(MENAFN- AzerNews) YARAT Contemporary Art Space has launched an open call for
emerging and mid-career Azerbaijani filmmakers, who wants to
demonstrate their short feature films at YARAT Shorts Festival to
be launched this year.
The main goal of the project is to create a platform for
emerging talent from Azerbaijan, Georgia and UK, provide visibility
for local filmmakers and audiences for films, Azernews reports.
Its main mission will be implemented through open air/indoors
screenings in all YARAT venues and a program of educational events
(workshops/lectures/talks) by international directors,
scriptwriters, actors.
YARAT Shorts Festival aims at empowerment of young filmmakers
through intensive trainings and screening directorial debuts.
The festival will see films on the following themes: Women and
their role in society, Solitude and self-growth, Memory and mental
landscapes.
Deadline for submitting your film: August 20. If interested,
please, send a private link to your film to [email protected] . Selected
films will be screened in September.
Partners: Georgian entry will be provided by Nino Anjaparidze
from Tbilisi International Film Festival (Cinema Art Center
Prometheus).
British cinematography will be represented by winners of BAFTA
Film Awards (partnership will be enabled by British Council).
To be eligible for participation your film should also comply
with the pre-selection conditions:
. Any film or video project originating from Azerbaijan or
co-produced/directed/written by Azerbaijani cinematographers with a
running time of less than 30 minutes, including credits. This
includes scripted or improvisational fiction, experimental film or
video and animation.
. Short films have no premiere requirements or prior screening
restrictions that impact Festival eligibility and may have been
screened at any number of festivals or other public theatrical
exhibitions, broadcast or streamed on television or the Internet,
and/or released via any home video or other public distribution
platform anywhere in the world.
YARAT is an artist-founded, not-for-profit art organization
based in Baku, Azerbaijan, established by Aida Mahmudova in 2011.
YARAT (which means 'create' in Azerbaijani) is dedicated to
contemporary art with a long-term commitment to creating a hub for
artistic practice, research, thinking, and education in the
Caucasus, Central Asia, and the surrounding region.
YARAT comprises YARAT Art Centre, ARTIM Project Space, YARAT
Studios, and an extended educational and public program. YARAT Art
Centre, a 2000m2 converted Soviet-era naval building, opened in
March 2015 and is the organization's main exhibition space. The
exhibition program features new commissions by artists responding
to the region. It supports and provides access to artists from the
region while engaging and introducing established, international
artists.
In October 2015, YARAT opened ARTIM, a central, accessible, and
dynamic space in Baku's Old City. ARTIM (meaning 'progress' in
Azerbaijani) shows experimental practices and new work by emerging
Azeri art professionals (selected through open call) and the
international artists from the residency program. It features
multiple small-scale projects each year and hosts ARTIM Lab, a
program enabling young artists to engage in workshops and daily
studio practice to generate new ideas and works.