Osian’s-Cinefan is proud to announce the 5th edition of Talent Campus India organised in collaboration with Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival and Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi.
Talent Campus is a 6-day workshop where up to 30 young aspiring filmmakers will be invited from India, neighbouring South Asian countries and Iran to New Delhi to interact with renowned filmmakers and film professionals from India and abroad.
The aim of the workshop is to provide Indian and South Asian youth a forum for learning and sharing the process of filmmaking. The application is open to India, its neighbouring countries as well as Iran. Participants will benefit not only from the calibre and experience of the professionals involved, but also from the exchange of ideas among themselves. Areas of discussion will include screenplay writing, adaptation of novel, direction and understanding key issues such as audience and genre.
The 5th Talent Campus India will take place from 13 to 18 July, 2008. It will run along side Osian’s Cinefan, 10th Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (10-20 July, 2008), within the framework of the programme ‘Infrastructure Building for Minds and Markets – IBM2.
In addition to attending seminars and workshops, the selected Talents will have the opportunity to see the very best of Asian cinema being showcased during Osian’s-Cinefan 10.
Along with the application for, applicants are required to submit either A one minute film. This can also be a one minute excerpt of a longer film. Any entry that is longer than 60 seconds will NOT be considered.
OR A five minute film. This should be directed by the applicant especially for Talent Campus India specifically on the subject of EVERYDAY JOURNEYS. The film should be NO LONGER than five minutes. The best two of the selected five minute films will be awarded a Certificate of Appreciation.
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3500 – 4500 word film script. Make sure that it is a film script! The language of the script needs to be English. It can be a translation of a script written in any other language and the original can also be sent along with the English version. The script needs to be a typed printout and not handwritten.
You can send us the one minute or five minute films on a VHS, VCD or a DVD formats only. We will not accept multi-media video formats like AVI, windows media format (WMF), mpeg, quick time, real video or shockwave (flash) format.
An independently constituted Committee will select up to 30 Talents to attend the final workshop. The deadline for applications is 10th May 2008.
Subject for five minute films for Talent Campus India #5
EVERYDAY JOURNEYS
Do you often travel from one place to another, one stage to another or by one mode of transport or another? Do you trace imagined journeys of sorts through books, photographs, conversations, encountering and unraveling the complexities of interaction, engagement and discovery? Do you map a plan as to how to get from point A to point B in a city or how to catch the next bus, auto rickshaw or taxi? Or does your mind travel when you are waiting to take the train from the suburbs to the city?
In their growth Asian cities, suburbs and villages have carried forward histories, cultures, lifestyles and people with the kind of spatial and temporal simultaneity and existence that makes way for complex everyday negotiations. It is these everyday passages that we are interested in seeing represented in your films! A journey between your home and college or work can be just as intriguing as a journey across borders and dreaming in broad daylight is a journey as well that we have all indulged in and found pleasure!
