Cairo International Women’s Film Festival: Rough Cut Workshop for Arab Women Filmmakers (2019) Deadline 7 January 2019

Cairo International Women’s Film Festival Rough Cut Workshop for

Arab Women Filmmakers (2019)

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Deadline 7 January 2019

The Rough-Cut Workshop is an audiovisual consultation offered to women filmmakers who are in the phase of working on the first rough-cut of their cinematographic work and need support regarding the content and the development of their film on an artistic and editing level.

Six Arab women filmmakers working on the rough-cut of their films, will be selected. The workshop will allow them to engage in discussions of each other’s audiovisual works and to debate its different elements. They will also be discussing their works with an international jury made up of film critics, directors and editors.

The festival will cover the travel and accommodation expenses of the selected filmmakers.

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http://cairowomenfilmfest.com/workshops/rough-cut-workshop/submission/

For more information

http://cairowomenfilmfest.com/

Claudine Ndimbira : Support her film project “Living like a shadow” about the LGBTQ community in Rwanda

Claudine Ndimbira : Support her film project “Living like a shadow” about the LGBTQ community in Rwanda

Claudine Ndimbira had this to say about the film project:

With this project “Living like a shadow” I want to give the voice to LGBTQ community members in Rwanda to tell their stories, what they have been through, what they wish their lives could be but also to the society so that they say what is the reason why they think being gay is a problem to them.
Source: http://creativerwanda.com/interview-with-ndimbira-claudine-shenge/

Synopsis

“Living like a shadow” is a 90 minutes film that will follow the lives of 3 characters. Even if some have similar issues or experiences – like living a double love life due to what the society expects from them or being judged often, each one of them has a unique story.

Excerpt from Director’s Statement

I want to make this film to shed light on that issue so that it can start a conversation. People fear what they don’t understand or what they refuse to understand but at the end of the day the solution is to talk about it and react positively.

TO SUPPORT CLAUDINE NDIMBIRA'S "LIVING LIKE A SHADOW" FILM PROJECT GO TO: http://creativerwanda.com/living-like-a-shadow/

African Women in Cinema Blog - Updates | Actualités - 23-11-2018 - News around the Internet | Les infos autour de l’Internet

African Women in Cinema Blog

Updates | Actualités

23-11-2018

News around the Internet |

Les infos autour de l’Internet

 Content | Contenu

Watch Films by Womxn Directors

Girls in Film in Mauritius

RECIDAK 2018 - La remise de distinctions | Presentation of Awards

Visions de femmes

Queen of Zambian TV Becky Ngoma

Joburg Film Festival Women’s Event

Watch Films by Womxn Directors

SWIFTHOUR@ARIFF Africa Rising International Film Festival

27-28 November 2018

Source: http://www.swiftsa.org.za/ 

Girls in Film in Mauritius

Workshop 22-23 November 2018. Organised by Festival Île Courts. Represents, champions and connects the new generation of female-identified creatives in the film industry.

Source: Facebook GiF: Girls in Film 

RECIDAK 2018 - La remise de distinctions | Presentation of Awards

To Oumy Sy and Annette Mbaye d’Erneville, fondatrice des | Founder of RECIDAK. 24-28 November. 

Source: https://legrenierdekibili.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/recidak-2018-le-programme-des-projections/ 

Visions de femmes

Pour sa troisième édition, l’IFC de Pointe-Noire met en avant les productions féminines. 19-24- Novembre. Insititut Français-Pointe-Noire du Congo

Source: http://www.ifc-pointenoire.com/ 

Queen of Zambian TV Becky Ngoma

By Jolezya Adeyemo

Source: http://nkwazimagazine.com/view2.php?id=1846 

Joburg Film Festival Women’s Event

Panel Discussion with Speakers: Lebo Mashile, Gail Smith Sheila Munyiva (Rafiki Lead Actress) 11 November 2018.

Source: https://www.joburgfilmfestival.co.za/ 

The Durban International Film Festival submissions for films for the 2019 edition of the festival are open!

The Durban International Film Festival submissions for films for the 2019 edition of the festival are open!

https://durbanfilmfest.co.za/submissions.html

The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) invites filmmakers from across the world to submit their Short, Documentary or Feature Fiction films to screen in the festival from 18-28 July 2019 under the theme Reimaging DIFFerent.

With screenings of cutting-edge cinema from around the world, containing as always a special focus on both South African and African films, the festival exhibits films in a range of diverse venues in and around the city of Durban. DIFF is the premiere platform for the launch of African films and a key gateway to the African film industry. The festival also includes an annual local and international awards component.

As the DIFF turns a historic 40, we use this 2019 festival to celebrate a legacy of supporting South African and African film makers and our partnership with a global film industry. We are ReimagingAfrican cinema as we recognize DIFF as a platform that opens space to discover, birth, seek out, and hear new and established film voices. We celebrate the decolonising of the embedded canonical film centres globally as we return to the need to find the hidden gems and create a platform where new film voices are discovered and born – this is the onward journey of the DIFF.

DIFF is looking for films that are the solution to questions yet to be formulated, a curated showcase of films that are part of a paradigm shift, the very best the African continent has on offer.

Only films completed in 2018 and 2019 and there is no charge for entry. Submissions will be accepted via an ONLINE SCREENER. All submissions must be entered via the DIFF Submission page at https://filmfreeway.com/DurbanFilmFest

The deadline for all entries is 15 March 2019.

Each edition of the festival features an extensive Industry Programme with seminars and workshops comprised of both local and international filmmakers and industry professionals. The programme is made up of the 12th Talents Durban (19 to 24 July 2019), presented in co-operation with Berlinale Talents, and the 10th Durban FilmMart (19 to 23 July 2019), presented in partnership with the Durban Film Office, as well as various other streams of programming.

For more information visit www.durbanfilmfest.co.za or email diff@ukzn.ac.za

Creative Documentary Workshop for Women Filmmakers – Deadline 13 December 2018 – Cairo International Women’s Film Festival

Creative Documentary Workshop for Women Filmmakers – Deadline 13 December 2018 – Cairo International Women’s Film Festival

http://cairowomenfilmfest.com/

The Creative Documentary Workshop for Women Filmmakers is a five-months training on artistic techniques of directing, editing, cinematography and production, offered within the framework of the Caravan "Between Women Filmmakers", with the aim of improving the skills and capacities of Egypt’s new women filmmakers.

The participants of this workshop will be tutored by several Arab and international women film professionals on how to write, direct, shoot and edit creative documentaries. The teaching method will rely on continuous practice—incorporating many hand-on assignments throughout the workshop. These assignments are, moreover, designed to be implemented in groups to strengthen collective thinking during the learning and production processes.

An important goal of the workshop is also to guide the participants to reflect on the elements that are most important in the production processes so that the final product can provoke the critical engagement of its audience.

Terms and Conditions

- The total duration of the creative documentary workshop is five months starting 13 January 2019 (5 days a week, 5 hours a day). The Workshop sessions will be conducted Sundays to Thursdays, in the evenings.

- It is obligatory that all sessions are attended throughout the five months.

- The workshop is offered free of charge.

- Participants from outside Cairo will need to cover their transportation and accommodation costs, as the workshop does not have the means to cover these additional expenses.

- Participants have to be women between the age of 23 and 40.

- The final selection of participants will be done on two consecutive phases:

 - Phase one:  Prior to receiving the application forms, interviews will be conducted on 15 December based on which around 20 participants will be chosen for the first week of the workshop.

- Phase two: those selected in phase one will participate in the first week of the workshop, starting 13 January. Participants will be introduced to basic concepts of creative documentary filmmaking and briefed about the content and structure of the workshop. This week will also be used as an assessment period based on which only eight of the participants will be selected for the whole five-months workshop.

- The eight final participants will receive additional information on the workshop program, the dates and times. 

For more information please contact: info@cairowomenfilmfest.com

Digital Lab Africa 2019 : Call for Projects | L’appel à projets DLA

Digital Lab Africa 2019

Call for Projects | L’appel à projets DLA

http://digilabafrica.com/submit-a-project/ http://digilabafrica.com/FR/submit-a-project/

Deadline: 13 January 2019

Date limite : 13 janvier 2019

DLA CALL FOR PROJECTS

The Digital Lab Africa call for projects targets artists, producers, designers, start-ups, students in the media and creative industries. The call is open to anyone from Sub-Saharan Africa having an innovative project in 5 categories of multimedia production : web creation, virtual reality, video game, animation  and digital music.

DLA is looking for projects at initial stage of development, in need of partners and financial support and innovative in terms of narration, content or technologies.

Email the following application files (in French or in English) to applications@digilabafrica.com before January 13th, 2019

Pitch deck / Presentation document (PDF, PowerPoint or Word) including:
– project’s overview, concept, statement of intent…
– development and production schedule, provisional budget, target audience and strategy

Visual element and/or research document
– Storyboard / mood board / graphics / portfolio / screenplay (for web creation, animation or VR projects
– Game design document (for video game projects)
– Any preview, pilot or video demo of the project (if available, for all types of projects)

A cover letter explaining why you want to be part of the DLA Mentorship & Incubation program (1-page maximum)

A resume/curriculum vitae of the applicant and/or description of the company represented

A picture (.jpeg) of the applicant

L’APPEL A PROJETS DLA

L’appel à projets Digital Lab Africa s’adresse à toutes personnes d’Afrique subsaharienne (artistes, producteurs, créateurs, start-ups, étudiants) ayant un projet innovant dans 5 catégories de production multimédia: web création, réalité virtuelle, jeu vidéo, musique en ligne et animation.

L’appel à projets DLA cible des projets au stade initial de développement, en recherche de partenaires et de financements et innovants du point de vue de la forme, de la narration, du contenu ou des technologies.

Envoyer les documents suivants (en français ou en anglais) par email à : applications@digilabafrica.com avant le 13 janvier 2019

Un Pitch Deck / document de présentation (PDF, PowerPoint, Word) comprenant :
– un descriptif général du projet, concept, intention de l’auteur(e)
– un calendrier de développement et de production, un budget prévisionnel, le public visé, éléments stratégiques liés à la mise en œuvre du projet.

Des éléments visuels et/ou de recherche
– Storyboard / moodboard / visuels / portfolio / scénario (pour les catégories web création, animation ou VR
– Document de Game design (pour les projets jeu vidéo)
– Tout extraits, démo du projet, pilote (si disponible, pour toutes les catégories de projet)

Une lettre de motivation expliquant pourquoi vous souhaitez bénéficier du programme de mentorat et d’incubation DLA (1-page maximum)

Un CV/curriculum vitae du/de la candidat(e) et une description de la société représenté.

Une photo (.jpeg) du/de la candidat(e)

Lucy Gebre-Egziabher: Films Without Walls, Call for Collaboration 2019 Theme: Immigration and Refugees

Lucy Gebre-Egziabher: Films Without Walls

Call for Collaboration 2019

Theme: Immigration and Refugees

Professor and Filmmaker Lucy Gebre-Egziabher had this to say about "Films Without Walls", a project that she initiated where she teaches filmmaking on the NOVA Alexandria campus in Virginia, USA :

The Films Without Walls series was inspired by my Fulbright in Ethiopia in 2015. Upon my return, I connected my Ethiopia film students with my US film students. Together they made a film entitled "Final Exam". The objective was to have students on either side learn about each other's realities, in addition to learning to collaborate on a creative project. 

While that was the starting point, the key functions of this project is: 1) to instill in my students that they have a role to play as artists in the global context, and not just the US; 2) to teach my students to use cinema as a tool for social and political change; 3) enrich and widen their world perspective.

I developed this project individually, though I have my institution's support and endorsement (not financial). It is not a funded project, by no means; at least not to date. Institutions and students that are taking part in this project, do it strictly on a volunteer basis. Thus far we have had students from Ethiopia, Scotland, Mexico, Iran and China participate as partners on the yearly themes. But we have had a number of students from various parts of the world submit their films for screening in the FWW series showcase (as seen on attached program).

I am constantly seeking collaborations with more institutions. 

PRESS RELEASE

Film students from Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) – Alexandria campus, join forces with film students from institutions in various parts of the world on the 2019 theme: "Immigration & Refugees"

Films Without Walls (FWW) has 3 sections: 

1) FWW, a partnership on one film: every year NOVA students partner with films students from a different part of the world on 1 film project. And based on theme of the year, they work on it on separate pieces that they bring together at the end. Students typically communicate via skype, viber or any method they research and decide on.

- students from one institution partners with NOVA students to make 1 film together. 

2) FWW independent productions but partners on yearly theme: A partner would submit a film to be screened at our festival under FWW series on the theme of the year. (e.g. students from Xingtai Polytechnic College in China, are making their own film on the theme this year). We are also in discussion with students in other parts of the world (Cuba, Scotland, Ethiopia, Belarus to name a few). 

- students from institution "A" make a film of their own, but on the theme of the year - the 2019 theme: "Immigration & Refugees"

3) FWW International students' films showcase: Students from different parts of the world can submit for consideration their films, not necessarily on our theme but on any subject, and if selected will be also screened in our FWW section of the NOVA Student Film Festival.

- individual student(s) from institution "A" submit their films for consideration for screening at our festival.

Lucy Gebre-Egziabher, MFA

Fulbright Scholar 

Associate Professor - Cinema

Communication Studies & Theater Department

703-845-6297

email: lgebre@nvcc.edu

Faculty site: http://blogs.nvcc.edu/lgebre/