Deadline: 25 January 2011
Registration DOCmed 2011
If you are a producer and/or a director/producer, holder of a documentary film project and you wish to:
* Benefit from a profound expertise of your project under development,
* Apprehend in detail all the steps of work, the writing and the development, the negotiation of rights, the modalities of production, the budgeting, the financing, the co-production deals, the enterprise of production, and the situation of the international market of documentary.
* Exchange and debate around the concrete projects, with documentary film professionals from Europe and elsewhere.
Every year, 10 Arab independent producers1 have the opportunity to participate in the DOCmed program. They will be supervised by experts and experimented tutors active in the field of production and documentary financing.
Eligible are the producers and/or directors/producers of the following countries:
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian occupied territories, Syria and Tunisia.
The program consists of three sessions of one week each, for a period of one year2.
Program 2011-2012:
Session 1: Development / March 2011 - Lebanon
Session 2: Budgeting, packaging and financing / June 2011 - Croatia
Session 3: Meeting with the decision makers / March, April 2012 - Tunisia
The full accommodation and travel expenses will be taken in charge by DOCmed
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 25 January 2011
Kindly send all the requested material including DVDs of your previous work, before the 25th of January 2011.
Head of studies: Jacques Bidou (France)
Tutors: Hala Abdallah (Syria), Serge Lalou (France)
Head of programme: Anne-Marie Luccioni (EURODOC / France), Jad Abi-Khalil (Beirut DC / Lebanon)
Kindly send your applications and the requested files on the following address3: info@beirutdc.org
Objectives
DOCmed is a training program which works on a project basis, on international co-production of creative documentaries. It is addressed to producers and directors/producers of Mediterranean Arab countries who are developing a project of international ambition. This program allows them to optimize all the fields of documentary production, the creation, the financing, and the technologies.
This program is implemented by Beirut DC (Lebanon), Eurodoc (France), and Doc à Tunis (Tunisia), in association with Arte France.
We find it important to experiment and develop the possibilities of networking between these Arab countries, and furthermore, establish cooperation between these countries and Europe.
The objectives of DOCmed are:
- Improve the development standards, the financing and the management of documentary projects with international ambition.
- Dedicate the presentation of these projects to decision makers of the Arab world, Europe and elsewhere.
- Face technology changes in the field of development, production and distribution.
- Reinforce the small and medium enterprises.
- Set a durable network of competence and exchanges by reuniting the experts and the international decision makers of this sector.
- Promote the exchange between the experts of the Mediterranean and the European countries.
We hope that the impact of DOCmed will reinforce the evolution of the careers of the participants, through a better apprehension of the international documentary market and a strengthened professionalism.
Producers would be able to find partners for the projects that they are developing.
The cooperation between the different participants will certainly develop beyond the training program to establish cooperative agreements.
We are convinced of the importance of enlarging the field of documentary Arab production worldwide. It is also our cultural and economic interest, which is essential for the vivacity of the Arab documentary production to be confronted with other cultures and other experiences.
Requested materials
- Synopsis
- Treatment
- Production strategy
- Budget and financing plan in Euro
- CV of the Director
- CV of the Producer
- Company profile
- DVD of previous works of the director
- Letter of motivation of the candidate
- Signed application (Download here)
1 We will privilege the applications of producers, but we may as well select directors who take in charge the production of their projects by themselves.
2 The directors of the selected projects will participate to the first session with their producers. They will benefit from the same training. They will not participate to the second session dedicated to technical aspects related to international production, but will join their producers for the third session.
3 The files can be sent in Arabic but with a French or English translation and should contain, among others, a motivation letter for the participation to the workshop as well as an intention letter for each of the producer and the director.
Contact:
Beirut DC Tel. +961 1 293212 // info@beirutdc.org
EURODOC Tel. +33 4 67 60 23 30 // eurodoc@wanadoo.fr