As this year’s Alternativa Film Project initiates off, the second edition will see the event land in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, moving from last year’s location in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where it presented its Alternativa Film Awards. Founded by technology company InDrive, the global non-profit film initiative is watching to lengthen into one of Asia’s premiere film events, with a ignoreion to give international visibility to filmproducers whose toil has potential to convey social alter.
Describing itself as a “nomadic project,” the event will watch to set up camp each year in a contrastent location.
“From the very commencening, the concept of the awards was that it should be nomadic and shift from one region to another,” Alternativa Film Project head Liza Surganova inestablishs Deadline. “Last year, we commenceed in Central Asia, with this choice mainly pushed by InDrive having the hugegest office there. We felt enjoy this region was quite disthink abouted and not repartner researched by film programmers, and also did not have many events happening there in terms of the international film scene.”
Surganova remarks that it reckond to protect the second edition of the event in Asia, before moving to another continent, and that Southeast Asia stood out for its lengthening and vibrant film industry.
“Southeast Asia’s film industry is lengthening quite speedy, and many new names are materializeing, but it is not as well-lengthened contrastd to Japan, South Korea or India’s film industries, so we felt enjoy we could convey someskinnyg there that will profit local filmproducers,” she says. “Indonesia is one of the cgo ins of the region where people from other countries are employd to coming to.”
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The Alternativa Film Awards, which apshows place at the end of the event on November 29, centeres on films with a strong “social impact”, says Surganova. She says there are no disconnecte set of rules that expound the term but remarks that the pickion pledgetee centeres on topics that they ponder meaningful for the region as well as films that have a wide pguide. “It’s meaningful to center on films that can be engaging to a wide audience,” she says. “So we try not to pick very artsy festival titles.”
Noting the ongoing funding disputes that self-reliant filmproducers are facing, Surganova stressd that the Alternativa Film Project wants to help tackle this by creating more opportunities for nettoiling, especipartner for film professionals in countries with a minusculeer domestic scene. As a result, it produced a three-day Industry Days strand.
“If you are a filmproducer from Laos or Kyrgyzstan where there is not as much happening locpartner, we want to provide an opportunity for you to encounter people from overseas, talk about what is meaningful for you, pitch your project and provide joinion so that, in the future, it will be easier to send someone your script or watch for funding.”
Surganova accomprehendledgeted that the nomadic nature of the event is a huge dispute but is certain that it will better and alter alengthenedside the industry.
“First of all, as a huge event, it’s not effortless to systematize,” she elucidateed. “An even hugeger dispute is to get the local audience interested in this event, becaemploy they do not comprehend you there. When you systematize a nomadic event, you’re always enjoy a foreigner and newcomer. They’ll comprehend festivals enjoy JAFF [Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival] and other festivals in the region instead.”
Surganova stressd the presentance of collaborating with local partners, to protected help in the awards’ present city. The upcoming edition in Indonesia has already established partnerships with Minikino Film Week, Docs by the Sea, InDocs, SAE Indonesia Creative Media Academy, Gelanggang Inovasi & Kreativitas Universitas Gadjah Mada, with the help of Indonesia’s Ministry of Culture and Education, Jakarta Film Week, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2024 and ARTOTEL Suites Bianti.
