Explore the world of film and learn how to make your documentary at Exploration Workshop!
If you are a young person passionate about film, video editing, photography and believe you can contribute to the development of your community, you are the perfect candidate for the Exploration Workshop. The workshop will take place in Chisinau on 25 November – 1 December 2024.
About the Workshop
The workshop aims to give young people an introduction to the world of filmmaking and the basics of documentary filmmaking and plenty of hands-on experience through a series of field exercises. It is an intensive workshop where participants will learn documentary filmmaking techniques, film equipment, and working with a film editor. At the end, they will make a short film, aiming to cultivate a closer look through art on the reality surrounding us.
Under the guidance of director and camerawoman Nora Agapi, the short films will be made on urgent social issues in Chisinau. The workshop aims to be a space for creation and free discussion so that in just a few days, participants will learn how to express themselves and contribute to solving social problems through art.
The workshop will culminate with a public screening of the participants’ short films in one of the cinemas in Chisinau.
Who can participate:
- Age: 16+;
- Participants are residents of the Republic of Moldova (this also includes refugees and beneficiaries of temporary protection in Moldova).
How to participate:
Participation in the workshop is free and places are limited. Those who wish to register are requested to fill in the form available here until the 30th of September, 2024.
About the mentor:
You will create your documentary film under the guidance of Nora Agapi, who is already in her eights year as Exploration @MOLDOX Lab tutor. Nora Agapi is a director, cinematographer and photographer. Graduated from the National University of Theatrical Art and Cinematography in Bucharest and a Master in Digital Arts at the University of Fine Arts in Athens, Nora is a member of the Romanian Filmmakers Union. “Timebox” (2018) – her feature film – has several awards at international film festivals such as Ji.hlava-Czech Republic, TIFF-Cluj and Dokufest-Kosovo. She has worked documentaries, short films and other visual projects in Romania, Sweden. Ireland, USA, Africa. Some of the films her films have been broadcast on TVR, HBO Romania, Arte France and SVT Sweden. She collaborated with the Corbis agency in Paris (2002- 2006) and had several photography exhibitions- solo and group- in Athens, Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj, Galway. She is currently working on the valorization of the archive films and photographs of her father, Ioan Agapi, after having organized an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest in 2020, with some of the works his photographic work.
Details:
- Language of instruction: Romanian;
- Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024;
- Number of participants: 6-8;
- Level: beginners.
Participants commit to be present and actively participate in all theoretical and practical sessions of the workshop.
For more information, please get in touch with us at: lab@moldoxfestival.com.