Archidoc

Just some useful information for those of you who could be interested in following a course on the creative use of archive material in documentaries. The French film school, la femis (http://www.lafemis.fr), runs Archidoc that is an English language three-session development workshop that for 2009/2010 takes place in Prague and Jihlava in Czech Republic, in Paris and in Biarritz in connection with Fipa. In the two first sessions great film directors and editors Stan Neumann and Erez Laufer take care of the development of the project and of the creation of a fine taster, in the last session the projects are being pitched to producers and commissioning editors. Sibylle Kurz and I take care of the pitch training. Héléna Fantl from la fémis is the one running Archidoc and she does so excellently. Many filmmakers and films have profited from the workshop, let me just mention one, the Latvian art and political doc "Gustav Klucis. Deconstruction of an Artist" (photo), directed by Peteris Krilovs and produced by Uldis Cekulis from Vide Film Studio. Thought you should know about this. Deadline for applications: September 10.