TV star Jet Novuka gets the nod for his film role at SA International Film Festival Awards

Festival director, Eric Miyeni said: “We are particularly proud to mark our fifth anniversary by bestowing the first posthumous lifetime achievement RapidLion to the great man it is named after, the late Dr. Lionel Ngakane.”

Ngakane received the award for his outstanding achievement in the field of movie-making and contribution to the development of the industry in South Africa and on the continent. Born in 1928, Ngakane entered the film industry in 1950 and went on to act opposite Sydney Poitier in Zoltan Korda’s“He was the first indigenous South African to direct a film.

while Kate Henshaw-Nuttal won the RapidLion for best actress in a supporting role for her performance inGareth Place won the RapidLion for cinematography for his work on the South African film. The RapidLion is designed and manufactured to represent the pinnacle achievement of any filmmaker from Africa, the Brics countries and the African diaspora. It aims to remind RapidLion film entrants that excellence comes through hard work and ferocious focus, and that these qualities can lead to greatness. The festival ran from March 6 to March 15.

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