The Spring 2026 dates for the DocCelerator workshop series are now out. DocCelerator provides documentary makers a method for a clearer dramaturgical structure for their documentary project.

For the Spring 2026 season of DocCelerator, there are two different formats of the workshop available. As a documentary maker, you can pick the one that fits best to your current needs. During a 2-day online DocCelerator workshop participants learn a set of tools for structuring documentary stories, that can be used for current as well as for future projects.

Since the launch in May 2020, we have hosted 40 editions of the workshops. Here are some of the reactions that participants have provided:

Thanks to the DocCelerator workshop and your feedback, we reworked entirely our materials. To put it simply: Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Marjolaine Grappa, Director, USA

Thank you so much for this workshop. It brought me to the core of my film and gave me lots of inspiration and motivation!

Director Sien Versteyhe, Lionheart Productions, Belgium

The dates for the Spring 2026 DocCelerator workshops are:

DocCeleratorStory

Dates: March 23-24. Deadline: February 20

DocCeleratorWorkInProgress

Dates: May 11-12. Deadline: April 10

DocCeleratorStory

Dates: June 15-16. Deadline: May 15

About DocCelerator

DocCelerator is a series of stand-alone online documentary workshops, providing documentary makers a method for a clearer dramaturgical structure in documentary projects. Besides generating creative input, DocCelerator workshops save participants many hours of working and much money in production expenses. This is achieved through a more focused narrative structure, which saves hours of recordings not fitting to the film and many days of expensive editing. The essence of DocCelerator is to invest in the development in order to save on the production.

This Spring 2026 season of DocCelerator follows the 40 editions of DocCelerator already conducted where more than 350 documentary professionals have taken part.  

Here you can read more about DocCelerator.

DocCelerator is run by Director Geoffrey Smith and Producer & Consultant Ove Rishøj Jensen.

Get individual consultation or a tailor made mentorship process for your next documentary project.

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