EUNIC Young Filmmakers Fund

EUNIC Young Filmmakers Fund – Call for Applications

The programme

The EUNIC Young Filmmakers Fund aims at helping creative talents and emerging filmmakers develop their understanding of the art and practice of filmmaking. Financial and professional support provided through a financial grant and workshop sessions should encourage young Afghan filmmakers up to 30 years old to realize a short film (20 minutes maximum) and to tell their stories using film as creative tool. The project should also provide networking opportunities with other filmmakers, guidance and participation in festivals. 

EUNIC Afghanistan

EUNIC is the network of the international cultural relations institutes from the member states of the European Union. They seek to facilitate cultural co-operation; to create lasting partnerships between professionals, to encourage greater understanding and awareness of the diverse European cultures and to encourage greater language learning.

The British Council, the Institut Francais d’Afghanistan (IFA) and the Goethe-Institut Afghanistan are forming the EUNIC-Cluster in Afghanistan.

All institutes look back to long time of partnership with the Afghan cultural scene reaching back into the 1960s and are now sharing their experiences with their local partners among various other projects in the Afghan National Theatre Festival and the International Documentary and Short Film Festival.

The procedure

Young and emerging Afghan Filmmakers up to 30 years old are invited to send their application forms – please use the form attached – including a significant description of the intended film project.

Submission deadline of applications: January 21, 2012

Send your applications to

film@kabul.goethe.org 

A Jury will select the 10 most promising film projects and inform the selected filmmakers on February 5, 2012. These receive a financial grant allowing them to start with realizing their projects.

An integral part of the programme is a workshop session in April 2012 that tackle different filmmaking disciplines, both at the theoretical and practical levels. The filmmakers are offered the chance to develop their work in a creative environment; the international advisor’s guidance ranges from improving the techniques, to practical suggestions to be explored the EUNIC film project.  

The film projects have to be completed June 2012 and will be presented to the public afterwards. 

The Conditions

- Applicants should have the Afghan Citizenship and must be between the ages of 18 and 30 years old

- The short film should not be longer than 20 min. It should be from the genres documentary, animation and narrative shorts.

- All participants’ film projects must be their own.

- The selected projects will be funded with 2,500 USD each. Therefore the respective filmmakers have to sign an agreement with EUNIC.

- A workshop session and a public presentation are integral parts of the project. All applicants must be available to attend workshops. Missing workshops will disqualify a participant from going forward in the process.

- Submissions made after the deadline will not be entered into the jury.

For additional information please refer to film@kabul.goethe.org or (020) 210 52 00