Breadmakers has been selected for the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund / Cologne in April 2008.
With the recent merger of the Feminale and femme totale - the two famous film festivals originally set up in Cologne and Dortmund in the 1980s - one of the most significant women's film festivals in the world has now come into being: the International Women's Film Festival DortmundCologne. Unique in Germany, the IWFF provides a perfect platform for the presentation of the latest film developments and trends as they relate to women working in all areas of film production. Not just women film directors but women cinematographers, film-music composers and other women filmmakers are given an unrivalled opportunity to showcase their latest work.
Based in the Rhine & Ruhr area, one of the world's largest metropolitan regions, the festival is open to all genres and styles. It takes place once a year, with the location alternating between two major and cultural important cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne and Dortmund. The structures there that have organically grown over the last twenty years will guarantee that the tradition of expertly presenting the work of women involved in film production will be continued.
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Sunday, 20 April 2008
Friday, 18 April 2008
Pangea Day
Breadmakers has been selected to be part of Pangea Day.
On May 10, 2008, Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York City, Ramallah, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv will be linked to produce a 4-hour program of films, music and speakers. The program will be broadcast live at the same time across the world. The program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.
According to the festival organisers, "Pangea Day plans to use the power of film to bring the world a little closer together."
Pangea Day was created in 2006 when documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED prize. Jehane wished to use film to bring the world together. May 10, 2008 will be the first Pangea Day event.
On May 10, 2008, Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York City, Ramallah, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv will be linked to produce a 4-hour program of films, music and speakers. The program will be broadcast live at the same time across the world. The program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.
According to the festival organisers, "Pangea Day plans to use the power of film to bring the world a little closer together."
Pangea Day was created in 2006 when documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED prize. Jehane wished to use film to bring the world together. May 10, 2008 will be the first Pangea Day event.
Iowa City for Breadmakers
Breadmakers was recently screened at the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival.
ICDOCS is an annual festival committed to engaging their Iowa audience with the world at large through films that explore the boundaries of documentary and non-fiction filmmaking. The festival showcases independent, high-quality short non-fiction films from around the world, providing valuable screen time for rarely seen work, as well as providing the community the opportunity to see movies they would usually not get to see.
ICDOCS was founded in 2001 with the mission of serving as a catalyst for positive change and fostering dialogue on a range of contemporary issues, both international and local. They are a non-profit, all volunteer-run organisation whose board of directors programmes approximately 10 hours of short works in competition for a ‘Best of the Festival’ award as well as other cash prizes, and sponsors special out-of-competition screenings and events, including screenings by distinguished jurors.
In 2008, ICDOCS teamed up with the Mission Creek Midwest Festival in order to provide a weeklong event showcasing literature, music, and film.
ICDOCS is an annual festival committed to engaging their Iowa audience with the world at large through films that explore the boundaries of documentary and non-fiction filmmaking. The festival showcases independent, high-quality short non-fiction films from around the world, providing valuable screen time for rarely seen work, as well as providing the community the opportunity to see movies they would usually not get to see.
ICDOCS was founded in 2001 with the mission of serving as a catalyst for positive change and fostering dialogue on a range of contemporary issues, both international and local. They are a non-profit, all volunteer-run organisation whose board of directors programmes approximately 10 hours of short works in competition for a ‘Best of the Festival’ award as well as other cash prizes, and sponsors special out-of-competition screenings and events, including screenings by distinguished jurors.
In 2008, ICDOCS teamed up with the Mission Creek Midwest Festival in order to provide a weeklong event showcasing literature, music, and film.
Monday, 14 April 2008
Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival
Breadmakers will be shown at the Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival on Saturday 19th April at 2pm.
The Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival is run by the Light House Cinema in Wolverhampton City Centre. It is run in association with Outside Centre - a local Disability Arts Charity headed by Dr Paul Darke. The Arts Council of England and Screen West Midlands are the main funders of the film festival.
Yasmin said, "This is the sort of festival I always wanted Breadmakers to be involved in." More details at: www.disabilityfilmfestival.eu
The Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival is run by the Light House Cinema in Wolverhampton City Centre. It is run in association with Outside Centre - a local Disability Arts Charity headed by Dr Paul Darke. The Arts Council of England and Screen West Midlands are the main funders of the film festival.
Yasmin said, "This is the sort of festival I always wanted Breadmakers to be involved in." More details at: www.disabilityfilmfestival.eu
BAFTA Scotland and BAFTA Cymru present...
BAFTA Scotland and BAFTA Cymru have joined forces to create a programme of award winning, emerging new work. The screening will take place at The Celtic Media Festival, Radisson SAS Hotel, Galway, Ireland, on Friday 18th April 2008.
SCOTLAND:
Breadmakers (Yasmin Fedda, 10mins)
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city. The workers interact using individual expressions, repetitive speech and sign language, revealing intricate social relationships with each other and their support workers. In what can seem a chaotic workplace, there is a mix of sounds that can approach levels of white noise amidst the carefully structured everyday process of bread production.
Butterfly (Yulia Mahr, 12mins)
When Gemma was born the midwife said she was the fairest child she'd ever seen. Not long after she was diagnosed with albinism, a melanin deficiency which causes very fair hair and skin, and poor eyesight. This rare and intimate portrait explores Gemma's perspective about her condition which has often made her an outsider - but equally determined to lead a normal life. "I'll never be able to drive a car, but that's about it," she says as she climbs the highest indoor climbing arena in Europe. A film about a courageous woman accepting difference.
How to Save a Fish from Drowning (Kelly Neal, 12mins)
How to Save a Fish from Drowning is a quirky film about the death of white rural America told through the voices of three old men fishing on a frozen lake. In a landscape cloaked in snow and hovering in a bright nothingness, they escape their wives, chew the fat about another neighbour having had to sell his farm, and they wait....
WALES:
Mummy's Boy (Nicholas Davies and Oskari Korenius, 15 mins)
When a twelve year old MARK discovers a drowned sheep he experiences a traumatic reminder of his brother's death. Driven by anger at his grief-stricken mothers inability to recognise his suffering, he destroys the shrine -like sanctuary she has created in her deceased son's room
Beryl, Y Briodas a'r Fiedo ( Joanna Quinn & Les Mills, 9 mins)
On acquiring a new Digi Video Cam Beryl becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking using it to articulate her desires. Dreams and thoughts as a video diary. As "cineaste par excellence" she agrees to video the wedding of her friend Mandy, seizing the opportunity to "strut her stuff filmically" with disastrous and often hilarious results.
SCOTLAND:
Breadmakers (Yasmin Fedda, 10mins)
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city. The workers interact using individual expressions, repetitive speech and sign language, revealing intricate social relationships with each other and their support workers. In what can seem a chaotic workplace, there is a mix of sounds that can approach levels of white noise amidst the carefully structured everyday process of bread production.
Butterfly (Yulia Mahr, 12mins)
When Gemma was born the midwife said she was the fairest child she'd ever seen. Not long after she was diagnosed with albinism, a melanin deficiency which causes very fair hair and skin, and poor eyesight. This rare and intimate portrait explores Gemma's perspective about her condition which has often made her an outsider - but equally determined to lead a normal life. "I'll never be able to drive a car, but that's about it," she says as she climbs the highest indoor climbing arena in Europe. A film about a courageous woman accepting difference.
How to Save a Fish from Drowning (Kelly Neal, 12mins)
How to Save a Fish from Drowning is a quirky film about the death of white rural America told through the voices of three old men fishing on a frozen lake. In a landscape cloaked in snow and hovering in a bright nothingness, they escape their wives, chew the fat about another neighbour having had to sell his farm, and they wait....
WALES:
Mummy's Boy (Nicholas Davies and Oskari Korenius, 15 mins)
When a twelve year old MARK discovers a drowned sheep he experiences a traumatic reminder of his brother's death. Driven by anger at his grief-stricken mothers inability to recognise his suffering, he destroys the shrine -like sanctuary she has created in her deceased son's room
Beryl, Y Briodas a'r Fiedo ( Joanna Quinn & Les Mills, 9 mins)
On acquiring a new Digi Video Cam Beryl becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking using it to articulate her desires. Dreams and thoughts as a video diary. As "cineaste par excellence" she agrees to video the wedding of her friend Mandy, seizing the opportunity to "strut her stuff filmically" with disastrous and often hilarious results.
Friday, 4 April 2008
Breadmakers in Krakow
Breadmakers has been selected for the Krakow Film Festival, which takes place in Krakow, Poland, from 30th May to the 5th June 2008. Krakow Film Festival is the oldest film festival in Poland, organised every year since 1961.
In the early 1990's, due to the political and economic transformations which caused a drastic decline of film production, the Krakow festival went through a crisis, as a result of which the national competition ceased to be organised for a number of years. It was only in 1997 that it was restored and since then both festivals have been held jointly every year in late May and early June.
The fact that the Krakow Film Festival has been officially recognised by FIAPF, the European Film Academy and the AMPAS only confirms its reputation in its field.
Consequently, the films awarded at Krakow are automatically eligible for the European Film Awards and the Oscars in the short film category. The Krakow Film Festival is also a member of the European Co-ordination of Film festivals, the association of Europe’s most prestigious film festivals.
In the early 1990's, due to the political and economic transformations which caused a drastic decline of film production, the Krakow festival went through a crisis, as a result of which the national competition ceased to be organised for a number of years. It was only in 1997 that it was restored and since then both festivals have been held jointly every year in late May and early June.
The fact that the Krakow Film Festival has been officially recognised by FIAPF, the European Film Academy and the AMPAS only confirms its reputation in its field.
Consequently, the films awarded at Krakow are automatically eligible for the European Film Awards and the Oscars in the short film category. The Krakow Film Festival is also a member of the European Co-ordination of Film festivals, the association of Europe’s most prestigious film festivals.
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Greece is the word
Breadmakers has been accepted to the 2nd Emotion Pictures International Documentary Festival on Disability which will be held between 21-23 June 2008, at the New Benaki Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, 138 Piraeus Street, Athens, Greece.
The festival, composing of documentary films focusing exclusively on issues of disability, is organised by the Secretariat General of Communication – Secretariat General of Information, in collaboration with the Greek Film Centre.
The aims and objectives of the festival remain the same, those being, the use of documentary films as a medium that puts on the map issues of disability by artists from around the world and walks of life; to increase public awareness and promote the inclusion of disabled people.
More details can be found at: www.ameamedia.gr/en
The festival, composing of documentary films focusing exclusively on issues of disability, is organised by the Secretariat General of Communication – Secretariat General of Information, in collaboration with the Greek Film Centre.
The aims and objectives of the festival remain the same, those being, the use of documentary films as a medium that puts on the map issues of disability by artists from around the world and walks of life; to increase public awareness and promote the inclusion of disabled people.
More details can be found at: www.ameamedia.gr/en
Friday, 28 March 2008
SILVERDOCS
Breadmakers has been selected for the SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival in June 2008.
SILVERDOCS is an international film festival celebrating the creative vision of independent filmmakers and the power of documentary to expand our world-view and enhance our understanding of the world around us. Entering its sixth year, SILVERDOCS has become the most talked about documentary festival in the United States. Due to record crowds in 2007, the 2008 edition of SILVERDOCS will be two days longer.
Leading filmmakers such as Nick Broomfield, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Alan King, Barbara Kopple, Al Maysles, Stanley Nelson, Jonathan Demme, Penelope Spheeris and Martin Scorsese have shared their work and their perspectives with Festival audiences.
SILVERDOCS provides business and creative connections among filmmakers, broadcasters, distributors and funders from both established and emerging media markets at the International Documentary Conference. The conference includes over 60 panels and workshops and is attended by over 650 filmmakers and guests from around the world. Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore delivered the keynote address in 2006.
SILVERDOCS takes place at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Centre.
SILVERDOCS is an international film festival celebrating the creative vision of independent filmmakers and the power of documentary to expand our world-view and enhance our understanding of the world around us. Entering its sixth year, SILVERDOCS has become the most talked about documentary festival in the United States. Due to record crowds in 2007, the 2008 edition of SILVERDOCS will be two days longer.
Leading filmmakers such as Nick Broomfield, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Alan King, Barbara Kopple, Al Maysles, Stanley Nelson, Jonathan Demme, Penelope Spheeris and Martin Scorsese have shared their work and their perspectives with Festival audiences.
SILVERDOCS provides business and creative connections among filmmakers, broadcasters, distributors and funders from both established and emerging media markets at the International Documentary Conference. The conference includes over 60 panels and workshops and is attended by over 650 filmmakers and guests from around the world. Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore delivered the keynote address in 2006.
SILVERDOCS takes place at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Centre.
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Labour Ennobles
There will be a screening of Breadmakers in Amsterdam on the 18th and 19th April 2008 as part of the Amsterdam Shorts Teaser Night.
The event is entitled Labour Ennobles and this is their blurb . . .
" Let us shake up your drag of everyday life by showing you other people's humdrum routines at work. We guarantee this to be a refreshing experience for anyone. The third and final Amsterdam Shorts! teaser night presents five carefully selected films that show you that any kind of labour, ranging from the oldest job on earth to the newest quirks of globalisation, ennobles us human beings."
The event is entitled Labour Ennobles and this is their blurb . . .
" Let us shake up your drag of everyday life by showing you other people's humdrum routines at work. We guarantee this to be a refreshing experience for anyone. The third and final Amsterdam Shorts! teaser night presents five carefully selected films that show you that any kind of labour, ranging from the oldest job on earth to the newest quirks of globalisation, ennobles us human beings."
Calcutta Calling
R: Andre Hoermann
(Ge, 2006, 16')
Vikhee Uphall is making a career in telemarketing. Calling from Calcutta he sells phone subscriptions to Americans, Brits and Aussies.
De Zone
R: Ben van Lieshout
(NL, 1999, 18')
An accurately shot film about a typical Dutch phenomenon: de afwerkplek, a place where prostitutes and their clients can park a car to have sex in.
Morning / Evening / Morning
R: David Burrows
(Fr, 2006, 19')
A dreamy insight into the life of a couple who through conflicting work schedules never really are together.
Breadmakers
R: Yasmin Fedda
(GB, 2007, 11')
Somewhere in Scotland there is a bakery which has the happiest employees in the world!
Staplerfahrer Klaus. Der erste Arbeitstag
R: Jörg Wagner
(Ge, 2001, 10')
In this hilarious instructional video we follow lift truck driver Klaus' first day at work.
Friday, 7 March 2008
CLICK HERE - Breadmakers on BBC Reporting Scotland
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