What is Future Producer School?
The programme aims to:
Give producers the training they need to take their careers to the international documentary industry.
Prepare producers to work internationally with directors, funders, distributors and festivals.
Prepare producers to access and capitalise on international festivals and markets.
Build alliances and spark collaborations between documentary professionals across the world.
Increase the number of highly trained producers in the documentary industry and create a self sustaining peer-to-peer network of ‘Future Producers’.
The Future Producer School programme is comprise of three distinct stages:
Stage 1: The programme begins with a three-day
residential workshop where you are trained by executive producers, experts and mentors from all over the world.
Stage 2: The participants are provided with bespoke one to one mentoring with industry experts.
Stage 3: The producers then take their learning to one of the world’s leading documentary marketplaces Sheffield
DocFest and are given access to Decision Makers in a specifically designed match-made one-to-one meetings session.