Winning Janeemo film students chosen from College talent
Climate Futures led the panel in choosing a pair of documentary makers for the Janeemo schools film.
Julian Krubasik, 25 and Sabine Hellmann, 29, both from Germany, were selected from six applicant pairs at the Edinburgh College of Art documentary-making MA.
They will travel to Malawi in the summer and autumn to make a 10 minute film for Scottish school children.
Julian Krubasik will direct the janeemo film. He has recently been nominated for a 2009 BAFTA New Talent Award with his short film ‘Flashed’. He has also filmed in Tanzania and India.
Sabine has filmed a documentary on biofuels, and is very interested in environmental issues.
They describe their proposal: “While following a young pupil as he/she is showing us through a village in southern Malawi, we start to realise how the Janeemo project improves the all-day-life of the village”.
Their film will also emphasize on the dreams and hopes of a young child. Scenes may include preparing moringa food, a school lesson, processing jatropha oil, playing football, and using an oil lamp for homework. With each aspect of daily life simple yet playful animations and symbols will illustrate educational points.
In 2005 the industry’s skills council Skillset endorsed Edinburgh College of Art, in collaboration with Napier University, as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in film education and training and a member of the UK-wide network of Screen Academies.
Other panel members, whose help is greatfully acknowledged, were Noe Mendelle and Emma Davie of ECA, Grant Davidson and Clare Neely of the Macaulay Institute and Ian Edwards of Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden.
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