You are invited for workshop at ŻUBROFFKA 2017!

ŻUBROFFKA invites you to the workshops!

ŻUBROFFKA festival loves cinema, so for years we have been trying to teach how to make films and how to talk about them. Traditionally, we encourage filmmakers of all ages to cooperate. All workshops will take place from December 6th to December 10th, 2017 within the 12th edition of the ŻUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival.

We have the pleasure of inviting you to the following master classes:

Potworolimpiada / Monsterlympics – animation workshop for children

hosts: Dina Velikovskaya (Russia) and Florian Grolig (Germany)

age rating: 10+ (number of participants may not exceed 10)

venue: Youth Cultural Center – Animation and Film Studio, 9a Zwierzyniecka Street

fee: 50 PLN

the classes are conducted in English with Polish translation

additional information and application: warsztaty@zubroffka.pl, tel. +48 85 746 13 15

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Take part in the world’s first monster games! How high can you jump with five eyes? How fast can you run with three arms and legs? How many heads do you need to win a tennis match?

During the three-day workshops we will design and make animated puppets of monsters, which we will bring to life. We will allow them to jump, run, perform rolls and play countless various sports. Finally, we will examine their monstrous opinions on our Monsterlympics.All activities will be accompanied by a camera, and the effect can be seen during the closing ceremony of the ŻUBROFFKA festival.

Hosts:
Dina Velikovskaya, animator born in 1984 in Moscow. She graduated from the State School of Art (specialization: scenic design), VGIK Russian State University of Cinematography, and Academy of Animation – SHAR Studio (Moscow). She made several films, awarded worldwide. Since 2015 he has been working in the Russian animation studio Pchela.

Florian Grolig, an independent creator and designer of games from Berlin. He graduated from the Kassel School of Art and Design. He has produced many award-winning short films, video games and animations. Co-founder of Black Pants video game studio. His last film “In The Distance” was shown at many festivals, earning prizes.

organizer: Białystok Cultural Centre – “GAG” Film Debating Club

coorganizer: Youth Cultural Center – Animation and Film Studio

“Reviving Memories” animation workshops for seniors

hosts: Magdalena Bryll and Natalia Spychała (Fabryka Form Fszelakich)

venue: Białostocki Ośrodek Kultury/Centrum im. Ludwika Zamenhofa

participation free of charge (number of participants is limited)

additional information and application: film@bok.bialystok.pl, tel. +48 85 746 13 15

We invite seniors to take part in stop motion animation workshops – a unique form of expression, giving unlimited possibilities to revitalize every imagination and strangest vision. During the workshops, we will develop a scenario basing on the participants’ memories, especially those related to the city and its places of interest. We will bring your archival photographs to life and we will tell the story, inspired by the memory of what was in the past.

We will need old family photos taken in Bialystok or its area. No special knowledge or film skills are necessary, because everything you need to make a stop motion animation will be learned during the course. The workshops will result with an edited and animated film.

Hosts:
Magdalena Bryll, a graduate of the Faculty of Animation at the Łódź Film School, she has been running master classes for many years. She has run workshops in Poland and abroad (Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine). She cooperated, among others, with the Se-ma-for film studio on the Academy-awarded “Peter and the Wolf”. During her workshops, amateur crews have made over 200 short films.

Natalia Spychała, a student of the Łódź Film School’s Faculty of Animation. In addition to working on film projects, she conducts stop-motion animation workshops for amateurs.

organizer: Białystok Cultural Centre – “GAG” Film Debating Club

Music videos making workshops

host: Florian Pochlatko (Austria)

venue: High School of Arts in Supraśl

age rating: 15+ (number of participants may not exceed 15)

fee: 50 PLN

the classes are conducted in English with Polish translation

additional information and application: warsztaty@zubroffka.pl, tel. +48 85 746 13 15

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We invite you to the music videos making workshops under the supervision of an internationally acclaimed Austrian artist, Florian Pochlatko! His most famous videos include König Leopold – Heat the Water (2012), Fikuja – Behave (From Now On) (2013) and Zebra Katz x Leila – God of Ghosts (2016), a winner of an award for the best music video from Austria in 2016. Debuting filmmakers often imitate their masters, so the workshop will motivate young people to believe in their own ideas and to find their own language.To maximize their imagination, the participants will work in a small group and with a negligible budget. They will try to make music videos for songs by Podlachian artists.

Host:
Florian Pochlatko, born in 1986 in Austria, he studied audiovisual media design at the HTL Ortweinschule for Art and Design in Graz and experimental visual arts at the Linz University of Arts. He is currently studying directing at the Vienna Film and Dramatic Studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Michael Haneke.

organizer: Białystok Cultural Centre – “GAG” Film Debating Club

coorganizer: High School of Arts in Supraśl

Videoblogs making workshops

host: Kaja Klimek

venue: Białystok Cultural Centre

workshops for ŻUBROFFKA’s Young Jury only

Films can be watched, you can talk about them, you can write about them… But you can do it all together and make a video-review. For that we need our own opinions, creativity and smartphones. By the way, let’s answer such questions as: how to prepare? what to remember? what to forget?, what is really important, and what – on the contrary – completely redundant? As for the festival of short films, the workshops will be short, content and on point!

Kaja Klimek, pop culture journalist. A graduate of journalism and cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University, and a post-graduate student at the Jagiellonian University. She loves movies, sometimes writes them (once for Film, Dwutygodnik, Filmweb, HIRO, and others) and constantly discusses them – also with the children involved in the NHEF’s, the Polish Film Institute’s and the School Viedolibrary’s film education programs. She co-hosts Weekendowy Magazyn Filmowy in TVP,awarded by the Polish Film Institute as the best tv show about film. Film and book translator. She has recently launched Hashtag Workshop YouTube channel- a vlog dedicated to pop culture and movies. She likes comics, plastic jewelry, and… Nicolas Cage.

Radio journalism workshops

host: Ryszard Jaźwiński

venue: Białystok Cultural Centre / Polish Radio Białystok

age rating: 15+ (number of participants may not exceed 15)

fee: 50 PLN

additional information and application: warsztaty@zubroffka.pl, tel. +48 85 746 13 15

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we invite you to the radio journalism workshop, where participants will gain knowledge about film journalism in various manifestations. The workshops are an opportunity to gain practical skills in the production of short radio and film programs, learn how to conduct a good interview and get to know the technical side of radio journalism and learn the basics. Additionally, workshop participants will be able to observe the work of journalists during the planned visits to Program 3 of the Polish Radio in Warsaw and the Polish Radio Białystok. Thanks to the fact that the festival will be attended by more than 100 guests from all over the world, the workshops will also be an opportunity to learn how the film market operates in Poland and in the world, as well as the opportunity to get to know some extraordinary people. The workshops are aimed at people with curiosity about the world, with heads full of ideas, who like to talk with people and feel free during public presentations.

Ryszard Jaźwiński spends most of his life in cinemas.Journalist, film observer, frequent jury member at various festivals, moderator of the meetings with filmmakers, and co-creator of the Trójka Talent Competition. He has been working for the Program III of the Polish Radio since the beginning of his professional career. His beloved place, just after Warsaw, once was Madrid, now – Barcelona, hence his nickname Rico, because he loves everything that is Spanish! The author of innumerable interviews with film stars, he befriended many of them. For over 20 years he has been hosting his own show “Trójkowo, filmowo”, awarded in 2010 with the award of the Polish Film Institute and several times nominated for this award; as well as a daily series of short meetings with filmmakers – “Fajny film …”. He probably broke the record of Trójka in the presence on the air – nine and a half hour (the Trójka’s Academy Awards ceremony live coverage and then the morning show “Zapraszamy do Trójki”)!