WELCOME to the BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS
updated: 31, 2010
Since 2003, the Berlin International Film Festival has encouraged young filmmakers from all over the world and all professional fields to apply to the Berlinale Talent Campus. Over 350 of them are invited to Berlin each year to reflect on their ideas about film in lectures, ateliers and panel discussions, and to work on their projects in specialized hands-on workshops.
Tapping into the unique atmosphere of a great film festival, the Campus takes place simultaneously with the Berlinale. It brings together aspiring talents and experienced film professionals for a six-day programme that touches on essential issues of filmmaking such as story development, cinematographic styles, production models and new markets. Former experts include Park Chan-wook, Frances McDormand, Gael García Bernal, Stephen Frears, Dennis Hopper, Jia Zhangke, Janusz Kaminski, Walter Murch, Anthony Minghella, Charlotte Rampling, Walter Salles, Ridley Scott, Raoul Peck, Tom Tykwer, Wim Wenders, Tilda Swinton and many more.
The Campus’ programme reflects and dedicates it’s events to the five crucial stages of filmmaking:
PHILOSOPHY
PREPRODUCTION
PRODUCTION
POST-PRODUCTION
PROMOTION
As a major platform for professional networking, the Campus offers events where attendees from all fields of work gather. The atelier programmes address more specialized topics for the various film professions; the events are nonetheless open for all participants. The hands-on training programmes brings the participants together to work actively with one another. In small teams they produce tangible results during the Campus week.
The Campus community presents the profiles of all invited participants and samples of their work. It also serves to highlight the Campus programme. To date, 2500 young filmmakers from all five continents stand alongside with 500 experts and prominent figures in sharing their enthusiasm for film at the Berlinale Talent Campus. The online ‘Community’ space of the recently relaunched Campus website will promote and support professional networking and cooperation between former Campus participants for their future careers.
A similar motivation is behind the exportation of the Campus idea to other countries: film festivals in Sarajevo, Durban, New Delhi, Buenos Aires and Guadalajara have organized their own Talent Campus initiatives to support young filmmaking communities on a more local level.