Doc Next Network by European Cultural Foundation

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Contacts: Vivian Paulissen Programme Manager, Youth & Media: vivian@eurocult.org Menno Weijs Project Officer, Youth & Media: menno@eurocult.org Jeske van Vossen Communications and PR: jeske@eurocult.org Puck de Klerk Online Producer: puck@eurocult.org

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Youth & Media

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) has been active in the field of young people and media for many years. In 2010, a new network called Doc Next Network sprung up out of this collaboration. Facilitated and supported by ECF, the network aims to create a vibrant European space where young people’s media messages are more accessible in mainstream public discourse.

Doc Next Network

Doc Next Network’s goal is to create an arena where the views of a new generation of documentary makers, media artists and emerging journalists are made more visible – opening the public’s eyes to new European perspectives. This unique movement generates exciting new connections at the intersections of online free culture, the media industry, documentary circuits, the arts establishment, academic environments and the European policy-making arena. Doc Next Network’s partners are local hubs that operate across five countries

in Europe – the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Turkey. With different profiles in media research, production and learning, these hubs have joined together for a common cause. They develop and nurture media literacy on a local level. They support young talents from a DIY (Do It Yourself) and DIT (Do It Together) generation of media artists, story-tellers, journalists, observers that zoom in on local realities. They bring their media to international audiences. They share new, inclusive images of Europe.

Doc Next Laboratory of Practice

What do we do?

Film Residencies Archiving workshops screenings Community building Research

Media Curatorial biographies work

Open calls

Debate

Distribution Mediation

Publications

Video bursaries Collecting

Media literacy

Talent scouting

Laboratories

Documentary production

What can we offer? The network shares the works of a new generation of European documentary makers with a wide audience. Through the Doc Next Media Collection, cultural professionals, festival programmers, decision-makers, broadcasters and wider audiences across Europe have access to hundreds of amazing alternative short documentaries, political video remixes, reportages and photos. You can use these resources freely for film screenings, exhibitions and conferences.

You can search through the collection by country, age and gender of maker, type of media (video, photo, podcast), themes and categories such as the Present Past, Spaces & Borders, New Nature Heroes & Icons and Dreams & Reflections. You can also use the Doc Next Media Collection for illustration, reflection and debate for your own online or offline events. We can help you to curate thematic collections, and we can guide you through the whole collection and its international community of media-makers.

How to access the media collection

The media collection is open to anyone and everyone. You just need a login code to download any of the Doc Next Network resources. For more information about setting up a login code, go to www.docnextnetwork.org. Doc Next Network online community

How are we organised? www.docnextnetwork.org is our gateway to hundreds of Doc Next Network community members. We are

present on many online platforms, where we share our debates, researches and discussions. Depending on your personal or professional preferences, you can join us in the online space where you feel most at home. All of our online communities are connected to the Doc Next Network. For more information about our online communities, go to www.docnextnetwork.org/about. Or find us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Vimeo.

Doc Next Network

Who are we? We are a network of programmers, curators, researchers, producers, educators and cultural entrepreneurs. We work with creative media and young people. We organise media workshops for media talent and story-tellers to highlight the work of a new generation of mediamakers. We think the Doc Next Network is a great opportunity to find out what life is like for other young people across Europe and for the media, politicians, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and key decision-makers to understand what is important to young people in wider Europe today.

Doc Next Network representatives Gokce Su Yogurtcuoglu (Mode Istanbul), Paulina Capała and Ana Bee (Creative Initiatives “ę”), Noel Goodwin (BFI), Rubén Díaz (ZEMOS98).

BFI/Future Film Programme (UK)

www.bfi.org.uk/futurefilm The British Film Institute (BFI) promotes understanding and appreciation of film and television heritage and culture. Within the Future Film Programme, young people aged between 15 and 25 have the opportunity to get involved with the BFI through a regular programme of screenings, special events and an annual festival. The programme is putting together an exciting collection of documentary and

non-fiction films made by young film-makers from all over the UK. The project will see the creation of new films with groups of young people who have limited access to film-making opportunities, and by emerging young documentary film-makers and video artists. BFI Future Film is also actively scouting for films for the collection by sending young people from its youth steering group to youth and student film festivals in the UK and Europe.

Being young in the UK, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Guilty Until Proven Innocentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Mahmoud Ali et al (UK), Doc Next Media Collection.

Diving into peoples lives with Metropolis correspondents, ‘The French way of life in a cave’, 2011 (France), Doc Next Media Collection. Metropolis TV (NL)

www.metropolistv.nl

Metropolis has a radically different approach towards reporting around the world. Local video journalists show us their cultures from the inside out, seeking answers to such questions as: ‘What are the local beauty ideals?’; ‘How are children raised?’; and ‘How do people around the world deal with a broken heart?’ Metropolis produces in-depth examinations of the similarities and differences between cultures in our increasingly interconnected world. Through a global correspondent

network of more than 60 young video journalists from across six continents, we learn about unexpected aspects of cultures and we meet countless ‘ordinary but extraordinary’ citizens. These young video journalists tell their own stories; the stories behind the news. This makes Metropolis an important counterweight to the culture of soundbites and headlines that increasingly dominates the global news media. Metropolis is broadcast on Vimeo’s Doc Next channel and on Dutch television. All reports and episodes can be found at Metropolis’ website.

ZEMOS98 (ES)

www.zemos98.org

ZEMOS98 is a Seville-based team of young cultural researchers, exploring the ties between society, new media and what they call the ‘invisible commons’ - all those social practices that, although invisible, are essential for activating local communities and a caring economy. The organisation contributes to Doc Next Network through new research and methodologies that explore

young people’s digital and new media culture. ZEMOS98 believes in the idea of memory as a common story - memories are able to listen to communities, to create citizenship and emotions that stimulate an economy of care and that eventually expand different kinds of networks within a more and more complex society.

Protesters of the Spanish 15 May Movement, ‘Tron (15M version)’, Felipe G. Gil, 2011 (Spain), Doc Next Media Collection.

Women’s histories and poems, ‘Ece’esque’, Bahar Demirkan, Okyar Igli, Hayati Kose and Morteza Moghaddam, 2010 (Turkey), Doc Next Media Collection.

MODE Istanbul (TR)

www.modeistanbul.org

MODE Istanbul empowers young people to express themselves and to listen to the stories of others. The organisation uses media to stimulate cultural dialogue and the exchange of ideas across borders. They expose young media-makers to innovative cultural and artistic approaches. MODE Istanbul organises local, national and international fiction and non-fiction film-making workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions, screenings and gatherings in selected cities,

reflecting the realities and opinions of young people living in different communities across seven regions of Turkey and in Europe. It supports talented young people of various ages and backgrounds, helping them to produce, promote and showcase their media creations. It also provides young people with communication skills, new audiovisual tools and media literacy, empowering them in their creativity and artistic expression.

The Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” (PL)

www.e.org.pl - polska.doc.e.org.pl The Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” carries out socio-cultural projects across Poland, working with young people, cultural animators, representatives from NGOs and cultural centres, teachers, artists and senior citizens. Its project – Poland.doc – invests in young professionals and new talent, giving them the opportunity to describe the world from a grassroots

level, and exploring reality in depth through the making of short documentaries, podcasts and multimedia projects. They encourage young people to observe the dynamic changes in Poland through the eyes of the camera and to tell the country’s story as a counterbalance to the schematic style of television.

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© Matthijs Immink. Doc Next at IDFA 2011: “Is the documentary industry over the hill?”, panel discussion with Stan van Engelen (Metropolis) , Alexandre Brachet (web-doc producer), Jeremy Boxer (Vimeo) and Cath le Couteur (moderator). International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (NL)

www.idfa.nl Where do young opinion-makers share their stories? What do their recordings tell us about Europe? What stories matter to them? Who is the new generation of film-makers, and what is new about them? IDFA is the pre-eminent international festival for creative documentaries. It includes a uniquely international and politically committed film programme that covers a variety of genres, as well as featuring many European and world premieres every year. With sizeable audiences, the festival also runs

debates, workshops and masterclasses attended by respected film-makers. IDFA’s films express the film-maker’s point of view creatively and cinematically, pushing the boundaries of the genre and supporting the development of young talent. In collaboration with Doc Next Network, IDFA investigates the impact of a DIY generation of talented young documentary-makers, and stages new ways of documenting European identities.

ABOUT ECF

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) is an independent foundation based in the Netherlands. We initiate and support cultural exchange and creative expression across wider Europe. We do this because culture inspires, empowers and engages people to create open and democratic societies. Our activities strengthen the connection between Europe and its citizens. We support creative people to learn, connect and transfer knowledge through the projects and grant schemes we run. We have three grant schemes for cultural organisations and creative people from up to 59 countries across wider Europe, which encourage cross-cultural collaboration. ∞ Through the Youth and Media Programme, we facilitate Doc Next Network, which supports young DIY media-makers and promotes their visions on contemporary life in Europe to broad audiences in culture and policy.

∞ The European Neighbourhood programme, along with the Tandem project, connects people who are working together creatively across wider Europe and creates opportunities to produce new artistic work and new cultural capacities. ∞ We co-publish and create new content, both online and offline – following new narratives on Europe and building tools for the cultural sector. ∞ We celebrate creative excellence and impact across Europe through the Princess Margriet Award and the Cultural Policy Research Award, which supports new research in the sector. ∞ Our activities are backed up by advocacy campaigns and actions that reinforce our message – culture is key to an open and democratic European society.

ECF is grateful for the longstanding partnership with the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. As a result of this partnership, ECF gratefully acknowledges the annual financial contribution â&#x20AC;&#x201C; via the Cultuurfonds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from the BankGiro Loterij, the Lotto and the Nationale Instant-Loterij.

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Capturing the views of young European media-makers.