Film Screeing, End of Documentary Filmmaking Workshop in partnership with Les Ateliers Varan
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May 28–Jun 22, 2015
Aug 13, 2015 6:00pm
Organized by: Cimatheque
Venue: Cimatheque
Address: 19A ‘Adly Street Floor 5, Apt. 28, Downtown Cairo, Egypt
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/991062407570873/


August 13th at 7pm, we are organizing an evening of film screenings to celebrate the end of the Documentary Filmmaking Workshop organized by Cimatheque in partnership with Les Ateliers Varan, showing the work of the workshop's 8 participants: Dina Hany, Hani Sami, Muhammad Mustapha, Marguerite Farag, Youmna Khaled El Khattam, Qusay Asaad, Mohammed Adel Abd El Azim, and Usama Ghanoum.

Les Ateliers Varan's workshop provides its participants with the opportunity to direct a documentary film, from its conception to its completion. It is mentored by David Tretiakoff and Jean Noel Christiani.

 

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Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre in partnership with Les Ateliers Varan is now accepting applications for the Documentary Filmmaking Workshop, which will take place from July 26th to August 13th, 2015. 9 participants will be selected to take part in a 3 weeks highly intensive workshop providing them the opportunity to direct a documentary film, from its conception to its completion.

Les Ateliers Varan’s methodology is based on the making of "real scale" films and learning through practice. The workshop doesn’t deal with production as such, in so far as the apprentice film-makers in training have a right to make mistakes. This workshop hopes to help participants analyze and verbalize their desire for film and confront themselves to the work of directing and to the critical exterior look.

This programme is targeted at those with a first experience of media who wish to gain a professionalising training in creative documentary filmmaking. It will result in the production of 9 short documentaries which will be screened publicly.

This workshop requires a 7/7 days maximum availability (For your own project and the ones of others) for a period of 3 weeks. It is the collective principle upon which the workshop functions.

Note that the workshop will be conducted entirely in English
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How to apply:

Please fill out the application form at
https://goo.gl/QrHOfo

In addition, please make sure to include the following required documents (preferably as one complete PDF file in English)

>> An autobiographical text of one page length maximum, in free form. We are not looking for a dissertation but rather a text in which you are addressing us directly. (not a CV)

>> A one page text in which you tell us about the film project you plan to work on during the workshop. The film must be set in Cairo.

Please send these documents via e-mail to workshops@cimatheque.org, no later than June 22nd, 2015.

Workshop fees for the accepted participants: 250 LE

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The Ateliers Varan
The Varan project is part of the worldwide experiments which diversify forms of expression and communication through images. Varan is not a school in the classic and academic sense; the working methods strongly encourage the principle of teaching through practice.

The Ateliers Varan is a non profit-making association and a Non-Governmental Organisation. It is a member of CILECT (the association of the world’s film and television schools).

In 1978, when Mozambique became independent, the government asked the French Embassy to make films about the changes undergoing in the country. Instead of sending over film-makers, Jean Rouch suggested the Mozambicans themselves should film the events in order to show their own realities. He offered to train future directors in documentary filmmaking. This first experience was improved and developed; it was then exported to other countries around the world.

Varan’s calling was originally to enable young directors to learn how to read and write with images and sounds. It meant giving them the opportunity to make films with a restricted budget, movies that would escape the invasion of mainstream cultural standards. They could then collect archives on popular or ethnical memories.

The Varan Association was officially set up on 20 January 1981.