Digital Production Challenge

Participants
European producers, line producers, production managers and postproduction managers (no director-producers!). All applicants must have professional experience with the production of feature and/or documentary films.
Date and venue
Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 November 2011, in Oslo
Registration/Application deadline
4 October 2011 on → www.digiprodchallenge.net
Fee
CHF 600.—, including accommodation and meals. Travel costs not included.
Language
English
Organisation
Xavier Grin, PS Productions; Sophie Bourdon, FOCAL

This unique professional programme for European producers, line producers, production managers and postproduction supervisors offers the tools and strategies to best position the production of their feature or documentary film within the digital workflow. They will grasp the tasks division between the partners involved, from the director to the post-production provider.

The workshop is divided into four parts:

  • Three case-studies of different budget ranges by experienced producers and their post-production providers
  • Presentation of selected participants' projects and review by the experts
  • Discussions on topics such as 3D-production and digital distribution
  • Focus subjects on selected technical aspects

For more details and registration → www.digiprodchallenge.net

The experts

Philippe Ros

Director of photography and Digital Imaging Supervisor, France (océans 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
Director Digital Cinema Department, Digimage Cinema, France (le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, yes by Sally Potter, home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, etc.)
Ruedi Schick
Founder and CEO of Swiss Effects (1985), Switzerland, worked on the post-production of many Swiss and international film productions such as memoria del saqueo by Fernando Solanas and journée à la campagne by Raoul Ruiz.
Wolf Bosse
Stereoscopic supervisor on pina! — 3d by Wim Wenders, and worked on the post-production of many movies such as life, above all by Oliver Schmitz and same same but different by Detlef Buck.

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

Norwegian Film Institut

Digimage Cinéma

SwissEffects

with the support of

MEDIA

Affiliated programmes

European Post Production Connection (EP2C)

Insight Out

Focal is supported by
OFC