ZagrebDox Pro Submission Deadline Extended Until 22 December 2015

ZAGREBDOX PRO 2015 (23/02/2015-27/02/2015)

ZAGREBDOX PRO is a five-day programme that includes a three day workshop and a pitching forum on the fourth day for twelve documentary projects in various phases of development/production and on the fifth day THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION DAY dedicated to networking. During that day, participants are going to have individual meetings with decision makers (TV editors, distributors, producers, representatives of film funds) and scriptwriting advisors. Leena Pasanen and Stefano Tealdi are the workshop facilitators and Pitching Forum moderators.

The ZagrebDox Pro workshop aims at helping the participants to acquire successfully the skills required for finding international partners for co-financing their films. The aim of the programme is for the selected projects to benefit from group and individual work with tutors Leena Pasanen and Stefano Tealdi and also from sessions open to public during which knowledge and experiences are to be shared with high-end experts from documentary film-making and within the group. Directors and producers can participate at the workshop. In specific cases, they can be accompanied by a scriptwriter, cinematographer or editor. While teams of participants generally have two members, they can have up to three members.

Creative documentary projects in different stages of development and production are called to apply. Projects closer to completion and projects from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia, Italy, Kosovo, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia, dealing with the region thematically and/or those in search for a co-producer from one of these countries, have an advantage in the selection.

Only those team members that participate in the workshop can participate in the pitching forum.

ZagrebDox Pro strives to assist the participants with:

- working individually on developing their projects with renowned documentary film experts
- pitching the projects in front of a very mixed panel or commissioning editors, sales agents, distributors, film fund and festival representatives from Europe, US, etc, and meeting with them individually
- getting a “second opinion” from the experts in the fields not directly connected but close to documentary film-making
- learning through case studies of successful documentaries
- networking with colleagues from different backgrounds
- finding out about latest technological developments
- promoting their projects during production and upon completion

HOW TO APPLY:

In addition to the information to be entered on the first page of the Application Form (including a link to the trailer), the second part of the Application Form should contain the following attachments: up to five photos; a project study containing a short synopsis and description of characters (max. 1800 characters), a budget and production plan summary (max. 1800 characters), director's biography (max. 900 characters) and producer's references (max. 900 characters). The project study (font: Arial 11) must be in English language, the budget must be specified in Euros and the trailer must have English subtitles.

The Workshop Application Form can be found here.

The deadline for submissions for ZAGREBDOX PRO is 22 December 2014 (applications will be accepted until midnight).

Attending ZAGREBDOX PRO is completely free of charge.

The attendants who do not live in Croatia can apply for ZagrebDox Pro's scholarship that covers travel and accommodation expenses for the workshop. ZagrebDox Pro will provide up to six scholarships.

OBSERVERS:

Along with project teams, up to six observers can attend the closed sessions of ZagrebDox. Several sessions open for public will be organized as well.

Candidates for observers can apply at pro@zagrebdox.net after the workshop selection has been announced. They must send an e-mail entitled I WANT TO BE AN OBSERVER. In the e-mail message, candidates must give their full name, e-mail address and phone number.

ZagrebDox Pro is co-financed by Creative Europa MEDIA sub-programme.