CASA PIP is a free-of-charge, unstructured residency for filmmakers who want time, peace, and space in nature to focus on their work. Designed with care to address the needs and wishes we ourselves have had as filmmakers, and have observed with our peers and colleagues, the residency’s goal is to be fluid and accessible in the support of all the necessary stages and processes of great art, even including, sometimes, the doing of nothing.

The residency
Our residencies are fluid and self-determined. Residents will be given full, solo, free access to the house for a period of up to one full month to use as they please. There is no curriculum or structure outside of what residents choose for themselves. Residencies do not overlap, and residents do not share the space with fellow residents. Instead, they are given the house entirely to themselves for their residency period. Residents may come alone, and they may also bring their collaborators, their family, or their friends. Residents are encouraged to use their time in whatever particular way suits them, and we hope that the surrounding area, and the comfort of the house, can provide needed quiet time for research, writing, experimentation, reflection, and play.

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The application
Our goal with applications is primarily to learn about what you’re interested in doing (or not doing) at the residency, and to get a brief idea about you and about your work. You can tell us about a project you are working on that you’d like to continue at the residency, or about a thought you want to develop, or something you want to experiment with, or practice, or learn, etc. Eligible activities are infinite. Eligible applicants include directors, writers, actors, editors, cinematographers, sound designers, composers, and anyone else involved in the making of films. Applications should include a brief description of your proposed activities, a brief biography, and an optional link to a sample of your work. There is an application fee of €35 – this allows us to create, maintain, and operate this residency, to cover our administrative and processing fees, to pay our jurors, and to offer the residency free of charge.

How decisions are made
All applications are reviewed by our jury, who make their final decisions at the end of January. Applications are evaluated based on the quality of the applicant’s work and artistic perspective, and the value which the residency will offer them. Applications for specific and outlined work plans are just as welcome as applications for as-yet vague but passionate goals to experiment, think, discover, or learn. Please visit our jury page to learn more about this year’s jurors.

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