The Sound Documentary International Intensive Summer Programme is a training which has been created in 2021. It is aimed for international professionals coming from all over the word. It is offered by the Ecole nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière (ENS Louis-Lumière) and designed with the support of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the complicity of Radio France internationale (RFI). 

The 5th edition will take place from July 11th to August 31st at ENS Louis-Lumière and it will welcome 12 foreign audiovisual professionals.

All candidates should have an experience as authors (blog, podcast or creative project involving sound). The laureates are selected by a jury of French professionals in connection with the cultural services of the French embassies. The participants of the programme are laureates of a scholarship from the French embassies.

During 7 weeks of intensive training, all laureates, dive into the radio ecosystem in France, a pioneer in the radio documentary genre. They learn the fundamentals of writing and recording a radio documentary, supervised by a documentary maker / soundscape artist and a sound engineer. They try out different sound-writing processes, they learn about the techniques of interviewing, capturing atmospheres, soundscape, stereophonic sound recording and audio editing. They learn how to present a project to the people concerned (radio channels, etc.).

The programme is structured around 3 lines:

• Theoretical and practical training in sound writing (from design to editing)
• Production of a sound documentary in pairs (each twosome will conceive and carry out its project from A to Z during the programme)
• Discovery of the French radio / podcast creation initiatives in France
  Weeks 1, 2 and 3 will be dedicated to theoretical and practical training and meetings with professionals. Weeks 4 and 5 will be dedicated to recording. Week 6 will be dedicated to editing and week 7 to mixing.

The educational part of the programme is led by Sound Documentarits artists and teachers at ENS Louis-Lumière.

The coordination of the programme is ensured by Pascaline Perretti, Independant radio producer and cultural projects manager.

Participants are accommodated in Paris in a Campus France residence in Paris.

To discover the work of the previous participants : here

ENS LOUIS-LUMIERE
Founded in 1926, the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière is a unique institution:
it provides high-level training in image and sound professions and is an international leader in the fundamentals of these fields, the only one to deliver excellent training to become a cinematographer, sound engineer or photographer.

Contacts

Mme Raïssa Lahcine
Director of International Relations
ENS Louis-Lumière
r.lahcine@ens-louis-lumiere.fr +33 6 47 12 04 84

Mme Anne-Solenne Léa
In charge of cinema, audio production and audiovisual attachés
French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
anne-solenne.lea@diplomatie.gouv.fr
+33 6 58 06 35 77