Documentary Making Summer School Begins

The Department of Cinema and Digital Media, Izmir University of Economics (Turkey) and the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Lesvos (Greece) offer an intensive, hands-on Documentary Summer School in Izmir and Mytilene this summer, running from Monday 30 June to Sunday 13 July 2014.The workshop will be held one week in Izmir and one week in Mytilene, Lesvos island.The participants will team up in small multinational teams in order to devise, create, script, film and edit their documentaries in Turkey and Greece under the supervision of experienced instructors and professionals of the two Universities.

n both countries, the participating students will research local and general regional topics, develop concepts, produce trailers, shoot, edit and screen their works. The participants ought to have had some experience in filmmaking (scriptwriting, shooting editing) or social researching. However, since the work will be in teams, they is no need for heavy experience in any field.