Call for applications: CHANGE Co-production training course 2024-2025

We offer a tailored programme that takes place over three residential workshops with the aim of stimulating and qualifying inter-regional co-production and connecting documentary projects to regional and international markets. Participants are tutored by regional and international experts.

The first two workshops will consist of five full days of group work, plenaries and individual meetings; the third workshop will take place in the framework of CPH:DOX and consists of workshop days, pitching the projects at CPH:FORUM, as well as debriefing the pitching and development of strategies for the teams and projects after the workshop.

Between the workshops, participants will work on project development with specific tasks and assignments.

The workshops

DEVELOPMENT  –  28 October – 1 November 2024 in Chisinau
We will dig deep into the core of what the teams want to tell, reinforce the storytelling and focus on the ambition for each film in terms of impact, awareness and change.

CO-PRODUCTION  –  13–17 January 2025 in Tbilisi
We will expand the participants’ knowledge of each other’s realities, production environments and financing structures. The pros and cons of co-production will be used to strengthen each project, preparing them to meet the international market.

ENCOUNTER – 22–26 March 2025 during CPH:DOX in Copenhagen
The projects will be presented at CPH:FORUM in roundtable format, encountering the international market and leading to the formulation of tailored strategies for each project.

The participants

Upcoming teams – director and producer – with a documentary project in development from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine can apply. We are committed to equal opportunity to all. We focus on projects set in these countries, projects that are open for co-production and we welcome projects in the crossing field between documentary and journalism. See previous participants here.

The working language is English and participants should be comfortable with reading, writing and speaking English.

The film project shall:

• Demonstrate to cover topics of public interest in a professional and ethical way.

• Have an idea of how to reach intended audiences and be a call to action.

• Seek to have an impact on the public debate leading to potential social, political or cultural change.

• Priority is given to productions focusing on issues of gender equality, marginalised groups and minorities, diversity, social change, current affairs and human rights.

There is no participation fee as CHANGE provides tutoring, travel, lodging and living expenses. Participants will cover local transportation themselves.

Application deadline: Monday, 12 August 2024

The application form can be downloaded here. For further information, please contact Anna Krasztev-Kovács, anna@cphdox.dk.

This call is organised in collaboration with the National Film School of Denmark and the film festivals/organisations:

• DocudaysUA – Ukraine
• MOLDOX – Moldova
• CinéDOC-Tbilisi – Georgia
• Golden Apricot – Armenia
• Northern Lights – Belarus

Some of the applicants might be invited for an online interview in August to further clarify the application. Final selection will be announced in early September 2024.

The partnership behind CHANGE

EAVE is a professional training, project development and networking organisation for audiovisual producers. Founded in 1988, our objectives are to provide professional training opportunities and to bring producers from different regions of the world together with the aim of facilitating co-production relationships. We believe that the support of independent voices, creative imagination and culturally driven companies within global media industries is an urgent necessity in the 21st century. Through our work, we aim to contribute towards the creation of strong networks of producers and to encourage the exchange of knowledge and skills which will strengthen independent production across the world.

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. A festival that continues to develop and expand, presenting a programme that ranges from the works of major international directors to new talents, from large-scale theatrical releases to film/video works in the field between cinema and visual art. The festival’s platform for professionals, CPH:INDUSTRY, attracts 2,000+ professional delegates annually and has established itself as a fundamental European documentary marketplace, offering a wide range of activities and services connecting independent documentary film producers and filmmakers with the major international funds, broadcasters, streaming platforms, sales agents, as well as art curators, science foundations, impact bodies, traditional and alternative exhibitors, investors and philanthropists in the fields related to cinema – and beyond.

IMS (International Media Support) promotes journalism and documentary film to strengthen the capacity of media to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue. Our work is geared towards helping locally-based public interest media operating in armed conflicts, humanitarian crises and rapid political change, both positive and negative, to provide the public and civil society organisations with public interest content they can trust and use. We work in more than 40 countries across four continents with a staff of about 160 people.