Develop
Rights, scripts and partners assembled, often developed over many years.
What we do
One house, built to make, move and sell the moving image.
Videovision Entertainment is a vertically integrated film and television company. Four business units under one roof, each feeding the others, all established in Durban, South Africa since 1986.
The chain
Every stage of a film's lifecycle, under one roof.
Produce
More than 100 features and documentaries shot across five countries since 1986.
Distribute
Into South Africa, more than 1,000 international titles over forty years.
Sell to the world
Out of South Africa, a 10,000-hour catalogue carried to global buyers through Distant Horizon.
The divisions
Four engines, one company.
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Production
More than 100 feature films and documentaries since 1986.
Produced in South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Hong Kong, with an aggregate budget value of more than one billion rand. The slate runs from the first anti-apartheid feature shot on South African soil to a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination.
- Place of Weeping (1986) to Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
- South Africa's first Academy Award nomination, for Yesterday
- Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Cannes and Sundance selections
02
Distribution
More than 1,000 international titles, released in South Africa.
For more than forty years Videovision has brought the world's cinema to South African audiences, theatrically and on home entertainment formats, from independent and foreign-language work to the largest Hollywood studio releases.
- Selma, Suffragette, Vice, Viceroy's House, Pride, The Odyssey
- Home entertainment through Next Entertainment for the major studios
- Theatrical and home entertainment formats across Southern Africa
03
Television
Primetime drama, with a catalogue now selling to the world.
Videovision produced some of South Africa's most-watched long-form television, including the primetime telenovelas Imbewu: The Seed and House of Zwide. In 2023 the company launched a television and sales division, taking a catalogue of more than 100 features and over 10,000 hours of programming to the international market.
- Imbewu: The Seed and House of Zwide, e.tv primetime
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for South Africa, three seasons
- 10,000+ hours of programming now for sale to the world
04
International sales
South African stories, taken to the world.
Distant Horizon, the wholly-owned international arm with offices in London and Los Angeles, is how the content reaches the world. It connects a Durban production house to a global network of distributors, festivals, broadcasters and buyers.
- Worldwide sales and distribution through Distant Horizon's presence in London and Los Angeles
- Co-productions with international partners and broadcasters
- The route from Durban to Cannes, Toronto, Berlin and Venice
100+
feature films and documentaries produced since 1986
1,000+
international titles distributed into South Africa
10,000+
hours of programming in the global sales catalogue
5
countries the production slate has been shot across
Partners and platforms
The company the work keeps.
StudioCanal
The Road Home, with Cynthia Erivo, in production
Olympic Channel
Personal Best, Paris 2024
e.tv
Imbewu: The Seed, House of Zwide, primetime drama
BBC, via Origin Pictures
Content supply from London
Major Hollywood studios
Home entertainment through Next Entertainment
Documentaries
A documentary line, four decades deep.
Long-form non-fiction has run through the company from the start, from the films Nelson Mandela endorsed to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
- Countdown to Freedom
- Viva Madiba: A Hero for All Seasons
- Obama: People's President
- Ahimsa: Gandhi, The Power of the Powerless
- Personal Best, Paris 2024
Bring it to the house
From first rights conversation to an audience anywhere in the world.
Talk to Videovision about production, distribution, television or international sales—or move directly into four decades of completed work.