The details
The workshops are free. The movies are reserved for schools in the morning; during the day, tickets cost Dh20 for adults, Dh10 for children. Go to www.facebook.com/sharjahicff. Shaikha Jawaher Bint Abdullah Al Qasimi, director SICFF, Ola Al Haj Hussin, corporate citizenship manager at Crescent enterprises and Emirati actor and director Habib Ghuloom addressing media ahead of Sharjah International Children’s film festival 2017.
JUDGES
This year, each category will have a dedicated jury of specialists to gauge the entrants. In all, these judges form a 19-member group of artists, directors, producers, critics and other film specialists. The members are actor and poet Ebrahim Al Hsawi; actor Marie Al Halyan; screenwriter Mohammad Hassan Ahmad; singer Ahmad Al Jassmi; actor Sultan Al Niyadi; filmmaker Abdullah Al Kaabi; playwright and actor Abdullah Saleh; actor Dr Habib Ghuloom; filmmaker Abdulla Al Sharhan; poet and director Nujoom Al Ganem; journalist Ola Al Fares; filmmaker Bassam Mohammad Al Thawadi; actor Dr Khalid Ameen; Nayla Al Khaja; screenwriter and director Ayman Jamal; Tony award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose; director Firdoze Bulbulia; animator Mohammad Saeed Harib; and director Ali Mostafa.
WORKSHOPS
Besides this, said Shaikha Jawaher, 50 workshops shall be held during the sixday fest (most at JRCC). And once it is over, the workshops will be held in Kalba, Dibba Al Hisn and Khorfakkan, from October 15-31; and in Al Dhaid, Al Madam, Al Hamyria and Al Bataeh, from November 5-16.
The workshops held encompass a wide range of topics from cinema and visual arts. So one could learn about creating and developing 3D characters (Game of Thrones class, conducted by GOT artist Thomas Kotchera); storyboards, at the Storyboarding and Basic Character Drawing, taught by Josh Staub, from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Dan Benett, Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival.
The Aesthetics of Photography workshop will be conducted by Adeeb Al Ani, president of the Arab Union of Photographers. Bahrain-based Kawthar Adnan will run a workshop on the fundamentals of animation in the Still Motion segment.
The Time Lapse workshop will explore the technique of manipulating time and frame rates, and will be conducted by Tatiana Poliektova from Russia and Filippo Rivetti from Australia, who are both nominated for SICFF awards.