Jozi Film Festival to wow city

This year’s Jozi Film Festival takes place from 15 – 17 February at three venues across Johannesburg: The Bioscope in Maboneng Precinct, Villa Arcadia in Parktown and an open air screening in Kliptown, Soweto where we are partnering with Kliptown Youth Program.

The festival opens at The Bioscope on the evening of Friday, 15th February. Guest speaker will be film director Akin Omotoso. Omotoso’s film Man On Ground was the opening film at last year’s festival and went on to win awards the world over. Our opening night film for 2013 will be announced soon.

  

A selection of feature films, student films, short fiction and documentaries will be screened at The Bioscope, Villa Arcadia and in Kliptown over the following two days, culminating in our closing ceremony that will be held at Villa Arcadia on the evening of the 17th of February. Comedian John Vlismas will once again host

the awards ceremony.

The top three films of the Vodacom Mobile Phone Film competition will also be screened at the closing event and the winners announced.

A Hebert Baker building in Parktown, Villa Arcadia as a venue has been made possible by our partnership with Etana Insurance. JFF extends our gratitude to Etana for their support of the festival over the last two years. Their energy and enthusiasm for the project is manifest in all our dealings with them. Our line-up for this year’s festival will be available on our website shortly.