documentary | freeDimensional https://fd.artistsafety.net Supporting culture in the service of free expression, justice and equality Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:35:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Arab Documentary Photography Programme launched: deadline 15 April 2014 https://fd.artistsafety.net/2014/03/arab-documentary-photography-programme-launched-deadline-15-april-2014/ https://fd.artistsafety.net/2014/03/arab-documentary-photography-programme-launched-deadline-15-april-2014/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:32:10 +0000 http://freedimensional.org/?p=1523 The Arab Fund for Art and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in partnership with the Magnum Foundation in New York, USA, are launching the Arab Documentary Photography Programme (ADPP). The ADPP will run from 2014 to 2016, targeting creative documentary photographers in the Arab region. Up to 10 grantees will […]

The post Arab Documentary Photography Programme launched: deadline 15 April 2014 first appeared on freeDimensional.]]> AFAC image for enewsletterThe Arab Fund for Art and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in partnership with the Magnum Foundation in New York, USA, are launching the Arab Documentary Photography Programme (ADPP). The ADPP will run from 2014 to 2016, targeting creative documentary photographers in the Arab region. Up to 10 grantees will be selected to receive financial and professional support to complete their proposed photography projects.

The focus of the Arab Documentary Photography Programme is to support compelling non-stereotypical and unconventional visual documentation of important social issues and narratives relevant to the Arab region. The ADPP will also explore ways by which such a body of work will reach out to wider audiences and engage with them in a compelling and impactful ways. Photographers may propose to work in a range of non-fiction narrative styles, from classic documentary photography to more experimental visual storytelling, and may propose to include audio and video elements.

Call closing: 15 April 2014

Please consult the Grant Guidelines before applying.  http://www.arabculturefund.org/grants/special.php?id=6&section=guidelines Applications are accepted only through the online application available on the AFAC website.  http://www.arabculturefund.org/grants/special.php?id=6

The post Arab Documentary Photography Programme launched: deadline 15 April 2014 first appeared on freeDimensional.]]> https://fd.artistsafety.net/2014/03/arab-documentary-photography-programme-launched-deadline-15-april-2014/feed/ 0 ‘Men & Women’ by Umida Akhmedova screens in NYC https://fd.artistsafety.net/2010/11/men-women-by-umida-akhmedova-screens-in-nyc/ https://fd.artistsafety.net/2010/11/men-women-by-umida-akhmedova-screens-in-nyc/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:14:21 +0000 http://freedimensional.org/?p=301 You may remember early this year when an Uzbek court found, Umida Akhmedova, a documentary director guilty of slander for making a film on the difficulties faced by newly married women in the authoritarian Central Asian state.  Umida Akhmedova was convicted of “offence through mass media” by the court in the capital Tashkent after government experts found her […]

The post ‘Men & Women’ by Umida Akhmedova screens in NYC first appeared on freeDimensional.]]> You may remember early this year when an Uzbek court found, Umida Akhmedova, a documentary director guilty of slander for making a film on the difficulties faced by newly married women in the authoritarian Central Asian state.  Umida Akhmedova was convicted of “offence through mass media” by the court in the capital Tashkent after government experts found her documentary “offensive for the Ray Ban outlet Uzbek nation”. She could have been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, but was released under an amnesty in honour of the 18th anniversary of Uzbek independence.  Her film Men & Women will be screened during the New York Eurasian Film Festival.  In the midst of her difficulties with the Uzbek state (and courts), freeDimensional, Producciones Serrano and the Festival Against Censorship worked together to provide her with a two-month Creative Safe Haven residency in Bilbao, Spain.  Read about Umida’s ordeal in the Guardian newspaper here.

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