ESODOC-INDIA (2010)
Venue: The Lake Resort, Naukuchiatal, Uttarakhand, India
A training initiative for exchange of ideas and information between Indian and European documentary filmmakers. Supported by MEDIA International of the European Commission and organised by ZeLIG School for Documentary, Television and New Media (Bolzano, Italy) in collaboration with Formedia (New Delhi, India).
- The aim was to build an intercultural platform of collaboration to:
- develop documentary projects with potential for the Indian and European audiovisual market in both regions
- address media needs of the NGO sector worldwide
- build a network of broadcasters and NGOs in Europe and India
- look into dissemination technologies
Six European and six Indian participants brought 12 projects to the table that were discussed with 11 experts.
SPEAKERS:
Iikka Vehkalahti, Commissioning Editor YLE TV2, Finland
Hugh Purcell, Film-maker with BBC, UK / Head of Studies, ESodoc, Italy
Heidi Gronauer, Director, ZeLIG School for Documentary, Television and New Media, Italy
Mark Atkins, Director, Crossover Labs / Head, Documentary Campus School, UK
Kristin Henry, Social Media Strategist, Working Films, USA
Pramod Mathur, Documentary film-maker / Managing Trustee, Formedia, India
Nilotpal Majumdar, Satyajit Ray Film Institute / Docedge, Kolkata
Gargi Sen, Founder Magic Lantern Foundation / Under Construction, India
Gunjan Jain, Producer, NDTV, India
Pradip Saha, Assistant Director, CSE
Ayesha Kagal, Journalist / Producer Documentary 24x7, NDTV, India
Kavita Das Gupta, Community Media Practitioner
PARTICIPANTS
Andrew Hinton, Film-maker, UK
Anthony Baxter, Director / Journalist, UK
Cosima Lange, Line Producer-Tutor, Arte-SWR, Germany
Heidi Lipsanen, Film-maker, Finland
Monika Braid, Producer, UK
Valerie Berteau, Director / Photographer, Belgium
Debu Bhattacharya, Film-maker, India
Sneh Gupta, TV Presenter / Charity Worker, UK & India
Qaushiq Mukherjee, Film-maker, India
Revati Laul, Broadcast Journalist / Film-maker, India
Saurabh Vishwakarma, Cinematographer, India
Vijay Jodha, Film-maker, Writer, Photographer, India
ESODOC-International (October & November 2011, January-February 2012)
Two Public Online Conferences on Internet
Venue: AMREF Child Development Centre in Nairobi, Kenya
A training initiative for documentary and new media projects with social impact covering three continents of Africa, India, Europe.
Funded by Media Mundus of the European Commission and implemented by ZeLig School for Documentary, Television and New Media (Bolzano, Italy) in collaboration with AMREF Africa and Formedia (New Delhi, India).
ESoDoc International addressed to African, Indian and European filmmakers, new media professionals and NGO representatives to develop social documentary projects suitable for the International Markets. The importance was to highlight strategies and methodologies for co-operation.
- The concept of ESoDoc International was like a tree:
- roots placed in the cultural and traditional environment of different geographical contexts
- trunk representing technological aspects to express diverse culture (the art of storytelling, Participatory Video and New Media techniques)
- build a network of broadcasters and NGOs in Europe and India
- branches as the “eyes”, the cameras, looking on the outside world
SPEAKERS
Salim Amin, Kenya, Camerapix / Mohammed Amin Foundation
Charles Asiba, Kenya International Film Festival, Kenya
Mick Csáky, Antelope, UK
Kavita Das Gupta, India
Mike Dicks, BleedinEdge / PACT, UK
Heidi Gronauer, ZeLIG School for Documentary, Italy
Jörg Grossmann, Greenfilms, Germany
Mark Kaigwa, iHub, Kenya
Angelo Loy, AMREF Italia, Italy
Abibata Mahama, CAMFED, Ghana
Neelima Mathur, Formedia, India
Pramod Mathur, Spotfilms, India
John Muiruri, AMREF Kenya, Kenya
Ogova Ondego, Lola Kenya Screen, Kenya
Hugh Purcell, ESoDoc Head of Studies, UK
Wanjiru Mwangi Ruhanga, AMREF HQ, Kenya
Keith Shiri, Africa at the Pictures, UK / Lebanon
Stefano Tealdi, Stefilm, Italy
PARTICIPANTS
Alexander Finn, Producer, Director, Editor, UK
Anmol Dharmadhikari, Short Film Director, India
Beatrice Wangondu, Television Producer, Kenya
Dilman Dila, Writer, Film-maker, Uganda
Ezauis Mkandawire, Video Journalist & Producer, Malawi
Laura Cini, Author, Director, Italy
Maria Pesli, Art Film-maker, Digital Expert, Greece
Miklos Ambrozy, Video Activist, Media Educator, Hungary
Parul Wadhwa, Independent Film Professional, India
Pascale Neuschafer, Director, Editor, South Africa
Philine von Dueszeln, Author, Cameraperson, Editor, Germany
Seemab Gul, Director, UK
Sudhir Gupta, Film-maker, India
Zahra Mackaoui, Director, Egypt
LINCT- THE PROJECT - 2009
LINCT - Leveraging International Networks for Co-Productions and Training - A project supported by the European Union’s MEDIA International Preparatory Action with the specific aim of creating a dialogue for promoting documentary co-productions between India and Europe.
- LINCT engaged with three sets of stakeholders in documentary making:
- Film-makers
- Broadcasters/ Commissioning Editors
- Non-Broadcast sector
The last category, the non-broadcast sector, included NGOs, UN agencies, autonomous bodies.
- LINCT’s first set of activities was a series of moderated online conferences:
- The residential conference in New Delhi from 16-21 November, 2009 was the on-site culmination point of LINCT. It was a platform of shared knowledge towards developing a dependable environ for future partnerships. , including investigating the start-up of an Internet-based platform
- LINCT brought together European and Indian professional participants and trainers engaged in the audiovisual industry of documentary. The synergetic exchange of information about trade practice and potential markets opened dialogue for future co-operation for film-makers from Europe and India.
TRAINERS / GUEST SPEAKERS
Heidi Gronauer, Director, ZeLig
Hugh Purcell, Head of Studies, ESoDoc
Iikka Vehkalahti, Commissioning Editor, YLE 2, Finland
Namrata Bali, Director, SEWA (NGO)
Angelo Loy, Director, AMREF
Gargi Sen, Founder, Magic Lantern Foundation
Nilotpal Majumdar, Director Docedge & Head of Editing, SRFTI
Rajat Ray, UNFPA Communications, India
Pramod Mathur, Director, Spotfilms
Parvinder Singh, Communications Manager, ActionAid
Pradip Saha, Assistant Director, Centre for Science & Environment
Rajiv Mehrotra, Managing Trustee, PSBT, India
Savyasachi Jain, Thomson Foundation India
TRAINERS / GUEST SPEAKERS
Laura Di Nitto, Film-maker, Italy
Barbara Orton, Independent Producer, UK
Harrie Timmermans, Film-maker, Netherlands
Johannes Honsell, Film-maker, Austria / Germany
Sibylle Tiedemann, Film-maker, Germany
Debanjan Sengupta, Independent Film-maker, India
Deepa Dhanraj, Film-maker, India
Farida Pacha, Film-maker, India
