British Asian Cinema

Code:

373MBF

Completion:

Z

Credits:

2

Range:

8/S

Tutor:

Ladislav ŠERÝ

Synopsis:

Lecturer: Shafeeq Vellani, Coordinator Ladislav Šerý

Date and location: Friday 7. 3. 2008 at 10-18h, FAMU screening room

Course requirements: Credit/2 - for 100% participation - in English

Jazyk výuky:

AN

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Outline and Syllabus:

Shafeeq Vellani: British Asian Cinema

The module will explore the British Asian cinema within a social realist context - issues of representation of minority cultures, aspiration and ambition, gender and class, social inclusion and exclusion, identity, longing for homeland and tradition, modernity etc. Will be followed by a screening of a feature (East is East and/or Bend it like Beckham).

Shafeeq Vellani is a writer/director and has worked in the industry for 18 years making cinema shorts, television drama and documentaries, and arts documentaries. At the University of Wales, Newport he runs the second year realist fiction module and the screenwriting specialism.

After graduating in Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University, he moved into film making. In 1990 he co-founded and became director of Picture This Moving Image in Bristol, where he directed, produced and commissioned shorts, documentaries, multi screen installations and artists film and video.

Vellani?s fiction films include Darwish, commissioned by the British Film Institute, which has been screened at festivals around the world, broadcast on UK television, distributed by Lux and is part of the BFI Film Poems programme. In 2000 the film was screened the Mumbai Film Festival and he was invited to give a lecture on the film. See Red, his Channel 4/BFI short, was selected in competition at Locarno Film Festival and screened at Claremont Ferrand Film Festival. Escape to Somerset, his television drama for HTV/South West Media Development Agency, was selected for the Black Film Festival in Liverpool.

His documentary work as a director and producer includes Circling the City and 4 Aunties, One Uncle and Me for HTV, New Blood (as part of the United Kingdom! series) for BBC2, Kumbh Mela: Nell?s Story for Channel 4, The Changing of the Light, a cinema documentary short for the South West Media Development Agency and Walking Away with the Music, an examination of world music commissioned by the Arts Council. He has also been a camera/director on a number of television documentaries including The Wicked Weekend and The Long Weekend for Channel 4, and The Princess?s People for BBC2.

He is currently finishing his first feature film screenplay Undercurrents, commissioned by BBC Films, UK Film Council and North West Vision and is starting his second feature screenplay Sailing.

Vellani works as a script editor, reader and assessor for South West Screen, Screen West Midlands and the Northern Island Film and Television Commission, and most recently script edited a UK Film Council Digital Shorts Plus film. He has been a member of the South West Arts Film Production Panel, the Arts Council Film and Video Panel and for three years was chair of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive. He is currently chair of Bristol Screenwriters.

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Schedule for summer semester 2007/2008:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)