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SA workshop with Thompson
16/02/2007 21:11 - (SA)
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| British actress Emma Thompson with South African actress Sandra Prinsloo and film director Helena Nogueira at one of the Market Theatre screen writing workshops in Johannesburg. (Ster Kinekor) |
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Birgit Ottermann
Cape Town - Two-time academy award winner Emma Thompson and renowned British actor Stephen Fry hosted a successful series of screenwriting workshops this week at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg - ahead of the release of a film which gives tribute to local poet Ingrid Jonker.
The internationally acclaimed actors were joined by film producer and director of the UK Film Council Clare Wise, actor Greg Wise and director Helena Nogueira to share their wisdom with aspiring film makers.
According to the Market Theatre's public-client liason, Carol Mokwena, the whole event was a huge success.
"The free workshops were fully-booked on Wednesday and Thursday with a varied audience of young and old all eager to learn more about film making."
Mokwena told news24 that the highlight was a workshop on Thursday by local director Helena Nogueira where she discussed the making of her film Ingrid Jonker: Her lives and times - a moving documentary on one of South Africa's foremost Afrikaans poets, Ingrid Jonker who committed suicide in 1965.
The South African scriptwriters' association (Saswa) describes the film on their website as a "monumental film which plays like a thriller."
SA general release on 26 April 2006
"With meticulous thoroughness, and through interviews and archival footage, Nogueira gathers together the pieces of the intimate life of a fractured and brilliant artist who was the darling of the 'Sestiger' movement and whose suicide on a Cape Town beach shocked Afrikaner literary and social circles in 60s South Africa."
The film has been funded by the National Film and Video Foundation, the Industrial Development Corporation and Ster Kinekor, and will be released in South Africa on 26 April 2007.
- News24
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