March 2016

The Good Intentions
by Beatrice Segolini, Maximilian Schlehuber, Aaron Beitz
2016
Tue Steen Müller
Film Consultant, Film Critic

"The focus at ZeLIG is clear: You need to learn the craft to be able to develop your creativity. You need to learn team-work and to test yourself as a coming documentarian. The school is small with a big heart, a generous staff and committed teachers. The students watch loads of films and make several themselves before they enter the jungle. 3 years. A gift!"

Fernanda Rossi
Writer, Speaker, Documentary Doctor

“As an international lecturer and co-writer of multiple films, I find ZeLIG’s methodology a great match for real-life filmmaking and business. The full immersion weeks focusing on one topic at a time allow participants to delve deeply into the subjects. The mentorship at the end is the final proof to me that ZeLIG and its staff know what matters when it comes to training for the real world.”

Susan Gray
Director

"After teaching at the ZeLIG film school for ten years now, I can honestly say that I adore this place and everyone in it and I look forward eagerly to the next time I will be at ZeLIG to teach.  It is quite a miracle that such a dedicated group of people have come together in such a special part of the world with the sole mission of turning out high quality, committed social documentary filmmakers.  Over decades of refining their teaching, the school has assembled the best teachers in the field, made a conscious decision to do away with Fiction Film studies to concentrates solely on the craft of documentary filmmaking, and has figured out how to make students the best at what they do. I have thoroughly enjoyed the students who have passed through my class, many of whom I still keep in touch with today.  Just when I think it is impossible for the program or the students to get any better, I am delighted to learn that I am wrong. Professionally, I run into ZeLIG students and the films they produce all the time at festivals and markets.  It is truly a positive, active learning program in a family environment that has a profoundly positive impact on those who go through it.  And I firmly believe the world is a better place because ZeLIG and the students it turns out, are in it."

Christine Loriol
Coach, Trainer

“ESoDoc is an inspiring experience with wonderful people and wonderful projects. Participants are beautifully encourageing each other, teachers and trainers are dedicated to bring them and their projects really further on. People and projects mature and improve. And both of them reach enormous clarity by hard work and great support.”

Sarah Mosses
CEO Together Films

“EsoDoc is a documentary training programme that takes place in some of the most beautiful places across Europe. A chance to come together with your peers to deeply explore your project, it's narrative potential and social impact strategy. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching on the course and it's been a pleasure watching the recent graduates move forward with their careers.”

Mark Atkin
Director, CROSSOVER LABS; CURATOR Of the section 'ALTERNATE REALITIES', SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST

“Making creative work that changes hearts and minds is not easy. At ESoDoc you get to test your ideas on industry insiders and your peers, allowing you to take risks and broaden your horizons while being supported by a community who will challenge you to do your best work. It’s run by passionate people who believe in the transformative power of media. The connections you make there, and the lessons learnt, will last your entire career.”

Stefano Tealdi
Director, Producer, Head of Development - Stefilm

"More than a school, ZeLIG seems a factory, in the sense Andy Warhol gave the word. With youngsters coming from very different parts of Europe and the planet, digital film-work (be it shooting, directing or editing) is constantly challenged as a tool to define and express the world they are living in. Nothing here is just theory: the place smells of practical work and daring storytelling missions.”

Tarek Ben Abdallah
DOP

“ZeLIG is an open space where people create, analyze and reflect deeply on all the aspects of documentary filmmaking. ZeLIG’s camera courses, for instance, don’t provide merely a technical foundation, but also focus storytelling through imagery. We seriously explore the role of the camera, how to work with the camera, and photography in terms of their relationship to storytelling. All this happens while we’re filming reality live, as it unfolds. I like teaching camera at ZeLIG because it provides students with lots of opportunities to experiment – experimentation is mandatory. They’ve got to discover their aptitudes and hone their skills. We help them do that not through the classic student-teacher relationship – I’d say it’s more like seasoned professionals counseling young filmmakers."

"Prisoner Without Prison" by Verjana Abazaj wins HBO Europe Co-Production Award at East Doc Platform

We would like to congratulate Verjana Abazaj for winning HBO Europe Co-Production Award at East Doc Platform with her project "Prisoner Without Prison", developed at ESoDoc 2015!

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Tutor at ZeLIG’s three-year program since 2010. He has worked in both documentary and feature film productions, and has collaborated intensely with director Pietro Marcello. He engineered the live sound for the film “La Bocca del Lupo”; was assistant director for “'Il Silenzio di Pelesjan”; and was in charge of organisation for “'Bella e Perduta” – all award-winning films at top international film festivals, including Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Torino. He spent many years organizing independent film series. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology of Development, and graduated from ZeLIG in 2007. (emanuele.vernillo@zeligfilm.it)

After training in languages, he worked on various digital projects in visual communications. He came to ZeLIG in 2005 and since then has spearheaded the organisation of ZeLIG’s international initiatives. He coordinates ESoDoc – European Social Documentary, a workshop dedicated to developing documentary and crossmedia projects based on social themes. He’s also in charge of ZeLIG’s presence on social media, and other communication platforms. A passionate musician and photographer, he still dreams of becoming an astronaut. (thomas.righetti@zeligfilm.it)

Silvano Gazziero is an audio, video and multimedia applications expert, and has been with ZeLIG since 1998. He is involved with management of technical resources and technical aspects of production and didactic activities. Since 2010 he is technical tutor of ZeLIG’s three years training. (silvano.gazziero@zeligfilm.it)
 

Audiovisual technician, since 1995 he has overseen ZeLIG’s technical resources and supervised technical aspects of school's productions.

(antonio.piccoli@zeligfilm.it)

Following years of experience in the field of cooperation, he came to ZeLIG in 2010. He works in administration and budgeting for Italian and international projects. (paolo.vaccaro@zeligfilm.it)

She’s been with ZeLIG since the early years. In charge of various administrative, financial and business aspects. She’s also involved in the executive production of students’ graduation films, as well as many other projects for ZeLIG, including ESoDoc – European Social Documentary.  (nadia.caruso@zeligfilm.it)

 

Lotte Gibitz worked as a film editor at German broadcaster WDR for ten years before coming to ZeLIG in 1990 to held seminars on editing. She is responsible for the student secretariat and oversees the organisation of a host of ZeLIG activities. Since 2004 she's project assistant of the training ESoDoc - European Social Documentary.  (lotte.gibitz@zeligfilm.it)

Lorenzo Paccagnella is a co-founder of ZeLIG, member of the cooperative’s Board of Directors and coordinator of ZeLIG’s activities. He worked as a graphic designer and photographer in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s he co-founded the production company Prisma, where he held different positions, including director of photography, film editor, director and producer. He has made more than a hundred documentary and commercial and institutional films, many of which have been shown at film festivals and broadcasted. He has also conceived and produced several multimedia projects. At ZeLIG he works as a coordinator. (lorenzo.paccagnella@zeligfilm.it)

Heidi Gronauer is director of ZeLIG since 1990 and she is responsible for the development of the various documentary related projects and productions the school realizes. Since 2004 she is Head of Project of ESoDoc – European Social Documentary. She has worked in Berlin as a journalist and cultural manager in film and theatre before embarking on projects in Italy collaborating on programming and international relations of the Filmfestival Trento Cinema International Encounters with Music for Cinema, organising cultural exchanges between Germany and Italy, like Adventure in Europe–City of Berlin, Pirati Teatrali and school theatre series in German and English language Teatrando ... in lingua straniera. (heidi.gronauer@zeligfilm.it)

Ferruccio Cumer is a co-founder of ZeLIG and president of the cooperative since 1990. He has held courses on the history of cinema at ZeLIG and other institutions, and has been a member of the Radio-Television Services Committee for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. For many years he directed Cineforum in Bolzano. He created the Cinema Library, and wrote the manual 'Cinema per la didattica' published by Junior, and co-authored, along with Federica Cumer, the five-volume series entitled 'Itinerari nel cinema'. He’s columnist of the Corriere dell’Alto Adige (Corriere della sera). (ferruccio.cumer@zeligfilm.it)

Marzia Mete
Editor, Director

"Attending ZeLIG means living in an extended family, where students and teachers alike share their different experiences and backgrounds. It’s a small community that brings together different languages, cultures, ways of thinking. For me, teaching at ZeLIG year after year has been a chance to be able to contribute to the formation of people who have decided to dedicate themselves to an area of study that’s so beautiful and complex. It’s a way to help them find the means of expression that’s right for them. And it’s give and take, because I really get so much out of my teaching experience. I am grateful to ZeLIG and to my students for such a pleasant and fruitful exchange.”

Gesa Marten
Editor, Script Consultant

“The high point of ZeLIG’s activities is its focus on radically subjective documentaries. ZeLIG gives students the chance to discover their own way of expressing themselves artistically.”

Angelo Loy
Director

“ESoDoc is one of those rare occasions where I have been feeling part of a trans cultural community, worried about the responsibility of images and projects in the fight for the endorsement of social values and a better world.”

Sibylle Kurz
Coach, Trainer

“Life is bigger than fiction! Documentary films help us to understand the 'beyond' of life, not being helplessly forced to only see the surface. Brave filmmakers dare to look there. For those young people we need engaged schools and training programs to educate, motivate and support – to make the world a better place, a tiny bit very day - so does ESoDoc and the ZeLIG School for Documentary - go there!”

Britta Hartmann
Professor of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture

“I’ve been a regular guest teacher at ZeLIG since 1996. I’ve worked with so many different groups of students and teachers. ZeLIG has grown and changed, but one thing remains the same: returning to ZeLIG means coming back to old friends! You get the feeling that you’re part of one big family. Everyone involved gives it their all. People here are curious and passionate about what they’re doing. It’s a pleasure to teach here!”

Katerina Cizek
Independent Filmmaker

“Where else can you access 3 weeks of world-class lectures as well as one-on-one mentoring with leading professionals in documentary film, NGOs, cross-media? Perhaps most important of all, you join a dedicated and generous peer group of participants who make up the growing ESoDoc family, and that network becomes essential for many productive years to come.”

Frank Behnke
Editor, Sound Designer

“A home. The name on the doorbell is ZeLIG. As a guest, I’m welcomed into this filmmaking family. There’s everything we need here: work room, kid’s room, closets full of equipment. Brothers and sisters learn to work and play together – they amaze their parents and themselves! Responsibility and love bubbling up in the same cauldron. There are lots of kids here. Lots of films, too. It’s a first step, an unforgettable one. We must take it in order to learn and move on.”

Lars Barthel
DOP

"ZeLIG is special. The coherence of its training program in documentary filmmaking and the quality of the films the school produces make it unique in Europe. ZeLIG has earned an excellent reputation for its intensive approach, team spirit and a family-style atmosphere. I’ve been teaching at ZeLIG for many years, and it’s always been a great pleasure. The students are open-minded and talented. I’ve also enjoyed working with some of them after they launched their careers in documentary filmmaking. My deepest respect for the good folks behind the success: Heidi, Lotte, Emanuele, and all the people that have worked so hard for more than 25 years to make ZeLIG a classic!"

Christine Loriol
Docente esodoc

Coach and Trainer, Zurich / Switzerland

Christine Loriol is a journalist, texter and communications consultant as well as a coach and trainer for people who have to speak in public in any situations as presentation, pitching, interviews etc. She has been giving workshops, seminaries and personal trainings for many years – especially also for people working in the film industry, for example with www.focal.ch and the Swiss Film Prize, as well as also for ESoDoc 2015 in Palermo. For ESoDoc she gave a open Pitching-Workshop and one-to-one-Coachings for every project. She is born 1960 and lives in Zurich / Switzerland. She speaks german, english, french and italian.

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Sarah Mosses
Docente esodoc

CEO of Together Films, London (UK)

Sarah Mosses is CEO of Together Films, a new consultancy working with social issue film content to reach new audiences. She helps filmmakers craft Impact Distribution Campaigns to increase both their social impact, audience reach and revenue potential. As an award winning Producer, Sarah’s debut feature documentary They Will Have To Kill Us First had its World Premiere at SXSW 2015 and European Premiere at London Film Festival 2015. Sarah is a mentor for Documentary Campus, ESoDoc, Sheffield DocFest, On Screen Manitoba, working with emerging producers to enhance their film narrative and distribution/marketing potential.


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Mark Atkin
Docente esodoc

Director, Crossover Labs; Curator, Alternate Realities, Sheffield Doc/Fest, (GB)

As director of Crossover Labs, Mark works with film and TV producers and directors, games developers and web designers, preparing them to become the producers of tomorrow, through labs and workshops. He curates the Alternate Realities strand at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, comprising the Interactive Summit, a public exhibition of the world’s most exciting interactive and Virtual Reality documentary work, and the AR market for interactive projects seeking funding. He is an award-winning independent producer, having been commissioned by BBC, Channel 4 and international networks over the past six years.


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Iikka Vehkalahti
Docente ZeLIG, Docente esodoc

CEO of RCS ( Rough Cut Service), Helsinki (FI)

Iikka Vehkalahti, Executive Producer in IV Films Ltd, Rough Cut Service and Dare To Dream. Consultant for Steps and AfriDocs. Commissioning Editor for the Finnish Broadcasting Company Finland 1998-2015. Executive Producer for 'Steps For The Future' and one of the Series Producers for 'Why Democracy'. He has been involved or supported numerous international well known documentaries like 'Three Rooms of Melancholy', 'Act of Killing', 'Armadillo', 'Happiness', 'Don't Breath', 'Lakshmi and Me', 'Placebo', 'Vivas las Antipodas' etc. 'Steps by Steps' is one of his books.

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Stefano Tealdi
Docente ZeLIG, Docente esodoc

Director/Producer and Head of Development - Stefilm International, Turin (IT)

Born in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1955, he studies Architecture in Torino – Italy and founds the film production company Stefilm in 1991. He directed 'A World of Pasta', 'Doctor Ice' (Science Film Festival 2009) and the series 'Food Markets -  In the Belly of the City' (10x52). He produced 'Mostar United' (IDFA 2009), 'Vinylmania' (IFF Rotterdam  2012), 'Char, no man’s island' (Berlinale Forum 2013), 'The Queen of Silence' (IDFA 2014, 'Silver Horn', best feature length doc Krakow FF 2015, Golden Nanook - Flahertiana IDF Perm 2015). He tutors for: Biennale Cinema College Venice, Cinema do Brasil, Cannes Film Market, Documentary Campus, EDN, Films de 3 Continents – Produire au Sud, Media Business School, Med Film Factory, Scuola Holden, TFL-Torino Film Lab, Film Garage, ZagrebDox Pro, ESoDoc / ZeLIG School for Documentary, Bolzano.

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Tue Steen Müller
Docente ZeLIG

Free lance film consultant and film critic, Copenhagen (DK)

Born 1947. Danish. He worked with short and documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Institute. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TVFestival, Filmkontakt Nord and Documentary of the EU. He has given documentary courses and seminars in more than 30 countries. From 1996 until 2005 he was director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 he has been a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, ZeLIG School for Documentary, Caucadoc as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. www.filmkommentaren.dk

 

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Gerhard Schumm
Docente ZeLIG

Editor and Director, Berlin (Germany)

Following studies in Film Direction and Psychology, he received a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He has worked as a film editor and screenwriter since 1973, for documentaries and experimental films. He has conducted important research and written extensively on the esthetics and theory of editing and more, including the book 'Der Film verliert sein Handwerk', and co-authored with Hans J. Wulff, 'Film und Psychologie'. He’s taught at many film schools, including HfbK, Hamburg; UdK, Berlin; FHSS, Berlin; FU, Berlin; HU, Berlin; Vienna Film Academy; HFF, Potsdam; ZeLIG, Bolzano; Filmarche, Berlin. Visit his website dedicated to film editing: www.montagetheorie.de

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Fernanda Rossi
Docente ZeLIG, Docente esodoc

Writer • Speaker • Documentary Doctor, New York (USA)

Internationally renowned writer and speaker Fernanda Rossi has collaborated for 15 years in more than 500 fiction scripts and documentaries, including two documentaries nominated for the Academy Award®. The grant proposals and fundraising samples she contributed to received funding from ITVS in the United States and the National Film Board of Canada. She has given her lectures in more than 12 countries and at film festivals and markets, such as Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc/Fest. In addition, she’s is a trainer for special programs and a grant evaluator for foundations. Her book Trailer Mechanics: 'How to Make Your Documentary Fundraising Demo,' 2nd Edition, is according to industry professionals the bible on demo production. www.documentarydoctor.com

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Alessandro Rossetto
Docente ZeLIG

Director, Rome (Italy)

Born in Padova in 1963. Studied cinema and anthropology in Bologna and Paris. Screenwriter, director, director of photography, and cameraman, Rossetto is considered one of the leading documentary makers of his generation. He is also a producer and teaches cinema. His films – distributed internationally and selected at a host of prestigious film festivals – include: 'Il Fuoco di Napoli', 'Bibione Bye Bye One', 'Chiusura' and 'Piccola Patria', which was selected for the Horizons section at the 2013 Venice Film Festival.

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Joao Riberio
Docente ZeLIG

Cinematographer, Lisboa (PT)

A cinematographer working in documentary, and in feature length fiction film. Since 1993, he has made the photography of more than forty films, including several co-productions between Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Guinea, Sweden, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, among others. His name is linked to a new generation of directors who developed Portuguese documentary film in the beginning of the 90s. He co-directed and was the cinematographer of his first documentary 'In Between Walls', selected for several festivals (Cinéma du Réel, Festival Dei Popoli, among others). In 2003, he received the Best Cinematography Award at Doc Lisboa for the film 'Restless', by Catarina Mourão. In 2007, he was attributed two more awards of Best Cinematography (VIII European Cinema festival, Lecce/Italy and Cineport Festival – João Pessoa/Brazil). 'A Corte do Norte' by João Botelho, was selected for the New York Film Festival, and won a Special Jury Award at Rome Film Festival. His last feature, 'Letters from War' (by Ivo Ferreira), was in the main competition program of the Berlinale 2016.

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Marzia Mete
Docente ZeLIG

Editor, Director, Rome (Italy)

She attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the italian national film school, where she studied audiovisual creation and editing. She works as film editor and director in Europe. Has worked with Vittorio de Seta, Citto Maselli, Paolo Virzì, Helga Reidemeister, among others, on films selected for film festivals in Venice, Berlin, Locarno and many more. She has directed documentaries about Italy, immigration, and music videos for Italian and international artists (Paolo Fresu, Omar Sosa, The Sessions Voices). She has taught dramaturgy and editing since 2000, and has been at ZeLIG since 2003. She has worked as script supervisor and editor on over 100 feature-length and short films. In 2008 she co-founded 'Sorandaye', a multiethnic theater and dance company, which performs in Rome and Senegal. Beginning in 2016, she, along with 5 collaborators from different European countries, heads a film workshop supported by the Ayudh Foundation and the European Union, which works with young people 15 to 30 years of age from all over the world.

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Gesa Marten
Docente ZeLIG

Freelance Film Editor and Script Consultant, Cologne (Germany)

She studied theatre, cinema and television, German Literature and Philosophy in Munich and Cologne, where she earned her Master of Arts degree. A freelance film editor and script consultant since 1991. Visiting professor at the Filmuniversität in Babelsberg, where she teaches editing, 2014-present. She also teaches at ZeLIG, the Baltic Film and Media School, and the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She is a member of the European and German Film Academies; VeDRA, the Screenwriters’ Association for Cinema and Television; and BFS, the German Association of Film Editors. She is a founding member of LaDOC, a network of documentary filmmakers. She lives and works in Cologne and Berlin.

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Angelo Loy
Docente esodoc

Documentary director, AMREF Rome (IT)

As a PhD fish biologist he worked as researcher at the University of Rome. In 1996 he co-produced Emanuele Crialese’s first feature film, an experience that made him drop a promising university career to jump into the uncertainty of filmaking. Since then, he’s been working in directing social documentaries (among others, the feature length 'Black Pinocchio' and 'An Italian School'). Starting from 2000 he collaborates with AMREF (the African Medical and Research Foundation) where he promoted, along with Giulio Cederna and John Muiruri, a participatory video (PV) training within the AMREF street children rehabilitation project in Nairobi, Kenya. Here he directed several awarded participatory films for national and international TVs (such as TV Slum, African Spelling Book, Millennium News, The Turkish Glance). Besides Nairobi, he has been running PV workshops in Italy, France, Switzerland and Morocco.

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Susan Gray
Docente ZeLIG

Director + Broadcast Development, Northern Light Productions, Bosten (USA)

Susan Gray is an American documentary filmmaker whose films have aired on PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, Arte, Channel 5, NHK, Canal Plus, Sundance, Showtime, and television channels worldwide, as well as theaters and festivals.  She has a masters degree from the Columbia School of Journalism and from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.  Her films have won the best of Input, the Prix Europa, and (controllare) and nominated for the Adolph Grimme Award. She is a dual American/Italian citizen and teaches documentary writing in Italy and the United States.

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Achim Dunker
Docente ZeLIG

Engineer and Photographer, Cologne (Germany)

Achim DUnker works as a cameraman, director and film editor, and is the owner of the Zwo-Filmproduktion production company. He has written extensively on lighting and camera technique. His books include 'Die chinesische Sonne scheint immer von unten' (Lighting in Cinema, 6th editione) and 'eins zu hundert' (a photography manual, 2nd edition). Teaches seminars and workshop on cinema and lighting.

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Claas Danielsen
Docente ZeLIG

Filmmaker, Festival consultant, Leipzig (DE)

Claas Danielsen, born in April 1966 in Hamburg, is a filmmaker, producer, lecturer and festival director living in Leipzig/Germany. He made seven documentaries of which several did an extensive festival tour, won international awards and were sold to European broadcasters. In 1997 he became assistant to the professor in the documentary department of the Munich Film Academy where he built up a new chair for TV-journalism. In 1999 Danielsen became Head of Studies of Discovery Campus (nowadays Documentary Campus). From 2004 till the end of 2014 he was Artistic and Managing Director of DOK Leipzig, the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films, which he developed into one of the leading international doc festivals. Claas Danielsen was board member of the German documentary filmmakers’ association AG DOK and the European Documentary Network EDN for several years. He is a member of and an advisor to the European Film Academy, board member of the Balkan Documentary Center and has served on many international festival juries and the selection committees of different German film and media funds.

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The call for admission to the 2025-2028 training cycle is open!

The admission is divided in two parts: the online one, which requires test materials and documentation, has a deadline set on January, 31. 2025, 23:59h (CET).

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The tuition fees for the study cycle 2019-2022 are 1,000 euros per study year. The fee is to be paid after the admission exam. The fee is non-refundable.

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Upon completion of the final exam, students are awarded a Professional Training diploma, issued by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and recognised at the European level, in one of three areas of specialization, and receive certification as

Documentary filmmaker in the audiovisual industry with skills in Directing/Project Development;
Documentary filmmaker in the audiovisual industry with skills in Editing/Postproduction;
Documentary filmmaker in the audiovisual industry with skills in Photography/Lighting.

Graduates possess the skills needed for placement on the job market, which they will apply, autonomously and with responsibility, to specific roles in the documentary filmmaking industry. Graduates are assigned EQF (European Qualification Framework) Level 5 certification. Graduates also possess skills outside their own specific areas of interest, which may be applied to different roles and situations in the production process of films and other audiovisual products. Graduates also possess skills outside their own specific areas of interest, which may be applied to different roles and situations in the production process of films and other audiovisual products.

ZeLIG is local, but with an international network of contacts, which facilitate the access to the professional world.

ZeLIG is an active member of The International Association of Film and Television Schools CILECT and its European grouping GEECT. It is also member of the Italian and German Documentary Professional associations Doc/it and AG DOK, and the European Documentary Network EDN.

The support and investment of the South Tyrolean Department of Economic has steadily increased since 2010. Thanks to the subsidies offered by IDM (Innovation, Development and Marketing Südtirol), many productions shoot their films in South Tyrol. In order to obtain production funding, there has to be an economic territorial effect of 150% (Südtirol Effekt) in reference to the corresponding funding amount. ZeLIG graduates are able to provide this "Südtirol Effekt".

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Katerina Cizek
Docente esodoc

Indipendent filmmaker, Toronto (CAN)

Katerina Cizek is a two-time Emmy-award winning, internationally recognized director and writer in the digital space. Her media work has documented the Digital Revolution, and has itself become part of the movement. She has built collaborations with a diverse range of community, academic and media partners to co-create media. She works across many media platforms: digital media, broadcasting (radio and television), print and live presentations/installations. She is the director of an award-winning digital documentary media project at the National Film Board of Canada, called HIGHRISE. She realized the acclaimed NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence program, winner of a Webby Award, among others. Her media projects have instigated criminal investigations, changed UN policies, and have screened as evidence at an International Criminal Tribunal. Cizek's Films include the Hampton-Prize winner 'Seeing is Believing': Handicams, Human Rights and the News (co-directed with Peter Wintonick), and 'The Dead are Alive: Eyewitness in Rwanda', the First global television documentary (1995) made about the genocide. Her work has been seen by millions around the world, through TV broadcasts and publishing on the web. She has travelled the world with her projects, teaching and mentoring with her innovative approaches to the documentary genre, community-based collaborative practices and digital media. She is currently a Visiting Artist at MIT, completing her Final iteration of the NFB HIGHRISE documentary.

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Sabine Bubeck-Paaz
Docente ZeLIG, Docente esodoc

Commissioning Editor ZDF/ARTE; Head of Studies ESoDoc, Mainz (DE)

Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is commissioning editor at German public broadcaster ZDF for various documentary slots on ARTE, the European Culture Channel. At ZDF/ARTE, where she is deputy head of the department 'Thema', they are coproducing one offs, Theme Evenings, documentary series and cross-media projects. The topics Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is handling, range from culture, science and history to current affaires, human interest and sociopolitical issues. Her list of projects include award winning films like 'The Act of Killing' and 'The Look of Silence', 'Drone', 'netwars', 'Claude Lanzmann – Spectres of the Shoah', 'Ingrid Bergman in her own words'… Sabine Bubeck-Paaz started her career as a print journalist. As a tutor for documentary projects, she has been participating since many years in international pitching and training workshops. Since 2015, Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is, next to her job at ZDF/ARTE, also Head of Studies of ESoDoc - European Social Documentary, the training initiative for cross-thinkers and media professionals, who want to increase impact and outreach of their documentary projects.

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