The 14 minute film “The Guardian”, one of the eight CareTakers films produced by SANBI and STEPS as a teaching, advocacy and information sharing tool, has won the ROSCAR Award for Best Short Film at the 2011 Wild Talk Africa film festival. At an awards ceremony at the Spier Estate in Stellenbosch on 30 March, George Davis accepted the award on behalf of SANBI, STEPS Southern Africa (Laurence Dworkin, Producer), and creative author of the piece, Michael Raimondo (African Renaissance Productions). The film presents a moving personal story told by Tribute Mboweni, a CapeNature field officer, who lived alone on Dassen Island as guardian and protector of the largest breeding colony of African Penguins.
Wild Talk Africa - an excerpt from their website at www.wildtalkafrica.com/
Wild Talk Africa is an international film festival and conference which takes place biennially in South Africa. It attracts the global wildlife filmmaking industry by offering a forum for networking, debating and negotiating with commissioning editors, distributors and producers. The last Festival held in 2009 attracted 350 delegates from 22 countries and 253 ROSCAR film entries.
The Wild Talk Africa initiative was founded in 2005 when a group of 30 dedicated enthusiastic individuals gathered together to shape the future of the industry. The initial members of this group included Dr Pallo Jordan - Minister of Arts and Culture, Eddie Mbalo - CEO NFVF, Marcel Golding - CEO e.tv, Mark Wild from Animal Planet and 20 wildlife filmmakers. The decision taken was that Africa, the very continent that has been the setting for international award-winning wildlife films, should host a wildlife film festival to promote South Africa as the centre of excellence in the wildlife filmmaking genre
The other seven films can also be viewed on the project website www.caretakers.co.za/
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