2023-10-11 21:00:01
They are part of the little hands of the Amazon-Caribbean documentary film festival. In the large FIFAC team, there are apprentices, interns and volunteers who are interested in audiovisual professions. This is an opportunity for them to experience immersion. Some of them went through the Ambitions Ouest Compétences system.
Ludmïa Lewis • Published on October 11, 2023 at 6:00 p.m., updated on October 11, 2023 at 6:33 p.m.
Promote the world of documentaries at all levels. This is one of the objectives of FIFAC. This involves in particular the professionalization of young people in the West. This year, for the third time, FIFAC represents an educational platform for Ambitions Ouest Compétences (AOC). A system supported by a consortium by a group of partners committed to western Guyana, including Maroni Image Center (PIM).
The Maroni Image Center at the transportation camp, in Saint-Laurent du Maroni • ©Ludmïa Lewis
Exactly, Thomas Sady is a trainer within AVM (Atelier Vidéo Multimédia), the association which supports the Maroni Image Center. For years, he was a cinematographer and director (particularly of documentaries). Today, he is trying to put his know-how to the benefit of beneficiaries of the AOC system.
It allows young or old people – who have dropped out, who have abandoned studies or who have not found training that suited them – to get back on their feet, to find a life project, a job, to regain confidence .
Thomas SADY, trainer at the AVM association
Thomas SADY, trainer at Pôle Image Maroni / Cinematographer and director • ©Ludmïa Lewis
Currently, theThe AVM association works with 15 beneficiaries of Ambitions Ouest Compétences. Some followed training on the Makandi Ouest program (broadcast Guyana the 1st) and are today hired for the FIFAC, others work with the festival teams.
There is also mediator and cultural facilitator training over several months. The young people following this training were sent, during the FIFAC, to mediate in the neighborhoods of Saint-Laurent in order to bring in another audience, so that there is greater diversity. They go there with QR codes, flyers and the program. We hope that this will bear fruit and allow people who have never come to this festival to come.
The trainer believes that the audiovisual field has a great future in Guyana.”There are plenty of things to do here,” he said.The goal of the association and the festival is to arouse desires“, adds Thomas Sady. “At the beginning, some young people did not know how to use a camera and today, they are hired“, he laughs.
This is a bit the case with Annesh. “Right now I’m reporting on FIFAC and making sure everything has been delivered“, he says. Annesh found out regarding the OAC system through word of mouth. He signed up when he mightn’t find work. Now he is a journalist at Chronicle of Maronithe citizen media of Western Guyanese founded by the Pôle Image Maroni.
Annesh, beneficiary of the AOC system and journalist • ©Ludmïa Lewis
Louidiana, 21, is hard at work when we find her. She is a camera operator on the show Makandi Ouest, part of which is filmed on the transportation camp. on the occasion of FIFAC. She was hired by 5° Nord, a Guyanese production company.
Louidiana, beneficiary of the AOC system and camera operator • ©Ludmïa Lewis
Before that, “I completed six months of training with AOC“, she says. “I learned how to use a camera, how to make plans and how to identify the different keys“, she says.
To join the Ambitions Ouest Compétences project, go to the system’s website: www.projet-aoc.fr.
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