Pitch & Feedback
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm.
Barrandov Studios Villa (Becher's Villa)
Pitch & Feedback is the annual presentation of selected Czech and Slovak film projects in development organized by Czech Film Center, Slovak Film Institute, Industry Office of KVIFF and MIDPOINT Script Center.
The projects with the potential to succeed internationally and attract a foreign co-producer will be pitched by their creators to important representatives and decision makers from various areas of international film industry. The experts will provide their direct feedback and advice for each project and its presentation.
More info about Pitch & Feedback.
Docu Talents from the East
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.
Barrandov Studios Villa (Becher's Villa)
Docu Talents from the East is organized by IDFF Jihlava and Karlovy Vary IFF.
Docu Talents from the East 2015 will introduce the most remarkable creative documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe in the stage of production or post-production. Directors and producers of thirteen selected feature-length documentaries will introduce their projects planned for theatrical distribution in the period from August 2015 to July 2016 in eight-minute presentations.
You can find out more here: http://www.dokument-festival.cz/industry/docu-talents-from-the-east.
Selected projects Docu Talents from the East.
State Cinematography Fund, 2nd Year
Wednesday, July 8, 2015, from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
Blue Lounge, Lázně III
The State Cinematograph Fund has completed yet another year of functioning according to the new Cinematography Act. What is the current economic situation, what are some of the changes and obstacles in the institution, which has been recently cut loose to stand on its own two feet? A traditional panel, with Helena Bezděk Fraňková, will provide a more detailed look at setting a complex model for cinema financing, as well as the day-to-day administrative obligations that have an impact on both Czech cinematography and the cinema industry.
The talk is in Czech only.
TorinoFilmLab: Indonesian cinema & censorship – The personal journey of Edwin
Thursday, July 9, 2015, from 10.30 am to 12.00 noon
Blue Lounge, Lázně III
TFL FrameWork Alumnus Edwin (with Postcards from the Zoo – first Indonesian film ever to be selected for Berlinale’s main competition in 2012) will share his personal experiences of censorship making films in Indonesia. The filmmaker will elaborate on how, besides violating human rights, censorship reflects the old Indonesian rooted corrupt, unorganized system, and how the permanence of film censorship in the country regime after regime has affected people unconsciously to the point of self-censoring their thoughts.
TorinoFilmLab: The Circuit of Excess: Film Industry, Taboos and Online Conversations
Thursday, July 9, 2015, from 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Blue Lounge, Lázně III
TFL Audience Design Alumnus Nicolò Gallio will share the results of an ongoing research on transgressive & offensive cinema – focusing on cannibal movies. This talk is part of a project run by Nicolò Gallio and Juan Morali, in collaboration with the agency Sentisis. It focuses on transgression and taboos as cultural categories, and includes a case study that introduces the provisional findings of a qualitative monitoring of online conversations on social media generated around transgressive content.
TorinoFilmLab: Film Festivals at the Mercy of Politics
Friday, July 10, 2015, from 11.00 am to 12.00 noon
Blue Lounge, Lázně III
A Conversation with Azize Tan, Director of Istanbul Film Festival
Film festivals, widely recognized all over the world as realms of freedom of artistic expression, are increasingly on the threat of political pressures. Examples of interference have multiplied recently, with the executive director of Busan forced to step down last October or, at the very moment, the Minister of Culture threatening to reconsider public funding for the Jerusalem Film Festival. Azize Tan will come back to the events that shook the Istanbul Film Festival last April, when Turkish filmmakers pulled out their films over censorship row.
What Next? Will Studies Lead the Way for Czech Cinema?
Friday, July 10, 2015, from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
Blue Lounge, Lázně III
Two extensive studies were published this year. The first, carried out by APA, provides an insight into the habits of viewers and their perception of Czech film production. The second study, conducted by SFK, focuses on film development.
The Ministry of Culture has drafted an amendment to the Media and Audiovisual Services Act that will provide a new source of funding for SFK from the state budget. Where is funding needed most? How can it help Czech cinematography to be more attractive to the viewers and successful at international festivals? Is lack of funding the only problem of local film production? Do the ambitions of local filmmakers exceed their skills? Or is Czech film in need of a strategy that would keep moviegoers interested in this digital age.
The talk is in Czech only.
TorinoFilmLab: Shall It Be Forbidden to Forbid?
Friday, July 10, 2015, from 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Blue Lounge, Lázně III
A Talk with Peter Kerekes, Documentary Filmmaker, around his film project Censors
Thought-provoking and irreverent Slovak filmmaker Peter Kerekes (A Cooking History, Velvet Terrorists) is embarking on a new journey exploring the important daily decisions that small people part of big systems have to take. Kerekes’s attention will be targeted at censors, the very last “manual workers” in an era of security softwares. Censors intends to be a very “un-revolutionary” film, insisting on the importance of setting borders and social value of censorship. Yet, is it even possible to make an apolitical film about censorship? Hopefully, the question will stir vivid debates in the audience.
