Acclaimed Franco-Malian director Ladj Ly opens free cinema school
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- 26 Aug 2022
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Have we found the next generation of cinematographers? At the very least, the newly opened Kourtrajmé in Madrid give such hopes.
The school opened this week in Vallecas, a southern neighborhood of the Spanish capital with 24 talented but underprivileged young people from 200 applications.
Among them is Steven Bruce.
"I love cinema, I love music, I love, you know, art in general. And actually I've always had a lot of ideas in my mind and I know I am not from a rich family and everything, so actually I've always (been) waiting for something to happen so I can, you know, find the way to show what I have to show," he says.
The school is based in El Sitio de mi Recreo, a youth center managed by the city council and the man behind it, is filmmaker Ladj Ly.
The French-Malian directed 'Les Miserables', a 2019 movie about crime in the Parisian underworld. It won the Cannes Jury prize for best film.
This is the fourth school he's opened - two others operate in France and a third in Dakar, Senegal.
Ly hopes to encourage a new generation to follow in his successful footsteps.
"The idea of these schools is to train those young people who don´t have the chance, the opportunities or the means to enrol in a cinema school, because we know that nowadays it is too difficult to enrol in film schools," he explains.
"And we had the idea to settle on the city outskirts, in difficult neighborhoods, precisely to give them the opportunity and also so that they are motivated by having a school in the neighborhood where they can study cinema."
The program will consist of a six to nine month course, focused on scriptwriting and directing TV series.The students will develop pilot episodes for two series, which will later be offered to the cinema industry to go into production. Read More...
