Note: This news comes a couple of months after the country's Industrial Development Corp. announced an initiative targeting black filmmakers called the Emerging Black Filmmakers Fund, which was set up by the IDC in cooperation with the National Film and Video Foundation, and the Industrial Development Corpn. The new plan intends to transform the industry by allocating budgets of R5 million (about $450,000) to 6 projects a year, over 3 years. The South African Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies yesterday launched the newly developed R1 million [about $91,000) threshold South African Emerging Black Filmmakers Incentive programme. The objective of the incentive...
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