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Win an Online Master Class with BAFTA-Winning Director Amma Asante

BAFTA-winning director Amma Asante is offering three emerging women directors the opportunity to take part in a master class with her. Asante helmed the wondrous period romance “Belle” and the teenage-single-mom drama “A Way of Life,” which garnered the director a BAFTA for best first film.

Here are the details on applying for the master class:

We are running a competition for emerging female filmmakers. Three winners will be selected to take part in an online master class with BAFTA winning writer/director Amma Asante. To enter please match the criteria below and answer the following questions (each question should be no more than 250 words):

1. Aside from race what, thematically, are the similarities between the films “A Way of Life” and “Belle”?

2. Tell us about the film that made you want to be a filmmaker.

Criteria:
Must be an emerging female filmmaker.
Must have either directed, written or produced at least one short film or have had a commissioned screenplay.

Please email your answers and a brief bio (including details of your work) to kenny@ammaasante.com by the deadline on September 5th 2015.

[via AmmaAsante.com]

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