An opportunity for Gaza students to express their existence in short films.

In collaboration with The Doha Film Institute (DFI), AL Fakhoora students in Gaza participate in a film making project enabling them with an opportunity to express their existence through short videos that they will write, shoot and edit.

This video workshop, mentored by Head of DFI Education and award winning filmmaker, Scandar Copti, has been developed with the aim to create a safe learning and educational environment for students to learn and experience the basic tools of making a short film of 3-5 minutes. As part of the program, eight students aged 18 to 21 receive weekly lessons through Skype conversations spread over a period of ten weeks. Along with teaching the technicalities behind filmmaking, the course will emphasize on the art of storytelling, from ideation to development of script for screen.

The program includes sessions on script writing for fiction and documentary, character development, technical aspects of shooting and direction, sound recording, pre-production and post-production, and editing amongst others to be able to develop their own individual film projects.

Due to restrictions imposed by the blockade, as of June 2011, the filming equipment had not arrived into Gaza. The students remain eager and determined to produce their films.