Included in the workshop programme at this year’s ZIFF (Zanzibar International Film Festival), which runs from 29 June to 7 July, are workshops on assistant directing, film production and scriptwriting.
Says festival manager Dean Nyalusi: “Gabrielle Heberling, a film and television series director from Germany, will lead the assistant directing workshop. ZIFF presents this workshop as a response to industry expressions in the need to professionalise film production in the region’s Bongo movie industry.
“Nicolas Stampe will lead the film production workshop, which is organised in collaboration with the Goethe Institute (Dar es Salaam) and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit).’
Stampe will lead a team of filmmakers in a guerilla production style and apply skills learned during the workshop itself. The training will focus on aspects of low budget filmmaking and involve topics such as scriptwriting, pre-production, production and post-production.
In another workshop, ZIFF will introduce a Short Film Script Competition. Filmmakers from East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi) were invited to submit their scripts which had to evolve around aspects of the East African integration process.
