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CROSSING BORDERS

June 8-15, 2010, Shanghai, China.

CROSSING BORDERS is a new training and exchange programme done in collaboration between Documentary Campus, EDN and GDA – Guangzhou Documentary Association. It is an international documentary program spanning from the Asia-Pacific region to Europe and back again.

Crossing Borders offers professionals and talented up-and-coming filmmakers from Australia, China, Europe, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore a unique opportunity to find their way into the international documentary market. Crossing Borders makes a call for submissions once a year and selects up to 15 projects to be developed for an international audience.

 

Objective

The aim of Crossing Borders is to expand the European network to the Asia-Pacific region by exchanging experience and knowledge and by promoting cooperation and coproduction activity in the documentary film sector.

The programme will bring together producers and filmmakers from both Europe and Asia, as well as trainers with professional experience from both of these regions, all of whom are highly motivated to collaborate with each other across national borders, and with the ambition of being able to enter each others markets both artistically and financially.

 

Workshops

Crossing Borders consists of three workshops which provide insights into the process of setting up international coproductions. Through one-to-one access to renowned professionals and trainers, they offer creative and practical support for every phase in the development of a project for the international market.

 

Workshop 1: Introduction to the Asian Market

8-15 June in Shanghai, China

Topics: story development; scriptwriting; budgeting & financing; legal aspects of international coproductions. Tutors at the Shanghai workshop will be:

  •  - Steven Seidenberg, Head of Studies of Crossing Borders, UK
  •  - Emma Davie, Head of Film and TV, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
  •  - Frances Berrigan, Managing Director, Cicada Films, UK
  •  - Leland Ling, CEO, LIC China, China
  •  - Lixin Fan, Filmmaker, Canada/China
  •  - Paul Pauwels, Manager, etma, France
  •  - Vikram Channa, Vice President of Programming, India & Head of Production, Asia-Pacific, Discovery, India

 

Workshop 2: Introduction to the European Market

20-24 October in Leipzig, Germany

Topics: distribution & marketing; trailers; observation of the Final Pitching Session of the Documentary Campus Masterschool.

 

Workshop 3: Final Pitching

6-10 December (tbc) in Guangzhou, China

Topic: Project presentation & pitching training

 

The language of the workshops is English.

Submit a proposal

CROSSING BORDERS is for documentary professionals, both authors, directors & producers, coming from Europe and the Asia-Pacific region who have experience in their domestic market but strive to work in the international field and make documentaries for an international audience.

Deadline for applications was March 1, 2010.

The following projects and participants have been slected for CROSSING BORDERS 2010:

 

AUSTRALIA

SON OF A GUN - Selene Alcock & Elizabeth Tadic, Shoot Me Pictures

 

CHINA

THE SECRET OF THE ROASTED PIGEON - Sarah Zheng, Grand Entertainment

THE WELL-BEING AREA OF ELDERLY - Fu Chen, Zheng Tao & J.T. (Jiajun Yu), TVC

I BELONG TO THE SECOND WEALTHY GENERATION - Kevin Shen Weiwei & Alex Zhang Wenyi Cinema & TV Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

A CLASS OF THEIR OWN - Haryun Kim

 

EUROPE

THE ANGOLA PROJECT - Jeremy Xido, Filmwerkstatt / Cabula6

HALF THE SKY - Karin Totterman & Simo Brotherus, Pain In The Real Productions

SLUMDOG SPACEMEN - Sue Sudbury & Hugh Chignell, Sequoia Films

GERMAN BEER FOR CHINA - Michael Chauvistré & Niklas Bäumer, KOPPFILM GmbH

AO NUI - PARADISE LOST - Stephanie von Lukowicz & Abel Garcia, Polar Star Films

 

KOREA

AVERAGE SUPERSTAR - Wooyoung Choi & Sinae Ha

 

MALAYSIA

LOOKING FOR ENRIQUE - Mohd Naguib Razak & Raja Ridzlan bin Raja Abdul Aziz, Blue In Green Productions

 

SINGAPORE

FASHION BEHIND BARS - Mak CK, The Moving Visuals Co

Projects selected for Crossing Borders 2010

CrossingBorders2010SelectedProjects.pdf

Presentation of the projects selected for Crossing Borders 2010.

CROSSING BORDERS 2010 is organised in collaboration between:

Documentary Campus
EDN
GDA

 

 

Co-organiser of Shanghai workshop:

MIDA

 

 

EDN CONTACT:

Cecilie Bolvinkel

E-mail: cecilie_@If you can read this, please upgrade to a modern browser.edn.dk

Phone: +45 3313 1122

 

 

 

 

 

 

CROSSING BORDERS is supported by MEDIA International.

 

 

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