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Africa: Elevate Africa Opens Applications for Threads of Africa 2026 to Revive Endangered Textiles Through Fashion Film

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago06 mins

Elevate Africa has opened applications for the Threads of Africa Fashion Film Prize 2026, a continent-wide initiative aimed at preserving Africa’s rich textile heritage by empowering creatives to tell stories of endangered fabrics, garments, and traditional craftsmanship through film. The competition brings together fashion, culture, and visual storytelling, inviting designers, filmmakers, students, and creative teams…

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Africa: Elevate Africa Dangles $25,000 Grants, Launches 2026 Fashion Film Contest to Revive Indigenous Textiles

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago03 mins

Elevate Africa has announced the commencement of applications for the 2026 edition of the Threads of Africa Fashion Film Prize, a pan-African initiative aimed at preserving and promoting endangered African textiles, garments and traditional fashion techniques through storytelling and film. The organisation said the competition seeks to encourage creatives across Africa and the diaspora to…

“We are real players” says Zoe Ramushu on building African film tech for the global industry

eriinfo.com1 month ago09 mins

Cape Town filmmaker and tech founder Zoe Ramushu is not interested in being treated as an exception. Cape Town filmmaker and tech founder Zoe Ramushu. Image supplied Fresh off her third consecutive shortlist nomination at the Global Production Awards during the Cannes Film Festival, Ramushu is building something much bigger than representation alone. Through her…

Africa: Why Is African Cinema Out of the Picture At the Cannes Film Festival?

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Does the absence of African films in the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival point to a glass ceiling? Or is African cinema still slowly but surely finding its way to the top table? The absence of African-made films among the 22 contenders for this year’s Palme d’Or might suggest African filmmakers are…

How a film star won in the Indian state

eriinfo.com2 months ago01 mins

Analysts say he is entering a landscape still dominated by the DMK and the AIADMK – a duopoly that mostly appears stable on paper, yet shows signs of fatigue on the ground. That, they argue, is opening space for new political experiments – and for figures like Vijay to test how far star power can…

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Africa: New Plastic Film Covered in Thousands of Tiny Pillars Can Tear Apart Viruses On Contact

eriinfo.com2 months ago07 mins

Think of how many surfaces you touch every day, from your kitchen bench to the hand rail on the bus or train, your work desk and your phone screen. A range of nasty viruses and other germs can easily spread via these surfaces. The typical route of infection involves touching a contaminated surface – and…

Canal+ taps AI to create scenes once impossible to film

eriinfo.com4 months ago07 mins

Canal+ is moving to AI to cut production costs. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson, with images from Freepik & Pexels) MultiChoice owner Canal+ is deploying artificial intelligence (AI) through partnerships with Google Cloud and OpenAI, to cut production costs and make the impossible possible on screen. During the company’s recent results presentation, Maxim Saada, CEO of…

SA film industry to get funding boost and digital overhaul after outcry

eriinfo.com4 months ago05 mins

The trade, industry & competition department has announced a number of measures to help South Africa’s ailing film and television industry, including raising funds and implementing an automated system to reduce processing time and improve effectiveness for financing. Minister Parks Tau and deputy minister Zuko Godlimpi briefed parliament on Tuesday on the department’s plans. This…

Arundhati Roy ‘shocked’ by jury’s Gaza remarks, quits Berlin film festival | Israel-Palestine conflict News

eriinfo.com5 months ago05 mins

Jury chair Wim Wenders said filmmakers ‘have to stay out of politics’ when asked about German support for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Indian author Arundhati Roy has announced that she is withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after what she described as “unconscionable statements” by its jury…

South Africa is losing its film industry

eriinfo.com5 months ago08 mins

Just a few years ago, the local film industry was booming. South African production was at record levels and getting global recognition. We were one of the world’s darling destinations for shooting foreign productions. Billions of rand came into the country and the Avengers landed in Joburg. Local work also thrived: Inxeba made the Oscar…