Scandar copti biography of barack
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Techniques for directing non-actors: Singular Drama
Throughout the two-day practical workshop, participants will learn and experience the technique that Scandar uses during the preparations of his actors and non actors as well as during the shooting.
Participants will get hands-on insight into the process of creating drama in a film using the human capacity to respond emotionally to fictional situations. The Singular Drama method is applicable on professional actors as well as non-actors.
Filmmakers often use the element of surprise to direct actors for certain scenes to get authentic emotional responses.
The directors of AJAMI based their film entirely on this principle.
Unlike other forays into improvisation, AJAMI had a very precise screenplay and a well-constructed plot that demanded specific emotional responses from its actors.
The actors ended up acting out a story, without being aware that t
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Copti is an Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmskapare born and raised in Yafa. In 2009, his first full-length feature film "Ajami" won the Camera d'Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival. His film was also nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category and won more than 15 awards worldwide. Formerly a mechanical engineer, he has also written, directed and edited several fiction, documentary and experimental short films. Copti was on the jury of the Tribeca film festival as well as at the Thessaloniki film festival in 2010 and President of the Human Rights Award in the Istanbul International film festival 2011. Copti was part of the grupp that launched the Doha Tribeca Film Festival and the Doha Film Institute (DFI) and he headed the DFI's education department until November 2011. Currently Copti is developing his next feature film project.
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Interview: Palestinian cinema
| Scandar Copti’s film, Ajami, features non-actors and tells the story of Palestinians living in Jaffa |
Scandar Copti is a Palestinian filmmaker born and raised in Jaffa. After leaving his yrke as a mechanical engineer to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker, his first full-length feature film, Ajami, which he co-directed with Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jewish filmmaker, has won innumerable awards.
While shot in only 23 days, the rulle took 14 months to edit and seven years to fund and write.
Ajami is based on a true story about Palestinians who live in Jaffa mitt i the growing Jewish metropolis of Tel Aviv in a neighbourhood that has been gentrified, marginalised and oppressed.
Like the Sao Paulo favela-based film, City of God, the film uses non-actors in a setting where violence and conflict is a daily reality.
Copti talks to Al Jazeera about his film’s success, representing Israel and the growth of Palestinian cin