Inspired by two of our successful workshops, the rough cut workshop in 2012 with Jesper Osmund and the development workshop with Tue Steen Müller in 2022, this year 4 projects will be selected for the editing workshop. We are thrilled to have Danish editor Jesper Osmund and Danish film consultant and critic Tue Steen Müller at the 14th edition of MakeDox which is focused on editing.

The workshop will take place from 18 to 20 August during the MakeDox festival in Skopje.

AIM OF THE WORKSHOP:

The workshop is for 4 selected filmmakers or teams with a project currently in editing. In the workshop we will focus on identifying different layers in your film, to help you to: get a deeper understanding of the inner story, shape the storylines, develop stronger emotional arcs.

WHO CAN APPLY:

Directors with feature length creative documentaries produced, co-produced or shot in the Balkan region.

*Balkan region countries: Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Slovenia, Romania and Turkey.

In order to apply, you will need to provide us with:

– a synopsis & a treatment including reflections on your narrative approach (max. one full page);
– a link to the rough cut or selected edited materials of minimum 45’.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

– Director/s of the project have to be present in Skopje during the workshop. If an Editor is involved, they should also attend the workshop. 

– Applying is possible with a first rough cut or selected materials of 45’ with English subtitles.

– The workshop is free of charge. Participants should cover their travel and accommodation costs. Our guest service is happy to help with finding the best options.

– MakeDox will offer free festival accreditation and lunch.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: July 15th 2023

DATES: 

Online group work before the festival – August 14th

3 days during the festival – August 18-20 

APPLY BY FILLING OUT THE FORM.

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE MENTORS:

Jesper Osmund 

Danish film editor, narrative consultant and tutor

He is based in Copenhagen and Buenos Aires with the world as his workplace. He started his career in fiction and had edited several Danish feature and short films, when he suddenly got an offer to edit a documentary. It became a revelation to him, as he puts it: ‘To Edit Without a Script’, and after that he decided to focus entirely on international documentaries.

Today he has edited over 100 and many of them have premiered at leading film festivals:

THE LAST RELIC (World premiere HOT DOCS Toronto 2023) • NELLY & NADINE (Berlinale Teddy Award 2022) • NO BURQAS BEHIND BARS (International Emmy Award 2014)
and award-winning films like:
ONLY THE DEVIL LIVES WITHOUT HOPE • STRONGER THAN A BULLIT • BECOMING ZLATAN • EVERY FACE HAS A NAME • A BASTARD CHILD • I WILL BE MURDERED • THOSE WHO SAID NO •  THE WELL • BANANAS! • BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!.

He is in high demand as a narrative consultant or story editor such as on the acclaimed NETFLIX series: NISMAN: THE PROSECUTOR, THE PRESIDENT AND THE SPY and award-winning films like NOTHING BUT THE SUN • THE RAFT • I CALLED HIM MORGAN • AMAZONA.

He is a valued mentor for emerging filmmakers like at the IDFAcademy Summer School for 10 years and at venues like ‘ICE & FIRE’ Estonia, MakeDox, DocMontevideo, EIDF Korea.

He’s also a regular tutor at pitching workshops, like NORTH PITCH Tromsø, Thessaloniki IDF, DocLisboa, Baltic Forum, CoPro Israel, Norwegian Sørfond, One World Media and FDC Colombia.

Tue Steen Müller

Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).

Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.

From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy. And writes reviews for www.filmkommentaren.dk.