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German cinema expert to train budding filmmaker
View(s):‘Pitch & Trailer’ Workshop by award winning filmmaker Till Passow
For the first time in Sri Lanka, award winning German filmmaker and trainer 
Till Passow, will conduct a workshop for young Sri Lankan filmmakers on making trailers for film production pitching.
This workshop will be useful for young Sri Lankan filmmakers with a film project in hand, looking for international film production funding.
During the workshop young filmmakers will be trained to pitch at international film festivals and forums. All filmmakers will be trained to make a trailer of the proposed production for pitching as well. All aspects of pitching will be covered during the 11 day training to be held at Goethe institute, Colombo.
Eighteen young filmmakers with new film projects will be selected to participate. At the end of the workshop filmmakers will be invited to present their trailers and practise in a practice-pitching session.
The 11 day work shop will be from April 28 to May 8 at Goethe Institut, Colombo 7 and interested young filmmaker with a feature or a documentary film project in hand can send their CVs with synopsis of the film (750- 1000 words) and director’s intent (500-750 words) to intern1@colombo.goethe.org
Goethe Institut is the main partner of Agenda 14 Short Film Festival in Sri Lanka.
Agenda 14 held the first ever pitching session in Sri Lanka in collaboration with Goethe Institut three years ago for short filmmakers in Sri Lanka and produced 8 short films on ‘Reimagining Development’ with Centre for Poverty Analysis. There after they produced 42 short films after several training and pitching sessions across the country.
“It’s time to support the young filmmakers to realise their dreams infull length feature and documentary filmmaking and this is the first step. “Pitch& Trailer” workshop was initiated at Berlinale 2016. Dr. Petra Raymond, Director of Goethe Institute introduced me to Till Passow and we developed the workshop plan in Berlin last year. We spent the last 12 months developing a workshop programme suitable for Sri Lanka,” Anomaa Rajakaruna, Festival Director of Agenda 14 Short Film Festival said speaking about the festival.
“Till has worked in Asia before and worked on similar progarmmes in the region. I hope this workshop will open doors for some young Sri Lankan filmmakers. We have many stories to tell and the world is interested in hearing them and be part of it. But we don’t have the knowhow. We need a proper training in presenting our work to interested film producers and funders out side. This workshop will be a first of its kind to bridge gaps” she added.
Further information could be obtained by contacting Anomaa Rajakaruna, Coordinator of the Programme on anomaa.rajakaruna@gmail.com