Creative Documentary Filmmaking K10 by DOCLAB: Call for Applications

Creative Documentary K10 by DOCLAB: Call for Applications
Deadline: 25 Sep 2018

From DOCLAB:

The course Creative Documentary Filmmaking K10 continues the inspiration, the practices and the achievements in documentary and experiment filmmaking by Hanoi DocLab. This course also has its own uniqueness. Not only will it show you the basic steps to make a short film but also the possibilities of images. We imagine techniques in relation with free movements and moral gestures, individual in relation with community and history.

Target audience: For people who want to tell stories, make poems, write essays with moving images; explore the world and portray life through cinema.

Location: Hanoi DocLab, No. 11 378/12 Thuỵ Khue, Hanoi.

Duration: 3.5 months with 2 phases. Phase 1: Participants study in class together for 12 sessions, each lasts 3 hours (the 6 first sessions will be divided into 2 sessions/week, taking place from 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm on Wednesdays and 8.30 am – 11.30 am on Sundays; the 6 later sessions will be divided into 1 session/week, taking place from 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm on Wednesdays; from mid-Oct to mid-Dec 2018). Phase 2: Participants has 1 month to finish their individual project with consultancy on request

Content: 4 main topics interlaced:
– Determine the meaning of filmmaking: Distinguishing filmmaking directions in terms of objective, relation between reality and human; analyzing examples.
– Techniques used on-site, equipment and software techniques: Filming, recording, lighting, interview, editing.
– Construct the cinematographic aesthetic world: Understanding and designing a world on screen
– Individual project management: Brainstorming, finding resources, writing script, planning, scouting opportunities to make your movie public.

This course is developed according to our participants’ suggestions. Whether a participant finishes the course is up to their own effort, but learning film making through individual project is the most practical way. The first 6 lessons comprises of presentations, instructions and introductory discussions for everyone; the last 6 sessions revolves around the film making process of each individual, through which every participant can understand the main topic of the course. We hope that this course can cover the introduction on cinema, the basic skills for film making, and a broad perspective on human, life, and art. We especially look forward to meaningful, inspirational discussions with you all.

Application process:

After registering through this link, you will:
– Join an intensive film watching week at DOCLAB, record your understanding about the movies and submit it after each screening. The schedule will be sent to you via email.
– One week later, you will receive the announcement to continue with the interview round. You will need to send us in advance 5 photos you like (taken by you or others), with a concise essay stating why they are your favorites and why you choose them, through [email protected] (Mail subject: Photos for film making class). After that, you will receive an invitation for a direct interview to see if the course suits you and vice-versa. The result will be sent to you via email within 1 week.

Note: The deadline for application is 25 Sep 2018. The number of participants is expected to be 14-17. During the course, you need to ensure 8-10 hours each week for assigned exercises and self-learning. This will help with visualizing your idea and realizing your movie.

Participants accepted into the course will need to make a fee payment of 5,000,000 VND (5 millions Vietnamese Dong). With those who have joined DOCLAB workshops, have DOCLAB 2018 membership cards, or are currently students, the fee would be 4,500,000 VND (4 millions 5 hundreds Vietnamese Dong). This year especially, there will be 2 scholarships (one full scholarship and one 50% scholarships) for the two most exceptional participants in the enrollment rounds.

Instructors:

Ngo Thi Thanh: After graduating from Hanoi National University of Education with a Master’s degree in Literary Theory, Ngo Thanh devoted herself to literature, cinema, and arts. Completed Critical Theory and Screenwriting courses, a part of the Cinema Project by Ford in collaboration with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, in 2009, she continues with cinema through joining film making courses at DOCLAB. Through 10 years of participating and gaining experience from classes, projects, and from local and international independent artists, she gradually shaped her creative focus, which are individual films, essay films and film making. She was one of two main instructors for Film making K5 by DOCLAB in 2013 with 8 movies completed after the course. Ngo Thanh also continues her art and film research with designing the screening and film criticism for FSG – a film research group – from 2013 to 2018 as well as with freelance writing. (Blog: https://ngothanh86.wordpress.com/). Notable works: Fiction (2009) screened at the Asian visions Film Festival, Philippines, 2012; The Sand (2011) won First prize at Vietnam Green Documentary Film Award VIETDOCS 2010/2011; Video Letter (2012) screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo, Japan, 2013.

Phung Ha Thanh is a film enthusiast, a education, aesthetic and creativity researcher. Her PhD thesis at the Michigan State University (USA) was about creativity schemes in the modern age. Currently a lecturer at Vietnam National University in Hanoi, she teaches research, modern society, and modern art history courses. (Blog: https://thanhhaphung.wordpress.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/phung.h.thanh).

Le Xuan Tien graduated from Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema in 2017 with a degree in film & television. He participated in the Film making K8 by DOCLAB and now continues his practicing on moving images.

Dang Nguyen Tuan Anh joined Film making K6 by DOCLAB, specialized in post-production – editing film/video and sound designing. One of the films he edited won the Silver Kite for Short film in 2017 (“XX2061” directed by Pham Thu Thuy).

Translated by Hanoi Grapevine