The film sector’s influence extends beyond filmmaking, generating significant demand in tourism-related industries.
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The film sector’s influence extends beyond filmmaking, generating significant demand in tourism-related industries. Caroline Ungersbock, ITFA’s director, added: “Our goal is to promote South Africa as a great place to make movies. The foreign money coming in helps build a strong and sustainable industry.”“Over the years, we’ve received over 4,000 films from 97 different countries. For 2025, we’re going to have 30 exhibition stands. Hopefully, the following year we can double that.
“We went to Arts and Culture and they said, ‘No, but you’re a tourism thing, you need to go to the Department of Tourism.’ And so we were always thrown from one end to the other because people couldn’t see what the value of film tourism actually is.