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Semi-professional Arab film-makers offered support through Med Film Factory project

16-02-2012

Semi-professional Arab film directors and producers from the Southern Mediterranean partner countries are being offered the opportunity to improve their creative and professional skills while supporting the realization of their projects through training and mentoring sessions organised by the Med Film Factory project, implemented as part of the EU-funded Euromed Audiovisual III programme.

Three sessions will be held as follows:
 
  • Directors’ Workshop (July 2012)
  • Producers’ Coaching Programme (December 2012)
  • Independent Film Assembly (Spring 2013)
 
Med Film Factory teams, tutors and mentors will provide directors and producers with an ongoing support between sessions and even after the programme has ended to strengthen their projects and develop them further.
 
The deadline for submitting applications is 22 April 2012.
 
Initiated by the Royal Film Commission - Jordan, Sud Ecriture, Tunisia and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Ireland and co-financed by the Euromed Audiovisual Programme of the European Union, Med Film Factoryis an advanced training programme, aimed at semi-professional teams of Arab film directors and producers from the Southern Mediterranean region.
 
The Euromed Audiovisual III programme aims to contribute to the development and strengthening of the capacity of the film sector in the ENPI South region (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia) and to contribute significantly to mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity, in line with the Strategy for the Development of Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Cooperation, approved by Euromed culture ministers in Athens in May 2008. (ENPI Info Centre)
 
Read more
 
Press release
 
Application check-list&Application form
 
Med Film Factory factsheet
 
Med Film Factory website
  
Euromed Audiovisual III – fiche and news
 
Euromed Audiovisual – website
 
 
 

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