Greenhouse, a unique and advanced international training program, is opened for filmmakers interested in creating documentaries on the theme of Racism & Human Rights. Greenhouse, a leading organization for documentary filmmaking, aims to continue to support cultural exchanges between participating countries and contributes to mutual understanding between audiovisual actors of the European Union and the Mediterranean region, by underlining both common values and inherent cultural diversity.
Greenhouse congratulates Yael Hersonski and Itay Ken Tor, the filmmakers of "A Film Unfinished" for winning The Writers Guild of America Documentary Screenplay Award at Silverdocs Documentary Festival. See Variety's Article The film will Premiere in Israel at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in the framework of The Haggiag Family Awards for Israeli Cinema on July 14 at the Jerusalem Cinemateque. Read More...
Greenhouse and the participating filmmakers will have the privilege to attend a Master Class by Hubert Sauper, Director of the renowned documentary "Darwin's Nightmare", which won the European Academy Award for best documentary in 2004 (and many other awards in festivals around the world).
Since the first seminar April 2010, the 16 filmmakers have been working on their assignments and continued together with their personal mentors and the Greenhouse team, in developing further their written proposals and trailers.
During the second seminar and in preparation for the Pitching Forum that will take place in October 2010, the participants will focus on two essential aspects of the projects' development – the treatment and the trailers.
Alan Hayling, Editorial Director Renegade Pictures (UK) will be a special expert for the second seminar, together with Greenhouse' mentor Hans Robert Eisenhauer they will give a lecture on the financing of documentaries in the international market. Following the lecture, the filmmakers will have one-on-one meetings with Alan Hayling in order to individually discuss each project.
As in the previous seminar, the filmmakers will present their projects and trailers and will receive feedback from the mentors, John Appel, Bruni Burres and Nenad Puhovski, Alan Hayling, Hans Robert Eisenhauer, Yair Lev (Head of Studies) and Sigal Yehuda (Managing Director). Will also be present Greenhouse' partners Ahmet Boyacioglu and Dorit Inbar.
Greenhouse project, "A Film Unfinished"
Premieres in Israel at the International Jerusalem Film Festival
The film was selected to participate in the Volgin Competition of the festival!
Date: July 14, 2010
Time: 21:30
Place: Jerusalem Cinemateque
Click here for more details on the film.
10th International Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film
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Following an article published in Haaretz (Israel), the police gave a permit to Emad Bornat to go to Tel Aviv and participate in the pitching forum of the CoPro Event. Emad Bornat & Guy Davidi pitched their project to the CoPro international pitching panel.
