A New Step for Jordanian Cinema..

Read my article in my Arabic blog: "A new step for Jordanian cinema.. Jordan short film festival in its 3rd edition"

The Link: http://rifqiassaf.maktoobblog.com/?post=466867

Hope to see you all in the festival from 24 - 30 August 2007..

The Dream Journey Started..

Though of feeling really bad and frustrated lately because of not being able to start shooting two shorts i was planing to start, one is a comedy about children which was delayed because of end of school, and the other is my "Another Day" short film which is still waiting for shooting, despite of all that me and my friend Salah developed an idea for a feature film we were discussing earlier, and i finished writing a detailed preliminary outline of the script, and two days ago started writing the first draft of what is hopefully going to be my first feature film, this hard journey which i hope will and can only be rewarded by becoming a film on the screen in few years with god's well, has just started..

New Photos for me shooting

Here are some new photos for me while shooting my short "An Ammani Spirit" and during the workshop, the photos were taken by friend and teacher assistant Rebbeca Flores ..

Shooting..

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In the snowy day

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Me Concentrating, Hi :)

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Photos from the making of my short "An Ammani Spirit" During the filmmaking workshop

Here are some photos taken by friend Samer Nimri from the making of my short documentary "An Ammani Spirit" at Hashim restaurant during the filmmaking workshop with the RFC and University of Southern California

Me (with the hat) while shooting and Rebbeca Flores (left)

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My Friend and team partner Bashar Atiyat

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Me Talking to Hashim's owner

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More photos of the workshop will be posted soon nshalla :)

Looking for talented Actors/Actresses

Preparing for the upcoming film projects, i am looking for enthusiastic, talented Actors and Actresses for several roles, the only condition is passion, loving cinema enough to give our films some of their own time and commitment, if u r interested, all what u have to do in the first stage is to send me an email on: rifqiassaf@gmail.com, and i will contact u to tell u what we r going to do later.. Thank u all in advance

A Moroccan Festival selects my film "The Last Patch"

Moroccan "The International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca" in its 14th edition selected my film "The Last patch" directed by Me, Omar Saleh and Hazim Bitar in its programme, tried to find the news in Arabic but all i could find is some news in french, more details will follow soon when i can find something in English or Arabic :)

Idea for a feature film

Started in the last two days and despite of the pressure of the workshop working on the idea of my first feature film, the idea is strange (as usual) :) and hopefully new, i finished the first full treatment and presentation of the idea, and am going to start writing the first draft soon, all that was motivated by the visit of Mr. Vincenzo Bugno the representitive of two europian film funding institutions to Amman, we had a public meeting with him and i personaly had a private meeting with him telling him about my project, the meetings were very fruitful, the funding is not what am concerned about in this stage, but getting knowledge of funding requirements and to develope the idea well till it become a full final draft, as soon as the workshop ends i will be working on it, updates will follow inshalla.

Really Tired..

With the end of the third day of the documentary filmmaking workshop am having with the Royal Film Commission and University of South California am getting really tired, we r divided into teams of two to cooperate in our projects, tomorrow is the first day of shooting for my team partner Bashar Atiyat, Jordanian Hollywood Actor, he acted in syriana, he is a nice tender guy, we got along easily, am sure we r gona get really more tired tomorrow, and the shooting of my project will be on Saturday, then a hard week editing, hope that we can produce 2 good films in such a short under pressure time..