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From 17 to 18 February - Wildscreen festival
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masterclasses)
Saturday 19 February - Film screenings -by TVEAP and
Departmet of Wildlife and
Conservation Sri Lanka- |
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British Council hall, Colombo |
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Please refer the progrmme (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) |
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| Admission |
Admission to film screenings and master classes is free and open to the public.
Participation in film screenings and masterclasses requires prior registration on a first-come; first-served basis. Places are limited, please register early.
For more details on registrations/festival/film screenings please contact Thushara Gunasekera on 011 4521583 or 011 4521521 or email info.lk@britishcouncil.org |
The Wildscreen Festival was founded by Sir Peter Scott in 1982 and has been organised every alternate year for the past 25 years. It is the world’s largest and most prestigious wildlife and environmental film festival. Held in Bristol, the world’s centre for wildlife filmmaking, it attracts hundreds of delegates from around the globe who work in film, television and the press, as well as those actively involved in working to conserve the environment.
The festival will be part of the media strand of the British Council project Low Carbon Futures. Its main focus will be capacity development amongst environmental film makers in India and Sri Lanka.
The British Council is once again partnering with the National Science Foundation, TVE Asia Pacific and the Department of Wildlife Conservation for this year’s festival. The Festival is coming to Sri Lanka for the second time and will visit Colombo from 17 to 18 February 2011.
The three-day programme held at the British Council Colombo will include master classes by three UK filmmakers - Amanda Theunissen, Dominic Weston and Martin Elsbury and UK Wildscreen Co-ordinator Charlotte Ackrill on various aspects of film making which will cover topics such as Trends in Wildlife and Environmental Film making The Magic Art of Storytelling Short Films and Film Editing, amongst others.
Award winning films on climate change and wildlife will also be screened during the festival. They will be joined by three Sri Lankan film professionals – Taya Diaz, Delon Weerasinghe and Anoma Rajakaruna who will also conduct masterclasses and share the Sri Lankan perspective on documentary film making and their case studies with the audiences. The UK and local filmmakers will share their views at a panel discussion on ‘Differences and mutual challenges in Asian, American and European productions/film making’, which will be open to the public free-of-charge and will be held on Friday 17 February at 5.30 p.m. at the British Council Colombo.
On Saturday 19 February,TVE Asia Pacific will present a selection of films on environment and sustainable development drawn from their global catalogue, which includes two series ‘Nature, Inc’ and ‘World Challenge’, both of which were first broadcast on BBC World, and a few short films made in Sri Lanka. The Department of Wildlife Conservation Sri Lanka will also present a series of short documentaries on local flora and fauna including wildlife sanctuaries.
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