Congratulations to Benitha Vlok and Michael Matthews on their win at the DStv Film Talent ­Celebration!

Their film was nominated for best Cinematography (Michael Matthews) and Sound Design (Morné Marais).

Unfortunately Fortabt did not win for best sound, but nothing can be taken away from Morné’s amazing sound design talents. Congratulations to Michael Matthews on his win for best cinematography.

Sean Drummond, the Shnit International Shortfilmfestival organiser for Cape Town, was there to congratulate the Fortabt duo on their win.

Here is a link to an inspiring article on Benitha’s film and other local film talents:

http://mg.co.za/article/2012-04-26-deep-thoughts-and-short-takes

The 9th of October played host to Cape Town’s first annual Shnit Realtime Competition screening, as part of the closing night celebrations of Shnit International Shortfilmfestival.

After a closely fought competition, BlackMilk’s Onrusbarend just pipped Fortabt and Our Love to take the honours.

Writer/Director duo, Ronnie Belcher (left) & Thomas Dorman (right) and Cinematographer/Editor, Leon Visser (middle), were there to accept the award.

Competition aside, everyone believed that each film could have walked away with the award, due to the diversity of the films. We believe each film has the potential to win and so the future of these films look bright.

Key crew and cast of Fortabt. Cinematographer, Michael Matthews, director/editor, Benitha Vlok and lead cast member Chloe Williams.

Key Realtime member Barrett De Kock (left) and writer/director duo of Our Love, Teba Shumba and Bernard Sterk.

The third and final film to shoot was ‘Our Love’. The community welcomed Bernard and Teba’s team with open arms and much interest.

Shot entirely in Gugulethu. This film is an entirely different spin on the ‘Cape of Storms’ Realtime theme.

Some pictures from behind the scenes of Benitha’s Fortabt.

Shot in and around Sea Point and Misty Cliffs.

https://www.shnit.org/index.php/best-of-za.html

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Be there way before 8pm to guarantee a seat! See for the first time ever, shnit Realtime’s Our Love, Onrusbarend and Fortabt.

Some of the behind the scenes stills from BlackMilk’s ‘Onrusbarend’

Amazing to believe that this film was shot, post sound and visual master in under 72 hours!

Priest Post Production played host to the final preproduction meeting between Reatime’s competitors Benitha Vlok, Bernard Sterk and Priest’s post team of Michelle, Jei and the Monk, Grant.

There was alot to be discussed. The main topics being: visual references, the post production schedule and - as far as - to what can be achieved in the final online stage. And there was good coffee.

Este Kira assembled the BlackMilk crew together to test out several aspects of the Art Department’s elements for their film ‘Onrusbarend’.