CINEIMPACT – International Film Academy
invites you to
SENSORY IMMERSION IN TRANSYLVANIA
Film & Anthropology By Practice
17th – 24th of May
Cluj-Napoca & the surrounding region
Romania
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2 Film Production Sections
exploring
Non-Fiction & Hybrid Storytelling, Film & Transmedia Production, Cinema & Anthropology Interaction
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Details of the Summer Academy Content can be found here
Details of the Summer Academy Application can be found here
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During next spring, you can warm up your creative adrenaline within CINEIMPACT Film Academy, an international art and social program dedicated to the sustainable production of high-quality Film and Immersive Story Design, with the support of Sensory Ethnography, Visual Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences.
The Program offers the chance to discover Transylvania through a genuinely immersive experience, learning how to bridge Non-Fiction Cinematography, Docu-Fiction Scriptwriting, Story Editing and Self-Communication, empowered by the human-centered insights of Anthropological Gaze and Research.
The program takes place in Cluj-Napoca – a considered the hot-spot of Transylvania for its fabulous socio-cultural complexity. The project development location reveal unknown realms of Cluj-Napoca area, which interweave the experiences of past and present. You have the opportunity to create a personal story while immersing yourself into a mix of old-fashioned local heritage and post-industrial urbanity, that create a focal cinematic crossroad of pre- and post-communist society. The local environment and community dynamics make Cluj-Napoca the ideal space to learn, communicate and step up to the next level of your creative self.
The Candidates are evolving in one or more of the following fields :
- Independent Filmmaking
- Documentary/Docu-Fiction Film Production
- Documentary/Docu-Fiction Animation
- Audio-Visual Communication / Video Journalism
- Multimodal Research / Visual Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnography
- Sensory Storytelling / Experimental Video Art
- Engaging Videography / Impact Media Production
The candidates are selected based on creative potential, motivation and personality. The selected participants will go through a preparation process.
The applicants can choose from the following Film Production Sections:
1. New Film Production
- the participants will experience the entire process of filmmaking by developing a new film project from A to Z while going through the fundamentals of anthropological field work, pre-production, production and post-production phases, concluding with a brief final touch on project pitching, fine tuning and distribution
2. Work-in-Progress Incubator
- the participants will receive advice and development mentorship on one of their work-in-progress projects, being a non-fiction, docu-fiction or fiction project, challenged by the hardships of script development, pre-production, production or post-production phases, integrating optimizations of project’s package, pitching, rough-cut fine tuning or distribution strategy
Through a unique, internationally acclaimed method, innovatively developed since 2005, in its 11th year of challenging conventional filmmaking, CINEIMPACT journey guides the participants into navigating Sensorial Storytelling and Immersive Empathy by transgressing the boundaries of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Transmedia and Anthropology.
The Cineimpact program selected candidates
will benefit from earning a transdisciplinary method that includes :
- Personalized Innovatory Toolbox using insight, research and creative know-how specific to Social Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology
- Practical Sensorial Storytelling Methodology to optimize your Film, Transmedia, Video Creativity, applicable to projects, topics and causes important for you in order to create empathy, audience engagement and make a difference in your cinematic work
- Documentary/Docu-fiction/Narrative Scriptwriting, enhanced by Applied Anthropology methods
- Mentorship and Method learning confirmed by prestigious international recognition, in-depth transdisciplinary insight and worldwide fieldwork experience
- Skillset for Resilient Film Production, helping the independent creators not to get blocked by lack of material resources, using external limitations as portals for building up internal creativity, solution strategies and artistic outcomes
The Participants
While the selected participants are mentored in building optimal development strategies for their new and work-in-progress film projects, they have the chance to discover their own potential at more comprehensive levels, in an environment that challenges their personal creative limits. From learning to recognize exquisite stories after only few hours of researching potential characters and narrative frameworks, to exercising decision making techniques under time pressure, from learning new editing secrets to creating best fit sound design, the program method gets the participants astonished by how much and how better they can do, in such a short time span.
Navigating a tailored-made and hands-on filmmaking process, the participants are guided through the Cineimpact cognitive journey towards learning how to reach their best and most personal potential.
Mentor
Ionuţ Piţurescu – director, scriptwriter and producer; Dr. in Sociology and Visual Anthropology. Trainer & Consultant equipping creativity and strategy to understand the present and design the future, with professional experience in 40+ countries, creator of steering methods interlacing SDT Cinema, UX Anthropology & Empathic Design. Amid his cinema work, “Quest” (Romania, 32 min) premiered in Cannes IFF, winning Quinzaine des Realisateurs Award at 63rd Cannes Film Festival, while his feature “Borders” (Romania, Denmark, Burma) was chosen among best world projects in the official selection of Cinefondation Atelier at 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Empowering the co-efficiency of Applied Sciences, Interaction Design and Creative Strategy, set out from Mathematics & Computer Science, pursued a MA in Anthropology & Development and a Phd in Sociology & Visual Anthropology. As behavioral social scientist, innovated in transdisciplinary methods that fuse Cross-Cultural Research, Development and Communication, along 20+ years of fieldworking exigent ecosystems in: USA, Mexico, Burma, Morocco, Arctic/Sami area, South-East Asia, Pacific Siberia, Balkan region, etc
In 2008 while teaching at Bucharest University, cofounded the Center for Innovation, Development and Film set to elevate Creative Education & Strategic Global Communication. In 2014 founded Cineimpact Film Academy, designed to champion Empathy and Engagement through the coworking impact of Social Sciences, Transmedia Storytelling & Film . Other details on his work: here
The Films
developed within CINEIMPACT Film Academies have participated in various film festivals, while the carefully selected ones were developed into successful feature length projects such as “Mother and Son” by David Power (director and videographer, edition 2017) invited in prestigious forums and markets such as Lisbon Docs 2018, East Silver 2019, Astra DocTank 2020, East Doc Market 2023, etc
Cineimpact champions an Alumni community with great professional achievements and impressive creative leaps, designing learning experiences for filmmakers from diverse backgrounds and cultures around the globe, such as Sweden, Denmark, United States, Spain, China, Italy, England, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Ghana, Slovakia, Netherlands, India, Slovenia, Indonesia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Turkey, Hong Kong, Switzerland, etc.
Our Students Experience
”I was able to try a lot of different things. This sense of freedom to experiment and to create was really helpful for me. It was a great experience. A new way of doing things, especially if you are interested in the intersection between anthropology and film.”
Nnenna Onuoha – PhD researcher in Anthropology
“I learned a lot about filmmaking, and I had an amazing time working on the film. Great community atmosphere, with colleagues from all over the world. Such an interesting mix of people. It made the experience very, very interesting.”
Oana Țenter – Fulbright Fellow Documentary-making
“It changed me in the way I film, I edit, in the way I prepare. It helped explain things better, understanding the ideas in the film. I was able to ask questions whenever I needed to. I would definitely recommend Cineimpact.”
Ignacio Garcia Sanchez – Filmmaker, storyteller, film editor
“The hardest part was to create the storyline. Not having a script and shooting for three full days made me feel a little bit concerned. But the Cineimpact team helped me extract the story from my footage. I learned so much in such a short time!”
Sergiu Chirău – Videographer, Storyteller
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Apply now for unlocking your career upgrade!
Come as you are,
go with the upgraded knowledge to produce an independent film,
a better understanding of the world,
a result-driven empowerment of your potential!
Does it sound like your comfort zone best creative exit?
If ready to embark on Cineimpact journey by practice,
do not forget to share your call for creative immersion with your friends!
(group applications receive discounts based on the number)
Details of the Cineimpact Academy Content can be found by clicking: here
Details of the Cineimpact Academy Application can be found by clicking: here
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CINEIMPACT
champions
Cinema and Humanity
through
researching, mentoring, igniting
human centered
METHODS, TOOLBOXES & LEARNING EXPERIENCES
by whom
Film and Social Sciences, New Media and Technology, Visual Journalism and Visual Arts
collaborate in optimized ways
to Understand and Impact the Society We Live In
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