The Film & Video Institute
Articles in English
UNICA News 2003 Issue 1
Home | Forum | Events Diary | Site Search | Contact Us
|
The Film & Video Institute |
Articles in English UNICA News 2003 Issue 1 |
Home | Forum | Events Diary | Site Search | Contact Us |
|
Nouvelles | Zeitungs | Announcements | International Agenda | Photos | Front page
Dear film friends Mrs. Erika Hänsli passed away on 8th December 2002, being 70 years old, after fighting against an incurable form of cancer. In company of her husband Max Hänsli, she had been actively engaged in all UNICA activities for over 30 years. This gave her the opportunity, during all this time, to attend many UNICA events and make innumerable film friends. We have all known her as a very kind person, eager to please everybody and very much interested in film. She never missed any UNICA congress over all these years. She has also been actively engaged in the preparation and management of two UNICA Congresses held in Switzerland, in Baden near Zürich and in St.Gall.Champion-Keller, Teufelsschlucht, Buffet auf dem Crap Son Gion, were highlights in her life and she had very pleasant memories of these important events. She also found great pleasure in thinking back on all the film friends she had made on the occasion of meetings, both in Switzerland and abroad. Though nothing is eternal in this short life, we are grieved at the death of a person who was dear to us. The UNICA family will keep Erika Hänsli's memory alive. Thomas Kräuchi (CHE)
top of page
Organisation Committee:
tel./fax: (4822) 845 53 82 Warsaw Again
Join us at the UNIQUE UNICA in 2003. Hotels
A 50 EUR deposit for accommodation should be sent before June 1st, 2003 and will be deducted from the final payment. Cancellation before June 1st, 2003 is free of charge. After that date, the accommodation deposit will be retained. The organisers of UNICA 2003 will prepare invitations for young filmmakers (up to 21) on special conditions. Each Federation will receive 2 free sets of accommodation (hotel and board). Applications will be accepted in the form of a film CV not later than May 1st, 2003. The participants must confirm their attendance by August 1st, 2003 at the latest. Cancellations after that date mean we will charge the delegating Federation with the cost of unused accommodation.
CONGRESS CARDS - 170 EUR.
Attention! The bank payment costs must be borne by the paying person.
All payments should be made sent to:
To the account in:
Account: 11101040-401040001123 AIRFARES The national airline of Poland LOT has been appointed official carrier for the UNICA 2003 Congress in Warsaw. All flights to Warsaw booked for arrival 10 days or less before and departure at the latest 10 days after the UNICA Congress will be 20% cheaper as compared to standard fares and 15% as compared to special fares for all participants, except for the Promotion Tariff category "V". We kindly request you to enter DG 20G1, DG 15G1 in the box "Fare Basis". Information about reduced fares can be obtained from all LOT agencies and also from the ATRAXIS System under G#D2003. The reduction will be applied when the order for the congress card is confirmed.
top of page THE PROGRAMME FOR UNICA August 2003 15th Friday Reception and Registration 16th Saturday Committee and Jury Meeting
17th Sunday
18th Monday
19th Tuesday
20th Wednesday
21st Thursday
22nd Friday
23rd Saturday
top of page NEWS FROM THE CICT - IMAGE & SCIENCE 2002 The language of Arts, the language of Passions: language was the heart of the "Affiche du Monde" Festival 2002.
Michael Preis accompanied by his wife, attended the event specially to receive this reward which also honours the German federation, the BDFA. Michael Preis's film perfectly fitted the theme for this year, "language". The great human value of its testimony by a deaf young woman who was remarkably integrated in the community around her, in her city and in life ... was commended; as was the quality of the film's production. After Kelou (IRN) in 1999, Pianissimo (ITA) in 2000, Dancing (ESP) in 2001, Die Stille Is Mir Laut Genug is the fourth film from UNICA to enter the first "Cinemathèque of Humanity" which CNRS at the CICT constitutes. It builds year after year, with works from film schools on one hand (107 participating establishments), and films from the amateur enthusiasts of UNICA on the other hand. UNICA is delighted by the vitality of the partnership which we began in 1999, and the go-ahead for 2003 has already been given. The Conference of Image & Science will celebrate its twentieth anniversary then, and the theme for "Affiche du Monde" Festival 2003 will be "complexity".
top of page Die Stille Is Mir Laut Genug (Silence Is Loud Enough For Me) Perhaps a soundless, but not a silent world. "We are not a pitiful group with a common destiny, but a self-assured, handicapped minority." This is the message behind this report about a deaf woman. Jörg Walther (DEU) won a bronze medal at UNICA 2002 for Horizontal Skip. The film poses the questions: is there a reality and can man comprehend it? Patrick lets himself fall. He detaches himself from his human identity and starts to perceive his surroundings from another perspective independent of space and time. During his escape from drab everyday life he visits the locations of his wildest dreams. But who and where is he? Is he who he thinks he is?
top of page
Established in 1968, the Society of Canadian Cine Amateurs (SCCA) is a non-profit charitable organisation of amateur and professional video and film makers and amateur video and film clubs, whose object is to promote the arts and sciences of amateur movie production, to represent, to assist, and to co-ordinate the interests and activities of individual video and film makers and production groups in Canada. Among its activities the Society circulates videos and films, and organizes Public Screenings, Seminars, and an Annual Convention or Regional Meetings open to all. The SCCA also grants Honours to those who have made an outstanding contribution to Amateur Movie Making and publishes PANORAMA, a regular video/film making newsletter for its members. In addition the Society holds an Annual Film & Video Competition open to all Canadians and to all members of the Society wherever they may live, and the prestigious Canadian International Annual Film Festival (CIAFF) with sections for Amateurs, Students, Film Students, and Independent Professionals.
- Ben Andrews, CIAF - Canadian International Annual Film/video Festival
Director
website:
http://ciaff.org
top of page In Iran, learning cinema by means of academic studies began about the turn of century. The first Iranian film college opened in the early 60s and gradually more institutes and colleges were added. Now, there are more than a dozen states and private centres for those who want to enter cinema with a background of schooling. One of these centres is "Iranian Young Cinema Society" ( IYCS ).It was established in 1974. The main activities of the society are:
1- IYCS, in all its centers (almost 50 branches in whole country) establishes one or two semesters training courses for interested people in field of filmmaking, where the students will learn camera directing, scriptwriting, editing and photography. 2 - IYCS also organises an annual international short film festival; the 7th edition of it will be held on October 21st - 26th, 2002. 3 - In the beginning, IYCS mainly focused its activities on producing 8 and 16 mm films through establishing training courses. Since 1977, IYCS has expanded its activity in short filmmaking and encouraged mostly young filmmakers to produce short films in Beta cam, 16 and 35 mm formats. At the present time, IYCS is one the most important producers of short films in Iran, it produces short films in DVcam, Betacam, 16 and 35 mm formats and almost 700 titles have been produced in the last three years. IYCS provides TV channels, universities, institutes and other organisations, who are interested in purchasing short films. The films produced by IYCS have got many International Prizes from different film festivals around the world.
Page updated on 14 February 2008 Authors' views are not necessarily those of The Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Free JavaScripts provided
|
The event
took place on 12th October 2002 in the Great Hall of the UNESCO offices in
Paris during the closing ceremonies of the 19th International Conference
on Image & Science organised by the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (Images-Media), under the aegis of CICT (UNESCO), the Council
of Europe and the European Commission. It is within this framework that the
Grand Prix of the "Affiche du Monde" Festival 2002 for a film from UNICA
was presented to Michael Preis (DEU) of Dortmund for his film Die Stille
Is Mir Laut Genug which was screened during the UNICA festival in
Luxembourg.
