| UKZN Students Win M-Net Award |
| Written by Tomaselli, Keyan | |
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M-Net EDiT 2005: CCMS Style Congratulations to the 2005 M-Net EDiT team for being awarded an M-Net Special Mention for Best Script Writer on Hot Report. The Award was presented to Brian Wallace at the Awards Ceremony on Friday 12th in Johannesburg. Five UKZN crew were invited, including the director Ed da Veiga, a CCMS MA student. Hot Report was plucked from the prolifically zany mind of Brian Wallace (Screenwriter), produced and directed by the diminutive hobbit-esque Eduardo da Veiga, edited by the beefy Damien Tomaselli, shot by Genevieve "Capoeira" Akal, and sound recording and graphics by Philip "It's fine" Tembu. The 15 minute mockumentary stars Brian Wallace (a bit of scriptwriter's self nepotism) as Ricardo Quarantino, Superintendent van der van der Linde, Rocky Ridge…well all the male roles (alas the necessary evils of a student budget). Keri-lee Miller plays all the female roles (now your getting it!). The investigative team at Hot Report have brought you another controversial first, yet again! Zebra Chatter investigates the sordid life of Ricardo Quarantino; a man married to a Television set named Candy. Zebra unperturbed by this sordid love story uncovers the details of this unique love; a love that ultimately lead to both their deaths, when in desperation the lovers decide to rob a library. So tune into Hot Report this week to get the full story. Call it what you will: genius or budget constraints, both actors give excellent life- altering performances in each of the roles that they play. So much so that that their director Ed da Veiga can be quoted as saying "Brian and Keri helped me find Coke lite". (Yes, the acting is so good it will change you for the better like an episode of Oprah). The M-Net EDiT (Emerging Dynamics in Television) competition is a unique opportunity which provides South Africa's future film makers with a platform to showcase their emerging talents, by offering them the chance to have their work screened on DSTV. The competition calls for tertiary institutions to pitch for the option to make a short for the competition. Of the proposals ten are chosen to be made into short films with a budget of R40 000, once the shorts are completed the best of the ten shorts are shown on DStv as judged by a panel at M-Net. The CCMS production was one of 8 funded from 35 entries nationally. Each short is judged and awarded on best overall production, best director, best screen writer, best cinematographer, best sound and best graphics. Students from CCMS, working with students from Drama and Performance Studies have produced five M-Net EDiT productions over the past six years. Hot Report, has been repeatedly screened on DStv over the past few months. Issued by Executive Producers Keyan Tomaselli and Subeshini Moodley. |