Crowdfunding Campaign: Sudanese Marwa Zein's film project "One Week, Two Days"

Genre : Calls for papers
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Release/publication date : 2015
Published on : 18/05/2015
Source : African Women in Cinema Blog
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/one-week-two-days-short-film

How relationships can be absurd yet real !
Nine days between a loving couple who are living in the Middle East, where intimacy and relationships are hard to discuss in real life and in films.
The film is discussing very small yet important details that happen between a woman and a man in a sarcastic romantic film; which is something relatively new to the Arab short film industry.

A film by Marwa Zein

Sudan, 2015, Short Film, Light Romance Film



Support us! why?

As filmmakers we are bound by the market requirements and rules, and as Arab artists we are always chased by constant censorship that kills our imagination and redefines our words.
"We want to make movies the way we like them, true, free and our own!"
Plus, making films is such a tough job, you write and rewrite, you cast and recast, finding the right crew takes time, the preparation and meetings take days and days and this is only the "pre-production" and then we shoot in few sleepless days to move to the post-production phase! all that to make one short film!
But when you are serious about filmmaking, your reward is your film, and this is what we are aiming for.

Where does the money go?
Creating an independent short film made with professional equipment costs much for : Renting Equipment: Camera, Lenses, rigs, sound Recording equipment / Renting Light Equipment / Renting Locations / Paying Actors / Crew Production Design / Set Requirements / Creating Original Score for the film Post Production needs / Editing / Colouring / Mixing / Sound Design

Should we trust the Director? Film Crew?
Marwa Zein "Film Director"

Marwa Zein, a Sudanese award winning film director/ scriptwriter, was born in Saudi Arabia and lived in Cairo. After studying Chemical Engineering for 3 years, she decided to quit & pursued her passion for film by studying at the High Institute of Cinema in Cairo and graduated in 2009 with an honorable mention.
She recieved an honorable Mention award for her short film LAYL developed by Cinephilia Screenwriting lab Founded by "Cinephilia", an Independent film production house based in New York City.

A film Written & Directed by Marwa Zein
Sound Engineer: Alhan Gharam
Cinematographer: Sara Yahia
Art Director: Eslam Hassan Shawky
Music (Original Score): Abdullah Miniway
Stylist: Rabab Hassan

Producers:
Fatma Abd Alsalam & Alhan Gharam (Epic Productions Studios)

CONTACT
Epic Productions
11th Israa' St. off Lebanon St. Muhandesin. 4th floor
CAIRO, Egypt

FACEBOOK
www.facebook.com/Oneweektwodays

Source info:
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2015/05/sudanese-marwa-zein-launches-indiegogo.html


انا فعليا قعدت سنتين مستنيه (منحة - فاند - جايزه - المركز القومي للسينما) عشان اعمل فيلم قصير ، و بعد ما عدت السنتين و معايا طاقم عمل و معايا ممثلين و معايا ٥ شهور تحضير و معناش فلوس اجلنا الفيلم و حطيناه في الدرج

نسيت الفيلم الي قعدت فيه سنتين و كتبت فيلم تاني ميزانيته اقل بكتير بحضر فيه بقالي ٣ شهور و مكملة

محتاجين زقة - قليل من المال - قليل من التكاتف تخص (شقة - علاقات للتصوير في الشارع - ديكور و اكسسوار)

محتاجين شوية تضامن.. اللي مش قادر يدفع اونلاين، نتقابل في وسط المدينة
(دقي - زمالك - مهندسين - وسط البلد)

تعرفوا اكتر عن الفيلم ؟

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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