Two documentaries produced by Wajda Studio, "Losing Sonia" by Radka Franczak and "3 Days of Freedom," by Łukasz Borowski, were selected for the programme of the 18th Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
"Losing Sonia" is the latest production of Wajda Studio (co-produced by Otter Films Anna Wydra), whose world premiere will take place at this year's Visions du Réel Festival (20 - 27 April), where the film will be screened in the International Competition for Middle Length Films. The Radka Franczak documentary shows how a seemingly rigid monastery can be a place full of life, beauty and artistic expression. Sonia, a young nun, paints icons in the night and then sleeps until noon. She has a dog, cats, exotic birds, and a body that rebelled against the strict rigour of the monks. Trying to understand her and the meaning of her life choices, we come to Sonia’s family, marked with the history of Russia. At the same time, the film is a journey inside the Orthodox church, showing that the deep spirituality of the nation is being reborn. "Losing Sonia" tells the story of an unusual woman who, within the walls of the monastery, is trying to rebuild the values that Russian society has lost under successive political regimes.
"Losing Sonia" is Radka Franczak's debut middle length film production. The director alludes to the topic of her previous short documentary film – "Stiepan"
(produced by Wajda Studio, 2006), which was a record of a conversation
with a random traveller at the train station in Terespol. In 13 minutes,
a 75-year-old Russian recounts his life story – the story of a deeply
religious man who, despite severe persecutions, refused to renounce his
beliefs.
One of the five cameramen is Michael Ackerman, an American photographer known for his radical and unique approach to photography.
Screenings of “Losing Sonia” at Visions du Réel: 22 and 23 April
Poland’s biggest film event and one of the key festivals in Central and Eastern Europe has changed the name to T-Mobile New HorizonsInternational Film Festival after the current main sponsor, the local mobile operator Era, has changed its brand to T-Mobile.
Since 2003, the festival was known as Era New Horizons but after introducing the global brand of T-Mobile to Poland in2011, Era was dropped from the name of the 11. edition of the Wrocław-based event. Now, the name of the key partner regains its place in the name of the festival.
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa – the operator of the T-Mobile brand in Poland - is one of the key sponsors of cultural, sport, educational and charity events in Poland. The T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival is one of its most important projects.
12. T-Mobile New Horizons IFF will be held on 19-29 July 2012. Part of the 12th edition will be a review of new Mexican cinema and a retrospective of its famous representative Carlos Reygadas. Other retrospectives include films by the Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev, Austrian director Ulrich Seidl and the avant-garde author Peter Tscherkassky.
Polish Days - a new industry event focused on presentation of the latest Polish films to an international industry audience will take place during the first weekend of the festival on 21-23 July 2012.
More info: Jan Naszewski, International Promotion & PR, New Horizons IFF, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Finnish-German-Australian dark science fiction comedy Iron Sky is taking over the world. Distribution rights for the much hyped film have been sold to more than 70 countries. The deals put the film on minimum of 1000 screens around the world. A detailed list of coming and confirmed release dates will be updated online: http://www.ironsky.net/site/film/releasedates/
"The crowd is an unstoppable force. Our fans are getting active in the countries that do not have distribution in place yet", says producer Tero Kaukomaa. "Our fans include staff and owners at movie theaters in many places around the world, who have come directly to us to arrange a screening."
Theatrical release for Iron Sky has been confirmed in: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, France, Former Yugoslavia, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China (pending government approval), Korea, Thailand, Middle East, Israel, USA, Canada, Indonesia, Greek, India and Hong Kong.
"It's time to show that working with the audience pays off", says director Timo Vuorensola. "We have worked with the crowd to fund, develop and produce the film. Now it's time to get butts on seats in theaters."
Iron Sky had it's world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival a month ago and last weekend it had its US premiere at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
The trailer for the film has received 7 million views so far on YouTube, breaking records for independent films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc
And here is the secret link where you can watch the first five minutes: http://youtu.be/uX2cS8wvQHI
CONTACT
Producer
Tero Kaukomaa +41 79 2537 638 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Head of Social Media
Pekka Ollula +358 50 565 9683 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Blind Spot Pictures
Merimiehenkatu 36, 00150 Helsinki, Finland.
Tel: +358 50 593 7714 Fax: +358 (0) 9 710 061 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
IRON SKY PRESS MATERIALS
For press materials, such as photos and video, head over to http://www.ironsky.net/press/
All the press materials found there are free to use when reporting about Iron Sky.
IRON SKY IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Web: http://www.ironsky.net/
Blog: http://blog.ironsky.net/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/energia, http://twitter.com/ironskyfilm
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ironsky
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/ironskyfilm
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/energiaproductions
Wreckamovie: http://www.wreckamovie.com/iron-sky/
Store: http://store.ironsky.net/
BEHIND THE IRON SKY
Iron Sky is a dark science fiction comedy that takes place in the year 2018, when the Nazis, who fled the Earth to the dark side of the Moon in 1945, return to claim the Earth. The film is Finnish-German-Australian co-production with a budget of 7.5 million euros. It's directed by Timo Vuorensola and produced by Tero Kaukomaa (Blind Spot Pictures), Samuli Torssonen (visual effects producer, Energia), Oliver Damian (27 Films), Cathy Overett & Mark Overett (New Holland Pictures) with San Fu Maltha as the executive producer. The cast includes Julia Dietze (1½ Ritter), Götz Otto (Schindler's List, Tomorrow Never Dies, Downfall), Christopher Kirby (The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions, Daybreakers, Space: Above and Beyond), Udo Kier (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark), Peta Sergeant (Satisfaction), Stephanie Paul (Separation City, Film School Confidential), and Tilo Prückner (The Neverending Story, Die Fälscher). The screenplay is based on the story by the acclaimed sci-fi writer Johanna Sinisalo (Nebula Award nominee 2009, Finlandia 2000) and it is written by Michael Kalesniko (Private Parts) and Timo Vuorensola.
What makes Iron Sky special is the wide ranging collaboration with fans and community: the movie project fans join in creating ideas and content for the movie in a collaborative movie making platform called Wreckamovie, give the film publicity by sharing information online, even fund the movie by designing and buying merchandize and other means. One million euros of the budget comes from fan funding.
Vuorensola and Torssonen's first film was Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning - a fan-made sci-fi parody, which was published both as a free download and a commercial DVD. The film has reached over eight million viewers all around the world and gathered a strong international fan base.
Information, photos and videos: http://www.ironsky.net/, http://www.ironsky.net/press
Iron Sky Official Theatrical Trailer [HD] http://youtu.be/Py_IndUbcxc
DocAllianceFilms/now DAFilms.com invites you to join:
SYRIAN DOX BOX GLOBAL DAY
DOX BOX Global Day is a manifestation of solidarity with the DOX BOX film festival, the Syrian filmmakers and not least the Syrian people in these troubled times.
This year's festival was announced to take place from March 7 - 15. The festival management, however, has found the situation in Syria too critical and has chosen to cancel the festival. Instead, they have invited documentary film festivals around the world to participate in a part protest, part celebration under the heading DOX BOX Global Day.
Doc Alliance Films portal is pleased to participate, and to invite anyone to watch Syrian documentary films online from March 15 to 18 for free.
link: http://dafilms.com/event/61/
Application deadline: April 20
Submissions are now open for Ex Oriente Film 2012, the year-long international workshop supporting the development and funding of creative documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. Starting this year, the deadline for application to Ex Oriente Film has moved to April 20.
Ex Oriente Film is an international workshop dedicated to the development and funding of creative documentary films in Central and Eastern Europe. At three workshops (the 4th session focused on rough cuts is for selected projects only) that take place in the course of one year, directors and producers develop their projects and funding strategies and benefit from the assistance and valuable advice provided by established European producers, directors, experts and commissioning editors. The Ex Oriente Film training programme is completed with the co-production meeting East European Forum that gives documentary filmmakers a chance to pitch their project and secure funding from West European and North American broadcasters. The three residential workshops and the East European Forum pitching are supplemented by the Doc Launch follow-up programme that tracks the projects till their completion.
EX ORIENTE FILM WORKSHOP DEADLINE IS: April 20, 2012
To apply with your documentary project, please fill out theonline ENTRY FORM
Application is free of charge!
Individual meetings with selected applicants: May 2012 (TBC)
Final selection of projects: May 2012
1st Workshop Session - „Find Your Originality“: mid-June 2012 (Czech Republic, TBC)
2nd Workshop Session - „Production & Story Development“: October 2012 (within IDFF Jihlava, Jihlava, Czech Republic)
3rd Workshop Session - „The Market Opens“: March 2013 (within One World Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic)
Participants: Out of all submitted projects, 14 projects will be selected, i.e., 28 participants (14 director-producer teams) will be included in the workshop.
Participation Fee: The participation fee is EUR 1,500 per selected project (includes all accommodation, coffee breaks and lunches during the three workshops for 1-2 pers.).
Scholarships: Participants from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia may apply for a scholarship to cover part of the accommodation and participation fees. Applicants must prove there is no possibility of scholarship in their own country and that the project is not supported by any development funding. To confirm this, applicants must send us a request with an official letter from their local MEDIA Desk or national film centre.
Conditions of Participation: Participants must be proficient in English. All workshop sessions must be attended by both the producer and the director.
EX ORIENTE STEP BY STEP
1st Session: “Find Your Originality”
Place and dates: mid-June 2012 (Czech Republic, TBC)
The first workshop session aims to offer the participants inspiration as they develop their projects. The programme is divided between various master classes of visiting experts and practical intensive work on the projects. In the practical part of the programme, participants mainly work on the processing and development of their documentary projects, focusing on contents and storytelling. Workshops help participants analyze and understand the potential of their subject matter, ideas and plot, to find out what makes them universal, to expand on and strengthen these very points:
- story of the film and its protagonists;
- analyzing the strong and weak points of the project and its international dimension;
- constructing a basic concept for the strategy of the film’s production and financing;
- group work and individual consultations to the project;
- film screenings for inspiration;
- theory sessions on how to write and develop a professional project for international co-production;
- basic orientation within the system of European funding, grants and broadcasters.
2nd Session: “Production Development”
Place and dates: October 24 – 30, 2012 (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
The second workshop session focuses on budgeting, legal aspects of co-productions, strategies for selecting commissioning editors and the proper television format, as well as a deeper creative development of the projects, the rough material as well as the documentary script. The second session is specific in that it has a partly separate programme for directors and producers. It also puts a strong emphasis on the development of the projects distribution strategy.
3rd Session: “The Market Opens”
March 4 – 10, 2013 (Prague, Czech Republic)
The third workshop session is dedicated mainly to communication skills and distribution plan and sales, training in pitching techniques, post-pitching negotiations and defining the potential of East European independent producers in the EU film market. The three sessions are completed with a two-day pitching forum where all participants pitch their projects.
The three residential workshops and the East European Forum pitching are supplemented by the Doc Launch follow-up programme which tracks the projects till their completion.
Year-round Consultancy: An important aspect of Ex Oriente Film are the year-round online sessions and consultations led by the lead and guest tutors of the workshop. Further information about Ex Oriente Film are available HERE.
Contact:
Veronika Lišková, Programme Coordinator
email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Institute of Documentary Film (IDF)
Školská 12, Prague 1, 110 00
Czech Republic
www.DOKweb.net
{mosimage}Warsaw: The annual Polish Eagles awards for best Polish films of the year will be held on Monday 19 March 2012 after being cancelled due to a day of national mourning in Poland following the tragic train accident that took 16 lives two weeks ago.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Culture has announced 4,233,360 LT (1.22 million EUR) in film grants for 14 feature, documentary and animated films.
Call for FILM SPRING OPEN-AIR 2012
27.04 – 06.05.2012 Krakow, Poland
Registration is open till March 31st 2012.
It has been seven years thanks to the initiative of Slawomir Idziak filmmakers from Poland and Europe meet to develop their ideas and make films to learn new technologies. In 2012 for the second time it will take place in Krakow, Poland (from April 27th till May 6th, 2012).
INTERACTIVE CINEMA
We invite our participants to create an interactive film show. All films made at Film Spring Open-Air will be related to a music show, so called mastertrack. The soundtrack from this event will serve as a timeline, which gives time reference to other tracks. This means that following film tracks can show events that are taking place in another place but at exactly the same time.
Finally, Film Spring Open will show selected films on the Internet on a specially designed Interactive Interface (so-called Interface ID) build in cooperation with National Audiovisual Institute.
The viewers will also have the possibility to see our work on YouTube’s Partner Channel so that films made by our participants could reach millions of viewers around the world.
FUTURE OF CINEMA AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Following our main objective, which is future of cinema and new technologies, Film Spring Open-Air 2012 program focuses on workshops (including hands-on tests of equipment and software) as well as professional lectures.
Apart from a continuation of successful 3D Workshops and Documentary Workshops it will be also dedicated to interactive dramaturgy, meetings with outstanding filmmakers and new production models of low-budget films.
Many professionals have already expressed their interest to become our speakers to share their knowledge and experience during our workshops, among the others:
Sławomir Idziak (DOP), Neil Corbould (SFX), Bogdan Dziworski (documentary director), Kaspar Kallas (editor), Daniele Siragusano (stereographer), Detlev Buck (director), Jan Komasa (director), Tomasz Bagiński (director) and Platige Image, Małgorzata Szumowska (director), Andrzej Waluk (stereographer), Michael Laakmann (stereographer), Łukasz Baka (stereographer), Robert Chaciński (digital image technician) as well as representatives from CD Projekt RED Studio (authors of “The Witcher”) and Google/YouTube (Presentation of the opportunities that YouTube offers to filmmakers and authors to promote content and its monetization.)
We would like to continue our collaboration with Alvernia Studios and technological partners. Hands-on tests of equipment and software of the following companies are planned:
(Panasonic Europe, Hewlett-Packard, Adobe Systems, RCS Systemy Komputerowe Apple Authorized Reseller, Screen Plane GmbH, FGV Schmidle, Zodiak Jerzy Hoffman Film Production, CinePostproduction GmbH, Luks Film Lighting)
3D WORKSHOPS CONTINUED
After a great success of 3D Workshops in 2011, FilmSpringers have recently worked with DOP Slawomir Idziak on the shooting plan of high-budget German production in 3D, "Measuring the World". We will present newest technologies for 3D films (shooting and postproduction ones).
For more information about Film Spring Open-Air please visit the following links:
Online registration is open till March 31st 2012, for more information click on links:
For group registrations please contact: gosia.tusk@
East DocPlatform | Prague | March 5 – 11, 2012
East EuropeanForum, Doc LaunchPresentation, East SilverVideolibrary, Project Market
Thursday’s opulent programme launchesas early as at 10am. The first on the list is the highly expected Master Classgiven by the renowned British documentarian and journalist Sean McAllister,who introduces his creative style and authorial methods of his personaldocumentary portraits. At the same time, the daily operation of the East SilverVideolibrary begins and goes on for another 12 hoursuntil the place closes its doors at 10pm. At noon, a well-known Danishindependent film consultant and tutor Tue Steen Müllerpresents his popular overview of the latest documentary production: look forthe Documentary Tour of Europe including film excerpts. Later on, at 3pm, thereis a Case Studydealing with some particular examples of German-Bulgarian co-production. Presentedby MartichkaBozhilova and Ann CarolinRenninger, the analyzed films are The Boy Who Was a King (2011) and Balkan Melodie (2012). Only half an hour later, another Case Study is about to dominatePrague’s Archa Palace. Liz Rosenthal, British theoreticianand the founder of Power to the Pixel, joins Mandy Rose and Georg Tschurtschenthaler in asession discussing East European cross-media projects Word in Pain and Six Degrees.The first of the three Project Market pre-arrangedmeetings takes place at 6.30pm and provides all the registered projects anopportunity to pitch individually with international commissioning editors,sales and distributors. Concurrently, the representatives of the Polish Film Institutehold a panel discussion titled Polish Lesson about the legislaturechanges triggering recent boom of Polish documentary, which may serve as aninspiring example for other countries in the region seeking to adopt new filmlaw. At the end of the day, the second East Doc Platform special screeninginvites Sean McAllister back onthe stage to introduce his 2008 documentary featureJapan: A Story of Love and Hate.
THURSDAY, March 8,2011
10:00 – 22:00 |East Silver VideoLibrary| Open from March 6 – 11 (10am – 10pm)
Open for:EDP accreditation & One World Guest accreditation
Where:Archa Palace, Remote Space
10:00 – 11:30 |MASTER CLASS: Sean McAllister| Privateinvestigations |
Introduction to the work of the Scottish director and journalist who has beenrecently getting behind the events convulsing the Arab world. At all timesdevoted to his style, McAllister masters personal stories documentingoutsiders’ struggles to find their way out of dead ends.
Open for:All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where:Archa Palace, Battery Hall
12:00 – 13:30 |LECTURE: Documentary Tour of Europe| The best of2011 European docs, including film excerpts, presented by Tue Steen Müller(DK).
Open for:All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where:Archa Palace, Battery Hall
15:00 – 16:30 |CASE STUDY: The Boy Who Was a King (2011) and Balkan Melodie(2012)|
The story of Bulgarian-German co-production introduced by Martichka Bozhilova(BG) and Ann Carolin Renninger (D).
Open for:All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where:Archa Palace, Battery Hall
17:00 –18:30 |CASE STUDY/ PANEL DISCUSSION: End of Story - Cross Media inEastern Europe| Case study bringing in the documentary projectsWord in Pain and Six Degrees, followed by a panel discussion with Liz Rosenthal(UK), Mandy Rose (UK) and Georg Tschurtschenthaler (D).
Open for:All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where:Archa Palace, Battery Hall
18:30 – 20:30 |PROJECT MARKET| Prearranged one-on-one meetings
Open for:EDP accreditation
Where:Archa Palace, Chip Room
18:30 – 20:00 |PANEL DISCUSSION: Polish Lesson| Polish film act(2005) and its impact on the development of the Polish feature and documentaryfilm markets. Documentary boom in Poland from an institutional point of viewintroduced by Kinga Galuszka (PL), Marta Sikorska (PL) and Robert Balinski (PL)from the Polish Film Institute.
Open for:All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where:Archa Palace, Battery Hall
21:00 |SPECIALSCREENING: Japan: A Story of Love and Hate (2008) followed by aQ&A with the director Sean McAllister (UK)
Open for:All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where:Archa Palace, Battery Hall
Contact:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Institute of Documentary Film, www.DOKweb.net
