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Documentary sheds new light on Princess Diana’s life

Thabiso Moloi — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:34:49 +0000

Decades after her untimely death, Princess Diana continues to evoke, mystery, glamour, and is a viewed as the epitome of the quintessential modern fairy tale gone wrong. As a symbol of both widening fissures weakening the British monarchy and the destructive machinery of the press, the late Princess of Wales navigated both an unparalleled rise to fame and the corrosive challenges that came alongside it.

Now, a new film, aptly titled The Princess will release as a Cinema Premiere on DStv BoxOffice on 18 October, revealing new layers to the monarch’s life and circumstances. Crafted entirely from immersive archival footage and free from the distraction of retrospective voices, this hypnotic and audaciously revealing documentary takes a distinctive formal approach, allowing the story of the People’s Princess to unfold before us like never before.

The Princess is produced by the Academy-Award and Emmy winning producers of Man On Wire, Searching For Sugar Man and LA 92, and directed by the double Academy-Award nominated director of Black Sheep and Tell Me Who I Am, Ed Perkins.

More than a documentary that recaps pertinent moments in the royal’s much celebrated life, The Princess goes to the heart of public adoration and tells a subtle story of public scrutiny, that is both nuanced and compelling. It is also one of the last productions where audiences will get to see footage from the notorious “Panorama” interview which the BBC has since confirmed will not be made available to films in future.

“Few women in the world command as much fascination as the late Princess Diana” said Benjamin Cowley, CEO Gravel Road Distribution Group. “The Princess not only sheds new light on her extraordinary life, but also lays bare the toxic relationship between the public’s insatiable appetite and the press that fed them,” he added.

Rugby World Cup Final sets new streaming record for Dstv Now

Papi Mabele — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 13:06:57 +0000

On November 2, Dstv’s Now app allowed premium subscribers to live stream the final of the Rugby World Cup. Two days later, the company has announced, the world cup final has set a new viewing record for Dstv Now, which says more than half a million unique users around the world were served with rugby content on the day. The number of active DStv Now users is four times higher than just two years ago.

The number of hours streamed in a single day on the service now regularly tops one million, which is more than 100 years’ worth of viewing for a single person.

The figures represent a new trend at Dstv — the company’s digital arm (Connected Video division of MultiChoice) used to keep its viewer numbers a secret, but has started dropping some details here and there when something it launches manages to draw in a massive number of viewers.

Dstv Now also bragged about the data carried by content delivery network partners during the Final peaked at more than 500 Gbps (more than 4 000 GB of data per minute), another record for DStv Now in Africa.

DStv’s BoxOffice set for the Galaxy S5

Papi Mabele — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:54:47 +0000

Just as we’re about to wrap-up news on the Galaxy S5 launch (yeah- right!) we’re told users of the new world (galaxy s5, that is) will be the first to get their hands on a smartphone application of DStv’s BoxOffice service.

Announced at the GS5 launch earlier today (10 April), the BoxOffice app will allow DStv subscribers and non-subscribers — at a cost of R30 to rent a new release, and R10 to rent older films — to stream content onto their GS5 handsets.