Aswan International Women Film Festival announces the start of workshop program in February

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Tue, 04 Jan 2022 - 12:51 GMT

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File: Workshop participants.

File: Workshop participants.

CAIRO - 4 January 2021:Aswan International Women Film Festival management announced that the activities of the training workshop program for 2022 will start at the beginning of next February, explaining that the workshops program includes a remarkable development in technical training in all areas of the film industry.

 

Director of the workshops program Sayed Abdel Khalek said that this year's training programs include several educational axes through a set of programs, including the "Comics Zone" workshop for training on integrating the human element in animation, and the animation workshop for children, which is tailor made for children under the age of 13, also there is  a storytelling workshop titled “How to tell a story”, and a directing workshop that seeks to produce films that will participate in the Workshops Film Competition at the next festival edition.

 

In addition to the "New Aswan Cinema" project, which is a training lab to teach industry techniques such as photography, montage and sound in a professional manner.

Abdel Khalek stressed that the workshop program aims in general to support the talents of girls and young men from Upper Egypt, Safaga and Al-Qusayr, and provides all forms of facilities to the participants every year, stressing that the Aswan Festival’s workshop program has begun to bear fruit through the participation of “Ya Nas El Nahr” film directed by the young director Zahra Yacoub which was part of the workshop program for 2021.
 
“Ya Nas El Nahr” competed in the last edition of Carthage Festival, as well as the selection of the film “Ashoura” by director Asma Yacoub to participate in the next session of the Rabat International Author Film Festival (FICAR).
 
It is worth mentioning that the upcoming edition of Aswan International Women Film Festival will kick off from February 23-28.

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