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Founded in 1999, EURODOC is an international, selective, in-depth, and intensive training program in creative documentary development and production, boasting a 23-year-long history and community. EURODOC is a non-profit, mainly funded by MEDIA Creative Europe, CNC and diverse national or regional Film Funds across Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Caribeean regions. Its core mission, since its birth, is the conception and the organisation of a yearly training program dedicated to producers based in Europe (70% European, 30% non-European) who are in the process of developing a particular creative documentary project, and more broadly to professionals involved in the institutional, corporate or non-profit support to the nonfiction film sector. Over the years, EURODOC has become an acclaimed label for film production quality. Since 2010, EURODOC has a dedicated Mediterranean fold, EURODOC MED, that championed dozens of producers from MENA countries (especially Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Marocco), and from Southern Europe.
The main goals of EURODOC programmes are multi-folded: to improve the development of bold documentary projects with European, mediterranean and international potential; to champion creative documentary and producers who defend their authors, in a market context that is not fully supportive of the genre; to strengthen the international dimension of small and medium-sized companies; to foster transnational and multicultural cooperation, within Europe, with the Mediterranean region, and between Europe and the Global South; to set-up a robust network of people, skills, production capacities; to empower professionals hailing from European countries with low production capacity but also from the Global South; to contribute to the sharing of good practices in the sector, i.e fair co-production, ethical filmmaking, diversity and gender parity, sustainable and eco-friendly actions; to act as a laboratory for innovative production tools when it comes to new documentary formats and broadcasts.
The main Yearly programme (funded by MEDIA) is structured in 3 one-week residential sessions, held annually in 3 different European venues, between March and October. Every cohort is thus trained over 8 months. Additional online activities are organized in between the sessions. Throughout the training, basic fundamentals to very technical aspects of production are covered. Participants acquire strong skills, diverse know-how and improve their projects on all grounds. EURODOC organizes other sessions and shorter workshops throughout the year, dedicated to specific cohorts: directors, producers in specific regions (Marocco, Corsica, Mallorca...), female producers, documentary TV commissioning editors (Al Jazeera, ARTE, HBO...), etc. EURODOC is a professional network encompassing sixty nationalities, that holds events at major film festivals in Europe and partners with dozens of festivals and film markers. EURODOC is also a partner of EWA, Collectif 50/50, in order to push for gender equality.
EURODOC is currently rekindling its Mediterranean programmes and has launched new workshops with Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria. A special focus will be made on female professionals. EURODOC works on cross-cultural exchange and cooperation, international film coproduction across the Mediterranean, shared ethics and good practices in the documentary industry. We share values and missions with the Anna Lindh Foundation and wish to contribute indeed by extending the ALF network to the film industry, and specifically to the nonfiction film industry.
We would like to organize events that have a core Mediterranean value in dialogue with the ALF, and we wish to intensify our actions towards gender equality within the film industry and across borders. We are very open to discuss these perspectives with the ALF team.