INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM is calling for participants for the new edition of the year-round workshop dedicated to creative documentary film. Apply with your documentary project and take part in the most renowned training initiative designed specifically for the Central and Eastern Europe region. Application is free of charge, open through our online ENTRY FORM.

EX ORIENTE FILM 2013 APPLICATION DEADLINE IS: June 1, 2013

Ex Oriente Film 2013 is the year-long international workshop supporting the development and funding of creative documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. At the three workshop sessions, directors and producers develop their projects and funding strategies and benefit from the assistance and valuable advice provided by leading European producers, directors, experts and commissioning editors. With every project receiving intensive consultancy throughout the year, Ex Oriente Film culminates with the East European Forum co-production meeting, featuring the final pitching in front of Europe's and North America´s leading commissioning editors, distributors, buyers and film fund representatives.

There are three workshop sessions over the course of one year:

• 1st Session: July 17 – 22, 2013 (Rijeka, Croatia)

• 2nd Session: October 23 – 29, 2013 (TBC, Jihlava, Czech Republic, within Jihlava IDFF)

• 3rd Session: March 3 – 9, 2014 (Prague, Czech Republic, within East Doc Platform)
   

Participants:

We are looking for 12-14 documentary projects represented by director-producer teams who attend all the workshop sessions. The workshop is designed primarily for directors and producers from Central and Eastern Europe and/ or for creative documentary projects dealing with stories from Central and Eastern Europe.

Focus:

Feature length (52´up) documentary projects tackling contemporary topics, challenging genre and media boundaries and audience participation. Projects we seek should show engagement beyond mere observation of events and integrate film and audiences, using innovative ways of storytelling and new modes of perception. We welcome filmmakers who set out to conduct intense experiences and to change the way we think about topical issues, audiences, and the world itself.

Please find detailed information on Institute of Documentary Film website - HERE.

Contact

Veronika Lišková, Project Manager

veronika@dokweb.net

Institute of Documentary Film (IDF)
Školská 12, Prague 1, 110 00, Czech Republic
www.DOKweb.net

17TH JIHLAVA IDFF WILL TAKE PLACE ON OCTOBER 24-29, 2013.

Deadlines

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

• April 30, 2013 – for films produced in 2012,

• June 30, 2013 – for films produced in 2013.

You can also submit a rough cut of your film until July 31, 2013.

Submission Form

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.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding film submission for Jihlava IDFF please feel free to contact Petr Pádivý at shipping@dokument-festival.cz / +420 607 789 247

Docu Talents from the East 2013 will introduce the most remarkable creative documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe in the stage of production or post-production.

Directors and producers of nine selected feature-length documentaries will introduce their projects planned for theatrical distribution in the period from August 2013 to July 2014 in a ten-minute presentations.

Docu Talents from the East will be held within the industry section of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It is organized by Jihlava IDFF and Karlovy Vary IFF.

DOCU TALENTS FROM THE EAST / 9th Edition / July 2, 2013 / Karlovy Vary IFF

Application form

YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE VIA THE DOCU TALENTS 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 Docu Talents form.

More Information

Markéta Císařová / industry@dokument-festival.cz / + 420 775 864 981

History

Presented projects of last years:

• Docu Talents from the East 2012
• Docu Talents from the East 2011

Since 2005, Docu Talents from the East has been a launch pad for a number of documentaries, including Rabbit a la Berlin, Blind Loves, Matchmaking Mayor, The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories, Kites, Cooking History, Rene, Czech Peace, Blockada, Private Universe or Fortress.

Docu Talents aims to draw attention of important film professionals, visiting one of the two A category festivals in the region, to the selection of the best documentary films. We believe that promotion of films from the very initial stages of production or post-production is one of the most efficient tools for advancement. 

Each year, festival advisors, distributors, buyers and local as well as international journalists are invited to attend the event. Following the presentation, filmmakers have a chance to meet audiences, festival programmers, distributors and journalists at an informal cocktail party, as well as attend closed consultations with selected film professionals.

Each year, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival organizes the presentation of Docu Talents, in cooperation with Karlovy Vary IFF. In 2005-2009 it was co-organized with the Institute of Documentary Film.

Do not miss the opportunity to join the first film workshop presented by Jihlava IDFF. It is not yet another film festival, but an in-depth and idea-provoking workshop for several dozen participants. Intensive, inspiring, interactive – the first edition of the Boundaries of Film workshop including screenings, lectures, discussions and special bonuses is intended for both film fans and those who want to delve deeper into the world of film.

The Boundaries of Film

Lectures and discussions on non-traditional documentary film formats

The line between fiction and documentary film has always been blurred. Fiction film directly touches upon reality, while the documentary genre oftentimes resorts to the staging of real events. Explore the world of documentary and experimental cinema. Explore the boundaries of film and meet authors of non-traditional TV shows, films and audio-visual works. All workshop participants will have a free unlimited access to films at the DAFilms.cz portal.

Presented by: Tomáš Feřtek (Czech Television programmer), Marek Hovorka (director at Jihlava IDFF), Vít Klusák (director of Czech Dream and Czech Journal), Petr Kubica (creative producer at Czech Television), Robert Sedláček (director of Long Live the Family), Andrea Slováková (experimental film programmer), Kamila Zlatušková (creative producer at Czech Television) and others...

Programme offering a variety of lectures, film clips and discussions.

• 118 Years of Documentary Film in 118 Minutes

In the course of its history, documentary film has undergone numerous transformations. Our one hundred and eighteen minute long insight into its history will provide an overview of the variety of approaches and aspects of documentary cinematography.

How has documentary film developed and what are its possibilities and methods?

• Yes, Chef! A Reality Show

Before the launch of the reality show called Yes, Chef!, the Czech culinary reality did not reach far beyond fried cheese and chicken breast with canned peach. Surprisingly, Czech TV opened to a non-traditional format that does not insist on the use of proper language, and the reality itself started to change.

Is the sole purpose of a reality show to be entertaining? Can it also become a fun, albeit vulgar, means of education?

• The Boundaries of Reality - Docusoaps, Non-Fiction and Semi-Fiction

There are various kinds of documentary films, and there are various kinds of fiction films. Docusoaps, non-fiction films and hybrid forms take us to the boundaries and crossroads of realities.

What are the possibilities of representation of reality?

• History in Focus – Czech Century, or Staged Reality

Each time a fiction or documentary film records a historical period or event, it reveals much more about its present than about its past.

Reality vs. history, or what is the difference between the recreation of real events and film fiction?

• Experiments – On the Cutting Edge

Experimental film has developed in parallel with mainstream film. Each experimental and alternative form gradually becomes the standard. And the standard must again be violated and experiments standardized.

Experimental, different, strange, beautiful, fascinating? How to describe experimental film?

• TV Trends in 21st Century: Biased or Unbiased Documentary?

The traditional concept of documentary film as an unbiased form of journalism is confronted with different approaches.

What is acceptable for a public service broadcaster? Can a public service broadcaster be biased?

• Dramatic Structure of Documentary Film

Documentary film is created along similar lines as fiction film.

What do documentary and fiction films have in common?

Media cooperation

One of the biggest documentary events, Visions du Réel Nyon, will close with a selection of the best world documentaries shown in the section Etat d'Esprit. These will for example include: Démocratie Année Zéro (Tunisian people took only four weeks to topple the hated regime of Ben Ali and, in doing so, paved the way for the “Arab Spring”, one of the major geopolitical upheavals of the early 21st century) and Nichnastipa'am Lagan (With a light hand held camera, Mograbi continues to question the history of Israel. Everything is still possible.).

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IDFA, CPH:DOX, DOK Leipzig, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, True / False Festival, Visions du Réel Nyon, Hot Docs, Documentary Edge Auckland, and – most brilliant – the Best Directing Award at SUNDACE 2013, these are the trophies of the films, edited and developed within last year edition.

DOK.Incubator accept only eight feature documentary projects in the rough cut stage to work with them individually for six months on the strongest dramaturgy of the final cut and a clever distribution and marketing strategy. The initiative has just announced this year selection results and the films accepted seem promising… Polish project The Life of a Butterfly by Piotr Bernaś is going to be a movie on a conscious self-destruction of a radical 34 years old rebel, World Champion in fighting. Scottish-Icelandic film 16 Years 'til Summer (by Lou McLoughlan), instead, is an intimate observation of a daily battle of a man returning home after 16 years in prison, for rebuilding his life. Could a humor between father and son help with the responsibilities of a free life?

Other four projects are concerning strong political issues from the most painful wounds of our modern politic map. Russian project SUKHANOV, by Svetlana Strelnikova follows a renowned cardio surgeon, who decides to use own authority to support the Putin autocratic regime… Okhwan, Mission Impossible, by a Slovak director Marek Mackovic, tells the story of a Korean activist who exchanged a possible family life and successful business career for 200 kilometers daily on bike and survived 41 days of hunger strike, 6 hits by cars, 5 times surgery, 4 times malaria to see North and South Korea reunified... The Danish Cooper´s Challenge by Karen Stokkendal Poulsen follows instead the intense talks between Serbia and Kosovo: an ice-queen independence activist vs. a strong macho-ego, none of whom ready to compromise. Another important topic of contemporary post-communistic countries handles Besence Open, a Hungarian film by Kristóf Kovács about a poor village with a Roma majority that win EU funding to build a tennis court… Would this be the opportunity to cooperate all together to build a future for the community?

The broken community of the post-soviet world presents the Czech project Pit-hole, by Jiří Stejskal. The last from the original farms in today´s Kiev, refuses to let the developers to build a fancy district from their home. The last selected project, Romanian Chuck Norris vs. Communism, by Ilinca Calugareanu, is going to be a story about VHS tapes and the fight for freedom during the dying days of Communism in Romania. The humor sometimes can reach the same power as a serious criticism has…

DOK.Incubator starts the first of total three workshop sessions in June in Wroclaw. Among this year´s editing coaches there are Per K. Kirkegaard /DK/, editor of Emmy best editing awarded Armadillo, the Lars von Trier editor Jacob Thuesen /DK/, the most awarded german editor Gesa Marten /DE/ and Wolfgang Widerhofer /AT/, scriptwriter, producer and editor of Nicolaus Geyhalter films. For Polish and Czech documentary film-makers the first workshop is open and they can discuss their projects individually with the tutors.

The deadline of the applications for these individual consultation is May 20th at www.dokincubator.net

Promotional and networking project for the support of talented European producers representing 18 European countries.

The aim of the project is to introduce beginning talented European producers to professionals from various fields of the film industry. The project creates a new platform for meetings of film professionals with an emphasis on documentary cinematography which provides the Emerging Producers with easy access to information in the field of audiovision as well as orientation on the film market and also increases the potential of future European coproductions.

EMERGING PRODUCERS 2014 / 2nd ročník / October 23-28, 2013 / Jihlava IDFF

See also

• Detailed programme
• Selection criteria and application form
• Presentations of last year's Emerging Producers

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More information at DAFilms.com