Imagination, innovation, technology, and entertainment were the key ingredients at the Creative Industries Week in Baku. The capital of Azerbaijan welcomed new players from the creative sector.
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00:08 For a week, Baku became an epicenter of creativity.
00:11 From the 27th of November to the 3rd of December,
00:15 the Azerbaijani capital hosted the Creative Industries Week,
00:19 a forum to support the younger creatives
00:21 to expand their horizons and engage their imagination.
00:26 Among the events, a Caltech program was organized.
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00:33 the event attended by the young people.
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01:00 Another eagerly anticipated event
01:02 attended by the younger coding community
01:05 was the Game Tech 48-Hour Hackathon,
01:08 a forum centered around rapid and collaborative engineering.
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01:15 We have 13 different teams competing against each other.
01:18 During this period, they will be creating
01:21 mobile and computer games.
01:23 And by the end of the hackathon, they
01:25 will pitch their ideas and their games to the panel of judges.
01:29 The judges will select the winners based on their
01:31 evaluation.
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01:35 The hackathon's purpose is to improve the knowledge
01:38 and skills of cultural technology experts.
01:41 The big screen had a place in this creative week
01:44 as well with the first edition of the Cinema Mobile Film
01:48 Festival.
01:49 The competition had three categories--
01:51 narrative, documentary, and social issue films.
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01:56 The aim of the festival was to identify
01:59 new names in this industry and to promote social values
02:02 through mobile cinema.
02:04 The audience was overwhelmingly young for the opening ceremony
02:08 held at the Nizami Cinema Center.
02:11 The tour, shot with a smartphone by the French director Michel
02:15 Gondry, was the first film to be screened.
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02:25, which is why we chose this film. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
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