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Durban FilmMart Embraces Digital Disruption for 12th Edition
Christopher Vourlias After deciding to shine the spotlight on digital disruption as the focus of this year’s Durban FilmMart, the leading industry confab on the African continent, there was an unsettling irony to the riots that swept across South Africa this July, prompting the organizers to postpone its 12th edition. “We ourselves were disrupted,” says Magdalene Reddy, acting general manager of the Durban FilmMart Institute.One month later, the DFM has finally raised the curtain on this year’s event, taking place online from Aug.