POLISH DOCS PRO DELEGATION AT EFM BERLINALE 2022
This year's edition of European Film Market, a series of events for film industry insiders that accompany Berlinale – one of the biggest and the most important film festival in the world – will have an online formula. EFM online will be attended by a Polish delegation of producers who will present themselves to international film industry representatives during the Polish Docs Pro Rough Cut Presentation among others.
EFM is a set of events dedicated to financing, sales and distribution, and also a lot of presentations and networking events aimed at searching international partners. Some of them are dedicated to the documentary filmmakers.
At this year’s EFM for the first time Polish documentary filmmakers will attend the industry events within a frame of Polish Docs Pro delegation, organized by the Krakow Film Foundation. One of the key event of Polish presence at IDFA will be the Polish Docs Pro Rough Cut Showcase – presenting the most interesting Polish creative documentary projects in the last stage of production.
On Monday, February 14th at 15.30 following projects will be presented:
„Boylesque”, dir. Bogna Kowalczyk, prod.Katarzyna Kuczyńska (Haka Films)
„Flight”, dir. Anna Zakrzewska, Łukasz Ronduda, prod. Anna Gawlita (Kijora Film)
„Leon”, dir. Wojciech Gostomczyk, prod. Anna Stylińska, Wojciech Gostomczyk (Metrage Studio)
„The Fledglings”, dir. Lidia Duda, prod. Anna Bławut (Aura Films)
(more about projects and the Polish delegation here)
Polish producers will get the opportunity to promote, participate in networking meetings, and search for international partners as part of the open EFM Industry program.
The project Polish Docs PRO focuses primarily on a wide promotion of Polish documentary film industry at international events addressed to film professionals. It supports film-makers and producers in developing their projects by facilitating access to the markets abroad, co-coordinating the trips of delegations to the pitching forums and co-production markets, organising the presentations of projects, production models and co-production opportunities with Poland, organising networking meetings, participation in lectures, panel discussions, workshops and training sessions. The aim of the Polish Docs PRO is to establish the brand of Polish documentary film in the international film environment and to develop international co-operation.