8th RealYOUNG Workshop

m:brane has dedicated its work to become a Greenhouse of development, experiment and opportunity for the network of progressive Producers and Decision Makers forcefully bringing innovative, artistic content with an edge to life for sophisticated, intelligent and savvy young audiences. Since 2015 the m:brane initiative REALYOUNG for Documentaries, has grown stronger and stronger and is now a weighty part of the international Youth Documentary scene.

m:brane’s REALYOUNG is a well designed development scheme, which – in tune with the overall vision of m:brane – bring documentary producers in close dialogue with funders, distributors and a board of youth experts, to strengthen their quest for creating daring, edgy and contemporary projects for the international market.

REALYOUNG Selection 2022

REALYOUNG Pitch – part of main pitch

FRIDAY AT THE WINDOW, Associate Directors, Belgium / Film for 12 – 16 yrs

Generation Influencer, Toolbox Film, Denmark / TV-series for 13 + yrs

SPARK, A5 film, Norway / TV-series for 12 – 18 yrs

REALYOUNG Development

Dakar Sistaz, Frame Films, Czech Republic / TV-series for 14 – 18 yrs

Finding Mbongeni, Nzambenangai Film Productions, South Africa / Film for 16 – 24 yrs (selected in collaboration with Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival)

It’s all Relative, Noctua Ideias e Conteúdo, Brazil / Film for 6 – 12 yrs (selected in collaboration with BRLab/Kids Com)

THE PERFECT MEAL, Anemon Productions, Greece / Multiplatform for 12 – 16 yrs

Head Tutor: Ove Rishøj Jensen, Paradiddle Pictures

Youth Experts

Agnes Rishøj Pedersen, 14 yrs, Denmark

David Nyed, 16 yrs, Sweden

Morgan Norberg, 15 yrs, Sweden

Josefine Bering Olsen, 14 yrs, Denmark

Experts

Kez Margrie, Commisioning Editor, BBC, United Kingdom

Charlotte Madsen, Commissioning Editor/Documentary, SVT, Sweden

Meike Statema, Head of Talent Development, IDFA, The Netherlands

Alexandre Brachet, founder and CEO, Upian, France

Elizabeth Klinck, E Klinck Research, Canada

m:brane’s REALYOUNG is done in collaboration with Paradiddle Pictures, that is offering documentary training, guidance, content and partnership, based in Copenhagen, DK and IDFA – the world’s biggest documentary film festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The workshop is on invitation only