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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

AYISECACE! World On Press Vote for your Best Soapie: SAFTAS


Ian Jindela
The South African Film and Television Awards announces the opening of the Best Soapie Category voting line. The Best Soapie Voting line opens today 14 of February 2011 and will close on Friday 25th of February.

As with previous years, viewers are encouraged to vote for their Best Soapie by sending an sms to 34877. The sms vote costs R2.00, and only 10 votes per number are allowed. To vote viewers are requested to type Soapie followed by Name of the soapie.

The SAFTAs are industry awards of which the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) of South Africa are the industry appointed custodians. The award’s main objective is to honour, celebrate and promote the creativity, quality and excellence of South African, film and television talent, and encourage entrepreneurship and the development of new talent in the industry.

The 5th SAFTAs will be held at Melrose Arch at Madame Zingara’s Theatre of Dreams over a period of two weekends. The first event to be held on Sunday 20th of February will award winners in the Non-fiction categories, followed by the second session - Fiction categories to be held on Sunday 27th of February. AYISECACE!