Apply to the Verzió DocLab
Applications are now open to the 10th Verzió DocLab International Documentary Workshop on Story Development and Editing
Dates: 8-12 November, 2025 | Budapest
Deadline: 31 July, 2025 CET Midnight
Verzió DocLab is a 5-day-long documentary development workshop for directors, producers, and editors, focusing on story development and editing, with the goal to support emerging European documentary filmmakers. The 10th edition will take place 8-12 November, 2025 at the Budapest Campus of the Central European University.
This intensive 5-day-long program is designed for directors working on their first or second feature-length documentary film, and the editors and producers of their projects. Verzió DocLab is part of the industry programs of the Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, and thus selection of the projects is also based on their social relevance and human rights aspect.
Verzió DocLab is powered by the DOC AROUND EUROPE festival network, which brings together six relevant documentary film festivals throughout the continent. Together with partner festivals – FIPADOC, DOK.fest München, DocsBarcelona, MakeDox and Biografilm – Verzió promotes the circulation of creative European documentary films and supports young film professionals, especially directors of first and second feature documentaries from the regions represented by each festival.
In 2025 the network welcomes two guest festivals, Porto/Post/Doc and DocPoint Helsinki, enriching the collaboration with the promotion of talents from Portugal and Finland.
In solidarity with filmmakers from Ukraine and Georgia, Verzió DocLab also welcomes applications from these countries.
More details and application on the Verzió DocLab site: https://verzio.org/en/doclab