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Institute of Documentary Film’s Activities
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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 European Forum

RECYCLE LIFE - MAKE DOCUMENTARIES!

AND VISIT THE EAST EUROPEAN FORUM. Jihlava eats, sleeps and breathes documentary films - young, old and even ones that don't yet exist. The East European Forum is October's documentary incubator. Each year, it welcomes 50 East European directors and producers and their projects, some of which return after a few years to the festival's competition, to the local documentary market and to online distribution. The East European Forum is at the beginning of it all, inviting all who want to take part - October 22 - 27 in Jihlava.

 

EAST EUROPEAN FORUM

3rd Ex Oriente Film Workshop and East European Forum Pitching Workshop: October 22 – 24, 2008
(Hotel Gustav Mahler, Křížová 4, Jihlava)

East European Forum Pitching Sessions: October 25 – 26, 2008
(Horácké divadlo Jihlava, Komenského 22, Jihlava)

East European Forum Follow-up Session: October 27, 2008
(Hotel Gustav Mahler, Křížová 4, Jihlava)


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EAST EUROPEAN FORUM

Celebrating its eighth edition, the meeting of documentary professionals from Central and Eastern Europe - East European Forum and the preparatory workshop - will be launched October 22, 2008. The East European Forum is the region's largest meeting of East European documentary filmmakers with leading European commissioning editors, distributors, buyers and film fund representatives. Directors and independent producers offer their projects for co-production, presale or any other form of financial support. The foundation of the Forum created an alternative in Central Europe to the previous practice which relied on funding provided by the state or by local broadcasters. During its existence, the Forum has become a prestigious meeting place that has, since 2001, hosted 420 East European filmmakers and producers, 59 TV representatives and dozens of international distributors, buyers and festival programmers. Support for East European documentary films in the initial development stage, an overview of funding options for documentary projects, an outline of different paths available for films both prior and after completion. Creative workshops, meetings between 50 East European documentary filmmakers and representatives of European broadcasters, film funds, distributors and festival programmers, as well as some 45 documentary films made with the direct support of the Forum.

 

 

 

ATTENDING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS AND THEIR PROJECTS
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Out of dozens of proposals from all parts of Europe, representatives of the Institute of Documentary Film, Tue Steen Muller (tutor, consultant and former EDN director) and Mikael Opstrup (Final Cut Filmproductions, tutor of the Ex Oriente Film workshop) selected 14 projects in February that attend the year-long Ex Oriente Film training programme; ten other projects were selected in September to participate in the East European Forum. East Europe's largest co-production meeting will feature a total of 24 documentary projects from 48 directors and producers.

 

 

 

COMMISSIONING EDITORS, SALES AGENTS, DISTRIBUTORS
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The current East European Forum will host the largest number of commissioning editors, buyers, sales agents, distributors and film fund representatives in its history; invited professionals will be selecting projects for their slots or portfolios: LEJLA BABOVIC - BHRT (Bosnia and Herzegovina), CLAUDIA BUCHER - ARTE (France), RUDY BUTTIGNOL - Knowledge Network (Canada), VICTORIA DUNAEVA - Belsat TV (Belarus), FRANZ GRABNER - ORF (Austria), FLORA GREGORY - Al Jazeera English (UK), JANE JANKOVIC - TVO (Canada), CYNTHIA KANE - ITVS International (USA), WILBUR LEGUEBE - RTBF (Belgium), CYNTHIA LÓPEZ - PBS (USA), CHARLOTTE GRY MADSEN - DR TV (Denmark), KATARZYNA MALINOWSKA - TVP (Poland), MILKA PAVLIĆEVIĆ - ZDF/ARTE (Germany), JESSICA RASPE - AVRO (Netherlands), ALEX SZALAT - ARTE France (France), RAHDI TAYLOR - Sundance Documentary Fund / Sundance Documentary Film Program (USA), WIM VAN ROMPAEY - LICHTPUNT (Belgium), SARI VOLANEN - YLE (Finland), LOIS VOSSEN - ITVS (USA), SANDRA WHIPHAM - producer/consultant (UK), KATJA WILDERMUTH - MDR (Germany).

 

 

 

TUTORS AND GUESTS OF THE FORUM WORKSHOP
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The following European and international documentary experts will supervise the East European Forum pitching workshop and the 3rd session of the Ex Oriente Film training programme: TUE STEEN MÜLLER – Ex Oriente Film Head of Studies (Denmark), DON EDKINS (South Africa), IIKKA VEHKALAHTI (Finland), MARIE-CLÉMENCE PAES (France), MARIJKE RAWIE - Head of Forum Workshop (Netherlands), MIKAEL OPSTRUP (Denmark), KRISTIINA PERVILÄ-ANDERSSON (Finland), EMMA DAVIE (UK).

 

 

 

RESULTS OF THE EAST EUROPEAN FORUM AND EX ORIENTE FILM WORKSHOP

The current edition of the East European Forum and Ex Oriente Film brings so far the best results scored by films that received its support in the past. Since 2001, more than 45 films were made with the help of the Forum, with more films completed each year. In 2008, a number of these received top honours at major international festivals.
Kites, a Polish documentary film by Beata Dzianowicz, participant of the 2004 Ex Oriente Film that received the Critic's Week Award at the Locarno IFF, will compete in the Jihlava IDFF's section Between the Seas.
Blind Loves, a Slovak documentary film by Juraj Lehotský that participated in the 2005 Ex Oriente Film programme, received, among others, the Art Cinema Award at the Cannes IFF.
Following the project development within the 2005 Ex Oriente Film workshop, Pavel Abrahám's Czech RAPublic will also make its public debut at the Jihlava IDFF, in the section Czech Joy.
Kites, Blind Loves as well as Czech RAPublic were developed within Ex Oriente Film and then pitched at the East European Forum.
Other tangible results of IDF's numerous activities will be made available to audiences and journalists in theatres across Jihlava and Prague. 12 documentaries that were completed over the last year with the support of the East European Forum will be included in the festival programme or the East Silver market.

 

 

 

EAST EUROPEAN FORUM INDUSTRY & SIDEBAR PROGRAMME

In addition to a number of lectures and workshops that are open for the East European Forum participants, the programme also includes events for other professionals attending the Jihlava IDFF.
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - Dinner with Czech Producers - Czech filmmakers meet sales agents, festival programmers and commissioning editors
Monday, October 27, 2008 - Sales and Distribution Session - Key sales agents and distributors present their strategy, taste, plans, positions and visions
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SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC AWARD

This year, the Institute of Documentary Film will once again prepare a tailor-made support strategy for one of the Forum projects. A jury consisting of all workshop tutors will select a director/producer team who made the most persuasive project pitch within the workshop. The winners will be announced at the Jihlava IDFF Opening Ceremony, Friday October 24, 2008. Representing Europe's largest documentary market Sunny Side of the Doc, Jean-Jacques Peretti and Josée Brossard will give the winners free accreditation and a pass for one-on-one consultation at Sunny Side of the Doc in La Rochelle, France.

 

 

IDFA FORUM AWARD

Just like in previous editions, a representative of Europe's largest co-production forum in Amsterdam will select a winning project at the East European Forum; the winners will receive a free participation at IDFA Forum and will be able to pitch their project before Europe's largest panel of commissioning editors, buyers, sales agents and distributors, hence increasing their chance to find sufficient funding. Jean Morselt, IDFA Forum Coordinator, will handpick the winner; the award will be announced and presented at the Jihlava IDFF Opening Ceremony, Friday October 24, 2008.

 

 

 


RECYCLE LIFE - MAKE DOCUMENTARIES!

After the personality cult of 2004, the polished style of border crossings of 2005, science fiction of 2006 and last year's mire of East European kitsch, artist Tereza Durdilová is getting ready to recycle what was into what will be.
Recycling... For some, it implies sustainable development, for others the crisis of representation, for IDF it's the visual concept of the East European Forum. The films developed within Ex Oriente Film or presented at the East European Forum return to Jihlava loaded with international awards as the cycle comes to a close. Bottle - matter - bottle - matter. Documentary - life - documentary - life.

 

 

 

 

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Contact: Hana Rezková hanka@docuinter.net, Tereza Horská tereza@docuinter.net