Develop
Rights, scripts and partners assembled, often over years. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom took sixteen.
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 businesses under one roof, each feeding the others, all built in Durban since 1986.
The chain
Every stage of a film's life, under one roof.
Produce
More than 100 features and documentaries shot across five countries since 1986.
Distribute
Into South Africa, more than 3,500 international titles over twenty-five 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.
01
Production
More than 100 feature films and documentaries since 1986.
Across 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 3,500 international titles, released into South Africa.
For more than twenty-five years Videovision has brought the world's cinema to South African audiences, theatrically and on home video, from independent and foreign-language work to the largest Hollywood releases.
- Selma, Suffragette, Vice, Viceroy's House, Pride, The Odyssey
- Home entertainment releases for the major studios
- Theatrical and home video across Southern Africa
03
Television
Primetime drama, and a catalogue now selling to the world.
Videovision produces 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, carried to the world.
Distant Horizon, the wholly-owned international arm with offices in London and Los Angeles, is how the work reaches the world. It connects a Durban production house to festivals, broadcasters and buyers abroad, so a film made in KwaZulu-Natal can open in Toronto, Cannes or Monaco.
- Worldwide sales and distribution, 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
3,500+
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
TF1 Studio
Sarafina! restored for Cannes Classics
Olympic Channel
Personal Best, Paris 2024
e.tv
Imbewu: The Seed, House of Zwide, primetime drama
A signature line
A documentary line, four decades deep.
Long-form non-fiction has run through the company from the start, from the films Nelson Mandela asked Videovision to make, to an Olympic Games told eight athletes at a time.
- 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.