YOO FILM FESTIVAL

Join the African Women Filmmakers

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You are welcome to the African Women Filmmakers. We can join if you have a carrier in any aspect of filmmaking or intend to have a carrier. Send an e-mail with your full details to ffpnet@yahoo.com or ffpnet@gmail.com.

q Videographer
q Editor
q Set Designer
q Cinematographer
q Director
q Producer
q Sound Engineer
q Lighting Specialist
Other:

What is it?

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The FFP’s Yoo Film Festival (YOFF) is a week long unique program to commence this year under the theme “OUT-DOORING A NEW PHASE IN FILMMAKING”. It is targeted at previewing films produced, directed, written and edited by women. The project is aimed at given a platform for women in film making to showcase their works. The duration of films to be previewed is ten to twenty minutes and will portray women as protagonists; kind, God fearing, loving, honest and faithful. The festival is based in Ghana and attracts participants from Africa. About 10 films are screened coupled with workshops and discussions. The screening films are developmental and focus on core issues that affect women and children in Africa.

Festival Activities

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Launching of the Yoo film Festival
Previewing in Accra
Capacity building workshop
Musical Nite/Party
Previewing in Kumasi

Ghanaian Participants

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Women professionals in filmmaking can register at FFP office or on the Internet, for more details call Ohui on 0244-658900 or e-mail ffpnet@yahoo.com

International Participants

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Two women filmmakers from each African country are selected to participate in the festival. All internal costs (food, transportation and accommodation) will be sponsored. Participants will be selected based on applications.

Download application forms. Participants will bear the traveling cost to Ghana.

2006 YOOff Poster

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Click to Download the 1st Poster

Click to Download 2nd Poster

Will I be Paid for my Services Rendered?

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Participating professionals will not be paid for the services rendered but could be given honorarium to supplement transportation. Please note that the films and artworks will be the co- owned by the FFP and the Individuals. The budget for the filmmaking is very limited and preference will be given to professionals who can work with limited budgets as well as improvise.

How can I be Part of the Filmmaking

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All women in filmmaking that is cinematographers, videographers, sound and lighting specialists as well as set designers and editors can be part of this festival by joining the production team to make the movies after they have registered. The FFP will place professionals in groups or production teams to produce 10-20 minutes movies. Individual filmmakers who have films under the topics can bring them for auditioning and screening at the festival. The Foundation for Female Photojournalists (FFP) will bear all the production costs involved in the production of the films.

Synopsis of Some Films

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SAA
A devoted queen mother implements her vision for her community’s development. She organizes development activities to empower the youth and develops her community. What happens when the elders of the community led by her son considers her actions as a taboo against the land because she is a woman. They devise a plan to unseat her.

SEE GREEN
See Green is a movie about a woman who foresaw the dangers of establishing a factory whose waste water may flow into the community’s water source. She mobilizes the people and educates them on the dangers involved in building the factory near their source of water. In her quest to save lives, she sought justice from the police and the Environmental Protection Agency only to realize that, the multi billion factory is partly owned by one of the directors in charge of the agency.

IN YOUR SHOES
A woman in politics seeks the advice of her people to contest in the parliamentary elections of her constituency. After the redrawal of an opponent in the race on party B’s ticket. Her husband is announced as the next candidate for party B. Who wins the seat and what happens to the family. How can they manage the two most thorny issues in the world; love and politics?

IT HASN’T CHANGED
A woman is caught up in love with her family; the husband denies the family and vanishes into thin air. She courageously takes up the challenge to cater for her children. She changes jobs to make ends meet. One morning she finds herself at a threshold of her life where she must give up or loose it all.

WOMEN’S HEALTH IN WOMEN’S HAND
Two women from two different worlds struggle to live healthily for themselves and their families using the resources available to them. Will it end like any other fat squad trying to stay healthy and loose wait? Will they loose or overcome.

Previewing Locations

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The Yoo Film Festival is previewed in two regions in Ghana namely Greater Accra and Ashanti region.

Accra Previewed:

ü GIJ
ü Alliance Française
ü Nima Cinema
ü Jamestown
ü Bubiashie

Kumasi Previews:

ü Prempeh Assembly Hall
ü Knust.
ü Alliance Françoise

Who is Invited

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The Yoo Film Festival is screened to the general public. Individuals and organizations who want to be part f the film festival may kindly send e-mails to ffpnet@yahoo.com for their free reservations

Focus Areas for the Yoo Film Festival

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ü Women in Decision making
ü Visionary Women
ü Women in Politics
ü Women and Poverty
ü Women’s Health

Opening Ceremony

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The launching of the Yoo Film Festival is on Tuesday 26th September 2006 at one of the prestigious hotels in Accra from 5.00pm to 6.00pm.

Our Goal

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The Yoo Film Festival seeks to encourage women visual communicators to produce feature films as advocacy tools for development initiatives. The festival also creates the platform to market such films. The festival nurtures and upholds cultural diversity and further promotes budding talents in the fine arts discipline into stardom by offering them the opportunity to market their works.

What is it?

2006-04-30T12:13:00.000-07:00

The FFP’s Yoo Film Festival (YOFF) is a week long unique program to commence this year under the theme “OUT-DOORING A NEW PHASE IN FILMMAKING”. It is targeted at previewing films produced, directed, written and edited by women. The project is aimed at given a platform for women in film making to showcase their works. The duration of films to be previewed is ten to twenty minutes and will portray women as protagonists; kind, God fearing, loving, honest and faithful. The festival is based in Ghana and attracts participants from West Africa. About 10 films are screened coupled with workshops and discussions. The screening films are developmental and focus on core issues that affect women and children in Africa.