CINEIMPACT Film Academy
invites you to
Sustainable Film Production
Visual and Communication Anthropology
Disruptive Storytelling
in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
1st – 8th of February 2026, Spain
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15 days of Practical Learning and Personal Mentorship :
8 days On-Site + 7 days On-Line
2 Filmcelerator Production Sections :
A. New Film Production
B. Work-in-Progress Incubator
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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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During 8 Days On-Site plus further 7 Days On-Line Sessions, you have the chance to warm up your creative adrenaline within CINEIMPACT Film Academy, an international art and social program dedicated to the sustainable production of high-quality Films and Immersive Story Design, with the support of Sensory Ethnography, Visual Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences.
Through Cineimpact Film Academy courses you learn
How you can get your documentary, docu-fiction or scripted project to reach the exigence of Cannes (and beyond) creative elite!
How you can bridge disruptive storytelling and social personal insight in order to bring your creativity to the attention of your strategic audiences!
How you can become an even better communicator, story writer and innovator with the resources that are around you, co-creatively ready when you are ready!
The Program brings together Non-Fiction Cinematography, Docu-Fiction Scriptwriting, Story Editing and Engagement Communication with the human-centered insights of Social Sciences. The program activities take place in La Palmas de Gran Canaria, considered by many one of the best winter locations for natural, social and cultural heritage explorations. A port town that mixes Mediterranean and North-African flavors. Las Palmas is the largest city in Spain’s Canary Islands. Modernist, Bauhaus and Spanish colonial architecture, generous sandy beaches and winter daytime temperatures create together the urban paradise of an endless summer. The local heritage and community dynamics make Las Palmas an inviting place to learn, communicate and reach the next level of your creative voice.
The Candidates shall have or are motivated to gain best-practice experience in one or more of the following fields:
- Independent Filmmaking, Documentary/Docu-Fiction Film, Documentary/Docu-Fiction Animation, Audio-Visual Communication, Video Journalism, Visual Anthropology/Sociology/Ethnography, Multimodal Research, Sensory Storytelling, Engaging Videography, Experimental Multimedia, Impact Media Production
The candidates will be selected especially based on creative potential, motivation and personality. The selected participants will go through a preparation process. Through a unique, internationally acclaimed method, innovatively developed since 2005, in its 10th year of challenging conventional filmmaking, CINEIMPACT creative adventure guides the participants into exploring Sensorial Storytelling and Immersive Empathy by transgressing the boundaries of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Transmedia and Anthropology.
The applicants for the spring academy can choose from the following Film Production Sections:
1. New Film Production
- the participants will experience the entire process of film making 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
…The Cineimpact program selected candidates
will benefit from earning a transdisciplinary method that includes :
- Personalized Innovatory Toolbox using insight, research and creative methods specific to Social Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology
- Methods to optimize your Film, Transmedia, Video Creativity, applicable to projects, topics and causes important for you
- Audio-visual and Sensorial Storytelling able to create empathic audience engagement and make a difference in your cinematic work
- Documentary/Docu-fiction/Narrative/Experimental Scriptwriting, enhanced by Applied Anthropology methodology
- Interaction within the Cineimpact Film Academy with social environments and colleagues from diversity-oriented backgrounds
- Mentorship and Method learning confirmed by prestigious international recognition, in-depth transdisciplinary insight and worldwide fieldwork experience
- Film Production Resilience Skillset, adapted for independent creators, designed for not being blocked by lack of financial or material resources, using external limitations as portals for improved 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 fulfill their best and most personal creative 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 Interaction 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 of high-quality creative projects 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 knowledge to produce an independent film, a better understanding of your-self and of world’s interactions.
If ready to embark on Cineimpact practice-based journey,
do not forget to share your call for creative adventure with your friends!
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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