The Finnish Film Affair is delighted to announce a new residency programme, organised and developed with the Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI). As part of the pilot, FFA is providing an industry residency scheme for a promising filmmaker from AMPI alumni. This unique residency opportunity offers the participant a chance to develop industry-related skills as well as to showcase their talent during the 10th Finnish Film Affair.
For the first time, the Moving People and Images Award (the MPI Award) will be granted to a filmmaker whose work emphasizes diversity and inclusion.
“We took the opportunity to speak to Erol Mintaş, founder and artistic director of the Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI). The non-institutional academy, based in Helsinki, represents a commendable educational effort to make the film industry more inclusive. We found out more about the AMPI’s activities during our chat with the Kurdish filmmaker.” Davide Abbatescianni
The Academy of Moving People & Images announcing its third generation! AMPI’s third open call was launched on December 21st, 2020. The open call lasted until January 31st, 2021. We received many wonderful applications, we shortlisted 22 people for the interview and eventually chose 9 to participate in AMPI’s 2021 & 2022 program. We are
The wait is over! Today we’re ready to share our Open Call. AMPI is now seeking 8 new participants for its two-year filmmaking program, the years 2021-2022.
but since there are so many interesting future filmmakers to talk to, Kelaamo ended up doing a group interview. Everyone asked a fellow participant a question and answered a question asked by someone else.
We talked with filmmaker Erol Mintaş, Founder and Artistic Director of AMPI, and Fiona Musanga and Shahi Derky, who are both alumni of AMPI.
The second open call for the Academy of Moving people & Images was launched in October 2019 and lasted until the end of December. We received many wonderful applications, out of which we shortlisted 30 people for the interview and eventually chose 10 to participate in AMPI’s 2020 program. We are grateful for the time
Academy of Moving People and Images is a platform in Helsinki for mobile people – those who have arrived in Finland for different reasons, be they immigrants, asylum seekers, students, or employees. AMPI’s aim is to design a new learning model and a sustainable pedagogical platform where people from different backgrounds are able to contribute to the film industry and initiate change. AMPI is now seeking 12 new participants for the year 2020.
AMPI Advanced consists of 4 workshops supported by AVEK. The workshops are meant for the further training of mobile people who already have experience with filmmaking. These workshops will take place parallel to our main one year program. Each workshop’s duration is one week only. The first two workshops will take place in November 2019;