AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
Winner and Recipient of the Open Television Fellowship Program (2024)
Recipient and Participant of Realness Institute African Screenwriters Residency (2022)
Bronze Winner for Shots EMEA New Director of The Year Award (2021)
Recipient and Participant of SWATCH ART PEACE HOTEL directing and writing residency (2021)
Winner of the 2 x Ciclope Africa Awards (2021)
Winner of Silver Young Directors Award (2021)
Recipient and Participant of Berlinale Talents Participant
Durban Talents at the 40th International Durban Film Festival (2019)
Winner of the VAA-VIDEO ART AWARDS 2nD EDITION ITALY/SOUTH AFRICA (2019)
Recipient and Participant of Arp Art Residency program Centro Luigi Di Sarr (2019)
Winner of Digital Lab Africa Online Pitch Competition (2018)
Winner of Best Pitch Award at Marseille Web Fest (2018)
Recipient and Participant of Marseille Web Fest Writing Residency (2018)
Recipient and Participant of the Orms Cape Town School of Photography Artist in Residency program (2018)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 - BLAQUE ORBIT - LACE - Curated by Camm Harrison
2022 - Onassis Stegi 'Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data’ Exhibtion
2021 - Rapid Eye Movement - AVA Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa
2021 - Feminism Ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani - Goethe Institue. Johannesburg, South Africa
2020 - HOW TO SAY IT - Smac Gallery in collaboration with Galerie Cécile Fakhoury. Cape Town, South Africa
2020 - Kwaai Vol. 3 - Eclectica Contemporary Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa
2019 - LISTENING ROOM Michaelis Galleries. Cape Town, South Africa
2019 - It takes a village - Museo Meà and the Associazione ‘Asilo dei Creativi di Meano’. Crema, Italy. (Solo Exhibition)
2019 - ...she finds not her sum but her differences - the gallery. Johannesburg, South Africa
2018 - Mokwena, Macquena, Mac Quene - Orms Cape Town School of Photography. Cape Town, South Africa (Solo exhibition)
2018 - Transmissions - Gallery MOMO. Cape Town, South Africa
2017 - ALBUM CORP PRESENT: THE FOXY FIVE - Somerset House. London, United Kingdom
2016 - SERIES/FRIENDS - Worldart Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa
SELECTED PRESS
i-D Vice It's Nice That Mail & Guardian Design Indaba Art Throb Art Africa Nataal Nowness Arte Italia One Arty Minute Casts a New Gaze
Events Programmer and Curation Work
2024 - ongoing - Director of Girls In Film South Africa
Girls In Film South Africa is an NGO platform that exists to support emerging women/femme/non-binary filmmakers in South Africa. We are an extension of the Girls In Film global network/platform. Our objective is to give access to professional resources, opportunities, and networks to underrepresented filmmakers. A grassroots platform run by filmmakers for filmmakers. We regard anyone working in film or aspiring to work in film - be that an editor; make-up artist; actor; animator; or gaffer - as a part of our community. GIF SA was formed in 2020.
2024 - OTV x GIF SA Table Read Club // JHB
Main events organizer and programmer
2023 - OTV x GIF SA Brave Futures
Creative Director
2022 - GIF SA x Encounters Short Film Selection
Head Curator and Creative Director
GiF curated a selection of experimental and micro-budget documentaries for the festival to help expand the festival's space to emerging filmmakers. The event was called "Community Shapers: Documentary Shorts”.
The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival is a documentary film festival that showcases films that challenge established narratives and highlight underrepresented stories. The festival features a variety of events, including Q&As, panel discussions, workshops, and masterclasses. The festival also offers awards to recognize filmmakers who push creative boundaries, including the Adiaha Award, the Al Jazeera Best African and International Documentary Award, and The Refinery Best Edited Film.
2021 - FIFIB - The Bordeaux International Independent Film Festival
Head Programmer for the African film selections
The Bordeaux International Independent Film Festival, known as FIFIB, defends world independent cinema and all forms of independence: of spirit, freedom of creation, and innovation. For the past eight years, the festival has benefited from the presence of prestigious representatives of world cinema, artists, and musicians who have come to defend the independence of spirit and creation in Bordeaux.
Carte blanche to Jabulile Nadia Newman
September 23, 8:30pm, Projection of L’indomptable feu du printemps
September 30, 10:30am, Selection of short films
Carte blanche to Jabulile Nadia Newman. A program of contemporary South African short films. A screening of This is not a burial, it's a resurrection directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese—Skype discussion with the director at the end of the meeting.
• Project participants: Jabulile Nadia Newman (South Africa), Natacha Seweryn (France)
• Place: Cinéma Utopia - 5 place Camille Julian - 33000 Bordeaux
Development residency
From 3 to 13 October 2021
Development residency for Jabulile Nadia Newman's new feature film project.
• Project participants : Aurore Claverie (France) - Jabulile Nadia Newman (South Africa) - Natacha Seweryn (France)
• Place : La Métive - 2 rue Simon Bauer - 23150 Moutier-d’Ahun
Cinema Workshop
From 13 to 18 October 2021
A five days workshop with art students from Bordeaux. The objective is to make a short film based on the model of the web-series "Foxy Five", directed by Jabulile, in which 5 women go to war against the patriarchy. Each participant will have to identify something they want to see disappear in society and will make a short film showing how they put it into practice.
• Project participants : Jabulile Nadia Newman (South Africa), Natacha Seweryn (France), école des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (France)
2020 - saisonafrica2020 Recipient
THE AFRICA 2020 SEASON takes place throughout the metropolitan and overseas territories through around a hundred artistic, scientific, cultural and educational projects, co-constructed with African civil society. The FIFIB, in discussion with N'Goné Fall, the season's curator, welcomes Jabulile Nadia Newman as part of a focus on women.
