DCampus Workshops

Developing talent. Setting media professionals up for long-term success.

DCampus Workshops is our flagship 10-month incubator for Europe’s most promising factual media professionals, combining intensive training, international mentoring, and direct market access.

Are you ready to step your documentary project and filmmaking skills up to the next level?

Embark on a career-changing 10-month-long training & development journey together with +20 fellow European filmmakers

We will equip you to bring the full potential of your story to the world through:

✓ 5-day in-person workshop with internationally renowned experts

✓ 2 online Workshops

✓ Individual mentorship through the year

✓ Extensive networking opportunities

Some 70% of DCampus Workshops projects enter production

Our mission is to empower you to find your voice, develop your story and navigate the global market by providing tailored training in skills that will have a lasting impact on your career, through:

• A unique opportunity to develop a factual film/TV/digital project over 10 months in a highly supportive and market-focused environment 
• A tight-knit collaborative group of talented peers to share an extraordinary journey with you 
• World-class film and TV experts to guide and support you 
• Top, cutting-edge international digital experts
• Illuminating case studies of completed projects including finance & data
• Insights into the nuances of digital content and platforms
• Pitch training including body language, voice & managing nerves
• A dedicated Mentor – a senior figure from the industry
• Key skills & know-how for a sustainable career in factual film/TV/digital and to help future-proof your career for the digital future
• A dynamic alumni network of 750+ creatives throughout the international industry
• Plus leading experts on:
  • Storytelling techniques and structures for non-fiction
  • Casting & research
  • Professional pitching
  • International co-producing & financing
  • Budgeting & legal affairs
  • Audience building & online marketing
  • Impact producing & sustainable production
  • Digital distribution
• And many more...

Finally, you'll pitch your fully developed project at our DCampus Hub in Halle (Saale), during the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival, where you'll be in direct contact with international commissioners, funders, and producing partners to get your documentary not only off the ground, but into the stratosphere.

+40 international industry experts 

As well as hands-on training, DCampus Workshops also provides invaluable contacts with international experts to fuel your production company for all future endeavours. Experts include representatives from FOCAL International, ARTE, YAMI 2, HBO, Little Dots Studios, Netflix, ZDF, Quintus Studios, and more.

Join Oscar-nominated filmmakers

For over 25 years, DCampus Workshops has developed internationally acclaimed films, including:

• 2021 three-time Oscar nominated Flee
• 2016’s festival hit Notes on Blindness and its corresponding VR experience Into Darkness
• Slovenia’s official Oscar entry Houston, we have a Problem
• Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hanna Polak's Something Better to Come

Will your documentary be the next big thing? With DCampus Workshops, we can help you make it happen.

All this and more for €0 lecture fees

We pride ourselves on being an affordable training initiative, allowing a diverse and broad range of filmmakers to participate. DCampus Workshops has no lecture fees and no application fees. Scholarships are also available for travel costs to workshops and industry events.

For more information about the cost of DCampus Workshops, please visit our FAQs.