ESoDoc is a training initiative offered by ZeLIG School for Documentary. The objective of ESoDoc is to train professionals filmmakers active in the field of social issues to rapidly identify and consequently face the constant changes which characterize the modern audiovisual industry, and to be active players in these changes, capable to anticipate them, to facilitate and even introduce innovative approaches within the industry. At ESoDoc we teach that filmmakers must be able to literally think 360°: new forms and formats of storytelling, new production processes and opportunities with NGOs and broadcasters, new approaches in projects development (i.e. participatory forms, crowdsourcing), traditional and alternative forms of funding, generating impact. We accept intermediary and senior filmmakers who come with an original project proposal to be developed during the workshop, with the support of international renowned professionals, active in various fields of the industry. ESoDoc offers three intensive residential sessions, integrated by a series of Extended Online Sessions which take advantage of the new online tools to offer support in the periods between the residential sessions and – as follow-up – also after the final pitching. Beyond the support to their current projects, ESoDoc participants will acquire a series of soft-skills which will affect their professional careers in the long term, as well as a wide network of contacts in the audiovisual industry. After the final pitching sessions, participants will have the chance to meet various representatives of international industry events, who will facilitate their access to new market and new stakeholders in the industry. ESoDoc is the meeting point for filmmakers, new media professionals and NGO film practitioners looking for new financing, production and distribution strategies and possibilities to to develop projects about particular social themes and impact society with them.