About Documentary Campus
What is Documentary Campus e.V.?
Documentary Campus is one of the most renowned professional training initiatives in Europe dedicated to international coproductions of high-quality documentaries for a large audience.
Documentary Campus offers professionals and up-and-coming young talents in the documentary field the necessary experience and know-how to work in international terrain. Through workshops, seminars, symposia and a ten-month masterclass Documentary Campus shows the way, explaining in the most fundamental and practical terms the international standards and essential rules of the documentary film game.
The programme of Documentary Campus is flexible and reacts to current trends in the market, thereby serving the needs of the creative talents and the media industry.
Philosophy
As good old TV turns more and more into a diverse interactive media playground, the non-fiction genre is doing likewise. It is sometimes hard to keep track of all the shapes and sizes that stories from the real world can come in today. A vibrant factual broadcasting market has emerged beyond the traditional alliance between factual filmmakers and public broadcasters. In order to satisfy the ever-greater demand for content, young internationally operating companies often have to seek partnerships with broadcasters from all over the world as well as with traditional regional stations.
The variety of expectations that audiences can have when they watch non-fiction is only topped by the variety of projects which commissioning editors have in mind when they speak of factual television.
Despite being able to build on strong traditions in storytelling, a wealth of excellent filmmakers and the cultural variety of Europe, producers, authors, directors and commissioning editors from outside the USA or the UK still find it difficult to be successful in the international market. It is the aim of Documentary Campus to change that.
Funding
Documentary Campus is a non-profit organisation registered in Munich, Germany. Launched in 1998 by German media enterprises, the association was joined in 2003 by selected European non-fiction companies. It is supported and funded by the European Union's MEDIA Plus Programme, German and European film and media foundations, private and public broadcasters, production and distribution companies, local, regional and national authorities as well as institutions active in the European documentary sector.
Offers
The Masterschool is a unique project development course for a group of European documentary filmmakers, producers and commissioning editors. It offers professionals and talented up-and-coming filmmakers a novel and outstanding chance to find their way into the international non-fiction market.
2. Documentary Campus Public Symposia & Special Events
These public symposia, so-called Open Training Sessions (OTS), are weekend-long conferences accessible to a broad, professionally interested audience. They consist of presentations, case studies and panel discussions and offer outstanding networking opportunities.
Additionally, Documentary Campus organises special events at markets and festivals as well as an annual public screening of produced Masterschool documentaries.
3. Crossing Borders - The Eurasia-Pacific Documentary Training
Crossing Borders is the new international training programme launched by Documentary Campus and the EDN – European Documentary Network. It offers professionals and talented up-and-coming filmmakers from Australia, China, Europe, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore a unique opportunity to find their way into the international non-fiction market. Crossing Borders makes a call for submissions once a year and selects up to 15 authors, directors and producers to develop their documentaries for an international audience.
4. reelisor - Your online access to the world of European non-fiction
reelisor is the new online cooperation platform for the entire European documentary film business.
As a navigator for existing platforms and websites, reelisor offers guidance and information throughout the whole year. Its mission is to encourage training, education and the exchange of knowledge within the international documentary film market and its related fields.
reelisor is a freely accessible tool for networking. It connects documentary film professionals, commissioning editors, festivals, markets and other initiatives active in the industry. With its international focus, reelisor grants insights into current productions and topics. To JOIN NOW, click here
