_NEW CALL FOR ENTRY
Aristoteles Workshop #5 - 2010 (1st August - 5th September) Deadline: 31th May 2010 The Best Documentary Film of Aristoteles Workshop 2010 will be awarded with 3000 euro. Aristoteles Workshop will take place in Romania – Vama village, Suceava (Bucovina), August 1st - September 5th 2010 . ARISTOTELES WORKSHOP ASSOCIATION invites creative documentary filmmakers, DPs, editors and producers from Central and Eastern Europe to the 5th edition of the Aristoteles Workshop, a programme co-financed by the French-German TV Channel ARTE. We are looking for young people with talent, passion, commitment, a voice of their own, and, above all, capacity for teamwork. Our courses are designed for young filmmakers with previous film and/or video experience. During the five workshop weeks, the students will work in teams, being guided through each and every step of the documentary production. While the emphasis will be mainly on content, the workshop will also cover the latest High Definition TV technologies and techniques. Professional training that encourages the independent spirit, innovation, and creative risk-taking is provided by preeminent leaders in the field (Thierry Garrel, Jennifer Fox, Rafi Pitts, Marijke Rawie and Martichka Bozhilova), who will help the participants translate their own ideas into fresh, ground breaking documentaries. The proposed finale module is a 30 minutes documentary film, but open to fiction elements in any way the students choose. The workshop is structured as follows: Stage 1 – Training Narrative style & strategies. Director’s perspective of development. Camera, light, sound. Visual approach, planning & production schedule. Stage 2 – Production Treatment, research & scouting, shooting. Shoot adequate footage, taking into consideration that researching and planning are part of the documentary editing process. Stage 3 – Editing Shaping the documentary in the cutting room. Creative content & visual treatment. Coaching activity during and after the completion of the rough cut. Stage 4 - Finish Line Output to tape. Final evaluation. You will also be assisted in promoting and distributing the outcoming films, which gives you a triple benefit: learning, working, and getting exposure. AWA provides production and post production equipment and facilities, and accommodation. _APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS - filled out application form + photo (www.aworkshop.org) - curriculum vitae - letter of intention - letter of recommendation - a sample of your work (in English) Applicants must be fluent in English. The application deadline is May 31st, 2010 . Mail the package to : ARTE Relations Internationales 8, Rue Marceau 92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9 France For further information, please contact Mr. Dan Nuţu at [email protected] _LOCATION Vama Village, Suceava County, Bucovina Region, RomaniaBucovina was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, and its border crossed the village Vama, hence the name of the place, which is the Romanian word for „frontier”. A variety of ethnic groups used to live in harmony in the region, besides the Romanian population: Germans, Armenians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews. Currently, the ethnic groups are decreased in number, and the Jewish community disappeared altogether. In the Jewish cemetery in Vama, the last funeral was in the 1970s. However, as abandoned as it may look at first sight, it is not uncommon to find burning candles put on the graves by the locals. The village is 6 centuries old. It is inhabited by abt. 6000 people. An important monument is the church dated 1670. In the centre of the village there is another church, built in the 19th century, and in the churchyard, The Cross of the Drunkards’ Oath. It was put there in 1894, as part of a ceremony during which 20 people of Vama swore in front of the priest that they would never touch liquor again. There are many places worth visiting around Vama, including the famous unique color painted Romanian monasteries: Voroneţ, Humor, Suceviţa, Moldoviţa and Arbore. The offer for tourists includes hiking, horseback riding, rafting, a journey with the old, small, mountain train called „mocăniţa”, a visit to a shepfold and a traditional meal prepared by real shepherds, a.s.o. _TRAINERS Thierry Garrel started his career as a Researcher with ORTF (French national radio & TV authority). He was Head of Young Authors' Program and later Head of Documentaries and Archives at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA). He notably produced the following series: Cinecourt (1976), Le Choc des Cultures (1977), Rue des Archives (1978-1981) and magazines/reviews: Hieroglyphes (1975), Juste une Image (1982-1983, awarded Grand Prize for Television), L'inapercu (1985). He was also the Head of Documentary Department and Animation & Video Art Programming for 21 years at ARTE. He launched highly successful series such as: Palettes, Contacts, Cinema de Notre Temps, Histoire Parallele and the series of feature length documentaries called Grand Format, which has over 200 award-winning documentaries from all over the world. Jennifer Fox is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning director, producer, camerawoman, and educator who has been involved in countless documentaries over the last 25 years. Her first film, BEIRUT: THE LAST HOME MOVIE was released theatrically in nine countries and broadcast in 20 countries. It won seven international awards, including Best Documentary Film and Best Cinematography at the 1988 Cinema Du Reel Festival. She directed the groundbreaking ten hour PBS/BBC/ARTE television series AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, which received a Gracie Award for Best Television Series and was named "One of the Top Ten Television Series of 1999" by The New York Times and five other major American papers. Her most recent work, the acclaimed, cutting edge, six-part film FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN was made through a unique Danish-American co-production and was funded by the Danish Film Institute, TV-2 Denmark, BBC, ARTE, YLE-1, SBS, SVT, ICON & Humanist Channels Netherlands, and HBO - and was awarded a prestigious Creative Capital Grant. Fox is currently preparing to edit a new feature documentary, filmed over twenty years, called LEARNING TO SWIM, co-produced with the Dutch Buddhist Television Network (BOS) and awarded a prestigious Hartley Film Foundation grant. She has lectured and taught master classes on filmmaking at universities, television stations, and for government training programs around the world. Rafi Pitts is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director. He spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He fled his country in 1981, because of the Iran-Iraq War and moved to Britain. He graduated in 1991 from Harrow College - Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons.) Degree in Film and Photography. His first short, "In Exile" (1991), was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's, he moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard. Rafi Pitts' films have attained acclaim and awards around the globe. His first feature, Season Five (1997), was the first Franco-Iranian co-production since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and premiered in Venice. Sanam (2000) was hailed by French critics as « the Iranian 400 Blows ». In 2003, he presented his controversial feature documentary, Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty in Locarno . It's Winter (2006) premiered in Berlin in Competition, and one year later, the Seattle International Film Festival honored him with the Emerging Masters Award for his work. His 2010 film, The Hunter, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit. Marijke Rawie is president of ExpertDocs, specialized in documentary (pitching) training & consultancy for international documentary coproduction. ExpertDocs helps filmmakers, documentary companies and pitching forums to understand the international documentary coproduction world and advises them on the development of their documentary projects for the international market. Marijke Rawie was Head of Art and Documentary at AVRO TV, first public broadcaster in the Netherlands (1991-2006). In 1991 she founded the documentary slot AVRO Close-Up which became one of the leading international co-producers and co-financers of documentaries in Europe: Emmy, Golden Fipa, Golden Bear, Golden Calf, Academy Award, Banff Rocky Award, Golden NYF, Golden Link, etc.). Marijke Rawie is now an independent documentary consultant for various international and national production companies and a documentary pitching trainer for festivals and pitching forums: Vice-President of EBU Documentary Group (1998-2006), Vice-President of Advisory Board Discovery Campus Masterschool, Boardmember of the 1st World Congress of Arts Producers, Doc. Expert & Pitching Training EDN, Doc. expert Eurodoc, Pitching training and scriptdoctor for documentary initiatives in (among others) Munchen (DCMS); Jihlava (East European Forum); Glasgow (DGFDocs); Dublin (Stranger than Fiction); Belfast; Tel Aviv (Isreal Forum for International Coproductions); Kracow (Dragon Forum); Venezia (Italian Doc Screenings); Leipzig (LeipzigDok); Amsterdam (IDFA Forum), France (TVFI); Ghuangzhou (GZDOC) etc. Martichka Bozhilova has been producer of AGITPROP Bulgaria since 1999. During the last four years, seven of the company’s projects have been in co-production with leading TV broadcasters such as: Channel 4, Sundance Channel, ITVS, RAI, CBC, SVT, YLE, NRK, HOS and TV2/ Danmark. Bozhilova earned a degree in law and art management and graduated in European documentary production from EURODOC in 2005. Her films include the internationally awarded Georgi and the Butterflies, The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories and Corridor #8. In 2006 Martichka Bozhilova received the International Trailblazer Award, launched by Robert Redford and Sundance Channel at MIPDOC in Cannes for “creativity, innovation, originality and breakthrough in the field of documentary cinema”. She is lecturer at various European workshops and events in the field of documentary cinema and official representative of the European Documentary Network (EDN) in Bulgaria. _AW 2009 FILMS @ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS ARISTOTELES WORKSHOP ASSOCIATION and ARTE are proud to announce that fillms created at Aristoteles Workshop #4 (2009), in Romania, are selected at various international film festivals. The short documentary Quest, by Ionuţ Piţurescu (Romania) has been selected at the 42nd Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) - 63th CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (13-23 May 2010). The short documentary Rebel, Rebel, by Alexandru Belc (Romania) and Mihai Bauman (Romania) has been selected at “Visions du Réel” Documentary Festival, in the “First Steps” category (15-21 April 2010 in Nyon, Switzerland). The short documentary Women on Canvas, by Otilia Babără (The Republic of Moldavia) has been selected at CRONOGRAF International Documentary Film Festival, in the Main Section of Documentary Films (11-16 May 2010 in Chişinău, Republic of Moldavia). Quest, directed by Ionuţ Piţurescu, is presented in the short films selection of the Directors’ Fortnight, together with: Sean Durkin's ”Mary Last Seen”, Louis Garrel's ”Petit tailleur”, Hirabayashi Isamu's ”Shikasha”, Jesper Klevenas's ”Ett tyst barn (A Silent Child)”, Noah Pink's ”ZedCrew”, Pradeepan Raveendran's ”Shadows of Silence”, Andre Schreuders's ”Licht” and Annarita Zambrano's ”Tre ore”. Ionuţ Piţurescu is a 31 years old Romanian anthropologist and director of documentary films. During his studentship he has done field researches in Mexico (Huichol, 2003), Morocco (Berber, 2004), U.S.A. (New Orleans, 2005), Andalusia (Gitano Calo, 2005), Arctic area (Sami, 2006), as well as around Eastern Europe and Balkans. In past years he started to develop a passion regarding Visual Anthropology and documentary film: Kule – surviving Balkan architecture (2009), Balkan's Digest (2008), Seize the time (2008), TransClicheinia (2006). Rebel, Rebel offers fragmentary glimpses of the fascinating universe of two highly authentic teenage girls who prefer spending their time with boys, being separated from their parents. Mihai Bauman is a 33 years old Romanian documentary film director. Among his documentaries, there are also "Pit" (2001), awarded with the "Paul Călinescu" Award at "CineMAiubit Film Festival" in Bucharest, Romania, and selected to DokFestival Leipzig, Germany, "The Grandchildren of Adam" (2004), honored with the Award for Film Debut by the Filmmakers Union of Romania and selected in several international film festivals, "Built to Burn" (2008), selected in 2010 Agon Archaeological Film Festival in Athens, Greece. Furthermore, Mihai Bauman directed various commercial spots and television series. Alexandru Belc is a 30 years old Romanian documentary film director. Among its film projects there are also the documentary "The Sound of Silence" (2007), selected in a special film programme at Berlin Film Festival, and the short film "Family Stuff" (2007). Women on Canvas unveils three women guards from The Brukenthal Museum, in Sibiu, Romania - their thoughts, sadness and their own micro-world in this huge palace-museum, like they were trapped in a box. Otilia Babără is a 26 years old documentary and fiction short film director from The Republic of Moldavia. From 2009 she is the film director of AltFilm, a Moldavian film production studio. She worked as a production assistant with known directors as Igor Kobileanschi and Sergiu Prodan. Her film debut, the short fiction film "The Rug", is a reference film amongst the student films made in the last years from Republic of Moldavia, being screened at various film festivals in the Central & Eastern Europe. http://www.aworkshop.org http://www.facebook.com/AristotelesWorkshopAssociation http://www.youtube.com/user/aristotelesworkshop [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
