CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2024 / 2025
Close Up is very happy to announce our call for applications for our sixth edition! After an incredibly successful five years, we eagerly look forward to our sixth cohort of talented filmmakers.
Close Up is an international independent NGO based in Brussels, Belgium that provides annual training, development, and mentorship for documentary filmmakers.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JULY 8, 2024.
Eligibility
Close Up invites filmmakers from the following countries to apply:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Georgia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Morocco
- Oman
- Palestine
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
The Close Up program consists of three intensive and collaborative workshops over the course of eight months, along with individualized work and assignments in between.
Filmmakers work very closely in groups and one-on-one with Close Up mentors, professionals at the top of the documentary industry: John Appel, Bruni Burres, Gitte Hansen and Nino Kirtadze. They will also workshop with editing consultants and other special experts.
The third workshop includes a pitching forum where prestigious awards, residencies, and grants are received by Close Up filmmakers. Decision makers present at past pitching forums come from Sundance Film Institute, IDFA, Catapult Film Fund, The Whickers, IDA, IEFTA, The Guardian, FIPADOC, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Blue Ice Docs, Docs Up Fund, ARTE, BBC StoryVille, France TV, 2M Morocco TV, SWR Germany, MEDIMED Film Market, Jacob Burns Film Center NY, Movies That Matter, Silver Sun Foundation, , and more.
The dates (subject to change) are as follows:
- First Workshop: November 2024
- Second Workshop: March 2025
- Third Workshop and Pitching Forum: June 2025
Selected filmmakers will be awarded a complete grant covering tuition fee, flight ticket(s), accommodation, and meals during the workshops.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS, REGULATIONS, AND TO APPLY:
https://closeupinitiative.org/apply/
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JULY 8, 2024.
Do not miss this exceptional opportunity! We look forward to reviewing your work!
For questions, please contact: info@closeupinitiative.org.
