Updates

The completion of our October/November 2010 production training is only the beginning of our work. With your support we plan to extend our work to focus on guiding and supporting our trainees and other afghan filmmakers as they seek to submit production proposals and earn work on commissioned films.
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Students are facing their successes and ‘challenges.’ We have helped one another by reviewing each other’s footage and providing fresh perspective. As is often the case, we come back from our shoots exhausted and quite sure that we have nothing with which to construct our intended story. An independent eye and ear can usually see beyond our foggy view.
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The trainees are in the throws of final project pre-production, research, planning and aesthetic decision making. And, depending on how things are going, they are realizing the strengths and weaknesses of their story intentions. Their final project is a story determined by them but we have established economic development as the theme. A few have had to have the perseverance required by documentary filmmaking to start over with their research and character search as story ideas failed to materialize as hoped.
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The training has successfully finished its second week - with students editing their first interviews and group conversations. This second week has...