Incompany workshop positionality for AV professionals
The InCompany Positionality training can be organized on request for trade associations, hubs and other AV organizations. For more information, please contact info@filmforward.nl.
How do you, as a film professional, deal with questions surrounding diversity and inclusion in 2023? Awareness and good intentions are a start. But they are often not enough. So how do you develop useful tools to deal with your own (pre)judgments/assumptions and to start conversations about them with others during each stage of filmmaking, from development to set or post?
For this reason, Winnie Roseval (diversity & inclusion consultant and researcher at the Inclusive Education professorship, The Hague University of Applied Sciences) developed a training especially for FilmForward based on the concept of ‘positionality’. Positionality is a way of understanding why we know what we know and therefore why we don’t see other perspectives; our blind spots. In this way, we can investigate how we can make room for those stories that have until now been told in a stigmatizing way, or had no place at all. How do those stories, stories that belong to the norm and the story that you as a professional bring with you relate to each other?
These perspectives determine which films we like and why, which characters we want to identify with and how we want to approach our work. But they are also (other) stories with which we can enrich our worldview and work better together by seeing where they meet.
The aim of the one-day ‘Positionality’ training is to actively work with these concepts based on our own experiences. These are tools that you can then actively deploy and use to inspire others. We will work with case studies submitted by the participants themselves. Have you had such an experience of an uncomfortable situation on set? On reflection, has your perspective influenced your work too much? When could you have paid more attention to the input that someone else provided based on their positionality?
Would you like to know more about Positionality and the experience of previous participants?
Read the explanation of the Positionality concept by Winnie Roseval here.
Curious about the experiences of previous participants? Read the interviews with Charlotte Scott-Wilson, Tosca van Weerden and Jeanine Cronie. And watch the interview and video with Winnie Roseval!
(Note to the video: the title is still the old nomenclature ‘Multi-voice Storytelling’)
Setup workshop
The InCompany Training Positionality training is a one-day training from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM developed by FilmForward in collaboration with Winnie Roseval (diversity & inclusion consultant and researcher at the Inclusive Education professorship, The Hague University of Applied Sciences).
Who is it for
Partners and coaches
Praktical info
- One-day workshop from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM on location
- Private sessions for 10 – 12 participants
- Language: Dutch
- Registration deadline: November 2, 2023
- Registrations are processed in order of receipt. You will receive more information in early November 2023.
- You can request a contribution for the costs of this workshop from Werktuig Permanente Professional Development (PPO). PPO finances development plans for anyone working in the creative or cultural sector, both for employees and self-employed people. PPO finances 1/3 of your application, for example for a workshop or training. The remaining amount must be financed by your employer, client and/or yourself.
- The Positionality training is partly financed by the Film Fund. Unfortunately, you are therefore not eligible for a contribution to training activities from the Film Fund. In special cases, a grant is available to help cover the costs of the workshop. If you would like to be considered for this, after submitting your online application, send us an email with motivation to info@filmforward.nl stating: ‘Motivation compensation for costs of Positionality training’.
- Our cancellation policy for this workshop is as follows:
- If you cancel up to 14 days prior to the workshop, before November 2, you will receive a full refund of the amount paid.
- If you cancel between 14 and 7 days prior to the workshop, between November 2 and November 9, you will receive a refund of 50% of the amount paid.
- If you cancel within 7 days of the workshop, from November 9, there is no right to a refund.
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