Brave New Culture announces the organization of the “3
rd Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival”. With a program full of activities and with a first class selection of award winning documentaries, the new edition of the ‘Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival’ will take place between the 6
th and 10
th of August 2008 at the B’ Municipal Market (Theatro Ena) in the seaside town of Lemesos, Cyprus. The festival is sponsored and supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, Media Desk – Cyprus, European Documentary Network (EDN), and other private and public institutions.
With movies selected from the most current international production and cover a wide range of contemporary documentary language, the ‘Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival’ functions as the main platform for presenting creative documentaries in Cyprus. In addition, through the organization of workshops and master-classes, it offers the possibility to professional directors and producers to get acquainted with the latest trends and tendencies in the documentary genre and to get informed about the prospects of fund raising and promoting their own projects in the broader European spectrum.
In the context of the festival’s parallel activities, a very important tutoring workshop will be organized which will be directed exclusively to professional directors and producers. The workshop is organized in cooperation with EDN (European Documentary Network), Danish Documentary and with the active support and participation of Media Desk – Cyprus.
The workshop is open to 12 participants in total, who after they submit a short treatment, they will have the unique opportunity to discuss their project on a one-to-one situation with the director of EDN
Leena Pasanen, with the Head of the THEMA Unit of Arte Strasburg
Olaf Grunert, and with the award winning Danish directors
Rose Grønkjær and
Eva Mulvad. Responsible for organizing the workshop and for inviting the tutors is Leena Pasanen whom she will be also acting as the general coordinator of the workshop.
For further information regarding the above please contact the organizers at
+357 22 30 53 67 / +357 99 40 78 56
and / or at the email addresses:
mediadesk@pio.moi.gov.cy and
info@filmfestival.com.cy
