NIFF MASTER WORKSHOP-20TH-25TH MARCH

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21ST-25TH MARCH (NASHIK)- 2012

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The 4th Nashik International Film Festival is being held from 21st - 25th March,2012. The NIFF organizers have collaborated with the Indian Documentary Foundation to hold a film-making workshop during this festival.

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The Metro Foundation of India, Nashik in association with the Government of Maharashtra, laid the foundation of an International Film Festival in Nashik, in the year 2008. The festival has an international competition and has instituted the Golden Camera Awards & the Dadasaheb Phalke Janmabhoomi Puraskar, fast emerging as prestigious awards!

The Indian Documentary Foundation is a not-for -profit organization for the promotion and development of quality documentary film-making in India.

NIFF MASTER WORKSHOP

We aim to bring 16 participants consisting of filmmakers/musicians/ editors and cinematographers to this unique workshop under the tutoring and guidance of Audrius Stonys, renowned Documentary filmmaker from Lithuania known for his poetic interpretation of reality . 4 films, 5 mins in length will be ideated and completed between 21st- 25^th of March.

http://www.stonys.lt

The participants will view four films made by 4 different directors of Lithuania on Vilnius and discuss the various styles of story telling and find their unique style to represent the city of Nashik in their films. These films will be completed during the festival to be showcased at the closing ceremony. These films will represent aspects of Nashik city life to the viewer.

 CREATIVE DIALOGUE OF CITIES by AUDRIUS STONYS

 

  

Films about Vilnius by four, National Culture award-winning directors representing two generations

 

"Vilnius is a city unusually suitable for cinematography.  The unique cultures of many nations came together here, to disseminate onwards.

There was Polish Vilnius, Jewish Vilnius and Lithuanian Vilnius. Forming and drawing the setting of Vilnius was heart-felt.

The history written in its cobblestone streets and the bricks of its buildings have caught the eye of many cinematographers.

Every artist saw Vilnius in his or her own way and, by the same, confessed a love for this city.

The programme suggests taking a look at Vilnius from the eyes of four artists, all laureates of the National Culture award.

 

Laikas eina per miestą ‘Time passes through the city’, the film by Almantas Grikevičius (1966), lets us see Vilnius as eternal, as ever-changing, carrying its marks of history along with itself.

 

Praėjusios dienos atminimui ‘In the Memory of a Day Gone By’, the film by Šarūnas Bartas (1990), lights Vilnius up in the colours of nostalgia in autumn.

 

Dešimt minučių prieš Ikaro skrydį ‘Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus’, the film by Arūnas Matelis (1990), walks you through the  same small streets of theUžupis neighbourhood that an odd fellow named Miša walks accompanied by the spirit of Vilnius.

 

Griuvėsių Apaštalas ‘Apostle of Ruins’, the film by Audrius Stonys (1992), shows us Vilnius as Georgian thinker and mystic Alexander Oboladze sees it.

 

These four glances are like four love letters to the city of Vilinus.

 

I  will present the films during this event. The talk will be on how the city has changed and how the tradition for telling a tale about the city has formed once it was possible to video tape the eternally transforming spirit of the city.

 

MY CITY

 

Film-making workshops, both creative and practical, will be held for five days. Participants of these workshops will discuss themes and visualisations reflecting their city. They will film their impressions of the city and present them in group discussions with the Master who is heading the workshop.

The effort will be to grasp how to reflect and record a city while avoiding touristic superficiality.

How is the portrait of a city composed? How can the lens of a camera internalize the face of a city?

 

Thus not only would a dialogue of cities take place but a practical feel for the secret of film-making as well."

                                                                                                                                                                      ---------------------- Audrius Stonys

5 glances portrayed on film will be like love letters to the city of Nashik, will be completed during the Festival. 

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The films will be in English

 

Workshop duration: 5 days

Workshop Mentor: Audrius Stonys.

 

Participants:

16 participants have to register with 1000 Rs for the workshop and a grant has been instituted for the workshop for each participant.

Participants have to be either filmmakers,editors or cinematographers

Participants will have to reach Nashik on their own and sign in on the 20th evening 3-5pm

The workshop starts on 21st morning and finishes on the 25th with 4 completed films on Nashik under the mentor ship of Audrius Stonys.

Participants of the workshop do not have the rights to the films.It is a property of NIFF 

Accommodation and hospitality will be provided by NIFF.

Mukesh Kaneri        NIFF Festival Director

Sophy VSivaraman- Workshop Organizer/tutor -IDF

Ramesh Prasanna   NIFF Festival Coordinator 

Anjali Vyas-            Workshop co-coordinator-IDF

For Details: so...@indiandocumentaryfoundation.com

                                       

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