All The 17th SAFTA's Craft Award Winners

The South African Film and Television Awards Craft Award Winners

The South African Film and Television Awards is an annual South African awards ceremony hosted by the National Film and Video Foundation, to honour creative excellence in the local film and television industry as assessed by the volunteer judges.

Here are all the winners in the SAFTA Craft Awards Categories announced last night at Gallagher Estate.

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND FOR A DOCUMENTARY
KUSASA
Practitioner: Tim Pringle
Production House: Optical Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING, DOCUMENTARY
KUSASA
Practitioner: Joe Krenzer
Production House: Optical Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – DOCUMENTARY
Changemaker – Simphiwe Rorwana
Practitioner: Yolisa Qwabaza
Production House: Train. Create. Innovate (TCI)

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – DOCUMENTARY
Lobola, A Bride’s True Price?
Practitioner: Sihle Hlophe
Production House: Passion Seed Communications

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
A camera on my Lap
Production House: twospinningwheels

BEST MADE FOR TV DOCUMENTARY
Senzo: Murder of a Soccer Star
Production House: Storyscope

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Lobola, A Bride’s True Price?
Production House: Passion Seed Communications

BEST CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME
Nick Music Africa
Production House: VIS Studios

BEST EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME
MTV Shuga: What Makes A Man
Production House: Taung Film Studios

BEST FACTUAL PROGRAMME
Rebounders: Grizelda Grootboom
Production House: Red Sugar Productions

BEST COMPETITION REALITY SHOW
Tropika Island of Treasure All Stars
Production House: Cardova Productions

BEST STRUCTURED SOAPIE REALITY SHOW
Life With Kelly Khumalo Season 3
Production House: GOAT (Originals)

BEST STRUCTURED OR DOCU-REALITY SHOW
Sex in Afrikaans
Production House: Provoco

BEST YOUTH PROGRAMME
TREND Season 1
Production House: Green Planet Productions

YOUTH ACHIEVER
Xolisa Mpafa

OUTSTANDING PERSON WITH DISABILITY CONTRIBUTOR AWARD
Jabaar Mohamed

BEST ONLINE CONTENT
Lunch With Hitler
Production House: Argento Holdings

BEST LIFESTYLE PROGRAMME
Homegrown Taste South Africa Season 1
Production House: Rapid Blue

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMME
Mining Takedown
Production House: Combined Artists

BEST MADE FOR TV MOVIE
Whatever It Takes
Production House: RHP International

BEST INTERNATIONAL FORMAT
Survivor South Africa: Return of the Outcasts
Production House: Afrokaans Film & Television

BEST ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
Miss South Africa 2022 Live Finale
Production House: Black Swan Media

BEST VARIETY SHOW
Sunday Sexy Love
Production House: Media24

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING – TV COMEDY
How to Ruin Christmas Season 3
Practitioner: Silindile Dladla
Production House: Burnt Onion Productions

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WARDROBE – TV COMEDY
Tali’s Joburg Diary
Practitioner: Erin Simon
Production House: Sketchbook Studios

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND – TV COMEDY
Hotel Season 5
Practitioner: Tim Pringle, Giles Heesom-Green & Melani Robertson
Production House: Nagvlug Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION – TV COMEDY
Hotel Season 5
Practitioners: Merishen Wessels
Production House: Nagvlug Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – TV COMEDY
How to Ruin Christmas Season 3
Practitioners: Bongi Malefo, Khulekani Zondi & Melanie Golden
Production House: Burnt Onion Productions

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING -TV COMEDY
Tali’s Joburg Diary
Practitioners: Julia Anastasopoulos, Ari Kruger, Gilli Apter, & Daniel Zimbler
Production House: Sketchbook Studios

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY -TV COMEDY
Hotel Season 5
Practitioner: Dino Benedetti
Production House: Nagvlug Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TV COMEDY
Tali’s Joburg Diary
Practitioners: Ari Kruger
Production House: Sketchbook Studios

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING – TV DRAMA
Desert Rose
Practitioner: Marika Callop
Production House: Quizzical Pictures

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WARDROBE – TV DRAMA
Lavish
Practitioner: Brenda Khambula
Production House: Hela Media

OUTSTANDING PROVINCIAL CONTRIBUTOR AWARD
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND – TV DRAMA
Donkerbos
Practitioner: Jozua Loots
Production House: Nagvlug Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL MUSIC/SCORE – TV DRAMA
LUDIK
Practitioner: Peach Van Pletzen
Production House: Rose and Oaks Media

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION – TV DRAMA
The Brave Ones
Practitioner: Jacobus Smit
Production House: Ochre Media

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – TV DRAMA
Justice Served Season 1
Practitioner: Nicolas Costaras, Blessing Khulekane Zondi, Megan Gill & Lucian Barnard
Production House: Meraki SA

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – TV DRAMA
Blood Psalms
Practitioner: Willem Nel
Production House: Yellowbone Entertainment

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – TV DRAMA
Good Men
Practitioner: Portia Gumede, Steven Pillemer, Christo Davids, Duduzile Zamantungwa Mabaso & Sunni Faba
Production House: Ochre Media

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TV DRAMA
Donkerbos
Practitioner: Nico Scheepers
Production House: Nagvlug Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
House of Zwide
Practitioner: Mina Shembe, Itumeleng Ledwaba, Nakedi Makgato & Musa Mnisi
Production House: The Bomb Shelter Film Company

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WARDROBE – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
House of Zwide
Practitioners: Bevely Mogorosi & Teddy Geldart
Production House: The Bomb Shelter Film Company

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
Suidooster
Practitioner: Lloyd O’Connor
Production House: Suidooster Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING –TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
Diepe Waters
Practitioner: Paul Martin van Wyk, Marthinus van Rhyn, Khathu Mudau, Wynand Verster, Rick Dodgen & Daniel de Villiers
Production House: Penguin Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL MUSIC/SCORE – TELENOVELA
The Blackdoor Season 1
Practitioner: Mandla Ngcongwane, Jamela Vuma & Kurt Slabbert
Production House: Black Brain Pictures

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – TELENOVELA
The Blackdoor Season 1
Practitioner: Lavhelani Mudau & Gaopie Kabe
Production House: Black Brain Pictures

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
Legacy
Practitioner: Amanda Scholtz
Production House: Tshedza Pictures

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – TELENOVELA
DiepCity Season 2
Practitioner: Nontuthuzelo Magoxo, Mandla Ngcongwane & Mpumelelo Nhlapo
Production House: Black Brain Pictures

EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
David Franciscus

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TELENOVELA
The Wife S3
Practitioner: Fikile Mogodi, Luthando Mngomezulu, Tebogo Mkhabela & Thandokazi Msuza
Production House: Stained Glass TV

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – TV SOAP
SCANDAL!
Practitioner: Ameera Patel, Grace Mahlaba, Thomas Hall, Paul Grootboom, Nonhlanhla Simelane, Omphile Molusi, Rosalind Butler; Teresca Muishond, Themba Mahlangu & Kelly Robinson
Production House: Ochre Media

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TV SOAP
Suidooster
Practitioner: Erina Niemand, Shirley Ellis, Romano Gorlei & Richard September
Production House: Suidooster Films

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING – FEATURE FILM
Silverton Siege
Practitioners: Nicola Roodt
Production House: Pambilimedia

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
Silverton Siege
Practitioners: Ruy Filipe
Production House: Pambilimedia

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
Silverton Siege
Practitioners: Barry Donnelly
Production House: Pambilimedia

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – FEATURE FILM
Silverton Siege
Practitioners: Richard Starkey
Production House: Pambilimedia

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
Silverton Siege
Practitioners: Chantel Carter
Production House: Pambilimedia

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL MUSIC/ SCORE – FEATURE FILM
Gaia
Practitioners: Pierre-Henri Wicomb
Production House: Film Initiative Africa

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – FEATURE FILM
Gaia
Practitioners: Jorrie van der Walt
Production House: Film Initiative Africa

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – FEATURE FILM
The Umbrella Men
Practitioners: John Barker and Philip Roberts
Production House: Known Associates Entertainment

BEST STUDENT FILM
Shumba
Production House: AFDA

Ceremony date: Saturday, 30 September 2023

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