This intensive lab is designed to sharpen skills in documentary filming technique and theory.
Hours:
4 September - 8 October afternoons and evenings.
Please note that you may be asked to make time during the day during the filming week.
Submission deadline: 21 August, 2015
This intensive lab is designed to sharpen skills in documentary filming technique and theory in a realistic, high-pressure environment that takes participants from project development through filming to final edit. Experienced international documentary filmmakers provide guidance in accessing the director’s internal voice and concentrating on creative documentaries with personal reflection.
Participants are encouraged to develop their skills in a supportive environment that inspires creativity and builds confidence. Approaches to accessing and exploring inner themes are applied to personal stories that come from the heart and reflect contemporary life in the Gulf region.
Mentors analyse documentary films during the lab and work with participants to develop their ideas. Participants also learn techniques in documentary cinematography, sound and editing before filming. Up to four of the participants’ projects will be selected for. All participants are expected to take on roles as part of the filming teams.
Applicants must apply with a treatment for a short documentary (one page maximum) involving subject matter that can be filmed in Doha over a two-day period during the dates of the lab. Preliminary script development with the Doha Film Institute’s Learning Initiatives team takes place in advance of acceptance into the lab, when applicants will be assessed on their ability to develop and expand their ideas into a coherent treatment.
Mentors
Documentary Lab mentor leader – Peter Chappell
Documentary Lab sound mentor
Documentary Lab editing mentor
Biography
Peter Chappell – Lead mentor
Peter Chappell is a director, producer, and cinematographer of both documentary and narrative films with extensive experience in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. He directed a film adaptation of the short story “Oral History” by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, and his documentaries include films on the World Bank in Uganda; “Our Friends at the Bank”, and “The Origins of Aids”. Chappell’s films have won numerous international awards, including the Canadian Film and Television Academy’s award for best scientific documentary, and the Parliamentary Assembly of Europe’s Prix Europa for “The Origins of Aids”, and the FIPA Silver Awards for “Our Friends at the Bank”, which also received an award for outstanding journalism at the Ökomedia Festival in Germany.
Peter Chappell has also worked as a media advisor to the Tanzanian Government Ministry of Education, and DANIDA in Denmark. Moreover, he served as an advisor to Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Ramattan. He is a mentor at the National Film School in the UK, and a member of the advisory board of Maisha Film Lab in East Africa.
4 September - 8 October afternoons and evenings.
Please note that you may be asked to make time during the day during the filming week.
Submission deadline: 21 August, 2015
This intensive lab is designed to sharpen skills in documentary filming technique and theory in a realistic, high-pressure environment that takes participants from project development through filming to final edit. Experienced international documentary filmmakers provide guidance in accessing the director’s internal voice and concentrating on creative documentaries with personal reflection.
Participants are encouraged to develop their skills in a supportive environment that inspires creativity and builds confidence. Approaches to accessing and exploring inner themes are applied to personal stories that come from the heart and reflect contemporary life in the Gulf region.
Mentors analyse documentary films during the lab and work with participants to develop their ideas. Participants also learn techniques in documentary cinematography, sound and editing before filming. Up to four of the participants’ projects will be selected for. All participants are expected to take on roles as part of the filming teams.
Applicants must apply with a treatment for a short documentary (one page maximum) involving subject matter that can be filmed in Doha over a two-day period during the dates of the lab. Preliminary script development with the Doha Film Institute’s Learning Initiatives team takes place in advance of acceptance into the lab, when applicants will be assessed on their ability to develop and expand their ideas into a coherent treatment.
Mentors
Documentary Lab mentor leader – Peter Chappell
Documentary Lab sound mentor
Documentary Lab editing mentor
Biography
Peter Chappell – Lead mentor
Peter Chappell is a director, producer, and cinematographer of both documentary and narrative films with extensive experience in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. He directed a film adaptation of the short story “Oral History” by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, and his documentaries include films on the World Bank in Uganda; “Our Friends at the Bank”, and “The Origins of Aids”. Chappell’s films have won numerous international awards, including the Canadian Film and Television Academy’s award for best scientific documentary, and the Parliamentary Assembly of Europe’s Prix Europa for “The Origins of Aids”, and the FIPA Silver Awards for “Our Friends at the Bank”, which also received an award for outstanding journalism at the Ökomedia Festival in Germany.
Peter Chappell has also worked as a media advisor to the Tanzanian Government Ministry of Education, and DANIDA in Denmark. Moreover, he served as an advisor to Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Ramattan. He is a mentor at the National Film School in the UK, and a member of the advisory board of Maisha Film Lab in East Africa.
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