The deadline for ESoDoc INDIA is approaching: June 29, 2010! Apply now!

ESoDoc INDIA is a new training initiative for Indian and European documentary filmmakers who are working on social or environmental themes, supported by MEDIA International and run by ZeLIG School for Documentary, Television and New Media (IT) in partnership with FORMEDIA – Foundation for Responsible Media (IND). ESoDoc INDIA wants to develop documentary projects that have a potential for the Indian and European market and are intended for broadcsat, NGO, dvd and/or Internet.

What do we offer:
contact to international renowned experts from India and Europe who assist you in developing your project
- assistance to concept your visual project presentation: the trailer
- inter-cultural collaboration Europe-India with exchange of ideas and information
- a on-line working schedule for the initial development phase of your project September to December 2010
- one-week residential workshop on December 3-11 2010 in The Lake Resort, Naukuchiyatal, District Nainital (New Delhi/India)
- Core teachers for the residential workshop: Iikka Vehkalahti, Founder of Steps for the Future and Why Democracy, co-Director STEPS India, Commissioning Editor, YLE, Helsinki (FIN); Nilotpal Majumdar, director of Doc-Edge, Dean, Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkatta (IND);  Pramod Mathur, Producer-Director, Spotfilms, New Delhi (IND); Robert West, Co-Founder and Executive Director Working Films, North Carolina (USA); Neelima Mathur, Trustee & Trainer, Formedia, New Delhi (IND); Hugh Purcell, Head of Studies ESoDoc, former BBC commissioning Editor, London (UK)
- all expenses covered by an enrolment fee of 600 Euro for Europeans and 10,000 INR for Indians.  The fee will cover board, accommodation and travel expenses for economic air and train transport for both, the European and the Indian participants