Call for Projects: Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam (Ouaga Film Lab)

The next edition of the Ouaga Film Lab will take place from 15 to 22 September 2024, in Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire, under the name “Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam.” The Lab provides an inspiring environment for story creation, supporting authors and developing high-quality film projects.

A total of 10 projects will be selected to participate in this unique development and support experience. Participants (directors and producers) will have the opportunity to benefit from personalized mentoring and feedback from industry experts to refine their projects and prepare them for production.

At the end of the Lab, the best projects will be rewarded with residency grants to support creativity and innovation.

Objectives

• Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam development and co-production laboratory’s main goal is to strengthen the competitiveness of African directors and producers to get to different major international laboratories and to attend international residencies, local funding, international co-productions and their close collaboration with established mentors from the continent.
• Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam presents a selection of cinematographic projects and offers to the selected project leaders (teams of directors and producers) an opportunity to develop their projects, to learn about techniques of presentation and to get in contact with potential partners, in order to facilitate the financing of their projects.

Eligible Projects

• Eligible projects must be:
  • Feature films (more than 60 min)
  • Series including at least 3 épisodes – fictions or documentaries. The total duration of the 3 episodes must be at least 60 minutes

Eligibility Criteria

• Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam is dedicated to film project leaders from all over the African continent:
  • All projects must be presented by a director and a producer
  • The director and the producer msut be two different persons
  • The director must be from an African country
  • The producer must be from an African country
• Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam intends to select 10 projects and invite 20 participants (10 directors and 10 producers) for the residential phase in Grand-Bassam. These project leaders will be put in contact with mentors, consultants with whom they will work before, during and after the Lab.
• The files must be written in French or English.
• Any candidate (director or producer) can submit maximum 2 projects.

For more information, visit Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam.