Returnees learn to film their lives

IMCK's trainers in camera and editing, Beshad Anwar and Mustafa Qais started on Saturday June 2, 2012 in Erbil with a special workshop in the history of the mediacentre. They had the least participants ever in a workshop by IMCK.

The workshop is meant for three Kurdish returnees, who will learn how to make a little movie about their present lives in Kurdistan. They are supplied with a handycam, and learn how to shoot good images and how to make a scenario.

The training is financed and initiated by IOM, the International Organisation for Migration, in Erbil.

After same days of training on the camera, trainer Salar Sultan will teach them how to make a scenario, after which they can take the camera home to start making the movie. The images will then be edited with help of the IMCK trainers.

Social Media in Soran

IMCK trainer Sardasht Aziz started the last of a series of workshops on Social Media for Journalists. On May 29, 2012, he started a 3 day workshop for journalists from Soran and surroundings, in the Conference and Occasions Hall in Soran. In total 17 journalists participated.

The workshops is the final one in a series of seven organised by IMCK in cooperation with Irex all over Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Social Media also in Kirkuk

Kirkuki journalists started on May 22, 2012 on a 3 day workshop to learn how to use social media in their profession. IMCK trainer Sardasht Aziz will be training them at the Xandan hall in Kirkuk, co-trainer is Julie Adnan.

This is the sixth workshop in a project of IMCK and Irex. The last one of this series is planned for end of May in Soran.