The Council is the member representative structure of SASFED between Annual General Meetings and is comprised of a minimum of one formally mandated representative from each full member affiliate of SASFED as can be seen on the members page.
Council members are appointed to serve a single term at a time, but may be successively appointed for an unlimited number of terms, except for the Chairperson who may not serve more than three years in succession.
Mandated representatives of member affiliates of SASFED may be changed at any time at the prerogative of the affiliated member and so actual council members may change at any time during the year.
The Council elect from among their number at least the following office- bearers on an annual basis at the AGM:
1. Co-Chairperson,
2. Treasurer,
3. Communications Officer.
The Chairperson, either Co-Chairperson or Vice Chairperson and Treasurer, who shall not be connected in relation to each other, will accept the fiduciary responsibility for the organisation.
At the previous SASFED AGM of 5 September 2019, the following were decided upon:
Milly Takalani Mulaudzi: Co-Chairperson
After freelancing for
more than a decade in the TV and film industry, Takalani founded Tshedza Media
in 2012. From that came many hours of producing factual content, being a South
African servicing company for the international documentary feature that
premiered at IDFA 2017- titled Walls. One of Tshedza Media’s TV
productions – 100% Youth got nominated and won a SAFTA 2017 for Best Youth Programme.
Other TV shows Tshedza Media has produced are Come Again, My Father, My Hero,
Freedom is not Free, Mehlomadala (Reunited) and Forging Ahead.
Under Takalani's leadership, Tshedza Media has been awarded the
documentary slate funding by the National Film and Video Foundation 2018.
Takalani has been moderating the Nature Environment and Wildlife Congress
(NEWF) for 3 years since it’s inception. Takalani has judged the South African
Film and Television Awards (SAFTA’s) for 3 years and judged preliminary round
for Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) in 2019.
Passionate about creating powerful and well-crafted media content,
Tracy has over 25 years’ experience in film and television: from editor of
award-winning commercials, television drama and feature length documentaries,
as well as producing award winning educational drama for prime-time television and
an audience of millions.
More recently, as executive producer of Sports News Africa in the
UK she oversaw the production of sports news content from an African
perspective, seeking to change the way this content is produced and
distributed.
Training and transformation of the film and television industry in
South Africa has always been particular commitment; having served as a Chair of
the South African Guild of Editors, running funded training programs for
marginalised youth with the Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking and now as a
proud member of SWIFT.
Tracy was also a founder member of the Women’s Equality Party, a
new and rapidly growing political party in the UK. As deputy chair of the
Haringey branch she helped manage two election campaigns and focussed
particularly on local and national campaigns around gender-based violence.
Unathi Malunga: Executive
Officer & Lobbyist
A Fulbright scholar with an LLM from UCLA, Unathi’s work has been
in the creative industries (she has worked as an Entertainment Lawyer then
Creative Industries Consultant) and has spanned across a variety of platforms
and territories leading to a full understanding of various media platforms and
their most effective uses. Having moved from Deneys Reitz (now Norton Rose
Fulbright) unlike many Entertainment Lawyers her work has not only covered the
whole gambit of the creative and content industries: film, television
broadcasting, music, visual arts, publishing (including web), theatre, dance,
live events, sport etc. but has further incorporated many diverse aspects such
as education, sponsorship and funding, rights strategies, trade exchanges,
licensing programmes, product placement, drafting, negotiation and project
management. She has, moreover, been involved in running Legacy Programmes –
structured training and learning project-specific programmes for the
disadvantaged.
Whether she is speaking at a World Intellectual Property
Organisation’s (WIPO) Seminar, or rendering commercial or production legals for
the African Union, AFCON or 2010 FIFA World Cup Ceremonies, working on the Lion
King Theatrical or international co-productions motion pictures such as Blood
Diamond, Unathi’s experience in diplomatically negotiating international
agreements, promoting South Africa and its business and cultural competitive
advantages, along with the established global networks she has maintained, has
provided her with an ability to understand and respect the practices, customs
and values of other individuals and cultures and to see diversity as beneficial
to any relationship and organization.
Born and raised in the
Free State, from an early age, Alice was always happy being on stage be it
performing or receiving academic awards.
In 2009, Alice moved
to Johannesburg to pursue her studies in film and television. She received a BA
Audiovisual Communications Degree in 2011 from the University of Johannesburg.
To enhance her leadership and organizational skills, Alice started her career
in television as a production coordinator at Urban Brew Studios.
In 2013, Alice worked
as a project coordinator under the leadership of Dali Tambo at The National
Heritage Project Company (NHPC). The national and international scale of the
monumental projects she worked on soon led her to project manage some of the
projects. She also production managed all the company’s documentaries and
promos.
Alice continues to
work in the Art and Culture sector. For art is the key that unlocks one’s inner
being. The way in which this form of medium spreads and communicates the
thoughts and feelings of people and matters in society is profoundly magical.
These people then make up the fiduciary part of the Council for the 2019 /20 year.
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