About IDFA WorldView Summer School
The IDFA WorldView Summer School offers first or second-time directors the opportunity to meet and work with highly esteemed filmmakers and film professionals who are willing to share their knowledge and experience with emerging film talent. The program combines individual coaching with group sessions within an inspiring cultural program, all conducted in a relaxed and nurturing atmosphere.
The IDFA WorldView Summer School is also open to projects already supported by the
IDFA Bertha Fund. If selected, the participation of these filmmakers and projects will be financed by the IDFA Bertha Fund. The
Summer School edition 2013 will be held July 1-6 at
de Brakke Grond. Two types of training possibilities are on offer:
Script Development
Script Development is intended to strengthen film projects by working intensively on a strong narrative in the early stages. Participants will be encouraged to focus on both their own film projects as well as each other's work.
Script Development focuses on:
• Structuring your initial film idea or concept into a film project with a strong narrative
• Interweaving different storylines into a solid narrative structure
• Choosing your main characters – how do they add to your storyline?
• Visualizing your story – how should you use camera, sound and editing to strengthen your narrative?
Editing Consultancy
Editing Consultancy requires shooting to be near completion and a rough cut ready for the start of the IDFA WorldView Summer School. The participants will work intensively with an experienced editor for three to four days, during which time they will make a rough cut or refine the existing one, depending on the editing stage at the time of the workshop. The IDFA WorldView Summer School will arrange for professional editing facilities in Amsterdam.
Editing Consultancy focuses on:
• Defining the basic structure of your film
• Identifying characters and building the storyline
• Fine-tuning the film’s rhythm and dramatic structure
Targets and tutors
Over the course of six days of intensive tutoring and coaching, the IDFA WorldView Summer School will work to inspire participants and ensure either that they have a stronger project to launch onto the international market or a clearer vision about how to finish the editing of their films. To facilitate this, IDFA WorldView Summer School participants are coached by leading international documentary experts. In previous years experts like Carmen Cobos (Producer, the Netherlands), Kate Townsend (Executive Producer BBC Storyville, UK), Sabine Bubeck-Paaz (Commissioning Editor ZDF, Germany), Debra Zimmerman (Distributor Women Make Movies, USA), Erez Laufer (Editor, Israel), Peter Wintonick (Producer/ Director, Canada), Audrius Stonys (Director, Lithuania) and Janus Metz (Director, Denmark) were tutors at the Summer School.
Several Summer School projects went on to succes at IDFA and beyond. For instance,
Red Wedding (Lida Chan & Guillaume Suon, Cambodia, 2012) won the NTR IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at IDFA 2012, and
5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, Palestine/Israel/France/the Netherlands 2011) won the IDFA Audience Award in 2011 and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2013.
"IDFA summer school was the main checkpoint to understand where we are and to hear all the feedback from great mentors and consultants. It was a very concise and intensive program that pushed me to solve many storyline issues by exposing a local story to an international diverse audience. Moreover they are well established filmmakers and renowned editors."
-- Mohamed Siam, participant 2012 with his film
Whose Country?.