Amer Matar beim “Syria Mobile Film Festival” on ARD deutsch
Amer Matar beim “Syria Mobile Film Festival” on ARD deutsch
Highlight Arts presented the film programme, Syria on the Road, at the 2015Platforma Festival in Leicester. The line-up included Counterpoints Arts‘ Learning Lab, Highlight Arts, RHUL, Outgrain, British Council and the Phoenix Cinema, Leicester. It was presented in cooperation with Syria Mobile Film Festival
In 2014, the Syria Mobile Film Festival took place in various locations inside Syria – from community centres to people’s homes – despite the difficult security situation. But the festival has also held events and screenings in more than 20 cities around the world. The ‘Pixel Workshop’, which I had been invited to lead, tookRead more
Syria’s mobile phone films festival 2014 has announced projects ‘names that gained”shootme”grant. Six projects of 21 have gained this grant. Won projects: Lonely, Celein Ahmad Garden & Cemetery, Salah Al.Ashkar Here’s Netherlands, Lawand Zaza & Majd Al.Hamwi Monologue, Firas Alshater Fatherhood, Wa’ad Alkhatib A Nap, Abu Layla – This grant’s jury has been comprised ofRead more
The first session of the training program for the Syria’s Mobile Phone Films Festival will begin in Gaziantep in Turkey. Twelve Syrian participants will be present at the workshop mounted by “Canal France International”(CFI) and will receive intensified training in using the mobile camera in a creative way, in shooting and producing documentaries and experimentalRead more
Syria’s Mobile Phone’s Film Festival was concluded and the awards were announced. The festival’s activities started on the 1st of October 2014 with screening the competing films in several areas in Syria. The festival held 10 screenings in Aleppo, Kfaranbel, Jabal al-Zawya, and other areas in Syria. Due to safety and security issues, many ofRead more
Mobile phone devices have been crucial in documenting the Syrian uprising and war. Thousands of Syrians who were often the unnamed activists but also journalists and regular citizens, shot with their mobile phones short videos of demonstrations, crackdown on civilians, aftermath of barrel bombs as well as short videos showing their daily life. The videosRead more
Mobile phones have played a huge role in the Syrian Revolution. Despite the very real risk of arrest, torture or death, citizen journalists have used their phones to capture and share information about what is really happening on the ground in Syria. In October of 2014, several Syrian-produced videos created with mobile devices were screened
More than 300,000 video clips from Syria have been uploaded on YouTube since the outbreak of the uprising in 2011. A majority of these clips were filmed by mobile phones. Now Syria has had its first Mobile Phone Films Festival screened throughout the country and abroad. The result is a collection of 13 impressive short films
A three-day “phone film festival” organized by Syrian filmmakers and activists is trying to honor the memory of individuals who risked their lives to document the country’s war often at great personal peril. Video provided by AFP Newslook