The workshop will take place from 15 to 19 August 2024, during the 15.MakeDox festival in Skopje.

AIM OF THE WORKSHOP:

The workshop aims to bring together 4 carefully chosen directors or filmmaking teams (director and editor). Its primary focus is on identifying different strategies and possibilities for visually conceptualizing archives, broadening the creative scope of filmmaking. Through this intensive collective experience, we will hopefully initiate a process of getting closer to the core of each film project, discussing the diverse potential approaches for each film working with archival images.

WHO CAN APPLY:

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

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

In order to apply, submissions should include:

– synopsis & treatment including notes and reflections on the artistic approach (max. one full page);

– a link to video material (assembly, edited segments or rough cut of minimum length of 15 min and maximum length of 30 min).

IMPORTANT NOTES:

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

– Applying is possible with a first rough cut or edited segments of maximum 30 min’ with English subtitles.

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

– MakeDox will offer free festival accreditation and lunch.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: June 15th 2024

DATES: 

– 1 Online meeting, group work before the festival – August 1-15 (TBC)

– 5 days during the festival – August 15 – 19  

APPLY BY FILLING OUT THE FORM.

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE MENTORS:

KUMJANA NOVAKOVA

Kumjana is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.

Originally born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006. Her formal education combines international relations, cultural and social research studies in Sofia, Sarajevo, Bologna and Amsterdam. 

As an author, Kumjana explores the languages of cinema researching relationships related to power, war, memories and (un)belonging. She is interested in developing strategies of creating meaning from the position of filmmaking, and its potentialities as a territory of new collectivities. Her work has been shown and exhibited across the world.

Her film Disturbed Earth (co-directed with G.C. Candi) has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Her last film Silence of Reason, currently in distribution, has been presented at the MoMA, IDFA, HotDocs, Cinema du Reel, and has won numerous awards including Best Directing Award in the Envision competition at the 2023 IDFA Festival, Grand Prix at Punto de Vista, Best International Film at Cinema du Reel, Heart of Sarajevo for Human Rights in Documentary Film, etc.

Kumjana has been teaching cinema as an associate lecturer at film.factory of Bela Tarr in Sarajevo, ESCAC School of Cinema, Spain and the MA in Film Research of the Netherlands Film Academy.

Kumjana currently lives between Sarajevo and Skopje.

VLAD PETRI

Vlad Petri is a filmmaker with a keen interest in political and social subjects. He has a BA in Cinematography (Bucharest, University of Cinema and Theatre) and a MA in Visual Anthropology (Berlin, Freie Universitat).

As a filmmaker he often incorporates personal images alongside official archives to create films that blur the line between documentary and fiction. His debut work, “Where are you Bucharest?”, had its premiere at Rotterdam International Film Festival. His second feature, “Between Revolutions”, had its premiere in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival, where it achieved the prestigious FIPRESCI Award and earned selections and awards in more than 100 festivals worldwide. Besides his feature films, Petri has also directed several shorts that have been screened and awarded at various festivals.

He has been teaching cinema in different workshops and film schools in Romania and abroad: EICTV Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, “Let’s Go Digital” at Transilvania Film Festival TIFF, Cluj, Romania, “Focus Atelier”, Cluj, Romania, “Ideo Ideis”, Alexandria, Romania.

Vlad currently lives in Bucharest, Romania.