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Doc Launch

Similarities or diversities among the East European documentary film production?

Panel on Forthcoming Documentaries from Eastern Europe offered a selected sample of the Central and East European production. For the first time in Karlovy Vary, Institute of Documentary Film, International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival got light on the documentary projects that are supposed to be finished by the end of 2006. The presentation was organized in order to attract the attention of the public, press and film professionals to the documentary film in the stage of progress – to the actual process of the emergence of the diverse films in the region.

Venue: New press conference hall Hotel Thermal
Date: July 5, Tuesday
Time: 10:30 am

1. Marek Hovorka (Director - Jihlava IDFF) + Tibor Kocsis (New Eldorado II), David Corba (The Border), Beata Dzianowicz (Learning to Watch), Jaak Kilmi (The Art of Selling), Ida Weiss (Devil's Colony), Martichka Bozhilova (Us 4 Revisited), Vratislav Slajer (Automat)
2. Vratislav Slajer / Bionaut Films - Producer, AUTOMAT (dir. Martin Marecek)
3. Vratislav Slajer / Bionaut Films - Producer, AUTOMAT (dir. Martin Marecek)
4. Martichka Bozhilova - Producer, Valentin Valchev - Director, US 4 REVISITED
5. Martichka Bozhilova - Producer, Valentin Valchev - Director, US 4 REVISITED
6. Ida Weiss - Producer,DEVIL's COLONY (Dir. Boris Petkovic)
7. Ida Weiss - Producer,DEVIL's COLONY (Dir. Boris Petkovic)
8. Marko Skop - Director, OTHER WORLDS (Producer: Jan Melis)
9. Daniela Gebova - Director, INDUSTRIAL ELEGY (Producer: Renata Vlckova)
10. Daniela Gebova - Director, INDUSTRIAL ELEGY (Producer: Renata Vlckova)
11. Andres. Maimik, Jaak Kilmi - Co-directors, THE ART OF SELLING (Producer: Jaak Kilmi)
12. Audience
13.  Marek Hovorka (Director, Jihlava IDFF), Eva Zaoralova (Art Director, KVIFF), Hana Rezkova (IDF)
14. Marek Hovorka (Director, Jihlava IDFF), Eva Zaoralova (Art Director, KVIFF), Hana Rezkova (IDF)
15. Audience