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.1998 M-NET FILMS AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED=20
The nominations for the 1998 M-Net All Africa Film Awards have been
selected by a panel of eight judges, who met in Sandton last week, to vie=
w
22 films from 11 African countries. Cash prizes totalling R250 000 will =
be
given to artists and technicians from the whole continent, when the Film
Awards ceremony is held in Pretoria's State Theatre on the 14th of
November.
Morocco has received the most nominations for 1998, with director, Sa=E2d
Chra=EFbi's Femmes..et Femmes having been chosen for a total of eight
nominations. Another film that received an impressive number of nominatio=
ns
(7) this year was Tableau Ferraille (directed by Moussa S=E9ne Absa) from
Senegal.
Malian director Abdoulay=E9 Ascofare's film Faraw! Une M=E9re des Sables =
also
attracted favourable response from the jury, receiving a total of five of
the nominations.=20
This year's film award's jury consisted of Raouf Ben Amor from Tunisia, R=
os
Sarkin from Durban, June Givanni from England, Prof Anny Wynchank from
Cape Town, and from Johannesburg, Neville Sing, Moonyeenn Lee, George Men=
oe
and Ettie Feldman. Film guru, Dr Lionel Ngakane, remains as M-NET's Advis=
or
to the film awards, with 1998 marking the fourth year that he has oversee=
n
the judging process.=20
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Two special awards: the Manie van Rensburg Lifetime Achievement Award and
the Paulin Vieyra Merit Award, named after the Senegalese pioneer of the
African Cinema, to younger directors, will also be announced on the
evening.
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The full list of nominations for 1998 is:
BEST FILM, ANGLOPHONE REGION
There are no nominations in this category, but a winner will be announced
on November 14.
BEST FILM, FRANCOPHONE REGION
* Faraw! Une M=E9re des Sables (Les Films de la Dune Rose)
* Pi=E8ces d'identit=E9s (Films Sud)
* Tableau Ferraille (MSA/ ADR Productions) =09
BEST FILM, ARABAPHONE REGION
* Date Wine (MISR International)
* Femmes=85et Femmes (Cinautre Films)
* Keswa =96 Le Fil Perdu (Les Films de la Mouette)
* La Nuit du Destin (Les Films sur la Place)
* Mektoub (Shem's Playtime)
BEST DIRECTOR
* Abdoulay=E9 Ascofare (Faraw! Une M=E9re des Sables)
* Abdelkrim Bahloul (La Nuit du Destin)
* Sa=E2d Chra=EFbi (Femmes..et Femmes)
BEST LEADING ACTOR
* Ali Mosbah (Salih) (Keswa - Le fil Perdu)
* Fats Bookholane (Sipho) (Chikin Biznis =96 The Whole Story)
* G=E9rard Essomba (Mani Kongo) (Pi=E8ces d'identit=E9s)
=09
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
* Adrienne Koutoua (Albertine) ( La Revanche de Lucy)
* Aminata Ousmane (the Mother) (Faraw! Une M=E9re des Sables)
* Mouna Fettou (Zakia) (Femmes=85et Femmes)
* Nd=E8ye Fatou Ndaw (Gagn=E9seri) (Tableau Ferraille)
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BEST SCREENPLAY
* Abdoulay=E9 Ascofare (Faraw! Une M=E9re des Sables)
* Moussa S=E8ne Absa (Tableau Ferraille)
* Sa=E2d Chra=EFbi (Femmes=85 et Femmes)
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
* Ahmed Bennys/ Ch=E9dli Chaouachi (Keswa =96 Le Fil Perdu)
* Kamal Derkaoui (Femmes..et Femmes)
* Tarek El-Telmessani (Date Wine)
BEST EDITING
* Kahena Attia (Une Couleur Caf=E9)
* Kalthoum Bornaz (Keswa =96 Le Fil Perdu)
* Micki Stroucken (The Sexy Girls)
* Mohamed Meziane (Faraw! Une M=E9re des Sables)
BEST SOUND TEAM
* Fawzi Thabet (Femmes..et Femmes)
* Julie Vandenberg/ Charlotte Buys, Sharon Hawks, Mark Phillips, Rudigwe=
r=20
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Payrhuber & Jeff Hodd (The Sexy Girls)
* Maguette Salla (Tableau Ferraille)
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
* Abdoulay=E9 Komboudri (Je m'en fous) (Silmand=E9 Tourbillon)
* Habidou Dembele (Pop) (Macadam Tribu)
* Sello Motloung (Baby Face) (Chikin Biznis =96 The Whole Story)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
* Fatema Khair (Leila) (Femmes..et Femmes)
* Sonia Mankai ( Noria) ( La Nuit du Destin)
* Touria Alaoui (Ghita) (Femmes..et Femmes) =09
BEST ART DIRECTION
* Claude Bennys (Keswa =96 Le Fil Perdu & Noces de Lune)
* Moussa S=E9ne Absa (Tableau Ferraille)
* Rafika Benmaimoune (Mektoub)
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BEST COSTUME DESIGN
* Kandjourou Coulibaly ( Macadam Tribu)
* Mame Fa Gueye (Tableau Ferraille)
BEST FILM MUSIC
* Mandu Diabate, Moussa S=E9ne Absa (Tableau Ferraille)
* Papa Wemba & Christian Polloni (Macadam Tribu)
ENDS
SEPARATE INFORMATION FOLLOWS ON THE EIGHT JUDGES OF THIS YEAR'S AWARDS
Issued on behalf of M-NET
for the 1998 M-NET All Africa Film Awards
by Vanessa Fluchs
Three Worlds Agency
tel: 021 424 3297/ 424 2329
fax: 021 424 3298
e-mail: johnbad@mweb.co.za
JUDGES FOR THE 1998 M-NET FILM AWARD'S JUDGES:
Raouf Ben Amor is a leading Tunisian actor and cultural organiser who has
worked with the likes of Roman Polanski, Franco Zeffirelli, and Roberto
Rossellini. He has participated in more than 20 international films, loca=
l
films and television series. He has served on the board of directors at
the Carthage Film Festival in Tunis, the Tabarka Jazz Festival, the
Hammamet International Cultural Centre in Tunisia and the Assitah Film
Festival in Morocco.
Ros Sarkin is the founder of the Durban International Film Festival and a
long-time civic and cultural leader in Durban. She actively ran the
festival for 17 years and is now a consultant. Since 1980, she has been =
a
city councilor, currently serving on both the Durban Metro Council, as we=
ll
as the North Central Council. She was recently elected chairperson of th=
e
board of the Durban Arts Association and also chairs the Board of Trustee=
s
of the Durban Art Gallery.
June Givanni is a freelance film programmer and researcher living in the =
UK
with 15 years of specialist resource knowledge and experience in the fiel=
d
of African interest films. She has international experience in programmin=
g
and researching film and television in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and
North America. For several years she headed the African Caribbean Unit o=
f
the British Film Unit and organised the film component of Africa '95. She
is currently a programmer of the Planet Africa section of the Toronto
International Film Festival. =09
Born in Morocco, Prof Anny Wynchank has travelled internationally and now
lectures in Francophone African Literature at the Department of French
Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town. In 1993, she
followed the trajectory of the Senegalese writer Sembene Ousmane, from
literature to films. She now researches films from Franco African
countries.
Neville Sing studied journalism and Social Science at Rhodes University a=
nd
the University of Natal. Apart form becoming involved in sport and
politics, he promoted local and African music and moved to film and video
training and production, relocating to the Cape. He subsequently joined
the Department of=20
Arts, Culture, Science and Technology as Head of Film, developing and
implementing policy on the restructuring of the film industry. He is
currently involved in executive producing film and television projects fo=
r
Primedia Pictures.
Moonyeenn Lee has been an artist's agent for the past twenty-four years a=
nd
heads up MLA, the most successful casting agency in South Africa. She wa=
s
trained by the late Jimmy Fraser, then head of Fraser and Dunlop, London.=
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She has contributed her vast experience to more than seven major features
to date and is fully occupied with developing new films for her company,
Khulisa.
George Menoe is the CEO of the Black Filmmakers Association and has been
integrally involved with the industry and with theatre in South Africa, t=
he
USA, Japan and Kenya. He has been Assistant/Casting Director for nine
international features, including OUT OF AFRICA, FLAME TREES OF THIKA and
THE NAIROBI AFFAIR. In March 1997, George Menoe was honoured by the
Directors' Guild of America at their annual awards dinner in Hollywood
where he received a gold director's chair for his lifetime achievement in
the cinema. George is currently busy with " The African Connection", a 13
part series for SABC 2.
Ettie Feldman is a member of S.A.G.E and has 25 years working experience =
as
a film editor in various countries. For the past 10 years she has
supervised editing and handled post production on feature films, televisi=
on
dramas, television series, documentaries, commercials, trailers and
promotions including "Shaka Zulu".
Dr. Lionel Ngakane has lived in South Africa, Senegal and London and has
worked across the African continent as a filmmaker and crusader for the
development of African cinema. He was instrumental in the creation of
FEPACI, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers, based in Ougadougou, an=
d
in 1995, was decorated by the President of Burkina Faso. He serves on ma=
ny
influential film bodies and is currently working on the script of his new
feature film, Heso (My Home). Lionel is the official Advisor to the M-NE=
T
All Africa Film Awards.
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