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In September 2005, the San Sebastian, Amiens and Fribourg International
Film Festivals launched Cinema in Motion, a
new yearly professional rendezvous for filmmakers from the Maghreb
and Portuguese-speaking African countries.
Following this first experience and its endeavour
to precisely respond to the requirements and suggestions of
the African filmmakers themselves, Cinema in Motion
2 will take place in San Sebastian on Monday 25 September 2006.
Amiens will subsequently pick up the French baton in November
2006 followed by Fribourg, Switzerland, in March 2007.
With Cinema in Motion, the
three festivals continue to explore new paths permitting the
completion of as yet unfinished projects and films, serving
as an efficient bridge between professionals, companies and
institutions in these African countries, Europe and South America.
While this rendezvous will concentrate on the
presentation of movies filmed and/or at the post-production
stage, it will also offer the chance to discover projects at
the funding stage (finished screenplays that already have a
minimum funding of 30%). The selected directors and/or producers
will have the opportunity to defend their projects and films
before professionals from all sectors registered at the San
Sebastian Festival Sales Office.
Cinema in Motion was created
to help filmmakers from the Maghreb and from Portuguese-speaking
African countries by:
- Allotting an annual space to professionals
from these countries at the San Sebastian Festival and its
Sales Office with a view to making their activities better
known;
- Giving this rendezvous a European
slant thanks to close collaboration with the Amiens and Fribourg
festivals, and with Spanish, French and Portuguese institutions;
- Helping movies at the project, filming
and post-production stage to reach the audience thanks to
a mixture of screenings exclusively reserved for professionals
and material aid granted by the technical industries;
- Proposing new channels of diffusion
between Africa and South America.
Different kinds of specific backing will be offered
at
Cinema in Motion 2:
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One of the projects or films proposed
will receive the sum of 15,000 euros from the French Centre
National de la Cinématographie (CNC) towards its
post-production in France, and the equivalent of 15,000
euros in mixing work from the Parisian company, Mactari.
Titra Film will provide the French subtitling and Mikros
Images a post-production process adapted to the specific
needs of the chosen film. The Amiens Festival will offer
a 35 mm copy of the winning work.
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One of the proposed projects or films
will receive the Swiss Effects and Kodak Suisse Award consisting
of an enlargement (conversion from digital format to 35mm
film, costing approximately 30,000 euros). Titra Film will
offer French subtitling of the winning work. The Fribourg
Festival will give a 35mm copy of the film.
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All of the filmmakers invited to present
their projects and films in Cinema in Motion will have the
chance to subsequently participate in an annual tour of
South American film archives, organised by the San Sebastian
Festival and the African Cinema Festival of Tarifa (www.mca-t.org),
with the backing of the Amiens and Fribourg festivals. The
first tour – Mexico, Bogota, Buenos Aires –
will be presented in Tarifa on 5th May 2006 and will run
from June 2006.
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Amiens Festival will offer one of the
participating projects a reading of its screenplay by professional
actors at its this year’s Festival, to take place
from 10th-19th November 2006.
Registration deadline for 2006
(screenplays and DVD copies of films at the post-production
stage) at any of the three festivals:
15th July 2006
Contactos:
A look at last year’s Cinema
in Motion 1
The first Cinema in Movement, which took place
in September 2005 at San Sebastian Festival, consisted of 91
participants from 14 countries, and was attended by representatives
of 53 companies and organisations.
Based on an initiative of the Spanish Agency
for International Co-operation (AECI), the participants in Cinema
in Motion signed a declaration welcoming the birth of this new
space at the Festival, aimed at fostering the joining of forces
on initiatives in the creation and diffusion sector.
Award-winning films in 2005:
- O jardim do Outro Homen, by Sol de Carvalho (Mozambique),
received from the Centre National de la Cinématographie
15,000 euros towards its post-production in France, and 15,000
euros in mixing work from the Parisian company Mactari. The
Amiens Festival gave a 35mm copy of the film.
- Le Mariage du loup, by Jilani Saadi
(Tunisia), won the Swiss Effects and Kodak Suisse Award consisting
of an enlargement (conversion from digital format to 35mm
film, for the approximate value of 30,000 euros). The Fribourg
Festival gave a 35mm copy of the film.
- L’Andalou (El andaluz), by Mohamed
Chouikh (Algeria), presented in screenplay format, will receive
the help of the Centre cinématographique marocain,
particularly at the moment of its post-production.
Amiens Festival, which has been working with
African projects for several years now, picked up the first
baton in France by screening the two winning works at its 25th
Festival last November. The Fribourg Festival followed its example
in Switzerland in March 2006.
Cinema in Motion 2005 was backed by the following
companies and institutions:
- Spain: Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània
(Barcelona), Agencia Española de Cooperación
Internacional (AECI), Fundación Audiovisual de Andalucía.
- France: Ateliers du Cinéma
Européen (ACE), Centre National de la Cinématographie
(CNC), Commission du Film d’Île-de-France, Mactari
(mixing auditorium), TV5.
- Morocco: Centre cinématographique
marocain (CCM)
- Portugal: Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual
e Multimédia (ICAM)
- Switzerland: Kodak Suisse, Swiss
Effects.
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