FEFF CAMPUS 2015
A brand new project dedicated to young Asian and European journalists,
conceived and coordinated by Mathew Scott.
Selected candidates will experience the Festival first hand,
through seminars and workshops.
UDINE – The highly anticipated 17th edition of the Far East Film Festival will for the first time host a campus for young journalists that will combine education and on-site experience with cultural exchanges between writers from Asia and Europe.
During the exclusive FEFF Campus 2015, four candidates from Europe and four from Asia (all under 30) will be selected for a programme that will include seminars and workshops focusing on the art of film and writing in an exchange between European and Asian media.
Successful candidates will work under the supervision of and receive guidance from a host of experienced film industry and media professionals, led by film industry veteran and close friend of the Festival Mathew Scott. The candidates will contribute to a festival newsletter and embrace all aspects of both the festival as well as the cultural and historic life of Udine and the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
They will learn what makes the festival tick – the films, the talks, the people – while gaining an invaluable insight into how to establish themselves in the world of modern media. It is a unique opportunity that will allow these young writers to experience the festival first hand and play an active role in what has become known across the globe as the Far East Film Festival community.
FEFF Campus 2015 has the privilege to be supported by important European and Asian associations and organizations such as Europa Cinemas and Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC).
Mathew Scott has been writing about Asian cinema from his base in Hong Kong for the past 20 years. He was Film Editor at the South China Morning Post, Asia’s leading English-language daily newspaper, and is a regular contributor to the French news agency Agence France-Presse and an occasional contributor to such film industry publications as Variety, Screen Daily and The Hollywood Reporter. Mathew’s work has also been published in Slate.com, The Guardian, The Independent, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2014 he helped facilitate the successful Cultural Journalism Campus that ran as a sideline to the Art Basel event in Hong Kong.