Film producer Anant Singh wins another lifetime achievement award

Renowned film producer Anant Singh has received another lifetime achievement award.

Singh‚ who has produced more than 80 films‚ including Sarafina‚ Long Walk to Freedom and the Oscar nominated film‚ Yesterday‚ is the recipient of the first Lionel Ngakane Lifetime Achievement Award from the RapidLion Film Festival.

The award was presented to him at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year.

Singh was also the recipient of the inaugural Golden Horn Lifetime Achievement Award of the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS) in 2006.

Congratulating him on the latest award‚ Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa said: “This well-deserved award points to your status as a legend for your role in the film industry. May you continue to tell the South African story in many different ways to audiences at home and all over the world.

“We also congratulate RapidLion on initiating this inaugural award at its FilmFestival for which the Department of Arts and Culture has provided support‚ as we need to celebrate excellence and at the same time increase the exhibition spaces for film in this country. In this way this powerful visual medium of film can serve to change mindsets‚ expand our cultural imagination and provide a better sense of who we are as South Africans‚ and as part of a growing African continent in the wider world.”