Source: Department of Arts and Culture
Title: Botha: World Cinema Festival at Sithengi 2005
Address of Ms N Botha, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, at opening of the World Cinema Festival at Sithengi 2005, Cape Town
Programme Director
Your Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
It is indeed a great pleasure and privilege for me to stand in front of you at a time when South African cinema is making its claim amongst the nations of the world and the broader film fraternity. South African film has indeed come of age. As we celebrate 10 years of Sithengi, I would like to pay tribute to my predecessors, the current Minister of Justice, Ms Brigitte Mabandla, and the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Ms Buyelwa Sonjica, who I am told, during their tenure as Deputy Ministers of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology embraced this event and contributed to what it is today.
I am told Minister Mabandla was one of the key drivers at the establishment of this market and I am glad to say that I will carry on from where she left off.
The Department of Arts and Culture takes pride in its involvement in such a great initiative, which now celebrates its 10th year of existence only a year after we celebrated 10th years of our freedom. The Department acknowledges the support from other government departments, the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), the Provincial Government, the City of Cape Town, parastatals and the National Lotteries for their continued support of this initiative. We urge others to come forward and support this initiative that has become one of the important vehicles for investment attractions into our film industry. It is of absolute importance to create synergy and work in a comprehensive co-ordinated manner if we are to achieve what we have set ourselves as a nation.
It is critically important, particularly by State institutions and government departments with a role in the development of our film industry, to have a co-ordinated approach to service delivery and work together. It is the reason we established the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) to co-ordinate all film related programmes so that as government we are guided by one strategy. I am informed that the Film Industry Indaba adopted the NFVF,
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