[Falkor-info] Caucasus Documentary Festival "Footprints"

[info@falkor.org]

Forwarded from CYEN (footprints@cenn.org):


Announcement and Call out Caucasus Documentary Festival "Footprints”

Tbilisi, Georgia, December 6-7-8, 2006

Just a few more weeks and it is happening......... We are all so
excited we can hardly wait! The first independent Documentary Film
Festival of the South Caucasus, called “Footprints” will take place from
December 6-8th 2006!
Situated in Rustaveli Cinema, Tbilisi will see three days of documentary
films from young and old documentary makers from all three countries!
Doc’s about nature, about modern heroes, about cultural identity. From
tree to choir, from ethnic cooking to national dancing…. All caught on
film and all ready for you to see!

Come and watch for yourself all good things about our region (South
Caucasus) but also those things that need to change. One of our main
aims is to feature those who are working towards sustainable change of
society and to improve peoples lives. Modern day heroes giving off a
positive signal to our audience! YOUR society needs YOU and YOU are the
one that can make a difference!

What do your footprints reveal about you and which road do you choose
for the future?

Are you interested to contribute to our festival as a (young)
documentary maker, journalist or simply as an interested volunteer,
contact us! Sent an email to footprints@cenn.org

Keep informed through our website: www.footprints.ge

Below you can find the information for documentary makers about our
festival and more about our special YOUTH competition with VERY good
prices to win!
Information in Russian can be downloaded from
http://www.falkor.org/news/getactive.htm#fp

See you in December!!!!!?????

The organizing team!

PS: We are sponsored and supported by: Jan Vrijman Fund/ IDFA-The
Netherlands, British Council Georgia, Independent Filmmakers Association
South Caucasus, CENN; Caucasus Environmental NGO Network, the European
Union, Falkor I.C.Y and many more!!!!!!!!!!!! Big thanks to all for
enabling us to do this!


----------
Call out for Documentaries


1 cinema, 3 theme’s, 3 countries, 40 documentaries, 2.500 visitors and
…. YOU!!!!???

We are looking for entries for the first documentary festival in the
South Caucasus!

Do you have a recent documentary on: (Caucasus) rivers, culture, human
rights, minorities, disabled people coping with their opportunities,
illegal cutting of forests, children singing folk, pollution, cross
border cooperation, psychiatric patients painting, old people playing
traditional instruments or anything else fitting in out three themes:

-man versus nature
-heroes or our time
-cultural identity versus globalization

Then we invite you to submit your documentary for our festival!

What do we want?

We want to show positive images of people making the best of their lives!

We want to promote young people involving themselves in the art of
media-making!

We want to inspire young and old to take action on matters close to
their environment and their hearts!

We want to provide people with more information on what is happening in
their countries and with their neighbours!

We want to wake up our societies!

Selection criteria:
The documentary should:
-fit within the categories of our festival
-deal with topics relevant to one or more countries of Southern Caucasus
-between 15-120 minutes
-spoken or subtitled in either Russian or English
-help the audience to grow a better understanding of the topic of the
documentary
-be on DVD format

What do we have to offer:

No money unfortunately, BUT we will:

When selected:

-generate an audience and create a space for you to meet with the
audience and explain your documentary
-Put your Curriculum Vitae on “cv-section” of our website
-Write about your documentary in our festival magazine and on our website
-Provide you with the opportunity to attend a workshop on “how to enter
documentary festivals abroad”
-Provide opportunities for you to meet other documentary makers and
directors
-Promote your documentary as part of our festival on general mainstream
media

There will be some, however limited, resources for accommodation and
travel reimbursement for young documentary makers from Armenia and
Azerbijan as well as for subtitling movies into English.

For more information on the festival and entry of your documentary,
please contact footprints@cenn.org; natalie.giorgadze@cenn.org


-------------
Call out for the Youth Competition


Footprints Documentary Competition 2006 Call Out!

A hero of MY time!

At the beginning of December Tbilisi will be the stage of the South
Caucasus Documentary Festival.

We aim at hosting documentaries on three themes:

-Man vs. Nature
-Heroes of OUR time
-Cultural Identity vs. Globalisation

As one of our main purposes of this festival is to support and inspire
young documentary makers we would like you to enter our competition.

What are we looking for:
-a short (max.10 minutes) documentary showing YOUR local hero or heroine.
-Show his/her activity; how are they involved in improving your society
and what motivates them? It can be a politician or a priest but perhaps
even your neighbour. We believe there is a hero hiding in everyone, so
time to show!
-Age, cultural background, religion or what their topic is, is not
important, just show us why he/she is a hero of OUR time

Who is eligible for the competition:
-you are between 16-27 years old
-citizen of Armenia, Azerbijan or Georgia
-your documentary is subtitled in English or Russian or spoken in either
two languages.
-Professional education is NOT of importance, your enthusiasm and
creativity is!

Prices:
-the best 25 entries will be shown during our festival and the makers
will receive a certificate of entry and selection
-the best 10 makers will be invited to share their work and views during
a press conference and will be invited to participate in our “Media
ACT!” seminar
-the best 3 will receive a financial reward of 250, 150 and 100 euro’s
to be spent on materials and/or further education

AND!!!!

During the festival we are hoping to give you information on how to
interest “foreign” festivals in screening your work!!!!  If you have a
CV we can put it online on our website on the “CV” section.

Previous to the festival we will host a seminar on documentary making,
the role of young media makers in society and on how to popularise
environmental topics though mainstream media. Keep your ears and eyes
open and don’t miss the call out for the seminar later this month.

Deadline:

Please sent us your entry on cd/dvd before Friday November 17th 2006.
Entries received after this date are unfortunately excluded from
competition.

Adress: 27 Bethlemi street, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

E-mail: footprints@cenn.org; Natalie.giorgadze@cenn.org