PRESS RELEASE
DOCUMENTARIES BASED ON CITIZENS OF KALAMATA
The seminar with Dutch director Robert Rombout is on
The 7th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival welcomes the seminar "Making a documentary - Portraits" by Dutch director Robert Rombout and 11 students from Theater Studies, University of Peloponnese.
During the seminar, the students -with the guidance of Robert Rombout- will present people next door from Kalamata, by their own point of view.
The films from the seminar will be screened in the Opening Ceremony of 7th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival on Friday 18th June, at the Municipal Railway Park in Kalamata!
This seminar is one of the most important educational workshops that are organized by the festival every year, promoting the artistic creation of the students taking part in it.
Peldocfest is helping the students getting their work out internationally, as 2 films have been awarded before in International Faito Doc Festival in Italy!
A few words about Robert Rombout:
Robert Rombout (Amsterdam, 1953 is an independent film director and renowned lecturer, teacher and jury member. He was a professor at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and co-founder and executive of the DocNomads Program (international master's degree in documentary filmmaking). He has been a professor at INSAS Brussels) and a lecturer in France at the University of Paris 8 and the University Marc Bloch in Strasbourg. For many years, he has been leading workshops all over the world (Brazil, Vietnam, China, Canada, United States, Lebanon).