The film Meerkat Maantuig, to be released nationwide in South Africa on 16 March 2018, has already been accepted to screen at eight international film festivals. In November 2017 Meerkat Maantuig had its North American premiere at the prestigious Austin Film Festival in Texas. Meerkat Maantuig was also listed as the number one film on US film festival critic Jesse Knight’s list of Top 10 Undistributed Films in the US. The film has been officially selected by a list of prestigious international film festivals including the Austin Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Sedona Film Festival in Arizona, The Kids First Film Festival (the biggest kids’ film festival in the world), The Bay Area Children’s Festival outside San Francisco, Omaha Film Festival, Nebraska, Calcutta International Cult Film Festival and the GUKIFF International Kids Film Festival, Seoul, Korea. Meerkat Maantuig, a film by The Film Factory, is produced by André and Dries Scholtz, and has been adapted for the screen by writer and director Hanneke Schutte.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 12, 2018 10:30 UTC