BECOME A F.I.L.M. PARTNER
FILM is funded primarily by partner companies, who contribute a 2% training levy on all labour payments from their production budgets. In addition, member companies contribute their Skills Development Levies (SDL), claimed from the MAPPP-SETA.
These contributions signal a highly successful public / private partnership, making the programme sustainable and assisting the FILM partner companies to meet BBBEE and DTI rebate requirements.
Initially driven by the South African feature film industry, FILM is currently extending its footprint to the South African commercials industry.
For more information on how your company can become a FILM partner, up your skills training quotient, get your Workplace Skills Plans shipshape, and optimize your BBBEE & DTI Rebate rating contact
Lulu Stone on info@filmsa.co.za or +27 (0)21 461 7950.
PREFERENTIAL PROCUREMENT IN THE FILM INDUSTRY
An integral part of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policy, as formulated in the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act (53/2003): Codes of Good Practice on Black Economic Empowerment, is to encourage enterprises in any particular industry to increase the amount of business they do with BEE suppliers.
In fact, Preferential Procurement counts for 20 points out of a possible 100 when it comes to rating the BBBEE contribution of a company.
Preferential Procurement provides a specific incentive to procure from black owned and black women owned enterprises, encouraging economic transformation, the procurement of locally produced goods and services and encouraging sustainable income streams to new entities ensuring their sustainability.
FILM will supply you with a regularly updated Western Cape Film Industry Preferential Supplier Database specifying Category, Company name and BBBEE Status. We hope this will assist you with BBBEE compliance and meeting Procurement Targets.
Click here to download our Film Supplier Preferential Database. Last updated : June 2010
BBBEE IN THE FILM INDUSTRY
The Film Industry is characterized by a relative concentration of ownership and employment, a degree of exclusivity and fairly tough entry barriers for new players – in particular historically disadvantaged individuals (HDIs).
To redress the historic inequalities of apartheid, in 2003 a strategy for Broad-Based Black Economic empowerment (BBBEE) was released, defining BBBEE as an integrated, coherent socio-economic process aimed at contributing directly to the economic transformation of South Africa and bringing about significant increases in the numbers of black people that manage, own and control the country’s economy as well as significant decreases in income inequalities.
Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is a response to criticism directed against what was perceived initially to be Narrow Based Empowerment instituted in the country in the first decade of democracy.
While Narrow Based Black Economic Empowerment led to the enrichment of a limited number of individuals, the goal of Broad Based Empowerment is to distribute wealth across as broad a spectrum of South African society as possible.
The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act (53/2003): Codes of Good Practice on Black Economic Empowerment, gazetted in February 2007, was put in place to replace earlier editions of the act. An Interpretive Guide was added in June 2007.
While Narrow Based empowerment measured only Equity Ownership and Management representation, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment is measured using seven pillars, each with a relative weighting. Unlike Narrow Based Empowerment, Ownership & Management account for only 30 points of the total contribution of 100.
The generic BBBEE Scorecard reflects the following weighting, out of 100 points:
- Equity Ownership – 20 points
- Management Control – 10 points
- Employment Equity – 15 points
- Skills Development – 15 points
- Preferential Procurement – 20 points
- Enterprise Development – 15 points
- Socio-economic Development – 5 points
The mission of the Film Industry Learner Mentorship (F.I.L.M.) program is to provide a coordinated Film Industry Mentorship, Training, Skills & Enterprise Development platform offering accelerated skills advancement and sustainable career opportunities to Historically Disadvantaged Individuals - through work-based mentorship & skills and enterprise development on local and international film productions - with primary focus on assistant directing, production management, line producing, sound engineering, editing, film production accounting and related film production occupational skills & entrepreneurial enterprises.
The purpose of F.I.L.M. is to address the critical shortage of management skills, to contribute to the transformation the industry, providing employment, assisting in developing enterprises, to support the member companies in meeting their BBBEE and DTI rebate requirements in terms of Skills Development, Enterprise Development and over the longer term, Employment Equity thus helping to meet the targets set by MEDS, ASGISA and NEPAD.
