General information

updated: August 30, 2010

The 9th Berlinale Talent Campus will take place from February 12 – 17, 2011.

The Berlinale Talent Campus is a creative academy and networking platform for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world.

The Berlinale Talent Campus lasts for six days and offers a huge variety of different programme elements for DIRECTORS • SCREENWRITERS • ACTORS • CINEMATOGRAPHERS • PRODUCERS • EDITORS • SOUND DESIGNERS • COMPOSERS • PRODUCTION DESIGNERS and FILM CRITICS

Focus Campus #9 (February 12-17, 2011):

FRAMESPOTTING – FILMMAKERS POSITIONING THEMSELVES

What do you stand for as a filmmaker and where are you heading? Defining who you are and where you want to go as a filmmaker is an endeavour in itself. It confronts you with choices, and forces you to experiment and take risks. A demanding world asks for outspoken filmmakers who don’t just follow the rules, it needs a generation of filmmakers not afraid of assuming responsibility.

Filmmakers positioning themselves have to make creative choices as well as strategic ones. Daring and decisiveness are indispensable virtues here: trying new approaches, reinventing old ones; developing an eye for the signposts that match your goal and show you the way.

The 9th edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus will focus on filmmakers positioning themselves in today’s world of cinema. The Campus will support and foster emerging filmmakers, bringing them together with seasoned experts who have travelled the road before and will shine a light on the bumpy road ahead.

Programme overview

Grand Format

Lectures, panel discussions and stars-in-the-limelight sessions addressing the burning, inspirational and vibrant issues in filmmaking today. Taking place in HAU 1, this format consists of large public events with topics that are of general relevance to all Talents. High-profile directors, producers, actors, editors, cinematographers, and production designers of international reputation share their experience in moderated lectures and panel discussions. The experts offer insight into various working methods and provide a background that ranges from all aspects of film production to promotion. Many of these events will relate to current issues addressed in the cinema showcased at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as reflect the focus of the Campus 2011, “Framespotting – Filmmakers positioning themselves”.

Atelier

Workshops, seminars and case studies enabling Talents to interact with world-class experts from all disciplines. Atelier sessions take place in HAU 2 and HAU 3 and offer the opportunity for a more intimate and interactive exchange of experiences between Talents and experts. The sessions are focusing on specific fields of work, but allow Talent from various disciplines to attend – thus enabling e.g. Talent directors to gain valuable information about the specifics of cinematography, acting techniques or production design, giving Talent producers insight into the working process of a set designer or provides Talent actors with information on the newest ways of internet distribution for short films. This interdisciplinary and interactive set-up forms the backbone of the Atelier sessions. Basic and advanced courses are conducted by internationally renowned experts.

Excursions

In addition to the events at the Theatre Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), the Berlinale Talent Campus offers ‘off-campus’ excursions to the Berlin-Brandenburg region on designed days during the Campus. Talents are encouraged to sign up for day-trips, which include: Costume House Theaterkunst, European Film Market, The Film and Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf” Sound Studio/Department, and The Museum for Film and Television.

Campus excursions give Talents the opportunity to observe skilled personnel in their professional environments, providing a glimpse of industry structure and practice, as well as an introduction to the working aspirations of participating Talents.

Hands-on training programmes

Personal tutoring, coaching and training of participants from different fields of work. These hands-on training programmes require an additional application, in certain cases related to a project you’re currently working on. Those who make it will take part in an experience of exceptional value, despite needing to spend some extra time on the application. The hands-on training programmes of the Campus include:

• the Score Competition for score composers and sound designers
• the Campus Studio for directors, producers, cinematographers, and editors involved in post-production stage
• the Script Station for scriptwriters
• the Doc Station for documentary filmmakers
• the Talent Project Market for collaborating producers and directors
• the Talent Press for film critics
• the Talent Actors Stage for actors
• and the Berlin Today Award for directors.

Experts

The Berlinale Talent Campus has, over the years, welcomed a diverse array of internationally acclaimed experts and film professionals willing to share their knowledge and giving insight into their life and work. The Campus experts meet the Talents either through on-stage interviews and panel sessions, or by giving small-scale workshop sessions and by providing mentorship for the hands-on training programmes.

Former experts of the Berlinale Talent Campus include Sandrine Bonnaire, Park Chan-wook, Stephen Daldry, Julie Delpy, Frances McDormand, Stephen Frears, Gael García Bernal, Michel Gondry, David Hare, Kate Henshaw-Nuttall, Dennis Hopper, Jia Zhangke, Janusz Kamiński, Mike Leigh, Walter Murch, Raoul Peck, Charlotte Rampling, Shah Rukh Khan, Walter Salles, Gustavo Santaolalla, Ridley Scott, Tilda Swinton, Andrzej Wajda, Wim Wenders, and many more.

The names and biographies of the experts who visited former editions of the Berlinale Talent Campus can be found in our Campus on demand section.

Experience selected Berlinale Talent Campus events (transcripts and video of previous Campus events) in the Campus on demand section.

Campus International

The roots of the Berlinale Talent Campus are firmly planted in Berlin, but since 2003, new shoots of the Campus initiative have been sprouting internationally. These Campus International editions have the familiar structure and purpose of their German counterpart; all the while retaining a regional perspective and finding support and the necessary amenities in a locally based international film festival. After Talent Campus programmes in Kiev (Ukraine), Cape Town (South Africa) and Delhi (India), the Berlinale Talent Campus is currently collaborating with four international Talent Campus programmes.