The Royal Film Commission Jordan | Opportunities Bulletin #145 June

Under the direct supervision of the Capacity Building Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer is responsible for monitoring and evaluating the accomplishment of the objectives and goals of the projects/programmes of the department.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and strengthen monitoring, inspection and evaluation procedures.
• Monitor all projects’ activities, expenditures and progress towards achieving the project output.
• Recommend further improvement of the logical framework.
• Develop monitoring and impact indicators for the project’s success.
• Monitor and evaluate overall progress on achievement of results.
• Monitor the sustainability of the projects’ results.
• Provide feedback to the Project Manager on projects’ strategies and activities.
• Suggest strategies to the Project Manager for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the projects; by identifying bottlenecks in completing projects’ activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks.
• Report monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annually on the progress of all projects’ activities to the Project Manager.
• Conduct capacity assessment on existing monitoring and evaluation system; Develop indicators and a monitoring strategy for the project.
• Provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, annually and other reports to the project management team.
• Participate in annual projects’ reviews, planning workshops and assist the Project Manager in preparing other relevant reports.
• Assist the Project Manager in the preparation of reports on the findings and lessons learned from projects’ innovations.
• Prepare Issues Log and Risk Log for the projects.
• Prepare and maintain databases.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Bachelor degree in Management or related field.
• At least four years-experience in monitoring and evaluation of community related projects.
• Very good communication skills, oral and written, in both English and Arabic.
• Excellent ability to deliver and draft reports.
• Excellent team work.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• A driving license is a plus.

Rawi Screenwriters’ Lab is designed for Arab independent screenwriters working on their first or second feature narrative screenplay. It offers them the opportunity to develop their screenplays under the guidance of veteran screenwriters. The latter, known as Creative Advisors, will have one-on-one intensive story sessions and conversations with the participants about their projects to embrace their vision and to help them find the most compelling way to tell their stories.

KHRFF focuses on Human Rights Films with strong human rights theme at their core, which are significant to the Arab region especially films about “The Human Spirit Vs. Extremism and Terrorism”.

The festival is currently accepting entries for short and feature films of the following genres: Fiction, Documentary and Animation produced after 2013.

• Development: Up to 20,000 USD per project
• Post-production: Up to 60,000 USD per project

SANAD seeks out bold and remarkable projects from both new and established filmmakers with the aim of encouraging intercultural dialogue and artistic innovation while building stronger networks within the region’s film industry.

It also offers year-round support and publicity for selected projects to help connect filmmakers to potential partners, funding opportunities and audiences.

The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organizes retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.

The festival’s competitions and sections:

Venezia 72
An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature films, presented as world premieres.

Out of Competition
Some of the most important works of the year will be presented in the non-competing section, for a maximum of 12 films. Only feature films presented as world premieres at the Venice Film Festival will be admitted.

Orizzonti
An international competition reserved to a maximum of 20 films, dedicated to films that represent the latest aesthetic and expressive trends in international cinema, with special attention to debut films, young talents who are not yet firmly established, indie features, as well as works that address specific genres and current production, with the aim of innovating and demonstrating creative originality.

The Orizzonti section contains a selection of competing short films lasting a maximum of 20 minutes, selected on the basis of criteria such as quality and originality of language and expression.

Only feature-length and short films presented as world premieres at the Venice Film Festival will be admitted.

Venice Classics
This section features a selection of the finest restorations of classic films carried out over the past year by film libraries, cultural institutions and productions around the world, committed to the preservation and cultivation of the cinematographic heritage and the rediscovery of neglected or undervalued works of the past.

The section may be completed with the presentation of documentaries about cinema or individual authors of yesteryear or today that can offer innovative elements of historical and/or critical assessment.

VENICE FILM MARKET
The Venice Film Market will be organized during the Festival: it will place its infrastructures and screening rooms at the disposal of producers, buyers and international sales companies, for the sale and purchase of films including those not officially invited to the Festival. Participation in the Venice Film Market is subject to specific regulations.

INDEPENDENT AND PARALLEL SECTIONS
1 Settimana Internazionale della Critica (SIC - International Critics’ Week)
A series of no more than 8 films – debut works – independently organized by a commission nominated by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) in accordance with its own regulations.

2 Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days)
A series of no more than 12 films, independently promoted by the Italian filmmakers association (ANAC) and by the 100 Autori associations. Films are selected in accordance with their own regulations.
 
The deadline for submissions is on June 19th, 2015.

DIFF’s heavily contested competition for feature fiction and non-fiction; and short films originating from the Gulf Region and the Arab world will compete for the prestigious Muhr Awards.

• Muhr Feature (Non-Fiction and Fiction)
• Muhr Shorts (Non-Fiction and Fiction)
• Muhr Gulf Shorts (Non-Fiction and Fiction)

General Eligibility:

• In order to be eligible for the Festival, your film must have been completed after September 1, 2014 (i.e., films must have been completed by September 2014 or thereafter in order to be considered for the December 2015 Festival)
• DIFF requires that all short and feature films are, at minimum GCC premieres. Exceptions maybe applied on a case-by-case basis for film in DIFF’s out-of-competition sections.
• Films must not have been entirely or partially broadcasted and/or made available on television, the internet, mobile phones and/or any other public viewing platform until the 12th edition of DIFF closes on 16th December, 2015.
• Films that have been submitted to earlier editions of DIFF will not be considered unless substantial changes have been made since the initial submission.

The festival is an annual, not for profit, competitive film festival organized to encourage better understanding between people and to make a positive contribution to the art of the moving image believing that film has the power to provide us with a release, an escape, a window into new worlds and new possibilities.

The Chicago International Film Festival welcomes film submissions in the following categories:

- Feature Length Narratives
- Feature Length Documentaries
- Short Subjects – (under 4o minutes)

Officially selected films are programmed for public screening in a diverse selection of competitions and categories. Each film is presented in one or more of the following sections and is placed at the discretion of the programming committee.

- International Feature Film Competition
- New Directors Competition
- Documentary Competition
- Short Film Competition
- After Dark
- Out-look
- World Cinema
- Black Perspectives
- Cinema of the Americas
- City & State
- U.S. Indies
- Industry Days
- Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design
- Founder’s Award