Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab 2025. The Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab is a 5 day movie growth program that goals at broadening the skilled networks and producing experience of contributors by a sequence of arms-on workshops and one-on-one classes with native and worldwide trade mentors. The residential program is designed to hone rising producers’ inventive instincts and evolve their communication and downside-fixing abilities in any respect levels of their subsequent characteristic movie venture.​

The final 4 editions held from 2021 to 2024 had been a powerful success. The final two editions in 2023 & 2024 noticed the inclusion of a parallel program for documentary producers that was tailor-made in the direction of producers with initiatives on the growth stage. In 2025, the lab will proceed to characteristic each fiction and documentary initiatives from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, DRC Congo Tanzania & Ethiopia.

Cost

Selection for the programme contains:

• Round journey transportation between the participant’s place of residence and workshops locations
• Meals and lodging on web site
• Participation within the actions supplied beneath the programme

Eligibility

Fiction Lab Eligibility

• Project Requirements: Open to producers connected to a full-size fiction characteristic movie in growth.
• Rights Ownership: Applicants should have formal management of the venture rights.
• Budget Consideration: Financing shouldn’t be required on the time of application, however candidates should element the finances degree and justify its reasoning.
• Exclusions: Documentary, quick movie, episodic, or new media initiatives aren’t eligible.
• Languages: Applications will be submitted in English or French.
• Geographical Scope: Producers from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Ethiopia and DRC
• Application Limit: Only one venture per applicant.

Documentary Lab Eligibility

• Project Requirements: Open to producers connected to a documentary movie in growth, with an connected director.
• Rights Ownership: Applicants should personal the mental property rights to the venture.
• Selection Scope: One producer per nation can be chosen for the lab.
• Languages: Applications will be submitted in English or French.
• Geographical Scope: Producers from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.
• Application Limit: Only one venture per applicant.

Application

• Complete the Application Form. Fill out the web application kind in French or English, offering correct and detailed info.
• Submit the Following Documents:
  • Application Letter & Video (max. 3 minutes):
    Describe your background, current your present venture (together with format, stage of growth, and wishes), and share your motivations, aims, and expectations for taking part in this system.
  • Film Synopsis and Logline (max. 200 phrases).
  • Narrative Treatment (max. 10 pages).
  • Project Status and History (max. 200 phrases).
  • Look Book (if out there).
  • Producer’s Note of Intent (max. 1 web page, 200 phrases).
  • Curriculum Vitae (targeted in your filmography, max. 200 phrases).
  • Production Company Presentation (max. 200 phrases).
  • Budget Top Sheet and Finance Plan (in native forex and euros).
  • Chain of Title documentation.
• Provide Proof of Eligibility:
  • A duplicate of your passport to confirm citizenship.
  • A excessive-decision picture of your self.
• Submit Work Samples:
  • A Vimeo or YouTube hyperlink to the director’s most up-to-date movie (quick or characteristic), subtitled in French or English.

Click here to apply for Fiction
Click here to apply for Documentary

For extra info, go to Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab.