General information

updated: April 10, 2013

The Berlinale Talent Campus #12 will take place from
February 08-13, 2014.

The Berlinale Talent Campus is a creative academy and networking platform for 300 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world.

The Berlinale Talent Campus brings emerging talent and seasoned film professionals together and offers them a platform to refresh their views, discover new horizons, find fellow filmmaking collaborators and discuss new trends and developments in contemporary cinema and media.

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

Programme overview

Grand Format

Master classes, 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.

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 focussed on specific fields of work, yet at the same time allow Talents from various disciplines to attend – thus enabling, for example, Talent directors to gain valuable information about the specifics of cinematography, acting techniques or production design, as well as giving Talent producers insight into the working process of a set designer or providing 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 designated days during the Campus.

Talents are encouraged to sign up for these day-trips, which include: Costume House Theaterkunst, European Film Market, the Heinrich Hertz Institut, the Film and Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf” Sound Studio Department, and the Museum for Film and Television. more

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

European Film Market (EFM)

The business centre of the Berlinale Film Festival, the European Film Market (EFM), located in the magnificent renaissance hall of the Martin Gropius Bau and at the EFM Marriott Offices radiates a highly charged atmosphere.

One of the most important annual events for the film industry, this is where international producers, distributors, buyers and sales agents converge to discover quality films. In 2009 over 400 exhibitors from 55 countries and over 690 films were presented to professional visitors. During the Berlinale Talent Campus, Talents can sign up for an off-Campus day trip excursion and be introduced to the EFM format.

Heinrich Hertz Institut

The Heinrich Hertz Institute is a state-of-the-art research institute for communication systems and digital media and services, where Talents will learn about pioneering technologies for screen and sound developed for the future. The scores of the Score Competition, recorded with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, are remixed in Wave Field Synthesis (WFS), in order to show the spatial sensation of the technology and are then presented at the Heinrich Hertz Institute. WFS is a sound technology which offers high creative potential for an immersive and interactive "cinema of the future".

Theaterkunst Berlin

Talents have the opportunity to visit the costume house Theaterkunst during the excursions organised by the Berlinale Talent Campus in cooperation with Theaterkunst. The excursion includes a guided tour. Having fitted the cast of some of the most outstanding films of the 1920s such as The Blue Angel and Metropolis, Germany’s largest costume house for film, television, advertising and theatre, has been just as active lately with films like The Baader-Meinhof Complex, The Reader, Inglourious Basterds and Shutter Island costumed by their craftsmen.

German Film Orchestra Babelsberg

The Berlinale Talent Campus in cooperation with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, and The Film and Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf” organises an excursion to Berlin’s film music world, exclusively for sound designers and music composers, taking them to the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, the only professional orchestra for film music in Germany. It is located on the premises of Studio Babelsberg where such films as The Blue Angel, Murderers Among Us and more recently The Lives of Others, Inglourious Basterds and The Ghostwriter were produced.

The tour proceeds to the oldest and largest of the five media academies in Germany, the HFF “Konrad Wolf”. The HFF is an artistic media academy, with training which concentrates on film and television, it is unique in its combination of artistic and scholarly departments. Here, theory and practice go hand in hand.

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Hands-on training programmes

Personal tutoring, coaching and training of participants from different fields of work is offered in various hands-on training programmes taking place alongside the Berlinale Talent Campus. 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 exceptionally valuable experience, in spite of having needed to spend some extra time on the application. The hands-on training programmes of the Campus include:

• the Talent Project Market for collaborating producers and directors
• the Doc Station for documentary filmmakers
• the Script Station for scriptwriters
• the Short Film Station for writers/directors
• the Sound Studio for sound designers and score composers
• the Campus Studio for directors, producers, cinematographers, and editors involved in post-production stage
• the Talent Actors Stage for actors
• the Talent Press for film critics

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 give 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 Sir Ken Adam, Harry Belafonte, Gael García Bernal, Juliette Binoche, Jane Campion, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Park Chan-wook, Isabel Coixet, Willem Dafoe, Julie Delpy, Claire Denis, Alexandre Desplat, Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Frears, Ted Hope, Dennis Hopper, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Holly Hunter, Gaston Kaboré, Janusz Kamiński, Victor Kossakovsky, Ed Lachman, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Shah Rukh Khan, Andie MacDowell, Brillante Mendoza, Walter Murch, Michael Nyman, José Padilha, Raoul Peck, Charlotte Rampling, Keanu Reeves, Carlos Reygadas, Isabella Rossellini, Ryūichi Sakamoto, Walter Salles, Gustavo Santaolalla, Volker Schlöndorff, Paul Schrader, Ridley Scott, Ulrich Seidl, Abderrahmane Sissako, Tilda Swinton, István Szabó, Christine Vachon, Paul Verhoeven, Andrzej Wajda, Wim Wenders, Jasmila Žbanić, Jia Zhang-ke and many more

The names and biographies of the experts who have 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 videos 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 up 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 as well as 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 five international Talent Campus programmes in Buenos Aires, Durban, Guadalajara, Sarajevo and Tokyo.