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DOC.DREAM services s.r.o. has been organizing the Media and documentary workshop for 13 years. The workshop offers students of journalism, film studies etc. a chance to improve their writing under the guidance of leading Czech journalists, critics and theorists, who guide the seminar’s participants in learning to see documentary film from many different angles, subject it to analysis, and find and form arguments that best support the main theses of their texts.
Starting from 2020, the organiser will offer to serious applicants a chance to learn to think about documentary film in broader, international context.
The Media and documentary workshop 2.0 will offer lectures, seminars and workshops and practical mentoring by excellent Czech and international journalists and film critics.
After the workshop, 5 selected participants will be offered a chance to visit one prestigious documentary film festival (e.g. IDFA, FID Marseille, DOK Leipzig, Visions du Réel, CPH:DOX or Doclisboa) from where they will write their critical reflections on contemporary documentary films and trends with help of one of the tutors.
The partner organisation is the Norwegian magazine Modern Times Review with the editor-in-chief Truls Lie and contributors like N. Young, N. Holsworth and C. Grey. These excellent journalists and film critics will become the mentors in critical writing about documentary films.
Final texts (produced during the workshop and after the international festivals) will be published at dok.revue, the Czech on-line magazine on doc. films. The best articles will be offered for publication to the Modern Times Review.
The upgrade of the workshop 2.0 enables the dialog not only between the Czech and Norwegian film critics and journalists, but also the social and cultural dialogue. It will help in the profesional growth of the young Czech film critics and journalists and enable the exchange of experience and points of view in the field of film criticism.