The Locarno Film Festival for Afghan Filmmakers

Dear Colleagues,

If you are an Afghan filmmaker based in Afghanistan, please read on.

I am currently providing unofficial assistance to one of the programmers for the Locarno Film Festival (LFF) in Switzerland. The Locarno Film Festival is well known worldwide as a festival of discovery. Throughout its history the festival has discovered new trends and launched the careers of numerous directors and actors. You can learn more about the festival here:

http://www.pardolive.ch/pardo

The LFF has just launched a new section titled: Open Doors Hub, this section will run from 2016 to 2018 and aims to discover filmmakers from Southeast Asia – including Afghanistan. You can learn more about the Open Doors Hub here:

http://www.pardolive.ch/satellites/open-doors/about.html

I know how difficult it can be to produce and submit a feature film to an international film festival and would like to provide my experience as a filmmaker to those thinking of applying to this section.

While I cannot offer any help with financing, I can provide peer review services of your work and help put you in-touch with the Open Doors section programmers to begin talking about entering your film for this section of the LFF.

You can get in-touch with me via my website message system, you will need to enter your name, E-Mail address and your message. Browse through my website and you should find it.

Please let me know if you’re interested in getting in-touch, I would be happy to help!

Yrs,
– Waise Azimi