Panels

Please check the website www.oia.co.za for updates on Panelists.  Not all participants were confrmed at the time of going to print.

Another  Woman

Jhb Sat  6  Sept  7pm

Mzi Nduna:
Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology (WITS), researcher in the field of sexuality. Member of the Gender DynamiX Management Committee.

Juan Nel:
Director, UNISA Centre of Applied Psychology.

Robert Hamblin:
photographer / contemporary artist, he is Transgender, female to male, and a founding member of Gender Dynamix.

Busi Kheswa:
GALA staff member involved in oral history, public education and exhibition projects and working on 2 documentary films.

Another  Woman   

CT Sat  13  Sept  6pm

Lincoln Theo:
Forsook legal practice for a PhD in queer fetish sex. Teaches scriptwriting, social and gender studies, and writes for the Pink Tongue.

Mary Hames:
Director, Gender Equity Unit (UWC). Writes and comments on the status and perceptions of, particularly, black lesbians in a post-apartheid South Africa. Board member of FEW.

Underneath   

Jhb Wed  10  Sept  7.30pm

Representatives of the Forum for Empowerment of Women (FEW) will engage in conversation with Director Katrina Deaton about issues raised by her fIlm.

The  Bubble   

Jhb Tue  9  Sept  7.30pm

David Bilchitz:
Senior Researcher at the SA Institute for Advanced Constitutional Law, founding chairperson of Jewish OutLook. As legal advisor to OUT LGBTI Well-being he was instrumental in the same-sex marriage campaign.

Lael Bethlehem:
CEO of the Johannesburg Development Agency. She is married to Emilia Potenza and they have two daughters

For  The  Bible  Tells  Me  So   

Jhb Sat  13  Sept  7.30pm

Janine Preesman:
Senior Pastor of Glorious Light MCC, first officially designated Religious Marriage Officer.  She considers herself a Queer Feminist Liberation Theologian.

For  The  Bible  Tells  Me  So   

CT Mon  15  Sept  6.30pm

Rowan Smith:
Ordained in 1968, became Dean of St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, in 1996.

Judith Kotzé:
Ordained in 1995 as a Dutch Reformed minister, currently a full-time senior program manager for Inclusive and AffIrming Ministries.

Pressley Sutherland:
Pastor-elect of Good Hope Metropolitan Community Church, he has been involved in queer-empowering spiritual work and justice activism for 20 years.

Rampant:  How  a  City  Stopped  a  Plague   

Jhb Sat  6  Sept  8pm

Jay Matlou:
Co-ordinator, Preventive Initiative for Sexual Minorities (PRISM) Project for OUT LGBT Well-Being.

Jason Wessenaar:
Project Director for a workplace Counseling and Testing project at JHPIEGO and a director for the Mercy AIDS Foundation.  Jason was diagnosed HIV positive in 1999 and has been living openly with HIV since 2001.

Pierre Brouard:
Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of AIDS (UP).

SISONKE members (Gauteng sex workers support organisation) will participate from the floor.

Rampant:  How  a  City  Stopped  a  Plague   

CT Wed  17  Sept  7pm

Vanessa Ludwig:
Director of the Triangle Project an LGBTI support, services and advocacy organisation, specialising in sexual health issues.

Nicoli Nattrass:
Professor of Economics and Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit (UCT). She is the author Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa

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Producers Seminar

Jhb:

Wednesday 10 September 10am - 4pm Goethe Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood

CT:

Monday 15 September 10am - 4pm Runway Resource Centre,1 Port Road, Waterfront Studios.

Lisa Thrasher, a law and fine arts graduate, is an award-winning Independent Producer. She spent many years practicing International Anti-Piracy Litigation and Trademark Prosecution for the Intellectual Property Department of Fox Group Legal. Currently she serves as the President of Film Production & Distribution for POWER UP (Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching UP) - the non-profit film production company & educational organisation - where her responsibilities include all aspects of film development, production & distribution. She produced Itty Bitty Titty Committee which screens on the Festival (opposite page).

Thrasher’s seminar will cover the following topics:

• Independent Film Today – Changes in the last 10 years, how it differs from Studio Filmmaking.
• Writing or Acquiring Scripts – Legal Rights.
• Legal Issues in Film – Copyright, Contracts, Trademark, Assigning rights, Music Rights.
• Piracy – How to protect your investment, Screeners, Copyright, Press.
• The Film Festival Circuit – How to make it work for you, Important & Specialty Festivals.
• Distribution & Marketing – Publicist, Finding Distributors, Sales Agents, Contracts and Making the Deal.

These seminars have been made possible with the support of both the Goethe Institut and the Cape Film Commission. Entrance is free but booking is essential. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to reserve your place. Light refreshments will be served between 1pm and 2pm.