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The first issue of Nisimazine Cannes 2013 is out and ready to be read! Find out what our think about some of the films watched during the first few days of the 66º Cannes Film Festival: 'Fruitvale Station' by Ryan Coogler and 'Salvo', TorinoFilmLab production by former European Short Pitch participants Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza.
Nisimazine at Shooting Stars 2013
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SHOOTING STARS 2013
The Nisimazine Team has been very busy in the past few days attending the Berlinale, and to be more specific, covering this year’s Shooting Stars event that each year, presents a selection of rising actors and actresses from all around Europe!
As media partners of Shooting Stars and in collaboration with Cineuropa.org, we met the 10 stars and discussed about the about their careers, their future and what means for them to be a Shooting Star!
We will be archiving the interviews here:
- Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (Denmark)
To see all the video interviews from all the Shooting Stars, click here.
Nisimazine Special: Rotterdam Shorts 2013
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NISIMAZINE SPECIAL ISUUE
Welcome to the first 2013 edition of Nisimazine, where we dissected the Tiger Shorts competition and Spectrum Shorts sections of the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2013.
The team was composed by Nisimazine Alumni Lydia Castellano (Spain), Zowi Vermiere (The Netherlands), Martin Kludac (Slovakia), Erini Nikopoulou (Greece), Mario Kozina (Croatia) and Fernando Vasquez (Portugal), also as editor and project manager.
Have a read on our Special Issue to find out all the details!
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NISI MASA Estonia is pleased to announce that they are organizing for the second time, Nisimazine Tallinn. The workshop take place from 17th to 25th of November in Tallinn, Estonia, during the biggest film festival in Estonia: Black Night’s Film Festival
This project involves a film journalism workshop for international young film critics and their mentors. The team of 9 writers, 1 video blogger, 1 web designer and 3 photographers from European countries aged 18-30 will be covering the film festival’s programme through unique newsletters that will be sent out to Nisimazine readers around the globe.
At Nisimazine Tallinn, the participants cover the festival in the traditional Nisimazine frames of review, in focus articles, portraits, interviews and of course many photos depicting the best moments of the festival. In addition to daily newsletters, all the texts will be published online in the official Nisimazine website.
As usual in Nisimazine, editing and publishing processes will be led by experienced mentors Mirona Nicola (Romania) for writers and Johanna Kinnari (Finland) for photographers. Nisimazine is a great opportunity to develop professional skills in film journalism, meet new people with the same interest, and, of course, explore and enjoy the variety of the festival’s programme.
Below, you can enjoy the daily newsletters result of the film journalism workshop in Tallinn! Enjoy the reading!
Newsletter #1
- Review of Loving
- Review of Oh Boy
- Interview with Cory McAbee
Newsletter #2
- Review of Almost 18
- Review of For Ellen
- Interview with Jan Ole Gerster
Newsletter #3
- Review of The Daughter
- Review of The Punk Syndrome
- Interview withMarek Rudnicki
Newsletter #4
- Review of The Sessions
- Review of A Caretaker's Tale
- Interview with the director and the executive producer of Mona
Newsletter #5
- Review of The Conspiracy
- Review of Eastalgia
Newsletter #6
- Review of Demons
- Review of Compliance
- Interview with Mik Granström
Newsletter #7
- Review of Everybody's Gone
- Review of Smashed
- Interview with Simon Aberger
To get aqcuinted with the previous Nisimazine’s, you can go here
Organizer: NGO Nisi Masa Estonia, part of the NISI MASA network (www.nisimasa.com )
Nisimazine invited in Filmfest Hamburg 2012
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The always interesting Filmfest Hamburg invited two of our Nisimazine bloggers to cover this year's edition. Michaela Pnacekova and Franziska Knupper where in charge to bring you the reviews and articles of the most interesting films shown during the festival.
Here, find the list of articles and interviews that our journalists did during Filmfest Hamburg:
- 170 Hz, by Joost van Ginkel
- Interview Bjarup Riis, Director of This Life
- Interview Marek Rozenbaum, Producer of God’s neighbours
- Inteview Michael Mayer, Director of Out in the Dark
- Never too late, by Ido Fluk
- Turning, by Charles Atlas
- Interview Yolande Zauberman, Director of Would you have sex with an Arab?
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READ THE E-BOOK!
For the first time, the Nisimazine team arrives to Kaunas International Film Festival to make a huge coverage on its daring and interesting programme.
The team, composed by Vaidė Legotaitė, Ugnė Česnavičiūtė, Ugnė Gudzinskaitė, Donata Juškelytė, Saulius Kovalskas from Lithuania and Zowi Vermeire (The Netherlands) and Sami Pöyry (Finland), has worked hard on the e-booK, which includes reviews, interviews and "in focus" articles!
Click on the cover to read it!
If you want a .pdf copy, send an email to lucia@nisimasa.com
You can also read the newsletter done during the festival:
- Interview with Ursula Meyer
- Review of Gulf stream under the Iceberg
- Review of Tabu
- Interview with Aik Karapetian
- Review of People Out There
- Review of Lonely Island
- Interview with Yevgeny Pashkevich
- Review of At night I fly
- Review of Keyhole
- Interview with Dovilė Gasiūnaitė
- Review of Narcissus
- Review of Alps
- Interview with Marius Holst
- Review of Bestiary
- Review of Donoma
- Interview withKleber Mendoça
- Review of Neighbouring Sounds
- Review of Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
- Interview with Yevgeny Pashkevich
- Review of Spain
- Review of Beast Paradise
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Nisimazine Special Karlovy Vary 2012
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FOCUS ON THE EAST OF THE WEST COMPETITION
After a week of creative gestation our brand new Nisimazine Special Karlovy Vary is seeing the daylight and need your (socially networked) help and support to get acquainted with the world.
Now in its third edition, Nisimazine Special (Venice Orizzonti, Rotterdam Shorts and now Karlovy Vary East of the West) is quickly establishing itself as a complementary and enriching addition to our Film Journalism Workshops. Unlike the latter, our Specials are realized in collaboration with our Alumni thus offering an opportunity for them to remain actively engaged with Nisi Masa.
The e-book you're holding in your virtual end follows up and concludes our KVIFF coverage we had started while in Karlovy Vary with our newsletter series (archived here) and provide you with a comprehensive coverage of the East of the West Competition. The team responsible for this edition was composed by 5 writers and 1 photographer coming from Romania, Italy, Yemen/Scotland and Slovakia.
We hope you will enjoy the reading and share it with others.
Click on the image or here to read it online and if you want a .pdf version of the e-book, contact lucia@nisimasa.com
2012 has been our 7th year consecutive doing during Cannes Film festival, and this year, we've been covering the Caméra d'Or and the short films competitions.
Click on the cover to read the e-book:
- Reviews of the feature and short films in competition of Caméra d'Or
- Interviews with the directors presenting their films including Ben Zeitlin (Beasts of the Suthern Wild), Carlos Dieges (Caméra d'Or Jury President) or Benjamin Parent (It's not a cowboy movie)
This project is supported by the Youth in Action programme of the European Commission.
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Marvelous news! We are proud to announce the name of the 8 participants of our Nisimazine Cannes 2012!
Participants from France, Estonia and Turkey took part of our Film Journalism Workshop in Cannes Film Festival (16 - 27 May 2012), where they formed an international team motivated to make innovative and fresh festival coverage. The team created a 96-page-e-book covering the Camera d’Or competition (open to 1st feature films only) and the shorts of the festival! Every selected participant spent a week in Cannes in this unique opportunity to gain practical, hands on experience in film journalism.
These are the name of the participants:
- Aurite Kouts (France)
- Greta Varts (Estonia)
- Emilie Padellac (France)
- Chloe Vollmer-Lo (France)
- Franziska Knupper (Germany/France)
- Ali Deniz Sensöz (Turkey)
- Marek Mäemets (Estonia/Austria)
- Cecile Janvier (France)
2012 has been our 7th year consecutive doing during Cannes Film festival, and this year, we've been covering the Caméra d'Or and the short films competitions.
Click on the cover to read the e-book:
- Reviews of the feature and short films in competition of Caméra d'Or
- Interviews with the directors presenting their films including Ben Zeitlin (Beasts of the Suthern Wild), Carlos Dieges (Caméra d'Or Jury President) or Benjamin Parent (It's not a cowboy movie)
To learn about our Nisimazine 2012 schedule, click here
This project is supported by the Youth in Action programme of the European Commission.
NISIMAZINE SPECIAL: ROTTERDAM SHORTS
Nisimazine was at the 2012 was at the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam to make a special edition of coverage on its Shorts Selection!
Click on the cover to read the e-book:
- Reviews of some of the shorts in competition for the Tiger Awards.
- Interviews: Peter van Hoof ( Head of Shorts Programme), Hayoun Kwon (France), Christelle Lheureux (France), Rafael Urban (Brasil), Takashi Makino (winner from Japan), Miguel Fonseca (Portugal)
