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Documentary Campus Industry Session
11-13th March Prague, Czech Republic

"One World, Many Ways" -

New Directions in Human Rights Documentaries

Documentary Campus is honoured to present a three-day industry event during the acclaimed One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague (8-17 March 2011). Thought-provoking panels and case studies for industry professionals will be run parallel to workshops on low budget and online production for newcomers. It's a forum for East and West to network, to discuss professional development and co-production opportunities from the filmmaker to the commissioning editor level.

"One World, Many Ways" will explore ways to tell the stories that need to be told and introduce some of the world's most important human rights filmmakers who have risked their lives to tell them. Stay tuned each week as we reveal our list of international guests.

New Directions in Human Rights Documentaries

• Dates & Programme
• Registration
• Location
• Fee
• Hotels

Documentary Campus is honoured to present a three-day industry event during the acclaimed One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague (8-17 March 2011). Thought provoking panels and case studies for industry professionals will be run parallel with workshops in low budget and online production for newcomers. It’s a forum for East and West to network, to discuss professional development and co-production opportunities from the filmmaker to the commissioning editor level. One world, many ways will explore ways to tell the stories that need to be told and introduce some of the world’s most important human rights filmmakers who have risked their lives to tell them.

Dates & Programme

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 - Sun, 13 Mar 2011

Registration

Deadline: Sun, 6 Mar 2011

Location

The Industry Session takes place at:

Hotel Grand Majestic Plaza
Truhlárská 16
110 00 Prague 1

Want to know how to get there? Please see section Hotel and Travel for the best & cheapest way to Prague.

Festival Center One World:

Lucerna
Vodickova 36
110 00 Prague 1

Fon: +420-224-216972

Guest Service, Press Centre, Videotheque of the Festival:

Langhans Gallery
Vodickova 37
110 00 Prague 1

Fon: +420-222-929333

Opening during the festival daily from 10.00 am - 7.00 pm

Fee

EUR 50.00 Participation Fee.
This fee does not include catering.

Hotels

In cooperation with our local partner Active Travel, we have selected a certain number of hotels which offer special rates for delegates of the event. Active Travel has created a website where you can choose the hotel which suits you best and book yourself in online.

Book your hotel at:http://industrysession-active.webnode.cz/

Reservation for one of the hotels is binding. If you need to change your reservation, please contact the travel agency at:

Active Travel s.r.o.
Nekázanka 9
Prague 1
110 00
Phone: +420-224-231671-4
Email: active@active.cz

How to get to Prague

Czechs national airline is called Czech Airlines flies mainly to European destination including London and Paris. CSA also operates direct flights to New York, Moscow and many other world destinations. They offer quite good value for money.

Low cost flights from UK:

EasyJet: from Bristol, East Midlands, Stansted and Gatwick
BmiBaby: from Birmingham, Belfast, East Midland and Manchester
Wizz Air: fly from London Luton or Liverpool to Prague
Jet2: from Leeds Bradford and Edinburgh (now accepting PayPal)
GermanWings: from London Stansted

Other airlines and destinations:

KLM: from any UK city
Air Europe: from Madrid to Prague
Air Berlin: you can fly from Manchester and London to Vienna or Nuremberg and then take a train to Prague
AerLingus: flights from Dublin
Brussels Airlines: from Brussels to Prague
Cimber Air: flies from Denmark, Coppenhagen
GermanWings: only operates low cost route to Prague from Cologne Bonn
Norwegian Airlines: flies from Bergen, Oslo and Trondheim to Prague
Meridiana: low fare airline operates a single route between the Czech capital and Firenze in Tuscany
Sterling: the no-frillier airline. Routes from Billund, Copenhagen, Goteborg, Oslo and Stockholm
SmartWings: Prague based airline flies to many EU destinations similar as SkyEurope
SnowFlake: You'll find low fare flights from Copenhagen Kastrup to Prague Ruzyne
Lufthansa: quite cheap return flights from many cities in Germany and from London to Prague
WindJet: flies from Italy, Verona
Vueling: flies from Spain, Barcelona
Transavia flies from Rotterdam

TrainsTrains in the Czech Republic are operated by Ceské dráhy Czech Railways. The train is a common means of transportation in the Czech Republic.

Prague has several train stations. The most widely used ones are the Main Station (Hlavní nádraží), Holešovice Station (Nádraží Holešovice), and Smíchov Station (Nádraží Smíchov). They are all accessible by the metro and several tram lines.

You can look up Czech Republic and international train and bus connections and Czech public city transport schedules at http://jizdnirady.idnes.cz

Czech Train Travel Dictionary:

Below are some terms and phrases you may run into when traveling by train in the Czech Republic:

vlak - train
(vlakové) nádraží - (train) station
Odjezdy - Departures
Příjezdy - Arrivals
nástupiště - platform
zastávka - stop
jízdenka - ticket
jízdenky - tickets
místenka - seat reservation
pokladna - ticket window
povinne místenkový vlak - seat reservation necessary on this train
neúplná cena - incomplete price (usually with international connections; may only show the cost of the ticket within the Czech Republic, not past the border)
Vlak neceká na žádné prípoje. - The train will not wait for any connections.

Busses

For buses, you can use this page to book your ticket: http://www.studentagency.eu/

Getting around in Prague

For public transport connections, please have a look at: http://www.dpp.cz/en/

Taxi companies:

Halo Taxi
Recommended by One World organisers, please mention that you're from the festival organisers “People In Need” and you will get the favourable rate.

Fon: +420 244 114 411 / +420 222 135 111
Cell: +420 602 177 292 / +420 603 845 825 / +420 776 11 44 11
www.halotaxi.cz

AAA Taxi
Fon: +420 222 333 222 / +420 221 102 211
www.aaataxi.cz