Videovision Entertainment

Forty years of telling South Africa’s story to the world.

From the first anti-apartheid film made by South Africans on South African soil, to the most profound films made in the country, Videovision Entertainment is proudly based in Durban, but its content travels to the film capitals of the world: Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Venice and London.

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IN PRODUCTION 2026

The Road Home

The remarkable story celebrating the talents of Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba (played by Cynthia Erivo), giving insights into the cultural boycott and Paul Simon's Graceland album. Produced for StudioCanal. Shot in South Africa.

THIRTIETH YEAR 2022

Sarafina! at thirty

A remastered version marking the film's 30th anniversary, presented at Cannes Classics in 2022.

NOW STREAMING

Personal Best, Paris 2024

Videovision’s Olympic Channel documentary, streaming free worldwide. Winner, Best Thematic Documentary, SPORTEL Awards Monaco.

RISING NOW

eThekwini Film City

A R7.5 billion film city on Durban's beachfront, advancing to final approvals with support from the President of South Africa.

One house, three engines

Videovision brings together three business units under one roof.

We produce

More than 100 feature films and documentaries since 1986, produced in South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Hong Kong, as well as daily dramas on South African television.

We distribute

More than 1,000 international films released in South Africa theatrically and on home entertainment formats over 40 years, while selling South African stories to the world through Distant Horizon.

We sell to the world

A television and sales division launched in 2023 took a catalogue of more than 100 features and over 10,000 hours of content to international buyers.

What We Do

The canon

The films that took South Africa to the world.

Place of Weeping

1986

The first anti-apartheid film made entirely in South Africa by South Africans.

Sarafina!

1992

Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo and Miriam Makeba. Restored in IMAX for its 30th year.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1995

The screen adaptation of the classic South African book, starring James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. Its world premiere in New York benefited the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

Yesterday

2004

South Africa’s first Academy Award nomination. Told in isiZulu.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

2013

Twenty-five years in the making. Rights personally granted by Nelson Mandela.

Personal Best, Paris 2024

2025

Eight athletes, one goal, one Olympic dream. Streaming the world over.

The full catalogue

“The moving image has the power to enchant audiences, and the big theatre experience still has the magic.”

Anant Singh, founder and CEO of Videovision Entertainment, to Variety, 2013