The Course
🎯 WHO IS IT FOR ✦ Aspiring producers, filmmakers, and directors who want to learn how to independently manage the costs, logistics, and contracts of an audiovisual project. ✦ Authors and screenwriters who want to understand the production "physiology" of a film to submit their projects to calls for proposals, co-producers, or festivals. ✦ Professionals and creatives seeking a structured method for managing the departments and financial dynamics of an independent set. 📚 COURSE OUTLINE 📋 Module 1: Project Development & Planning ✦ Feasibility Analysis: Evaluate the budget, technical, and artistic resources needed to get started. ✦ The Production Plan: Timeline, deadlines, and breakdown of phases (pre-production, filming, post-production). ✦ Key figures on the set: Organization of departments (direction, photography, sound, set design, costumes) and crew coordination. 💶 Module 2: Funding, Calls for Proposals & Film Finance ✦ The Production Landscape: How to finance an independent film in Italy and abroad. ✦ Regional and national calls for proposals: Film Commissions, ministerial funds, and incentives for auteur cinema. ✦ Co-productions and sponsors: Alternative strategies, partnerships with companies, and management of private funding. 🎬 Module 3: Set Organization & Logistics ✦ Permits, authorizations, and safety: Environmental impact assessments, municipal permits, and legal location management. ✦ The set in progress: Management of the production day, unforeseen events, and real-time problem-solving. ✦ Working Tools: Budgeting, production plans, and basic contracts for crews and cast. 💻 Module 4: Post-Production, DCP & Festival Strategy ✦ The Assembly Line and Post-Production: Managing video editing, color grading (DaVinci Resolve), and multichannel audio mixing. ✦ Mastering and Screening Formats: Creating standard digital packages (Digital Cinema Packages - DCPs) for theaters. ✦ Festivals and Distribution: How to get started on the film festival circuit, press kit strategies, and film positioning.
What You'll Learn
- pre-production and production
- calls for tenders and funding
- Organization and set
- Post-Production & Distribuction
Teachers.
2 guide che accompagnano il percorso
Regia · Sceneggiatura · Produzione · Recitazione
SaraSchiavone
Director, screenwriter, and founder of the production company Caora Film.
Having graduated with a thesis on historical and propaganda cinema, she combines writing and directing with teaching as a screenwriting instructor in secondary schools and private training programs.
She has gained direct experience on the sets of internationally renowned productions, including Giulia Grandinetti's Majonezë (nominated for a David di Donatello Award and shortlisted for the Oscars).
The author of short films and documentaries distributed nationally and internationally—including Little Bird and Twentyseven: Sister Portrait—she is currently working on her feature-length directorial debut, La Diletta da mio padre.
With Caora Film, born from an experience in the Irish landscape and founded on the synergy between cinema and nature, she produces original works and promotes international artistic residencies for emerging authors.
Producing
ValeriaDiNanno
Executive producer and general organizer with a practical, dynamic vision, strongly focused on protecting the artistic identity of projects.
Specializing in Film Production at the Rome Film Academy at Cinecittà Studios, she views production as a collective process based on listening, mediation, and the perfect balance between technical, financial, and creative needs.
Her experience spans short films, feature films, and web series in the independent cinema scene, with productions supported by the Ministry of Culture and SIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers) and awarded at national and international festivals.
Executive producer at Caora Film, in 2026 she oversaw the general organization and executive production of the international feature film "La Diletta da mio padre."