Documentary WorkshopThe DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP is an initiative to provide conceptual tools and practical contributions for reflection about the creative process and producing documentary films.
The Documentary Workshop will run from 21 to 27 July. We are open for registrations until 18 June. To register click here.
Workshop Calendar
21 July: Multi-platform promotion and distribution
The first morning of the Documentary Workshop will be devoted to analysis and strategies developed by ITVS in the United States for promoting and distributing on the Internet, and we will look at how to develop multiplatform interactive products by the National Film Board of Canada.
These presentations are part of the workshop for SMEs entitled “Promotion and Distribution in the Mercosur: new multiplatform tools”, which is organized by the Mercosur Audiovisual program with funding from the European Union and the Mercosur.
Strategies for niche promotion and distribution by Matthew Meschery.
Producing and creating a transmedia narrative, migration through different platforms. Case study: Bar Code. By Hugues Sweeney and Dominique Willieme
Date: 21 July
Schedule: 9.30 a 13hs
Place: Auditorium – Telecomunication Tower of ANTEL
21 and 22 July: Seminar on creation documentaries
With Marta Andreu
After analyzing the portrait as a basic expression in the documentary perspective (DocMontevideo 2009), and after examining representation as the trace of what once was (DocMontevideo 2010), and after asking ourselves how what we film shows us where we are and anchors the place we are looking from (DocMontevideo 2011), this year Marta Andreu will again reflect on creation documentary, but from a different perspective.
What contemplates us. Transformation as expression in contemporary documentaries
“The most beautiful images and the most sublime notes are composed and they decompose. Only one remains, great beauty that passes from one form to another, in constant opening, in constant change, although it is true that we cannot retain it forever…” in Lenz by Georg Buchner.
To look is to participate in what we are looking at. Not only because our film perspective is included in it, but also because the person who looks shares in the world he films, in what there is, and in what moves in front of his camera.
To capture this movement is to transmit what goes through us when we see it, when we experience it, when we let ourselves be touched by it. To attain this representation we construct in images and sound the same relations between the things in the world that we capture with the camera, and so we become in a way measurers of distances, sensitive capturers of what there is between other things. And therefore we become transmitters of what these relations arouse in us, and this arousal is a change, a transformation. What we film changes before our eyes, and we change as we look at it.
What we show is not reality. And nor is our view of things. Reality cannot be dissociated from looking. What we show is a link. What inevitably characterizes it is that it is in a constant state of change. Our desire to trap it and fix it in images will not be satisfied. And it is precisely for this reason that we will never stop activating it and being driven by it: we will not stop showing. This impossible attempt to change moves us, it appeals to us; it is a transformation that is in front of and also behind the camera, speaking of the world. And also of us.
Date: 21 de July
Schedule: 14.00 a 18.00 hs
Place: Auditorium – Telecomunication Tower of ANTEL
Date: 22 de July
Schedule: 9.00 a 18.30 hs
Place: Auditorium – Telecomunication Tower of ANTEL
23 July: Interactive production and transmedia narrative
A cargo de Monique Simard, Hugues Sweeney, Claire Aguilar, Mathew Meschery, Jean Garner
Interactive philosophy and production at the National Film Board. Co-producing with Canada.
Innovation in transmedia projects by the ITVS. Co-producing with the ITVS.
Documentaries and transmedia reporting, telling global stories in the work. Co-producing with Al Jazeera.
Date: 23 de July
Schedule: 9.30 a 13.00 hs
Place: Sala Zavala Muniz, Solís Theatre
23 de julio: Promotion and distion multiplatform
By Sabrina Nudeliman, Daniel Corro, Gonzalo Frasca, Hugues Sweeney, Mathew Meschery y Leonardo Brant
Closure of the SMEs Multiplatform Tools workshop: an opportunity from the Mercosur Audiovisual program to distribute in the Mercosur, with finance from the European Union and the Mercosur. This open table is to share information and interact about the new challenges involved in using new technologies to promote and distribute films.
Date: 23 July
Schedule: 15.00-18.30hs
Place: Sala Zavala Muniz, Solís Theatre.
24 July: Coproducing in Latinamerica
Thanks to dialogue with various producers we now know the systems that currently exist to undertake co-productions involving Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay.
Modera: Malu Viana Batista (TAL)
Coproducing with Argentina by Gema Juarez
Coproducing with Chile by Paola Castillo
Coproducing with Uruguay by Micaela Solé
Coproducing with Brasil by Malu Viana Batista
Date: 24 July
Schedule: 9.30-11.00 hs
Place: Sala Zavala Muniz, Solís Theatre
24 July: Coproducing with Europe
General guidelines for co-productions between Latin America and Europe, by the German producer Bettina Walter.
Date: 24 July
Schedule: 11.30-12.00hs
Place: Sala Zavala Muniz, Solís Theatre
24 July: Doc Sinergy.
Platforms for training, showing and marketing that different countries are using to foster and promote the development of documentaries in Latin America.
Presented by Luis González Zaffaroni, DocMontevideo Director.
Docs DF / Latin Side of the Doc
www.docsdf.org
Presenta Inti Cordera, Director Ejecutivo DocsDF
Doc Meeting Argentina
www.docmeeting.com.ar
Presenta Guillermo Rossi, Director ejecutivo DocMeeting y Rodrigo Vila, director Pitching Forum MocMeetung.
Doc BuenosAires
www.docbsas.com.ar
Presenta Cármen Guarini, Directora
ChileDoc
www.chiledoc.cl
Presentan Paola Castillo y Flor Rubina, Directoras de Chile Doc
DocsBarcelona
www.docsbarcelona.com
Presenta Alexandra Galvis, Directora Parallel40Sur.
Date: 24 July
Schedule: 12.00-13.00hs
Place: Sala Zavala Muniz, Solís Theatre
24 July: Forum of Latin American Television Channels
The Forum of Latin American Television Companies has opened a new space for dialogue and to debate matters of common interest for the organizations taking part. In the 2012 edition the focus will be on the development of interactivity in digital television and tools for producing educational contents.
Date: 24 July
Schedule: 15.00-18.30 hs
Place: Conference room, Solís Theatre.
25 July: Documentary Pitching
The makers and producers of thirteen documentaries under development in various countries in Latin America will have seven minutes to present their projects to a panel made up of representatives from television companies and institutions in the cinema field.
People registered for the Documentary Workshop may attend the Pitching as observers.
Date: 25 July
Schedule: 9.30-13.00 hs
Place: Sala Zavala Muniz, Solís Theatre.
25 July: Case Studies
A dialogue with the makers of three documentaries will give insights into the creative and production aspects of these projects.
Nacer (Birth) by Jorge Caballero
Synopsis: Every day in the maternity section in state hospitals in Bogotá hundreds of women give birth. The medical facilities are saturated, immersed in their routines, and they cannot deal effectively with these families’ needs. In almost all cases the mothers are alone with no one to give them affection or sympathy. Rise and Shine shows this theatrical scene of the old conflict between two antagonists: human beings against machines. And we are in the middle.
Las flores de mi familia (My family’s flowers) by Juan Ignacio Fernández
Synopsis: Nivia, a woman of 90, comes up against an unexpected change of circumstances. She has lived with her daughter Alicia for decades but now, after years of widowhood, Alicia finds a new husband and she naturally wants to move in with him. Nivia is opposed to this relationship and she accuses her daughter of abandoning her. The two women enter into a serious and revealing conflict in which the daughter’s pursuit of new love comes up against the mother’s fear of growing old alone. The director, who is Nivia’s grandson and Alicia’s son, succeeds in remaining on the sidelines and capturing the inevitable pain of separation in a very subtle way, almost as if the story were fiction.
El salvavidas (The Lifeguard) by Maite Alberdi
Synopsis: Mauricio thinks the best way to be a lifeguard is to never go in the water, and he takes preventive measures so nobody will ever drown. The problem is that he works on the most dangerous beach in Chile and the people who go there ignore him, they just want to forget that all year they have to obey orders. Nothing is hidden, we see everything, we spy on the whole show and the tragedies.
Date: 25 July
Schedule: 15.00-18.30 hs
Place: Sala Zavala Muniz, Solís Theatre.
26 July: Master Class
With Audrius Stonys
For the first time in Latin America the Lithuanian film maker Audrius Stonys will analyze his work and share his thoughts about creation documentary cinema. This is a unique opportunity to see and hear an important figure in the world of contemporary documentaries.
27 July: Master Class
With Ignacio Agüero
The recognized Chilean film maker Ignacio Agüero will hold a master class in which he will share his thoughts about creation documentaries and his experiences as an independent film maker.
23 to 27 July: Documentary Week
In the evenings the workshop participants are invited to attend the programmed showings of films in Documentary Week.
