July 5 - 7 2010. Corfu, Greece.

Storydoc 2010 is a two-part development program for filmmakers with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern documentary projects. The program is open to European filmmakers from the Region or to European filmmakers with a subject from the region. Deadline for applying is April 20, 2010.

12 European documentary projects will be selected for Storydoc 2010. In addition five projects from the Middle East will also be selected for participation.

Four scholarships will be given to European filmmakers.  One of these will cover travel expenses for a guest pitch at the Documentary Campus in Leipzig in October 2010.

The projects will be developed through two sessions tutored by experienced documentary directors, commissioning editors, producers and editors. The work will be performed in groups and on an individual basis. The development will focus on improving and fine-tuning treatments, scripts as well as on the visual presentation in form of trailers and teasers. Inspirational lectures will be held on subjects like storytelling and character development.

The sessions will take place in Corfu, Greece July 5-7th 2010 and in Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2010 in collaboration with the cph:dox festival. Consultations with tutors will be arranged in the period between the sessions.

A prologue workshop will be held in Ramallah at the end of March for Palestinian documentary filmmakers.

The Participants will be European professionals and filmmakers with experience in their local environment, aiming at working on an international level. They must have documentary projects or proposals that make an impact, have co-production potential and appeal to an international audience.

The aim of the workshop is to encourage close collaboration and co-production between filmmakers, producers and broadcasters from Northern and Southern Europe and the Mediterranean area.

Storydoc 2010 is organized by the Greek organization Storydoc and is done in collaboration with EDN and with the support of Documentary Campus, the Greek Film Centre and Esodoc.

The partner in Palestine is the Franco-German Cultural Center in Ramallah. The project will be coordinated in Palestine by Mr. George Khleifi.

Documentary consultant Tue Steen Müller is Head of Studies and will conduct the sessions in collaboration with Cecilia Lidin, Head of EDN.

The Storydoc Tutor Team is:

•  - Commissioning Editor Iikka Vehkalahti, YLE, Finland
•  - Commissioning Editor Sabine Bubeck, ZDF/Arte, Germany
•  - Commissioning Editor Jordi Ambros, TV3, Catalunya, Spain 
•  - Commissioning Editor Guy Lavie, YES PBS, Israel
•  - Director Emma Davie, Scotland
•  - Director/Editor Stan Neumann, France
•  - Director Peter Symes, UK
•  - Director Eva Stefani, Greece
•  - Director Georg Khleifi, Palestine
•  - Editor Niels Pagh Andersen, Denmark
•  - Producer Mikael Opstrup, Denmark
•  - Head of Co-Pro Orna Yarmut, Israel
•  - Sales Agent Louise Rosen, USA.

Storydoc consists of broadcaster Kostas Spiropoulos, Stella Litou, Selini Efthimiou, Chara Lampidou, Producer Rea Apostolides and Producer Valerie Kontakos.

The deadline for applying to the Storydoc workshop is April 20^th 2010. Your submission should consist of a

·    2-page project presentation including synopsis, short treatment, budget and financing plan, director cv, short profile of production company, and format, time of delivery, length

·     Visual material in form of a demo/trailer or previous work either on DVD or online

Projects and queries for European applicants should be sent by email to lampidou_@If you can read this, please upgrade to a modern browser.storydoc.gr and

DVDs with visual material should be posted to:   

STORY DOC

Istoriko Documentaire

19, MITHIMNIS STR, 1

1527 Athens

Greece

Palestinian applicants should submit their projects to the Palestinian Co-ordinator George Kleifi via gkhleifi_@If you can read this, please upgrade to a modern browser.yahoo.com

Tel:  + 970 599 180840

Participating as observer

If you are interested in taking part without a project as an observer, please send your CV to lampidou_@If you can read this, please upgrade to a modern browser.storydoc.gr.

Participation fee:

The price for participating is:

- 200 Euro for the first person connected to a project

- 100 Euro for second person connected to a project

- 150 Euro for observers

Besides the three day workshops in Corfu and Copenhagen, this includes all lunches and coffee breaks, dinner on the first evening and a festival pass for the cph:dox festival.

Here you can read more about Storydoc 2010.

Cecilia Lidin

cecilia@edn.dk

Phone: +45 3313 1122

Storydoc is supported by MEDIA &  the Greek Film Center.