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March 7-14, 2010: The Jamaican Film Workshop

A week-long intensive filmmaking and film studies workshop on location in Jamaica Great Huts, “Paradise on the Edge,” in Boston Bay, Jamaica, March 7-14, 2010
Presented by The Handmade Film Institute and The Afrosurrealist Film Society, Moderated by experimental filmmaker Robert Schaller and film scholar Terri Francis, PhD

Explore the nature, history and aesthetic possibilities of film as a chemical, photographic and social medium; Learn hands-on, eco-friendly chemical processes; Interrogate visual clichés in ethnography and touristic representations through theory and practice; Experience Jamaica; Talk about Film; Make art. If making experimental film in Jamaica makes sense to you, you should come and join us. We invite artists, filmmakers, students, public intellectuals, scholars, writers, those who know a lot about film and those who want to know a lot about film - to come together for productive discussion, lectures, exploration, and making and showing of film.

For more information and registration, go to http://www.handmadefilm.org/jamaica/