The Keep an Eye Film Academy Festival
Graduates of the Dutch Film Academy present their final exam project at the Keep an Eye Film Academy Festival. Besides the showcasing of films, there will also be exhibitions, premiere parties, lectures and a number of other events. The Keep an Eye Foundation is co-organizer and the most important partner of this annual festival at the prestigious Dutch Institute of Film (EYE).
Scriptbank
Recently, Keep an Eye has a new collaboration partner: Scriptbank. Scriptbank seeks new talented screenwriters for producers, broadcasters and platforms. They get to know writers through a network of script coaches, script teachers and talent hubs, by reading scripts or assignments and experiencing writers in workshops. Scriptbank organises various introductions, helps to develop ideas into pitches or scripts and advises on putting together writing teams.
June 2024 Scriptbank, together with the Keep an Eye Foundation, presented the new batch of screenwriters from eight writing courses. They presented themselves to producers, directors and screenwriters.
Every year, new screenwriters graduate from various courses. Then they face the big task of finding their place in the film business: approaching producers and directors, gaining experience, submitting to funds. In short: getting a first chance. The graduating screenwriter often gets snowed under at the premiere of a graduation film, or graduates as a loner within another art or writing discipline.
That is why we offer new screenwriters a series of meetings, so they can get a good start in the professional field. Because a career starts with a personal click!
After a short plenary programme, the alumni will have a series of introductory talks (speed dates) with film professionals. These interviews were pre-arranged to increase the chances of success. This first edition was a particularly successful afternoon and a number of concrete appointments have already been made. This tastes like more!
Visual storytelling
Starting next school year, we will support two tracks for students at the St. Joost School of Art & Design. For third-year students following the minor Development for Storytelling, we will do this in the form of inspiring master classes by leading animators/character designers.
This minor is about developing a concept in Visual Storytelling. How do you develop an idea for a graphic novel, story book, TV series, film or VR experience, or even something that works on all these platforms? Whether it’s an imaginative story of your own, an engaged argument, or an educational narrative, you’ll learn how to tell the core of a story well and convincingly, how to visualize it, and thereby develop the idea into a professional pitch package. How do you make such a proposal, in which the combination of the story, artwork, a production plan and prototype shows that it is ready to be realized?
In addition, one talented newly graduated master’s student will receive an incentive prize worth € 10,000 to further develop his/her graduation concept. The winner of this prize will be announced in October during the Playgrounds Digital Arts Festival.
The Keep an Eye Photography Stipendium
As of 2020, Keep an Eye will collaborate with the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Each year, three promising students receive a stipend of € 10.000,-. In collaboration with the ‘HKU’ we are looking for more interdisciplinary projects than we have done so far in past photography projects. Be surprised!
