Host: Filmmakers Collaborative of Trinidad and Tobago (FILMCO)
Presents: Making The Documentary
Discipline: Film Production
Skill Level: Beginners – Intermediate
Description: Documentaries teach us about our fascinating and complex world. They allow us to meet people we may never encounter in our lives, see unimaginable places and learn about issues that urgently need our care. The non-fiction filmmaker is a keen storyteller who is driven to explore and tell such stories, but contrary to the belief that is held by some, doc filmmaking is far from being a scattered process.
FILMCO is pleased to present this online five-week workshop in documentary filmmaking with Christopher Laird. This hands-on six-session instruction with Laird will take participants through the different stages of making your doc. Christopher will discuss the practical elements involved in producing professional documentaries, such as concepts, pre-pro, scripting, filming and post-production. Participants will also have the opportunity to create a documentary over the course of the workshop. Here they will benefit from Laird’s 40 years of experience- mentorship in an intimate and supportive environment.
NOTE: Please note that this workshop will not teach participants about fundraising, marketing or distribution for documentary films.
Duration: 12th August – 10th September 2020
Days | Times: Every Wednesday 5PM – 7PM
Location: Virtual
Facilitator: Christopher Laird
Christopher Laird has produced over 300 documentaries, dramas and other video productions with Banyan Ltd. over the past 40 years garnering a score of national, regional and international awards.
He has overseen the establishment of what is arguably the world’s largest digitised collection of Caribbean culture on video in the Banyan Archive. In 2003 he founded, with Errol Fabien, the region’s first all Caribbean free to air television station, Gayelle. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the West Indies.
Cost: $800 TTD
FILMCO is offering a payment plan for this online workshop: 50% payment upon registration; 50% balance on completion of the course.
Registration Period: 10th – 12th August 2020 | 8AM – 11:59AM
Registration Location: Online
Additional Info: Participants will be expected to prepare a concept (story) for their documentary film project
Workshop details submitted by: Catherine Emmanuel
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