Photo: Still image from Leave Easy Come Back Safe – a selected documentary project from Belarus.
CHANGE Co-Production Training Course: Selection Announcement for 2024/2025
IMS, EAVE and CPH:DOX are proud to announce the fourth round of the CHANGE programme, empowering documentary film projects from the European Eastern Partnership countries. For the 2024/2025 line-up, eight teams from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine will join the co-production training workshop series.
CHANGE is a collaboration between IMS, EAVE, one of Europe’s leading training, development, and networking organisation for producers, and CPH:DOX, the world’s leading documentary film festival supporting independent and innovative filmmaking.
The CHANGE programme seeks to increase equality and access in the international film market by fostering inter-regional co-productions. It connects filmmakers, producers, and projects from the European Eastern Partnership countries with global film professionals at CPH:DOX, creating opportunities for collaboration and elevating diverse voices on the international stage.
The programme aims to improve the participants’ skills in refining their projects’ content, core themes and goals. It also focuses on strengthening their abilities in regional and international collaboration and co-production, and navigating the financing structures and the production environment. By the end of the programme, participants are ready to encounter the international market and present their projects on a global platform.
The selected projects in the fourth round explore new and diverse topics and perspectives ranging from large-scale political narratives to seemingly hyper-local stories. They address critical themes and offer nuanced perspectives on issues such as pollution, corruption, patriarchy, and war in a post-colonial context. The projects showcase the courage and creativity of the talented cohort filmmakers, who confront resistance with bravery on some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
CHANGE – Co-production training course will open in Chisinau, Moldova in October 2024 and will combine masterclasses and group work sessions, as well as individual meetings for the 8 selected producer-director teams.The same participants will continue to work together in the second workshop in January 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The programme will culminate with a third workshop and presentation of the projects to the international industry at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen in March 2025.
The selected projects are:
Kura, prod. Afag Yusifli, dir. Murad Allahverdi, Azerbaijan
Missing In Action, prod. Aliona Kachkan, dir. Kateryna Holovko, Marharyta Melnychuk, Ukraine
My Name Is Enough, prod. Ani Ordyan, dir. Marina Arzumanova, Armenia
Eyes Wide Open (working title), prod. Nino Orjonikidze, dir. Sopho Apriamashvili, Georgia
Whispers of Womanhood, prod. Olga Slusareva, dir. Rati Tsiteladze, Georgia
Entr’actes, prod. Olha Tuharinova, dir. Yuriy Shylov, Ukraine
Leave Easy Come Back Safe, prod. Sasha Family Kulak, dir. Sasha Family Kulak, Masha Maroz, Belarus
Import/Export MD, prod. Sergiu Scobioala, dir. Max Ciorbă, Moldova
The Partnership behind CHANGE
International Media Support (IMS) is a non-profit organisation working to promote 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 “civic 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 170 people.
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 the 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 a world leading documentary film festival supporting independent and innovative filmmaking and presenting the best and brightest in contemporary non-fiction film. The festival is known and widely respected for radically changing the documentary landscape with a focus on challenging the genre with cross over to other art forms, and for advancing art as an active voice in civil society. Annually presenting approx. 200 films, the annual festival’s audience has grown to more than 125,000, and our industry platform, championing high-end cinematic and hybrid filmmaking welcomes annually nearly 2,000 industry professionals from a wide variety of sectors across creative documentary, hybrid non-fiction, visual arts, journalism and science. CPH:INDUSTRY includes a pitch platform CPH:FORUM, CPH:MARKET services for finished films and a talent development programme CPH:LAB.
