CHANGE

Submissions for the 2024/2025 edition are now closed.

The selected projects are:

Kura, prod. Afag Yusifli, dir. Murad Allahverdi, Azerbaijan
Missing In Action, prod. Aliona Kachkan, dir. Kateryna Holovko, Marharyta Melnychuk, Ukraine
My Name Is Enough, prod. Ani Ordyan, dir. Marina Arzumanova, Armenia
Eyes Wide Open (working title), prod. Nino Orjonikidze, dir. Sopho Apriamashvili, Georgia
Whispers of Womanhood, prod. Olga Slusareva, dir. Rati Tsiteladze, Georgia
Entr’actes, prod. Olha Tuharinova, dir. Yuriy Shylov, Ukraine
Leave Easy Come Back Safe, prod. Sasha Kulak, dir. Sasha Kulak, Masha Maroz, Belarus
Import/Export MD, prod. Sergiu Scobioala, dir. Max Ciorbă, Moldova

CHANGE will take place as part of CPH:FORUM during next year’s CPH:DOX festival March 19-30, 2025, in Copenhagen as well as online for Forum accredited guests.

Find more information on the programme and participation here.

Committing to the power of documentary to catalyse change, the ambition of CHANGE is to increase equity and access to the international film market with a programme that will stimulate inter-regional co-production and connect projects, filmmakers and producers from the European Eastern Neighbourhood countries with the international film professionals gathered annually at CPH:DOX.

As a part of this overall mission, eight projects developed by CHANGE are presented for the first time in the framework of CPH:FORUM 2025 to the international industry. The Copenhagen presentation is a culmination of a 6-month long training program, consisting of three residential workshops, the first two of which will take place in Chișinău, Moldova in November 2024 and in Tbilisi, Georgia in January 2025, the to be held in Copenhagen in March 2025.

The objective of the programme is to improve the participants’ skills in defining the content, core and goals of the film projects; in regional and international collaboration and co-production, financing structures and production environment; and in preparing for the encounter with the international market.

THE PARTNERSHIP BEHIND CHANGE

CHANGE is a collaboration between CPH:DOX, EAVE, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, Europe’s leading training, development, and networking organisation for producers, and IMS, International Media Support, promoting journalism and documentary film to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue.

*EAVE is a professional training, project development and networking organization for audiovisual producers. Founded in 1988, our objectives are to provide professional training opportunities and to bring producers from different regions of the world together with the aim of facilitating co-production relationships. We believe that the support of independent voices, creative imagination and culturally driven companies within the global media industries is an urgent necessity in the 21st century. Through our work we aim to contribute towards the creation of strong networks of producers and to encourage the exchange of knowledge and skills which will strengthen independent production across the world.

*IMS, International Media Support, is promoting journalism and documentary film to strengthen the capacity of media to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue. Our work is geared towards helping locally-based public interest media operating in armed conflicts, humanitarian crises and rapid political change, both positive and negative, to provide the public and “civic organizations” with public interest content they can trust and use. We work in more than 40 countries across four continents with a staff of about 170 people.

*CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. A festival that continues to develop and expand, presenting a program that ranges from the works of major international directors to new talents, from large-scale theatrical releases to film/video works in the field between cinema and visual art. The festival’s platform for professionals, CPH:INDUSTRY, attracting 2.000+ professional delegates annually, has established itself as a fundamental European documentary marketplace, offering a wide range of activities and services connecting independent documentary film producers and filmmakers with the major international funds, broadcasters, streaming platforms, sales agents, as well as art curators, science foundations, impact bodies, traditional and alternative exhibitors, investors and philanthropists in the fields related to cinema – and beyond.