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Itinerant Cinema in Egypt. OBJECTIVES. To promote a new generation of independent Egyptian cinema artists reducing the distance between them and the audience To enhance Egyptian Filmmaking Art and to promote it throughout Egypt and abroad
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OBJECTIVES • To promote a new generation of independent Egyptian cinema artists reducing the distance between them and the audience • To enhance Egyptian Filmmaking Art and to promote it throughout Egypt and abroad • To encourage youths to join this field and to support the development of the cinema production sector • To stress the role of cinema as a tool for culture and increasing awareness • To open new channels for artistic expression
BENEFICIES and TARGET • Young and talented Egyptian Filmmakers • Egyptian Cinema Students • International and Egyptian Audience • Media - Newspaper, Radio, TV, Social Networks • International and National Cultural Institutes • Cinemagoers and group of Independent EgyptianFilmmakers
PHASES RISING STARSPROJECT ACTIONS YOUNG EGYPTIAN FILMMAKERS PUBLIC AWARNESS • Itinerant Cinema Festival (Cairo-PortSaid-Minya) • n°3 Rising Stars Screenings with Q&A • Media TVs, Newspapers • Social Networks • Visibility Actions • A 60 days Training on Documentary Production(Scriptwriting, Direction, DOP,Sound,Editing); • Production of: • n°5 Short Docs; • n°1 Photo Exhibition • DVDs containing the Short Docs and a promotional trailer.
PHASES Workshop and Short Doc Production • Trainings • Focused on the documentary production • 5 Subjects(Direction, Script, DoP, Sound, Editing) • “Learning by doing” and “exchanging roles” • National and International Trainers • Short Doc Production • Whole process: form the script to the editing • Open subject • Still Photo Collection • DVDs and Trailer production • Promotion to International Film Festival
PHASES Public Awareness Itinerant Cinema Festival Masry Asly FilmFest Sections:Competition, Extra and Rising Stars Cities of: Cairo (19-22 Jan), Port Said (28-30 Jan), Minya (2-4 Feb) Panel with Filmmakers Free entrance Rising Stars Screenings n° 3 Screening of International Documentaries Q&A Session with the Director Free entrance Visibility Actions Media TVs, Newspapers Social Networks (facebook)
RESULTS Workshop & Production • Participants:14 participants over 20 selected • Documentaries:4 short docs produced • Festival in Cairo:600 visitors in 3 days • Facebook event:520participants • Voting on line:313 on line votes over a total of 491 • 1st RS screening: 80 participants (oct 2011) Film Festival & RS Screenings • Project website:10.034 visitors in 10 months • Facebook page:543I like in 10 months • 1.485monthlyactive users • Film Fest website:816 visitors in 2 weeks Media & Social Networks
ON GOING • Last project Activities • n°2 Rising Stars Screenings • 13th of February 2012 - ICI Cairo • 19th of February 2012 - ICI Cairo • 5th Rising Stars Short Doc production • DVDs production • Promotion of the Project Short Docs in Egypt and abroad • Our Proposals…
WHAT’s NEXT • Second editions of the Masry Asly FilmFest Creation of a Festival Committee composed by cultural Actors: • European Cultural Institutions • Egyptian Cultural Associations • National and International independent filmmakers, cine critics and opinion leaders FilmFest Committee Statute FilmFest Organizational Structure Capacity building project proposals Development of Cultural Management skills
CONTACTS Ricerca e Cooperazione Paola Primavera | mob. 010 043 601 49 | p.primavera@ongrc.org Matteo Valli | mob. 010 628 222 16 | m.valli@ongrc.org INFO http://risingstarsproject.wordpress.com facebook.com/RisingStarsEgypt www.masry-asly.com - @risingstars.comm@gmail.com