Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam 2025
Article 1: Liability
Grand-Bassam Project ensures the artistic direction, the practical organization and freely chooses the resource persons of the project.
Article 2: Dates and place
Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam will take place in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, from will take place from 31 August to 6 September 2025
The deadline for registration is May 1st 2025.
Article 3: Objectives
Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam development and co-production laboratory’s main goal is to strengthen the competitiveness of African directors and producers to get to different major international laboratories and to attend international residencies, local funding, international co-productions and their close collaboration with established mentors from the continent.
In 2025, Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam offers writers-directors an opportunity to develop their projects, train in presentation techniques and make contact with potential partners.
Article 4: Number of projects and candidates
Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam intends to select ten (10) projects and invite the writers-directors EXCLUSIVELY to the residential incubation phase.
These project leaders will be put in touch with mentors to work before, during and after the Lab.
Article 5: Target Audience
Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam are dedicated to film projects from all over Africa.
Article 6: Formats and genres
Eligible projects must be:
Article 7: Composition and language of the application
The files must be written in French or English.
Any candidate can submit maximum 2 projects.
The registration file includes:
For long features
For series
Article 8: Registration modalities
Registration is free and can be done online at www.ateliersdegrandbassam.net from March 18th 2025.
Article 9: Deadline for registration and shipping address
Registration on the platform of the site must be done before May 1st 2025 at 00:00 GMT.
Article 10: Preselection
Any project whose documentation is incomplete at the closing of the call for projects will be excluded from the selection.
Article 11: Official Prizes
At the end of the residency training, meetings, and project pitching, several awards will be given to the best projects: grants for script writing residencies in Africa or in Europe.
Article 12: Services offered
To the best of its ability, Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam will cover the cost of travel to and from Grand-Bassam from the participant’s city of residence (on the African continent), as well as the cost of accommodation for the selected participants, including breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The visa costs are the responsibility of the participants of the selected projects.
All the participants of the selected projects have the obligation to participate to all the activities of the lab during the whole week.
Article 13: counterparties
Holders of selected projects commit to:
Article 14: Information and information.
Participation in the selection process implies full and unreserved acceptance of these rules.
The rules are deemed accepted at the end of the online registration procedure, once it has been validated by the candidate.
The Collective reserves the right to modify the conditions for awarding the prizes or to cancel them and cannot incur any liability in this regard. Candidate will be informed as soon as possible.
Article 15: Information
For any further information you can contact: contact@grandbassamproject.net
Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam is brought to life by Grand-Bassam Project, a non-profit association that embodies excellence in the film and audiovisual industry. The association is an organization of filmmakers, producers and cultural industry professionals from Ivory Coast, the continent and beyond, who help incubate performing arts and audiovisual projects by applying alternative methods of management, production, marketing and distribution in countries across the continent.
Grand-Bassam Project’s main objective is to contribute to the emergence of a solid, internationally competitive African cultural industry, notably through the development of the performing arts and audiovisual sector, capable of contributing to improving the economic impact of culture and consolidating the employability of young people.
Specifically, the objectives of the Grand-Bassam Project are to :
– Implement and consolidate an incubator for cultural projects and professional training workshops for artists and producers from Ivory Coast and other countries on the continent.
– Contribute to the reappropriation by Ivorian cultural players of the conception and governance of cultural policies, in partnership with public decision-makers at national level.
– Contribute to the dissemination of cinematographic works from the continent Formalize and implement a strategy for the implementation of activities, a risk management plan, as well as a monitoring and evaluation plan for all actions.
– Produce and/or co-produce performing arts and audiovisual works and projects for dissemination on the continent and internationally.
– Intensify artistic education initiatives aimed at children, young people and the general public.
Grand-Bassam Project is in the process of launching its program of activities, which include training, production, distribution, image education and consulting for the first edition of the Ateliers de Grand-Bassam. In keeping with its management strategy, the company’s aim is to combine production activities with socio-educational initiatives.
By working closely with sister organizations in Ivory Coast who share the same passion, Grand-Bassam Project will contribute to the future of cinema in Côte d’Ivoire and beyond.
The association capitalizes on the experience acquired over the last ten years by the Ouaga Film Lab, and projects will be carried out with the expertise required to increase the competitiveness of Ivorian and African filmmakers on the world stage.
