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Las Palmas · Gran Canaria · February 2027

Five Days. One Finished Film.

Learn to film and edit properly in five days, and walk away with a finished piece you made yourself. No experience needed, just curiosity. A smartphone or any camera is all you need.

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Learn by making.

Five mornings that take you through the whole process, from why the camera goes here and not there, through light, sound and directing real people, to editing and colour grading your footage into something finished. Practical from the first hour. You shoot, you cut, you leave with a film.

Five-day intensive

The Course

Filming and Editing

A small, hands-on workshop taught in English by Mani Nickpour, an Amsterdam-based filmmaker and film educator who teaches at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  • Dates: Monday 8 to Friday 12 February 2027
  • Time: Three hours each morning, 10:00-13:00
  • Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (exact venue shared 2-3 weeks in advance)
  • Language: English
  • Group size: Small group, limited places
  • Course fee: €330

What you'll get

  • Personal guidance from first idea to finished film
  • Practical filming, editing and grading skills you keep forever
  • A screening of everyone's work on the final day
  • Certificate of Participation

What do you need to bring?

  • A laptop suitable for video editing
  • DaVinci Resolve installed before the course begins. The free version is all you need
  • A camera or a smartphone, whichever you want to film with
  • Headphones for editing

Day by day

How the workshop works

Story and the shot

Why the camera goes here and not there. Framing, lens choice, movement and composition. You shoot a five-shot sequence.

Camera and light

Exposure, log profiles and white balance, and how to shoot in hard Canarian sun without losing the image. Filmed outdoors in the real midday light you will actually be working in.

Sound and people

The thing most people neglect: microphones, placement, levels and room tone. Then getting a natural performance out of someone who isn't an actor.

The edit

Ingest, organise, assemble. Cutting for story rather than for your favourite shots. Music and mix, using your own footage.

Grade and finish

Correction versus grading, building a look, matching shots and exporting for each platform. We end with a screening of everyone's film.

Mani Nickpour, filmmaker and educator Mani Nickpour teaching a filmmaking workshop Mani Nickpour reviewing footage with a student Mani Nickpour demonstrating camera technique Mani Nickpour at the Septimius Awards Mani Nickpour mentoring at a computer Mani Nickpour teaching editing techniques

About the teacher

Mani Nickpour

Mani Nickpour is an Amsterdam-based filmmaker and film educator. Since 2006 he has worked across both film production and film education.

He currently teaches filmmaking at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Open Studio Amsterdam, and works as main editor at AT5, Amsterdam's city television station, where he is responsible for the editorial and technical quality of everything that goes to air. From 2007 to 2014 he also taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. He has written, directed, shot and graded two feature films and two shorts, and has taught this course in Amsterdam and Tokyo.

Visit Mani Nickpour's website

Small, hands-on workshop

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No previous filmmaking experience is required, just curiosity. A smartphone or any camera is all you need.

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