The South Africa Film and Video Project (SAFVP) is a collaboration of seven institutions in South Africa and the U.S. - to create a definitive multinational database of the “moving pictures” of film and videotape media about South Africa - and to contribute to saving important deteriorating videotape and film resources on South Africa and making those images more widely available.
The database provides access for the public, schools and teachers, scholars, and professionals to the broad and deep heritage of the film and video that recorded the panoply of the world’s most extraordinary history of political and racial transition of the twentieth century – from colonialism, to the apartheid state, to the coming of majority rule in South Africa and other countries of the Southern Africa region.
The archive collection provides U.S. scholars with research access to selected single copies of key South African films and videos on deposit at the MSU Library.