CALL FOR PROJECTS: FOR ASIAN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS!
ASIAN SIDE OF THE DOC WORKSHOP & MASTER CLASS
September 19-22, 2017, Alliance Française Bangkok
SCHEDULE:
- September 9: Submission deadline
- September 19-21: Documentary workshop
- September 22: Public pitch, Master Class, and Award Ceremony
THE WORKSHOP
The aim is to give producers and directors:
- a better understanding of their own project and its international potential
- advice on marketing and pitching their project
- an overview of who’s who in the international market (in terms of broadcasters, funders, sales agents, and production companies for co-production relationships)
Workshop contents:
- Analyze and criticism of the projects; research of the axes of development
- Work on the “Marketing” of the projects: teaser / logline / title
- Presentation of the different possibilities offered on the International Market for selected projects; contacts and examples
- 3 case studies of international co-productions relevant for the selected projects
- The “Art of Pitching”: at the end of the training, each project’s holder will do a public pitch in front of decision makers (producer, distributor, broadcaster)

WORKSHOP AND MASTER CLASS WITH WORLD CLASS TRAINERS After the Big Pitch Session of the Projects, the Trainers will give a Master Class about the International Market and how to build bridges between producers, increase networks and create new opportunities of co-productions! YVES JEANNEAU, founder of Sunny Side of the Doc and Asian Side of theASD17Workshop-MasterClass Doc, will lead the team of trainers in the workshop and master class session. More trainers will be announced soon!
Master Class topics include:
- Trends of the International Market
- Who does What? (roles of broadcasters, producers, sales agents, funders, etc.)
- Places to be & alternative funding opportunities
- The Art of Pitching
Workshop
- Register at https://goo.gl/forms/6VfiYzqCLrze7mP52
- Contact at ASD2017Thailand@gmail.com
- Selected projects to attend the Workshop and Master Class free of charge
- Master Class
- Contact at ASD2017Thailand@gmail.com
- Limited seats available
- Participation ticket is 120 Euro (4,800 Baht)
Get your documentary project funded
Submission requirements:
- Synopsis
- Trailer (5 GB maximum) Formats accepted: MOV, AVI, MP4, MPEG-2, 3GP, AAC, FLV (M4V is not accepted)
- Project early footage (300 dpi) to help the jury assessing your project. For example, synopsis, budget, funding plan, commitment letters, treatment,
- short biographies of the author-director and presentation of the producer.
- Company and/or Team profile (500 characters max.)
- 1 PDF file with all the information in English that you consider useful in order
Submit your project before September 9
- UP TO 9 PROJECTS WILL BE SELECTED TO ATTEND THE WORKSHOP FREE OF CHARGE
- UP TO 6 PROJECTS WILL BE SHORTLISTED AND PITCH TO ASD17 SELECTION JURY
- 1 PROJECT WILL BE SELECTED TO PITCH AT ASIAN SIDE OF THE DOC 2017
The 8th Asian Side of the Doc will take place in Bangkok November 7-10, 2017, at Centara Grand Central Plaza Ladprao
http://www.sunnysideofthedoc.com/asianside/participate/workshop-bangkok/
Contact at ASD2017Thailand@gmail.com