RCLA 2025 Virtual Edition
RCLA 2025 Virtual Edition
Rough Cut Lab Africa returns for its 8th edition, running from 31 May to 29 June 2025.
The call for submissions is now open until the 4th of April.
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A lifetime spent dreaming of your story. Years dedicated to research and securing funds. Months immersed in texts and proposals, navigating rejections and triumphs. Eventually, production starts - and stops. The lives of protagonists evolve, shifting the narrative in unexpected ways. But that’s okay though, it’s part of the errant wandering of lives. Budgets increase, funding tightens; yet somehow, you push forward. Finally, you believe you’re ready for the edit, or at least you think you are. You start stitching material together - only to realise that’s when the real challenge begins.
Rough Cut Lab Africa is a virtual programme that supports independent African documentary films in the rough cut stage. The Lab pairs directors and editors with expert African and Pan-African story consultants from all fields of the filmmaking world.
Your film will need to have a working and viewable rough cut. While a coherent assembly may be considered, we cannot accept rushes without an edit. If an applicant’s project was selected in 2024, they are not eligible to submit a new project for this edition. We encourage producers, assistants and junior team members to apply and attend.
Head over to www.roughcutlabafrica.org to submit.
Contact us at info@roughcutlabafrica for any queries.
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RCLA is supported by The National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, The South African Guild of Editors and the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival.
RCLA 2025 Virtual Edition
Rough Cut Lab Africa returns for its 8th edition, running from 31 May to 29 June 2025.
The call for submissions is now open until the 4th of April.
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A lifetime spent dreaming of your story. Years dedicated to research and securing funds. Months immersed in texts and proposals, navigating rejections and triumphs. Eventually, production starts - and stops. The lives of protagonists evolve, shifting the narrative in unexpected ways. But that’s okay though, it’s part of the errant wandering of lives. Budgets increase, funding tightens; yet somehow, you push forward. Finally, you believe you’re ready for the edit, or at least you think you are. You start stitching material together - only to realise that’s when the real challenge begins.
Rough Cut Lab Africa is a virtual programme that supports independent African documentary films in the rough cut stage. The Lab pairs directors and editors with expert African and Pan-African story consultants from all fields of the filmmaking world.
Your film will need to have a working and viewable rough cut. While a coherent assembly may be considered, we cannot accept rushes without an edit. If an applicant’s project was selected in 2024, they are not eligible to submit a new project for this edition. We encourage producers, assistants and junior team members to apply and attend.
Head over to www.roughcutlabafrica.org to submit.
Contact us at info@roughcutlabafrica for any queries.
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RCLA is supported by The National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, The South African Guild of Editors and the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival.