How South Africa Rescued Its Rebate and Pulled the Industry Back From the Brink: We’re ‘Back in Business’
Speaking this week at the Durban FilmMart, Nelly Molokoane, director of film and television production at the Dept.
Variety reports: Speaking this week at the Durban FilmMart, Nelly Molokoane, director of film and television production at the Dept.
The long nightmare might be over for South African producers, whose industry has been crippled for more than two years by the paralysis of a rebate program that for all intents and purposes had ceased to function.
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