The 9th edition of the East Silver Market will take place at the 16th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in October 23 – 28, 2012, Jihlava, Czech Republic. East Silver Market is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film; the main partner of the project is Jihlava IDFF.

This call is open for completed documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe produced after January 1, 2011, that were not previously submitted to East Silver market.

Submission is also valid for the 16th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival programme pre-selection as well as for Doc Alliance Films VoD pre-selection.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS JULY 31, 2012.

Submit your documentary films via our online ENTRY FORM.

Please send 2 DVD screeners with English subtitles or English voice-over, with trailer and any additional press and promo materials to:

East Silver, Skolska 12, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic

About East Silver

East Silver Market
East Silver is the first documentary market which supports producers and distributors from Central and Eastern Europe. Each year, about 300 films from more than 29 countries are included in the market. East Silver Market is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film; the main partner of the project is Jihlava IDFF.

East Silver catalogue – an essential referral spot for East European docs
Printed market catalogue, issued once a year, mirrors the easy-to-navigate online database at www.eastsilver.net. The most recent Eastern European documentary production, gathered at one place, is searchable in our up-to-date archive of titles with full film credits and trailers.

Online streaming for professionals – an access to East European titles following the market
Easy-to-navigate online streaming at www.eastsilver.net/stream allows producers to make their titles available to professionals throughout the year from everywhere in the world.

East Silver TV Focus - designed to enhance and increase international TV broadcast
We aim to broaden the chances for TV broadcast of documentary films from our region. Obtaining substantial knowledge about broadcaster’s slots and also current programming needs, we individually select and recommend particular documentaries directly to the international TV buyers and networks.

East Silver Caravan – a supporting tool for documentary screenings at festivals and markets
East Silver Caravan promotes East European documentary films at important international film festivals and markets. Our nomad showcase of Eastern European documentary selection reaches over 90 prestigious international film festivals and markets.  

Silver Eye Award 2012
Picking the nominees from 2012 East Silver Market submissions, East Silver international jury (comprising of international buyers, sales agents and festival selectors) awards the best documentaries with Silver Eye Award. The total of 33 films competes in 3 main categories (feature, mid-length and short documentary). All winners are granted with prize money of EUR 1 500 and year round festival support within the East Silver Caravan.

Further information at www.eastsilver.net

DOK.Incubator is a new initiative supporting documentary projects in the stage of rough cut.

• Are you just finishing a documentary?
• Do you want to have a strong story line, good release and to grow international potential of your film?
• Are you interested in new ways of pro- moting and distributing?

DOK.Incubator workshop gives you individual support in the phase of finish- ing your film. International tutors will guide you to find fresh ways of thinking about editing, international film release, distribution, sophisticated marketing and active work with audience for producers, directors and editors coming with a promising project.

Deadline for project application: May 15th, 2012

Fees: 1.400 € per project (3 people)

Fee includes accommodation and meals.

Deadline for observers (participants without project): May 30th, 2012

Observers are going to pay a fee covering the costs of their meals and accommodation.

For application we request:

• rough cut of the film (if you have no rough cut, include edited scenes and rewritten proposal based on shot material)
• distribution strategy plan
• CVs of director, producer and editor, track record of their company
• basic information about the project - timing, structure of financing, broadcasters involved

Workshop structure:

1st session: July 9th – 15th 2012, Telč /CZ/ – ROUGH CUT
focuses mainly on improving the cut of the film and its international potential, helps to prepare draft of films release and distribution incl. its budgeting, offers case studies touching the challenge of internet and new media distribution

2nd session: September 17th – 23 rd 2012, Bratislava /SK/ – FINAL CUT
is connected to almost the final cut of the film in order to finalize the narrative and editing structure, goes deeper into production site, especially in film marketing and distribution, improves PR and advertisement skill, focuses on deliveries like PR texts, visuals, trailers and concept of their national and international first release events

3rd session: October 30th – November 2nd 2012, DOK Leipzig /GE/ – FINAL PACKAGE
during DOK Leipzig participants take part at presentation of upcoming documentaries followed by individual meetings with key European broadcasters, sales, festival selectors and distributors from festival and co-production markets

Workskhop Award

Video post-production services in value of 1.500 Eur (equals 3 days of color corrections or DCP master production)

by Avion Film&Sound postproduction (www.avion.net)

Selection process

We accept 8 projects and 10 observers. Selection will be based on four main criteria – international distribution potential, quality of the rough cut, applicants company and distribution plan. It is important that submitted project has time to be developed and does not have to be delivered in the middle of the workshop.

Scholarships

Participants from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia may apply for a scholarship to cover part of the participation fees. Applicants must prove that there is no possibility of scholarship in their own country (letter from Mediadesk) and that the project is a really low budget documentary and doesn’t have a closed funding. In special cases scholarship can be obtained by west European participants as well.

Detailed info at

www.dokincubator.net

The main theme of AFO 47 is Visions of the Future – Utopia and Dystopia. The festival provides a sober scientific perspective as well as a plurality of opinion on the threat of the end of the world. It will primarily focus on people‘s diverse notions of the future as well as the concrete visions of future development as seen by present-day science and technology.

This year, 300 years will have passed since the birth of famous French philosopher and one of the first theoreticians of education Jean Jacques Rousseau. Within film screenings, lectures and discussion blocks, AFO 47 will deal with the functioning of contemporary education systems as well as various approaches to the education of children or the phenomenon of gay and lesbian parenting.

Self-made men is a block dedicated to personalities that have transcended the possibilities of their generations thanks to their brilliance and skills. AFO will present the films Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World and Steve Jobs: iChanged the World which prove that it is possible to shift any limits imaginable by personal example and maximum involvement; even in a world where individual contribution is gradually disappearing.

Besides the visions of the future of mankind, AFO 47 will focus on another provocative topic; religion from the perspective of science. Is religion a mere product of evolution? Is modern science going to disprove the godly and the supernatural? Such questions will be discussed in a whole range of popular-scientific films, a lecture by Eva Klocová of Masaryk University in Brno and a panel discussion. If you want to learn more about the programme of AFO 47, please, go to www.afo.cz.

You can submit your documentary films and experimental documentaries by the following deadlines:

• April 30, 2012 – for films produced in 2011,
• June 30, 2012 – for films produced in 2012.

New! - You can submit a rough cut of your film to July 31, 2012.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM FOR THE JIHLAVA IDFF PROGRAMME VIA THE FILM SUBMISSION FORM AFTER REGISTERING AT OUR VISITOR PAGE.

If you do not have an account in our database yet, please, fill in basic identification information at our Visitor Page and select a password. Your registration at our Visitor Page will make further communication with Jihlava IDFF easier and you will be able to use your account in the following years as well. After the registration, you will be able to access the Film submission form.

Competition sections of Jihlava IDFF:

• Opus Bonum / International Competition
• Between the Seas / Central and Eastern European Competition
• Czech Joy / Czech Competition
• Fascinations / International Competition for Experimental Documentary Films

If you need any further information, please contact Petr Pádivý:
shipping@dokument-festival.cz / +420 607 789 247.

The Sun in a Net 2012 2012 will award films made in 2010 and 2011. Out of the 25 competing documentaries, the following films have been nominated for the award: Ilja by Ivan Ostrochovský, Matchmaking Mayor by Erika Hníková and 25 from the 1960s or the Czechoslovak New Wave I and II by Martin Šulík, a two-part film which is part of the Golden Sixties project. The Sun in a Net 2012 awards will be presented at the Slovak National Theatre on April 17.

The documentary film Matchmaking Mayor is set in the Slovak village of Zemplínske Hámre. The determined mayor cares so much about the welfare of the local inhabitants that he plans to make the lonely singles in their thirties into couples. The microcosm of the village is depicted in a great number of portrayed characters and captured situations culminating in a dating ball. The failure of the mayor’s project can be seen both as a metaphor of a wider social problem and a story of an authoritative effort to change the world.

After its Jihlava premiere, Eden’s Ark by Portuguese director Marcelo Felix was screened at IFF Rotterdam and at the Portuguese festival Temps d‘Images where it received an award for the best film on art. A Cell Phone Movie by Bosnian director Negad Bregovic, also premiered at the Jihlava festival, was further screened at Göteborg IFF and has been listed in the programme of Zagreb Dox IDFF in Croatia and MAKEDOX IFF in Macedonia. After its international premiere in Jihlava, Empire Me entered theatrical distribution in Austria and Germany and its rights were bought by Canadian distribution company Films Transit International.

Czech documentaries criss-crossing after world premiere in Jihlava

After its Jihlava world premiere, the film novel Obscurantist and His Lineage by director Karel Vachek was screened at CPH:DOX and Rome Independent Film Festival. The documentary film Epochal Trip of Mr. Tříska to Russia by Filip Remunda was bought by Russian television channel 24 DOC and screened at the ArtDocFest in Moscow and Trieste Film Festival in Italy; soon it will be introduced to Romanian audiences as part of the One World IDFF. The partially experimental film Into Oblivion by director Šimon Špidla was screened at the Rotterdam IDF in January and has been listed in the programmes of GoEast, One World IDFF and the Slovak part of Febiofest Film Festival. The latter will also present the film essay In Sight by Slovak director Andrea Slováková. Having received the Czech Joy award for the best Czech documentary, the Audience Award and the Silver Eye award of the East Silver film market at Jihlava IDFF, Solar Eclipse by Martin Mareček has been listed in the programmes of festivals in Denver, Seville, Vienna, Bratislava as well as the One World IDFF.

Have a look at the regularly updated Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival page. Rather than providing a translation of the Czech profile, the page is designed directly for film professionals and international festival visitors.

Feel free to use the page for presentation of your films and projects.

Manufacturing Dissent / from 13th February

Are Michael Moore's films pure fact, propaganda or fiction, or a mixture? By looking at Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, directors Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk build a controversial portrait of Moore, exposing many revealing background stories.

Available for FREE STREAM from 13th to 19th February.

Arnošt Lustig - Nine Lives / from 20th February

The film presents Arnošt Lustig’s reflection on his life. With humour and a detached view, the famous Czech writer kindly guides the spectators through the hard period of the 1930s and the 1940s up to the present.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of his death we offer this film for FREE STREAM from 20th to 26th February.

Best wishes,
your Jihlava IDFF

New year's wish for download

Begun in 1992 and stemming from a chain of historical events all wedded to the person of Václav Havel, director Pavel Koutecký set out to render a portrait of the first president of Czech Republic. He was given complete freedom to film as he saw it. His ‘direct cinema’ approach captures events in an extremely authentic manner, allowing the viewer to become witness to the birth of a democratic president, to the developing of ideas and decision-making that defines him. After the tragic death of director Pavel Koutecký the film was finished by fellow documentarist Miroslav Janek.

The film will be available at the DAFilms.com portal for free.