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Our Film Won Second Place

Alhamdulillah,


Our first film ever, an Islamic Short Film, titled Surat (translate: letter) won second place. This short film is made for short movie competition for Indonesian students in Middle East and Africa.



The film is made almost without budget (only 1000 yemen riyal or $3.5) and without any proper tools. None of us had the camera, in fact the first takes we tried using phone camera, and we almost rented one. Thankfully the organization we study in that is Ibnu Abbas Scientific Foundation lent us a camera.


Our computers also not high end, it's slow to process the captured films. We also didn't have the tool to capture audio, instead we were usi ng our phones.


The timing of working also couldn't be more worse. It's in Ramadhan month, which all people sleep from dawn to afternoon here in Yemen. So we can only took pictures hour before dusk, because at night we don't have any proper lighting.


Besides all that, I'm really glad that this film is acknowledged, in fact the jurist gave us the highest point for story, originality and content. We lost at sound and aesthetics of pictures.


Anyway, I hope you'll take your time to look at our first film ever here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u0E7pX6v1jw


The story is a little bit sad but enlightening, about a man who has repented from his dark past and pursuing knowledge in Yemen, it turns out that it's not easy as he had expected.


So watch it, and please send me a feedback afterwards.

Check out the log of our work here:
http://whyyemen.blogspot.com/2017/06/im-making-short-film.html?m=1





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