Cinema Journalism Across Borders (CJAB) is a hands-on training of
Directors Across Borders program of GOLDEN APRICOT IFF in collaboration with
the Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema journalists (Armenian
National Section of FIPRESCI - The International Federation of Film Critics)
and Yerevan State Institute for Theatre and Cinema. It is a platform for young film
critics and journalists from the region and target countries of EP to acquaint
themselves with current trends in world cinema. Therefore the main Idea of CJAB
is cultural development of the countries in the region as the young journalist
use their "pens" as bridges between audiences and filmmakers, helping
to expand the range of films enjoyed in the region.
Cinema Journalism Across Borders addresses the problem
of isolation and information ‘vacuum’. It aims to ‘recover’ the role of the
regional cinema journalism, develop professional exchange and cooperation with
the neighboring countries. CJAB aims to develop and maintain professional
network and thus to create tight cooperation of media and film industry between
the partner states. It meets the needs of local/regional cinema journalists to
have special professional training, cross-border cooperation and exchange.
CJAB also addresses the need and demand of general public to
have professional ‘product’ (i.e. good quality information) on the local and
regional film industry processes, films, etc.
Starting from 2008 in the frames of GOLDEN APRICOT International
Film Festival CJAB invited international film critics and trainers and
conducted trainings, workshops seminar/master classes to familiarize participants
of the trainings with film processes and performance of media in their
countries, and to develop necessary skills to raise cinema journalists’
objectivity, professionalism and critical approach and raise the level of their
performance in the present-day film industry developments both in the region
and internationally. While working together journalists from six EP countries
produce the festival bilingual daily (covering films, festival events and DAB
Forum, ATCP, and etc).
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