Local writers fuming after award show snub: 'Without us there would be no Saftas' (WGSANews)
Cape Town – More than a week after the National Film and Video Foundation abruptly dropped all writers' categories from its
Neither Shadrack Bokaba, NFVF acting CEO; Neo Moretlwe, NFVF communications coordinator; nor Instinctif, the PR company paid by the NFVF to liaise and communicate with the press have responded with any answers to questions put to them in multiple media enquiries made over several days.
Through pandering to a view-from-home audience in an attempt to lift ratings, the NFVF decided to turn the Safta award ceremony that is supposed to be more a"South African Oscars" and recognise the entirety of the local TV and film industry's serious work, into a more fluffier"Daytime Emmys", more heavily focused on the visibility of soap stars, insiders say.
"This is not the first time that NFVF has unilaterally removed the writers' categories from the main Safta show, which is really incredulous considering that the writers create the scripts and screenplays without which there would be no actor, series, film or soap awards," says Meier.
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