We have now started a countdown to the second session of Ex Oriente Film 2013 and we are more than pleased to present you this year´s tutors and open workshop programme.
We especially look forward to welcoming an acclaimed Israeli filmmaker and essayist, Eyal Sivan, who will present a master class dedicated to using film as a tool for activism, change of perception about history and political use of memory. His master class will be preceded by the screening of his film THE SPECIALIST, PORTRAIT OF A MODERN CRIMINAL (France, 1999, 128 min) - a unique courtroom drama recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem. During this session a special attention will be paid to the visual style in documentary filmmaking. The workshop will introduce a master class of a world-famous cinematographer and director Kirsten Johnson, preceded by her film VIRGIN TALES. Both master classes will be organized in cooperation with Jihlava IDFF.
As usual the workshop programme will include individual meetings among our participants and tutors, group sessions and special lectures dedicated to legal aspects of international coproduction, cross media and alternative ways of film financing and distribution. The first part of the workshop will offer an inspirational case study on How to run a production company focused on documentary film by Danish producer Helle Faber. We are happy to announce that this year´s lecture about financing and budgeting in documentary films will be held by German producer Stefan Kloos. An insight in the world of distribution will be offered by Anaïs Clanet, a Manager at Wide House. Nick Ware, Managing Director of MercuryMedia, will address question about Digital Documentary in the Age of the Internet. In addition to that, we will be having editing sessions which will be hosted by renowned professionals such as Martin Mareček, Míra Janek and Peter Kerekes. The tutors will be chaired by Marijke Rawie, Mikael Opstrup a Filip Remunda. For a complete list of tutors please go to http://www.dokweb.net/en/ex-oriente-film/2nd-workshop-session-tutors-and-guests-960/?sac=3
Ex Oriente Film Open Programme
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
15.00 – 16.30 |Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18
CASE STUDY: How to run a production company focused on documentary film
An insight into a well-functioning documentary production company, hosted by Helle Faber, Danish producer and founder of Made In Copenhagen production company. Followed by Q&A session.
Open for: Industry + Press accreditations
Thursday, October 24, 2013
10.00 – 11.30 |Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18
LECTURE: Introduction into Budgeting
German producer and a managing director at Kloos & Co. Medien and Rise and Shine World Sales based in Berlin, Stefan Kloos, introduces co-productions with broadcasters, co-production budget structure between production companies, film budget in relation to financial plan, and other budgeting facts.
Open for: Industry + Press accreditations
Friday, October 25, 2013
15.00 – 16.30 | Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18
LECTURE: Production Tour of Europe
Production Tour of Europe offers a financial sources overview for creative documentary films in Europe and worldwide, while it adds strategies for the selection of suitable commissioning editors and proper television format. This comprehensive lecture presented by various producers, sales and TV representatives and film consultants also provides an analysis of the most important markets, festivals, broadcasters, and sums up where to seek opportunities for East European production —pre-sales, sales and co-production contracts.
Open for: Industry + Press accreditations
15.00 – 16.30 | Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18
Peter Kerekeš: Staging, Re-enactments and Composition in Documentary Film
Master Class by Slovak director Peter Kerekeš, who makes the past come alive through the playful reconstruction of the personal history of his characters and with the help of various objects, souvenirs and music in his films. In a mixture of materials and time levels, Kerekes’ films reveal the relationship between yesterday, today and tomorrow. A personal guided tour through the documentary filmmaking that combines contemporary film material, real and at the same time stylized archives, illustrations and re-enactments. Followed by Q&A session.
Open for: Industry + Press accreditations
17.00 – 18.30 | Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18
LECTURE: Development starts with a good distribution strategy
Lecture by Anaïs Clanet (Wide House, France) on Market, Sales & Networking for a small independent documentary filmmaker. How to reach festival & markets? Followed by Q&A session.
Open for: Industry + Press accreditations
Saturday, October 26, 2013
10.00 – 13.00 | Dukla Cinema, Grand Hall Reform, Jana Masaryka 20
MASTER CLASS & SCREENING: Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson, a renowned and award-winning US cinematographer and director, presents a master class dedicated to her approach to the visual style in documentary film. Besides other examples of her cinematographic work, Kirsten Johnson will talk about and show clips from her current documentary project A Blind Eye. How may the theme, enviroment and characters of the film affect its visual style in order to strengthen the storytelling aspect? The master class will be preceded by the screening of Virgin Tales (87´, dir. Mirjam Von Arx, Switzerland, 2012) – one of the most recent Johnson´s works as a cinematographer. Following seven Evangelical children as they prepare for their fairytale vision of romance and marriage, the film shows a subculture that doesn’t believe in even kissing before marriage.
Open for: All types of accreditation
Organized in association with Jihlava IDFF
10.00 – 11.30, 12.00 – 13.30, 15.00 – 17.00, 17.30 – 19.00 | Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18
LECTURE: Legal Issues of International Co-production I- IV
A series of four lectures by Dr. Stefan Rüll, German attorney-at-law and specialist in international co-production and author’s rights.
Open for: Industry + Press accreditations
Organized in association with Jihlava IDFF
Sunday, October 27, 2013
10.00 - 11.30 | Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18
LECTURE: Digital Documentary in the Age of the Internet
Current trends in documentary creation, crowdfunding, transmedia storytelling and distribution. How to make use of today’s rapidly changing documentary landscape and digital frontier? Inspirational Session by Nick Ware (MercuryMedia, UK).
Open for: Industry + Press accreditations
Monday , October 28, 2013
10.00 - 14.00 | Dukla Cinema, Grand Hall Reform, Jana Masaryka 20
MASTER CLASS & SCREENING: EYAL SIVAN
Israeli-born, French-based filmmaker Eyal Sivan holds a master class dedicated to documentary filmmaking as a means of expressing critical dialogue, political consciousness and history (re)vision in the frame of the Israeli-Palestinian relations . The master class will be preceded by the screening of The Specialist, portrait of a modern criminal (France, 1999, 128 min) - a unique courtroom drama recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem. The film about obedience and responsibility is the portrait of an expert in problems resolving, a modern criminal. The film is inspired by the controversial book by Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem, report on the banality of evil.
Open for: All types of accreditation.
Organized in association with Jihlava IDFF
