CHANGE - Co-production training course 2026-2027
CPH:DOX, Documentary Film Association of Ukraine, Docudays UA, EAVE and IMS are calling for eight teams with documentary projects in development from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Sakartvelo (Georgia), Moldova, and Ukraine.
We offer a tailor-made programme taking place over three residential workshops with the aim to stimulate and qualify inter-regional co-production and to connect documentary projects to regional and international markets. Participants are tutored by regional and international experts.
The first two workshops will consist of five full days of group work, plenaries, and individual meetings; the third workshop will take place CPH:DOX and consists of workshop days, pitching of the projects in the framework of CPH:FORUM as well as debrief of the pitching and development of strategies for the teams and projects after the workshop.
Between the workshops, participants will be working on project development with specific tasks and assignments.
Applications are open to teams consisting of a director and a producer with a documentary project in development.
The following criteria must be met:
The team must be from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Sakartvelo (Georgia), Moldova, or Ukraine.
The producer must be based in the country of production, unless the project originates from Belarus or Azerbaijan.
Participants who have previously taken part in CHANGE are not eligible to apply, unless they are applying in a different role (e.g. switching from director to producer or vice versa).
All participants must be comfortable reading, writing, and speaking English, as this is the working language of the programme.
The film project shall:
Demonstrate to cover topics of public interest in a professional and ethical way.
Have an idea of how to reach intended audiences and be a call for action.
Seek to have an impact on the public debate leading to potential social, political, or cultural change.
Priority is given to productions focusing on issues of gender equality, marginalized groups and minorities, diversity, social change, current affairs, and human rights.
We are committed to equal opportunity for all applicants. Projects that cross the field between documentary and journalism are also welcome.
Applications must be submitted by the stated deadline. The application deadline for the 2026-2027 edition is August 10, 2026.
The application form can be downloaded here. Completed applications should be submitted in accordance with the instructions provided in the form. For questions or further information, please contact Mara Gourd-Mercado at [email protected].
Following the application deadline, a selection of applicants may be invited for an online interview in August to further clarify their application. The final selection will be announced in early September 2026.
There is no participation fee for CHANGE. The programme covers tutoring, travel, accommodation, and living expenses for all three residential workshops.
Participants are responsible for covering their own local transportation costs.
PUBLICATION & DATA POLICY
PUBLICATIONS
Selected projects will be presented in the CPH:INDUSTRY catalogue with the information submitted for the application. The catalogue will be distributed to accredited professionals attending CPH:DOX.
Selected projects will be presented on our website cphdox.dk. Please note that the only following information is publicly available: project title, name of director(s), production country, logline and main still. On a password protected platform, selected financiers and industry representatives will have access to more detailed project descriptions including the synopsis/treatment, production status and financing scenario, and teaser/trailer.
If selected, you will be asked to provide a final set of stills and texts. By providing these materials, you give CPH:DOX permission to use them at www.cphdox.dk and for promotional purposes for CPH:FORUM 2027.
Selected teams will be presented in the CPH:INDUSTRY catalogue with their name, portrait picture, professional title, country, professional biography and contact email. They will also be presented in the online guestlist on CPH:DOX’s website, where a public available information includes name, portrait picture, professional title and country, while a password protected area in addition gives CPH:DOX accredited guests access to peoples’ professional profile and contact email (if agreed to). Directors of selected projects are offered to present a selected title among their previous work on Festival Scope.
DATA POLICY
By submitting a project, you accept our data policy in accordance with the GDPR. Moreover, during the events we document the process by taking photos or filming and we use this for promoting our events. Lastly, for fulfilling our reporting obligations to our funding partners, we report all the relevant information about the selected projects and teams that are treated as sensitive data and are not disclosed to the public.
CREDITS
CPH:DOX requires the CPH:DOX logo to be included in the credits of the film, once finalised, with the following sentence mentioned in the credit list:
“[TITLE] has been presented at CPH:FORUM of CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival [YEAR]”.
Download the CPH:DOX logo here.
