New Book on SA Film Industry Launched at TUT

New Book on SA Film Industry Launched at TUT. This book is an historical and critical account of South Africa’s film industry, launched right on the doorstep of the institution that trains the next generation of filmmakers.

On 27 September, TUT’s Arts Festival will feature an event hosted by the Department of Visual Communication, Faculty of Arts and Design, to officially launch Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions.

New Book on SA Film Industry Launched at TUT

A producer in the local and international audio-visual industry, Green’s experiences are documented in this book by Prof Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green.

Many acclaimed feature films were produced or lined produced by Green, including Taxi to Soweto (1991), Soweto Green (1995), Chikin Biznis (1999), Red Dust (2004), District 9 (2009), Spud (2010), and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). A key player in the establishment of the M-Net New Directions programme in the 90s, which launched the careers of many black filmmakers.

The University of Johannesburg has named Tomaselli a Distinguished Professor. His published works on film include The Cinema of Apartheid (1988) and Encountering Modernity (2007). During the 1990s, he advised on both film policy and cultural policy in South Africa. A co-editor of Journal of African Cinemas and Critical Arts, he has published extensively on African cinemas.

The main thesis of the authors, according to Tomaselli, is that academics write far too much theory and practitioners write far too little.

“This is a story of innovative producing that changed South African film.”

The writer Andrew Worsdale writes: “Finally, a book that appeals to the real filmmakers. First time I have ever read an academic treatise and felt moved, touched, sad, and inspired in a positive way.”

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Cover-Richard Green