Happy Women's Day! The film and media industry wouldn't be where it is without the invaluable contribution of women!

On Friday, 15 August / AC Jordan 4B 13:00 Please join Dr. Ron Irwin and the team from Ogilvy, South Africa, for a presentation on Ogilvy's young executive programme. This will be of great interest to students interested in a career in advertising after UCT.

Tomorrow with Ogilvy Cape Town !

Click below to watch Dylan Valley in conversation with Chester Missing ! Reviews are in and it's "Hilarious" youtu.be/GhRpSoj9oAA?si…

CARISSA’s African premiere at Silwerskermfees on the 20th 16:30 in Camps bay (bay hotel) The film is directed by Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar (Both UCT CFMS graduates), the DOP is Gray Kotze (also a CFMS alumni) and Cleveland Hopp (another alumni) did production design on it

Celebrate the Zabalaza Finest of the Festival winners at the Baxter Studio this September. They're offering a R65 Student special on both production: ’n Pandok se Liefde 09–13 September 2025 Purpose 16–20 September 2025 Book on webtickets!

Photos from our last #lunchseminar with SACM students Vuyisani Mkwambi and Dion Malcolm Eaby-Lomas on the "AMA-ARCHIVE", a decolonial revisting and remixing of instruments and recordings.

The CFMS cordially invites you to "The Problem of Stupidity" with Ali Ridha Khan this Tuesday at 12:30 for 13:00. We talk Trump, the right-wing movement and the performative victimhood of AfriForum in post-apartheid South Africa! #lunchseminar

On Friday, UCT CFMS grad students heading to the South African Communications Conference (SACOMM) practiced their presentations with the help of some of the staff. They start today and we expect great things! #sacomm #chooseuct

Please be mindful, applications for postgraduate degrees close on the 30th of September! If you want to upgrade your degree, make sure you apply online or check out our website for more info. #chooseuct

UCT at SACOMM 2025 at Nelson Mandela University! Well done to all of our Media Students and Staff for presenting their work at this conference! Excited to see what comes from these next few days.

Dr. Julia Cain represented the CFMS at the first Africa Chiama film education panel and screening event at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. She was joined by recent UCT graduate Cleveland Hopp. Exciting possibilities for future support for emerging filmmakers were discussed!

A HOME CALLED VOGUE will be screened at these venues next week: Centre for African Studies gallery Tuesday 16/09/2025 5pm to 7pm RSVP to [email protected] Film trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=JtZF4v…

CFMS invites you to this #lunchseminar for a presentation by Prof Adam Haupt titled: Queer Visibility and Intimacy in Dope Saint Jude’s “Alphas” and “Home” "The artist’s project of engaging queer desire and intimacy does the work of expanding hip hop counterpublics" - Prof Haupt

Prof. Herman Wasserman and Prof. Tanja Bosch at the launch of the book "WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption and Extreme Speech". Thank you to everyone who showed up, these were great conversations!

The CFMS happily invites you to Robin Thompson's research seminar titled "“Djy wil mos”: An anthropological enquiry into the constant flux of Copyright, Authorship and Ownership for Capetonian musicians." Time: 23/09/2025 12:30 for 13:00 in AC Jordan 4B!

Thank you to Robin Thompson for the wonderful #lunchseminar on constant flux of Copyright, Authorship and Ownership for Capetonian musicians. The great music and insights sparked such great conversations. Thank you to Brathew van Schalkwyk (UCT SACM graduate) & Keno Carelse!

The CFMS cordially invites you to to this week's #lunchtimeseminar by Professor Mehita Iqani (SARChI Chair - Science Communication, Stellenbosch University) on "Creative Science Communication: Current Action Research Approaches". Date: 30/09/2025 from 12:30 for 13:00.