AFS EDITING 2024

AFS Editing addresses all the theoretical and technical expectations required from editors and assistant editors. Over the course of 3 weeks you will learn designing and organising workflows, dealing with CODECs and proxies, working with sound engineers and colourists, and finally packaging for theatrical screenings. 



Dates:

Monday 5th to Friday 23rd August 2024 from 9AM - 5PM.

Content:

• Linear and nonlinear storytelling.

• Experimental and avant-garde editing.

• Sound before image / storytelling through sound.

• Documentary and narrative editing structures.

Course is open for:

UAE national and resident emerging editors or assistant editors, with an editing credit in at least one short film. You must have a fundamental technical background in editing using one of the four main editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro, Logic Pro X, DaVinci Resolve or Avid Media Composer. 



Please Submit the below materials with your application:

• Create a 1 to 3-minute film with the following criteria:

• Subject must be What My Eyes See/ ما تراه أعيني.

• Share any story from your life, something you have experienced, something you like or dislike in your surroundings. You have creative freedom to present what the phrase means to you.

• Use your voice as the voiceover (you can use your mother tongue with English subtitles).

• You can use any footage from the internet or something you have filmed. If you wish to film anything new you can use what is accessible to you.

• You can use sound effects, ambience sounds or field recordings.

• Any editing software is acceptable.

• The use of music and visual effects is not permitted.

• The use of text is not permitted.

• You can't appear in your film talking to the camera.

• Draft a letter detailing your motivations:

• Why do you want to take part in this program?

• Share the titles of films that are influential to your work (up to three titles).

• Share the names of the film directors that are influential to your work (up to three directors).

• Answer the question "What does cinema mean to me?” (up to 100 words).

• Share the titles of your favourite books (up to three titles).

• What colour do you dislike the most? And why? (up to 50 words).

• Your CV.

Course Tutor

Waleed Almadani

A DocNomads joint Master’s Degree Alumni in documentary directing, and an academic in the arts of camera works and film editing. His multi-lingual directed, filmed, and edited short film documentary productions have been screened in numerous film festivals around the world.

With a passion for academia, he works as a production and post-production instructor with multiple academic programs.