JIHLAVA IDFF INDUSTRY PROGRAMME TAKES SHAPE

Industry Programme: 

Wednesday, October 22

9:00-20:00 Ex Oriente Film + East European Forum Workshop
Workshop for 48 East European filmmakers participating at the East European Forum.
• Opening Session: Introduction of program, tutors and participants.
• Pitch training session by Tue Steen Muller and Marijke Rawie, with first pitch of projects.
• Case Study: Steps for the Future, with Don Edkins and Iikka Vehkalahti.
Open for: EEF participants and tutors only
Where: Hotel Gustav Mahler

21:00 East European Forum Welcome Party
Open for: EEF participants and tutors
Where: Hotel Gustav Mahler

Thursday, October 23

10:00-19:00 Ex Oriente Film + East European Forum Workshop
Workshop for 48 East European filmmakers participating at the East European Forum.
• Group Work - Project Pitch sessions
• Documentary Sales and Distribution Tour of Europe - focused and profiled overview of sales agents of creative documentaries, with Tue Steen Muller and Marijke Rawie.
• Individual Meetings – First Round
Open for: EEF participants and tutors only
Where: Hotel Gustav Mahler

Friday, October 24

• 9:30 - 16:35 Critical View / Media and Documentary Film
Workshop on creative writing about documentary film, Lectures: Reviews and Articles in Daily Newspapers; Reviews in Academic Journals; Text Editing; Reports; Interviews; Essays.
Organizer: Jihlava IDFF
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Multimedia Design School, Hall


• 10:00-19:30 Ex Oriente Film + East European Forum Workshop
Workshop for 48 East European filmmakers participating at the East European Forum.
• Individual Meetings - Second Round, with tutors and guest tutors for the participants of Forum and Ex Oriente Film participants (+ matched meetings with Czech documentary film professionals)
• Plenary Session - Last Pitch rehearsal in Horacke divadlo
• Introduction of TV Commissioning editors to the participants together with technical proof rehearsal
Open for: EEF participants and tutors only
Where: Horacke divadlo

20:00 Festival Opening Ceremony + Party
Open for: Invited guests only
Where: Festival Center, Main Cinema DKO

22:30 Festival Opening Party
Open for: Invited guests only
Where: Festival Center, Main Cinema DKO

• 9:00-10:00 Breakfast with Austrian TV Funds / Knut Ogris, Film Producer
Open for: Professional accreditations
Where: Horacke divadlo in the lobby of East European Forum

• 10:00-16:00 East European Forum – Pitching Session
14 East European documentary projects pitched to the panel of commissioning editors.
• 16:30-19:30 Individual meetings of Forum participants with TV commissioning editors
Open for: East European Forum accreditations
Where: Horacke divadlo

• 10:00 - 13:00 Critical View / Media and Documentary Film
Lectures in English
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Multimedia Design School, Hall

• 14:00 - 22:00 Open Archives - Places of Encounters, Educations and Cooperation
• 14:00 - 1st Panel: Open Audiovisual Archives
• 17:00 - 2nd Panel: Use of Archives in Education 
• 20.00 - presentation by Woody Vasulka - video artist, curator and archivist
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Multimedia Design School, Hall

• 16:30 – 19:30 Festival Identity – Part 1
Reflecting the festival scene
Open for: Invited guests only
Where: TBA

• 20:00 Dinner with Czech Producers
Czech filmmakers meet selected representatives of sales agents, festival programmers and commissioning editors.
Open for: Invited guests only
Where: TBA

• 09:00 - 10:00   ITVS Fund breakfast / Cynthia Kane, Programming Manager
Open for: Professional accreditations
Where: Horacke divadlo

• 10:00 – 13:00 East European Forum – Pitching Session
10 East European documentary projects pitched to the panel of commissioning editors.
• 14:00 - 15:30 Individual meetings
Open for: East European Forum accreditations
Where: Horacke divadlo

• 13:30 – 15:30 Festival Identity – Part 2
Reflecting the festival scene
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Dukla Cinema, small hall

• 16:00 - 19:30 Panel of the Upcoming European Documentary Films
The panel will introduce 10 upcoming European documentaries to be premiered in 2009.
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Dukla Cinema, small hall

• 19:00 – 20:00 DOC Alliance Cocktail
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Dukla Cinema

• 20:00 Dinner with East European filmmakers
Producers meet selected TV commissioning editors, distributors, sales agents
Open for: Invited guests only
Where: TBA

• 22:00 Industry Party (after the screening of main competition films)
Open for: Invited guests only
Where: Delnicky dum

• 9:00-10:30 Breakfast with Funds:
Sundance Documentary Film Program / Rahdi Taylor, Associate Director
Gucci Tribeca Fund / Danielle di Giacomo, pre-selector of the fund and Head of Documentary Acquisitions at IndiePix.
Open for: Professional accreditations
Where: Hotel Gustav Mahler

• 10:30 - 12:00  Sales and Distribution Session - Key sales agents and distributors present themselves explaining their strategy, taste, plans, positions and visions
Open for: Professional accreditations
Where: Hotel Gustav Mahler

• 12:15 – 14:00 East European Forum Follow-up Session
East European Forum participants discuss their future plans and strategies, with the participation of invited distributors and sales agents.
Open for: EEF participants, tutors and invited sales agents and distributors
Where: Hotel Gustav Mahler

• 17:00 Frederick Wiseman Master Class
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Dukla Cinema, main hall

• 17:00 Cinema All the Time - Book Launch
An Anthology of Czech Film Theory and Criticism, 1908–1939
Editor: Petr Szczepanik, Jaroslav Anděl
Open for: All festival accreditations
Where: Wine Bar Vínové

• 20:00 Dinner with Authors
Industry dinner of festival selectors and institutional representatives with directors
Open for: Invited guests only
Where: TBC

Tuesday, October 28

• 20:00 Festival Closing Ceremony 
Open for: All types of accreditations
Where: Festival Center, Main Cinema DKO

• 22:30 Closing Party
Open for: Invitation only
Where: Pivovarský dům

All programme updates will be posted in the East European Forum section, HERE.