Binger Filmlab

Directors Lab
Every year in March / 4 months
A mega-lab programme allowing directors to profoundly explore a screenplay they are preparing to direct, while simultaneously developing voice and a personal engagement with the essential work of putting breath and blood in the characters and story which lies within the script pages.

Writers Lab
Every year in September / 5 months
A pressure cooker development process for screenwriters and writer/directors, challenges them to not only write an effective screenplay but also fully connect with the intention and meaning of the script to themselves and to their intended audience.

Creative Producers Lab
Every year in September / 5 months
This process allows producers to concentrate on story development and develop their language and practice of working with their own writers and directors as a true collaborator and creative partner.

Docu Coach 2010: Heddy Honigmann
February 2010 / individual coaching
Coaching on demand for talented and experienced Netherlands-based documentary filmmakers by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann.

Company!
April 2010 / 12 months, 11 x three days workshops
Company! is aimed at Dutch producers focusing on strategies to strengthen and (re)design the long-term viability and growth of their production company. This includes workshops on financial management, organisational structuring and negotiation but even more on finding out-of-the-box strategies in evolving their company, working creatively with writers and directors and cultivating a new vision for marketing and distribution.

Doc Lab
June 2010 / 18 months, workshops at Binger and indiviual coaching
This programme offers talented documentary filmmakers coaching from fine-tuning the initial idea, through narrative development, the actual shooting, to the editing of their film and on towards festival platforming, marketing and release.