Applications are now open for Berlinale Talents 2021! Apply by September 1, 2020, 12:00 noon (CEST).
Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we hope you’re healthy, in
good spirits and pursuing your creative projects where possible. At
Berlinale Talents, we’re working on creating a safe edition in February
2021 that will hopefully be able to welcome everybody to Berlin. In
order to react flexibly to shifting circumstances while upholding our
core values of inclusion and diversity, we plan to expand our digital
offerings and partnerships to reach participants and audiences who might
not be able to attend in person.
With this call for entries, we’d like to encourage you to keep
working with us towards a future where film connects and unites people.
We look forward to meeting you!
Who Can Apply
Actors – New: Audience Designers – Cinematographers – Directors –
Distributors – Editors – Film Critics – Producers – Production
Designers – Sales Agents – Screenwriters – Score Composers – Sound
Designers.
Berlinale Talents is aimed at emerging filmmakers and series creators
who have made at least two or more shorts, a feature film or a
high-quality series that have screened internationally.
Creating access to films, both in local communities and online, has
never been more important. We’re now officially welcoming emerging
curators and founders of audience-centred cinema spaces, VOD platforms
and other film initiatives to apply for Berlinale Talents as „audience
designers“.
See application details and video. Questions? Email talents@berlinale.de.
Summit
Ready to change your perspective? Over 20 public talks and screenings
will help you see the world through a different lens. Recent editions
have featured Cate Blanchett, Olafur Eliasson, Agnès Godard, Raoul Peck,
Kleber Mendonça Filho, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jia Zhang-ke and many more.
Conversations have covered everything from decolonising film archives to
building cinema collectives and writing social media-based series.
Browse our 2020 events and watch recordings of our talks.
Talents Labs
Want to advance your latest project? Apply for the Doc Station, Script Station or Short Form Station
to receive mentoring, finesse your material and present it to industry
players. Producers can submit their advanced feature-length projects to
the Talent Project Market to meet potential co-producers and funders. Learn more and explore last year’s projects.
Our Studios are dedicated to specific disciplines – acting,
cinematography, editing, production design, score composition, sound
design, and distribution, sales and audience design. Small group
settings offer you the chance to learn from experts and peers through
case studies and hands-on exercises. Find out more.
Talent Press invites ten emerging film critics to cover the
Berlinale with all its offerings. Under the guidance of noted mentors,
they attend screenings and events, write reviews and essays, and perfect
their individual style and voice. Visit the Talent Press website.
Networking
Bringing together 250 creatives from over 80 countries and 13
disciplines, plus countless festival and market guests, Berlinale
Talents is all about creating lasting connections. And once you’re part
of the Talents family, you’ll become a member of our worldwide network. Meet our community of over 8,500 alumni.
Alumni Applicants
We’d love to welcome you back as an alum. There are two ways to return.
Apply with a project: Alums who have a project they want to
develop and present can submit it to the Doc Station, Script Station,
Short Form Station or Talent Project Market.
Relive the Summit: Former participants of one of the four
above-mentioned labs can re-apply to take advantage of our Summit
programme of talks, workshops and screenings.
Apply now as an alum.
Still have questions?
Check out our FAQs.
Contact us at talents@berlinale.de.
