Live workshops

Learn live, ask questions, get feedback.

Short live sessions on the parts of documentary filmmaking that are easier to learn in a room: interviewing, pitching, edit reviews and release strategy.

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Inside our past online classes.

Real screens from previous cohorts — live edit reviews, timeline teaching and students storyboarding their own field footage together.

Live online class teaching timelines and tracks with students on camera — Live session — timeline and tracks

Instructor screen-sharing an edit timeline to a room of online students — Edit review, screen shared live

Week 3 session showing a documentary edit in progress with students watching — Week 3, session 5-6

Students storyboarding field footage together in a shared board during class — Storyboarding footage together

Past courses

Courses and masterclasses we have already run.

Cohorts, guest speakers and intensives from previous seasons — colour grading, fundraising, camera operation, mobile design and our 10-week documentary course.

Flyer for free Unpackaged Stories summer and fall classes across South Asia — South Asia Masterclass — Summer/Fall Classes
Documentary 101 · Editing & Colour · Scriptwriting

Flyer for a one month smartphone graphics design program in Monrovia, Liberia — 1 Month Smartphone Graphics Design Program
Creative World Digital Art Space · Convener: Varney Gray

Flyer for Unlock Your Creative Potential fundraising class with guest speakers — Unlock Your Creative Potential — Fundraising
Guests: B. Sergeant · Spike_Tarantino

Flyer for the 10 Weeks Documentary Film Course Cohort 2 with mentor Aissata Richards — 10 Weeks Documentary Film Course — Cohort 2
Lead mentor: Aissata Richards

Flyer for a free 5 week live virtual smartphone colour grading course with Akaniyene Essien — Smartphone Colour Grading — 5 Weeks Live
Lead mentor: Akaniyene Essien

Flyer for Fundraising and Project Management Fundamentals with Aissata Richards — Fundraising & Project Management Fundamentals
Lead mentor: Aissata Richards

Flyer listing guest speakers Bilal, Supreme Luci and Nehemiah Brent — Fundraising — Guest Speakers
Bilal · Supreme Luci · Nehemiah Brent

Guest speaker flyer for Yomi Olugbodi at the 10 weeks virtual masterclass — Guest Speaker — Yomi Olugbodi
10 Weeks Virtual Masterclass

Flyer for Mobile Masterpiece graphic design on the go with Amos Freeman — Mobile Masterpiece — Graphic Design On The Go
Lead mentor: Amos Freeman

Flyer for a two day colour grading course with Labi Diya — Colour Grading — 2 Day Intensive
Lead mentor: Labi Diya

Poster for Preserving Africa's Stories through Visual Activism with Evans Ahorsu — Preserving Africa's Stories Through Visual Activism
Guest: Evans Ahorsu

Live class slide teaching camera operation techniques — Camera Operation Techniques — Live Session
Past cohort session