September 2010 newsletter INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT ARTE France
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Lebanon
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Brazil
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France
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Training programs ►
Aristoteles
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You can now browse our Autumn 2010 brochure http://www.artepro.com/fr_fichiers/fichiers/03381719.pdf
Festivals and special events Lebanon ARTE is partner of Ayam Beirut al Cinema’iya -The Cinema Days of Beirut (16th to 26th September)
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ARTE France is partner of the Arab film festival Ayam Beirut Al Cinema'iya – The Cinema Days of Beirut organised by Beirut DC. There will be an ARTE special evening on 21st September. Two films will be shown : The Hunter directed by Rafi Pitts With Vincenzo Bugno from World Cinema Fund who supported the film ; Fix me with film director Raed Andoni Carlos by Olivier Assayas will be shown at the festival’s closing night gala on 25th September. The film director will attend the screening. There will be a pitching session on 19th September focusing on the documentary projects developed in the 2009/2010 Pile et Face workshop. 7 projects will be pitched :
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Un exil volontaire Director : Karima Zoubir - Producer : Bouchra Zeinedine (Morocco) L’Oued Director : Abdelnour Zahzah - Producer : Yacine Laloui (Algeria) House of Girls Director: Nagy Ismael - Producer : Nagham Osman (Egypt) The Heart of Me Director : Reem Ghazy - Producer : Avo Kaberlian (Syria) The Kites Director: Nidal Hassan - Producer : Alaa el Ahmad (Syria) Mon Oncle, le Terroriste Director : Elias Moubarak - Producer : Farah Alameh (Lebanon) Ya Trein Director : Elias Maalouf - Producer : Nermine Haddah (Lebanon)
The panel will include Mohamad Belhaj (Al Jazeera), Vincenzo Bugno (World Cinema Fund), Annamaria Lodato (ARTE France), Antoine Khalife (Dubai International Film Festival), Paul-Charlemagne Coffie (International Organization of the Francophonie), Rasmus Abrahamsen (Koncern Film Copenhagen), Nagla el Emary (BBC Arabic – UK), Georges Choucair (Abbout Production - Lebanon), Najat Rizk (First Horse Production – Lebanon), Sabine Sursock (Imagic – Lebanon). The directors and producers were specially trained in scriptwriting by Samir Nasr, Bernard Monsigny and Eliane Raheb in the 2009 workshop, and taught screen production by Jacques Bidou, Xavier Carniaux and Hala Abdallah in the 2010 Eurodoc course. Director/producer Hala Abdallah tutors them.
This training program is sponsored by ARTE France, Ehdeniyat, the Goethe Institut, the French Cultural Mission in Lebanon, the Jan Vrijman Fund, the Agency for French speaking countries (Agence de la Francophonie), the René Seydoux Foundation, the Dubai International Film Festival, and the IESAV (the Institute of Theatrical, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies - Saint Joseph University). http://www.beirutdc.org
Brazil ARTE is partner of the Rio Film Festival (23rd September to 7th October)
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ARTE is partner of the Rio Film Festival and will present : on 1st October, a round table conference on web-documentaries and web-dramas with the participation of Alex Szalat, Director of ARTE France’s Current Affairs, Social Issues and Geopolitical Department, François Sauvagnargues, ARTE France’s Director of Drama, Serge Gordey, director and producer as well as Brazilian professionals. on 3rd October, an ARTE Gala Evening centred around the feature film Rio Sex Comedy by Jonathan Nossiter.
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A retrospective of the work of Bruno Dumont with director in attendance. André de Margerie, Director of International Relations of ARTE France, will be present in Rio so as to meet the representatives of Brazilian TV channels. http://www.festivaldorio.com.br
France ARTE is partner of the Festival de Biarritz Amérique latine (27th September to 3rd October)
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ARTE France is renewing its partnership with the Festival de Biarritz Amérique latine. Four films will be screened in the course of an ARTE special programming: L’Amérique latine à la reconquête d’elle-même by Gonzalo Arijon La musique, avenir du Venezuela : El Sistema by Paul Smaczny and Maria Stodtmeier Pour tout l’or des Andes by Carmen Castillo Le ventre des femmes by Mathilde Damoisel Annamaria Lodato, Head of Communications for ARTE France’s International Relations Department, will be attending the festival. http://www.festivaldebiarritz.com
Training programs
►Romania Aristoteles Workshop (1st August to 5th September) This year the Aristoteles Workshop took up residence in Vama, in the Romanian province of Vukovina. Seventeen students from Romania, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic divided into four teams attended the workshop. Two permanent tutors, Rafi Pitts and Nino Kirtadze as well as various contributors coached them. After five weeks of intensive work, 4 twenty-minute-films were presented to a small judging panel of representatives from the Universities of Prague, Bucharest and Budapest, ARTE France and TVR, the Romanian public channel. Two films were singled out as being particularly good : Building n°6 directed by the Hungarian student, Peter Akar and A summer of Mosquitoes directed by the Polish student, Agnieszka Kowalczyk. The two students will share a 3,000 Euro award which will help them to put the finishing touches to their documentaries.
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For this fifth edition, the workshop, specially dedicated to the training of budding documentary makers, obtained a grant from the European Union (“Media Programme”) in addition to the financial support of ARTE France and the Romanian Film Institute, its two founders. The Romanian Cultural Centre also helped to fund the workshop. For the first time, the Film departments of the Universities of Prague, Bucharest and Budapest entered into the partnership and took part in all the decisions relating to the running of the workshop. They will help to publicise the training course in the three countries. http://www.aworkshop.org
Contacts at the International Relations Department André de Margerie Director of International Relations tel. + 33 (0)1 55 00 71 01 -
[email protected] Jean-François Pellier Head of New Developments tel. + 33 (0)1 55 00 70 98 -
[email protected] Anne Soler Head of Eastern Europe and French-speaking promotion Sector tel. + 33 (0)1 55 00 70 99 -
[email protected] Annamaria Lodato Head of Communications tel. + 33 (0)1 55 00 71 02 -
[email protected] Sylvie Bousselet Executive Assistant (André de Margerie, Jean-François Pellier) tel. + 33 (0)1 55 00 71 01 –
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Fiona Herry Assistant (Anne Soler, Annamaria Lodato) tél. + 33 (0)1 55 00 74 51 –
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