Royalty Soapie Awards Calls For Entries

The road towards the much-anticipated Royalty Soapie Awards has begun with a call to entry for all local talent in storytelling. 

 

The 6th edition of the awards ceremony will take place on the 4th of March 2023 showcasing and emphasizing the importance of stories in our lives.

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DAILY TV DRAMA: A daily TV drama, typically performed as a serial on daytime television, is characterized by characters and situations, sentimentality, and melodrama. It is a series of experiences characterized by dramatic displays of emotion

 

SOAP OPERA: A television daily TV drama program dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters where storylines intertwine and are told during indefinite, continuing runs. A soap opera has no definite end date, it evolves over time and new characters can be introduced and old characters are written out, sometimes returning years later to continue their storyline and branch into new ones.

 

TELENOVELA: A television drama program characterised by a continuing melodramatic storyline and a permanent cast. Telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of 10 and 11 months, and they are written with a definite start and end part.

 

Entries for submissions from creative, technical, and acting will be opened as of the 21st of November 2022, up until the 15th of December 2022. There are 6 category groups in total, broken down as follows:

 

 

MOST WATCHED SHOW: This category is not open for entry; the winner will be determined by audited reports conducted and published by an independent research council. 

TRAIL BLAZER AWARD: This category is not open for entry; the winner will be determined by audited reports conducted and published by an independent research council.

 

 

 

“Without fail, we encounter and learn to appreciate how well life’s complications are for the most part justified by love. That is the beauty and power of story,” 

 

“It should be noted that the reaction from the south African lovers of local Daily TV Dramas, Soapies, and Telenovelas has been highly impressive responding to the main objective of the awards,” says Winnie Ntshaba -who is the founder and CEO of RSAs. “Our theme this year is an Evening Among Stars, which offers a powerful ignition to the overall narrative and content thread for our amazing showcase,” she adds. 

 

Proudly supported by the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture, and Recreation and the SABC1.

 

Image Cred: Royalty Soapie Awards

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