The Story Room is a cosy virtual hub open to all DAE filmmakers working on a project and eager to engage and share with other DAE filmmakers across the world.
Join us for our DAE Story Room and the DAE Story Room Shorts, a dedicated space for short film projects.
This format is an off-the-stage space where filmmakers meet, present projects and discuss challenges during development or post-production, seek advice before going into the open or listen in to other projects, collecting and sharing resources.
Even if you’re early on in your project or just curious to meet new people, this format is for you. Benefit from the knowledge of the group, contribute to the discussion and meet other DAE filmmakers from across the world.
Find out more about the Story Room and Story Room Shorts, our new format dedicated to short films!
NEW IN!! THE STORY ROOM SHORTS
Next up on Friday, AUG 15 (15:00 CEST / UTC+2)
Looking for feedback on your short film project? Curious to learn more about the short film community? This is your place to be. The Story Room Shorts is facilitated by our short film experts Sanne Jehoul and Vincent Foerster. The Story Room Shorts will run every few months on a Friday afternoon.
Our next Story Room Shorts session is on Friday, AUG 15 (15 CEST / Berlin Time).
To participate (with or without a project) and be informed, please fill in this form. If you register with a project, we will get back to you to arrange for a slot. Please do reach out to storyroomshorts@dae-europe.org if you have any questions.
THE STORY ROOM
The Story Room will open every first Friday of every other month. We distinguish between (Pre-)Development/Production Story Room and Rough Cut Story Room which happen interchangeably with two project presentations per 2-hour session. The Story Room will also invite industry professionals from various fields for inputs tailored to the needs of the group.
The Story Room is led and facilitated by DAE Senior Consultants Laura Kloeckner, Mariia Ponomarova and Bronte Stahl.
Our next Story Room session will be in August (TBA).
The group will focus on projects in rough-cut stage. Members only, to register, please fill in this form and send an email to storyroom@dae-europe.org with a short description of your project to arrange for a slot.
We have created a Community Agreement that all participants agree to when they enter this space. Please find it here for review before joining.
About Sanne Jehoul:
Sanne Jehoul is an arts and film worker across programming and curation, facilitation and support, festival strategy, and talent development. She currently leads on the talent development programme at the BFI Doc Society Fund, and is commissioning editor at Talking Shorts. Before this she was programme director at Glasgow Short Film Festival as well as managing the short film slate of sales and festival distribution agency Square Eyes. She has worked with multiple international festivals across programming, selection, and production (including Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and Vienna Shorts), and sat on international festival juries and panels as well as moderating conversations and masterclasses. She sits on the board of Kortfilm.be.
About Vincent Förster:
Vincent is a festival programmer, filmmaker, and moderator from Berlin. His studies of International Relations, Arabic, and Documentary Film Directing took him to Scotland, Egypt, Morocco, and Sudan, where he worked in cultural and educational institutions and realised film projects. He’s been part of the selection committees of Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and Filmfest Dresden, and serves as Programme Manager Short Films at Berlinale Generation.
About Laura Kloeckner:
Laura Kloeckner is a film producer (SEERA Films) and curator based in Berlin. She previously worked for DOX BOX, where she produced two documentary films The Dream Continues (60min / Tunisia, Germany 2021) and Do Flowers Bloom After the Spring? (25min / Tunisia, Germany / 2021).
Between 2016 and 2019 Laura worked for the DOK Industry Department of DOK Leipzig and the Berlinale/EFM. Laura is part of the Berlin based art space SAVVY Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form Ideas. For SAVVY she recently co-curated the Berlinale Forum Expanded exhibitions The Wind In Your Body Is Just Visiting, Your Breath Will Soon Be Thunder (2022) and Letters From A Guarani Women to the Land Without Evil (2020). Laura holds an MA in Politics and Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London.
About Mariia Ponomarova:
Mariia Ponomarova (1991, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and creative producer based in Amsterdam. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.
Mariia studied film directing at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television and graduated from the Master of Film programme of the Netherlands Film Academy. She is an alumna of Go Short Student Campus and took part in IDFAcademy, Ex Oriente Film, EAVE, DokIncubator and B2Bdoc workshops. Short fiction and documentary films written and directed by Mariia were selected for such festivals as DOK Leipzig, Sheffield DocFest, Sarajevo FF, Vancouver IFF, VIS Vienna Shorts, Chicago IFF, Odesa IFF and more.
About Bronte Stahl:
Bronte Stahl (1993) is a filmmaker from Westerly, RI, USA. He graduated from the European itinerant MFA program DocNomads and is an alumnus of the Flaherty Seminar Fellowship, IDFA Project Space, Eurodoc and Points North Fellowship. The films he directs including Puiet (2022), Terril (2019) and Lungs (2017) have premiered at festivals such as Venice Critics Week (Best Short Film), Rotterdam and DocLisboa, respectively. As a producer, he is compelled to elevate emerging international voices in non-fiction cinema. This work has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, DocSociety US, British Film Institute, and LEF Foundation, among others. His first feature as a producer, Rejeito (2023) by Pedro de Filippis, premiered at Cinéma du Réel and screened at HotDocs, Camden, IDFA and many others. Currently he holds a Fulbright scholarship to Romania in the field of filmmaking.
