"GENIUS VOCI" IN ISTANBUL
GENIUS VOCI
Reflection-Production-Promotion Programme for New Creative Documentaries
How to film the search for a “Better Place”
By the first decade of the twenty-first century documentary was undergoing a profound change in its direction of travel. The rethoric surrounding of the use of moving images as a tool of social action is meanwhile acquiring a fresh lease of life. The notion of social engaged documentary is not new, but now the very idea of the ‘documentarist’ as a species of professional communicator (author, activist, artist, etc.) is being called into question more comprehensively than before.
Community needs to map specific histories and stories (as well as “images”) into spaces colonised by the local powers, global corporate interests or environmental destruction also propel these new forms of documentary.
We believe that the challenge for contemporary filmmaker is to deal with these needs in order to find new ways to “film the search (and the struggle) for a better place”.
The Objectives
Genius Voci is an international Reflection-Production-Promotion Programme for New Creative Documentaries, initiated by Festival dei Popoli, Florence and Documentarist, Istanbul in the framework of Tandem EU-Turkey and supported by the
The Programme wants to enable directors and artists to improve their skills in the field of Creative Documentary film making and to develope their projects in hand; therefore the following primary objectives are:
• to Promote a shared contemplation and to provide the opportunity of analysis and involvement with outstanding theoretical and methodological approaches (seminar) as well as with outstanding artistic works;
• to Activate a creative process between Italian-Turkish film makers on the multiple ways to build different “cinematic gazes” on the same topics;
• to Assist young as well as experienced authors and film makers during the stage of the idea-generation, project-planning, through the confrontation with film directors, festival managers, film producers and commissioning editors.
The Workshops
The first edition of the programme consists in the implementation of two workshop units (WU1 and WU2) in Florence and in Istanbul.
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WU2
Where? Istanbul (Turkey)
When?
From Saturday 7th to Monday 10th June, 2014
THE PROGRAMME
WU2 is dedicated to the empirical approach of the project’s topic, will be conducted by an renowned Italian director on site: Alessandra Celesia.
This second module will focus on re-writing the participant projects, evaluation of the material and their presentation to selected professionals.
Saturday / 7th June
10.00-13.00 Project Development Reports
13.00-14.00 Lunch
break
14.00-16.00 Italian Projects Presentation
16.00-18.00 Project Development Reports II
Sunday / 8th June
10.00-13.00 Tutoring Session (curated by Andreas Treske)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
break
14.00-15.40 Alessandra Celesia The Bookseller of Belfast (Screening at Aynalı Geçit)
16.00-18.00 An encounter with filmmaker A. Celesia, "The Fine Line Between Documentary and Fiction" (at Salt Galata)
Monday / 9th June
10.00-14.00 Tutoring Session II (curated by Alessandra Celesia and Andreas Treske)
14.00-15.00 Lunch
break
15.00-18.00 Wrap Up Session
Tuesday / 10th June (optional)
16.00 Pawel Lozinski: Case Study, Father and Son (Salt Galata)
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