Zelig, School Of Documentary, Television And New Media

 Bolzano     Italy

http://www.esodoc.com     << visit website

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ESoDoc – European Social Documentary is a training initiative offered by ZeLIG , Italy’s trilingual film school, and one of the handful of European educational institutions that focuses exclusively on documentary filmmaking. ESoDoc is supported by a network of world-wide institutions and the European Union’s Media Plus Programme.

ESoDoc explores wholly new terrain in audiovisual production. It takes up the challenge of bringing together the demands of different players now involved in documentary film production. Across the spectrum these are: independent documentary film makers and producers; non-governmental and non-profit organizations (NGOs and NPOs); television broadcasters and New Media. ESoDoc’s ambition is to create new production opportunities for European documentary makers interested in broadcasting films that draw attention to human rights, social justice and environmental protection, particularly in the developing world; and to respond to the growing awareness in NGOs and NPOs that film and New Media must be an important part of their work.

Target group: ESoDoc is intended for TV documentary, NGO and NPO sector professionals with some audio-visual experience. That means factual film producers, directors, writers and editors and other media personnel. In particular we are keen to attract NGO field workers who want to use film in their work and new media specialists with a human rights, environmental protection perspective.

Number of Participants: 22 participants in all, desirably with an equal balance of men and women, West and East Europe.

The project aims to widen the horizons of professionals in the documentary, NGO and media sector so that they create links between social issues and the world of broadcasters and New Media.

Networking _ we invite a wide range of top global professionals (see below) to mix with participants from all over Europe throughout our workshops.

Cultural Awareness _ we encourage sensitivity in working with cultures of the developing world and co-operation with indigenous communities.

Skills _ we teach the technical skills of film documentary, camera, sound and editing; we encourage a popular style and structure to meet the demands of broadcasters; we specialize in films that have a ‘social action’ follow up in community work.

New Media _ we show its many uses in promoting citizen participation and adding to a documentary production.

Participatory Video _ we teach participants how to teach others to film themselves, an important new communication and therapy in NGO work.

Production _ we teach the law and budgeting as applied to documentary film; and we introduce participants to audiovisual markets and to distribution.

Pitching _ we teach how to pitch and what to expect. Then we put it to the test in front of an audience. This is the climax of our workshops.