EXCLUSIVE: South Africa’s Videovision Entertainment is heading to subsequent week’s Mip Africa occasion with a brand new TV gross sales division.

The unit will carry a major variety of titles from South Africa, comprising over 100 characteristic movies and greater than 10,000 hours of tv packages. Videovision is one the nation’s oldest and most profitable manufacturing homes.

Videovision’s CEO Anant Singh has secured a deal to characterize e.television’s day by day cleaning soap House of Zwide, which the corporate produces. Other Videovision titles produced over the previous 4 a long time may even be included on the slate, with notable options embrace Sarafina!, starring Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg and Miriam Makeba; Cry, the Beloved Country starring James Earl Jones, Richard Harris and Vusi Kunene; Red Dust starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor and directed by Tom Hooper; and Yesterday, which obtained South Africa’s first Academy Award nomination.

See a trailer for the slate right here.

On the docs entrance, Videovision can be promoting the likes of Countdown to Freedom and My Hunter’s Heart, co-directed by Craig Foster of My Octopus Teacher fame.

“We are thrilled to be launching a television content division at MIP Africa,” stated Singh. “It is time that African content is taken seriously. For us, a television content division is a natural progression as we adapt to the changing content market. Videovision’s own library of compelling feature films and documentaries will be available for the first time. We believe that there is huge potential in the African television space for material produced on our continent, Africa.”

Singh has been making movies and TV exhibits in South Africa for practically 4 a long time and is understood for producing Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom, which was directed by Justin Chadwick and stars Idris Elba as Mandela and Naomie Harris as Winnie Mandela. The movie premiered in Toronto in 2013 and later picked up an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win.

Mip Africa is going down subsequent on September 4-6 in Cape Town.