IFFR Trainee Project for Young Film Critics 2009
Applications deadline: November 7, 2008
The 11th IFFR Trainee Project for Young Film Critics of the IFFR offers up to six young (under 30 years), motivated and talented film critics from outside The Netherlands a chance to get acquainted with the Rotterdam film festival and the cinema of the world.
The project was created in 1998 motivated by the fact that young and upcoming film critics get less opportunities to explore this range of cinema and the festivals, like the International Film Festival Rotterdam, that present it.
The Rotterdam film festival supports young filmmaking, film producing and journalistic talent on several levels: the Hubert Bals Fund contributes to film projects in developing countries, the festival screens many feature and short films by young filmmakers. CineMart organises a trainee project for young film producers (
Rotterdam Lab) in close collaboration with its partner organisations.
The past ten editions the Rotterdam film festival welcomed trainee film critics from:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovak Republic, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Turkey, UK and USA.
HOW TO APPLY? Deadline: November 7, 2008Trainees Edition 2008
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R. Emmet Sweeney graduated from New York University in 2005 with a Masters degree in Cinema Studies - and a rapidly expanding student loan debt. He went on to write film criticism for the Village Voice, The Believer, IFC News, The Reeler, and his blog Termite Art (termiteart.blogspot.com). Currently he's employed at the film and DVD distributor Kino International, and writes whenever anyone is foolhardy enough to give him the opportunity. |
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After her undergrad studies in Business Administration, Emine Yildirim completed her MA in Film and TV Studies. Since 2001 she has been working in the Turkish Film Sector. In 2005 she set up Giyotin Film Productions Istanbul with four of her friends (who were as out of their minds as she was) and started producing documentaries. The same year she began writing for Timeout Istanbul English Edition and eventually for Today's Zaman newspaper. She continues to work as a film critic and a documentary producer. |
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Luiz Carlos Oliveira Jr. : "I work as a film critic in Contracampo (www.contracampo.com.br) since 2002. In the last two years, I’ve collaborated with other brazilian film magazines, like Paisà, and ministrated some workshops on film criticism and contemporary cinema. After graduating at the film school in Universidade Federal Fluminense, I’m starting a Master in Sciences of Communication (Universidade de São Paulo). I’ve also shot two short films (one in 35mm and the other in 16mm)." |
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Ma Ran got her MA degree in Film Studies at University of Amsterdam.Now she is a second year PhD student at the Department of Comparative Literature,University of Hong Kong. A cinephile herself, Ma Ran's academic passion is for Chinese Independent Cinema (also documentaries) and International Film Festival. Meanwhile, Ran is a freelance film critic writing for some major newspapers and film magazines in China on premiered films or film events in Hong Kong.
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Jana Kadlecova: "Until the age of 18 contemporary dancer, then studying Communication Studies in Prague, specializing on photography, having a break in Hamburg– participating in a year trainee project for journalists – photographers in the publishing house Verlag Bauer. Back to Prague, going on with Media Studies and started Film Studies along with Dutch Studies, culture corespondent for SME. Then back to Bratislava, editor and journalist, voluntary work (teaching dance) in Philippines, traineeship in Brussels (European Committee for Culture and Education), since June 2006 second comeback to hometown Bratislava - journalist, editor and critic in Slovak daily SME. |
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Nandini Nair: "A love for books led me to study English Literature. But a need to grapple with the ‘real’ nudged me towards Journalism. India is a country of many Indias. It throbs with stories. And finally, I want to be a storyteller." |