Request for Application: Teledoc Campus 2024 (Netherlands)

Dutch Film Fund wants to offer teams of novice directors and producers the opportunity to gain experience. This opens the way to quality documentaries with a cinematographic and unconventional character. Within the same frameworks – television and cinema – in which they will later operate, these makers are given the opportunity to develop their talents via Teledoc Campus. The films are supervised, developed and financed by the Netherlands Film Fund, NPO Fund, NPO and public broadcasters and CoBO.

To stimulate the development of documentary talent, the NPO, NPO Fund, CoBO and the Dutch Film Fund have developed the Teledoc Campus collaboration project. They offer teams of young directors and producers the opportunity to gain experience, after which they can make the leap to full-fledged, long-form productions. Within the same frameworks in which they will later operate (television and cinema), makers are given the opportunity to develop their talents. The films are supervised, developed and financed by the Film Fund, NPO/public broadcasters, NPO Fund and CoBO.

Funding Information  

• The length of the films is 25 minutes, the budget for development including test recordings is a maximum of €7,500, with a compensation for guidance from the producer of € 1,000 and the option for an additional €750 for a coach; the budget for realization is a maximum of € 65,000.
• A maximum of 18 contributions for development and 9 contributions for implementation are awarded annually.

Eligibility Criteria

• This project is open to filmmakers living in the Netherlands who:
  • have made at least one (short) documentary in which their talent and ambition is visible, which has also been broadcast on national or regional television, or shown at a national festival or has had cinema circulation
  • have completed an audiovisual training with a film.
  • have completed another course in which a (short) documentary was produced.
  • In all cases, a director may have made a maximum of three (short) documentaries. Students are excluded.
  • Directors are not affiliated with a broadcaster and can submit a proposal together with one producer they would like to collaborate with.
  • The director and the producer may not be one and the same person.
  • Projects are submitted by a production company and only plans from independent documentary producers will be considered. Preference is given to novice producers with relevant training.
  • In principle, a producer can simultaneously produce a maximum of 2 Teledoc Campuses (realization)
  • The director can be involved in a maximum of 1 Teledoc Campus at the same time and is preferred no production in another process (e.g. Wildcard).

For more information, visit Dutch Film Fund.