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Multinational documentary filmmaking: opportunities for young producers

Young filmmakers these days struggle to get through in a tight documentary film world. Funding opportunities are getting scarce and the subsidies are being reduced. Therefore it is essential to seek alternatives. The purpose of the workshop is to get familiar with and discuss the successful examples of multinational co-productions.

Among others, the key issues to explore during the workshop: 

How do we finance a documentary film today?
How does the crowd funding function?
Which funds support young documentary filmmakers?

The participants will also hear about the  film financing possibilities
within the framework of MEDIA programme.

Date and venue: 30 September 1.00 pm „Skalvija“ cinema centre (A. Goštauto str. 2/15).

Organiser „Skalvija“ cinema centre in partnership with Media Desk Lithuania.

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Tue Steen Müller 

A specialist in documentary film, Tue Steen Müller was born in 1947. For more than 20 years, he has worked at the Danish Film Board with documentary and short films – as a press secretary, a head of distribution and information, and as a commissioning editor.  He writes articles for national and international newspapers and magazines and is a co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord and Documentary of the EU. He has given courses and seminars on documentary film in more than 40 countries. In 2004 he was awarded the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. He was a director of EDN (European Documentary Network) from 1996 when it was established until 2005 when he received EDN Life Achievement Award.  Since 2006 he has worked as a freelance consultant on Danish and European documentary matters. He teaches at the documentary film school Zelig in Bolzano, Italy and is a Head of Studies at the European training programme Storydoc. He is a programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DoxBox in Damascus and DOKLeipzig. Together with a documentary film consultant Allan Berg Nielsen he writes a blog at www.filmkommentaren.dk.