Digital Production Challenge

Participants
European producers, line producers, production managers and postproduction managers.
All applicants must have professional experience with the production of feature and/or documentary films
Date and venue
Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 November 2014 (venue: tba)
Registration/Application deadline
29 September 2014 on → www.digiprodchallenge.net
Fee
CHF 600.-, including 2.5 day full board accommodation. Travel costs not included
Language
English
Organisation
Sophie Bourdon
How to be digital sharp, play with these on-going developments and benefit from new opportunities

This 2.5-day workshop gives the participants the methods and tools to

  • be acquainted with the main workflows available on the European market
  • best position the production of their feature or documentary films within the digital workflow
  • grasp the means of communication and tasks division between the partners involved, from the director to the postproduction provider
  • understand the advantages and disadvantages of digital distribution and the importance of digital archiving.

For more details and registration → www.digiprodchallenge.net

"DPC has been a fruitful experience for me: in a few days, I've been able to have a much clearer and a more concrete idea of the digital world, of the key challenges not only for technicians but also for producers like me, and to realise the importance of making the right choices at the right moment (for sure it is interesting budget-wise) and of teamwork. Although we live more and more in a virtual world, we make films with people, and communication between professionals involved in a film is still vital to make it happen in the best possible conditions!"
Producer, DPC 2013, Warsaw

The experts


Philippe Ros

Director of photography and Digital Imaging Supervisor, France (oceans by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, home by Yann Arthus- Bertrand). For television: cinematographer of the first five seasons of the series kaamelott, directed by Alexandre Astier)

Tommaso Vergallo
Digital Film Project Consultant, France (amélie from montmartre by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, love by Michael Haneke, rust & bone by Jacques Audiard, on the road by Walter Salles etc.)

Ruedi Schick
Founder and CEO of Swiss Effects (1985), Switzerland, worked on the postproduction of many Swiss and international film productions (social genocide by Fernando Solanas and days in the country by Raoul Ruiz etc.)

Florian Rettich
freelance DIT & Workflow Supervisor, Germany (PINA by Wim Wenders, DIE VERMESSUNG DER WELT (3D by Detlev Buck and HIGHLANDER - THE SOURCE by Brett Leonard.

General moderator

Martin Hagemann

Producer, zero fiction film, Germany (the turin horse by Béla Tarr, the children of huang shi by Roger Spottiswoode, fay grimm and flirt by Hal Hartley, moloch and father and son by Aleksandr Sokurov, etc.)
Proposed by

FOCAL

SwissEffects

With the support of

MEDIA

Affiliated programmes

European Post Production Connection (EP2C)

Focal is supported by
OFC