StoryDoc, a non-profit Educational Institute, is specialized in providing background and know-how for co-production documentaries in the International scene. Its aim is to organize seminars and sessions for dignitary and new filmmakers in a closed partnership with International Institutions and to provide consulting services for documentary development in the whole process of production- from the idea to final cut and distribution to the International market. StoryDoc Educational partners are EDN and Documentary Campus. The program is supported by EU-MEDIA and ERT, the Greek Public Broadcaster.
During the current year StoryDoc organized two documentary development workshops, first in Palestine in March and a second in Corfu Greece and is preparing for the Final Event in Athens where the participants of the workshop are ready to meet the market.
For a detailed description of Ramallah workshop please read at:
http://www.storydoc.gr/News/item/181-ramallah-documentaries-from-palestine-by-tue-steen-muller
And for the Corfu seminar please visit:
http://www.storydoc.gr/News/item/201-THOUGHTS-ON-STORYDOC-SEMINAR
The third session of StoryDoc 2010, takes place in Athens December 5-7, at the Goethe Institute.
The whole initiative is a training programme for European / Mediterranean and Middle East film projects and filmmakers. After the seminars in Corfu (July 2010) the filmmakers who participated have developed their projects in cooperation with the tutors and the Storydoc team through emails and the blogs developed by Storydoc at its web site. All the group-participants, tutors, coordinators- is working hard under the guidelines of the head of studies Tue Steen Muller for a success final session which has to combine two goals. First further development, new trailers, deeper research and choice of characters, better storytelling. Second goal and the main content of session is training in the art of pitch and success pitching presentation in an audience of commissioning editors, sales agents, distributors and experts.
The directors of the program invited a team of 15 commissioning editors from Europe and Mediterranean countries to take part and present the profile of their channels and slots dedicated for documentaries and to have meetings with a good deal of the 24 project holders. Sales agents and film distributors have been also invited to present during the workshop the new trends in the market and to find opportunities with the projects which will be pitched by the participants.
For the selected and the guest projects please visit www.storydoc.gr
