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Call from Manchester Kurdish Film Festival (MKFF’08) KurdishCinema.com - 19 March 2008 Third Manchester Kurdish Film Festival 20th - 27th September 2008. The Manchester Kurdish Film Festival, previously known as Zamawhand, returns in September for seven intensive days of screenings, seminars, and special events. Created in 2005 to provide a space wherein members of the region’s Kurdish community could come together to celebrate their native culture and introduce it to a wider audience, the festival has since expanded to include a mixture of international work, from throughout the Kurdish Diaspora, and locally- produced work by Kurdish refugees based in the North West Region, many of them making their debut as filmmakers. This year’s festival will take place at Odeon Printworks and the Contact theatre in Manchester, and will include 60 short films, 7 features, 15 documentaries, and Q&A sessions and filmmaking workshops with feature film directors. At the opening and closing ceremonies there will be traditional Kurdish food and music, and the Minister of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government will be invited to attend. MKFF would also like to invite professional film Directors such as Bahman Ghobadi, Shawkat Amin, Mano Khalil, Hisham zaman and Jano Rojbayany etc to run filmmaking workshop and script devolepment. This will be a competitive festival, with prizes for best short film, director, director of photography, male actor and female actor. The films selected will then form the basis of a programme of Kurdish film and music which will be touring the North West region during November and December. New to all other Kurdish Film Festivals there is a series of script development workshops with feature film directors. We are currently seeking pitches and proposals from new writers and filmmakers, five of which will be selected to be developed into finished screenplays, and from there into films to be screened at the festival in 2009. It is our intention to set up a mentoring system, whereby up-and-coming filmmakers can look to those already established in the industry for advice and support. We believe filmmaking should be accessible to all, and are operating an entirely open submission policy for films and script proposals, extending our call to professionals and amateurs alike. For further information, contact Festival Director Alan Amin, The Kurdish Creative Film Centre, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St, Manchester, M4 1LE, www.kurdishcreativefilm. com kcfcfilm@yahoo.co.uk 0044(0)7916288095. Manchester Kurdish Film Festival (MKFF’08) Submission Form Hosted by Kurdish Creative Film Centre (KCFC) 20 September 2008 to 27 September 2008 KCFC are delighted to announce the opening for film submissions for the MKFF’08. MKFF’08 will be hosted by KCFC, based in Manchester and will run from 20-27 September 2008. Films will be screened at The Odeon Manchester and The Contact theatre. MKFF’08 will screen 60 short-films, 7 feature films and 15 documentaries along with Q&A sessions with feature filmmakers and 5 workshops on a variety of filmmaking topics. We are calling all Kurdish filmmakers and/or films with a Kurdish connection for submission to panel selection for the festival. Entry is free and the only criteria are that films have some Kurdish connection. Each film entry must include a separate submission form. Criteria 1. All films must have a Kurdish connection. 2. All films must be in English or have English subtitles; NO film without one of these will be screened. 3. More than one film maybe submitted but each individual film must have its own completed submission form. 4. Each film submitted must supply one full quality still picture from the film on CD, JPG format. 5. No film is guaranteed to be shown, as all films will pass through a selection panel process. 6. All viewing copies must be on DVD screening. 7. Films selected for final screening must be on DVD, mini DV, DV cam, beta cam, beta SP, digi beta, 16mm or 35 mm. 8. Director, producer, Production Company or distributor must sign all submission forms. 9. The person submitting this film must have the legal right to do so and ensure all relevant permissions have been sought e.g. music, talent etc. SUBMISSION FORM About the Film 1. Name 2. Synopsis (50 words) 3. Long synopsis (200 words) 4. Audio format 5. Screening format 6. Length 7. Language 8. Has this film been screened anywhere previously, including other film festivals? 9. Has this film won any awards? About the Director 1. Name 2. Date of birth 3. Address 4. Telephone 5. Email 6. Is this the director’s first film? (If not please list previous film titles) 7. Short filmography (200 words) About the Writer 1. Name 2. Date of birth 3. Address 4. Telephone 5. Email 6. Is this the writer’s first film? (If not please list previous film titles) 7. Short biography of the writer (200 words) About the Producer 1. Name 2. Date of birth 3. Address 4. Telephone 5. Email 6. Is this the producer’s first film? (If not please list previous film titles) 7. Short filmography (200 words) About the Production Company 1. Name 2. Address 3. Telephone 4. Email 8. Is this the production company’s first film? (If not please list previous film titles) 5. Short history of the production company (200 words) Please ensure you have read and completed all the enclosed information, signed your submission form and enclosed all requested information. Submissions should be sent to: Kurdish Creative Film Centre 46-50 Oldham Street Manchester M4 1LE United Kingdom Please note: 1. MKFF’08 is not responsible for the loss or damage of any film, before we receive it. 2. MKFF’08 will not be able to return any viewing copy, unless upon a specific request and a prepaid reply envelope is supplied. However MKFF’08 will not accept responsibility for any loss or damage for this return. 3. The 1st deadline for submissions is 1 June 2008, with a final deadline of 15th June 2008, after this date we will not accept any further films, our advice is to send films promptly by these deadlines. 4. Successful submissions will be notified by the first week in July 2008 of the screening of their film. 5. For more information please contact festival Director Alan Amin on: 00447916288095 I ……………………………………………………………………. give KCFC permission to screen this film at MKFF’08, further if selected I also give permission for the screening of this film at MKFF’08 Touring and to any other opportunity for my film to be screened anywhere else. Name …………………………………………………………………………………………………… Signature …………………………………………………………………………………………………… Date …………………………………………………………………………………………………… Position …………………………………………………………………………………………………… |
