ESoDoc European Social Documentary Session 2 July 9-15, 2012 Strasbourg France

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1 ESoDoc European Social Documentary Session 2 July 9-15, 2012 Strasbourg France In collaboration with Monday, July 9 Welcome to Strasbourg! This session is organized in partnership with the Municipality of Strasbourg. We thank Aurélie Reveillaud from the MEDIA Antenna Strasbourg and Georges Heck Chief of the Film Department of the Municipality of Strasbourg for hosting us in Strasbourg. We will be staying at The European Youth Centre Strasbourg (EYCS), which is part of the Council of Europe. The EYCS lies in the heart of the European district in Strasbourg, a few meters from the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. Just a bit further, you will also find the headquarter of Arté TV, which I believe is well known to all of you. The EYCS was renewed in 2008, and is surrounded by a park. You will find plenty of places where you will be able to have one-to-one meeting and further discuss your projects with our trainers and experts! Tuesday, July :30 Phil Cox My principles of documentary photography UK filmmaker and international teacher Phil Cox has filmed a lot in the developing world, from Iraq to the South American jungle to Darfur in North Africa. Page 1 of 6

2 He was the first filmmaker to arrive in Darfur in 2004 where he won the Rory Peck Award for bravery. (Those interested should read a paperback The Translator a tribesman s memoir of Darfur which begins with a description of how Phil saved his life). He runs his production company Native Voice Films in London. Last year he worked in India and made a long-form Documentary The Bengali Detective, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, which we will see this evening. This morning he describes his work, tells us what basic principles he works to and shows us what he has done Coffee Mark Atkin Crossing Over Mark is best known to us for being the Director of Crossover Labs and Head of Studies at Documentary Campus Masterschool. Crossover Labs is an international programme designed to explore with professionals from diverse disciplines including film and TV production, animation, games the creative and the commercial challenges of developing content and services for digital media. He is with us this week, with www designer Jamie Balliu, to supervise our new media projects. This morning he prepares the ground by showing us the latest research on what motivates us to watch audio-visual programmes and how. What are the implications of this? Masterclasses This afternoon we will start with our masterclasses: 1. Multi Skilling Camera 1 with Phil Cox 2. New Media 1 with Mark Atkin and Jamie Balliu Phil Cox on WorldView Phil Cox is Consultant to WorldView. It has recently combined with the Sundance Institute Film Program to offer a new Documentary Award for Research and Development for films about the developing world. He tells us how it works and who should apply. Then he introduces The Bengali Detective, his successful and, in documentary terms, controversial full length feature documentary which was one of the festival talking points last year. Page 2 of 6

3 Wednesday, July Fernanda Rossi on How to make a winning trailer The Documentary Doctor is with us this week as Story Consultant. She describes herself thus on Whether in a personal session, a workshop or through her writing, Fernanda Rossi supports and guides filmmakers with proven methodologies in the creation and improvement of rough cuts, fundraising trailers, synopses, treatments, scripts and pitches. She has doctored over 300 documentaries, fiction scripts and work samples, including two Academy Award nominees. She will be coaching all those with projects in one to one sessions through the week Masterclasses Masterclasses continue today: 1. Multi Skilling Camera 2 with Phil Cox 2. New Media 2 with Mark Atkin and Jamie Balliu Film screening in Strasbourg: A Blooming Business Quoting from the film's synopsis: In an intriguing way a BLOOMING BUSINESS shows the world of Jane, Oscar and Kennedy, who all depend some how on the huge flower farms in Naivasha, Kenya. A poetic, cinematic and poignant documentary in which director Ton van Zantvoort goes deep into the lives of the main characters. Is the smell of the imported rose so sweet indeed? Thursday, July 12 This day is fully dedicated to masterclasses! Masterclasses Page 3 of 6

4 1. Multi Skilling Camera 3 with Phil Cox 2. New Media 3 with Mark Atkin and Jamie Balliu Masterclasses This afternoon we will start also a new masterclass. So: 3. Participatory Video 1 with Rose McCausland 4. New Media 4 with Jamie Balliu Arté France Claudia Bucher (Documentary Department) and Nicola Hellmann (New Media Department) will describe how Arté works. Prepare your (many) questions! Aurélie Reveillaud on MEDIA funding Film documentaries do not grow on trees. They need money, for development, production and distribution. For many filmmakers this means loans or grants from EU Media. So how do you apply for it? What are the rules? This is a practical session for those who should know, but don t, how to work the system. Friday, July Rose McCausland: The Story of Living Lens...is proof of how participatory video works. Rose s company has worked over the last five years with sex-trafficked women in London, farmers in Madagascar and child domestic workers in India. Each group made their own advocacy films, sometimes the editing too, in order to persuade those who had the power to improve their lives. The results show that this kind of filming, rare ten years ago but increasingly popular now, is one of the most effective ways of using the camera to fight for human rights Coffee Taco Ruighaver Movies that Matter Page 4 of 6

5 Based in the International City of Peace and Justice, The Hague in Holland, Taco s film festival is one of many human rights festivals that are linked through the world. Movies that Matter, however, is more than this. Here Amnesty International invites outstanding defenders of human rights who have featured in or made documentaries and therefore been nominated for the Golden Butterfly Awards: here the Good Pitch holds a session and here ESoDoc is planning to arrive for the first workshop of 2013 as new partners. This morning Taco introduces his festival and shows clips from one or two of his most impressive screenings Masterclasses 1. Participatory Video 2 with Rose McCausland 2. One-to-one meetings with Hugh and Heidi 3. One-to-one meetings with Jörg Grossmann on budgeting Your films Saturday, July Paulina Tervo: Awra Amba We always watch big budget WWW projects, paid for by ARTE, the NFB in Canada or Channel 4 in the UK. Can the small project, however brilliant, get off the ground and onto the www? Awra Amba is a village in Ethiopia where the headman is trying to set up a utopian community. Paulina has filmed this experiment since she came on EsoDoc in Now she is setting up her own WWW project: she has some funding, she has a team, she has attended specialist workshops, and she is getting there...we hope! This is her case study Coffee break Hugh Purcell: Story Telling in Documentary Film. This lecture, illustrated entirely with film examples from the National Film School in the UK, is to show you Why a story format is vital and How to shape your film into a story if one does not exist. Page 5 of 6

6 Remember the Golden Rules: A Theme is not a Story and More means Worse Masterclasses 1. Participatory Video 3 with Rose McCausland 2. One-to-one meetings with Hugh and Heidi 3. One-to-one meetings with Jörg Grossmann on budgeting A Wrap and Planning for Workshop 3 Heidi and Hugh discuss this workshop and anticipate what will happen 8 14 September in Bardonecchia (Italy). Evening: today it's Bastille Night, or the fête nationale française (14 Juillet) and time to let off fireworks! Saturday, July 15 Departure day... Page 6 of 6