ZIFF: Call for applications to attend the assistant film directors workshop in Zanzibar
As a response to industry expressions in the need to professionalize film production in the Bongo Movies Cinema, ZIFF is organizing the assistant director workshop to be held in Zanzibar later this year.
The 4-day workshop to be held during the ZIFF festival will be led by Gabrielle Heberling, Film and TV series Director from Germany. In a collaborative program with the Goethe Institute, Dar Es Salaam and GIZ the Film Production Workshop will take an innovative approach.
The concept for this workshop involves the professional training of a group of up-coming filmmakers through working with a core group of professionals as these make a short film during the festival. The Professionals (Producer, Director, Camera person, Editor and Sound person)
will work on a script specially written for the workshop and a limited number of participants (10) will assist as the film gets made.
Nicholas Stampe, is the Chief trainer. He will lead the team in a guerilla film-making production style while applying skills learned during the workshop itself. The training will focus on aspects of low-budget film-making involving:
Scriptwriting, Pre-production, Production and Post-production.
A call is made for participants from around the East Africa region to apply for the workshop. ZIFF will cover accommodation costs of 5 selected participants but all the other costs will have to be borne by the applicants.
Deadline – 30th MAY 2013. Send you application to [email protected] or [email protected]
Submit through ZIFF submission page online through [email protected] or [email protected]
What Are Assistant Directors?
Assistant Directors are responsible for the assembly of all the elements
needed for filming and for the daily operation of the shooting set. Their
objective is to provide the Director with everything he or she needs to put
his or her vision on film. Their duties are supervisory, organizational,
administrative – and multifarious – they make schedules, attend to the
cast, direct extras, oversee the crew as each shot is prepared, create
detailed reports of each day’s events, among may other things, and are
looked to by cast and crew to solve the many problems that continually
arise.
The First Assistant Director is the Director’s right hand.
Assistant Directors are not Directors in the making. Although some
Assistant Directors have become Directors, the managerial/administrative
road more often leads to becoming a Production Manager and/or Producer. In
fact, being an Assistant Director is a career objective in itself; it is a
highly revered, lucrative position with excellent benefits that enjoys
considerable status in the industry.
CALL FOR SHORT-FILM SCRIPTS
ZIFF 2013 is introducing a *Short-Film Script Competition *as an extension to our Film Workshop Program. Filmmakers from East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi) are invited to submit their scripts which shall evolve around aspects of the *East African Integration
process*. Entry RegulationsDEADLINE: APRIL 30TH, 2013
*Entry is FREE! ** *
*You will need to provide the following:** *
*A short Bio and Filmography *
*500 word motivation statement, saying what you think about East African
integration.*
– *Only East African nationals are eligible.
– *Submit through our submission page online through
*[email protected] or [email protected]
http://www.ziff.or.tz/events/call-short-film-competition
The script should be written in English for a film of between 10 and
15 minutes.
– Creative scripts are encouraged to showcase dramatic storytelling
abilities.
