A new competitive programme that will teach aspiring documentary filmmakers the tricks of the trade is being launched this week by Arab Film Studio (AFS).
Image Nation and twofour54 Abu Dhabi have teamed up for the four-month course of classroom and practical sessions, after which each of the eight competitors will be presenting their final seven-to-10-minute film for judging in January.
This is the debut of the documentary programme, though Image Nation’s marketing manager Gehad Darwish notes that there are many similarities between this and the narrative film competition that AFS has been running for four years.
The inaugural documentary intake includes four Emirati contenders, two Syrians, a Lebanese and an Indian.
The competition was open to all UAE nationals and residents and Darwish says that the quality of the entrants was so high that they were forced to increased the number of places in the programme from the originally planned six.
“Unlike with the narrative programme, which is open to anybody who demonstrates potential to make a good film, we tried to select people with some educational or practical background in filmmaking for the documentary programme, and the very high quality of entrants has led to us expanding the field to eight,” he says.
Original article by Chris Newbould
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