Apeture festival open to Pacific documentaries on culture

[Anouk Ride]

Halo olketa,
I am a little bit involved with the Apeture Festival, Asia Pacific
International Ethnographic Documentary Festival and they are calling
for entries of Pacific documentaries: http://aperturefestival.com/
If you are interested in submitting work, please consult the website
or me for more details, entries close August 15. It's not a festival
with big prizes, its aim is more to share documentaries from the
Asia-Pacific, particularly ethnographic, or films to do with culture
(see info about the festival below).
Best wishes,
Anouk

ABOUT APETURE:
APERTURE Asia Pacific International Ethnographic Documentary Festival
aims to promote and support ethnographic documentary film about the
Asia Pacific region and film directed or produced by filmmakers
originating from this region.

Ethnographic film festivals are almost not existing in this region,
with the exception of two events in Taiwan and Vietnam. Ethnographic
film festivals elsewhere in the world, along with similar events
attached to anthropology conferences, present mainly films made by
European and American filmmakers, and most of their work does not
focus on the Asia Pacific cultures and societies. Filmmakers
originating from the Asia Pacific region are grossly underrepresented,
also because the cost of travel and other accessibility issues.

APERTURE aims to provide an accessible event within the region, for
the region’s local filmmakers as well as for all filmmakers worldwide
whose work is about the Asia Pacific region. The festival will also
welcome proposals from local filmmakers in this region who have made
ethnographic films about cultures and society located in other parts
of the world (not the Asia Pacific) providing their work features an
Asian Pacific ethnographic perspective. APERTURE thus will offer a
platform that promotes documentaries on Asia Pacific cultures and
society, and provide emerging filmmakers from this region the
opportunity to be screened internationally and network with other
filmmakers and potential producers and distributors.

The first Aperture Festival will be held in Melbourne, 22-23 November
2013. While this first edition will invite submission for ethnographic
film-documentaries, the aim is to open the following editions also to
photo-documentary projects to be displayed during the film festival.
As one of the key aims of the project is to educate about and promote
the culture of the Asia Pacific region, attendance to the festival
will be free and open to the public.

Future festivals could be held in major cities in the Asia Pacific
region by rotation or continue in Melbourne, depending on sponsorships
and partnerships. If you are interested to host a travelling Aperture
event or future editions, please get in touch with us!

The focus on Asia Pacific cultures and filmmakers makes this an
innovative and unique festival that has not been previously offered in
any other country in the region.

--
Anouk Ride
Writer, Editor, Producer, Media Liaison
Books, Film, Magazines, Web
www.anoukride.com
Producer, THE TEST www.youtube.com/sukwadimedia
Editor, Community Resilience in Natural Disasters
http://us.macmillan.com/communityresilienceinnaturaldisasters/
Media Consultant for PNA tuna www.pnatuna.com

[amb...@donbosco.org.sb]

Dear film makers,
Greetings !
We commence a two-week Short Video Course for beginners at Don Bosco
Technical Institute, Henderson from 17th to 28th June, from 8.30am to
3pm everyday.
Alex Scott, Hayden Powick, Penny Chilton and others will be animating
the Course.
A prsentation to celebrate what these budding filmmakers have done over
the two-week period will be held on 28th June at 10am. Your presence at
the presentation will be a source of encouragement to all.
We do have a few spaces and shall be delighted to have persons
interested in the same. The course fee is SBD 750; however, if you know
of persons who you think will benefit from the Course and would like a
concession, do let me know.
Attached are a few more details.
Should you need clarifications, please drop me a line at:
amb...@donbosco.org.sb or call 36512 / 74 88104.
Blessings.
Ambrose sdb