Registration is open for the 4-Day Special Filmmaking Workshop under the guidance of NIDHAL CHATTA and DILETTA D’ASCIA who offer you a chance to share a truely immersive experience beyond time combining state-of-the-art on-camera training.
The workshop is open to people of all ages who want to tell stories through films. Learn to write, shoot, direct, and edit your own films using professional grade equipment and software!
This is the perfect workshop to explore all aspects of the filmmaking process. It is intended for aspiring writers and directors looking to tell quality stories with a small budget and crew. It is 4 days of hands-on experience that will teach you simple, fast and effective techniques emphasizing the key components to consider when making a film. The goal of our special workshop is also to provide its participants with a solid understanding of industry practices and standards.
Our training lasts 4 days or 32 hours in total. Each participant will be asked to make a short film on an imposed theme after 3 defined steps that include the following:
Workshop 1 – April 2025: Saturday 12th – Sunday 13th – Friday 18th – Saturday 19th
Workshop 2 – May 2025: Saturday 03th – Sunday 04th – Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th
This workshop, supervised by film professionals, covers the artistic and technical stages of filmmaking, including scriptwriting and dramaturgy, directing, camera secrets and editing.
At the end of the course, participants will make a short film lasting 3 to 5 minutes on an imposed theme.
Diletta D’ASCIA, teacher and filmmaker, and Nidhal CHATTA, director and producer, decided to combine their skills and know-how. They created CINEMASTERS. A special platform and curriculum dedicated to training in the film professions . CINEMASTERS offers training and masterclasses in screenwriting, directing, cinematography and editing.
Diletta D’Ascia was born in Rome in 1980. Graduating in 2006 with a D.A.M.S. in psychoanalytical film theory (110/110 with honors), she received an honorary distinction at the Pier Paolo Pasolini Doctoral Dissertation Prize for her thesis entitled “The Usignolo of the Catholic Church and Mamma Roma: two texts compared in the light of psychoanalysis”.
In this thesis, she analyzes and explains the rhetorical figure of “la sineciosi” through the principle of symmetry of Chilean psychoanalyst Ignacio Matte Blanco, giving her the opportunity to continue writing various essays and articles on this author. She takes part in training courses and workshops, learning to direct and write screenplays. She also works in a number of schools as an external expert in film and literature and develops film training courses, an activity she continues to pursue after setting up the Gli Utopisti cultural association in 2012, of which she is president. Since 2012, she has divided her life and work between Rome and Tunis, carrying out projects in collaboration with Tunisian cultural associations.
In 2013, she began working on projects on the theme of violence against women. With her association, she intervenes in educational establishments and structures to train students in the cinema professions, resulting in the production of medium-length films. She collaborates with the Centre Culturel Italien Dante Alighieri in Tunis, the Italian Embassy in Tunis and the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis, and has been involved in training activities in Tunisia since the end of 2019. Finally, she works with production companies as an assistant director and more generally in the field of production. She writes for the Euro-Arab Institute’s magazine “Dialoghi Mediterranei” and publishes several stories with the Giulio Perrone publishing house. She also organizes and coordinates events with publishing houses and film production companies.
My name is NIDHAL CHATTA and I am a former student of John Strasberg (Actors Studio, the Real Stage). As an acting director, I offer a chance to share a truely immersive experience beyond time combining state-of-the-art on-camera training.
My method is based on taking every life experience to the fullest. I encourage my actors to turn the character into a real live person, somebody who really exists. Students of all ages are shown how to make their performance best work for screen while developing their mental, emotional and physical range. My training is also intended for English, American and Commonwealth citizens.
Last but not the least, my programme is conducted in conjunction with a practical approach to the camera tool : shot breakdown, framing, continuity shot, off screen, filming with one or more partners, bodywork, gaze, movement while mastering the limits of the field
MAIN TRAINING PROGRAMME
• The basics of the Meisner Technique
• The basics of Method Acting
• The secrets of Acting on Camera
• Creating and embodying a character on screen
• Intuitive and organic improvisation
• Managing energy and concentration
If you have any questions about the workshop, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
