Archives | 2007 | Scriptwriting Workshops
Taking place from the 22nd to the 29th of January 2007, European Short Pitch was an innovative project aimed to develop European co-production of short films. It combined a scriptwriting workshop in residency and a promotional event within a major film festival.
Selected on the basis of their short film scripts, young European talents gathered to discuss, rewrite, and learn to promote their ideas on a European level. They eventually pitched their project in front of a panel of producers/commissioning editors.
Initiated by NISI MASA, European Short Pitch is the continuation of a scriptwriting workshop held for the finalists of its European Script Contest since 2004. The project was 8 days long (a 5-day workshop in Moulin d’Andé and 3 days of promotion at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival) and gathered 25 participants from all over Europe.
Archives | 2007 | Scriptwriting Workshops
Script&Pitch is an advanced script-writing and development course for scriptwriters and story editors of cinema & TV movies.
Script&Pitch aims to develop feature film scripts. The first edition was in 2005, when it ran for the first time with the support of the MEDIA Plus Programme of the European Community. NISI MASA was from the very beginning one of the main partners of this project and is now looking forward to the 2nd edition enthusiastically!
Archives | 2006 | Filmmaking Workshops
DOKO YOMI, “Documenting Kosovo’s Youth in Mitrovica” was a documentary workshop organised by NISI MASA, in cooperation with its member organisation in Kosovo, 7Arte. It was open to young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 living in Albania and the former Yugoslavian countries.
This project aimed to:- train young people in documentary filmmaking
- encourage creative expression amongst young people in the Balkans, especially in the specific area of Kosovo and its neighbouring regions
- promote mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue
- develop long-term partnerships between young European and Balkan artists.
Archives | 2006 | Filmmaking Workshops | Seminars & Conferences | Special Events
“Cinema as a means to promote European Citizenship”
26. August-3. September 2006, Paris (France)
Happy Birthday!
5 Years! It's barely the time it took for NISI MASA to grow from 7 to 17 member countries, the time to organise five editions of its European Contest of Short Film scripts, the time to implement more than 25 encounters across Europe, from Alcala to Sodankylä…
5 years, 17 countries, 1 common language: cinema.
“Into the network, from local to international”
Archives | 2006 | Seminars & Conferences
1.–6. August 2006, Vienna (Austria)Organised in Vienna, with the cooperation of Kino5, from the 1st to the 6th of August 2006, this summer training course gathered 20 members of our network determined to invent TODAY the FUTURE of NISI MASA!
This 6-day encounter included 10 associations from as many countries. Its aim was to give NISI MASA members the necessary knowledge and tools in order to develop quality local and international projects. In addition, participants shared their existing knowledge and experience in the fields of youth activities connected with cinema, networking, and the Youth Programme.
Script Contest 2006 "Tourists"
Archives | 2006 | Script Contests
The 5th edition of the NISI MASA European Short Film Script Contest, on the theme “Tourists”, came to an end on the 8th of November 2006 with the announcement of the three European Awards.
The jury, gathered in Helsinki (Finland) along the 23rd Kettupäivät - Film Festival, awarded:
- Harragas, by Grégory Lecocq (Belgium)
- Nighttime Visitors, by Sonja Csukor (Hungary)
- Tourist, by Mateusz Subieta (Poland)
Archives | 2006 | Film Journalism Workshops | Nisimazine
From the 21st to the 28th of May, 2006, a Film Critics' Workshop was run by NISI MASA during the 59th Cannes Film festival.
Organised with the support of the French Ministry of Youth, this workshop aimed to train 15 young Europeans in the creation of a cinema magazine covering the Festival, and more particularly the (young) European cinema present in Cannes. This year, NISI MASA was thus pleased to frame one of the workshops proposed to the 60 young people invited by the Ministry.
Building a Common European Home
Archives | 2006 | Seminars & Conferences
27. April–3. May 2006, Torino (Italy)Organised between the 27th of April and the 3rd of May 2006 in Torino by Franti and NISI MASA, this meeting invited 24 young filmmakers from 8 European countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey) to take part in a multi-activity lab based on the topics of cultural belonging, identity and citizenship, through the looking glass of audiovisual culture.
Archives | 2006 | Filmmaking Workshops
29. March-8. April 2006, Le Havre (France)
Organised by the cultural institute ‘Le Volcan-Eden’, the International Encounters ‘Childhood & Cinema’ have been taking place in Le Havre (France) every two years since 1990. These ‘Encounters’ are meant to be a film festival, but also a venue for debates dealing with cinema education. In June 2004, NISI MASA participated for the first time in this bi-annual event. 25 young directors produced 4 so-called “filmed letters”, poetic short films written in the first person and adressed to someone else…
Balkan identities, Balkan cinemas
Archives | 2006 | Seminars & Conferences
3.-9. March 2006, Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria)
NISI MASA is really involved in the ‘integration’ of Balkan countries & Balkan Youth into the so-called ‘European construction process’. Our network is also confident in the role of cinema when it comes to identity building and social change. That is the reason why, together with its Bulgarian member Art Group Haide, NISI MASA decided to organize a Balkan youth seminar called ‘Balkan identities, Balkan cinemas’.
This seminar took place in the town of Blagoevgrad (south-west of Bulgaria, close to Macedonia & Greece), from the 3rd to the 9th of March 2006. It gathered 25 young participants from 8 Balkan countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania), guests from other European countries and local audience.
