Film Spring Open 2018

Film Spring Open is co-financed by the culture and film institutions. This lets organizers offer a great training programme for the registration fee of only about 70 euro.

All the equipment for rent and software are available with no additional fees.

Film Spring Workshop 2017 was co-financed by Creative Europe MEDIA Sub-programme, audiovisual training, The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Polish Film Institute, The City of Krakow and Małopolska Region.

Co-organizers: Krakow Festival Office, Krakow Film Commission.

Partners: Polish Filmmakers Association, The Noble Box (Szlachetna Paczka), Allegro, Krakow Film Cluster, Lexus, Legal Culture (Legalna Kultura), The Polish Society of Cinematographers.

The 13th edition of Film Spring Workshop will take place in Krakow,

17 - 26 October, 2018.

Last year's edition was a great success. We hosted over 350 guests and film experts from Poland and abroad

and the record number of technology partners who delivered equipment worth over 1,6 million Euro.

The special guest was Neil Corbould, a two-time Oscar winner for special effects (Gravity, Gladiator).

Juliette Binoche at FSO 2016

Editing Room

The Programme

In 2015 Film Spring Open was awarded for the best professional training programme by the Polish Film Institute.

Film Spring Open workshop was recognized by European experts and 2017/18 editions were granted funding from Creative Europe „Media - Training”.

You decide how to participate.

Participants can attend all

or choose between:

• lectures,
• workshops,
• tests of the equipment,
• meetings with well-known directors, actors and other professionals.

Participants can work on their

film projects with the support of tutors in the artistic group of their choice:

• Script Writing
• Film Previses,
• Game Jam,
• Interactive Narration,
• VR,
• Documentaries,
• New Production Model,
• CGI and Modern Editing,
• Commercial and Promo Films,
• Music Videos,
• ,Nature Film Group,
• Web Filmmakers Group.

Film Spring Workshop is a 10-day interdisciplinary workshop for young filmmakers, established in 2005 by Prof. Sławomir Idziak.

Natalie Portman and Sławomir Idziak at FSO 2015

Screenings of the selected, awarded films and discussions with their makers.

Screenings of the participants' previous films which they want to show others.

The Final Screening of the films made by participants during our workshop.

Our Technology Partners:

Arri, Angenieux, Barco, JBD, HP, Canon, Sony, Samsung, LuksFilm, 4Vision, Akurat Lighting, Blackmagic, Cyfrowa Republika, Panasonic, Hawlett Packard Enterprise, Maxon, IT Serwis, Cinerental, GLC, Eizo, Movie Bird, Graficzne.pl, InventCore, Krakowski Park Technologiczny, GoPro, Rehard, Box Electronics, Beiks, Neil Corbould Special Effects, Gmotion, Qbig, MBS, Kingston, Uav Robotics, CamSat, Technologia Filmowa, Benro, Samyang, Creative Tools (Red Authorized Dealer), Adicam, Mad Tree, Roland, VR Games, Bemix Media Group, Clico.

Filming with MovieBird and Elite

Our lecturers and tutors are the most outstanding specialists in their field.

Film Spring Workshop is a unique meeting point for film and new media professionals, students and debutants, who can develop their artistic and technical skills in a spirit of cooperation and shared passion for cinema. Our participants attend workshops and lectures from award-winning top professionals, participate in screenings and meetings with film directors, learn new technologies, test hands-on the newest equipment and most of all, make their films using the best film equipment available on the market. Film Spring Workshop’s exceptional educational formula is based on learning through working as well as on modern approach to film making and venturing into the future in the audio-visual sector.

They include Oscar winners: Natalie Portman, Juliette Binoche, Neil Corbould, Mia Bays, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Allan Starski, Ewa Puszczyńska, and many other outstanding professionals: Hasraf Dullul (Haz), Małgorzata Szumowska, Detlev Buck, Magnus Von Horn, Lech Majewski, Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze, Dorota Kędzierzawska, Arthur Reinhart, Marcel Łoziński, Hanna Polak, Marcin Koszałka, Tomasz Wasilewski, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Bodo Kox, Wojciech Staroń, Rafał Hanzl, Jacek Szymczak, Bogdan Dziworski, Anna Maliszewska, Kaspar Kallas, Tomasz Bagiński, Rafał Wieczorek, Daniele Siragusano, Dawid Ogrodnik, Maciej Pieprzyca and others.

For whom

Initiator of Film Spring Open - Sławomir Idziak- is an Oscar nominated cinematographer especially known for Kieslowski’s Double Life of Veronique, Three colours: Blue, Short film about killing, as well as Gattaca, Black Hawk Down, King Arthur, Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix.

Film Spring Workshop is attended every year by young people from across Europe e.g. Poland, Germany, Great Britain, France, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and from further away, e.g. Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Canada. We host representatives of all professions from the industry: directors, cinematographers, actors, writers, editors, specialists in digital effects and post-production, painters, sculptors, body painting specialists, programmers, animators, graphic designers, game developers, producers, composers, musicians, artists, sound engineers, YouTubers. We welcome young debutants, artists, film and art students and graduates, young entrepreneurs as well as experienced professionals working in the audio-visual sector.

Film Spring Open lectures are streamed live and later made available for a wider audience on our YouTube channel.

Our participants have at their disposal a film equipment warehouse, a lighting warehouse, technical advice centre, professional gaffers helping with set lighting, editing room with several high-tech workstations and regular editing and programming supervision, and a screening room.

Starting from 2016 they can also use the Cinebus – a mobile film studio, which is a tool of the New Production Model advocated by us.

Cost

Our Partners

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https://filmspringopen.eu/en/

Cinebus - a mobile film studio

biuro@filmspringopen.eu