Please email us at info@objectifs.com.sg to be added to the waitlist for the next instalment of this class.

Please note:
This is a very hands-on workshop. Participants’ learning will be most effective if they are able to make all (or most) of the sessions, and will be able to shoot their short documentaries during the period indicated in the schedule below.

As the workshop may be repeated several times a year, participants may wish to register for a future round if they already know they may miss several lessons during this period. Make-up lessons and refunds are not offered for sessions missed.

This is not your average documentary workshop. It’s not about the latest gear, or the trendiest topic, or how to make your video go viral. This is about how life is often stranger than fiction, what the functions and techniques of documentary are, and how to tell a compelling non-fiction story for the screen.

The process of ideating, producing, filming, editing your own documentary, plus overcoming the various challenges that will come along with making a documentary, will be the craft journey you will embark upon as a class across the 6 sessions.

By the end of the workshop, you will have made a documentary that you can truly call your own, and present it to the class in a film screening.

There will also be a screening of films by the class which is open to friends and family at the end of the workshop.

None. Participants will have access to use a prosumer HD camera and audio equipment on loan from Objectifs for their shoots, with free access to our digital lab (subject to availability and selected timeslots) to edit their films on Adobe Premiere Pro CC during the workshop.

Jessica Lee

Jessica is an award-winning director and producer. She directed Secret Lives of Trees, a premium history documentary series for Channel NewsAsia, nominated for the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Awards 2023, a Women in History series for the National Library Board of Singapore, and is the only Singaporean awarded the FreedomFilmFest Justin Louis award for directing The Shades of Love, a documentary on sex workers in Singapore.

Jessica produced Netflix’s first Korean true crime series The Raincoat Killer which ranked top 5 on Netflix Korea, and was a supervising producer on Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso, the first documentary to rank number 1 on Netflix Indonesia and top 10 non- English films globally.

Jessica was previously Head of Development at Beach House Pictures, one of Asia’s largest independent production companies. She oversaw the strategy, origination, packaging and pitching of all non-scripted shows, including managing the relationships with buyers and talents from the US to Asia. Jessica was involved in selling many of BHP’s most high-profile documentary and unscripted programming such as the Emmy- nominated lifestyle series Mind Your Manners (Netflix), The Raincoat Killer (Netflix), feature length human interest doc Best Dog India (Netflix), science series Evolve (Curiosity, Amazon Prime), and natural history series Otter Dynasty (Max, Discovery+, Love Nature).

A graduate of Busan International Film Festival Platform Busan 2023 and featured in Prestige Magazine’s 40 under 40, Jessica is also a lecturer in documentary filmmaking at the National University of Singapore.