[News] Fwd: RESIST project's Documentary Open Call - please spread the word!

Mon Apr 8 20:56:12 CEST 2024

Perhaps this is of interest to some on this list.

Best, Jan

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Betreff: 	RESIST project's Documentary Open Call - please spread the word!
Datum: 	Sun, 7 Apr 2024 11:51:44 +0000
Von: 	Roberto Kulpa <r.a.kulpa at outlook.com>
Antwort an: 	Roberto Kulpa <r.a.kulpa at outlook.com>
An: 	Kulpa, Roberto <R.Kulpa at napier.ac.uk>

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
(Apologies for not being able to write to you individually with this… 1)
Can I ask you a favour and ask for 10 min of your time to distribute 
this attached *Documentary Open Call *to your other colleagues, friends, 
networks, and so on?
Could you ask them to cascade it down to their networks and contacts?
I hope to get this Call cascading down as much as possible, to reach 
creative, queer-feminist minded filmmakers, who might be interested in 
working with us in the RESIST project…
*As part of the project, we have a pot of money to produce a 
documentary, and we are now searching for Expressions of Interests from 
teams who would like to work with us on it. *
The Call is attached in the pdf, and also pasted here in the email body, 
as some servers reject the attachments.
I will be really grateful if you can distribute it to diverse mailing 
lists, networks, private contacts, institutional mailing lists, etc. to 
get the message across. Pls feel free to post the text/attachment on 
your social media and anywhere else you deem meaningful.
Thank you very much!
Much obliged, Roberto!
---CALL TEXT---
*Call for Proposals: Documentary Film *
*The RESIST project ( _https://theresistproject.eu _) invites proposals 
from film and documentary creatives to create a documentary film about 
the so-called anti-gender 'politics & mobilisations, and queer-feminist 
resistances to it. The aim of the documentary film is to raise awareness 
and understanding of transphobia, homophobia, anti-feminism, 
anti-LGBTQIA+, anti-abortion, racism, xenophobia, and other issues 
related to **anti-gender*'*mobilisations, drawing from the research 
findings generated by the RESIST project (some details about the project 
can be found **_here_**). *
The filmmaking team will work closely with the RESIST research team to 
develop the concept and to ground the film in the research insight, but 
will have artistic freedom in its execution. We are open to a range of 
documentary genres (essay/expository; docufiction; poetic, etc.) and we 
welcome creative and imaginative approaches. The documentary film, while 
forming one of the RESIST Project outputs, will not be documenting the 
research activities of the project itself. It is expected to be a fully 
independent product, stand on its own, be a creative endeavour that 
independently expresses artistic ideas of its creators, whilst 
communicating the project's theoretical values, collaborative ethos, and 
research findings to inform public debate on these issues. Key to the 
project are intersectionality and a transnational (rather than 
comparative) analysis. Rather than essentialise particular locations 
(i.e. 'Eastern Europe') as the site of 'anti-gender'phenomena, we want 
to generate engagement with broad, diverse publics, and to empower and 
inform audiences about the complexities of anti-gender'politics across 
Europe.
The contracted team will be expected to manage and deliver the 
documentary film within a budget of up to €50,000 (inclusive of 
salaries, equipment, production and post-production costs, marketing and 
festival submission fees, other dissemination costs, as well as any 
travel costs and incidental expenses incurred). *Expected completion 
date: Summer 2026. *
_*Application procedure:* _Project proposals are only accepted via our 
online submission form _https://forms.gle/KELH2mKVWke4eEfH9 _Submissions 
via email cannot be considered. In the form, you will be asked to 
provide the following information:

 1. Working Title
 2. Logline (max. 350 characters incl. spaces)
 3. Synopsis/treatment (max. 3500 characters incl. spaces)
 4. Aesthetic format ideas / documentary genre/
 5. Visuals / mood board (if available)
 6. Audience and distribution ideas (max. 2000 characters incl. spaces)
 7. Format
 8. Countries of production
 9. Information about the involved production company (if applicable,
    company name, contact info, short presentation, www links, etc.)
10. Creative team (names, contact info, short bio, www links)
11. Portfolio (www links showcasing work)
12. Tentative budget (including production, post-production, and
    distribution costs)

*_Closing Date for Proposals: 12 May 2024, midnight. _*
We respect the intellectual property of artists and creative teams, who 
remain the custodians of their submitted ideas and concepts. The RESIST 
team will not use ideas from submissions that are not successful in the 
selection process.
_*Next steps*_*: *We will aim to contact the submitting teams within 15 
working days after the deadline to inform them of the outcome of this 
stage, and if applicable, to make arrangements for the interviews. 
*Interviews *will take place with shortlisted teams in early June 2024, 
via Zoom.
*For more information, *please email Dr Roberto Kulpa at 
_r.kulpa at napier.ac.uk _
_*About the project*_
The RESIST project addresses anti-gender'politics that imperil equality, 
gender and sexual diversity, and legitimacy of critical knowledge in 
contemporary Europe. We understand anti-gender'politics to be multiple 
and manifesting differently in diverse national contexts across 
Southern, Eastern, and Western Europe. They are present across the 
political spectrum of centrist, leftand rightwing orientations, spanning 
from illiberal and authoritarian regimes to those considered liberal and 
democratic. Inspired by intersectional perspectives, we understand 
anti-gender'politics to be multifaceted as they limit gendered freedoms, 
challenge trans* inclusion, question multiculturalism and gender and 
sexual equality.
While they undermine critical studies of race and academic freedoms, 
anti-gender'politics result in dangerous consequences for freedoms of 
speech and press, reproductive justice, sexual and gender diversity, and 
self-determination. Crucial to our project is to learn about the 
feminist and queer practices of resistance against anti-gender'politics, 
how they function and are theorised in autonomous, grassroots 
collectives and organisations in our 8 country cases: Ireland, Spain, 
Belarus, France, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Greece, and in one 
transnational case of people living in exile due to anti-gender'politics.
RESIST is composed of queer feminist researchers who seek to collaborate 
in this ethos with other teams. You will find more information about our 
project and the people involved in it on our website: 
*_https://theresistproject.eu _*
*/With best wishes, /*
*/Dr Roberto Kulpa/*
School of Applied Sciences: Deputy Research Degrees Lead
Co-Director: _MSc Applied Social Research _
Co-Investigator: _(2022-2026) __RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist 
Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics 
_'_(EU Horizon Europe grant no. 101060749)._
Publications at: _Napier _// _Academia.edu _// _ResearchGate _// _ORCID _
*_BOOK A MEETING HERE _*
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