This event is organized by Institute of Documentary Film (IDF), an organization dedicated to supporting Central and East European documentary films in all stages of completion, in association with One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. East Doc Platform will welcome 350 guests and provide networking opportunities to directors and producers from the region and key international commissioning editors, buyers, distributors, festival, sales, fund and institution representatives at two main venues - Cervantes Institute and Komedie Theatre. The core of East Doc Platform’s open programme lies in a series of master classes, lectures, case studies, screenings and public project presentations held by renowned documentary makers and producers. Following last year’s success, East Doc Platform opens the majority of its programme to the public again, inviting all accredited journalists, visitors and guests of One World festival.
Doc Tank will show An Arts Detective story or a protest against the vaccination of children
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. It will be open to all One World or East Doc Platform Industry pass holders. „The aim of Doc Tank is to become a development laboratory for projects with cross-media elements or projects connected to a bigger social campaign realized across multiple platforms and genres. Each of them will get a tailored programme and selected experts focused on new media, web design, artistic projects, crowdfunding or distribution who will help to further develop the project and think up a suitable strategy for it,“ says Miriam Ryndová from the Institute of Documentary Film.
Out of the seven selected projects 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.
Fights of Russian extremists and a portrait of Karel Zeman
EDP Open programme also offers on March 8 at Theatre Komedie (9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) a public presentation of the 14th edition of East European Forum. 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.
14 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 Russia for the past 10 years. Love Express – the curious case of Walerian Borowczyk will show how one of the greatest visionaries 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.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EAST DOC PLATFORM OPEN PROGRAMME AND IDF´S STAPLE ACTIVITIES:
March 4
10:00 – 11:30 (Cervantes Institute, Cinema Hall)
Producer´s Case Study: PUTIN´S GAMES
In her case study, producer Simone Baumann (Saxonia Entertainment, Germany) will introduce the production story behind internationally successful documentary film Putin's Games, co-produced in association with MDR, ARTE, ORF, Yes Docu, DR TV, CBC and TSR. The film directed by Alexander Gentelev sheds scandalous light on the infrastructural problems surrounding Russia’s bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.
18:00 – 20:30 (Cervantes Institute, Cinema Hall)
Special Screening & Master Class: EMMA DAVIE
Screening of documentary film I am Breathing followed by a master class by Scottish filmmaker and head of the Film & TV department at Edinburgh College of Art Emma Davie. Emma´s latest documentary I am Breathing opened IDFA festival in 2012 and since then has been receiving high praise from both audience and critics.
March 6
10:00 – 11:30(Cervantes Institute, Cinema Hall)
Lecture: P.O.V. and INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN USA
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.
15:00 – 16:00(Cervantes Institute, Cinema Hall)
Lecture: FESTIVAL SELECTOR & FESTIVAL STRATEGY
A lecture dedicated to the process of film selection, role of the selector’s taste, festival policy, annual focus of the festival programme, premieres and panoramas, competition and non-competition programmes and many specific insider´s tips held by critic, film maker, lecturer and a festival programmer Rada Šešić.
March 7
18:30 – 20:00 (Cervantes Institute, Cinema Hall)
DOC TANK PRESENTATION - public presentation of 7 selected documentary projects with cross-media and social engagement potential.
March 8
9:30 – 13:00 (Komedie Theatre)
EAST EUROPEAN FORUM - public pitching of 20 upcoming Central and Eastern European projects in development and production stage.
March 6 – March 9
10:00 – 20:00 (Cervantes Institute) (March 8 will be open 15:00 – 20:00 and March 9 10:00 – 14:00)
EAST SILVER VIDEO LIBRARY - a library featuring 268 completed films from Central and Eastern Europe.
INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF)has been operating on both Czech and international scene for more than 13 years. In our region it is the oldest and most stable organization of its kind.It provides an invaluable service and activities for filmmakers, producers, distribution and festivals. The primary aim of IF’S activities is to support East and Middle European documentary production and its competitiveness and also various cultural values connected to it. In the 13 years of IDF’s history, more than 180 documentary projects have been developed, produced and successfully completed within our activities, while nearly 978 completed films have enjoyed our direct distribution support.
Organizer: Institute of Documentary Film
Main partner: One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Location: Cervantes Institute (Na Rybníčku 6, Prague 2), Komedie Theatre (Jungmannova 1, Prague 1)
See East Doc Platform open programme for further details and schedule. www.DOKweb.net
Should you be interested in the press pass/accreditation for East Doc Platform 2014, please, send an email with your contact details and your photo attached to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before February 18, 2014. If you do not get an explicit refusal out of capacity reasons, you can consider the accreditation confirmed. Your press pass/accreditation card can be picked up from March 3 to March 9 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Cervantes Institute at Guest service. Holders of One World festival accreditation will also be allowed to join the EDP Open programme.
