New Workshops

ZIFF is holding three workshops with priority access for East African Filmmakers...

In order to attend please send your name and a personal statement to accomodation@ziff.or.tz about why you wish to attend the workshop. Selected participants will have to pay their way to Zanzibar but accommodation will be provided by the festival.

GRANTS AND CO-PRODUCTION WORKSHOP (Thursday 15th 15.00- 17.00)

CO-PRODUCTION WITH SWEDEN 
Following on from the success of the Uganda-Sweden Coproduction Imani, CinemAfrica festival has organised for a roundtable discussion with co-producers and potential co-producers on co-production opportunities with Sweden. Jan Marnell, co-producer on Imani and Carol Kamya together with CinemAfrica will be leading the workshop.

GRANT INFO FROM UGANDA 
VeFJO e.V. (association for the support of film makers and independent journalists in East Africa) in cooperation with F&J Support Ltd. (Kampala, Uganda) are currently inviting applications from East Africa to apply for a development grant for documentary films.  VeFJO e.V. will be here to talk more about the grant. 

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION: THE CREATIVE GENIUS OF CONNIE FIELD (Thursday 15th, 09.30- 13.30pm)
The objective of this day-long workshop is to provide an intense overview of the art of documentary production. Connie Field (producer / director) has worked on numerous dramatic and documentary films. Her feature documentary, “Freedom on My Mind” (1994) is a history of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. It was nominated for an Academy Award; won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival; Best of Northern California, National Educational Film Festival. She was a co-director on “Forever Activists” (1990 Academy Award Nominee, produced & directed by Judy Montell), and she produced, directed and edited the feature documentary “The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter” (1981). “Rosie” earned fifteen international awards for Best Documentary (including Gold Hugo, Chicago; John Grierson, Blue Ribbon, American International Festival; Golden Marazzo, Festival dei Popoli; Gold Award, Houston; Cine Golden Eagle; Golden Athena, Athens Festival; British Academy Award Nominee), http://www.clarityfilms.org/about.html

CINEPHILMS:CELL PHONE FILMS PRODUCTION (Tuesday 13th, 9.30- 1.30pm)
This state of the art workshop will be presented by Thomas Bongani Hart and Jonathan Dockney of the The University of Natal South Africa. Cellphone filmmaking (cellphilmmaking) is a fast emerging global phenomenon. Owing to the convergence of technologies, the cellphone has entered the film industry and become a viable production and consumption medium. Convergence has made possible for people to produce and consume content – prosumption. As a result, in Africa, where almost 50% of people have access to a cellphone, cellphilmmaking offers serious potential for filmmakers. The cellphone poses its own aesthetics. The small screen and camera quality have placed specific restraints on production. Come and learn from the best in the field. Bring your mobile phone and make a movie! http://www.africanscreens.com/commentary/jonathan/