Four film projects have received cash grants from The Screen Institute, Beirut this month. Crayons from Askalan: Lebanon $15,000 (Production) Director: Laila Hoteit The film is a creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Zuhdi was sentenced and confined in the […]
Four film projects have received cash grants from The Screen Institute, Beirut this month.
Crayons from Askalan: Lebanon $15,000 (Production)
Director: Laila Hoteit
The film is a creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Zuhdi was sentenced and confined in the notorious high security prison in Askalan, for fifteen years.
With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons, and smuggling out his allegorical artwork, so it finds its way to the outside world.
Whose country: Egypt $15,000 (Production)
Director: Mohamed Siam
The film is set in the heart of Arab Spring, Egypt during and after the revolution. The story follows a policeman confessing for the acts of torture, corruption and violence he committed in his daily job with the past regime against the civilians in Cairo city. Ahmed our policeman has a lot to tell us during this journey while looking for his kidnapped brother during the unrest last February.
74: Lebanon $ 15,000 (Production)
Director: Rania Rafei
1974 is a film about Leftist youth in Lebanon today trying to reenact the student rebellion of 1974. By blending both factual elements from the 1974 rebellion and current ideas and positions of politically active Leftist students. The project will execute a series of experimental reconstructions of the different phases that led the students to stage their protest and subsequently occupy the universitys campus for 37 days.
Trip tease: Lebanon $ 15,000 (Production)
Director: Diala Kashmar
Trip tease addresses a phenomenon that has materialised from fear, injustice and a collective complex of discrimination. It had a dramatic impact on the Lebanese population despite the fact that many deny it, trying to forget it by turning the page of the civil war, while other persevere in their fight for surviving and asserting their existence.
Next application schedule:
August 22, 2011 Application submission deadline
September 12, 2011 Short list announcement
September 20-21, 2011 Meetings with shortlisted teams
September 27, 2011 Grant announcements
