Cuba: Smartphone Documentary Workshop
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CUBA: SMARTPHONE DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP
Dates: April 12 – 20, 2020
Venue: EICTV and San Antonio de Los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba
Registration Deadline: March 10, 2020
Civitas GES and the International School for Film and Television (EICTV), considered one of the most important audiovisual institutions in the world, have teamed up to bring you a unique workshop introducing you to short documentary production in Cuba using the most accessible of equipment – smartphones. Multiple award-winning filmmaker, Annette Danto is your workshop leader with faculty from EICTV. Filmmaker and musician, Roberto Poveda, is your co-leader.
CUBA: SMARTPHONE DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP will offer a meaningful combination of lectures, field trips, production work and community engagement. Participants will learn about Cuban cultures, history, cinema and music with visits to cultural and historic sights.
EICTV will provide the setting for an intensive smartphone documentary workshop within a Cuban context. Through a series of lectures, field visits and screenings participants will receive a comprehensive introduction to Cuban arts with an emphasis on the short documentary.
Participants will carry out production exercises at the EICTV complex and surrounding town of San Antonio De Los Baños.
The workshop will emphasize communication, creativity, connection and collaboration. This will include hands-on tech sessions, research and development of a short documentary topic, and the production and post production of that documentary.
Smartphones capture events in motion, often showing life spontaneously unfolding. Participants with little or no background in smartphone production will learn some of the basic technical skills required to record images and sound, as well as how to structure a short documentary.
In the development of a short documentary topic, the role of culture, history and social structure will be considered. The importance of cultural sensitivity when considering how to depict an environment different from ones own will be emphasized.
This workshop is open to established academics, early-career scholars, educators of all levels, professionals with an interest in film-making, documentary film-making or the visual or performing arts.
OBJECTIVE
The Cuba: Smartphone Documentary Workshop will center on best practices for film and documentary film-making within a Cuban context.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
- Participants will learn the fundamentals of short documentary production including, research and development, production and post production
- Participants will learn the fundamentals of smartphone or SLR camera operation in the recording of images and sound
- Participants will collaborate with others on all aspects of pre-production, production and post production. The 4-C’s will be emphasized throughout: communicate, create, connect and collaborate
- Participants will gain an appreciation of the diversity of Cuban cinemas, culture, and the arts
- Participants will gain an appreciation for the important role played by arts and culture in Cuban society
- Participants will visit important historical and cultural sites in Havana
This program is open to both English and Spanish speakers. We will have interpreters available for those with a limited knowledge of Spanish.
Click here to learn more about the International School for Film & TV. Photo Credit: Radio Habana Cuba, 2015.
**. This is a collaborative workshop. Participants are advised to bring along a smartphone or an SLR camera for the production of their short documentary. iPhones are preferred. For participants WHO DO NOT OWN A CAMERA, we will organize teams and you will be able to work with another participant collaboratively. It is NOT REQUIRED THAT YOU BRING A CAMERA, BUT IF YOU HAVE ONE PLEASE BRING IT ALONG.
PRICING AND REGISTRATION
THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 10, 2020
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SHARED ROOM
Includes accommodations with a host family in a private residence. With the shared room option, you will have one roommate.
SINGLE ROOM
Includes accommodations with a host family in a private residence. With the single room option, you will have your own room in the residence.
DEPOSIT
Due to new limited flight availability, a $200.00 deposit is due upon registration to secure your flight. The deposit is refundable if we decide to cancel the program.
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PATHWAY COST INCLUDES:
R/T Airfare from Miami to Havana
(Depart April 12 – Return April 20)
Cuba Entry Visa
Dedicated Ground Transport to and from Cuban Airports
Accommodation in a Home Stay
An English-speaking Local Guide
Breakfast in the Homestay
Lunch daily as a group
Welcome and Farewell dinners as a group
Workshop Fees
Cuba Health and Repatriation Insurance
PATHWAY COST DOES NOT INCLUDE:
Domestic Airfare to and from Miami
Individual Transportation
(e.g., late or early airport arrivals and deptartures)
Gratuities
(e.g., guides, drivers, maid service, restaurant waiters)
Expenditures of a personal nature
(e.g.,laundry, internet fees, individual activities)
Anything not mentioned in “Included” above
COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION FORM TO RECEIVE AN ELECTRONIC INVOICE FROM SQUARE.COM
Do you have any questions or concerns about any of our programs? Contact us at CubaPrograms@CivitasGES.com
This travel program, Cuba: Smartphone Documentary Workshop, is organized by Civitas Global Educational Services so that participants comply with all of the requirements of the general license under 31 CFR 515.567 of the US Department of Treasury of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Travelers must agree to comply with the OFAC requirements to participate in this program. For more information on the OFAC general license guidelines, click here.