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www.DOKweb.net is a portal dedicated to East European documentary film. The news section provides up-to-date information on upcoming and just completed films, interviews with filmmakers and other documentary professionals, in-depth articles exploring the state of documentary filmmaking in various parts of the region, as well as insightful texts on current trends, funding, etc. The portal also boasts the largest published databases of completed and upcoming documentary films from Eastern Europe, an industry directory, as well as trailers and original video content. www.DOKweb.net is IDF´s key online project that provides comprehensive details on all IDF´s activities and links them with general information service.
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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.

East Doc Platform

THURSDAY, March 8, 2011


10:00 – 22:00 |East Silver Video Library| Open from March 6 – 11 (10am – 10pm)  
Open for: EDP accreditation & One World Guest accreditation
Where: Archa Palace, Remote Space

10:00 – 11:30 |MASTER CLASS: Sean McAllister| Private investigations |
Introduction to the work of the Scottish director and journalist who has been recently getting behind the events convulsing the Arab world. At all times devoted to his style, McAllister masters personal stories documenting outsiders’ struggles to find their way out of dead ends.
Open for: All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where: Archa Palace, Battery Hall

12:00 – 13:30 |LECTURE: Documentary Tour of Europe| The best of 2011 European docs, including film excerpts, presented by Tue Steen Müller (DK).
Open for: All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where: Archa Palace, Battery Hall

15:00 – 16:30 |CASE STUDY: The Boy Who Was a King (2011) and Balkan Melodie (2012)|
The story of Bulgarian-German co-production introduced by Martichka Bozhilova (BG), Andrea Hock (A) and Ann Carolin Renninger (D).
Open for: All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where: Archa Palace, Battery Hall

17:00 –18:30 |CASE STUDY/ PANEL DISCUSSION: End of Story - Cross Media in Eastern Europe| Case study bringing in the documentary projects Word in Pain and Six Degrees, followed by a panel discussion with Liz Rosenthal (UK), Mandy Rose (UK) and Georg Tschurtschenthaler (D).
Open for: All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where: Archa Palace, Battery Hall

18:30 – 20:30 |PROJECT MARKET| Prearranged one-on-one meetings
Open for: EDP accreditation
Where: Archa Palace, Chip Room

18:30 – 20:00 |PANEL DISCUSSION: Polish Lesson| Polish film act (2005) and its impact on the development of the Polish feature and documentary film markets. Documentary boom in Poland from an institutional point of view introduced by Kinga Galuszka (PL), Marta Sikorska (PL) and Robert Balinski (PL) from the Polish Film Institute.
Open for: All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where: Archa Palace, Battery Hall

21:00 |SPECIAL SCREENING: Japan: A Story of Love and Hate (2008) followed by a Q&A with the director Sean McAllister (UK)
Open for: All types of EDP & One World accreditations
Where: Archa Palace, Battery Hall