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Docs
Young Horizons Docs, documentary project development programme
The programme focuses on documentary projects at the development and pre-production stage for young viewers.
Young Horizons Docs (former name: Kids Kino Docs) provides filmmakers with an opportunity to develop their projects in an international community of documentary film professionals. As part of the process, participants work on a variety of aspects: improving their ideas, collecting documentation, preparing for filming, filming itself, and, finally, editing. All stages are supervised by experienced tutors from the film industry.
The participants should finish the programme with a well-developed story and part of the shooting material ready, with an editing process started.
First and second editions were co-financed by the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In partnership with South Norwegian Film Centre (Sørnorsk filmsenter).
For 15 months, 2 leading tutors guide 6 projects during four on-site workshop rounds.
Tutors
Script consultant with 40+ years of experience. Decision maker, teacher and project developer. Her services span all production types and formats, with multiple best script/film awards. Kirsten has also worked with Lars von Trier, Lone Scherfig and Bille August just to mention some. During the 40+ years she has read and advised on many hundred stories – shorts, series, features, documentaries.
Graduate of Film Directing at PWSFTviT, DOK PRO at Wajda School and Sociology at Warsaw University. Paweł is a film director, producer and co-owner of MX35 studio. His films (In Touch, Urban Cowboys, Rogalik) received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and won prestigious prizes (IDFA, Thessaloniki IFF, ZagrebDox, Oberhausen ISFF). Paweł is also a lecturer at The Polish National Film School in Łódź where he runs an experimental documentary lab.
Projects
- Animal Tails, Nora Nivedita Tvedt, feature film, Norway
- Girls’ Stories, Agnieszka Borzym, feature film, Poland
- Hunting Down The Beast, Geir Bergersen, series, Norway
- My Imaginary Friend, Ellen Morgenstierne, series, Norway
- Where’s Africa?, Mateusz Miszczyński, mid-length film, Poland
- Armed with Drums, Øyvind Aamli, feature film, Norway
- We Keep Them in Our Hearts, Julie Engaas, Cecilie Bjørnaraa, series, Norway
- Patterns of Being, Małgorzata Wabińska, mid-length film, Poland
- A Layup, Olga Papacz, short film, Poland
- Elliot, Maida Eirheim, series (and/or full-length film), Norway
- Being a pART, Aleksandra Bielska, short film, Poland
Rules and submissions [now closed]
Filmmakers who are working on the development or pre-production of a short, mid-length or feature-length documentary (or animated documentary) film or series.
Priority is given to projects which plan to enter shooting during the workshop or plan to apply for development or production funding during the workshop.
- Short, medium, full-length documentaries (or animated documentaries) films and series
- At development and pre-production stage
- For young audiences
- No TV reportages are accepted
The participants should finish the programme with a well-developed story and part of the shooting material ready, with an editing process started.
Participants will have a chance to get partial support for the project’s development including documentation, editing, or shooting.
The fee for a participant is 400 EUR.
Call for projects is now closed.