To learn about the aesthetics of the seventh art and how to evaluate films
Promising judges at "Sharjah Film Festival" begin the journey
Training events are organized in Al Majaz Theatre.
From the source
The Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth launched, the day before yesterday, a series of workshops dedicated to qualifying promising arbitrators, which will continue at Al Majaz Theater in Sharjah in four stages until next October, with four days of training each month, with the aim of developing the talents of children and youth, and training them on Judging films in the children and youth categories of the festival.
The first phase of the workshops includes 25 participants in the age group from 12 to 20 years, and aims to train participants and introduce them to the basics of arbitration and to appreciate the aesthetics of cinematic art and the elements of cinematic language, at the level of photography, directing, acting and the messages that films convey to the audience.
Trainer Fatima Mushrabek, Head of the Festival Department, started the first day of the workshop by introducing the participating children and youth to the "Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth", which is one of the projects of the Art Foundation, which is affiliated with the Government of Sharjah, which aims to train children and young people in media arts and enhance their expertise in this field.
She explained that the festival attracts participants from filmmakers and purposeful art from all over the world, since its launch in 2013 until its eighth session in 2021. The cinematic contemplates all the details in the scenes, and knows the nature of the messages that each film wants to convey to the viewers, and this continuous tradition contributes to multiplying the number of young cadres in the field of judging and tasting films. Young people have beautiful values and fine art, which is not without a message of interest to society.”
The workshops for promising referees this month focused on getting to know the participants and preparing for training them on the roles required of them, through exercises aimed at exploring their knowledge and information about the basics of cinematography, in addition to introducing them to the names of the constellation of artists and directors who participated in the festival’s jury committees in its sessions. previous.
During the training of the judges, an explanatory video was shown about a previous session of the festival, which included illumination about the event and the level of audience interaction with its performances, guests, seminars, panel discussions and workshops, which it is witnessing.
The workshops, which will be held next August, will transfer the participants to training by watching a group of professional films to learn the necessary professional steps for how to analyze films. Arbitrators' workshops in October by distributing tasks among promising arbitrators before the start of the festival and participating in the preparations for the opening ceremony.
Role in the festival
The role of the promising judges, who will graduate from the rehabilitation workshops, is to participate during the ninth session of the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth, by selecting and evaluating the “best film made by children and adolescents”, in addition to benefiting from the panel discussions and seminars organized by the festival, during which it hosts a number of Senior directors, actors and filmmakers for children and youth, which ensures them to enhance their talents to join the promising generation of filmmakers in the Emirates.
Fatima Mashrebak:
“At the festival, we are keen to get out of each session a group of talents that go through the judging experience, develop their technical expertise by reading the cinematic shot, and meditate on all the details in the scenes.”
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Participants in the age group from 12 to 20 years, in the first stage.
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