Emerging film directors from Armenia, Georgia, or Iran are given an exclusive opportunity to participate in a 9-day workshop in the village of Debed, Lori Province, within the framework of the 12th Apricot Tree International Film Festival, and to create a collaborative documentary film.
The workshop is led by renowned Portuguese documentary filmmakers Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca. It provides young creators with the opportunity to develop their skills through collaboration with peers and by immersing themselves in the lives of the locals. The resulting film will be presented on September 12 at the closing ceremony of the Apricot Tree Film Festival.
The workshop is organized by the "Filmadaran" NGO within the framework of the 12th Apricot Tree IDFF.
Daniel Barroca
Born in 1976, Daniel Barroca works in the intersection between fine arts, film and historical anthropology. His current Ph.D. research is focused on the afterlives of war images in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau. He is the author of expanded cinema installations like Soldier Playing with Dead Lizard (2008) and …a hazy and confusing landscape (2009). He was a resident artist at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; and Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York. With Catarina Laranjeiro he co-authored the feature-length documentary Fire in the Mud, which won several awards, including the Special Jury Prize at Apricot Tree IDFF 2024.
Catarina Laranjeiro
Born in 1983, Catarina Laranjeiro is a visual anthropologist holding a Ph.D. in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship. In the last ten years, she has researched the relationship between cinema and cosmological images during the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau, also part of her master thesis short film Pabia di Aos (2013). At the same time, she led and participated in several projects interlacing anthropology, cinema, and visual arts. With Daniel Barroca she co-authored the feature-length documentary Fire in the Mud, which won several awards, including the Special Jury Prize at Apricot Tree IDFF 2024.
Participants
Ana Barjadze
Mariam Bitsadze
Taban Fatemeh Jalali
Margarita Sargsyan
Shushan Stepanyan
