http://www.freerangefilms.co.za Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have finally completed the 'My Cape Town' video for Coffee Beans Routes. Kai and I made our way up the mountain on the 22nd of October after patiently waiting on the wind and the rain to hold off in our favour.  We were scheduled to meet the Cableway team at ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/featured-production/mycapetown/ The guys over at Coffee Beans Routes started a one to two minute story strand for Cape Town Tv called 'My Cape Town'. Living and working in Cape Town, and a supporter of Cape Town Tv, I thought this was a brilliant idea. I decided to produce a 'My Cape ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/new-posts/tickettothetop/ Mbuyiselo Zotwa is the post production intern working on Masupatsela II. He is hard at work translating twelve of the twenty-two stories that were filmed in Xhosa. This experience has also been his first chance to work in television. To read Mbuyiselo's thoughts on his job, please read the Masupatsela ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/new-posts/mbuyiseloworksonmasupatselaii/ Being the Change is the first episode in Masupatsela Series II. We learn about Bulelani Mvotho and Sam Faleni's dream to establish a local cinema where they live. Bulelani and Sam of Snapshot Media in Khayelitsha in Cape Town work hard to realise their dream. Not only do they recruit friends ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/featured-production/beingthechange/ Whereas Series I had animated characters introducing the stories to viewers, Masupatsela Series II has a presenter, Palesa Moeketsi. Palesa was the voice of Nono - one of the animated characters in Series I - and she sings the series theme song. Please read the blog about our first studio ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/new-posts/masupatselaseriesii/ In 2007 Masupatsela Series I featured a story on the Group of Hope at the maximum security Brandvlei Prison in Worcester.  The men - all prisoners - in the story wanted to reach out to fellow prisoners, HIV positive people and the children living in the communities around the prison. ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/new-posts/thegroupofhope/ [caption id="attachment_784" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="David Goldblatt's photo at the bottom"][/caption] Free Range Films made the front page of the newspaper last week. We're refering to the front page of the 'Friday' arts supplement in the 'Mail & Guardian' of 27 Feburary 2009. The bottom photograph on the front page was taken by ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/new-posts/coverstory/ We went into production on Masupatsela II (Trailblazers II) in October 2008 with a few shoots. In November we changed gear and went full throttle with shoots across the country in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. As we move through February 2009, we have seven ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/new-posts/climbingthetrailblazinghill/ January 2009 sees the launch of the Free Range Films new web site, designed specifically for Free Range Films by Justin Slack. After many months and nights of coding, writing content and finding our way around the WordPress interface, we think we are finally ready to go live. There are still ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/new-posts/ournewwebsite/ Fields of Play is a twelve minute documentary that was commissioned by the District Six Museum. It provides a brief history of the fascinating world of inner-city Cape Town soccer from the late 19th Century through to the mid-and-late-20th Century. The interviews were done with men in their 50s, ... http://www.freerangefilms.co.za/featured-production/fieldsofplay/