Sign in | Join now |

First International RUTV Online Documentary Film Festival

RUTV is an online documentary film Festival. The site presents the final output of students registered for the B. Journalism degree in the School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. The programme is screened at the 3rd RUTV documentary film festival held on the14th October, 2008 at the Roxbury Cinema in Grahamstown.

Latest Comments

  • Rhodes TV beats SABC by a wide margin
    Tue, 10/14/2008 - 21:57 — SimCard

    A confession: I approach most television with extreme scepticism. I imagine that whatever shot, angle, score I am being fed with, the producers are simply buttering [...]

    Comment by: RUTV 2008-10-16 10:26:48

  • Last night I attended the fourth year TV Journ student’s final documentaries and WOW!!! I can’t believe that in three years time I’m going to be producing work that it that amazing, be it in TV or any one of the other forms of media! I am t [...]

    Comment by: RUTV 2008-10-16 10:10:32

View all 4 comments | Sign in to make a comment

RUTV4 Blog

4th DOC FILM FEST - 22 Oct 2009

The big red carpet and champers are rolled out for the 3rd Documentary Film Festival showcasing our final work on the 14th of October (Tuesday) at the Roxbury cinemas - yes all three..

Having Trouble Watching Videos?

The big red carpet and champers are rolled out for the 3rd Documentary Film Festival showcasing our final work on the 14th of October (Tuesday) at the Roxbury cinemas - yes all three..

View all blog posts

More videos

  • CARE

    Dave 'Joe' Edmeades. Alicedale is typical of many small towns in South Africa; a place of extreme poverty, with townspeople that are under-educated and unemployed. For the past 10 years Alicedale Community Richening Empowerment (CARE), an organisation directed by Pumla Gojela ass [...]

    2008-10-13 17:28:15

  • I know what I said

    Jade Menenzies 5min Siyanda Futhu-Futhu is an aspiring kwaito artist. He has won various awards over the years and he recently received the Cacadu Achievers Award. With this award he gets a rare opportunity to record in the Miriam Makeba Centre of Performing Arts. Working in the [...]

    2008-10-09 14:38:32

  • people are beautiful

    Joni Els 5min Life as a paranoid schizophrenic. An evocative portrait of someone diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This piece shows the unsettling yet beautiful nature of everyday life as told by an outpatient from the Fort England Hospital in Grahamstown.

    2008-10-09 14:28:06

  • Backstreet Abortion

    Tasmin Vosloo 5min In 1993 abortion was made legal in South Africa. Despite this, the number of 'backstreet', illegal abortions is increasing rapidly.. Backstreet Abortions is an investigation into illegal abortions, specifically a man named 'Dr Khan' who conducts 'safe & pain-fr [...]

    2008-10-08 19:35:01

  • Forest Phantoms

    Pippa Erlich 5min
    The Knysna elephant is an integral part of the area's culture and history. They have captured the imaginations of artists and writers and the attention of environmentalists. At the beginning of the millennium, it was thought that the original herd of over 500 [...]

    2008-10-08 18:16:46

View all videos