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Kleinkaap Short Film Festival 2020 deadlines are approaching

MyPR: Kleinkaap Short Film Festival 2020 deadlines are approaching:

The Kleinkaap Short Film Festival (KSFF) is hosted in South Africa by Twin Hearts Productions and Kleinkaap Boutique Hotel in Centurion and will host the fifth annual KSFF this year. The KSFF is the longest running Film Festival in Centurion. The Film Festival founders, Mari Molefe van Heerden and Reine Swart’s, aim is to showcase film-making in short format locally and internationally in Centurion that has not gotten deserved exposure in South Africa.

The Regular Submission deadline for South Africans is 15 February 2020 and submissions are done via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/KleinkaapShortFilmFestival

KSFF is a gateway for audiences to unearth the real world of film that occurs beyond regular film exhibitions. KSFF mainly supports outstanding and creative stories that have not received deserved exposure in South Africa. KSFF considers narrative, documentary and animated short films (30 min and less), and in multiple genres from around the world. KSFF is hosted in Centurion, South Africa. A vibrant city nestled minutes between Johannesburg and Pretoria.

The selected short films will be judged and selected by a South African panel. The Kleinkaap Short Film Festival’s Official Selections will be screened at the Film Festival mid 2020.

South African Filmmakers can enter for free for the special, early bird special & regular deadline, $ 2 for the extended submission.

Kleinkaap Boutique Hotel is a vibrant venue with a beautiful garden and halls, making it the ideal place to host the event.

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From Sophiatown to Triomf

By 1963, Sophiatown had been physically razed to the ground. In a final act of psychological warfare, the government built a white working-class suburb over the rubble and named it Triumph (Triomf). They wanted to erase the very memory of Sophiatown from the landscape. For decades, the name Sophiatown disappeared from maps, replaced by the neat, sterile streets of the victors.

The “resurrection” of Sophiatown began officially in 2006, when the City of Johannesburg formally restored the original name to the suburb. Today, the neighborhood is a quiet, leafy residential area, but the ghosts of the “Paris of the Transvaal” are everywhere. The Sophiatown Heritage Centre, housed in the former home of Dr. A.B. Xuma (a former ANC president), is one of the few original buildings that escaped the bulldozers. Walking through the streets today, you can still find small markers of the past: a lone Victorian pillar, a specific tree mentioned in a poem, or the rebuilt St. Joseph’s Church.

The legacy of Sophiatown is not just one of tragedy, but of an indestructible cultural spirit. The music, the slang (Tsotsitaal), and the “Drum” era aesthetic continue to influence South African fashion and film today. It serves as a reminder that while you can bulldoze a house and rename a street, you cannot kill the soul of a place that once danced to the sound of a thousand saxophones.