MEM.MEDIA will hold training sessions for students of the Cinema Youth project with SIBUR’s support

13 august 2021

Kstovo is to host intensive offline training sessions on August 14 and 15 as part of the Cinema Youth, an educational filmmaking camp for teenagers. These sessions will focus on the preparatory phase of making a movie. The Cinema Youth project is being implemented with the support of SIBUR's social investment program, the Formula for Good Deeds.

The first day of training will be dedicated to the students’ mastering of the entire pre-production phase of filmmaking. The class’s instructors will work with students in three areas: scriptwriting, acting and directing, introducing them to the nuances of script pitching, i.e. the art of presenting a script idea, teaching them to create a director's treatment, a detailed description of the director's concept for the film. The students will also be offered a class on location scouting: selecting locations where they will be shooting their film.

On the second day, the students will split into several teams and will assign themselves the key jobs of the director of photography, the film’s principal director, the sound director, and various other roles. At the end of the second day, each team will present their concept of the future film and will coordinate its script with their mentors.

At the subsequent stages, the students will receive training on handling the filming process, shooting their own pictures, and on doing post-production. A professional team of mentors will be on hand to help the students fructify their ideas, with the students’ best works being slated to be referred to the country’s leading film festivals.

In moviemaking, everything depends on the talent of the team, the common vision, and, of course, good luck and good fortune. We were fortunate. This year, we had the best first group of enrollees. They are talented kids who are eager to work, full of energy and hungry for new knowledge and will soon go on their own sets to shoot their stories, Angie Taratuta, director and mentor of the Cinema Youth project, shared.