Synopsis
Gilles Weissmann and Olga Platonova are iconographers and teach this art. Natalia is one of Gilles' students. To make an icon takes a lots of time and everything in the icon makes sense and is full of symbols; it becomes a path inside oneself and towards God.
Rewards, festivals and diffusions
Delhi Short International Film Festival
Mumbai Short International Film Festival
Agathe Seau
Architect
Born in 1973 in Auvergne, Agathe Seau studied architecture and graduated in 2000. During her studies, she participated in an initiation in film analysis, scriptwriting and editing. Since then, the idea of becoming a filmmaker was born. After several years in architecture agencies first in England then in Haute-Savoie, she left for Yverdon, Switzerland where she worked as a graphic designer and did an internship as an editor in a production company. After this, she worked again as an architect in an agency in Jura; however, it didn't last so long, in 2015 she participated in training in documentary filmmaking at Ateliers Varan. Ever since, she works part-time in architecture to carry out film projects. With three associates who are fond of cinema too, she is member of the NPO Nanoprod Studio, founded in Geneva in 2015.
About : Documentary filmmaking workshop
The workshop is conducted in French, so a certain level of proficiency in the language is required to fully benefit from the training.
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This workshop is designed for those who wish to begin, advance their skills in filmmaking, or embark on a career change. It delves into the intellectual, moral, and aesthetic dimensions of filmmaking through every stage of documentary production, from conception to editing.
Each participant creates a short documentary film following a period of technical initiation, analysis of reference works, scouting, and scriptwriting. Each participant chooses the specific subject of their short film.




