A four-day meeting of 10 selected directors from around the world and significant personalities from outside the film community; in 2012 a writer, publicist and representative of a social activist group.

Inspiration Forum is a project focused on searching for new themes and subjects in documentary film through bringing together film makers and creative personalities active in other professional fields.

At present, there are numerous festival and industry activities focused on the development of an existing topic, the search for co-producers and the extension of distribution possibilities. The Inspiration Forum, on the other hand, creates a platform for the search for new themes and their interpretations, preceding the film maker’s decision as to which subject is to be developed.

INSPIRATION FORUM / 3rd edition / October 25-28, 2013 / Jihlava IDFF

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Inspiration Forum 2012

Lecturers:

Tariq Ali

Writer, journalist, film maker and left-wing political activist. Born in Lahore (today’s Pakistan) in 1943, he was educated at Oxford University, later he ran his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programs for Channel 4 in the UK during the 1980s. He is recognized as leading expert on Pakistan and an outspoken critic of US Middle East agenda. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.

Gao Xingjian

Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic, living and working in France. He was declared as persona non grata in China because of his book Fugitives, which takes place against the background of the Square of Heavenly Peace massacre. In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity”.

FEMEN / Inna Shevchenko, Oleksandra Shevchenko, Anna Hutsol

FEMEN is a feminist Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organisation became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, religious institutions, sexism and other social, national and international topics. Some of the goals of the organisation are: “to develop leadership, intellectual and moral qualities of young women in Ukraine” and “to build up the image of Ukraine, a country with great opportunities for women”.

List of Participants in 2012:

Eran Barak / Israel

Tomasz Jeziorski / Poland

Srdjan Keča / Serbia

Truls Lie / Denmark

Maria Martiniaková / Slovakia

Nikita Pavlov / Russia

Michael Schmacke / Germany

Klara Trencsenyi / Hungary

Inspiration Forum 2011

Lecturers:

Carlos A. Aguilera

Cuban poet and writer, member of the youngest generation of Cuban authors, founder of a now banned Diáspora(s) magazine, lives in emigration in Central Europe.

Y. A. Padmanabha Rao

Indian expert in education development, participated in the development of an innovative project involving over 10 million children from 200 000 schools in the poorest parts of the world in the educational process, received a number of awards including the Unesco Prize for his activities.

Alexei Plutser-Sarno, Jana Sarna

Members of a provocative Russian art group Voina, whose political and activist happenings and installations are inspired by performance and street-art.

List of Participants in 2011:

Bermudez Pascual Maite, Spain
Čakanyova Viera, Czech Republic
Danic Marina, Serbia
Faudem Joshua, Israel, USA
Kolchin Mikhail, Russia
Krema Zoran, Croatia
Lakatos Robert, Romania
Mitic Boris, Serbia
Moyzes Tamara, Israel, Slovakia
Nemes Gyula, Hungary
Prenghyova Andrea, Czech Republic
Solomon Alex, Romania
Tretinjak Alina, Croatia