MASTERCLASSES
From Sketch to Screen: Crafting Stories Through Costume Design
FREE
This masterclass delves into the art of costume design as a vital storytelling tool in filmmaking. Participants will explore how costumes can convey character, period, and emotion, transforming scripts into vivid visual narratives. The session will cover the entire creative process, from initial sketches to the final on-screen look, highlighting how costume designers collaborate with directors, production designers, and actors to enhance the story. Attendees will gain insights into selecting fabrics, colors, and styles that align with character development, historical accuracy, and the overall cinematic vision. The masterclass will also include case studies, practical demonstrations, and discussions on the challenges and innovations in contemporary costume design.
- Facilitator: Afriyah Frimpong
Capturing Reality |The Relevance of Documentary Filmmaking
FREE
Storytelling skills are highly relevant to documentary filmmaking, providing the tools that make documentary such a powerful medium for exploring real-life narratives, presenting factual information, and engaging audiences with the compelling stories that cross cultures and generations. Africa provides a continents’ worth of extremely rich real-life stories and adventures that are wondrously unbelievable often because they present us with fresh points of view and ways of seeing and being. . But, do we know how to tell these stories to retain their magic and unique perspective?
This class will delve into developing the narrative structures of documentary films. It will help documentary filmmakers discover the best ways to tell their stories and highlight the importance of showcasing the authenticity of Africa and Africans. It is requested that filmmakers bring a story idea to the masterclass so we can unravel its potential together.
- Facilitator: Helga-Liz Haberfellner
Innovative Approaches for Marketing and Promoting African Films Globally
FREE
To be highly effective at selling our local stories in global ways, we need the skills of marketing, advertising and PR to raise awareness of who we are, what we stand for and why we tell our stories the way we do. We also need to know how to make our stories stand out and draw the attention of distributors and broadcasters that will make them box-office hits.
The aim of this masterclass is to give audiences new and innovative strategies to effectively market their films globally.
- Facilitator: Lisa Osinloye
Strategic Content Leadership: Driving Innovation, Engagement, and Growth:(Virtual)
FREE
This masterclass equips content creators and television program/channel managers with advanced strategies and skills to lead their content initiatives effectively, driving innovation, engagement, and growth in their organisation.
- Facilitator: Candi Carter
Building Buzz: Editing Captivating Film Trailers and Teasers
FREE
Trailers are absolutely key to the marketing and promotional efforts of filmmakers. However, as a Festival we’ve noticed that most African filmmakers do know how to captivate audiences with their trailers and more often than not, the trailers either give away the entire plot or offer nothing at all.
This practical class will equip film editors with the skills and knowledge they need to edit film trailers and other content forms so they have the maximum punch that draws audiences to their films.
- Facilitator: Paul Andrew
