Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People
From February 13-18, 2010, the Berlinale Talent Campus will open its doors at the Theater Hebbel am Ufer and welcome 350 young filmmakers and students from all over the world during the Berlin International Film Festival.
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- The participants of the 2009 Berlinale Talent Campus packed the HAU 1 theater to listen to a panel discussion.
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The eighth Berlinale Talent Campus will address the theme "Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People." For many filmmakers, teaming up with the right people to inspire and support them and to create a collective vision is the essential element of successful filmmaking. The upcoming Berlinale Talent Campus will tap into these thoughts and ask how the development of personal craftsmanship and the experience of choosing the right people intertwine to build gainful long-term creative collaborations. "Teamwork is the key to success. It's about daring to ask the vital questions together in order to exceed your own limits and to keep that one essential goal in sight: to make a great film. This theme also reflects the Campus, which has, since the beginning, strived to connect young international filmmakers with their colleagues and established professionals, always in the spirit of encouraging collaborative filmmaking,” says Program Manager Matthijs Wouter Knol.
Do you Qualify?
You must be able to answer “yes” to all these questions to be eligible to apply for the Berlinale Talent Campus:
- Are you fluent in English? (In particular, can you fill out the application in English and understand a lecture or discussion in English?)
- Do you work or study in the areas of screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, producing, directing, cinematography, acting, editing, film criticism, sound design, film music composition, art direction or production design?
- Have you worked on a short film that was awarded a prize OR Has your work been screened at an international film festival OR Have you worked on a film of at least 60 minutes in length OR Are you a film student in your final year or in a post-graduate program?
- Will this be your first time at the Berlinale Talent Campus, or are you a Campus alumni that wishes to apply to the Talent Project Market or to the Berlin Today Award?
The application deadline is October 7, 2009.
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Producers, directors, actors, cinematographers, screenwriters, editors, production designers, film composers, sound designers, film journalists and visual artists from all over the world are invited to apply online through the Campus website.
The Campus application also includes applications for the numerous additional hands-on training programs: Talent Press, Score Competition, Doc- and Script Station, Talent Project Market, Campus Studio and Berlin Today Award.
The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training program of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.
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