Are you serious about filmmaking? Do you want to go on an amazing filmmaking adventure in Africa? Now is your chance.
About MAISHA:
Award-winning filmmaker Mira Nair has created MAISHA, an organization that provides new screenwriters and film directors from East Africa and South Asia with access to the professional training and production resources necessary to articulate their visions. And this year, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival has partnered with MAISHA to offer several spots to young filmmakers from Qatar to travel to Africa to take part in the filmmaking labs!
Start date: May 29th - June 5th, 2010
Deadline: April 2nd, 2010
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In partnership with the Zanzibar International Film Festival, Maisha will hold an 8-day screenwriting lab in Zanzibar. Maisha’s International Reading Committee will select participants from Doha and Africa based on their submitted screenplays (5-10 pages).Three professional screenwriters volunteer their time to mentor the participants. At the end of each lab, the mentors award a production grant of $2,000 to the best screenplay. These funds are contingent on the Maisha’s administrative team’s approval of the winning filmmaker’s shooting script, budget, and production plan.
Start date: July 25th - August 16th, 2010
Deadline: April 30th, 2010
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6th Annual Filmmakers' Lab
This year the Doha Tribeca Film Festival is partnering with Maisha, a film laboratory for East Africans and South Asians, to offer Qataris the opportunity to join the Maisha's Annual Filmmakers’ Lab, an intensive 25-day course for aspiring filmmakers.
This is a program for those who have already worked on a film of their own, with a production company or have some technical knowledge of the filmmaking process.
Maisha’s Reading Committee will select screenwriting participants from Africa and Qatar based on their submitted 10-15 page screenplays. Four writing mentors will help these participants revise their work by conducting workshops on the fundamentals of screenwriting as well as meeting with the participants one-on-one.
Trainees attend seminars on all aspects of film production and also work one-on-one with experts in their field.
Start date: October 1st - October 12th, 2010
Deadline: August 6th, 2010
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Maisha will partner with renowned educators Josh Gibson and Gary Hawkins from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies to present this 12-day intensive workshop on the fundamentals of non-narrative filmmaking.There will be a total of 12 students participating in the lab.The first four days of the program focus on watching and analyzing documentary films and familiarizing the students with the equipment. The second half of the Lab is devoted to 4 groups of students shooting and editing their own short documentary projects.