Maximum 10 participants
This intensive week-long workshop with internationally acclaimed documentary maker Mike Grigsby will enable participants to work together in groups to conceive, plan, shoot and edit a number of short documentary films making this an ideal, and potentially career forming, opportunity for any documentary maker.
About the Tutor:
Mike Grigsby is one of the most highly respected British documentary makers working today and in the history of British cinema. In a career spanning over four decades he has made an average of one documentary every two years for all of the national British television broadcasters – the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Five – and his films have been shown in cinemas around the world. Mike says that his goal in his filmmaking ‘has been trying to find a way, through films, to give voice to the voiceless’ and this has encompassed subjects as diverse as the troubles in Northern Ireland, the fallout of the Vietnam War, the Lockerbie Disaster and the lives of trawlermen and Eskimos among many others.
A superlative filmmaker, an outstanding teacher and a warm and charismatic individual, Mike led an Insight masterclass in early 2007 to great acclaim. This workshop is an unmissable opportunity for documentary makers to benefit from his years of experience and collaborate together in taking a short documentary from pre-production through to post-production in one intensive week-long session.
Mike Grigsby’s biography at Screen Online:
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/452860/index.html
Course Outline:
The week will consist of approximately two days preparation and pre-production on Monday and Tuesday in which Mike will discuss his own approach and experience and participants will conceive, plan and prepare their documentary shoots. The shoots will take place in London over the course of one day on Wednesday, supervised by Mike, with pick-ups the following day if necessary. Post-production will last from Thursday to Friday with a screening and wrap party on Friday evening.