Videovision Entertainment

Forty years of telling South Africa’s story to the world.

From the first anti-apartheid film shot on South African soil, to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Made in Durban. Carried to Toronto, Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Monaco.

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films produced since 1984

international films distributed into South Africa

hours of programming now for sale to the world

0 decades

of South African storytelling

Right now

The work, in the present tense.

IN PRODUCTION 2026

The Road Home

A music drama on Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and Paul Simon, with Cynthia Erivo as Makeba, for StudioCanal. Shooting in South Africa.

FIFTIETH YEAR 2026

Sarafina! at fifty

A remastered IMAX version for the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, with unseen footage and a new song by Miriam Makeba and Leleti Khumalo.

NOW STREAMING

Personal Best, Paris 2024

Videovision’s Olympic Channel documentary, streaming free worldwide. Winner, Best Thematic Documentary, SPORTEL Monaco.

RISING NOW

eThekwini Film City

A R7.5 billion film city on Durban’s beachfront, moving into its final approvals, with the President of South Africa calling for it to be built.

One house, three engines

Videovision is three businesses in one house.

We produce

More than 80 feature films and documentaries since 1984, across South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Hong Kong, plus the long-form television South Africa grew up on.

We distribute

More than 3,500 international films released into South Africa over 25 years, theatrically and on home video, and South African stories sold to the world through Distant Horizon.

We sell to the world

A television and sales division launched in 2023 with a catalogue of more than 100 features and over 10,000 hours of programming, because it is time that African content is taken seriously.

What We Do

The canon