The Durban Filmmakers Guild was formed by filmmakers to enable a sustainable industry providing employment prospects for members which, includes all media, such as film, television, documentaries, news, sports, commercials, animation, new media and actors thereby creating and sustaining a skilled workforce and becoming a natural destination for filmmakers. To further serve as an industry lobby in defence of the establishment of fair and equitable relationships with trade and funding.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
Protect Filmmakers
1To protect practitioners and advance their rights, particularly their economic and intellectual property rights, and collectively negotiate on behalf of members.
Promote Filmmakers
2To promote Durban filmmakers and their work locally and internationally by developing distribution and exhibition platforms for their work in all media.
Empower Filmmakers
3To develop a sustainable industry by providing resources and support through knowledge share, classes, workshops and seminars.
Re-invent Durban
4To re-invent Durban as a film hub – a creative core. To promote and maintain a partnership with government, relevant stakeholders, and kindred organizations.
