FilmForward Vrijplaats Residency

The Vrijplaats is FilmForward’s residency where film and AV makers can do research to deepen their professional practice.

FilmForward Vrijplaats Residency offers film and AV professionals free work and thinking space to play and experiment with a research question about the development of cinematic and audiovisual stories that does not fit within the existing development processes. From in-depth research into a topic to an inside-out design phase; FilmForward Vrijplaats Residency provides the time to make those questions concrete for which film professionals always think there is no time or opportunity.

The FilmForward Vrijplaats Residency is as an open and creative space, a laboratory and an unexplored area where all questions that contribute to the deepening and improvement of your creatorship and the film and AV sector can come into their own. At FilmForward Vrijplaats Residency film professionals can deepen or broaden your knowledge, innovate the creative process and collaborate with professionals from other disciplines to gain new insights. In addition to the time and space to work on their own research together with mentors and experts, there is a joint program around a theme.

Whether they draw storyboards, write scripts, search for locations, compose film music, develop games, play characters or come up with the best frameworks to visualize cinematic stories for all screens, every working professional in film and audiovisual media who has a plan to develop themselves can participate the FilmForward Vrijplaats Residency.