Youngs Cuts!
The accountability film school
Audio-visuals can be a powerful medium for spreading ideas, changing perceptions, telling the untold stories of corruption in our society, and making citizens and power-holders more accountable.
Following the successful closing of our first accountability film school, Onion Films announces the opening of the second accountability film-making workshop. With the objective of “engaging youth for telling accountability stories,” we, the Onion Films and Accountability Lab, are jointly announcing the Young Cuts! – A twenty-day film-making workshop totally designed for beginners and young people.
Topics
The meaning and importance of accountability, raising accountability issues through visual media
Conceptualisation, Story selection, planning,
Cinema psychology
Camera technique, writing script
and editing short films.
The “hands-on” approach will be emphasised. By the end of the workshop, participants will produce four short films on the four best stories selected from the participants’ ideas.
This workshop will be divided into two parts:
Part 1: The class-based film-making workshop will run for six days. During this “hands-on” training, the participants will learn from several filmmakers and accountability-related professionals, and then make two films 1. A photo film where they will combine a number of pictures that tell a story. 2. Motion film (silent film) without sound and text.
Part 2: Participants will be divided into 2-4 teams, will select a story based on accountability-related stories pitched by the participants themselves in the idea market, and will produce the film within a time period of fifteen days as their final project.
Who can apply?
This workshop is open to all young and aspiring filmmakers aged 18-30. We encourage female participants for whom we provide scholarships up to 50%.
Equipment
We encourage all applicants to carry a DSLR/ still compact cameras or any video cameras and a laptop, but it is not compulsory.
Watch Some of Our Young Cuts! Movies
