Three LFS graduates - Fyodor Druzin, Stephan Bookas and John Craine - have been accepted on the unique Cinetrain project, which will take place in February 2012.
Cinetrain
The third edition of the Cinetrain will bring an international crew of young cinema professionals along the transiberian railway. Cinetrain aims to bring up-to-date a unique working method, invented by a Sovietic
documentary filmmaker in the 1930’s. Film crews, under the guidance of Aleksandr Medvedkin, used to travel through the Soviet Union in specially equipped wagons. Although they were filming the industrial achievements of the regime, the underlying goal was to give the power of speech to people who didn’t normally have the opportunity to get their voices heard. They were shooting and, straight away, edited and screened their movies on the spot to the people that took part in the movies. To resurect the enthusiastic feeling of such an adventure, we will launch of call for participants from all over the world among young cinema professionals. They will be carefully selected , set up inteams and thrown up on the road, to shoot and edit short documentary novels on a given theme!
Short time to meet your coworkers, hard working conditions, critical deadlines, unknown places... We believe that challenges stimulate creativity! In a world where puting up a film together from writing to
shooting and editing can take years, we offer a complete different and more instinctive approach: documentary filmmaking on the move from city to city, editing on the way, the movies having to be screened
upon arrival to the final destination. The result of the project being a full-length documentary composed of several novels different in form and approach and united by the same enthusiasm of being part of a
cutting hedge experience.
www.cinetrain.net/
