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ESoDoc 2012
Application deadline:
March 2, 2012

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ESoDoc - European Social Documentary


ESoDoc – European Social Documentary, is a training initiative offered by ZeLIG School for Documentary and supported by the European Union’s MEDIA Programme.

ESoDoc takes up the challenge of bringing together the demands of different players now involved in documentary film-production. Our focus is on a special genre of documentary production that is particularly suitable for the new multiplatform world: documentaries that draw attention to human rights, social justice and environmental protection.

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ESoDoc International - a new training initiative!

ESoDoc-international_WEBESoDoc International is addressed to African, Indian and European filmmakers who want to develope social documentary projects suitable for the International Markets.

ESoDoc International consists in two public online-conferences and one residential workshop for Indian, African and European professionals. It will be supervised by international experts whose expertise is to plan, create and distribute documentary films and cross-media projects with a social impact.

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What people say about ESoDoc...

Neelima Mathur, Formedia (IND) - ESoDoc trainer

Within three workshops, ESoDoc successfully opens the essence of the world of documentary to more than 20 participants year after year - it is an amazing achievement!
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Mirjam Leuze (DE) - ESoDoc 2007 participant

Changing the world to better by documentaries? I`m still not shure wether this really works - but the people at EsoDoc gave me the inspiration and the boldness to give it a try: That`s one of the reasons why I am doing Participatory Video Workshops with young people and that`s why I am working since four years on my documentary "Flowers of Freedom" - which follows four women and their struggle for freedom and democracy in the vastness of Kyrgyzstan.
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Jamie Ballieu (UK) - ESoDoc 2008 participant

ESoDoc gave me a powerful and supportive network of colleagues and friends which have opened up doors beyond what I could consider possible prior to it. The ESoDoc community continues to grow and I am often finding new and inspiring creative partnerships both in it and through it.
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Barbara Orton (UK) - ESoDoc 2007 participant

ESoDoc was a wonderful place to start making relationships with broadcasters, distributors and fellow producers and directors, all finding ways to tell the best social documentary stories across multi platforms.
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Sara Zavarise (IT) - ESoDoc 2008 participant

It was a great opportunity to get in touch with established documentary filmmakers and producers and to share the experience with emerging filmmakers from all over Europe.
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Phil Cox, Native Voice Films (UK) - ESoDoc trainer

I have taught for the last 10 years around the world on many different courses and institutions. ESoDoc is still the only course that truly prepares its participants for the evolving multiskill new media world we all face as filmmakers today.
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Anna Colom (ES) - ESoDoc 2008 participant

ESoDoc was a unique opportunity to learn from very experienced and well-known professionals in the field as well as to create links with fellow filmmakers from all over Europe. It was truly inspiring and a great opportunity to transform ideas into real projects!'
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Sabine Bubeck-Paaz, ZDF/Arté (DE) - ESoDoc trainer

The ESoDoc projects might be diverse, from personal to investigative, from creative documentaries to crossmedia projects - but they are all driven by the filmmaker's wish to take social responsibility.
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Ilona Bicevska (LV) - ESoDoc 2005 participant

ESoDoc? Probably the best what happened to me, after I discover my interest in documentary filmmaking. Knowledge, practice, creative spirit and great people. Good way to find out how your ideas suits to market. Lots of re-thinking, questioning, networking and killing stereotypes.
ilona_bicevska

Jakob Weydemann (DE) - ESoDoc 2010 participant

ESoDoc not only helped me to develop my documentary project further, but opened a whole new world of cross-media possibilities and aspects for documentaries to me, which I will put in use for all my future film projects. Meeting documentary filmmakers from all around Europe and working together was a fantastic experience!
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Carol Cooke (UK) – ESoDoc 2011 participant

Where else do you get to the meet the "living legends" and leading trailblazers of the documentary world, develop your projects with them, attend their invaluable masterclasses - and all in the company of the ever supportive and ever inspiring ESoDoc Family.
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Katerina Cizek, NFB (CAN) - ESoDoc trainer

Where else can you access 3 weeks of world-class lectures as well as one-on-one mentoring with leading professionals in documentary film, NGOs, cross-media? Perhaps most important of all, you join a dedicated and generous peer group of participants who make up the growing ESoDoc family, and that network becomes essential for many productive years to come.
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Mike Dicks, Bleedinedge/PACT (UK) - ESoDoc trainer

ESoDoc always has a great mix of talented delegates, trainers and projects – it’s such a pleasure to share knowledge and creative development with everyone involved on the course.
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Ariadna Relea (ES) - ESoDoc 2011 participant

ESoDoc has been a unique experience that allowed me to go further with my documentary project, to share doubts and difficulties of making documentaries with wonderful and talented people, and to learn about new ways of telling stories and financing them.
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Hugh Hartford (UK) - ESoDoc 2006 participant

ESoDoc was a fantastic way to build working relationships with filmmakers and documentary lovers from all over Europe. 4 years on and I am still in regular contact with former participants and teachers and have worked on many projects that have come through connections made during ESoDoc.

Mick Csáky, Antelope FIlms (UK) - ESoDoc trainer

One of the things that makes ESoDoc so special is the way that highly experienced teachers are brought in to very work closely with each and every student, interrogating their ideas in depth and then helping to them to create strong documentary films, television programmes and internet productions of distinction.
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Peter Snowdon (UK) - ESoDoc 2005 participant

Lifechanging! And hopefully, not just for me, but for the people and communities I work with, too.
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Ma Shumin (F) - ESoDoc 2006 participant

ESoDoc inspired me to want to be a better filmmaker and a better person during the time I did the program in 2006 and still now five years later
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Lisa Fingleton (IRL) - ESoDoc 2008 participant

Since participating in ESoDoc I have worked with hundreds of people through community filmmaking projects and have been able to share the knowledge I gained about filming with integrity in a Human rights context.
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Femke Stroomer (NL) - ESoDoc 2008 participant

ESoDoc inspired me to start a participatory videoproject with young refugees and immigrants that came to my hometown Utrecht. Filming and screening their impressive stories was emotional and wonderful.
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Angelo Loy, AMREF (IT) - ESoDoc trainer

ESoDoc is one of those rare occasions where I have been feeling part of a trans cultural community, worried about the responsibility of images and projects in the fight for the endorsement of social values and a better world.
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Tonje Hessen-Schei (N) - ESoDoc 2011 participant

This cutting-edge workshop features people on the front-lines of the exciting new developments of the documentary field. The great trainers, networking possibilities, friendships and co-productions that ESoDoc provided has forever changed the course of my work.
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Latest News

  • Deadline for PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award: February 27, 2012

    The PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award is an international documentary development fund with three applications rounds annually offering up to 5,000 euros per recipient. The Awards are designed to support the development of your documentary film idea and give you resources to shoot and edit your trailer.

  • Call for entries: Good Pitch Europe 2012 - deadline: Wednesday 1st February

    The Good Pitch Europe will be held on June 25th and the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is calling out to European filmmakers working on social and environmental justice film projects to apply.

  • One World Media Awards: submission deadline is January 30

    The One World Media Awards recognise the most outstanding media coverage of the developing world and the unique role of journalists and filmmakers in bridging the divide between different societies and raising awareness of vital development issues.

  • Doc Outlook International Market calls

    The Doc Outlook­ International Market announces it's 2012's call for creative feature-length documentaries. Deadline to apply for the Pitching du Réel: January 20, 2012.

  • East Doc Platform: application deadline is December 20!

    In March 2012 in Prague, the Institute of Documentary Film introduces the inaugural East Doc Platform - an umbrella industry event dedicated to supporting East European documentary films in all stages of completion.

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Featured project


Birds' Way

Birds Road - by Klára Trencsényi
In the Danube Delta, in Periprava, the old ones die and the traditions are lost. The Lipovan community, made up of old-rite believers, has remained without a priest. The priest has ever since been chosen from the community and he did not need to have theological studies. Now, the old priest is ill, bound to the bed for some time, and the new one cannot take care of his duties because he is unmarried and there is no girl willing to become a priest’s wife. The villagers are desperate – funerals are performed by the deacon, and the Easter and Christmas services are also held without a priest. The films follows three years from the community life, where recent changes and modernization unveil the fragility and vulnerability of a traditional society.

A film by Klára Trencsényi and Vlad Naumescu
Produced by Libra Films Productions

Awards:
- Astra Film Festival 2009 - Best Romanian documentary

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