A Gardens film company has been nominated for an Emmy - United States television's equivalent of an Oscar - for a children's series set in South Africa.
Film Afrika has scored a hit on Saturday morning TV in the US with its series Scout's Safari.
The show has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the outstanding youth series category.
Show producer David Wicht said it was a huge honour. "After Charlize getting the Oscar, it is great we have been nominated for an Emmy.
"As far as we know it is the first time that a South African produced show has been nominated for an Emmy."
The show, screened by the giant NBC, is the first South African-produced series with an African setting to be screened by a leading US TV network.
It follows the adventures of a 12-year-old from New York who moves to South Africa when her family decide to set up their own safari lodge.
Wicht said: "A very positive image of South Africa is being broadcast into the homes of millions of Americans and that can only be a good thing.
"The series is based on how South Africa really is, so Americans are building up a familiarity with our country."
The 26-part series, commissioned by NBC Discovery Kids, was made in Gauteng over the past two years.
Wicht said: "Producing a series of this nature, while a massive undertaking, proved to be an enormous boost for the local industry and provided a great showcase for up-and-coming South African directors and actors."
Among the South African actors involved are Freedom Hadebe, Chantell Stander and Ashley Dowds.
Rights to the series have been sold around the world, but Wicht said so far there were no plans to screen it in South Africa.
Film Afrika has co-produced television dramas and mini-series with the BBC, France 2 and Hallmark in the past, including the dramas Promised Land and Mandela And De Klerk.
The Emmy winners will be announced on May 21 at Radio City Music Hall in New York.