Attention film students! It’s time to dust off your cameras and take a look into the future of urban Africa.
The 2011 C&CI Student Short Film Competition is inviting students to focus a critical gaze into the future of the African urban environment, specifically focusing on the role of concrete.
The competition asks young movie makers to have a look at the world around them: “The world’s population is moving, increasingly, towards urban environments,” reads the brief.
“This is especially true in Africa. But what will these future cities look like and what lives will their inhabitants live? Science fiction today is as much a study of urban landscapes and human systems as it is about technology. It is as much a musing on the near future as it is on the distant future.”
Students are encouraged to offer a “science-friction” vision of the future South African city, be it utopian or dystopian.
C&CI has a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing: think short films such as mock news reports, a documentary from 2060, a visual poem of the future landscape, a human drama in Hillbrow in 2020, or even a scene after aliens have landed in Cape Town…
Proposals must be submitted to C&CI by 2 May 2011.
Visit www.cnci.org.za for more information.
