Elon Musk Unveiled: Producing Insights with Yara Heuck Costa
A masterclass for filmmakers and producers on crafting investigative documentaries while managing legal risk, vulnerable subjects and archive refusals.
Encounters Talks
Conversations, workshops, masterclasses and networking for documentary filmmakers and industry professionals.
Elon Musk Unveiled: Producing Insights with Yara Heuck Costa
Women as Workers and Warriors
A panel discussion for filmmakers, community members, academics looking to reexamine the public life of African women.
Filmmaking as Reparative Practice
A panel discussion for filmmakers, community members, healers looking at how the act of telling your story can assist in the processes of grief and trauma.
Beginnings and Openings
A panel discussion for film directors, editors and creative producers that delves into what to consider in those first few minutes of a film.
Reclaiming Culture as a Restorative Pathway
A panel discussion for filmmakers, community members, cultural workers and movement practitioners, who want to understand how practicing culture in all its forms provides a pathway to rectify past social injustice.
Cleaning the Cut: The Editing process as Reparative Practice
A panel discussion for filmmakers, storytellers, healers that explores how the edit space can become a place of healing, and the role of the editor when dealing with difficult material.
Settling Spirits: The Role of the Storyteller and Museum in Repatriation and Spiritual Justice
A panel discussion for artists, museum practitioners, archeologists, anthropologists, who are interested in exploring their role in the repatriation of stolen artifacts and human remains.
Cutting for Character: Masterclass with Sam Pollard & Paul Trewartha
A masterclass for filmmakers and film editors interested in doing a deep dive into the process of shaping a story to match the character of an icon.
TUTU Legacy Panel
A powerful panel discussion honouring the legacy South African anti-apartheid struggle theologian, and looking to his life for lessons in these turbulent times.
Cutting for Character: Masterclass with Sam Pollard & Paul Trewartha
A masterclass for filmmakers and film editors interested in doing a deep dive into the process of shaping a story to match the character of an icon.
TUTU Legacy Panel
A powerful panel discussion honouring the legacy of South African anti-apartheid struggle theologian, and looking to his life for lessons in these turbulent times.
Producing the Impossible Film: Masterclass with Miguel Eek
A masterclass for all film directors, producers and artists interested in managing multinational funding and working on multiyear projects.
NETFLIX Masterclass with Mark Lewis
A Netflix workshop designed for filmmakers and producers ready to work at the next level of documentary storytelling.
How to Build a Film in the First Person: Masterclass with Miguel Eek
A masterclass for filmmakers and archivists and writers, that journeys with the filmmaker as he talks through the building of a narrative backbone.