During this festival edition our Youth Jury gets the opportunity to receive a free-of-charge coaching by the film critic Bjorn Gabriels who will teach the basics of film analysis and how to write a good film review. During this first digital meeting the coach introduces the basics of film analysis based on Case Studies. During the second part of the coaching, together with the group, Karel Deburchgrave will discuss the participants' first reviews, that have been written as a preparatory homework, and provide feedback. For the second session the participants will have to prepare by watching some selected Case Study films and by writing yet another film review based on what they have learnt during the first session.

Bjorn Gabriels is a writer, film critic and the editor in chief of the film magazine Filmmagie.

Timeslot: 11:00-15:00

You have an idea for what could make a nice short film but don’t know how to get started? Together with coach Eric Collins you will start the Bootcamp Shorts Lab by learning the basics of script development. How to refine the idea, how to write a convincing synopsis, structure your script and how to go further from there.

Eric Collins is a writer with over 25 years of experience as a feature-film screenwriter and script advisor. He writes and directs video games, documentaries, TV programs and feature films. Amongst many other projects, he was involved in the production of And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2002) which was directed by Claude Lelouch and starred Jeremy Irons. The film The Lover (1992), where he was also involved as a screenwriter, was nominated for the Oscar and 6 Césars.

Timeslot: 10:00-13:00

Have you been working on a documentary idea and need a boost to develop it further? The coach Ruud Lenssen will tell you how to analyse your idea, make up a plan and structure, start a research and prepare to make a film! During the masterclass, Ruud will look at the projects of some of the participants and will analyse them as case studies.

Ruud Lenssen is an independent documentary filmmaker, known from films such as Lost in Memories (IDFA competition 2019) and Kathem & Chris (winner Dioraphte award at the Dutch Filmfestival 2010). The lessons of his youth manifest themselves in all films by Ruud Lenssen because of an observing style, but also through the choice of socially relevant themes that he portrays in a modest and personal way.

Timeslot: 10:00-13:00

Just after the masterclass grab a salad or a sandwich and join the other filmmakers in front of the screen to lunch and network and talk to the filmmakers from the Short Film Competition!

The Online Lunch & Filmmakers Talk will be held as a Zoom-meeting and streamed on Facebook. You will find the link here at latest September 3. Or just check out our Facebook-page.

Timeslot: 13:15-13:45

The screening of Andreas Horvath's film Lillian in ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond, deals with the shifting of distance in yet another way. The story is about Lillian, an emigrant stranded in New York City, who decides to walk back to her native Russia.

Tickets can be bought via ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond.

Timeslot: 14:00 - 16:10

After a refreshing homemade snack and a good conversation that lifted up the spirits even more, join the next masterclass that will deal with the production phase of a short film. Where to search for funding, how to finance your short film, how to make a budget, find the crew and start the production? The coaches Eva Verweij and Loes Komen will help find answers to these questions.

Eva Verweij and Loes Komen founded their production company Room for Film shortly after graduating from the Netherlands Filmacademy. Their films have been selected for multiple international film festivals and won several awards. Marlon Brando (written and directed by Vincent Tilanus) is selected for Cannes Semaine de la Critique 2020. When Grey is a Colour (directed by Marit Weerheijm) won a Student Oscar, was selected at Camerimage, and won the two main jury prizes at TIFFKids. En Route (directed by Marit Weerheijm) premiered at Berlinale Generations and won a Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2019.

Timeslot: 14:00-15:30

The script is finished, the budget is more or less gathered, you are ready to make a film. But what makes each film special? The director's vision. In this masterclass the director Michiel ten Horn will teach you how to search for your director's vision, how to work with actors & crew and how to bring your story to life.

Michiel ten Horn graduated from the HKU, the University of the Arts in Utrecht, in 2007, where he studied animation. As a student he already focused on live-action but his animation background has always been present in his storytelling and use of form. After his successful debut movie De ontmaagding van Eva van End, with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the prestigious American film magazine Variety listed Ten Horn as one of 'Ten European directors to watch'. His movie Aanmodderfakker was nominated for Best Director and won the award for Best Film, Best Scenario and Best Actor at the Netherlands Film Festival. Michiel is currently working on two feature films and recently finished the first Dutch Netflix Original series Ares.

Timeslot: 15:40-17:10

Streaming films from a platform might not offer an especially new pleasure anymore but being part of a film competition live stream? Sign up and watch the selected short films with the motto SHIFTING DISTANCE and don’t forget, you are not alone! Interact with the moderator, the filmmakers and the audience by asking questions during the online Q&A session and shift the distance to the other living rooms once more.

Short Film Competition: Shifting Distance I

• Window (Inara Chayamiti, 2020, 12'34, the Netherlands)
• 8563 (Áron Farkas, Ottó Kinizsi, 2020, 5'32, Hungary)
• Where am I? (Cheng Qiu, 2020, 4'16, UK)
• Silence of the Fish (Hilke Rönnfeldt, 2019, 19'27, Iceland)
• A Stranger from the Past (Jan Verdijk, 2020, 5'12, the Netherlands)
• The Red Ball (Jussi Rautaniemi, 2020, 4'10, Finland)
• Cuckoo! (Jörgen Scholtens, 2019, 7'00, the Netherlands)

Timeslot: 18:00-19:30

The screening is free of charge.Register now at bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening1 & bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening2.

The Jury consists of Joris Hoebe, Brigit Hillenius and Jan Pool.

Lean back and listen to the Dutch film director Sonja Wyss while she talks about how to set foot in the filmmaking business, the festival's motto Shifting Distance, previous and future work, throwbacks and of course successes such as her most recent film Farewell Paradise which will be screened in and avant-premiere in ECI Cultuurfabriek on 12th, September at 20:15.

The CineTalk will be held as a Zoom-meeting and streamed on Facebook.

Timeslot: 20:00-21:00

Register now at bit.ly/sonjawysscinetalk.

In this masterclass the participants will learn from coach Brigit Hillenius how different camera angles and movements can render the meaning of a scene in unexpected ways and create a visual work of art that is even more artistically elaborated. The masterclass can be interesting for directors, as well as for writers, producers and camera(wo)men.

Brigit Hillenius is originally schooled as a Director of Photography. In the course of her career as a DoP she also wrote and directed four documentaries. She also gradually developed her writing skills for fiction with the intention to create scripts for her work as a DoP. Her short film VET!/GREAT! (writer, DoP, co-director) received a Silver Bear at the Berlinale. Her feature/urban filmmusical Bolletjes Blues (writer, DoP, co-director) received 4 Gouden Kalf Nominations and 1 Gouden Kalf for Music.

Timeslot: 10:00-11:30

During this second digital session the coach Bjorn Gabriels and the rest of the group will discuss the participants' newly written film reviews in detail. There will be time for some last questions so that the Youth Jury members can write film reviews about the festival's Short Film Competition films that will later on be published in the CineSud Online Magazine.

Bjorn Gabriels is a writer, film critic and the editor in chief of the film magazine Filmmagie.

It's a wrap! Finally, the production is done and you are ready to finish your film during the editing process. Together with the editor Jasper Quispel you set off on the journey to finding the best shots or creating the best sound atmosphere or even 'saving' the film. We all know about basic editing rules, but how can we, using and breaking the rules, make your story even better? This masterclass will reveal the secrets of finding the best editing and sound design solutions.

Jasper Quispel is a Dutch film editor who mainly works in feature film, drama series, documentary and commercials. Since 2008 he has been editing independently, which led to the cooperated studio space in Amsterdam called DC25, where he works with three fellow editors. Jasper has the pleasure to work with a lot of great directors in The Netherlands, editing movies from Indie to mainstream to intriguing drama series, from light-hearted comedy to drama and from children's series to an epic series with F16s. In 2018 he was nominated for a Golden Calf for Best Editing at the Dutch Film Festival (NFF) for the movie In Blue.

Timeslot: 11:40-13:10

Just after the masterclass grab a salad or a sandwich and join the other filmmakers in front of the screen to lunch and network and talk to the filmmakers from the Short Film Competition!

The Online Lunch & Filmmakers Talk will be held as a Zoom-meeting and streamed on Facebook.

Timeslot: 13:15-13:45
Investment: Free
Link to join the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81927672759?pwd=MHdmY1AxUHQzRm52YjNNOTFpc3IrQT09
Meeting ID: 819 2767 2759
Passcode: 309089

The film is done, you are satisfied with it and now it needs to be shown to the world! But which festivals offer the perfect platform for your piece of work and how do you get accepted into the festival selections after all? The coach Wouter Jansen discusses distribution strategies, dos and don’ts.

Wouter Jansen is the owner of the sales and festival distribution company Square Eyes. He worked as the head of programming at the Go Short - International Film Festival during the first 10 editions. With Square Eyes, Wouter represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and collaborates closely with the filmmakers to devise bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. This has resulted in a small catalogue of films premiering at prestigious festivals and winning multiple awards over the last few years like main prizes at Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand.Wouter has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy as well as moderating and leading workshops at festivals like IDFA, Warsaw FF, True/False, Winterthur, VIS Vienna Shorts and others. He is a Berlinale Talents alumni.

Timeslot: 14:00-15:30

The films of the Short Film Competition’s second part are selected according to the motto SHIFTING DISTANCE. Watch the films and get involved by interacting with the moderator, the filmmakers and the audience by asking questions during the online Q&A session. Sign up and watch the selected short films with the motto SHIFTING DISTANCE!

Short Film Competition: Shifting Distance II

• STAR (Catherina Iosifidis, 2019, 12'24, the Netherlands)
• The Woman Who Feared To Vanish (Sam van Zoest, 2020, 14'35, the Netherlands)
• Der und die (Peter Böving, 2020, 9'35, Germany)
• Room 5 (Nihat Seven, 2020, 12'00, UK)
• I See You Now (Tara Gadomski, 2020, 10'55, United States)
  

Timeslot: 18:00-19:30

The screening is free of charge.Register now at bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening1 & bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening2.

Limburg has so much to offer. In this special, non-competitive screening, films made in Limburg or by Limburgian filmmakers will be screened in the ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond, making it the only live film screening during the SHIFT Film Festival!

• Zo Gezegd (Mark Stevens, 2020, 8'8, the Netherlands, Limburg)
• In Pieces (Nils Hanssen, 2020, 23'18, the Netherlands, Limburg) (Avant-Première)
• Waiting Room (Laura Huygen, 2019, 10'54, the Netherlands, Limburg)
• Schijntijd (Yorn Heijnen, 2020, 7'34, the Netherlands, Limburg) (Avant-Première)

Timeslot: 18:00-19:30
Location: ECI Cultuurfabriek
Investment: tickets via ECI Cultuurfabriek.

Lean back and listen to the Oscar nominated Dutch film director Ben Sombogaart while he talks about how to set foot in the filmmaking business, previous and current work such as the soon to be released film My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021), throwbacks and successes as well as the festival’s motto Shifting Distance.

The CineTalk will be held as a Zoom-meeting and streamed on Facebook.

Timeslot: 20:00-20:45

Register now at bit.ly/bensombogaartcinetalk.

The screening of Andreas Horvath's film Lillian in ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond, deals with the shifting of distance in yet another way. The story is about Lillian, an emigrant stranded in New York City, who decides to walk back to her native Russia.

Tickets can be bought via ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond.

Timeslot: 20:00 - 22:10

After the CineTalk with the director Sonja Wyss one day before, now join the screening of her film in ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond. Farewell Paradise tells the story of a broken family. Four sisters and their mother suddenly have to leave their paradise-like family life in the free and prosperous Bahamas of the 1960s, to end up in frugal and narrow-minded Switzerland.

Tickets can be bought via ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond.

Timeslot: 20:15 - 22:00

Tune in for the Awards and find out which films will win the Audience Award, the Special Jury Award and the award for Best Film! Just after the Awards, the winners will have a special Q&A about their short film!

Timeslot: 20:45-21:00
Investment: Free (a link to join the sessions will be available here at latest September 3rd or check out our facebook page)