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.
The Greenhouse second seminar which took place in Istanbul July 2010 ended successfully last week.
For 5 days, the filmmakers worked intensively with their mentors, Bruni Burres,John Appel, Nenad Puhovski & special expert Hans Robert Eisenhauer. Together they continued analyzing core issues regarding the dramaturgy characters, the film structure and cinematic language and clarified their synopses and treatments. The filmmaker did another important step in the progress of the written proposal and worked thoroughly on their trailers that will be presented in October during the Greenhouse Pitching Forum.
The filmmakers attended a Master Class given by the award winning director Hubert Sauper(Darwin's Nightmare).During the three hour Master Class, Sauper discussed with the participants the filmmaking process of Darwin's Nightmare, from the initial idea of making his documentary through the shooting phases and the editing process. Sauper also discussed issues relevant to the ethics in documentary filmmaking.He further offered a sneak preview of his new film, currently in production.
Furthermore, Hans Robert Eisenhauer and Alan Haylin, Renegade Pictures (UK) gave a lecture pertaining to the issue of financing documentaries in the international Market.During this lecture, Hayling and Eisenhauer screened scenes from films produced or commissioned and detailed the process of the fundraising of these projects.Following this lecture, each filmmaker individually met with Hayling.
On the final day of the seminar, the filmmakers presented their projects to the mentors, the Greenhouse Team and the other filmmakers.The filmmakers pitched their projects and presented their trailers, feedback was given in order for each filmmaker to further work and improve their pitch.
Greenhouse' forth year participants, Emad Bornat and Guy Davidi directors the project "5 Broken Cameras" will take part in the summer school of the Jan Vrijman Fund August 2010 The filmmakers have been selected to participate in the Editing Consultancy training. Bornat and Davidi will work intensively with an experienced editor on an assembly of the film.
"5 Broken Cameras" won the best project award at the Greenhouse pitching forum 2009 and received a development grant from Claire Aguilar Vice President of Programming at ITVS
A few months earlier Bornat and Davidi received a production grant from the Jan Vrijman Fund.
Since their participation in the fourth Greenhouse pitching forum, the filmmakers have received international grants and aroused great interest in various documentary international organizations.
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.
