1. Itinerant Cinema in Egypt

2.  To promote a new generation of independent Egyptian cinema artists reducing the distance between them and the audience  To enhance Egyptian Filmmaking Art and to promote it throughout Egypt and abroad  To encourage youths to join this field and to support the development of the cinema production sector  To stress the role of cinema as a tool for culture and increasing awareness  To open new channels for artistic expression OBJECTIVES

3. BENEFICIES and TARGET  Young and talented Egyptian Filmmakers  Egyptian Cinema Students  International and Egyptian Audience  Media - Newspaper, Radio, TV, Social Networks  International and National Cultural Institutes  Cinemagoers and group of Independent Egyptian Filmmakers

4. PHASES RISING STARS PROJECT ACTIONS YOUNG EGYPTIAN FILMMAKERS PUBLIC AWARNESS  A 60 days Training on Documentary Production (Scriptwriting, Direction, DOP, Sound, Editing);  Production of:  n°5 Short Docs;  n°1 Photo Exhibition  DVDs containing the Short Docs and a promotional trailer.  Itinerant Cinema Festival (Cairo-Port Said-Minya)  n°3 Rising Stars Screenings with Q&A  Media TVs, Newspapers  Social Networks  Visibility Actions

5. PHASES Workshop and Short Doc Production Trainings Focused on the documentary production 5 Subjects (Direction, Script, DoP, Sound, Editing) “Learning by doing” and “exchanging roles” National and International Trainers Short Doc Production Whole process: form the script to the editing Open subject Still Photo Collection DVDs and Trailer production Promotion to International Film Festival

6. PHASES Public Awareness Rising Stars Screenings n° 3 Screening of International Documentaries Q&A Session with the Director Free entrance Itinerant Cinema Festival Masry Asly FilmFest Sections: Competition, Extra and Rising Stars Cities of: Cairo (19-22 Jan), Port Said (28-30 Jan), Minya (2-4 Feb) Panel with Filmmakers Free entrance Visibility Actions Media TVs, Newspapers Social Networks (facebook)

7. RESULTS Workshop & Production Film Festival & RS Screenings Media & Social Networks Project website: 10.034 visitors in 10 months Facebook page: 543 I like in 10 months 1.485 monthly active users Film Fest website: 816 visitors in 2 weeks Participants: 14 participants over 20 selected Documentaries: 4 short docs produced Festival in Cairo: 600 visitors in 3 days Facebook event: 520 participants Voting on line: 313 on line votes over a total of 491 1 st RS screening: 80 participants (oct 2011)

8. ON GOING Last project Activities n°2 Rising Stars Screenings 13th of February 2012 - ICI Cairo 19th of February 2012 - ICI Cairo 5th Rising Stars Short Doc production DVDs production Promotion of the Project Short Docs in Egypt and abroad Our Proposals…

9. WHAT’s NEXT Second editions of the Masry Asly FilmFest Creation of a Festival Committee composed by cultural Actors: European Cultural Institutions Egyptian Cultural Associations National and International independent filmmakers, cine critics and opinion leaders FilmFest Committee Statute FilmFest Organizational Structure Capacity building project proposals Development of Cultural Management skills

10. INFO http://risingstarsproject.wordpress.com facebook.com/RisingStarsEgypt www.masry-asly.com - @ risingstars.comm@gmail.com CONTACTS Ricerca e Cooperazione Paola Primavera | mob. 010 043 601 49 | p.primavera@ongrc.org Matteo Valli | mob. 010 628 222 16 | m.valli@ongrc.org