ZeLIG School for Documentary, Television and New Media

Description 

ESoDoc takes up the challenge of bringing together the demands of different players now involved in documentary film production.

The focus is on a special genre of documentary production that is particularly suitable for the new multi-platform world: documentaries that draw attention to human rights, social justice and environmental protection.

A wide range of top international professionals is invited to teach at ESoDoc. The course encourages sensitivity in working with cultures of the developing world and co-operation with indigenous communities, including through the use of “participatory video”.

ESoDoc is increasingly focused on digital media, and illustrates the varieties of multi-platform programming and social websites. ESoDoc outlines the market in Europe, and different and new ways of funding, distributing and co-producing social documentaries. One-to-one sessions on budgeting are held during the workshop; the final session focuses on pitching.

ESoDoc participants submit a fresh proposal for a documentary or a crossmedia project with their application. This project is developed in the following six months at three 1-week sessions and online in-between.

Target group 

Professionals committed to social change, who want to develop their own documentary film projects across a 360 degree spectrum, in particular documentary filmmakers and producers, NGO and NPO sector professionals with audiovisual experience, and new media professionals.

Benefits 

The ability for participants completing the course to move between broadcasting companies and NGOs; familiarity with conventional ways of making social documentaries and the new forms of visual communication, i.e. new media and cross-media; being trained to present their projects at international pitching sessions; being better equipped to contribute to the European film industry.

Dates 

May 15 > 21, 2011: tba – Romania
July 3 > 9, 2011: South Tyrol – Italy
September > October 2011: tba

Fees 

€1,200; (€600 for participants from EU-12); includes accommodation, meals; participants pay travel. Four scholarships available.

Requirements 

Proficiency in English; experience, motivation, sensitivity to social and environmental issues and project proposal.

Participants 

22 

Registration deadline(s) 

March 4, 2011

ZeLIG School for Documentary, Television and New Media
Via Brennero 20/d
39100 Bolzano – Italy
T +39 0471 302 030
F +39 0471 977 931
Heidi Gronauer
gronauer@zeligfilm.it
Thomas Righetti
righetti@zeligfilm.it
info@esodoc.eu

www.esodoc.eu
www.zeligfilm.it