The Media Workshop provides screen content training, production and incubation services - the entire value chain required to grow a sustainable screen production industry.
Production: We produce quality screen productions, which provide in-service learning opportunities to graduates
Incubation: We offer infrastructure, equipment and mentorship services to facilitate the incubation of innovative, sustainable productions and production companies
Products and Services:
Accredited Skills Training
📷The Media Workshop is a fully-accredited film and television production and journalism training provider (Provider Number: ACC/2013/02/633).
The company offers the following qualifications:
FET Certificate in Film and Television Production Operations
National Certificate in Film and Television Production and the
National Certificate in Journalism
Film and Television Production:
The Media Workshop produces film and television content, ranging from educational programming and documentaries to drama and sitcoms.
A 13-part sitcom we produced, entitled Songololo, was broadcast on eTV’s eKasi+ Channel. The sitcom was written, directed and produced by a core unit of five students under the mentorship of experienced director, David Lister. We’re currently producing eight episodes of The Light, a Christian Worship seriesfor SABC 2, and working on an extensive industry development mentorship project with a major broadcaster.
📷Awards
The Media Workshop won the 2013 Sanlam MDDA local media award for best educational magazine show on television for a 13-part educational series, entitled Film@Bay that was broadcast on community television channel BayTV. Film@Bay was a 13-part series about the local film and television industry, with a focus on developments in Nelson Mandela Bay and the Eastern Cape.
The Media Workshop project managed and delivered a training project at BayTV Community Television Channel in Port Elizabeth in 2012, which won the employer, Urban Brew Studios, a National Skills Recognition Award, which was presented by the National Skills Authority and the Department of Higher Education.
The Media Workshop CEO, Denise Roodt, was a finalist in the 2012 Regional Businesswomen of the Year awards in the social entrepreneurship category.
Between 2010 and 2012, The Media Workshop won five MDDA Sanlam community media awards in the print category - including best publication (twice), best front pages (twice) and best investigative reporting - for a Xhosa community newspaper they published, entitled Zithethele.
International Recognition
The Media Workshop’s owner, Denise Roodt, featured in a 2012 publication of the International Labour Organisation’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme, as a success story.
Conclusion
The Media Workshop has changed the lives of hundreds of emerging filmmakers and journalists.
Among these successes are graduates of our programmes who are currently employed as producers, video editors, cameramen and news reporters. A number of our former students have also formed their own production companies and produced programming for national broadcast.
The vision of The Media Workshop is to develop screen content producers who create sustainable businesses telling local stories with universal appeal. We live our vision.
