What I Learned From My Participation in the 67th Festival del film Locarno's Filmmakers Academy...

From Shadow and Act Tue Sep 2 2014, 20:55:39

Last week, myself plus 24 other emerging filmmakers participated in the 67th Festival del film Locarno's Filmmakers Academy for a full-on week of screenings, masterclasses, and meetings with some of the most provocative filmmakers working today. The Locarno Academy, newly launched just a few years ago, functions similarly to other major film festival's talent campuses or labs, with the aim to give up-and-coming filmmakers a more curated experience within the festival, by connecting us more intimately with the big talents showing their work there. Between the flurry of back-to-back masterclasses with maestro filmmakers like director Agnès Varda, Italian cinematographer of "The...

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