The fourth edition of East Doc Platform, a significant documentary industry event in the Central and Eastern European region, organized by Institute of Documentary Filmin association with the One World International Human Rights Film Festival will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from March 2-8, 2015.
Once again, 400 guests will attend the event, including more than 70 renowned international professionals and decision makers, who will choose from some of the most promising documentary films and quality projects carefully selected from the record number of applicants:
More than 200 projects have applied for the traditional event - East European Forum. The board of experts had a tough time to select only ten of them, but the final list forms a representative sample of what topics are now important in the region. You can find the complete selection here.
These will be joined by 12 more projects that took part in Ex Oriente Film2014 workshop. Together all the filmmakers will take part in a five-day-long preparatory workshop led by experienced tutors and get ready for their public presentations. After the weekend of public project pitching they will all eventually get to the round tables as well as individual meetings and face the industry professionals from the whole Europe and North America and negotiate support for their documentaries.
18 selected projects in various stages of production will be presented by their producers within the pre-arranged one-on-one meetings with the important decision makers from all over the world within the very busy and popular Project Market.For example Jo Lapping (BBC Storyville), Alex Szalat (ARTE), Magdalena Borowska (TVP1), Hanka Kastelicová (HBO Europe), Francis Kandel (Canal Plus), Lejla Dedić (Al Jazeera Balkans), Robert Zuber (HRT), will be present to name just a few of them. You can find the complete overview of our decision makers and other guests here.
32 more documentary projects applied for the second edition of the fresh laboratory Doc Tank, focused on transmedia and innovative approaches to documentaries with campaign potential. The filmmakers of the 7 successful projects selected to participate in 2015 edition will attend an intensive two-day workshop with the tutors and lecturers (Sara Bozanić, Domenico La Porta, Kilian Krug, Dionne Walker, William Uricchio, Liz Rosenthal, Mathias Noschis, Ben Kempas, Adam Sigel, Nuno Bertrando) and one day of one-on-one meetings with industry professionals focusing on the specific needs of each project.
The pleasant novelty of the 2015 edition - the East Doc Platform Award associated with the financial support of 7500 EUR for the best of all the participating projects in development.
Another surprise of the 2015 edition will be the official launch and introductory screening of an international project KineDok, focusing on broadening and connecting the documentary fans with the filmmakers via series of screenings of thought-provoking documentaries at alternative venues in five participating countries.
Apart from the mentioned novelties and traditional activities, East Doc Platform will offer a rich Open Industry Programme including master classes, lectures, case studies, pitchings, networking events and screenings that no documentary enthusiast should miss. The highlights of the programme will undoubtedly be the lecture on the Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking given by artistic director of Kartemquin Films (Chicago, USA), Gordon Quinn; the case study on Sounds of Torture - the multi-award winning documentary presented by the Swiss producer and sales agent Gitte Hansen; special screening of Normalization, accompanied by Robert Kirchhoff’s master class focused on the current social topics and coping with the traumatic heritage of the 20th century events in Central Europe. The detailed program will soon be published on Dokweb.net.
If you do not present your project in any of the East Doc Platform events but still want to be present, have your own profile in the guest database and attend most of the programme including free entrance to East Silver video library and all screenings of One World Festival, you can still get your EDP Industry Pass - the registrations end on February 15.
In the last year, the total of 183 documentaries took part in the activities of Institute of Documentary Film, they were screened 529 times at 78 international film festivals and won 68 awards.
Come to see the fruits of our labor, support the ones that are just emerging and find inspiration and help for your own work. All you have to do is to join us and step into it!
