“This is a project of Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT), in partnership with and funded by the Drosos Foundation. It aims to provide technical support to young women to help them become filmmakers, to shine a light on the many unique stories passionately told by a new, young wave of women’s voices, and to empower talented women, both in front of and behind the camera, with the support they need to make and screen their films.
The project builds distinguished partnerships with institutions and film festivals, including the Aswan International Women’s Film Festival and the Alexandria International Short Film Festival, as well as a partnership with the Jesuit Cultural Association (“”Jesuit Cairo””). It offers a learning platform through technical, specialized workshops in filmmaking (screenwriting, cinematography, editing, directing, and sound), as well as acting techniques. It also creates space for interaction and for finding new, innovative ways of learning and working collaboratively among young people of both genders from Egypt and Sudan, in cooperation with the Sudanese Artists’ Union in Cairo, training young people in the arts of writing, filming, and collaboratively producing personal short films.
The project offers comprehensive production capabilities through various forms of partnership and collaboration between the studio and filmmakers, and provides post-production grants through its editing unit (the “”She in Cinema”” Studio).
It also supports the Mobile Cinema Festival for Short Films, established by ACT in 2016, providing the technical support needed to make these films. Its activities have expanded to reach different circles, including a video-essay workshop and the “”Cinema of the Two Niles”” podcast, which explores cinema between Egypt and Sudan.”
