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Film & Theatre summer courses in Europe
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Courses 2024
Animation Camp
From the initial idea to the practical realization of the finished film. In this 5-day workshop, you will learn the techniques of animated filmmaking under the guidance of filmmake...
Audiovisual Narrative Forms & Artificial Intelligence
top courseIn this two-week summer school we explore audiovisual narrative forms to read, describe, document and comment on the world as we experience it. You can take your story from here to...
Mining for Gold - Ways into Devising
Are you eager to transform your research or ideas into a performance? Do you want to better understand how to incorporate movement, text and maybe even song or puppetry into a perf...
Storytelling and Puppets: Telling the Stuff of Living
“It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with.” ~ Donna Haraway This workshop is an exploration int...
The Many Masks of the Clown
This 4-day workshop will enlist help from the clown, the shaman and the fool to playfully explore the liminal and take bold leaps into the unknown. How can we be spontaneous in ou...
Theatre & Performance
The Contemporary British and Irish Theatre and Performance programme offers a unique course in the theory and practice of drama in Britain and Ireland today. This two-week course p...
Residential Filmmaking and Screen Acting Summer Camp
For young people who love films, whether it’s creating them or acting in them, YFA’s all-inclusive Residential Filmmaking and Screen Acting Summer Camp is a dream come true: a chan...
Urbanism and Embodied Performance
Berlin, with its rich tapestry of history, culture, and innovation, offers us a unique canvas to explore. During this workshop, you will traverse through different parts of Berlin,...
Embodied Writing
This two-day collaborative laboratory will explore writing as a political, physical and playful practice in the three-dimensional space. Using aspects of Pochinko clown technique,...
The Power of Sound
top courseFrom thought to sound for beginners. Most people assume that the sound they hear on film is the real sound of the film. This is what it sounded like when it was shot. Nothing co...
Balinese Mask Play
In Bali, masks are understood as capable of momentarily collecting a portion of cosmic energy, the vital life of the universe. As such they are understood to help visualize the div...
Digital Archives
In our third year we will emphasize machine-assisted processes, offering beginner classes in how to use widely adopted open source tools to support archival tasks: including metada...
Past courses
Lights, Camera, Action: Craft a Short Film in Two Weeks!
This summer school program covers everything from idea development to final cut, engaging in hands-on workshops that encompass screenwriting, pre-production, directing, and using p...
Short Film
Tallinn Summer School, in cooperation with the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM) offers an inspiring course of practical film-making. During the three-week course, experi...
Acting: Self-Preparation – the Secret to Success.
This course shows working methods and strategies for the emancipation and self-empowerment of actors who either plan their own project or want to meet the director and the ensemble...
Writing for Performance
Writing for Performance enables participants to initiate, develop and present a piece of creative writing for performance. Whether you're interested in playwriting, dramatic monol...
The Power of the Visual: Creative Documentary and Human Rights
The course invites artists, students, and scholars in humanities and social sciences who are engaged in the production, distribution, and analysis of documentary visual imagery and...
Directing: Self-preparation – the Secret to Success.
In this course, you will mainly be faced with questions. With all the questions you should ask in the context of your preparation. The precise professional, personal catalogue of q...
Roots and Routes
8-day residential theatre training based on two main courses (students choose one of the four options offered in each course) with sharing, interweaving and collaboration in a nutu...
International Film and Acting Summer School (IFAS)
One month in Italy this summer: Join our unique hands-on filmmaking training programs! We have created this Intensive Film and Acting Course in English to provide a defining expe...
Writing for the Stage - 2 workshops
online courseTwo 10-hour weekend (daytime) courses on writing for the stage (also relevant to screenplay, podcast, roleplay). Course 1 is a starter/introduction course looking at structure, c...
Who needs Hollywood? Liverpool in TV and Film Culture: 1973-2023
This module will explore the city of Liverpool’s importance and contribution to TV and film culture, demonstrating how over the years Liverpool has earned itself a place on the m...
London History and Culture in Image and Film
You will be studying London through visits, tours, talks, walks, screenings, events and from this develop your knowledge of the city and the town's history and culture. The scope o...
Filming from the Margins: Gender, Class Equality and Minority Groups in Contemporary Catalan Cinema
The Catalan audiovisual sector is expanding despite facing obstacles, since Spanish politics diminishes its singularity. Catalan language productions encounter a disadvantage in th...
Hands-On Filmmaking Workshop
Invisible Myths is a filmmaking hands-on workshop offering a unique opportunity for people to exapnd their filmmaking abilities by creating a short film in the stunning setting of...
Action! Introduction to Film Studies
This module will introduce students to the discipline of Film Studies by focusing on the main theoretical and technical aspects of filmmaking. Through lectures, seminars, screening...
Courses 2023
Documentary Summer School (Locarno Film Festival)
Join us at the Documentary Summer School (DSS), an esteemed program that has been providing an exceptional learning experience for the past 24 years. Located amidst the vibrant atm...
Drama Games and Creative Storytelling in the Classroom - July
This one-week course will focus on the techniques and theory through practice in the way we are using our creativity to produce interesting short stories and drama games in the edu...
Drama and experiential learning for inclusion - August
Drama techniques and experiential learning can help raise awareness on various topics such as climate change, human rights, disabilities and refugees .Theatre can be a power tool f...
Creative Writing & Film Summer School Programme London (16-18)
Immerse Education is a residential academic programme with a diverse and enriching curriculum. Our 16-18 year old programmes are designed to provide a taster of what it’s like to s...
Smartphone Filmmaking and Visual Storytelling
blended courseThis is an innovative course, covering lean and adaptive phone-based filmmaking, with an emphasis on positive stories that will affect social change.
Devised Performance and Activism
Berlin is known as a Mecca for street art. With roots in the movements of Punk and Hip Hop, street art remains to the present day one form of activism to express protest and vision...
The Practice of Embodiment
The workshop explores the relationship between the human body in movement and the dynamic structures, opposing forces and dramatic composition within music and architecture. It inv...
Filmmaking, Creativity and Storytelling through Teaching - August
This one-week course will focus on the techniques and theory through practice in the way we are using our creative thought to produce interesting stories and films. During the cour...
Meeting the Trickster Within
(Integral Movement and Performance Practice, IMPP) Taking trickster tales and shapeshifter myths from around the world as a point of departure, the workshop explores the archetype...
Film
You will have a combination of lectures, screenings, and workshops to help you develop the theoretical knowledge that you will need to put into practice when working on the project...
Storytelling and Objects: Telling the Stuff of Living
“It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with.” ~ Donna Haraway This workshop is an exploration int...
Filmmaking, Creativity and Storytelling through Teaching - July
This one-week course will focus on the techniques and theory through practice in the way we are using our creative thought to produce interesting stories and films. During the cour...
Music of the Body
In this workshop, across three afternoons you will explore the connections between body, movement and music, leading to instant group compositions and improvised musical worlds. Th...
One, Two, Many - Crossroads Between Theatre and Dance
A vigorous, physical and refreshing journey for actors, dancers and other movement performers interested in experiencing the huge potential of movement in theatre. One, two or man...
Berlin Drifts
The workshop is an invitation to explore the dynamic relationship between the human body and their environment, and how this relationship informs, nurtures, and provokes the artist...
Embodied Writing
This three-day collaborative laboratory will explore writing as a political, physical and playful practice in the three-dimensional space. Using aspects of Pochinko clown technique...
Filmmaking, Creativity and Storytelling Through Teaching - Athens April
This one-week course will focus on the techniques and theory through practice in the way we are using our creative thought to produce interesting stories and films. During the cour...
Drama Games and Creative Storytelling: Breaking Down Ethnicity and Social Barriers (Athens)
During the course of this seminar the participants will learn how to create interesting stories through creativity games and how to use drama games in their educational environment...
Summer Film Camp
The Film Camp is a twelve-day intensive program for international film enthusiasts who want to receive and in-depth introduction into the theory and practice of filmmaking. Part...
Sweet 16 - Analogue Film Camp
Sweet 16 is a six day creative exploration of the art of 16mm filmmaking.
Drama and Experiential Learning for Inclusion - April
Drama techniques and experiential learning can help raise awareness on various topics such as climate change, human rights, disabilities and refugees .Theatre can be a power tool f...
Films in Venice and Filming Venice
The Summer School Films in Venice and Filming Venice is an initiative of Venice International University, in partnership with its member universities Ca' Foscari, Iuav, Tel Aviv, W...
Czech Culture in Film and Literature
This course aims at exploring modern Czech and Central European culture through studies in film and literature with a special focus on Schwejkian and Kafkaesque features of 20th ce...
Drama Games and Creative Storytelling in the Classroom - July (2)
This one-week course will focus on the techniques and theory through practice in the way we are using our creativity to produce interesting short stories and drama games in the edu...
Film Studies Summer School Programme Oxford (16-18)
Immerse Education is a residential academic programme with a diverse and enriching curriculum. Our 16-18 year old programmes are designed to provide a taster of what it’s like to s...
Visual Ethnography: A Mode of Ethnographic Translation
Would you like to learn more about filmmaking, ethnography, and their intersections? In this workshop, we will provide you with the theoretical framework and practical skillset to...
Balinese Mask Play
In Bali, masks are understood as capable of momentarily collecting a portion of cosmic energy, the vital life of the universe. As such they are understood to help visualize the div...
Neorealist Filmmaking – Rome, Now
The art of filmmaking, telling your world in real time As in Italian Neorealism, Nouvelle Vague, and Independent Cinema, in this course you will go out on the streets and narrate...
Film Studies Summer School Programme Oxford (13-15)
Immerse Education is a residential academic programme with a diverse and enriching curriculum. Our 16-18 year old programmes are designed to provide a taster of what it’s like to s...
Courses 2022
Films in Venice and Filming Venice
The Summer School Films in Venice and Filming Venice is an initiative of Venice International University, in partnership with its member universities Ca' Foscari, Iuav, Tel Aviv, W...
Introduction to Special Effects in Filmmaking
Have you ever wondered how special effects are created and produced in films? This module provides an insight into special effects and the opportunity to develop practical filmmaki...
Film & Media
Based in the Department of Film and Creative Writing, this programme provides an introduction to studying and experiencing film and media culture in the United Kingdom. Seminars, l...
Visual Ethnography as Activist Work
Would you like to learn more about filmmaking, photography, ethnography, activism, and their intersections? Then this workshop is for you! We will provide you with the theoretical...
Intensive Theatre Workshop
3-day residential workshop "The Modern Chorus", an acting and devising course that explores comtemporary uses of the chorus and how to integrate these into a devised piece.
Brazil - Cross Dynamics of Otherness
There is a sense of historical impotence when one is confronted with the mavericks perpetrated by Brazilian government in recent years. One of the most significant outcomes from su...
Editing for Film and Video Art
This workshop examines how filmmakers and video artists can use editing to create and clarify meaning. After watching and discussing clips from a wide range of films, the participa...
Dramatic Interpretation of Music and Theatre – Methods and Application Training
Immersing into the world of opera through action methods: basic knowledge about acting processes comes from individual experience and leads to the development of methodological com...
Courses 2021
Introduction to Film and Psychoanalysis
online courseFilm and Psychoanalysis emerged in the same year, when the Lumière brothers patented the cinematograph in France in 1895, just as the Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud published t...
Reading Theatre: a Play a Week
online courseThis six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama will see you form your very own theatre book club. You will read a different play text each week in your ow...
LEATSS On Tour
online courseOnline courses for theatre-related subjects over one or two weekends (13-14/3, 20-21/3): Writing for theatre; Creative acting in new work, Singing, Voice work
Summer Film Camp
The Film Camp is a two-week intensive program for international film enthusiasts that provides insights into the theory and practice of filmmaking. The focus of the camp is set on...
Cinematic Representations of Memory: A Psychoanalytic Investigation Online Workshop
online courseSigmund Freud, in his book The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), wrote: "Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsi...
Stage or Screen: Finding a Story's Home
online courseThis six-week online evening course at Guildhall School of Music & Drama is ideal if you have an urgency to write and find your voice, but are unsure if a particular idea is suited...
The Copenhagen Experience
A week-long workshop-style course on various topics related to dramatic work, with one thematic course on acting and development in the mornings, master classes in the afternoons a...
Filmmaking
DUE TO THE ONGOING PANDEMIC THIS COURSE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER 2022 From scriptwriting to finished film, this intense course offers the chance to learn about the fundam...
Films in Venice and Filming Venice
The Summer School Films in Venice and Filming Venice is an initiative of Venice International University, in partnership with its member universities Ca' Foscari, Iuav, Tel Aviv, W...
Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy
blended courseThe Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy is a training initiative, jointly developed by the Global Campus of Human Rights and Picture People, which will take place fr...
Music in Film: Discovering the Magic of Music in Film, from Hitchcock to Scorsese
online courseIt is often said that, if we notice film music, then it is not doing its job properly. But who amongst us has not, whilst watching a film, been moved to tears by a poignant melody,...
Courses 2020
Films in Venice and Filming Venice
The Summer School Films in Venice and Filming Venice is an initiative of Venice International University, in partnership with its member universities Ca' Foscari, Iuav, Tel Aviv, W...
Courses 2019
Archive-based Filmmaking Workshop
The international summer school “Archive-based Filmmaking: The James Forsher Archive in the Classroom” aims to train students in national and international MA and MEd programs in a...
Films in Venice and Filming Venice Summer School
The Summer School Films in Venice and Filming Venice is an initiative of Venice International University, in partnership with its member universities Ca' Foscari, Iuav, Tel Aviv, W...
Courses 2018
Filmmaking & Screen Acting
For young people who love films, whether it’s creating them or acting in them, YFA's all-inclusive Summer Camp is a dream come true: a chance to eat, sleep and breathe movies! The...
Films in Venice and Filming Venice Summer School
The Summer School Films in Venice and Filming Venice is an initiative of Venice International University, in partnership with its member universities Ca' Foscari, Iuav, Tel Aviv, W...
Film Academy
*Ages 15-18* LITE Regal Film Course allows you to pursue your interests in filmmaking in a fully integrated programme of study. For the course in filmmaking and screenwriting, you...
Courses 2017
Film Summer School
Do you want to spend this summer in a creative way and do you want to discover Amsterdam and learn everything about film? Amsterdam Summer School is the place to be. We have an...
Workshop in Media Literacies: Film Literacy Education
During the course, participants will analyze movies from film studies’ perspective and learn several film theories and important elements of film such as genre, narrative and style...
Met Young Filmmakers Camp
Young Filmmakers Camp is a supervised residential programme for young people aged between 14-17 who want to discover the dynamic and exciting world of filmmaking. Students build pr...
Filmmaking Summer School
Do you want to learn from experienced academics and professionals how to make a short fictional film? Join our Summer School where you will have access to specialised equipment and...
Courses 2016
Cygnet Theatre Summer Course
This five day course will use Shakespeare and Contemporary texts to explore approaches to acting and characterisation. Voice, movement and improvisation are key focuses as partici...
Hands - On Filmmaking
*Ages 13-17* Students will be introduced to the language and practice of filmmaking. They will be taught, in theory and in practice, what it means to be a director, a screenwriter...
The Prague Theatre Summer School
The Summer School 2016 provides theatre students and beginning practitioners with diverse, hands-on immersion in the basic principles and practices of dramatic and puppet theatre f...
Courses 2012
Devising Theatre
This inspiring and motivating summer school is brought to you by nationally and internationally recognised performance practitioners and teachers. The team of specialists, both ind...
Directing Theatre
Throughout the course students will work with an experienced director to explore the art of directing, discover your own strengths and develop your individual directing style. Focu...