Young Cuts! the accountability film-School

Young Cuts!

the accountability film-School 

April 29th-May 18th, 2014

Audio-visuals can be powerful medium for spreading ideas, changing perceptions, telling the untold stories of corruption in our society, and making citizens and power-holders more accountable. With the objective of “engaging youth for telling accountability stories” we Onion Films and Accountability Lab are jointly proud to announce the sixth Young Cuts! - a twenty-day film-making workshop totally designed for beginners and young people.

TOPICS:The meaning and importance of accountability, raising accountability issues through visual media, Story selection, planning, writing, camera technique, conceptualization, developing and writing script, direction, cinema psychology, shooting and editing short films. The "hands-on" approach will be emphasized and by the end of the workshop, participant will have the opportunity to produce a short film on a best story selected from the idea market.

This workshop will be divided into two parts:

Part 1: The class-based film-making workshop will run for six days. During this “hands-on” training, the participants will learn from several filmmakers and accountability-related professionals, and then make two films. The first film will be photo-film where they will combine a number of pictures that tell a story. The second film will be motion film (silent film) that will help to bring out creativity from the participants by not using sound or text.

Part 2: After learning the fundamentals of conceptualization, scripting, shooting, and editing, participants will head to the field, where they will have the opportunity to use their skills to produce a third and final film. Participants will be divided into 2-4 teams, will select a story based on accountability-related stories pitched by the participants themselves in the idea market, and will produce the film within a time period of fifteen days as their final project.

A closing ceremony of the workshop will be held at the MOVIE CLUB with screening of all the best films made by participants during the workshop.

TARGET AUDIENCE: This workshop is designed for young people. No prior film making experience is required. 

EXTERNAL RESOURCE PERSONS: Manoj Pandit, Abinash Bikram Shah, Suman Nidhi Sharma, Gopal Shivakoti

Internal Resource Persons: On!on Films

EQUIPMENT: We encourage all applicants to carry a DSLR/ still compact cameras or any video cameras and laptop but it is no compulsory.

REGISTRATIN FEE: NRS. 3,000/- (includes references notes, books, films, tea/coffee and certificate)
Last day to submit application form: 25th April, 2014

APPLICATION SUBMISSION PROCESS:Click here to download application form wwww.onionfilms.blogspot.com and submit it at onionfilmsnepal@gmail.com

Further information: Contact
Koshish Acharya: 9808870823
Bibhu Gautam: 9843134463 or Govinda Siwakoti: 9841842878
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