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The largest film festival in Africa is the biennial Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) held in Burkina Faso. In the tables below, "mixed" in the Details column, indicates that the festival screens films of different formats and genres (feature and short films, fiction and documentaries).
South Africa has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] since 1989. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non- English dialogue. [ 3 ]
A list of African film awards: Africa International Film Festival; Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards (AMVCA) Best of Nollywood Awards; Botswana Independence Film Festival ; Cairo International Film Festival; Cameroon Academy Awards; Golden Movie Awards; Ghana Movie Awards; Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards ...
The following is a list of Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremonies including ceremony date, ... South Africa: 15th: Landmark Event Center, Lagos 27 October 2019
Year Title Director Genre Notes 1989: Red Scorpion: Joseph Zito: action adventure: 2007: Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation: Charles Burnett: drama: 2009: Rider without a Horse
Won't Back Down (2012) – drama film loosely based on the events surrounding the use of the parent trigger law in Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles in 2010 [122] You Are God (Polish: Jesteś Bogiem ) (2012) – Polish biographical drama film telling the story of Polish hip-hop group Paktofonika [ 123 ]
Pacquiao: The Movie (2006) – Filipino biographical action drama film based on a true story of Filipino boxer Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao [110] The Path to 9/11 (2006) – disaster drama miniseries dramatizing the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks [111]
Dick Cruikshanks as Piet Retief in the 1916 silent film, "The Voortrekkers" (or "Winning a Continent" in the USA).. The first film studio in South Africa, Killarney Film Studios, was established in 1915 in Johannesburg by American business tycoon Isidore W. Schlesinger when he traveled to South Africa against his family's wishes after he read about the discovery of gold in Witwatersrand and ...