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WHAT IS ESoDoc

ESoDoc – European Social Documentary is the training initiative for media professionals who are eager to develop the potential of their documentary and new media project

ESoDoc wants to strengthen the ability for innovative and audience-centered documentary and new media storytelling, so you can be a creative and active part in the evolving market dynamics and respond to its trends in ground-breaking, collaborative and interdisciplinary ways. 

ESoDoc will help you in developing your storytelling skills to turn your topic into an original and compelling story to engage your audience and bring change to our society.

More info: https://www.esodoc.eu/index.php/about-esodoc

APPLICATION PROCESS

Start your application by creating your personalized application form here.

Read our guidelines and FAQ for more detailed information. 

WHO SHOULD APPLY

ESoDoc participants are creative professionalscommitted to social issuesopen and willing to get involved and to experiment on their project with new formats, new business and co-creative production models.

ESoDoc is designed for authorsdirectors and creative producers who are willing to dedicate time and energy in the creative development process at ESoDoc, who want to approach their project from different angles and explore new forms and new formats of audiovisual production. We welcome also other media professionals such as journalists, communication designers, programmers, NGO communication responsible, etc..

WHY PARTICIPATING IN ESoDoc

Today’s documentary market is fragmented in various platforms and formats, that you can enjoy ranging from an artistic interactive VR installation in a museum to the political feature-length documentary at the Tuschinski Theater during IDFA. And there are infinite possibilities between the two. 

This mixed-up constellation of media formats and platforms must not be seen as a divided and competitive system of distributing projects, but as an ecosystem where diverse components can co-exist and work together to reach different audiences. 

Working with these different formats and platforms, you’ll need also different professionals specialized in different fields of media production to co-create with you these new projects. 

At ESoDoc you will learn to think laterally, to look at the potential of your project from different points of view and to approach it from different angles, to use collaborative development tools to better understand the relationship with the audience and create better impact, outreach and distribution strategies

You will discover how thinking about the audience already from the early development stage of your project will help you to refine your storytelling skills to transform an “issue” into an original and compelling story, able to touch and engage your audience, and drive your push towards social and political change.

To participate in ESoDoc, you should be eager to co-create on all the different stages of your project (research, development, production, and outreach) and to bring your individual input to the group. The training will help you to be a pro-active player in the audiovisual industry and to elaborate on an innovative project in a constantly evolving market.

What we offer:

  • 6 months of intense project-development process
  • dedicated and profoundly passionate trainers, active professionals  from the real working world
  • three intense one-week residential sessions held in three different locations across Europe
  • Extended Online Sessions taking place in the in-between periods and as follow-up
  • one-to-one tutoring by international experts

At ESoDoc you will:

  • assist ground-breaking and inspiring lectures from acclaimed worldwide professionals and discover what is new, controversial and seminal in documentary filmmaking
  • think about the audience from the beginning, integrating it as creative input for your project development process
  • work co-creatively with the other participants and the experts on the development of your project during the sessions and in-between
  • expand your project on more platforms through different formats
  • learn how to outline outreach strategies to increase the impact of your project
  • take various practical masterclasses on writing and storytelling techniques, new-media production and participatory media models
  • get trained in pitching skills and present your project in front of renowned experts at the final public pitching session
  • have a “pitching package” at the end of the workshop, composed by a refined 2-pager, visual material and presentation

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

We can accept participants coming from all EU member countries and some countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme. Namely: 

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, 

ESoDoc can accept up to 3 participants coming from non-EU countries.

PARTICIPATION FEE

The participation fee covers tuition, room and board for all three sessions. Please note that accommodation might be in a single or a shared double room, according to availability. Travel expenses are not included.

  • REGULAR FEE: 1.500 EUR 
  • REDUCED FEE: 750 EUR

The reduced fee can be applied only to participants coming from the following countries:

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Ukraine.

For the participation fee for non-EU countries, please contact us.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Three (3) full scholarships are available only to participants coming from low capacity countries. A “full scholarship”  covers the enrolment fee AND the travel costs for all three sessions. In case of a high number of scholarship requests, we might assign a “partial scholarship”, which would cover the enrolment fee OR the travel costs.

If you want to access scholarship funding, you must provide 1 copy of your latest official tax return and also explain the reasons for asking the scholarship together with your application. No other kind of document shall be considered.

Scholarships can be awarded only to participants coming from low production capacity countries:

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Ukraine.

VENUES

The 3 sessions of the 2020 edition will take place as follows: 

Session 1: May 14-20, 2020 – Tromsø, Norway

Session 2: July 2020 – T.B.C.

Session 3: October 04-10, 2020 – Vilnius, Lithuania

Bron: ESoDoc.eu