Don’t miss filmmaking workshop by Lisa Leeman

YARAT Contemporary Art Space invites professional and amateur filmmakers to join a workshop by American film director and producer Lisa Leeman on February 10.

Workshop is organized jointly by YARAT FreeStyle and the U.S. Embassy in Baku. Consecutive translation from English to Azerbaijani will be provided.

The event serves as an open platform for everyone who looks to engage creatively with a broad and diverse audience.

Lisa Leeman believes that strong narrative and character-driven films can change the world.

She has produced, directed, written and edited award-winning feature and short documentaries for the last twenty-five years. Calling her films ‘sideways social- issue films,’ she specializes in illuminating contemporary social issues through character-driven stories that follow people at critical turning points in their lives.

Her current film AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda, co-directed with Paola di Florio, premiered to sold-out crowds at the Seattle Film Festival in May, 2014. It won the Audience Award at the Illuminate Film Festival, and the Spirit of Cinema Award at the Maui Film Festival. Lisa’s last film, the award-winning One Lucky Elephant, premiered to sold-out crowds at the Los Angeles Film Festival, 2010, and continued to sell out screenings at festivals like IDFA, St. Louis, and the Starz Denver Film Festival.

Follow the link to learn more about Lisa Leeman: http://www.lisaleeman.com/about. html

Please inform about your participation in the workshop by sending a short note to ulvia.a@yarat.az

YARAT FREESTYLE aims to set up a scene for creative groups and individuals and is open to actors, dancers, performance artists, musicians and other cultural practitioners. Anyone with a project or an idea can reach out to us.