EX ORIENTE FILM WORKSHOP 2023
Focus: Development
OPEN TO:
Ex Oriente Feature: Feature-length documentary projects
Creative feature-length documentary projects in development and early production stage, which challenge genres, format and media boundaries. We welcome filmmakers who conduct intense and engaging experiences and who change the way we reflect our reality. Projects are to be represented by a producer-director team.
Ex Oriente Series: Documentary series projects
Factual creative documentary series in development and early production stage with original idea and vision for episodic documentary project with international potential. Projects are to be represented by creatives/directors, producers team.
WORKSHOP TIMELINE
Ex Oriente Features
1st session: June 17 - 21, 2023: Sunny Side of the Doc, La Rochelle, France
2nd session: October 6 - 11, 2023: DOK Leipzig, Germany
3rd session: March 22 - 28, 2024: East Doc Platform, Prague, Czech Republic - in partnership with One World Film IHRDFF
Ex Oriente Series
1st Session: June 18 - 20, 2023: Sunny Side of the Doc, La Rochelle, France
2nd session: October 7 - 9, 2023: DOK Leipzig, Germany
3rd session: March 26 - 28, 2024: East Doc Platform, Prague, Czech Republic - in partnership with One World IHRDFF
Participants:
Directors, creators and producers participate with their own creative projects. Projects can be submitted by the independent producer (feature length documentary projects) and by producer, creator or TV producer (documentary series projects). Please note, that in order to fully benefit from the programme, all members of the participating project team must be able to commit to attending all 3 residential sessions full-time, in person and within the set dates and attend additional online sessions as required in the workshop schedule. Participants must be proficient in English.
The workshop is designed for directors, creators and producers coming from and with projects originating from Europe with a special focus on Central and Eastern European projects (incl. selected EU acceding and candidate countries) and/or projects dealing with stories from Central and Eastern Europe.
See the complete guidelines and list of eligible countries.
Participation fee: Expected participation fee is EUR 3000 for documentary feature film projects and EUR 2100 for docuseries projects. The fee covers the expenses related to the realisation of the workshop. The fee will be implemented in accordance with the format of workshop's sessions and will be confirmed prior to the start of the workshop.
Scholarship: Successful participants whose project is selected may apply for a scholarship to cover part of the participation fee related to their attendance at the workshop. Applicants must prove that there is no access to a scholarship for attending a professional training in their own country.
Practical requirements: Directors and producers can only participate with their own creative documentary projects. It is required that all workshop sessions are attended by both the director and the producer. Participants must be proficient in English.
Projects selection: Projects will be assessed by a committee made up of the workshop leading tutors, Ex Oriente Film project manager and appointed industry expert. The list of the projects selected to participate in the Ex Oriente Film workshop 2023 (12 feature projects and 5 docuseries) will be announced by May 31, 2023 at dokweb.net.
Contact:
Anna Kaslová - Ex Oriente Film Manager: kaslova@dokweb.net
Tereza Chovancová - Ex Oriente Film Coordinator: chovancova@dokweb.net
Jenovéfa Čtrnáctá - Production Manager: ctrnacta@dokweb.net
Workshop partners: Sunny Side of the Doc, DOK Leipzig, One World IHRDFF, American Film Showcase, Ciclic
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