs
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DEADLINE ALERT‼️📢
10 Mar 2023
🚨FINAL DAY TO APPLY 🚨
Calling all documentary filmmakers, distributors and sales agents. Today is the deadline for applications for the 25th edition of @EncountersDoc taking place from 22 June to 2 July 2023.
More details here: encounters.co.za/call-for-en…
#backtogether
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Deadline Alert‼️ Entries close this Friday 10 March.☝🏽 📢
6 Mar 2023
The DIFF x Encounters Connection partnership has been running for over 7 years now and we are proud to announce that both festivals will be co-premiering and co-presenting South African and African feature documentaries again this year.
#diffencountersconnection
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I'm so looking forward to this programme!
1 Mar 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Encounters Community Festivals: Doc Activate Season 2023 Successful Teams
Free State: Tshiamo Malatji, Thabiso Olifant, Zanda Nosenga
Limpopo: Sello Chokoe, Tshego Ntshabeleng, Leshole Jimmy Lekota
Western Cape: Rae Human, Yusra Peters, Duwayne Murphy
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Mandisa retweeted
23 Feb 2023
🚨reminder alert🚨
#Documentary #featurelength #rcla #rcla2023 #reminder #opencall #africa #africancontinent #editors #africaneditors #africandocs #doclab #editinglab #virtuallab #roughcutlabafrica #deadline #encountersdoc
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3 Feb 2023
ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY FOR DFM PITCH AND FINANCE FORUM 2023🛎
Filmmakers with live action fiction and documentary projects in development are invited to submit their projects.
durbanfilmmart.co.za/pitch-a…
Deadline: 10 February 2023
#Opportunity #AfricanCinema #Coproduction
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Mandisa retweeted
2 Feb 2023
Catch TUG OF WAR at @JoburgFilmFest tomorrow, Friday 3 Feb at 8pm
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3 Feb 2023
10 days left to apply. Application link in bio. #communityfestival #southafrica #Documentary #encountersdocfest #events #local #pesp3
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Call for Applications:
IPO Programme Manager
The IPO is urgently seeking to appoint a competent Programme Manager for a short-term assignment to manage all aspects of the IPO's Get on Set Emerging young producers mentorship programme, funded by the NFVF's PESP programme.
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13 Dec 2022
Festival Director, Ms Mandisa Zitha, wrote this article for the Sunday Times earlier this year.
Celebrating the very best in local content Mandisa highlighted the top docs at Encounters, shon a spotlight on new voices and celebrated the return to big screens!
#SundayTimesZA
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8 Dec 2022
💥 NEFTI Competition Open Call - Finalists to screen at Berlinale EFM 2023!!!💥 more details here - nefticompetition.com
The deadline for submission is December 31, 2022.
#nefticompetiton
#neftvodkaus
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Mandisa retweeted
7 Dec 2022
The INTERNATIONAL KHOIKHOI Film Festival takes place at the BERTHA HOUSE, Mowbray from the 9th - 10th December 2022.
The festival seeks to create space to discuss the creation of First people films by Khoi filmmakers and non-Khoi filmmakers.
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We're excited to open our Call for the 25th edition‼️📌🎉📽
28 Nov 2022
The organisers of Encounters, Africa’s home of documentaries, are calling for feature, mid-length, and short documentary film entries for the 2023 edition of the Festival.
More details in our bio.
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23 Nov 2022
We made it to IDFA and had a very successful trip. We are grateful for the opportunity and thankful to IEFTA for supporting us. We can’t wait to continue the conversations we had at the festival and to be back next year! Thank you IDFA and festival friends!
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IDFA was awesome! Wish I saw more films.🙏🏽🙌🏾
23 Nov 2022
We made it to IDFA and had a very successful trip. We are grateful for the opportunity and thankful to IEFTA for supporting us. We can’t wait to continue the conversations we had at the festival and to be back next year! Thank you IDFA and festival friends!
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Amazing to meet up with colleagues at IDFA in Amsterdam!😃👌🏾🙏🏽
14 Nov 2022
We had a chance to chat to the busy IDFA Festival Director @orwany and award winning filmmaker Mohamed Saïd Ouma at @idfa yesterday. What a treat! #festivals #Documentary #filmlovers
