APPLY FOR EX ORIENTE FILM 2009

18.12.2008

APPLY FOR EX ORIENTE FILM 2009

-         tailored support for creative documentary projects

-         content development with renowned documentary authors

-         production and financial strategy with expert producers

-         festival, distribution and sales planning

-         inspiration, charm and fresh air

 

 

application deadline : February 1 2009

Details: www.DOCUinter.net 
(http://www.docuinter.net/en/activities.php?id=101&rok=2009 )


The Ex Oriente Film workshop is a training program that supports the development and funding of creative documentary films in the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe. During three sessions that take place over the course of one year, filmmakers and producers receive assistance from experienced European producers, directors, trainers, AV experts and TV commissioning editors in order to develop their story, draft a financing strategy for their project and find international partners. Ex Oriente Film leads into the East European Forum - pitching session for East European creative docs.

What is unique about the 2009 Ex Oriente Film workshop?

- participants work simultaneously on production as well as on the storyline, content and visual style, supporting primarily innovative and fresh film language;
- creative directors are invited to offer participants inspiration;
- Ex Oriente Film helps creative projects that cannot be funded through standard TV sales by trying to find alternative channels and opportunities;
- filmmakers are supported not only during the sessions, but also through consultations in between the workshops; they also get support to travel to the main industry events where they attend consultations and receive assistance with networking;
- after the workshop we keep in touch with all our participants, and through other IDF activities we offer comprehensive follow-up support, providing international PR for any new developments, festival release or distribution.

EX ORIENTE FILM STEP BY STEP

1st workshop: March 24 - 29, 2009 ”Find Your Way”
Venue: Prague
Duration: Five days
The first session of the workshop deals with inspiration. Participants work mainly on the processing and development of the documentary project by focusing the story of the film and its main characters, analyzing stronger and weaker points of the project and its international dimension, constructing a basic concept for the strategy of the film’s production and financing, employing the system of European funding, grants and broadcasters.
 
2nd workshop: June/July 2009 - ”Production Development”
Venue: Croatia
Duration: Six days
The second session deals with financing, budgeting according to EU standards, the legal aspects of co-productions, strategies for selecting commissioning editors and an appropriate television format, as well as a deeper creative development of the film projects.

3rd workshop: in October 2009 – ”The Market Opens”
Venue: Jihlava
Duration: Six days
The third session deals mainly with practical skills that are required for the presentation of the project and pitching. However its main theoretical themes are distribution plan and sales, post-pitching negotiation techniques for documentaries, as well as communication strategies to get European broadcasters involved in the project.

Additional Evaluation Session: Ex Oriente Film Babies - January 2010
Venue: Prague
Duration Two days
A two-day session that consists of case studies and screenings of successful finished or almost finished Ex Oriente films. We also invite the participation of sales agents and distributors who at this stage can still offer valuable advice with regard to a suitable distribution strategy. The second part of the program includes rough-cut screenings of nearly finished projects that aim to provide inspiration and support to the filmmakers as they finalize their films. 

Year-round Consultancy:
Ex Oriente Film’s most important aspect is the year-long online sessions and consultation led by experienced project tutors and European independent expert producers (guardian angels). 

Participation Fee:
Participation fee is EUR 1.150,- per selected project; this covers the accommodation and part of catering at all 3 workshops for 2 pers.

Scholarship:
Participants from Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Romania can apply for a scholarship (at IDF), when they prove that there is no possibility to get any scholarship in their own country and the project is not supported by any development grant. Participants from other countries unfortunately cannot receive the scholarship in any case.

Contact:
Ivana MiloševiÄŤ (ivana@docuinter.net), Hana Rezkova (hanka@docuinter.net)
Institute of Documentary Film (IDF)
Skolska 12, Prague 1, 110 00
Czech Republic
www.DOCUinter.net 

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Submission deadline is January 25th 2009

More details: www.filmfestival.gr

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The film has already been shown during IDFA in Amsterdam, the most important European festival. Last Saturday it was nominated by the representative of the European Film Academy. It took place during the closing ceremony of the 39th International Tampere Short Film Festival in Finland -  the greatest  Scandinavian event presenting short and documentary films, and one of the largest and oldest ones in Europe.

Short films nominated for EFA are selected from the films shown during the international competitions of thirteen European film festivals held in Ghent, Cork, Valladolid, Berlin,, Angers, Tampere, Krakow, Grimstad, Edinburgh, Vila do Conde, Sarajevo, Venice and Athens.

The winners’ names will be announced during the annual EFA awards ceremony, which will not be held in Berlin as usual, but will take place in Essen.

You can see “Glass Trap” during the Go Shorts festival, which is held in Holland in the second half of March.

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„The End of the Summer” by Piotr Stasik is among nine of the best documentary projects presented within the framework of „Docu Talents from the East” during this year Karlove Vary International Film Festival. 

 

„Docu Talents from the East“, organised by Jihlava IDFF, Institute of Documentary Film and Karlovy Vary IFF, is the review of the brand new, budding projects from Eastern Europe. The director, together with the producer Jacek NagĹ‚owski, presented the project in person during the 7th of July meeting in Karlove Vary.  

 

 „The End of the Summer“ will be a poetic journey to childhood and a story of the difficulties connected with coming of age – a tale of several characters aged 7 to 17. This 50-minute documentary is produced by Centrala, whose artistic output includes documentaries such as „Gugara“, „In Heaven and Earth“ and „Clinic“.

 

Piotr Stasik has graduated from The Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, and now is author of documentary films such as „7 x Moscow“, „One by one“, „Over the Pavements“. Together with Maciej Cuske, Marcin Sauter, Thierry Paladino and MichaĹ‚ Marczak he is the member of The Paladino Film Group.