Golden Guepard Film Forum: Day Five

October 23, 2013

As the Third Tashkent International Film Forum ‘Golden Guepard’ nears its end, members of the jury for features, shorts and animated films are poised to select the winner entries. The key event of Day Three was the international conference ‘National Cinema in a Global World’, followed by three workshops as well as the final demonstration of in- and out-of-competition films.
International Conference "National Cinema in a Global World" was held in the format of discussions on creative processes in the world of cinema in terms of preservation of national and cultural identity in the context of globalization. A plethora of opinions were expressed both in favor of globalization of modern cinema and preservation of the integrity of national cinema. Toward the end of the discussion, participants conferred that the globalization of national cinema is only possible technically. Otherwise, it will ruin cinema and will lead to the degradation of humanity, because all nations and cultures are varied and unique in their nature. Cinema is a reflection of culture.

The Golden Guepard string of workshops was continued by Swiss film director director Jeshua Dreyfus, German cameraman Markus Zucker and French film director Regis Ghezelbash. Every meeting brought together interested students, alumni of art schools, who asked questions, provided comments and engaged in the discussions. Dreyfus spoke about the possibilities of creating a film on a small budget. Zucker, in turn, focused on the subtleties of the cameraman’s work. Ghezelbash, in turn, demonstrated how to calculate with precision the shooting position, angle and pitch frame.

The final in-competition feature films screened on the fifth day of the film forum included ‘On the Bottom’ (Uzbekistan) and ‘The Watchtower’ (Turkey, Germany, France). The out-of-competition program concluded with a demonstration of ‘Barefoot Dream’ (South Korea).