THE SUIT HEADS TO MORE FILM FESTIVALS
John Kani and his son Atandwa star in The Suit. PICTURE: SUPPLIED/BRENDON SALZER THE SUIT has been selected from a pool of 166 international films to participate in the 9th Île Courts - International Short Film Festival of Mauritius next month. These news come after two weeks ago the film was selected for the 20th Urbanworld Film Festival — a festival that is listed as one of 85 qualifying festivals and awards which the Academy Awards use to get the best of the crop for the short film category. Director Jarryd Coetsee, who studied film-making at the London Metropolitan Film School said they first received the invitation from the Urbanworld Film Festival on the July 19, and “were instructed to withhold public announcements till the festival holds its official announcement of the festival's full programme which occurs on Thursday”. “We were over the moon and I felt like I would burst not being able to share the thrilling news with the entir...