Call for Participants: Nisimazine Abu Dhabi Film Journalism Workshop
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Tuesday, June 29 - The Abu Dhabi Film Festival and
NISI MASA announced plans for Nisimazine Abu Dhabi, a film
journalism workshop to be held at the 4th edition of the
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (October 14-23, 2010). NISI MASA is
currently seeking 7 aspiring young film critics and 1 photographer,
all between the ages of 18 and 35, to take part in its first-ever
Nisimazine workshop based in the Arab world.
Four of the talented individuals selected will be from Arab
countries, and four will be European. This international editorial
team, along with two professional tutors and NISI MASA staff, will
create daily issues of the Nisimazine Abu Dhabi gazette
covering the Abu Dhabi Film Festival' activities.
Eight issues of Nisimazine Abu Dhabi, to be printed in
English and Arabic, will contain film reviews, interviews, thematic
articles, news and pictures from the festival. In addition to the
printed run, an electronic version will be available on the
Nisimazine official website (www.nisimazine.eu).
The deadline to apply is July 31, 2010, and the
list of participants will be announced by August 15. More
information and the application form are available at www.nisimasa.com.
NISI MASA, a European network of young cinema professionals and
enthusiasts, first experimented with the production of a free daily
gazette in the framework of a film journalism workshop during the
Cannes Film Festival in 2006. Since then, their workshops have
taken place at festivals in Italy, Iran, Finland, Turkey, the
Netherlands, Peru and Brazil.
For further questions and comments, please write to nisimazine-abudhabi@nisimasa.com.