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Award Nominations

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Many of you have been anxiously awaiting the award nominations for our latest round of Nab’Ubomi films… and here they are! There are thirteen categories. The winners will be announced at each school during the Film Screening Roadtrip taking place in April 2014. The nominees in each category are listed in alphabetical order and I have included links to take you directly to view your favourite ones again.

We have one more award waiting in the wings: The People’s Choice Award.  During the Film Screening Road trip in April our new Nab’Ubomi mobile app will also be launched. The winner of the People’s Choice award will be voted online using this new app… Exciting times! In the meantime, here are the nominations:

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Khanya – Khanyisa High School

Pass or Fail – Alexander Road High

Speak Out – Hoër Volkskool

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

 

BEST STORY:

Khanya – Khanyisa High School

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

What You Call Your Best Friend – St James Senior Secondary School

Who is Him? – Lehana Senior Secondary School

 

BEST DIRECTOR:

Khanya – Khanyisa High School

Pass or Fail  – Alexander Road High

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

Why Not? – Stutterheim High School

 

BEST PRODUCER:

Boomerang – Lady Grey Arts Academy

Who is Him? – Lehana Senior Secondary School

Why Mom? – Strelitzia High School

Why Not?  – Stutterheim High School

 

BEST CAMERA DEPT:

Pass or Fail  – Alexander Road High

Silence is Lethal – Victoria Girls High School

Why Not?  – Stutterheim High School

Speak Out  – Hoër Volkskool

 

BEST SOUND DEPT:

A Night to Forget – Hoërskool McLachlan

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

What You Call Your Best Friend  – St James Senior Secondary School

Why Not?  – Stutterheim High School

 

BEST ART DEPT:

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

 Too Late – Elliot High School

What You Call Your Best Friend  – St James Senior Secondary School

Why Mom? – Strelitzia High School

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Khanya – Khanyisa High School

Pass or Fail  – Alexander Road High

Why Mom? – Strelitzia High School

Why Not?  – Stutterheim High School

 

BEST CROWD SCENE

Khanya – Khanyisa High School

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

Why Mom? – Strelitzia High School

Why Not? – Stutterheim High School,

 

OUTSTANDING STUDENT PARTICIPATION:

Khanya – Khanyisa High School

Silence is Lethal – Victoria Girls High School

Who is Him? – Lehana Senior Secondary School

 

OUTSTANDING SCHOOL PARTICIPATION:

Pass or Fail  – Alexander Road High

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

Too Late – Elliot High School

Why Mom? – Strelitzia High School

 

COMMISSIONERS DREAM:

Boomerang – Lady Grey Arts Academy

Pass or Fail  – Alexander Road High

Speak Out  – Hoër Volkskool

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

 

BEST OF THE FESTIVAL:

Khanya – Khanyisa High School

Pass or Fail  – Alexander Road High

Tables – Queenstown Girls High School

Why Not? – Stutterheim High School

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

 

2013 Films online

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Here are the long awaited films from 2013… Enjoy!

Khanya by Mbonyana Moslili from Khanyisa High School (Mthatha District)

Pass or Fail by Shaaney Scott, from Alexander Road High (PE District)

Silence is Lethal by Sibongile Mzukwa – Victoria Girls High School (Grahamstown District)

Speak Out by A.J. Oosthuizen, from Hoër Volkskool (Graaff-Reinet District)

Tables by Jessica Edwards, Queenstown Girls High School (Queenstown District)

Too Late by Owami Nontshe, Elliot High School (Ngcobo District)

What You Call Your Best Friend by Budu Zesipho, St James Senior Secondary School (Cofimvaba District)

Who is Him? by Ndamane Cebisa, from Lehana Senior Secondary School (Mt Fletcher District)

Why Mom? by Krischka Strydom, from Strelitzia High School (Uitenhage District)

Why Not? by Dylan S Potter, from Stutterheim High School (King Wlliams Town District)

A Night to Forget by Keanu Goeda, from Hoërskool McLachlan (Uitenhage District)

Boomerang by Mzuphela Mevana from Lady Grey Arts Academy (Sterkspruit District)

Nab’Ubomi World 2014 Issue 01

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2013 Films: After quite a long spell in the post-production queue the twelve films from Nab’Ubomi 2013 are finally complete! Late last year our YouTube channel was hitting 11 000 views a month! Things are about to pick up dramatically in the online space again: The 2013 films will be added to our YouTube channel over the next few days and this weekend a panel of judges from around SA and beyond will be viewing and short-listing films in each award category.

Screening Road Trip & Awards: We will announce the nominees (runners up) in each award category online early next week. Winners will be announced during a screening road trip we will schedule in March. On this trip we will screen each film at the school where it was made, present certificates to the nominees and winners in each award category, and distribute the DVD.

DVD Release: You will be able to buy the 2013 DVD at a cost of R30. We have decided to include the 2012 films on the 2013 DVD. That’s 24 short films on a single disc. Schools need to preorder the DVD so we know how many copies to produce and bring with us to the screenings. There is a bulk DVD order form to assist with this, it is available here: DVD ORDER FORM 2013. If you are reading this and want to purchase a single DVD please email us on nabubomi@gmail.com and we’ll contact you with further information.

Broadcast & Festivals: I am delighted to tell you that we have already submitted the 2013 films to an International Youth Film Festival in Spain for consideration, so we wait to hear if they will select one of your films to screen in competition at the festival in March 2014. One of the Nab’Ubomi 2011 films “Shame on You” was selected for the Durham Women Rising Film Festival and was screened in a cinema in Durham in the UK this last weekend.  We hope to be able to find more ways to share the best of the Nab’Ubomi 2013 films with the wider world and hope the Festival in Spain will be a good start! A local TV channel is considering showcasing a selection of the recent films. Once this is finalized the details will be shared with you.

2014 Project: The Theme for 2014 is TIME FOR CHANGE. The deadline for entries is 31 March 2014. Get the Entry & Consent Form 2014 here, and watch the Competition Info & Screenwriting Training Videos here. We are aiming for 12 Nab’Ubomi Eastern Cape Films and and 12 Nab’Ubomi Western Cape films. We will be doing our own crew training this year. Waiting on the ECDoE for training and awards for the Eastern Cape learners badly de-railed the project last year and we’ve been playing catch up ever since! To avoid any disappointment and unnecessary challenges during production we will be scheduling our own simplified crew training and awards process from now on.

Subscribe to Nab’Ubomi World: Be sure to follow the Nab’Ubomi blog if you want to be sure not to miss any important information! You subscribe by clicking on “Follow Blog via Email” on the left hand panel of this site. From now on all updates will be posted on this blog.

All you Nab’Ubomi 2013 Filmmakers out there keep dreaming, keep creating your reality! …and prospective 2014 Filmmakers Best of Luck!

Wrapping up Nab’Ubomi 2013

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We are racing toward the close of 2013. What a rough and tumble year this has been! Despite the disappointment of the ECDoE promising a film training camp and then postponing and then stalling indefinitely we still DID it: We made the films! And so 2013 adds another 12 short films to the Nab’Ubomi film library!

We are busy with the final phases of post production on the films right now… Subtitles and Credits are in… and as I type this Mark is busy grading the picture… It’s so exciting to be working with Black Magic Cinema Camera this year and the beautiful picture we are playing with in post production! Hoping you’ll all notice something a little extra special in the picture quality this year!

A team of interns at RAPP (Radio Active Productions) are doing sound clean up and ‘final mix’ and creating the musical score – or positioning the music created by the students for their films. It looks like we’re all set for the judging of the films at the end of november.

We’re not holding out for an Awards Event from the DoE and instead will be announcing the nominees and winners in the last week of term. If everything stays on track, schools will be sent DVDs and award certificates before the close of term.

We will also be sending of the 2013 films to a Film Festival & Youth Media Education Summit called MICE in Valencia, Spain in February 2014.

To make sure everything runs smoothly next year we are starting early, locking down the schedule and taking the training strategy back into our control. With the EasternCape project we’re bring everything forward to allow for the launch of the Western Cape competition, where each phase of the programme will run slightly later.

We are ready now to announce the theme and dates for 2014…. so check the next post for this all important information COMING SOON!

 

It’s a Wrap!

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Today our team filmed the 12th and final short film of our 2013 selection. This brings us to 90 Nab’Ubomi Films since the project started in 2007.

Here is a list of the films we’ve made for 2013 and the schools and districts of the Eastern Cape where we’ve been busy these past 3 weeks:

Cofimvaba District:

  • What You Call Your Best Friend by Budu Zesipho, St James Senior Secondary School

Graaff-Reinet District:

  • Speak Out by A.J. Oosthuizen, from Hoër Volkskool 

Grahamstown District:

  • Silence is Lethal by Sibongile Nzukwa, from Victoria Girls High School

 King Williams Town District:

  • Why Not by Dylan S Potter, from Stutterheim High School

Mount Fletcher District:

  • Who is Him? by Ndamane Cebisa, from Lehana Senior Secondary School,

Mthatha District:

  • Khanya by Mbonyana Moslili from Khanyisa High School

Ngcobo District:

  • Too Late by Owami Nontshe, Elliot High School

Port Elizabeth District:

  • Pass Fail by Shaaney Scott, from Alexander Road High

Queenstown District:

  • Tables by Jessica Edwards, Queenstown Girls High School

Sterkspruit District:

  • Boomerang by Mzuphela Mevana from Lady Grey Arts Academy

Uitenhage District:

  • A Night to Forget by Keanu Goeda, from Hoërskool McLachlan
  • Why Mom? by Krischka Strydom, from Strelitzia High School

 

#LetsmakeFilm

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Our team is in Joubertina today, filming at McLachlan High school. By the close of the week we’ll have 12 more short films ready for post production!

In week 1 of production we shot just two films: “BOOMERANG” at Lady Grey Arts Academy (Sterkspruit Education District) and “TABLES” at Queenstown Girls High School  (Queenstown District).

During the second week our crew was based in Elliot all week and we made the following films: “WHY NOT?” at Stutterheim High School (King Williams Town District); “TOO LATE”  at Elliot High School (Ngcobo  District); “WHO IS HIM?” at Lehana Senior Secondary (Mount Fletcher District);  “KHANYA” at Khanyisa Senior Secondary (Mthatha District) and “WHAT YOU CALL YOUR BEST FRIEND” at St James Senior Secondary (Cofimvaba District).

Our super awesome team just go-go-goes to get these films done, often driving huge distances to reach outlying schools, make a film, and then head ‘home’ wherever that may be for that night. In week two the furthest they drove in one day was 720 kms, that was to make the short film in Mount Fletcher.

Now into the third and final week, these are the films were making: “SILENCE IS LETHAL” at Victoria Girls School (Grahamstown District); “A NIGHT TO FORGET”  at McLachlan High School (Uitenhage District); “SPEAK OUT” at Hoer Volkskool (Graaff Reinet District);  “WHY MOM?” at Strelitzia High School (Uitenhage District) and “PASS OR FAIL” at Alexander Road High School (Port Elizabeth District).

Once this production phase is over we’ll get cracking with the remainder of the editing, the subtitles, credits, score and final mix, but for now – we’re still on the road.

2013 Filming has begun!

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So our production phase has begun. Mark, Keneilwe, Sinazo and Thulani make up our Nab’Ubomi 2013 Production Team. Starting with Lady Grey Arts Academy on Tuesday 8th October, they moved on to Queenstown Girls High School today (Wednesday 9th)… and so as I write this we have 2 of the 12 films ‘in the bag’.

This year we’re shooting the films on the Black Magic Cinema Camera – an exciting new little toy for our team – and the packaging came off the day before filming commenced! While I’m not on crew this year, tucked away back home and playing mom to my own kiddies, I’m hearing reports of how ‘gorgeous’ the picture is and I cant wait to see footage once the team gets home again. Maybe I’ll get Mark to write a blog about using this amazing little camera once he’s shot our 12 films.

The team takes a break now until Monday 14 Oct. For the next 2 weeks they make a film a day – 10 films in two weeks. Hope they all rest well this weekend!