French experts train Kazakhstan filmmakers to make documentaries

    10 beginning filmmakers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia will learn from famous French documentary directors, Tengrinews.kz reports.
    Organizers of trainings plan to promote the development of non-fiction film-making in Asia with the help of Eurasiadoc documentary film trainings during the next three years.
    30 film projects were submitted in 2013 and 10 projects out of these were selected for participation in the trainings.
    Experts will assist the beginning directors and scriptwriters in analyzing their project, working to make them better and will teach young directors to make their projects worth screening in international film festivals.
    Directors of the most successful documentary projects will be selected at the workshops. They will meet European producers and TV company reps at the Golden Apricot International Film Festival to be held in Yerevan this summer.
    The Eurasiadoc program kicked off in 2012. Back then, projects from two Kazakhstan citizens -- Azat Khakimov and Zhanna Rakhimberdiyeva were approved and selected for screening at the Yerevan Film Festival.
    “I have submitted my project, and I was told I was selected to participate. They invited me to take part in the trainings. I worked on the script for my documentary with two experts (Samuel Obeng and Kristoff Postick) for two weeks. Then my project was selected for the Yerevan Festival. At present, I am cooperating with Belgian and French producers. I will start shooting this summer. Now, I need to discuss several things with the French Support for World Cinema Fund,” Azat Khakimov, participant of the 2012 project, said.
    His documentary's idea is that every man “is in a transition state, he is turning from a boy into a man and from a man into a mature personality,” www.tengrinews.kz states.