East Doc Platform 2014 Programme
East Doc Platform 2014 starts today, Monday, March 3. Although it is an event primarily focused on industry professionals, it will also provide lectures, case studies, projections and public presentations open to all accredited visitors and journalists of One World Festival.
You can find the detailed schedule of EDP here.
Lists of tutors and guests of East Doc Platform:
East European Forum Tutors
Doc Tank Tutors
Complete list of EDP 2014 guests
East Doc Platform Awards
An integral part of this year’s East Doc Platform will be the Awards ceremony. The jury will choose from 27 projects participating in Doc Tank and East European Forum programmes and announce the winners of four main Awards.
The VoD portal Doc Alliance Films became a partner of Doc Tank. DAFilms.com will offer an internet distribution and promotion to one chosen cross-media project, and they will assist the director and the producer with the development of distributional strategy on the internet. We also ensured a free attendance at the first European market for the cross-media projects - CrossVideo Daysin Paris for the chosen projects.
After the public presentation of East European Forum (takes place on Saturday), the jury will grant three more prizes to three project from the pitching. Out of the projects, that took part in the year long Ex Oriente Film workshop, the main tutors of the programme will choose one that will get the Golden Funnel Award for the greatest development throughout the whole workshop cycle. The financial support of 600 EUR should help the filmmakers in futher development and promotion of the emerging documentary film.
Head of the Industry office of IDFA, Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, will pick one out of all presented projects. The director and producer of this project will win the chance to attend the key European documentary market IDFA Forum for free. The last of EDP awards is Docs Barcelona Award, which will enable the chosen filmmakers to introduce their project on a pitching forum in Barcelona at the end of May.
Silver Eye Nominees free streaming at DAFilms.com – March 3 to 9, 2014
Enjoy the selection of the most remarkable films nominated for the prestigious documentary Silver Eye Award! Follow the latest documentary trends in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and watch a selection of 4 documentary films (Jakarta Disorder, Iceland Year Zero,A Letter to Dad, Previous Scenes) which ran for the international award of the East Silver distribution platform in 2012 and 2013. Watch them at DAFilms.com from Monday, March 3 to Sunday, March 9 for free! Details here.
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival starts today
16th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival starts in Prague today – March 3, 2014. Tickets can be bought at the box offices of all seven festival cinemas in Prague. The audience can choose from 106 documentary films, an online catalogue can be found on www.oneworld.cz. Dozens of international filmmmakers, protagonists and human rights activists are heading to Prague, among them a Southafrican director Rehad Desai who will introduce his film „Miners Shot Down“, a Palestinian performer Khaled Jarrar with his film debute „Infiltrators“, or Josephat Torner, an albino from Tanzania who is a hero of „In the Shadow of the Sun“ documentary. One World will be held in Prague between March 3 and 12, then moving to other 33 towns in the Czech Republic and to Brussels.
One World festival special about how to experience a new dimension of documentary film
Cross-media projects are pushing the boundaries of documentary film from cinema theatres to the internet. Thanks to new technologies, you no longer have to wait passively for the plot to unfold. Web documentaries enable you to become part of the story, to influence events, or to chat with the protagonists. This year’s edition of both One World and East Doc Platform give space to the cross-media projects to show the new storytelling possibilities or their connection to social campaigns. Look at the most interesting cross-media projects in One World’s special at Czech Television website and come to see the authors of the East and Middle European cross-media projects at the public presentations of Doc Tank.
