FILMFORUMZADAR - European Coproductions meet the Creative Industry of Zadar

It’s also the first film festival in Zadar going to gather not only the cinema audience during the film projections but also the professionals participating at the creative Film Forum. The Forum aims to gather and connect film-creatives and to place Zadar and the region as the new film and creative center.

The great infrastructure proved itself even during the "year zero" of Film forum in 2010 and we established a creative co-operation with our partners Arsenal http://www.arsenalzadar.com/ , University of Zadar www.unizd.hr , The city library of Zadarhttp://www.gkzd.hr/ , The museum of antique glasshttp://www.mas-zadar.hr/ , the tourist board of Zadarwww.tzzadar.hr , Zadar´s Puppet Theatre http://www.klz.hr/ , city’s cinemas and the Computer studies school "Algebra"http://algebra.hr/ .

For the festival is essential the fact that the city’s government supported the concept of this unique manifestation aiming for Zadar to establish it’s place inside the film art and industry map. The City of Zadar and it’s mayor offered hospitality to our festival. Inside our forum we gather foreign and inland professionals to bring and share their experiences and concrete businesses, enhancing the Creative Industries of the region.

“This is the most beautiful sunset in the world” – said Alfred Hitchcock, delighted during the staying in Zadar http://croatia4you.wordpress.com/zadar/ . 

We firmly believe that the new generations have the great opportunity to show that Zadar disposes of more than just perfect geographic position on the Adriatic sea along with the beautiful landscapes perfect for the film sets, and that beside the rich history has the perspective for the future. 

With the rich program and contacts Film Forum aims to attract interest for Zadar and show the city’s new spirit open to fresh ideas just like this first international festival of European co-productions. 

The German city of Ruhr, 2010 European culture capital, have already recognized Zadar’s festival by giving the whole channel inside it’s large project Lab2010. The region of Ruhr and the Hungarian city Pecs with it´s "Southern Transdanubia Filmfund" are some of the partners of Zadar’s new filmfestival, just like the Catalonian region with the Catalan Films&TV. 

In Zadar the films are to be apprised by the audience an the international jury, and the documentary program will be evaluated apart. Hermann Vaske presented his project "Why are You creative?" and "Creative Heads", in co-operation with the Youtube www.youtube.com/creativeheads. Under the title „Why are you Creative?” we presented two of his films.

Film Forum Zadar cooperates with and presented EAVE www.eave.org for the first time in Croatia. EAVE is one of the leading training and development programmes for producers in Europe with a unique network of over 1,000 professionals.

The Education part of the project is enlarged in co-operation with Avvantura d.o.o. http://www.avvantura.com and Algebra www.algebra.hr, the regional leading school center for creative computer technologies. Being Apple and Adobe certificated school center, Algebra organized with Avvantura d.o.o. education for the participants of "Sergej´s SUMMERFILMSCHOOL" in fields of the digital video editing giving accent to professional software for the postproduction – Final Cut Pro.

During the festival were organized beside others a panel discussion about developing of Zadar as possible film location.

The audience is to be given the experience of the open cinema at the city’s squares which are ideal for the projection under the open sky.