APPLY FOR EX ORI­ENTE FILM 2009

- tailored sup­port for cre­at­ive doc­u­ment­ary projects

- con­tent devel­op­ment with renowned doc­u­ment­ary authors

- pro­duc­tion and fin­an­cial strategy with expert producers

- fest­ival, dis­tri­bu­tion and sales plan­ning

- inspir­a­tion, charm and fresh air

applic­a­tion dead­line : Feb­ru­ary 1 2009

Details: www​.DOC​Uinter​.net 
(http://​www​.doc​uinter​.net/​e​n​/​a​c​t​i​v​i​t​i​e​s​.​p​h​p​?​i​d​=​1​0​1​&​a​m​p​;​r​o​k​=2009 )


The Ex Ori­ente Film work­shop is a train­ing pro­gram that sup­ports the devel­op­ment and fund­ing of cre­at­ive doc­u­ment­ary films in the entire region of Cent­ral and East­ern Europe. Dur­ing three ses­sions that take place over the course of one year, film­makers and pro­du­cers receive assist­ance from exper­i­enced European pro­du­cers, dir­ect­ors, train­ers, AV experts and TV com­mis­sion­ing edit­ors in order to develop their story, draft a fin­an­cing strategy for their pro­ject and find inter­na­tional part­ners. Ex Ori­ente Film leads into the East European Forum — pitch­ing ses­sion for East European cre­at­ive docs.

What is unique about the 2009 Ex Ori­ente Film work­shop?

- par­ti­cipants work sim­ul­tan­eously on pro­duc­tion as well as on the storyline, con­tent and visual style, sup­port­ing primar­ily innov­at­ive and fresh film lan­guage;
 — cre­at­ive dir­ect­ors are invited to offer par­ti­cipants inspir­a­tion;
 — Ex Ori­ente Film helps cre­at­ive pro­jects that can­not be fun­ded through stand­ard TV sales by try­ing to find altern­at­ive chan­nels and oppor­tun­it­ies;
 — film­makers are sup­por­ted not only dur­ing the ses­sions, but also through con­sulta­tions in between the work­shops; they also get sup­port to travel to the main industry events where they attend con­sulta­tions and receive assist­ance with net­work­ing;
 — after the work­shop we keep in touch with all our par­ti­cipants, and through other IDF activ­it­ies we offer com­pre­hens­ive follow-​up sup­port, provid­ing inter­na­tional PR for any new devel­op­ments, fest­ival release or distribution.

EX ORI­ENTE FILM STEP BY STEP

1^st work­shop: March 24 — 29, 2009 ”Find Your Way”
Venue: Prague
Dur­a­tion: Five days
The first ses­sion of the work­shop deals with inspir­a­tion. Par­ti­cipants work mainly on the pro­cessing and devel­op­ment of the doc­u­ment­ary pro­ject by focus­ing the story of the film and its main char­ac­ters, ana­lyz­ing stronger and weaker points of the pro­ject and its inter­na­tional dimen­sion, con­struct­ing a basic concept for the strategy of the film’s pro­duc­tion and fin­an­cing, employ­ing the sys­tem of European fund­ing, grants and broad­casters.
 
2^nd work­shop: June/​July 2009 — ”Pro­duc­tion Devel­op­ment”
Venue: Croa­tia
Dur­a­tion: Six days
The second ses­sion deals with fin­an­cing, budget­ing accord­ing to EU stand­ards, the legal aspects of co-​productions, strategies for select­ing com­mis­sion­ing edit­ors and an appro­pri­ate tele­vi­sion format, as well as a deeper cre­at­ive devel­op­ment of the film projects.

3^rd work­shop: in Octo­ber 2009 – ”The Mar­ket Opens”
Venue: Jih­lava
Dur­a­tion: Six days
The third ses­sion deals mainly with prac­tical skills that are required for the present­a­tion of the pro­ject and pitch­ing. How­ever its main the­or­et­ical themes are dis­tri­bu­tion plan and sales, post-​pitching nego­ti­ation tech­niques for doc­u­ment­ar­ies, as well as com­mu­nic­a­tion strategies to get European broad­casters involved in the project.

Addi­tional Eval­u­ation Ses­sion: Ex Ori­ente Film Babies — Janu­ary 2010
Venue: Prague
Dur­a­tion Two days
A two-​day ses­sion that con­sists of case stud­ies and screen­ings of suc­cess­ful fin­ished or almost fin­ished Ex Ori­ente films. We also invite the par­ti­cip­a­tion of sales agents and dis­trib­ut­ors who at this stage can still offer valu­able advice with regard to a suit­able dis­tri­bu­tion strategy. The second part of the pro­gram includes rough-​cut screen­ings of nearly fin­ished pro­jects that aim to provide inspir­a­tion and sup­port to the film­makers as they final­ize their films. 

Year-​round Con­sultancy:
Ex Ori­ente Film’s most import­ant aspect is the year-​long online ses­sions and con­sulta­tion led by exper­i­enced pro­ject tutors and European inde­pend­ent expert pro­du­cers (guard­ian angels). 

Par­ti­cip­a­tion Fee:
Par­ti­cip­a­tion fee is EUR 1.150,- per selec­ted pro­ject; this cov­ers the accom­mod­a­tion and part of cater­ing at all 3 work­shops for 2 pers.

Schol­ar­ship:
Par­ti­cipants from Poland, Esto­nia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Repub­lic, Slov­akia, Hun­gary, Bul­garia, Slov­e­nia and Romania can apply for a schol­ar­ship (at IDF), when they prove that there is no pos­sib­il­ity to get any schol­ar­ship in their own coun­try and the pro­ject is not sup­por­ted by any devel­op­ment grant. Par­ti­cipants from other coun­tries unfor­tu­nately can­not receive the schol­ar­ship in any case.

Con­tact:
Ivana MiloševiÄŤ (ivana@​docuinter.​net), Hana Rezkova (hanka@​docuinter.​net)
Insti­tute of Doc­u­ment­ary Film (IDF)
Skol­ska 12, Prague 1, 110 00
Czech Repub­lic
www​.DOC​Uinter​.net 

‘,‘en’,LAST_INSERT_ID());INSERT INTO news_​i18n (tytul,tresc,culture,id) VAL­UES (‘ENTER YOUR DOC­MENT­ARY PRO­JECT TO DOCS IN THES­SALONIKI PITCH­ING FORUM! ‘,’ Docs in Thes­saloniki is an inter­na­tional pitch­ing forum, organ­ized by the European Doc­u­ment­ary Net­work (EDN) in col­lab­or­a­tion with the Thes­saloniki Doc­u­ment­ary Fest­ival — Images of the 21^st Cen­tury which will take place from 13 til 22 March 2009. As a well-​established annual event in Thes­saloniki, the Pitch­ing Forum gives inter­na­tional audi­ovisual pro­fes­sion­als the oppor­tun­ity to present and pro­mote their work to Greek and for­eign tele­vi­sion net­works. The par­ti­cipants are informed about the state of the West­ern European doc­u­ment­ary mar­ket and are trained by sec­tor pro­fes­sion­als on the devel­op­ment and proper pro­mo­tion of their pro­jects on the inter­na­tional mar­ket, accord­ing to each film\‘s potential.

Sub­mis­sion dead­line is Janu­ary 25^th 2009

More details: www​.filmfest​ival​.gr

‘,‘en’,LAST_INSERT_ID());INSERT INTO news_​i18n (tytul,tresc,culture,id) VAL­UES (‘“GLASS TRAP” NOM­IN­ATED FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARD!’,’„Glass Trap” by PaweĹ‚ Fer­dek is the win­ner of The Best European Film Award at the Tampere Short Film Fest­ival in Fin­land. The award at the same time is a nom­in­a­tion for The European Film Award for short film. Receiv­ing this prize, awar­ded by the mem­bers of The European Film Academy, let alone being nom­in­ated for it, is an extraordin­ary prestige, espe­cially for a film debut.

The film has already been shown dur­ing IDFA in Ams­ter­dam, the most import­ant European fest­ival. Last Sat­urday it was nom­in­ated by the rep­res­ent­at­ive of the European Film Academy. It took place dur­ing the clos­ing cere­mony of the 39^th Inter­na­tional Tampere Short Film Fest­ival in Fin­land - the greatest Scand­inavian event present­ing short and doc­u­ment­ary films, and one of the largest and old­est ones in Europe.

Short films nom­in­ated for EFA are selec­ted from the films shown dur­ing the inter­na­tional com­pet­i­tions of thir­teen European film fest­ivals held in Ghent, Cork, Val­lad­olid, Ber­lin„ Angers, Tampere, Krakow, Grim­stad, Edin­burgh, Vila do Conde, Sara­jevo, Venice and Athens.

The win­ners’ names will be announced dur­ing the annual EFA awards cere­mony, which will not be held in Ber­lin as usual, but will take place in Essen.

You can see “Glass Trap” dur­ing the Go Shorts fest­ival, which is held in Hol­land in the second half of March.

www​.tampere​filmfest​ival​.fi
www​.european​fil​mac​ademy​.org’,‘en’,LAST_INSERT_ID());INSERT INTO news_​i18n (tytul,tresc,culture,id) VAL­UES (‘“THE END OF THE SUM­MER” BY STASIK AMONG THE NINE MOST PROM­ISING DOC­U­MENT­ARY PROJECTS’,’

„The End of the Sum­mer” by Piotr Stasik is among nine of the best doc­u­ment­ary pro­jects presen­ted within the frame­work of „Docu Tal­ents from the East” dur­ing this year Kar­love Vary Inter­na­tional Film Festival. 

„Docu Tal­ents from the East“, organ­ised by Jih­lava IDFF, Insti­tute of Doc­u­ment­ary Film and Kar­lovy Vary IFF, is the review of the brand new, bud­ding pro­jects from East­ern Europe. The dir­ector, together with the pro­du­cer Jacek NagĹ‚owski, presen­ted the pro­ject in per­son dur­ing the 7^th of July meet­ing in Kar­love Vary. 

„The End of the Sum­mer“ will be a poetic jour­ney to child­hood and a story of the dif­fi­culties con­nec­ted with com­ing of age – a tale of sev­eral char­ac­ters aged 7 to 17. This 50-​minute doc­u­ment­ary is pro­duced by Cent­rala, whose artistic out­put includes doc­u­ment­ar­ies such as „Gugara“, „In Heaven and Earth“ and „Clinic“.

Piotr Stasik has gradu­ated from The Andrzej Wajda Mas­ter School of Film Dir­ect­ing, and now is author of doc­u­ment­ary films such as „7 x Moscow“, „One by one“, „Over the Pave­ments“. Together with Maciej Cuske, Mar­cin Sauter, Thi­erry Paladino and MichaĹ‚ Mar­czak he is the mem­ber of The Paladino Film Group. 

(18.12.2008)