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Memorimage 09/1

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:02:43 CET

Reus, town of Gaudi in Catalonia, a couple of hours from Barcelona. For the fourth time the city hosts a film festival that deals with memories and presents films that work creatively with archives. It is a small festival with an exclusive and high quality programme. Among the films shown are Terence Davies ”Of time and the City”, Peter Kerekes ”Cooking History”, Jaak Kilmi’s ”Disco and Atomic War” – all written about on this site.

Nominations for RTS Innovation Awards 2009

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:57:07 CET

RTS Innovation Awards are presented to recognise outstanding UK achievements in the development of new technologies in video production and distribution. The aim is to honour outstanding creativity in exploiting these developments in new forms of content.

The award categories are designed to emphasise the interdependence of content and technology in an expanding and changing world reaching out to new communities of users and new, often interactive, ways of communicating.

The RTS Innovation Awards will be presented in seven different categories. Among them is the User-Generated Content Award. In this category three interesting factual based projects are nominated.

CPH:DOX 09/1

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:00:56 CET

It’s show time in Copenhagen. The international documentary film festival starts November 6 and runs until November 15. A huge programme is set up to satisfy the local documentary addicts and the visiting professionals.

BUT they don’t get the best of the best. A close study of the programme shows that there are no films from Eastern Europe, so often praised for originality, strong human interest topics and cinematic quality on this site. Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland. Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia etc. Films from these countries, films that win awards in festivals are simply not there – Czech Republic is represented with one film, and that’s it.

The BaKaFORUM contest deadline is approaching

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:52:43 CET

The BaKaFORUM contest awards excellent television programmes and multimedia products with a high educational value in the fields of education and society. Aditionally BaKaFORUM awards television programme proposals from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Entry deadline is November 13, 2009

The BaKaFORUM contest is designed for educational, societal or science television programmes, multimedia products and television programme proposals with clearly defined educational aims and target audience. In terms of content it's based on understanding of contemporary themes and issues, aiming at global education and global learning.

A new film sector institute in the Netherlands

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:54:14 CET

As of January 1, 2010, The Filmmuseum, Holland Film, the Netherlands Institute for Film Education, and the Filmbank will pool their resources and form a new organization. The merger of these associate institutes will result in an umbrella body for Dutch film culture, known for now as the Netherlands Film Sector Institute.

The establishment of the Netherlands Film Sector Institute is the result of Education, Culture, and Sport Minister Ronald Plasterk's insistence that the sector unite in a nationwide institute, comparable to sector institutes such as the Netherlands Music Center, the Netherlands Theater Institute (TIN), and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi). This operation has been prompted by a desire to support the film sector with a central institute, stimulate cooperation between organizations, and give Dutch film culture a single face and point of contact.

Submissions now open for DocsBarcelona Pitching Forum 2010

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:33:07 CET

If you are looking for finance and distribution for your documentary project and want to network with commissioning editors and industry professionals, it is time to put the dates February 2-7 2010 in your diary. These are the dates for the 13th edition of DocsBarcelona. Deadline for submitting your project is December 4.

The pitching forum offers you an opportunity to be one of the selected 24 pitchers who can present your documentary project in front of a selected panel of international financiers from leading broadcasters. The pitching session will be followed by scheduled individual meetings between the pitchers and the financiers in order to discuss the possibilities for future collaboration.

Final Pitching Workshop and Session in Leipzig - A Retrospective

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:18:45 CET

The fourth and final workshop of 2009 was held as usual in Leipzig, where our participants assembled to work on their pitches under the creative guidance of Tue Steen Müller, Leena Pasanen from YLE and Rudy Buttignol from the Knowledge Network Corporation. While they worked in groups, Sibylle Kurz our pitching expert, was on hand to work long hours with each person, ensuring that each pitch was polished to perfection.

The culmination of all this hard work took place on October 24th and 25th when commissioning editors, documentary directors and producers once again flocked to the annual pitching event of the Documentary Campus Masterschool held at the MDR Headquarters in Leipzig. The Final Pitching Session took place on the two successive mornings, an arrangement from the previous year that worked out very well. Up to 40 commissioning editors, distributors and experts from around the world were present to hear the proposals, and their responses were very positive. The delegates were presented with the pitches of this year’s 16 Masterschool projects, two surprise pitches and one guest pitch. All filmmakers received valuable advice how and where to best finance their projects, and for the first time they had the opportunity to follow up on the commissioners’ comments in pre-scheduled one-to-one sessions in the afternoon, which allowed the projects to be presented in more depth. The Best Pitch was awarded to Michael Krass with his project Soldiers of the Lord. Lunch and coffee breaks provided ample space for networking and business talk. The pitching event once again took place in what was perceived by everyone as an extraordinarily supportive and creative atmosphere.

As a tribute to the retiring Head of Masterschool Peter Symes, a farewell dinner was held at the Intendanz of the MDR on October 24th, 2009. With his well-deserved popularity in the profession, Peter Symes spent a great evening with all delegates attending this year’s Final Pitching Session. The happy crowd filled up more than 20 tables and the buzzing and exciting scene reflected how deeply Peter Symes was loved and respected by his colleagues, friends and Masteschool participants in the doucmentary filmmaking business. The Campus Team arranged a nice evening programme with funny video clips from Masterschool participants and tutors recorded for Peter to bid him a fond goodbye.

Other sessions on these two exciting days included a panel discussion titled “Let’s Talk About Money” organised by Leena Pasanen (YLE) and Stefano Tealdi (Stefilm). During this panel Christian Beetz, Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, Martichka Bozhilova, Agitprop and Femke Wolting, Submarine gave us an insight view on how a small company makes a living when broadcasters are asking for more and giving less and where to find money in the current media environment with a lot of opportunities but no business models. Before interviewing these producers, Prof. Dr. Claudia Loebbecke from the University of Cologne gave us a keynote speech. She holds the Chair of Business Administration, Media and Technology Management and therefore was the right person to tell us how small companies can react to the rapidly changing and challenging markets.

“The Art of Pitching” was organised in cooperation with the 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film and the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). The Documentary Campus Masterschool 2009 is supported by: MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Bavarian State Chancellery, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and Saxonian Foundation for Media Training.

East Silver Final Report

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:50:19 CET

The sixth East Silver, a digitized documentary market dedicated to films from Central and Eastern Europe, opened its film vaults and events to 300 invited film professionals (producers, distributors, broadcasters, festival programmers) and other industry guests. In addition to its film library of more than 400 titles, East Silver also organized meetings with some of Europe's leading documentary producers. More details in the East Silver Final Report.

Digitized East Silver market opened for the 6th time at the 13th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. The market offered 277 titles with the greatest international potential from total of 500 submissions and also 133 films from the festival program. There were 35 computers installed and just like the last year they were always busy.

Documentaries awarded at the DOK Leipzig 2009 festival

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:42:36 CET

The 52nd edition of the DOK Leipzig festival presented 330 films from 69 countries, 148 directors from 38 countries came to Leipzig to show their documentaries to the an international audience. Among the winners are EDN member Ton van Zantvoort as well as the team behind Maggie in Wonderland, which was developed at the EDN workshop Twelve for the Future. Congratulations!

The DOK Leipzig festival’s main award is the Golden Dove, which is presented to both a long and short documentary category.

For the ‘Long Metrage’, which means documentaries longer than 45 minutes, a Golden Dove along with € 10,000 was granted to the film

Les arrivants / The Arrivals (France) by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard.

A Silver Dove along with € 3,000 was presented to the film

La casa / The House (Colombia, Spain) by Tayo Cortés.

For ‘Short Metrage’, which means documentarie up to 45 min a Golden Dove along with € 5,000 was presented to the film

Tying Your Own Shoes (Canada) by Shira Avni.

Jihlava 09/6

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:49:10 CET

Stop reading if you want to avoid a personal text that is full of emotions and warm thanks from me to the women running the IDF, Institute of Documentary Film, based in Prague with the task to promote Eastern European Documentaries. Sunday was the closing day of the Eastern European Forum where 20 exciting film projects were presented/pitched to broadcasters and film fund representatives with an audience that included sales agents and distributors from all over the world. And mind my words: excellent films are in the process of being made.

Sunday was also the last Eastern European Forum for me after years as a tutor and moderator and conductor of the Ex Oriente workshop. It has been pure pleasure and I feel both proud and humble to have been part of a promotion team that has seen one strong film after the other be developed into strong and original creative works.

Jihlava 09/4

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:47:03 CET

The best films of the thirteenth year of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival were announced at its closing ceremony.

In the Czech Joy category, the jury selected the film I Love my Boring Life (Mám ráda nudný život, Jan Gogola Jr., Czech Republic 2009) (PHOTO). Further on, the film Brain Fight (Souboj z mozkem, Jan Šípek, Czech Republic 2009) received a Special Mention.

AGON, Archaeological Film Festival - CALL FOR ENTRIES

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:36:25 CET

8th INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FILM
OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA
… and Beyond the Mediterranean

Athens, 11 - 16 May 2010

CALL FOR ENTRIES

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
DECEMBER 11th, 2009

― The International Meeting of Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area– AGON is taking place every two years and it is organized by the non-profit association AGON in collaboration with the greek magazine “Archaeology and Arts” (www.arxaiologia.gr). Since 2002, AGON is a founding member of the European Federation of Archaeology and Patrimony Film Festivals (www.fedarcine.com).
– The subject is Archaeology in its wider sense (i.e. Antiquity, Middle ages, or even Industrial archaeology), the Patrimony and the dying Popular Art and Traditions.
– Are accepted all kind of films: documentaries, fiction, animation, reporting, educational etc., produced after January 1st, 2006.
– Starting from 2010, the geographical area of the subject of the films accepted in the Competitive Section of AGON International Meeting of Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area is expanded, and so films dealing with Archaeology and Patrimony Beyond the Mediterranean will also be accepted.

For more information visit www.sitemaker.gr, and download the festival’s regulation and entry form, or contact the AGON Festival:

TEL.: +30 2103312990, +30 2103312991
FAX: +30 2103312991
E-mail:mpalatou@arxaiologia.gr, agwn@in.gr
http://www.sitemaker.gr/agwn

http://www.sitemaker.gr/agwn

Jihlava 09/2

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:45:59 CET

The small town in Czech Republic is full of people, who are here to watch films. There is a big local, young audience. There are professionals who come from all parts of the world to buy films for their tv channels, pick up films for their festivals, filmmakers with films to be presented and discussed with the audience and filmmakers with film projects to be developed and pitched for eventual financing. Documentaries all over.

NEW CALL FOR EURODOC 2010

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:40:26 CET

If you are looking for in-depth analysis of a specific documentary film project, testing its appeal and potential abroad, advice and follow-up on complex budgeting and financing, legal and practical, business aspects of co-productions,
If you are looking for strong contacts in the field of documentary throughout Europe & beyond, enter your project for EURODOC 2010 & JOIN THE NETWORK !

EURODOC is a training programme specifically designed for co-producing creative documentaries at the international level.
Producing documentaries requires increasingly more funding which is difficult to find at national level whatever the size of the country.
Today EURODOC is a strong & influent network, which gathers more than 527 professionals from 42 countries.
It has become indispensable in enabling its members to cope with the rapid changes in the documentary sector.

Within a seven month period, 30 independent producers as well as Commissioning Executives from Europe and abroad*will have the opportunity to participate in a training cycle of 3 one-week sessions led by experienced tutors and experts who play an important part in the current audiovisual and documentary field.

In 2010, these 3 one-weeks sessions will be :

SESSION 1 – Development / march 2010 – SLOVENIA
SESSION 2 – Budgetisation, Financing, & Packaging / june 2010 – ROMANIA
SESSION 3 – Meeting the Commissioning Editors / september 2010 – FRANCE

NEW : EURODOC opens up to the World
Since 2009, we set up EURODOC International to welcome non-European professionals to the EURODOC workshops.
For 2010, 5 producers from ‘third countries’ will be selected to follow EURODOC International 2010, thanks to the support of the preparatory action MEDIA International & The Jan Vrijman Fund.

APPLICATION DEADLINE > November 9, 2009
For more information about EURODOC visit: www.eurodoc-net.com http://www.eurodoc-net.com

Contact : Marie-Sophie Decout // Tel. +33 4 67 60 23 30 // eurodoc@wanadoo.fr

EURODOC
4 rue Astruc
34000 Montpellier
Tel : 33 (0) 4 67 60 23 30
Fax : 33 (0) 4 67 60 80 46

The EURODOC programme is supported by the MEDIA programme of the European Community, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, the Procirep (France) and the partners of the welcoming countries. The first session will be organized in Slovenia with the support of the Slovenian Film Fund. DocuMENTOR will bring together partners in order to welcome the second session of EURODOC 2010 in Timisoara. The third will be organized in France, thanks to the support of Région PACA.

(from EURODOC NEWSLETTER)

http://www.eurodoc-net.com>

ITVS International Call 2010 - Deadline: February 5, 2010

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:29:37 CET

ITVS INTERNATIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

ITVS International promotes the exchange of compelling documentary films between the United States and other nations, going beyond stereotypes and headline news to provide television audiences around the world with new insight into the cultures and people that comprise our global community.

ITVS International Call enables independent producers from outside the United States to create documentaries for U.S. television. Through the Call, storytellers from other countries introduce U.S. audiences to their global neighbors, opening a window into unfamiliar lives, experiences and perspectives from around the world.

ITVS International Call seeks films in production or post-production phase and encourages independent producers to submit their projects for consideration.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: FEBRUARY 5, 2010

You can find the International Call 2010 application and submission guidelines at:
www.itvs.org/producers/international_guidelines

The International Call Q&A Forum is online at http://itvs.proboards.com/ to post questions and/or comments about submitting a project. The forum will be open through the deadline and throughout the phases of the Call to keep you informed of updates within the timeline.

(from: ITVS mailing)

http://www.itvs.org/producers/international_guidelines

Open Sessions Of Ex Oriente Film and East European Forum

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:06:32 CET

Institute of Documentary Film would like to invite you to open sessions of East European Forum, Ex Oriente Film Workshop and East Silver, that take place during the IDFF Jihlava.

Institute of Documentary film would like to invite you to open sessions of East European Forum and Ex Oriente Film Workshop. These sessions are open to all festival guests with accreditation for industry events:

Jihlava 09/1

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:50:17 CET

Documentary festival in Jihlava. Accompanied by the East European Forum that I am part of as a tutor and moderator. There will be project development and pitching of around 20 projects during the coming weekend. To a panel of another 20 broadcast and film fund representatives. A varied film festival programme and a huge digitalised market. The competence and professionalism behind the so-called industry programme comes from IDF, Institute of Documentary Film.

The East European Forum started yesterday with 3 inspirational case studies from former participants, who finished their films successfully. All three films have been written about or reviewed on this site: ”The Deconstruction of an Artist” (PHOTO) by Latvian producer Uldis Cekulis, ”The Moon inside You” by Slovak director and producer Diana Fabianova, and ”Rabbit a la Berlin” by Polish producer Anna Wydra. 1) Cekulis talked about the immense work it was to raise funding for a film about an artist, Gustav Klucis, that very few people had ever heard about – and how he and the director Peteris Krilovs fought to find the right style and rythm of a film, that now stands out as a brilliant historical art and love story.

Documentary Campus 2

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:42:36 CET

The reactions from the panel of broadcasters in a pitching session, when the editors are positive, are normally ”let’s talk more”. Which the editors and the project holders then do in private meetings. Which then may result in an agreement, be it a pre-buy or a coproduction, which then again normally goes through a local producer. In other words it is seldom that a broadcaster commits him- or herself on the spot. The financial process is long but the success stories are many of international coproductions that have crossed orders for the benefit of the audience.

But something happened in Leipzig. Two projects got what I would call jackpot: One was from Serbia, ”The Battery Man” – clip from the description of the film project:

Documentary Campus 1

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:39:19 CET

The final pitching session of the Documentary Campus Masterschool took place in Leipzig in the building of the local broadcaster MDR, on the 13th floor with a beautiful view to the city. Only to be watched in the breaks as the showing of film clips (also called trailers, teasers, tasters, demos, pilots) was not a good match to the strong autumn sunlight of this last weekend. The room was darkened when commissioning editor Claudia Schreiner welcomed her colleagues (around 30) around the table as well as the film producers and directors present, waiting to present (pitch) their documentary projects:

Our situation ressembles the one of many of you editors in this room. We have to spend the little money we have for so many documentaries as possible, she said. In this way she characterized the poor situation for European public broadcasters, who face general cut downs in staff and money.

Nevertheless, the atmosphere in the room was as always very ”homey” as the pitchings took off under the moderation of Canadian Rudy Buttignol, who did all he could to set a good mood. Without hiding that the channels who are normally financially strong for the creative documentaries have problems. The European cultural channel arte is going more and more mainstream, and France Télévisions (hosting FR2, FR3, FR4, FR5) has for a long time been in a reconstruction phase that will bring more centralisation.

Reminder: NEW CALL FOR EURODOC 2010

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:23:29 CET

If you are looking for in-depth analysis of a specific documentary film project, testing its appeal and potential abroad, advice and follow-up on complex budgeting and financing, legal and practical, business aspects of co-productions, If you are looking for strong contacts in the field of docs throughout Europe & beyond, enter your project for EURODOC 2010 & JOIN THE NETWORK!

EURODOC is a training programme specifically designed for co-producing creative documentaries at the international level.
Producing documentaries requires increasingly more funding which is difficult to find at national level whatever the size of the country.
Today EURODOC is a strong & influent network, which gathers more than 525 professionals from 45 countries. It has become indispensable in enabling its members to cope with the rapid changes in the documentary sector.

Within a seven month period, 30 independent producers as well as Commissioning Executives from Europe and abroad will have the opportunity to participate in a training cycle of 3 one-week sessions led by experienced tutors and experts who play an important part in the current audiovisual and documentary field.

In 2010, these 3 one-weeks sessions will be:
SESSION 1 – Development / march 2010 – SLOVENIA
SESSION 2 – Budgetisation, Financing, & Packaging / june 2010 – ROMANIA
SESSION 3 – Meeting the Commissioning Editors / september 2010 – HUNGARY

NEW : EURODOC opens up to the World
Since 2009, we set up EURODOC International to welcome non-European professionals to the EURODOC workshops.

For 2010, 5 producers from ‘third countries’ will be selected to follow EURODOC International 2010, thanks to the support of the preparatory action MEDIA International & The Jan Vrijman Fund.

APPLICATION DEADLINE > November 9, 2009

For more information about EURODOC visit our website: www.eurodoc-net.com

Contact : Marie-Sophie Decout // Tel. +33 4 67 60 23 30 // eurodoc@wanadoo.fr EURODOC
4 rue Astruc
34000 Montpellier
Tel : 33 (0) 4 67 60 23 30
Fax : 33 (0) 4 67 60 80 46

http://www.eurodoc-net.com