Iran, China and Italy- Impressions of Student Sara Stijovic on Film Workshops
Sara Stijovic, a student studying Film and TV directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the University of Montenegro, has recorded her impressions of film campuses and projects in which she has participated in previous months. In addition to an interesting story about travel, workshops and socializing, Sarah also shared some great photos with us:
I fell in love in Iran,
I have gained weight in China ,
and met the owner of Divella company in Italy.
And all that ... thanks to the movie.
With the wonderful Tribeny Rai, a young Indian director
From April to July ... I attended some new classes, different from the usual ones - we talked about film, heroes and antiheroes, main and supporting roles, possible dramaturgical techniques and structures, working with actors, genres, and collisions of two or more genres in one, primarily film, but also generally dramatic, achievement, distribution and marketing, festivals and strategic plans ... but above all we talked about people, relationships, about us, about love, about goodness.. .and if we talk about it, the movie itself comes.
April, 2019 – 37th Fajr International Film Festival – Talent Campus 2019
Fajr International Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in Iran. Recognized globally, the festival offers the opportunity to gain insight into not only how this branch of art works, but also how the film industry works. Everything is talked about at the festival, campus, and workshops - there are no taboos of any kind; young people, future professionals, have the opportunity to learn about all sectors and phases of filmmaking, and most importantly, from a wide variety of perspectives.
In addition to feeling privileged to receive a personal invitation to apply for the Talent Campus at all, I felt even more fortunate to find out that I had passed, and to go to Iran! Hey - Iran!!! Not in the terrible, dangerous, 'unstable' Iran of the media, but in the real Iran - one in which every sliver of sand exudes culture and civilization. To that Iran.
All campus talent participants, during one of the outings
We have about twenty campus participants. I'm the only one from Montenegro, but also from the Balkans, and there are people from all over the world - from India, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Myanmar, China, Korea, Italy, France, Germany ... I have met so many wonderful, kind people - young people who love what they do - which, unfortunately, is a small percentage in Montenegro. The beauty of such meetings lies primarily in the fact that in twenty days someone will teach you how to make movies, write quality scripts, and the like. It is about coming home and realizing you have friends all over the world, not acquaintances, but friends...
During the course of the campus, of course, besides sightseeing tours in Tehran itself, we have a couple of workshops / masterclasses a day - all phases in the process of making one movie are 'included', so we listen to masterclasses from Directing, Dramaturgy, Camera, Production, Editing, Set Design, Costume Design , Acting, Marketing ... And the lecturers ... Well 'Oh!'. There are Paul Schrader, Luca Bigaci, Adina Pintilia, Michael Noer, and many more ...
Group selfies with Luce Bigaci
Looking China Film Youth Project 2019 – Harbin, Kina – maj/ jun, 2019
The Looking China project is for students only and is organized by Beijing Normal University and implemented in collaboration with a large number of universities from all over the world - thankfully, including ours, FDA Cetinje. The aim and the task of each student is to independently produce, for the duration of the project, a short documentary film that is thematically related to the cultural heritage of China.
During the project, each participant is obliged to independently produce a short documentary - the project time is divided into production stages - we have a few days to research, write the script, prepare any kind, then a few days to shoot, and the last segment is dedicated to post -production (film editing, color grading and sound design). Of course, while this is formally strict, it is up to each of us individually to schedule our time to suit ourselves - so I recorded what I watched and saw a lot. :)
Campobasso, region of Molise, Italy - June / July, 2019 Art residency
The MONET project - Culture in Motion in the Adriatic Network of Museums, Interregional IPA, is a collaboration of three countries - Italy (two Italian regions - Pula and Molise), Albania and Montenegro.
Within this cooperation, opportunities are opened for artistic residences, the realization of international projects, and MONET is just one of them. Within this project, a number of young artists (visual / visual artists, writers / future writers, photographers or 'video artists') go to each of the countries / regions to create works during their residency that will be exhibited in the completed exhibition.
Thanks to the Vice-deans for international cooperation, Edin Jasarovic and Zdravko Delibasic, we, students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, were able to apply for the project and try our luck.
Four of us - two Italian women, fine artists, a young man from Albania who is a student of Albanian language and literature, and I - had the opportunity to get to know Italian life and mentality 'from the inside' during our two-week residency - we had the opportunity not to be tourists, but a real animal the small town of Campobasso.
Frames from my documentary, created as part of the project