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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
15th - 26th May 2013
Already on its 8th edition, Nisimazine Cannes is one of the highlights of the year for us. Every year we gather a team of young writers from across Europe to cover one of the most famous and influential film festivals in the world.
Candidates should be citizens and/or residents of France, The Netherlands, Germany or Great Britain!
The selected applicants will be invited to attend one week of the Cannes Film Festival in order to form an international editorial team motivated to make innovative and fresh festival coverage. As always, it will be a unique opportunity to gain practical, hands on experience in film journalism and meet colleagues from different countries.
The team will be putting out frequent newsletters and create an e-book covering the Camera d'Or Competition (open to 1st features only) and the short-films present at the festival!
The Magazine
Nisimazine Cannes will be published online and spread through a network of thousands of contacts in the cinema industry. The gazette will have the format of our 'Nisimazine Special' editions, and will contain film reviews, interviews, thematic articles, news, pictures from the festival, etc.
Coverage will be extended on the website www.nisimazine.eu with extra articles, picture galleries, videos and a blog.
Have a look at last year´s special edition here.
Click here to read the e-book of Nisimazine Cannes 2013!
The Participants
A total of 15 participants from France, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK have been selected to form the Nisimazine Cannes 2013 team:
- Cécile Tollu-Polonowski (Germany)
- Fabian Melchers (The Netherlands)
- Robyn Davies (UK)
- Filippo Spreafico (Germany)
- Colm Mcauliffe (UK)
- Leila Hamour (France)
- Laura van Zuylen (The Netherlands)
- Elisabeth Renauld-Geslin (France)
- Kris Derks (The Netherlands)
- Sophie Rieger (Germany)
- Piers McCarthy (UK)
- Melanie de Groot van Embden (France)
- Patrick Holzapfel (Germany)
- Tom Cottey (UK)
- Nina Tholens (The Netherlands)
- Luisa Riviere (France)
Editorial Team
The editorial team will be headed by staff who have been running the magazine together for many years and all over the world. Participants will also have the opportunity to work with renowned journalists from the field, to discuss their articles and photographs one on one. Attending journalists for this year will be announced very soon and will include some of the most influential film critics in Europe.
The Schedule
As of the announcement of selected participants, the essential preparation period will begin. Participants will be required to begin researching, making interviews, and taking part in online meetings to brainstorm the magazine’s content, and of course writing the first articles!
There will be 4 collective Skype meetings before the official beginning of the workshop. These meetings are compulsory and will be arranged at the most convenient and practical time for the group.
The preparation and workshop period is organized as follows:
- 27th of February – 14th of March Application period
- 15th of March Announcement of selected participants
- 15 th of March – 15 th of May Preparation period
- 15th of May – 26th of May Workshop
Participation Rules
Participants will come to Cannes in 2 teams:
- one team for the first week (Wednesday 15th to Monday 20th of May 2013);
- another team for the second week (Monday 20th to Sunday 26th of 2013).
Each team will consist of at least 3 writers and 1 photographer.
Accommodation will be provided for the week of the festival the participant is invited for. Participants will be sharing an apartment with the editorial staff. Personal food costs will be the responsibility of each participant (possibility to cook in the apartment kitchen). 50% of travel costs will be reimbursed upon presentation of the travel documents.
There is a participation fee of 165 Euros.
The fee will have to be paid to NISI MASA before 10th of April 2013.
For more information do not hesitate to contact us via email to fernando@nisimasa.com
Download the Official Call for Participants for more information
Download the application form
Deadline: 14th March 2013 at midnight
This poject is funded by:
Nisimazine at Shooting Stars 2013
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SHOOTING STARS 2013
The Nisimazine Team has been very busy in the past few days attending the Berlinale, and to be more specific, covering this year’s Shooting Stars event that each year, presents a selection of rising actors and actresses from all around Europe!
As media partners of Shooting Stars and in collaboration with Cineuropa.org, we met the 10 stars and discussed about the about their careers, their future and what means for them to be a Shooting Star!
We will be archiving the interviews here:
- Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (Denmark)
To see all the video interviews from all the Shooting Stars, click here.
Nisimazine Special: Rotterdam Shorts 2013
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NISIMAZINE SPECIAL ISUUE
Welcome to the first 2013 edition of Nisimazine, where we dissected the Tiger Shorts competition and Spectrum Shorts sections of the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2013.
The team was composed by Nisimazine Alumni Lydia Castellano (Spain), Zowi Vermiere (The Netherlands), Martin Kludac (Slovakia), Erini Nikopoulou (Greece), Mario Kozina (Croatia) and Fernando Vasquez (Portugal), also as editor and project manager.
Have a read on our Special Issue to find out all the details!
GENERATOR - Youth Audiovisual Forum
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
25th - 27th January, Strasbourg (France)
Between January 25-27, 2013 NISI MASA is organizing GENERATOR - Youth Audiovisual Forum in Strasbourg. We are looking for 120 participants aged 18 – 35 who will not only be debating the future of audiovisual culture in Europe along with experts and policy makers, but will also take part in a number of daily workshops. In three days NISI MASA will lead you through a journey of different activities: from a Kino Cabaret, a scriptwriting marathon, Nisimazine workshop to other trainings, seminars and discussion panels on transmedia, youth and audiovisual European funding, alternative ways of cultural funding, to evening screenings.
Expect a NISI MASA festival!
Expect Kino Kabaret, where 40 adrenaline-driven film-makers, will be on a movie making frenzy. On the final evening of the forum your films will be screened and frugal and fun filmmaking will truly make a splash on European audiovisual culture. What is Kino Kabaret?
Expect a scriptwriting marathon where participants will be guided in bringing their ideas closer to the screen by learning about cinematographic story telling through an intense submersion into the world of inspiration, confrontation and going crazy. Battling with a promising idea, the NISI MASA trainers will guide you and help you develop it. Come to Strasbourg and be a part of writing the story of GENERATOR.
To be a part of the Scriptwriting Marathon, click here to apply! (Deadline 28thDecember)
Expect a film-criticism workshop, where an experienced team that has been involved in organizing the many Nisimazine workshops will be there to give you a crash practical course. We will be selecting 20 participants with a passion for cinema and a knack for words who will get a chance to learn more on writing about films. Previous experience in film journalism, professional or otherwise, is not required. We're hoping to help you polish your skills in order to help you make your critical voices heard.
Expect a workshop on genre films moderated by 7 Tape Productions, who will talk about the ways to start a genre based film project, concretely a horror movie – from casting to directing. Also, if you'd like to present your film and get feedback from other filmmakers, the “Feedback Me” panel is just for you.
If you are a cultural manager or work at an NGO, you can participate in culture management trainings provided by experienced trainers from our member associations.
Besides the workshops you'll have the opportunity to attend debates and panels with European audiovisual professionals, experts and policy makers. The NISI MASA member associations will screen films resulted in their previous projects and they will present what they are planning next during a project fair.
For EU citizens NISI MASA is providing free accommodation for 3 nights in CIARUS Hostel and covering 75% of travelling costs (up to 200 Euro) if you apply until December 15, 2012. Participation fee: 20 euros.
Download the application form.
Send your applications to: generator.nisimasa@hotmail.com
Blog:
generatornisimasa.wordpress.com/
The project is funded by:
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NISI MASA Estonia is pleased to announce that they are organizing for the second time, Nisimazine Tallinn. The workshop take place from 17th to 25th of November in Tallinn, Estonia, during the biggest film festival in Estonia: Black Night’s Film Festival
This project involves a film journalism workshop for international young film critics and their mentors. The team of 9 writers, 1 video blogger, 1 web designer and 3 photographers from European countries aged 18-30 will be covering the film festival’s programme through unique newsletters that will be sent out to Nisimazine readers around the globe.
At Nisimazine Tallinn, the participants cover the festival in the traditional Nisimazine frames of review, in focus articles, portraits, interviews and of course many photos depicting the best moments of the festival. In addition to daily newsletters, all the texts will be published online in the official Nisimazine website.
As usual in Nisimazine, editing and publishing processes will be led by experienced mentors Mirona Nicola (Romania) for writers and Johanna Kinnari (Finland) for photographers. Nisimazine is a great opportunity to develop professional skills in film journalism, meet new people with the same interest, and, of course, explore and enjoy the variety of the festival’s programme.
Below, you can enjoy the daily newsletters result of the film journalism workshop in Tallinn! Enjoy the reading!
Newsletter #1
- Review of Loving
- Review of Oh Boy
- Interview with Cory McAbee
Newsletter #2
- Review of Almost 18
- Review of For Ellen
- Interview with Jan Ole Gerster
Newsletter #3
- Review of The Daughter
- Review of The Punk Syndrome
- Interview withMarek Rudnicki
Newsletter #4
- Review of The Sessions
- Review of A Caretaker's Tale
- Interview with the director and the executive producer of Mona
Newsletter #5
- Review of The Conspiracy
- Review of Eastalgia
Newsletter #6
- Review of Demons
- Review of Compliance
- Interview with Mik Granström
Newsletter #7
- Review of Everybody's Gone
- Review of Smashed
- Interview with Simon Aberger
To get aqcuinted with the previous Nisimazine’s, you can go here
Organizer: NGO Nisi Masa Estonia, part of the NISI MASA network (www.nisimasa.com )
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READ THE E-BOOK!
For the first time, the Nisimazine team arrives to Kaunas International Film Festival to make a huge coverage on its daring and interesting programme.
The team, composed by Aiste Račaitytė, Vaidė Legotaitė, Ugnė Česnavičiūtė, Ugnė Gudzinskaitė, Donata Juškelytė, Saulius Kovalskas from Lithuania and Zowi Vermeire, Basha de Bruijn, Eva Huijgen, Anne Kervers (The Netherlands), Sami Pöyry, Hannaleena Hauru,Timo Mäkeläinen, Ilja Rautsi (Finland), Ana Rodrigues, Fernando Vasquez, Tiago Dias (Portugal) Tomas Tengmark (Sweden) has worked hard on the e-booK, which includes reviews, interviews and "in focus" articles!
Click on the cover to read it!
If you want a .pdf copy, send an email to lucia@nisimasa.com
You can also read the newsletter done during the festival:
- Interview with Ursula Meyer
- Review of Gulf stream under the Iceberg
- Review of Tabu
- Interview with Aik Karapetian
- Review of People Out There
- Review of Lonely Island
- Interview with Yevgeny Pashkevich
- Review of At night I fly
- Review of Keyhole
- Interview with Dovilė Gasiūnaitė
- Review of Narcissus
- Review of Alps
- Interview with Marius Holst
- Review of Bestiary
- Review of Donoma
- Interview withKleber Mendoça
- Review of Neighbouring Sounds
- Review of Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
- Interview with Yevgeny Pashkevich
- Review of Spain
- Review of Beast Paradise
Funded by:
Nisimazine Special Karlovy Vary 2012
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FOCUS ON THE EAST OF THE WEST COMPETITION
After a week of creative gestation our brand new Nisimazine Special Karlovy Vary is seeing the daylight and need your (socially networked) help and support to get acquainted with the world.
Now in its third edition, Nisimazine Special (Venice Orizzonti, Rotterdam Shorts and now Karlovy Vary East of the West) is quickly establishing itself as a complementary and enriching addition to our Film Journalism Workshops. Unlike the latter, our Specials are realized in collaboration with our Alumni thus offering an opportunity for them to remain actively engaged with Nisi Masa.
The e-book you're holding in your virtual end follows up and concludes our KVIFF coverage we had started while in Karlovy Vary with our newsletter series (archived here) and provide you with a comprehensive coverage of the East of the West Competition. The team responsible for this edition was composed by 5 writers and 1 photographer coming from Romania, Italy, Yemen/Scotland and Slovakia.
We hope you will enjoy the reading and share it with others.
Click on the image or here to read it online and if you want a .pdf version of the e-book, contact lucia@nisimasa.com
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Marvelous news! We are proud to announce the name of the 8 participants of our Nisimazine Cannes 2012!
Participants from France, Estonia and Turkey took part of our Film Journalism Workshop in Cannes Film Festival (16 - 27 May 2012), where they formed an international team motivated to make innovative and fresh festival coverage. The team created a 96-page-e-book covering the Camera d’Or competition (open to 1st feature films only) and the shorts of the festival! Every selected participant spent a week in Cannes in this unique opportunity to gain practical, hands on experience in film journalism.
These are the name of the participants:
- Aurite Kouts (France)
- Greta Varts (Estonia)
- Emilie Padellac (France)
- Chloe Vollmer-Lo (France)
- Franziska Knupper (Germany/France)
- Ali Deniz Sensöz (Turkey)
- Kristar Koplimets (Estonia)
- Marek Mäemets (Estonia/Austria)
- Cecile Janvier (France)
- Karl Taul (Estonia)
- Giovanni Vimercati
- Maartje Alders
2012 has been our 7th year consecutive doing during Cannes Film festival, and this year, we've been covering the Caméra d'Or and the short films competitions.
Click on the cover to read the e-book:
- Reviews of the feature and short films in competition of Caméra d'Or
- Interviews with the directors presenting their films including Ben Zeitlin (Beasts of the Suthern Wild), Carlos Dieges (Caméra d'Or Jury President) or Benjamin Parent (It's not a cowboy movie)
To learn about our Nisimazine 2012 schedule, click here
This project is supported by the Youth in Action programme of the European Commission.
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Nisimazine started a new film journalism workshop in Tallinn! During the November 26th to December 1st 12 lucky participants had a chance to cover PÖFF – Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn (Estonia).
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Nisimazine covered the One World / Jeden Svet Documentary Film Festival in Bratislava, from 28th November to 5th December in Bratislava, Slovakia!
7 aspiring young film critics, 2 video bloggers, and 1 photographer - between the ages of 18 and 35 - were selected to join our international editorial team. Participants were from the following countries: France, Germany, Slovakia.
