* How to shoot an Interview
* Professional Lighting seminar
* Aesthetic aspects of sound and edit in documentary
Workshop Coaches
Workshop Details
- Fee: 1500 AED for evening classes
- The fee is inclusive of snack and free T shirt + Chance of winning the scholarship to study Documentary filmmaking in New York Film AcademyAbu Dhabi
- Maximum Capacity: 20 students
- Location: Historic Al Bastakiya in Dubai creek
Please contact us to find out about media students’ discount and group booking discount.
Contact
Kamran Shirdel
Workshop: Directing a Documentary
Kamran Shirdel (1939) is a 1964 graduate of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia(CSC) in film directing.
In CSC had the opportunity to study directly under legends such as Roberto Rosellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Nanni Loy, Cesare Zavattini, Francesco Rosi, Gillo Pontecorvo, Vittorio De Seta , …
After returning to Iran, Shirdel started directing documentaries for the Ministry of Culture and Art. During the following three years he made his most renowned socio- political documentaries.
The Epic Of The Gogani Village Boy or The Night It Rained received the GRAND PRIX at The Third Tehran International Film Festival in 1974.Yet was immediately banned like his other films:"NEDAMATGAH ( Women's Prison - 1965), Qaleh ( Women's quarter-1966), Tehran Is The Capital Of Iran (1966) and others - until after the revolution.
Kamran Shirdel is considered a father figure of Iran's NEW cinema and documentary and mentor for Iranian cineastes such as Abbas Kiarostami, Amir Naderi, Mohammad Reza Aslani, Khosrow Masoumi, Mahvash Sheikholeslami, Soudabeh Babagap, Mahmood Rahmani. Some of the best films of the above mentioned directors were edited or supervised by Kamran Shirdel.
He has been awarded in many festivals such as LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD in Lebanese DOCUDAYS 2003. Leipzig, Reggio Calabria Int'l Film Festivals and Fike Int'l Fil Festival in Evora - Portugal.
Shirdel has directed and produced more than 85 industrial films.
His poetic documentary, Dubai: Pearl in Persian Gulf (1974) was premiered in Dubai during the first edition of Documentary Voices: Pulling Focus 2008
By: Dr. Laurence Becker of Austin, Texas
Savas Alatis
Workshop: Lighting for Documentary
Savas Alatis is a Cinematographer of the highest order with 28 years of experience in the world of entertainment and sports.
His company, Cinema Verite inc., is a complete production facility that can handle any job from pre-production through to the delivery of the final product.
Being born into the business and working on his first TV commercial at age 7, with his father as an advertising executive in New York City, Savas learned the advertising world from the inside out.
Savas’ first 15 years in the business focused on production, which helps him to be a resourceful and valuable cameraman who has amassed a lifetime of unique and useful tools of the trade.
He owns his own 16mm, 35mm and HD Camera packages including a wide variety of specialty lenses, and uses these tools for a variety of jobs big and small.
Some of Savas’ clients include Major League Baseball, NBA Entertainment, NHL Productions, Major League Soccer, United States Golf Association, FIBA, Fox Sports, and a variety of commercial production companies.
Savas is also an accomplished still photographer and artist whose work is available on line at: http://savas_photography.photoworkshop.com/.
Currently Savas is teaching Cinematography in New York Film Academy Abu Dhabi Branch.
Shahdmehr Rastin
Workshop: Script to Screen
Born in Tehran in 1964, Shadmehr Rastin earned degrees in architecture form Tehran University and screenplay writing from Bagh Ferdows College. His screenplays for TV include, This Woman Doesn’t Speak, Offsid , A Few Days Later, Zagros, and That Man Came. he escreept calls as simple as that. He also has directed several documentaries, including Chat, Building of Thought and Bigger than Big. He was the Executive Producer of the documentary series, Tehran and Youngsters. Rastin is a member of the Documentary Cinema Studies Group in Iran. . His script called" as simple as that" won the first prize in International Fajar film Festival 2008.
Nadia Fares
Workshop: Aesthetic Aspect of Sound and Edit
A graduate in filmmaking from NYU with a master degree, Nadia Fares has directed 2 feature films: "Honey and Ashes" she also won an award for her short film "Sugar Blues" .
She has written many documentary scripts. She works for Swiss TV and makes documentary news stories. She is teaching in New York Film Academy Abu Dhabi.
Documentary Voices Panel
Panelist: Documentary and Social Awareness
Mazyar Eslami- a graduate in English translation- started his career as a film journalist in 1996.
In addition to hundreds of essays and articles Mazyar has published 7 titles of books as a translator and is the author of :Ashes and diamond( On Iranian war movies- 2001) and Paris-Tehran ( On Abbas Kiarostami’s works- 2008)
Maziyar is the winner of the best translation award for Cinema book 2007 and member of Board of film selection for Fajar Film Festival (2000).
Jacqueline Robert Mansourian
Panelist: Documentary and Autism
A Sorbon universiry graduate with a PHD in Educational science, Dr. Mansourian has woked as an education expert in every prestigious organizations in France.
She is a member of France Psychology Association and Special need Society (ASSEPH)
But what has made her a special charecter and professional is the daily challenge she has been facing fro the last 24 years in dealing with her son who has sever autism.
Therefore Dr. Mansourian has devoted her time and skills to autism by founding Autism’s Dialogue, an organization that is focused on assisting not only the children with autism but helping their parent to accepting the idea of raising a child with autism.
She gives consultancy to such families and does evaluation for autistic children.
Dr. Mansourian recently is working on a research on how a child at a very young age can be diagnosed by autism and how we can help the young children to be independent in the society.
The story of her son, Christophe Pillaut, the famous figurative artist, is an inspiring story for children and parents whose lives are affected by autism.
Dr. Eman Gaad
Panelist: Documentary and Community Development
Dr. Gaad is The Director of Disability Services at Dubai Government’s Community Development Authority. She is also a Senior lecturer at The British University in Dubai’s faculty of Education, and leads the University’s high quality Masters programme in Special Education. She is currently the Executive Director of UAEDSA (United Arab Emirates Down Syndrome Association) and on Board of Directors of few non-profit organizations in the UAE. She is also on the international advisory board for JORSEN, an international peer-reviewed journal and an associate editor for another.
She has a wealth of teaching experience in the UAE and overseas. Prior to joining BUiD in 2004, Dr. Gaad was on the faculty of the UAE University, Department of Special Education for five years and lectured at the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of East Anglia, UK for five years.
Dr. Gaad has devoted much of her work to the area of Special Needs and has published the findings of her research work in international journals, such as The British Journal of Special Education, International Journal for Educational Management, JORSEN, and International Journal of Inclusive Studies. Dr. Gaad also works with local communities to help parents of children with special needs to facilitate their placement in regular schools. She is currently a national representative of the World Forum on Early Care and Education and advises the government on SEN related issues as she sits on national thinks tanks. In addition to this she has attended, was invited as a feature speaker, and chaired sessions in many international conferences to explore the development of special needs education worldwide.
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