The festival, which awards craft excellence in moving image, will for the first time ever be hosted in Africa. But you haven't entered your work yet? We list a whole bunch of reasons why you shouldn’t i.e. being applauded by industry leaders is awful and meeting new clients who want to give you money is depressing. Read on for more reasons...
Wanna see the actual work that won? Now you can! iDidTht showcases all the work that the Creative Circle selected as the best of the best at the 2017 Annual Awards held last week. Because most of us are too busy creating even more kickass work, collecting grey water or even just facing upcoming corruption trials, we gathered all the winning work, which means you can find out more about each company involved.
Mark Middlewick from Gentlemen Films has come a long way since writing ‘fin’ at the end of his screenplays at Drama school. From directing his short film in LA starring Adrien Brody to locally becoming ‘The Bank Man’ of ads. Mark is on the rise! We managed to slow him down long enough to find out how, why and if he'd give us Adrien’s number.
Director Cindy Lee from Star Films gives us all the feels. From the beautiful characters she crafts on set to riding on dragons and getting shout-outs from Ellen Degeneres. It’s everything you didn’t know you needed to know.
We’re kicking off 2018 with a throwback to 2017 by celebrating the best craft of the year. iDidTht's Monthly Craft Awards showcase the very best by production companies in SA. Here are the top 13 ranked companies of the year. So stop googling ‘What is Bitcoin’ and rather check out which production companies kicked ass, including all the Best of Reel and Special Mentions awarded by the industry's leading creatives.
We took the graveyard shift and went inside the dark world of Director AK from Spitfire Films and his latest campaign for DStv #HalloweenSleepOver. We learnt one thing, do not disturb AK, because he already is…
When Darling Films invited us into their home to meet the family we weren’t ready. Eight multi-talented directors, all equally eccentric, wonderfully weird and extraordinarily skilled in their own way. With one thing in common of course, they’re all absolutely Darling!
You know those ads you love? Well, Karien Cherry from Giant Films directed them. We dug deep into her road to success, made her share all her secrets and got the juice on her latest and most controversial campaign for eNCA.
We are positively beaming with pride at all our companies that opened a can of whoop-ass at this year’s Loeries. Now that the official rankings have been released, you can find out more about all the companies you want to work with right here. Never has online-stalking been made easier!
Directors Justice Mukheli and Amy Allais from Ola! Films are making their next move count. Introducing Chess - a fresh proposition to directing by two fearless artists. Let the games begin!
This just in! Picture Tree’s, Gary King, announces majority of company to be shared amongst employees. Fake News? Clickbait? iDidTht is on the case. *cue CSI theme song*
You’ve had time to recover and reassess your life choices, especially knocking on your ECD’s hotel room door at 4am 😱 Here are all the companies that made us proud and brought home the metal.
We caught up with agency creative turned badass commercials director Dani Hynes, who shared her psychological analysis of The Loeries, her legendary party trick and even divulged her Google search history (because we forced her to). It’s everything you didn’t know you needed to know.
iDidTht gets blown away by SA's Feng Shui, rugby-playing, teetotaler, vegetarian, Rastafarian, award-winning director with an obsession for motorsport.
Meet the emerging filmmakers serving up some executive realness. iDidTht sits down with Director Jabu Newman and Producer Mvelisi Mvandaba from inc. Now let’s get in formation.
iDidTht is following the results as they happen. Check in to see how South Africa is doing at Cannes 2017.
An exclusive look at what makes this dynamic duo tick and their plans for their new company. They reveal all (because we forced them to) and we even threw in some GIFs, because reading is literally the worst!
Here at iDidTht we spare no expense, so naturally we treated Ian to some water at the Spur. It’s everything you never knew you needed to know about this award-winning film and commercial director.
Between directing and cross-dressing, this Russian still finds time to go on Tinder and sew. It’s everything you never knew you needed to know.
The ninth annual IAB Bookmark Awards took place at the Galleria in Sandton and celebrated the best in digital. As usual the show was all high heels, while the after party was a salute to our industry’s low morals. As the official Showcase Partner of the Bookmarks, we’d like to congratulate all the winners, but seriously guys, what an honour to just be nominated – YEAH RIGHT!
