The programme will consist of three residential workshops and a presentation of the projects at CPH:FORUM 2025.

Submissions for the 2024/2025 edition are now closed.

In collaboration with EAVE and IMS, we offer a tailor-made programme taking place over three residential workshops with the aim to stimulate and qualify inter-regional co-production and to connect documentary projects to regional and international markets. Participants are tutored by regional and international experts.

The first two workshops will consist of five full days of group work, plenaries, and individual meetings; the third workshop will take place in the framework of CPH:DOX and consists of workshop days, presentation of the projects in the framework of CPH:FORUM as well as debrief of the presentation and development of strategies for the teams and projects after the workshop. Between the workshops, participants will be working on project development with specific
tasks and assignments.

Programme
Workshop 1 – DEVELOPMENT – October 28 – November 1, 2024 in Chisinau, Moldova
We dig deep into the core of what the teams want to tell, enforce the storytelling, and focus on the ambition for each film in terms of impact, awareness, change.

Workshop 2 – CO-PRODUCTION – January 13-17, 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia
We expand the participants’ knowledge of each other’s reality, production environment, financing structures. The pros and cons of co-production are used to strengthen each project, preparing them to meet the international market.

Workshop 3 – ENCOUNTER – March 22-26, 2025 during CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, Denmark
The projects will be presented at CPH:FORUM in round-table format and encounter the international market leading to the formulation of tailored strategies for each project.

Participants
Upcoming teams – director and producer – with a documentary project in development from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine can apply and we are committed to equal opportunity to all. We focus on projects set in these countries, projects that are open for co-production, and we welcome projects in the crossing field between documentary and journalism.

The working language is English, and participants should be comfortable with reading, writing, and speaking English.

Projects
The documentary project shall:

• Demonstrate to cover topics of public interest in a professional and ethical way.
• Have an idea of how to reach intended audiences and be a call for action.
• Seek to have an impact on the public debate leading to potential social, political, or cultural change.
• Priority is given to productions focusing on issues of gender equality, marginalised groups and minorities, diversity, social change, current affairs, and human rights.

Fees & Costs
There is no participation fee as CHANGE provides tutoring, travel, lodging, and living. Participants will cover local transportation themselves.

Selection
Some of the applicants might be invited for an online interview in August 2024, to further clarify the application. Final selection will be announced in early September 2024.

 

This call is organised in collaboration with the National Film School of Denmark and the film festivals/ organisations:

• Docudays UA – Ukraine
• MOLDOX – Moldova
• CinéDOC-Tbilisi – Georgia
• Golden Apricot – Armenia
• Northern Lights – Belarus