East Doc Platform | Prague | March 3 – 9, 2014
East European Forum, Doc Tank, East Silver videolibrary, Project Market
There are just a few weeks left until the beginning of the third edition of the largest documentary industry event of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. We would therefore like to invite the entire Czech and international professional community to Prague to East Doc Platform. The event will present 350 guests, including both Czech and foreign directors, producers, representatives of broadcasters, sales agents, distributors, funds, institutions, festivals and media. The deadline for accreditation is approaching – get your Industry pass online before February 15, 2014!
Doc Tank project– a new programme section of EDP being introduced this year, will focus on cross-media projects with an activist approach and social campaign potential. The public presentation of the seven selected projects of the first edition of this programme will take place March 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Cervantes Institute. To name a few examples, you can look forward to hearing about An Arts Detective Story, in which the director Andrea Culková and her team of specialists collect and put together the clues to create a detailed map to the story of two unique figures of European modernity: Milada Součková and Zdeněk Rykr. Tamara Moyzes focuses in her project, Artpopuli, on destroying the barriers between art and populism. Tereza Reichlová and Hynek Reich Štětka will introduce their project Vaccination. The film about a couple, who wants to sue the Czech state for making them vaccinate their daughter, deals with the right for an individual choice, the lobby of pharmaceutical industry and the policy of fear that needs to be tackled.
EDP Open programme also offers a public presentation of the 14th edition of East European Forum, taking place March 8 at Theatre Komedie (9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) The board of experts went through more than 130 applicants and eventually picked 8 projects. These will first take part in the preparatory workshop, where the filmmakers will have five days to fine-tune their presentation in every way. 12 projects that went through the 2013 Ex Oriente Film workshop will join them. On the public presentation it will be possible to get more information about the forthcoming projects, for example The Key to Clockwork Orange, mapping the violent conflicts between the russian skinheads and Antifa members, taking place in the whole Rusiia for the past 10 years. Love Express – the curious case of Walerian Borowczyk will show how one of the greatest visionaires of European cinematography shifts from art making towards pornography. Czech documentaries will be represented by the biographical film Karel Zeman – Adventurer in Film, looking back on the life of the classic figure of the world cinematography. You can find the complete list of presented projects here.
Traditionally we have also prepared the lectures, master classes, case studies and projections led by renowned professionals of documentary filmmaking. On March 4, from 10:00 a.m., a respected German producer Simone Baumann will introduce the background of internationally successful film Putin’s games, directed by Alexander Gentelev. This documentary reveals the scandalous circumstances in Russian infrastructure during the preparations of Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
Scottish documentarist and a Programme Director of Film & TV at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Emma Davie will be present the same day at 6:00 p.m. at the projection, introductory speech and after projection discussion of her latest movie, I am breathing. It was also the introductory film at IDFA 2013 and got many awards on other festivals - it is a story of a 34 old architect who has less than a year left to live due to Motor Neurone Disease. On March 6, 10:00 am, you should not miss the lecture given by Cynthia Lopez, Executive Vice President and Co-Executive Producer at the acclaimed US documentary strand P.O.V. on PBS, who will discuss recent broadcast presentations to include a case study and an overview of the contemporary doc landscape in the U.S. In addition, she will offer European filmmakers tips on how to break-in the U.S. market.
One World Film Festival 2014 takes place March 3-12 in Prague, Will Discuss Work
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will be held from March 3 to March 12, 2014 in Prague. During March and April it will introduce itself within 33 more cities in the Czech Republic – beginning at Ústí nad Labem, ending at Ústí nad Orlicí. The regional dates of the festival can be found here.
The main topic of this year is Work. One World is trying to draw attention to the fact that after several years of an economic crisis, employment as a source of livelihood has become a daily topic for an increasing number of people. The Story of Mr. Love, Show!, Byeway, My Last 150 Thousand Cigarettes, Gangster of Love, Normalization, Eugenic Minds, The Great Night, these are just some of the films projected within the festival, which were – in different stages of production- supported by Institute of Documentary Film. Another IDF supported movie, Everything is possible, will be one of the highlights of the festival, introduced personally by both the Director Lidia Duda and the main protagonist, 80 years old Teresa Bancewicz. Find more details about and the complete programme of One World festival at the new website.
