Amman Filmmakers Cooperative - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Amman Filmmakers Cooperative promotes independent Jordanian and Palestinian Diaspora filmmaking through training, experimentation, and networking. The Cooperative seeks to empower student filmmakers to produce films using very nominal resources and with the help of digital filmmaking tools. The Cooperative also manages the Jordan Short Film Festival, an art film festival established in 2004.

Overview

Founded in 2002 by Palestinian diaspora filmmaker Hazim M. Bitar, The Amman Filmmakers Cooperative (AFC) began as a social network of cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

aficionados in Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

. In 2003, the Cooperative started offering free filmmaking

Filmmaking

Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program...

workshops and production support to independent filmmakers.

Highlights

Since 2003, Cooperative graduates completed over 50 short films. Cooperative graduates boast the highest film festival selection rates in the history of Jordanian cinema. Many of those films have been selected to Academy-Certified film festivals such as the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France; Huesca International Film Festival, Spain; Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland; Foyle International Film Festival, Northern Ireland; Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland; and a host of other regional film festivals such as the Middle East International Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival, UAE; Ismailia Film Festival, Egypt; Tangier Film Festival, Morocco; Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia; Dubai Film Festival, UAE.
The list of Academy-Certified film festivals selections includes the films The View, Sharar, Growing Up in Amman Suburbia.
Feature film scripts by its workshop graduates have been selected as finalists in renowned script competitions such as the Film Finance Circle and The Locarno International Film Festival - Open Doors .

Community Initiatives

In 2007 the Cooperative and the Spanish Embassy in Jordan worked together to launch Hope Films, a project that organizes workshops for disadvantaged Jordanian communities including Palestinian refugee camps. and the Jordan Short Film Festival

Jordan Short Film Festival

The Jordan Short Film Festival was established as an art film festival to provide a platform for indie filmmakers in Jordan and Arab world to showcase their films while keeping in touch with the latest development in the indie filmmkaing movement world-wide...

Educational Approach

The instructors are industry professionals with a proven track record in the field of filmmaking. Guest instructors are invited to shed light on specialized topics. Using commercially available multimedia editing software and video production hardware, the students learn how to produce films within limited budgets. To sustain the activity of workshop graduates, the Cooperative, in partnership with local NGOs, establishes small production units to allow students to continue their filmmaking activities after workshop completion.

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