Workshops (2009)
A BRITSH GENTLEMAN FROM MISKOLC
A WORKSHOP ABOUT THE OSCAR WINNER SCREENWRITER, EMERIC PRESSBURGER
Sunday, September 13, 11 AM
House of Arts, Uránia - Port.hu screen
It's a lesser known fact that Hungary (or more precisely the city of Miskolc and its surroundings, Borsod county) is the birthplace of several moguls of the Hollywood cinema. The founder of Paramount Pictures, Adolph Zukor was born in Ricse, about 35 miles from Miskolc. Another studio founder, William Fox, was born as Vilmos Friedman in Tolcsva in the heart of the renowned Tokaj wine region that is also just a few miles from Miskolc. He created Fox Film Corporation, and his name lives in the namesake of 20th Century-Fox, one of the world's greatest movie studios.
Pressburger Imre, or Emeric Pressburger was born in Miskolc. He is known for his co-operation with director Michael Powell. The credit 'Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger' appeared in about ten movies, including some of the greatest British classics of all times. Academy Award winner Pressburger wrote the 49th Parallel, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes, A Canterbury Tale etc. Eminent director Kevin Macdonald (he directed some later The Last King of Scotland and State of Play, starring Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe) made a profile to the memory of his grandfather Emeric, titled The Making of an Englishman in 1994.
In September 2009 CineFest in association with movie magazine Filmvilág is going to organize a workshop to commemorate Miskolc's great son.
Short description of Borders workshops - Miskolc
You have dreams,
You want to discover, exchange, invent, create, be involved,
make your ideas come true,
acting to improve social links
and the ways of living in community,
We are waiting for you.
Filming the world and change it
learning making European co-productions
so let's work together
be involved in a Borders Films Contest
5 days to change the world,
3 short films, 3 different manners of working,
on basis thematic
"24 hours to change your life"
and fight against invisible and visible walls..
Working in progress, learning and training all cinema process :
writing,
production,
shooting,
post-production (original soundtrack, subtitles),
release process.
making films together and sharing experiences,
exchanging on our cinema skills and manner to make film, 3 shorts in 4 days (one animation, one fiction, one documentary on the same subject), 3 mixing groups writing, shooting, editing and showing.like a Films Contest;
5 days workshop
day 1 : building groups, choosing subjects, technical trainings in Miskolc like a location
day 2 : writing, productions' preparations, casting (writing workshops)
day 3 : shooting
day 4 : shooting / beginning of editing (editing workshop) / soundtracks creating
day 5 : end of editing / screening
3 groups, 3 manners of working on images :
-workshop 1 : shooting a documentary
-workshop 2 : shooting a fiction
-workshop 3 : shooting a animation film
Some words about borders' project
The aim of the Borders project is to bring the audience back into focus, to propose new ways of loving the cinema and to teach people to know themselves and others in a collective space: the film theatre. This is a space of liberty, discovery, exchange, discussion and creation, a space where people can construct themselves as human beings, a space where there's free access to the imaginary.
This project contributes to the cultural activity of the department of Val de Marne, and has been selected by the federal Ministry of Youth and Sport in the context of the Plan Banlieue, the development plan for the suburbs.
The project has several components. The Borders cycle, first of all, involves programming 15 European films from 12 different countries. These films are proposed to pupils during school time in secondary schools in Val de Marne. They are accompanied by presentations and discussions on the cinema, in-class activities and filmmaking workshops.
The second component is a cinema lab called Borders Cinelab. This comprises fifteen activities each lasting two and a half hours, this time after school hours. These are cinema master classes, an initiation to audiovisual techniques.
Then there is the Borders cinema education camp. The young people educated in the context of Cinelab now focus on a film project aimed at "imagining Europe". This involves filming the world in order to transform it. In 2008, the young people selected shot a fiction film in Smucka, a small village in Bosnia Herzegovina. The is called Pola Pola. They worked on location with inhabitants of the village of Tuzla and at the same time shot reportages about the host country.
Two festivals support these different activities. The festival Un Notre Monde - Borders (One world, our world) takes place in November and focuses on promoting earlier productions of the Borders project. Participants meet in workshops and shoot short films in a single day. Then in February there's the festival La tęte dans les étoiles (Head in the stars). Here young people can "see, understand and create images" and meet film professionals (directors, special effects technicians, stunt people, distributors).
1989-2009:
CROSSING BORDERS
Workshop and Screenings at Miskolci Galéria (Rákóczi u. 2.)
September 12, Saturday, 11 AM - 6 PM
Organizer: Eszter Buslig
Twenty years have passed since the fall of communism in Central Europe. One of the most important events of 'annus mirabilis' ('the year of wonders' as British journalist Timothy Garton Ash called the year 1989) was in September the opening of the Austro-Hungarian border that gave a chance for thousands of East German refugees to leave Hungary. Their escape and the subsequent chain of unexpected events caused the collapse of German Democratic Republic and the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. That brave decision by the Hungarian government was a fundamental step towards the end of the hegemony of the USSR in the region.
This year a small CineFest workshop covers the events of 1989. Roundtable discussions, lectures, documentary screenings will give some lesser known details and background information about this remarkable historical situation.
