DocLisboa x UNDO:
Filmmaking Seminar 2025
Doclisboa x UNDO:
Filmmaking Seminar 2025
Open Call for participants
Sep 10 — Oct 4
Screenings & Seminar Runs
Oct 17 — 21
30€ on acceptance.
In this edition of Doclisboa’s Filmmaking Seminar, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (UNDO) is back for the 7th edition as a partner co-designing the four day engagement, bringing a special opportunity for participants to connect deeply with an exciting collection of work and stage productive, structured conversations about the ideas and provocations that this work can inspire.
Together, we propose to explore radical filmmaking practices through collectively built research and discussion. The Seminar comprises four sessions pulling from this year’s festival program, showcasing different film works being presented at Doclisboa through a creative and social format.
Seminar Overview
During the seminar, which will run October 17th through 21st, participants will receive tickets to four festival screenings to watch films with the public and then have dedicated space to gather separately each day to deconstruct preconceptions and find useful ways to approach the relevant questions and meaningful insights that these films have to offer through a series of intimate small discussions that form a larger collective experience.
Participants in the seminar will be encouraged to share their ideas, combine knowledge, raise questions, share epiphanies, and perspectives in breakout groups and collective discussions. A small and temporary community will be formed, bonded around a commitment to think through these questions together and we hope will inspire long-lasting connections too.
As the seminar is only open to 30 people, there is a short and simple application required and a fee of 30 Euros for selected participants. We invite applications from people of all backgrounds who are interested to open their minds, deconstruct their preconceptions and find useful questions and meaningful insights embedded in artists’ cinema and documentary art.
The seminar is conducted in English and is led and produced by Christopher Allen & Jenny Miller of UnionDocs.
Please note that travel and lodging for the festival are not included in the program.
