New Arrivals - Go Short Campus, part of Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, gives twenty young filmmakers the chance to learn the tricks of the trade. Amidst the lively festival they participate in workshops and master classes by renowned professionals. The main guests for the campus of 2015 are Gunhild Enger (Norway) and French filmmaker Yann Gonzalez. Enger received a BAFTA nomination for her graduation film Bargain and won several awards with her short films. Gonzalez is welcomed as the French film talent of the moment, with Variety even calling him the new Almodovar or Ozon when his feature film Les rencontres d'après minuit premiered at Cannes.
Go Short Campus
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen offers film students and newly graduates an intensive and full campus program through our New Arrivals: Go Short Campus program, that will take place from 7 to 12 April 2015 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The Go Short Campus brings emerging filmmakers and seasoned film professionals together and offers students and graduates a unique and intensive program. The campus focuses on giving the participants hands-on knowledge about everything that becomes urgent as soon as they leave or have left the film school. Go Short Campus offers master classes, lectures, workshops and panel discussions by the industry's top experts.
Gunhild Enger
Gunhild Enger (1980) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, and The School of Film Directing in Gothenburg. She was nominated for a BAFTA with her graduation film Bargain, and has since then screened her films at festivals around the world. The film Premature won the international Grand Prix at Brief Encounters 2012. Her film Passion was awarded as best international short at Alcine Madrid 2009. She is currently working as a director in Norway and Sweden.
Yann Gonzalez
Born in 1977, Yann Gonzalez premiered his first feature Les Rencontres d’après minuit (You and the Night) at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival’s Critic’s Week. The film was also selected in many festivals including Milano And Athens where it won the main prize. Between 2006 and 2012, and after working as a film critic, Yann directed six short films screened in many international film festivals, including Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. He also wrote most of the lyrics on M83’s albums Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005), Saturdays = Youth (2008) and Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2011).
Let young filmmakers know about this opportunity! Application deadline: 9 January 2015
More information at goshort.nl/campus.
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen is the Dutch festival for short film. For five days, over 300 short films are screened in and around LUX in Nijmegen. Besides screenings there are exhibitions, workshops, performances, parties and more. The festival takes place from 8 – 12 April 2015. More information on the festival at www.goshort.nl.