Where Eagles Dare Flying lessons from Elijah

12-16 September 2012 - Conference & Film Festival

Oberägeri - Switzerland

It was a dream come true. Here I was, at the controls of a huge Boeing 747 as it hurtled down the runway at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport. A gentle ease back on the control column, and it lifted smoothly into the air - perfect. The British Airways training captain said ‘well done’. I noticed by his side a large shiny red button. ‘What’s that?’ I asked. ‘It’s to stop the aircraft from crashing - I just press it and everything freezes’, he said. Ah, if only life were like that - if only we had a button we could press that would save us from trouble. But life isn’t lived in a flight simulator - we have no such button to protect us. This is it.

Elijah was one of God’s servants who knew all about ‘crashing’. After flying high and seeing God perform miracles on Mount Carmel he co-mes tumbling down to earth like a wounded eagle. Gone is his faith, and his hope and any sense of God’s presence. No red button to press. And yet, within a short time he is up, flying high once again. How? Well the answer to that is the theme of the Bible talks at this year’s CEVMA conference in Switzerland. It’s an appropriate location to take a few ‘flying lessons’ from Elijah!

Our guest speaker, Otto de Bruijne knows only too well what it’s like to crash, and then learn to fly once again. When a routine operation went wrong, Otto’s life was held only by a thread as he went into a coma which lasted 50 days. But, like Elijah, he came through it and learned to fly again. We are delighted to have him share with us some of the ‘flying lessons’ he received from Elijah’s experience, and more importantly the Chief Flying Instructor Himself.

Where Eagles Dare Flying lessons from Elijah

From 12 – 16 September 2012, Zentrum Ländli in Oberägeri, Switzerland will be the site for the 2012 CEVMA Conference and Film Festival. The conference is an invaluable opportunity for Christians in visual media to meet, network, share

ideas, projects and challenges and get spiritually refres-hed.

The (biannual) Film Festival will be held alongside the annual CEVMA conference. The CEVMA Film Festival is dedicated to encourage Christians in visual media to produce positive, po-werful, inspiring and transforming stories in the form of films,

documentaries, animations, clips, etc. It likes to recognize achievement and stimulate excellence in production and content of programmes that are created to reflect Christian values in this world.

This year’s themeThe CEVMA Conference always includes a series of Bible Talks where the speaker attempts to cater to the needs and chal-lenges of media professionals. Each day includes a prayer and worship time too, in order to ‘tank up on grace’ and to receive mutual encouragement. The theme of this year’s Bible Talks is ‘Where Eagles Dare - Flying lessons from Elijah’. The Bible Speaker is Otto de Bruijne from the Netherlands.

Otto de Bruijne (1949), creative communica-tor and theologian, was senior staff member of TEAR Fund Holland and the Evangelical Allian-ce in Africa before he became a TV-programme host of travel programmes and talk shows for EO in The Netherlands. Otto has published many books, speaks at churches and conferen-ces and has his own Cabaret programme. His paintings are frequently shown at various ex-positions.

In 2006 he became seriously ill, but God gran-ted him ‘grace time’ in His service, coping well with a physical handicap. Otto and his wife Re-née have five adult children and twelve grand-children.

INTRODUCTION

Sunday, September 16th08.30 Breakfast10.00 Worship Service 11.45 Sandwiches and Good Bye

PROGRAMMEWednesday, September 12th14:00 Registration 17:00 Welcome 18:30 Dinner20:30 Opening Night 22:00 Late Night Drinks

Thursday, September 13th08:00 Breakfast09:00 Worship & Prayer 09:45 Bible Talk 10:30 Coffee Break11:00 CEVMA Network I 12:45 Lunch14:00 Film Festival I 15:30 Coffee Break16:00 Film Festival II 18:30 Dinner20:30 CEVMA Network II 22:00 Late Night Drinks

Friday, September 14th08:00 Breakfast09:00 Worship & Prayer 09:45 Bible Talk 10:30 Coffee Break11:00 Plenary Session - ‘Mind the Gap’ 12:45 Lunch14:00 Excursion18:30 Dinner20:30 Plenary Session - ‘Distribution Trends’ 22:00 Late Night Drinks

Saturday, September 15th08:00 Breakfast09:00 Worship & Prayer09:45 Bible Talk 10:30 Coffee Break11:00 Plenary Session - Global Short Film Network 12:45 Lunch14:00 Film Festival III 15:30 Coffee Break16:00 Film Festival IV 19:30 Banquet21:00 Awards Night 23:00 Late Night Drinks

Chris deGarmoChris directs the production arm of Global Short Film Network, Simple Bulldog Studio. He has worked with Cru (Campus Cru-sade for Christ) for 18 years and worked in film in video for the last 11. He is married with 3 children and lives in Austin, Texas. Global Short Film Network has been teaching intensive short film training workshops since 2008 around the world.

Mind the Gap - Jay MoussaAre old films boring? Are new films full of tasteless rubbish? Can young people and the older gen-eration find a common ground in Film and TV? Or will they for-ever be at odds with each other? Come along and gain an insight into how you can cross the gap. You may be surprised!

Jay MoussaJay Moussa works as a director, cameraman, and editor for Vizyonkumru. Vizyonkumru produces programmes in Turkish to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which are broadcast on Kanal Hayat. Born to a Turkish-Cypriot father and Brit-ish (Geordie) mother, Jay grew up in Turkey and went to a boarding school in the UK. She is cur-rently studying Film & TV Production at Teesside University in the North of England.

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Chris deGarmo, Marc Fuentes, Natacha Le FlochA look at using good films to bridge to the message of the Gospel. We will watch and discuss some short films and look at how to ask good questions that move from talking about the film, to it’s meaning and finally to the viewer’s personal life. From there we will talk about bridging to the Gospel at the appropriate time. This will be a workshop where the audience will participate and discuss in small groups.

Marc FuentesMarc is the executive producer for Archivo Cero (The file Zero), an online animation series for youth. He has served on the Agape staff since 2001 and lives in Barce-lona, Spain.

Natacha Le Floch-ZakineNatacha is a former staff and developer of Agape France Innovation. She has worked among students using short films and different arts medium to ex-plore new ways of interaction with people from a specific culture. She also designed creative contex-tual projects, and defined strategic ministry uses of short film to give missionary teams around France a material that was adapted to the needs and ques-tions of people in their net-works.

She works now as an inde-pendant videographer and trainer to provide services to Christian artists, organi-zations and churches.

The 12th CEVMA Film Festival will be held alongside the CEVMA Conference 2012.

The CEVMA Film Festival celebrates our calling in media, knowing that the power of storytelling can impact the lives of people and shape cul-tures. To ‘meet’ people in their own culture, CEVMA challenges students, writers, producers, actors, composers, directors and others to think out-side the box and use visual media to spread the message of hope and forgiveness.

The CEVMA Film Festival welcomes any Christian professional in visual media to compete in one or more categories of the Festival. Student filmmakers are especially encouraged to apply.

CategoriesThe Film Festival is open to productions in the following categories:

- Documentary/Docu-drama under € 30.000- Documentary/Docu-drama over € 30.000- Drama- Music Video Clip- Mobile Shorts (up to 90 seconds)- Children/Youth- Shorts (< 10 minutes, incl. Trailers and Commercials)- Student’s Production- The Message (The message of Christ translated in the most contemporary way)

The total number of entries per organisation is limited to two produc-tions per category with a maximum of five entries per organisation.

FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline entries: June 25, 2012

The Awards Ceremony will take place on Saturday evening September 15, 2012.

Entries must have been completed after 1st August, 2010 and may not have been en-tered for a previous CEVMA Film Festival. The Festival is conducted in English. Productions in other languages are welcome. They must, however, be subtitled/dubbed in English.

The entries will be submitted to a panel of several professionals, chosen by the CEVMA Board. The panel decides the top four finalists in each category and their decisions will be final. Those programmes will be shown at the Film Festival during this year’s conference. If there are not enough qualified films, submit-

ted by at least two different producers, in a particular category, the jury reserves the right to take this category out of the competition. Conference participants are invited to view the programmes and make comments on the programmes, which will be forwarded to the producers.

The entry fees for the Film Festival are the following:

Students and freelancers € 25 per entry for all categoriesCorporate organisations € 30 per entry for the categories Shorts and

Mobile Shorts € 65 per entry for all other categories

Contact details Film FestivalCEVMA Film Festival

c/o Rita QuartelPhone: +31 6 24 99 82 71

Email: filmfestival@cevma.com

You’re invited to particpate in the Film Festival by submitting your programme(s).

Please go to www.cevma.com to read all details about the Film Festival and fill out the online entry forms. DVD’s should be sent to the address men-tioned under ‘Film Festival - Call for en-tries 2012’.

VENUE / REGISTRATION

Hotel Zentrum Ländli is situated at Lake Ägeri in Central Switzerland. The Ägeri Area is known for its natural beauty and attracts tourists from all over the world.

Zentrum Ländli is a holiday, conference and spa hotel, situated by Lake Ägeri between Oberägeri and Morgarten. It is situated slight-ly above the lake and surrounded by well-tended gardens, dramatic views of the snow-capped ranges in several directions, of sailing boats and of twinkling lights at night.

RoomsAll (non-smoking) rooms are equipped with radio, television and telephone. There’s a choice of basic rooms (showers and WCs on residential floors) and ensuite rooms (with shower/bath and WC).

FacilitiesThe hotel has an excellent kitchen. There’s a wide-ranging breakfast buffet. A light lunch will be served at midday and a three-course dinner in the evening. All guests are invited to make use of the health center with gym, indoor swimming pool, sauna and spa. The conference rooms are spacious and well equipped.

Travel to LändliZurich (Kloten) is the main hub for interna-tional flights in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. There is a railway station in Zurich Airport. There is also a wide variety of shops, cafes and restaurants.

Transfer from Zurich to Hotel Ländli is by fast train direct from the airport to Zug (about 40 minutes). At Zug, change for the bus service to Oberägeri Station (bus nr. 1) and change here for bus nr. 9 till Ländli Station. You’ll find Hotel Ländli on your left (up hill).

By car Ländli is reached via Zug on the north shore of Lake Zug. Access is via Zug, using the A3 Autobahn from Basel and or Zurich.

Conference CostThe conference rates include board, food and conference. Price is per person in Euros. To en-courage students to attend the conference we have a special student rate of € 150 per stu-dent (qualified full-time students only).

Single room basic € 355 Single room ensuite € 495Double room basic (per person) € 340Double room ensuite (per person) € 480

Triple room ensuite (per person) € 460Student rate € 150

Spouse discounts are not available this year. There’s a day rate of € 80 per day per person, covering conference attendance, lunch and dinner.

All conference rates are payable in Euros only and should be paid in advance! If you have special requests or require disabled facilities, please let us know, so that we can make spe-cial arrangements.

RegistrationPlease go to www.cevma.com for all regis-tration and payment details and fill out the online registration forms (see under ‘Annual Conference - Registration’).

Registration is only valid when it has been confirmed by CEVMA e-mail.

CEVMA Officec/o ERF GermanyAnnegret SchneiderPhone + 49 6441 957 266E-mail: registration@cevma.comwww.cevma.com

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Photography connects us all. With photo-graphy being part of the visual media, this year’s CEVMA will also feature a photo-graphic exhibition.

This exhibition will celebrate the mix of pho-tography, creativity and imagination, in rela-tion to the theme of the conference ‘Where eagles dare’ (see also under ‘Introduction’). Photographers are invited to interpret the theme of ‘actively reaching out after having ‘crashed’ and being energised & nourished’ in the broadest sense and we look forward to seeing the results!

Call for entriesThe call for submissions is open to all photog-raphers in the world, both professional and amateur. The photographs must be original

and created by the person who enters the work. We will accept a maximum of five pho-tographs per participant. Participating in the exhibition is free of charge.

RequirementsImage size must be at least 1800 pixels on the longest size (but no larger than 3000 pixels). Entries must be submitted as digital files in the JPEG format or printed versions (real size). Entries in the JPEG format can be sent to pho-to@cevma.com, printed versions can be sent to the address mentioned hereafter. Please use WeTransfer.com to send the larger digital files (free of charge). Deadline: August 25, 2012.

SelectionA jury will view all of the entries and select the best ones to be included in the exhibi-

tion, running September 12 through 16, 2012 (alongside the CEVMA Conference).

AwardThe winning photograph will be chosen by the participants of the conference and an-nounced during the Awards Nights on Sep-tember 15, 2012. The winner will be awarded an amount of € 100.

Contact details Photographic ExhibitionCEVMA Photographic Exhibition

c/o Rita QuartelLage Geeren 11

3828 TB HooglandThe Netherlands

+31 6 24 99 82 71E-mail: photo@cevma.com

www.cevma.com

‘A picture is worth a thousand words’

‘Each photograph is a story

captured in a single moment’

Deadline entries: August 25, 2012

is much more than Christians who work in media.

It’s about sharing, encouraging, dreaming God’s dreams together, being refreshed, inspired, nourished and equipped.

It’s an opportunity to mentor and be mentored, to learn and to teach, to give and receive. It’s family, home, precious friendships...

Above all, it’s about making the difference – together.

Liliana Oliveri Chairwoman CEVMA

+49 6441 957 266 - info@cevma.com - www.cevma.com

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