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Interchange Programme Icbook of Projects 2010 Icbook of projects 2010 Interchange Programme with the support of Filmmaking can be a place where stories still explore Seven years ago the Dubai International Film the infinity of possible worlds and experiences. This Festival was launched with the mission to celebrate exploration takes time and faith that it will not be in excellence in cinema, using it as a medium vain. Phases of solitude, and maybe even loneliness, to promote open dialogue between cultures can alternate with phases of intense collaboration. and nations; to nurture and develop local and We tell ourselves our stories, we share them and international talent; and to accelerate and foster the see them become through this process. Being able growth of the industry. to nurture ideas, in the working together with other filmmakers, story editors, creative producers can The Interchange programme speaks directly to this help to bear the weight of the whole process, and intention. bring it to a gratifying conclusion. In creating Interchange the Festival has developed TorinoFilmLab was born in April 2008 with a relationships with two leading training providers in precise aim: linking training, development and Europe - TorinoFilmLab and EAVE - and with support TorinoFilmLab funding activities. We want to support filmmakers from the MEDIA Mundus has opened up new from all over the world at their first or second opportunities for filmmakers from the Gulf region Interchange feature, following them, as far as possible, from the and selected countries in the Middle East to benefit beginning to the end of their path. This process from this rich source of experience. Programme needs a vision that has to be shared, first of all, with the Institutions that support all activities: Ministero Filmmaking is an international business and per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Piemonte, filmmakers need to acquire the skills to be able Città di Torino, the EU MEDIA Programme and to interact in this environment to raise finance MEDIA International. We want to thank them for and to reach out to audiences around the world. believing that TorinoFilmLab can, in time, help Interchange provides a forum for filmmakers from develop the Italian and European audiovisual Industry Europe and the Arab region to come together to through a close interaction with the rest of the exchange ideas, experiences and expertise to help world. each other explore new opportunities in these markets under the guidance of highly experienced Interchange is the first Programme that Torinofilmlab teachers and industry professionals. has designed together with the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE, specifically dedicated to One of the greatest assets the participants will linking the European and the Arab filmmaking take with them after the course is finished is the worlds. We want to thank our partners, because network of international contacts and friends they they have made our working experience not only will establish during the programme - and the open extremely productive, but also gratifying and fun! dialogue that will continue into the future and result in new collaborations. Savina Neirotti, TorinoFilmLab Director Jane Williams Dubai Film Connection & Film Forum Director Ic Index 8 Tutors Projects 12 Nostalgia - Zaid Abu Hamdan 16 A Personal Obligation - Haifaa Al Mansour 20 Khsara - Suha Araj 24 Heaven Sent - Wissam Charaf 28 Beirut, I Love You - Zena el Khalil & Gigi Roccati 32 Kawthar - Samer Ghorayeb & Firas Khnaisser 36 Smile! You’re in Jeddah - Ahd Kamel 40 Habibi99 - Mousaed Khaled 44 A Gaza Weekend - Basil Khalil 48 A Plane For My Soul - Maythem Ridha 52 This War On Love - Hind Shoufani 56 Staff Tutors Roshanak Jacques Akchoti - France Behesht Nedjad - Germany Antoine Le Bos - France Gino Ventriglia - Italy scriptwriter producer scriptwriter & story editor scriptwriter & story editor After his studies at NYU Filmschool, Jacques Akchoti Roshanak began working in the film-industry Antoine Le Bos is a French screenwriter and Born in Naples, 1954, he works as a script worked in different areas of film production with as a festival coordinator and production manager. script-consultant, with more than 25 feature scripts consultant for cinema and television production directors such as R. Bresson, JJ. Beineix, L. Von Trier. delivered under contract as a writer or co-writer, companies (Rai Cinema, Lumiere, Studio Canal In 1999 she started her company Flying Moon, and the experience of over a hundred feature Urania, Tao2, Cattleya, Sintra, Eagle Pictures, He then became a screenwriter and script together with Helge Albers and Konstantin projects followed as a consultant. Grundy, Filmmaster, IDF, Istituto Luce, Italian consultant, and headed the development of many Kröning. Since then they have been producing International Films, Bavaria). French and international films for cinema and audience-oriented films (feature films as well as After a first life as a sailor and an interrupted PhD television that obtained selections and awards at documentaries) with an edge and a strong focus in Philosophy at the Sorbonne, he graduated from For cinema, he co-wrote three movies. major film festivals. Most recently, A Screaming Man on international co- productions, with partners the CEEA in Paris (the French Conservatoire for For television, he wrote and developed a number by Haroun Mahamat Saleh, Jury Prize at the 2010 from countries like Ireland, UK, Turkey, Iran and Filmwriting) in 1996. After directing short films and of tv movies, tv series and long series. Cannes Film Festival. many others. on-stage experiments - theater, contemporary opera in Paris and Prague, he co-created the 3D He teaches drama theories (Corso Rai-Script, He directed a feature film for television and has Films by Flying Moon were screened successfully animation series Ratz, shown in more than 20 Scuola Holden, Centro Sperimentale di written several screenplays. His latest script, Don’t at festivals and sold around the world, among them countries, and created the ciné-écritures workshops Cinematografia). Look back, a film by Marina De Van featuring Sophie are award-winning projects like Havanna in Amor - in Paris in 2002. Soon he discovered a deep taste Marceau and Monica Bellucci was part of the German National Film. for dramaturgy. He then worked as a consultant He edited the books Three uses of the knife - Official Selection of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. for the Moulin d’Andé (CECI, France), tutoring their theoretical writings by David Mamet, Dancer in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 rewriting sessions, as well as Dark by Lars Von Trier, and Alternative Scriptwriting Jacques has been teaching writing and directing at European short Pitch 2007 to 2010 sessions, and by Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush. Since 1994 he has the Femis (National French Filmschool) since 1988 teaches screenwriting at Brest University. been a member of the editorial staff of the quarterly and has facilitated many international screenwriting He won the Gan Foundation Prize as a writer in magazine Script. and development workshops, among which EAVE, 2005, and works with among others the Afghan Sud Ecriture, DV8 films, Vision Cinema, Ekran, director and Prix Goncourt winner Atiq Rahimi. He got a Fulbright Fellowship and achieved Interchange, etc. a double Master of Fine Arts in Directing and Since 2007, he has been Artistic Director of Le Screenwriting at the USC - University of Southern Groupe Ouest, European center for film creation California in Los Angeles. in Britanny (France), and he recently co-created the Cross Channel Film Lab between France and Great Britain. He’s been a tutor for Script&Pitch Workshops and TorinoFilmLab since 2007, as well as for Interchange in 2009 and 2010. 8 9 Tutors Sibylle Kurz - Germany pitching expert With an academic background in media & communication science, psychology, sociology, Sibylle Kurz set up her own consulting company in 1995 as a Pitching & Communication Skills Trainer. Ic Her experience in “The Art of Pitching” results from more than 15 years’ experience in acquisition, distribution and co-production of theatrical, video and TV films for an independent company in the German-speaking market. Interchange Focus of her work is intensive pitching training, Programme project & personal presentation, proposal development for people working in “arts, media & culture”. The workshops and personal coachings enable creatively working talents to hone and time-tune their projects prior to pitching as well as to gain insight into their own professional practice. She works all over Europe and further abroad for the following group of clients: Producers, Writers, Filmschools+Institutes, Publishers, Artists, Composers, ...basically all creatively working people with strong ideas to be brought to life! She has published numerous articles and books about her main subject: e.g. Pitch it! Die Kunst Filmprojekte erfolgreich zu verkaufen (2000, 2008); Low-Budget-Filme. Marketing und Vertrieb optimieren (2006) – both UVK Verlag Konstanz. She is a member of EDN-European Documentary Network, DK. 10 11 script & intention Being a man growing up in the 80s and 90s in the Middle East, one of 4 brothers and having no sisters in my family, I always wondered. What if we were 4 girls living under the same conditions? Would my Ic 3 brothers be as happy as they are? Would my parents still be happy about me being a film director in Hollywood at 28, or is a married daughter with children more appropriate at this age? “Tradition” & “freedom”, how are these terms defined in the Middle East? Despite all revolutions of the world to overcome tradition, a part of us still wants to stick to tradition; a part of us indeed feels safer with it; while a part of us still yearns for freedom. In general, women Zaid Abu Hamdan in the Arab world have gained more freedom & independence within writer & director their cultures. After the sisters in Nostalgia were no longer under “old- school” domestic authorities, freeing themselves from what tradition Born and raised in Jordan.
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