Award-Winning Social Impact Films | Passion Seed Communications

Passion Seed Communications (PSC) is a social enterprise that produces award-winning social impact films and campaigns for underserved audience members.

Our Story

Passion Seed Communications (PSC) is a social enterprise that produces award-winning social impact films and campaigns for underserved audience members.

We specialise in creating both fiction and non-fiction content. Our work has been exhibited at over 40 film festivals around the globe. As a social enterprise, 2% of our profits are reinvested into training and development programmes for unemployed youth and female filmmakers.

Our Films

Jozi Girl In Mombasa

Celebrating Herstory Through Song

Nomfundo

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Lobola – A Bride’s True Price

Lindela Under Lockdown

Our Awards & Nominations

Awards

Honorable Mention, “Lindela Under Lockdown” – African Smartphone International Film Festival 2021
Enterprise Development Pinnacle Award 2021 – Innovator Trust & Vodacom Business
Best Documentary Award, “Lindela Under Lockdown” – Cameroon International Film Festival 2021
Best Documentary Short Award, “Lindela Under Lockdown” – South African Film & Television Awards 2021
Honorable Mention, “Lindela Under Lockdown” – Jozi Film Festival 2021
Most Outstanding Documentary Project Award – Lobola
Best Cinematography Award – Nomfundo
Best Editing Award – Nomfundo
Best Pitch Award 2018

Nominations

Guido Huysmans Young African Film Makers Award, “Lindela Under Lockdown” – Afrika Film Festival Leuven 2021
Best Documentary Award, “Lindela Under Lockdown” – Rencontres du Film Court de Madagasikar 2021
Best Documentary Award, “Lindela Under Lockdown” – Africa Movie Academy Awards 2021
European Woman’s Audiovisual Network Development Award – Lobola
Best Short Film – Nomfundo
Boabob Award for Best Short Film – Nomfundo
Best Editor – Nomfundo
Best Cinematography – Nomfundo
Young African Film Makers Award – Nomfundo

Our Social Impact

News Articles

Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund Recipient and Mentee Sihle Hlophe Takes us on her Journey from South Africa to Hot Docs. It was around this time last year that I began preparing my application for the Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund development grant.
Hotdocs
Passionate independent filmmakers Sihle Hlophe and Dineo Lusenga together with Passion Seed Communications are using crowdfunding to finance their film, Nomfundo.
Gabriella Pinto
Between 10 and 5
Once there, she had an out-of-body experience that prompted her to begin telling the story of this concealed and multi-faceted history. She later learnt that such spiritual moments are not uncommon in this sacred place.
Kate-Lyn Moore
UCT
In a modern world of film, deeply ingrained and out-dated sexist misconceptions are still stamped on film scripts and video cameras.
Khethiwe Mndawe
She Leads Africa
Local news “Both my parents went to university in the United Kingdom and encouraged me to have a deep love for education. Today I believe I can achieve anything that I set my mind to.”
Low Velder
Sihle Hlophe Sticks To Her Guns For SiSwati Short Film
Pontsho Pilane
Sihle Hlophe, a South African film-maker creating great content in minority languages and winning fans around the world. Many entrepreneurs are driven by a passion to solve a societal challenge and to make a difference in the world. For South African entrepreneur, Sihle Hlophe, founder of Passion Seed Communications, her inspiration came from a desire to see films and television programmes in her mother tongue SiSwati.
Lioness of Africa
Nomfundo, a short film produced by Passion Seed Communications, has been selected for the 2nd edition of the Africa On Screen Festival. The festival will take place in Melbourne, Australia between the 15th and 16th of September 2017.
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