STRENGTHENING THE FILM COMMUNITY THROUGH DOCUMENTARY COLLABORATION WORKSHOP IN GARUT

Abstract

Nowadays, there are more than 90 film communities around Indonesia. The film community is a form of non-governmental and non-commercial, group of a hobby, a society structured by people who have interacted and shared the same vision. Refer to studies, Indonesian Film communities have varying levels of understanding about standard and filming structures, especially by exploiting both natural resources and human resources. Garut is one of the cities which has a ton of potentials. The coherence of society, nature, art, and cultures have espoused local issues to be national issues by encouraging local resources. The number of film production in Garut is not high due to the lack of film knowledge and skill. Other causes are a low appreciation of the film by societies, a low number of alternative spaces, ‘screens’ and discussion rooms, and also a limited number of film festivals. The purpose of the workshop is to equalize knowledge and skills regarding the measurable and structured film so that strengthening is a must for the community to have the same goal in any film activities. The strengthening is done in 2 (two) ways: workshops and work collaboration. Those activities are arranged to produce high-quality documentary films so that they become solutions to achieve ideal community goals in film activities and can increase the number of regional film production.
Keywords: Community, workshop, documentary film