Presentation to the CILECT network of global film schools, 2012 Congress, 2012. By Professor Alan Taylor, representing Candidate Institution, the Film Program, former Pretoria Film School, Tshwane University of Technology.

1. 10 STEPS INTO HISTORY
A 10 minute presentation by
The Film Program:
Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa,
in support of its final stage application to CILECT.
Invited Representative and Speaker
Professor. Dr. Alan Taylor (Oxon)

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1. HERITAGE
2. ACCREDITED
3. CURRICULAR DEPTH AND SCOPE
4. QUALITY
5. INTERNATIONAL SCOPE
6. COMMUNITY OUTREACH
7. FESTIVALS - EUROPE
8. RED CARPET ALUMNI WINNERS
9. DRAMA AND FILM, TUT
10. UBUNTU AFRICA
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3. HERITAGE
 Founded in 1971 as the
Pretoria Film School by
film director Jamie Uys
to train technicians for
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the film and television
industry 3 years
 before the introduction of
television into South
Africa in 1974.
 Recognized since as the
Film School of South
Africa.
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4. ACCREDITED
 All university courses,
from National Diploma
through to B-tech,
M-tech and D-tech are
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accredited by South
Africa’s Council of Higher
Education Quality
Committee, also based in
Pretoria/Tshwane.
 TUT: the largest University
in terms of student intake
of its kind in Africa
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5. DEPTH & SCOPE
A curricular balance across all
years in technique and theory.
 Sound & Technology
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 Scriptwriting
 Cinematography
 Directing
 Producing
 Editing
 Theory & Criticism: 2011/2012:
Antonioni, Schmitz, Roeg, Cimino, Lister,
Sukorov, Hitchcock, Malik, Coppola,
Pontecorvo, Eisenstein, Morris,
Kurasawa, Suleyman, Welles.
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6. QUALITY
4  All 40 entry students are
interviewed
 From over 600 applicants
 Ensures high retention rate
 University benchmarking
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7. RESEARCH &
INTERNATIONAL SCOPE
Five full time staff
 Three doctorates (UNISA, TUT &
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Johannes Gutenberg University of
Mainz)
 One commencing
Two Full time Lecturers from
Lesotho and UK/EU and
Speakers:
2011: South Africa & UK.
2012: USA, SA, Australia
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8. COMMUNITY
OUTREACH
WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH
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 Cinemasports: USA, UK, EU, RU
international network of digital filmmakers:
2010: Tshwane
2010: Nelson Mandela Bay
2012: Cosmo City, Jo’burg
 CANSA, South Africa
2010: Relay for Life,
Gautang/Pretoria
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9. RECENT EU
FESTIVALS
7  Paris - Independent European Film
Festival
 Berlin – Sehnsucht (Babelsberg)
 Munich - International Student
Filmfest, Munich (Blood and Steel,
Dir. Ruan Barnard)
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10. RED CARPET ALUMNI
WINNERS
EMMY Winner: Richard Jeffrey, 1982
OSCAR NOMINEES include: Dewald
Aukema (A Cry for Reason); Bernard Joffa
and Angus Gibson (Senzeni Na and
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Mandela, a documentary on the life of
former President Nelson Mandela).
OSCAR / BAFTA WINNERS: Deon Bebe,
Cinematographer: Oscar Winner:
Memoires of a Geisha; BAFTA winner,
Collateral
Paul Raleigh, Lance Gewer and Marc
Brower were respectively the co-
producer, director of cinematography and
camera operator on Tsotsi:
Best Foreign Film in 2006.
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11. Arts Faculty:
Drama AND Film
Department.
• 20 full time lecturers
• 17 part time lecturers
• overseeing academic progress of
271 students
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DRAMA SECTION
Providing performers, actors and
technicians into South Africa film and
television industries.
PROJECTS
The Verve: Since 1998
Recent Productions
 Animal Farm
 Doll’s House
 The Physicists
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12. UBUNTU AFRICA
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 Finally, our 10th reason why we
think we should be accepted
into CILECT: our future
contributions to and
collaborations with our
CILECT African Regional
Association fellow members…
 in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana,
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Morocco, and, our associates
here in South Africa, Wits…
 and indeed the good folks at
AFDA - without whose ongoing
support, patience and goodwill
we would not be here today.
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13. On behalf of the teaching and
administrative crew and student body
of the Drama and Film Department,
TUT
THANKS
Professor. Dr. Alan Taylor
Country Champion, South Africa,
Department of Education, University of Oxford
See: http://about.me/newfilmsatut
http://www.cilect.org
And also http://www.cinemasports.com
http://www.cansa.co.za
All photography courtesy Alan Taylor
http://about.me/kinowords
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