Institute of Documentary film would like to invite you to open sessions of East European Forum and Ex Oriente Film Workshop. These sessions are open to all festival guests with accreditation for industry events:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
17,30 - 19,30
Archives and Documentaries with Archidoc by Adrian Wood
Where: Secondary Graphic Art School (Křížová Street 18)
17,30 - 18,30
East Silver Tour - How does the Doc Market function in practice? How can we use it?
Where: DKO — Festival Centre
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
17,00 - 19,00
Legal aspects for documentary filmmakers with Archidoc by Hubert Best
Where: Secondary Graphic Art School (Křížová Street 18)
17,00 - 18,00
The net as a first platform by Iikka Vehkalahti (YLE 2, Finland) - Lecture and presentation on global, cross-media and multiplatforms
Where: Secondary Graphic Art School (Křížová Street 18)
18,00 - 20,00
East Silver Tour — How does the Doc Market function in practice? How can we use it? During the East Silver Tour also the presentation of IDFA Forum and "DOcs for Sale" (with Lauren Ten Houten).
Where: DKO — Festival Centre
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
9,00 - 10,00
Breakfast: Co-production with France
The first of three breakfasts hosted by East Silver Market will focus on the French documentary industry. Catherine Le Clef, former head of Doc & Co and senior Vice President TV and Ancillary Sales at Fortissimo Films, will be present
to introduce her new company, CAT&Docs, which is dedicated to the promotion and sales of world class documentaries. The very talented young producer, Cécile Lestrade of Alter Ego Production will also attend, along with Benoit Gryspreerdt of French Cuisine Production, producer Marie Clemence Paes of Laterit Productions and Gabriel Chabanier of Galatica Group, a new collective ‘adventure’ that compromises ten existing companies who have banded together to produce topic-specific films. All guests will share their international sales expertise and offer advice and opportunities to the East European documentary industry about co-productions, funds and broadcasters in France.
Where: Secondary Graphic Art School (Křížová Street 18)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31
9,00 - 10,00
Breakfast: Co-production with Germany
On the morning of Saturday October 31st, East Silver will host a breakfast dedicated to the German documentary film & television industry. Selected guests will present their respective companies and propose their newest initiatives. The breakfast is an open forum to discuss the latest opportunities for East Europeans with German partners in production and distribution. Guests include Stefan Kloos of the world sales and distribution company Rise and Shine and the CEO and producer of Kloos & Co., Christian Beetz of Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion, one of the few German production companies specializing in the worldwide production and distribution of documentary programs, and Heino Deckert of Deckert Distribution. Also attending will be Daniel Saltzwedel of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Fund., among others special representatives of the documentary industry.
10,15 - 16,15
East European Forum: Pitching sessions
10 East European Forum documentary projects pitched to the panel of commissioning editors.
Where: Secondary Graphic Art School (Křížová Street 18)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1
9,00 - 10,00
Breakfast: Co-production with Finland
The last of three East Silver Breakfasts will host Jihlava’s Finnish delegation of directors and producers on Sunday 1st of November. Guests range from freelance filmmakers to established production companies, including Timo
Humaloja, producer and director of Kinovid Productions, Jari Kokko of Karlik films, Kirsi Mattila of Leino & Suvinen Production Inc., Markku Niska of Navy Blue Bird Inc., and directors Marko Pynnönen, Anna Korhonen, Kimmo
Kohtamäki, and Oskari Pastila. Representatives of the Dokumenttikilta–The Finnish Documentary Guild, will also be present to provide information about the Finnish documentary industry. New projects from guest fi lmmakers, useful
information about fi lm funds, and opportunities for co-productions between Finland and Eastern European countries will also be discussed.
Where: Secondary Graphic Art School (Křížová Street 18)
10,15 - 12,15
East European Forum: Pitching sessions
6 East European Forum documentary projects pitched to the panel of commissioning editors.
Where: Secondary Graphic Art School (Křížová Street 18)
ADRIAN WOOD 
Adrian Wood’s early work as a film researcher ranged from the Benny Hill Show to Jon Blair's Oscar-winning documentary, Anne Frank Remembered. Adrian now acts as an independent archive film consultant. As well as lecturing and conducting workshops, he works on the development of archive-based documentary projects.
Selected filmography:
2007 Ochberg's Orphans (documentary) - Consultant (archival film)
2001 Enigma - Thanks (Trans World International)
1997 The Lost Children of Berlin (documentary) - Film Researcher
1997 Love Story: Berlin 1942 (documentary) - Film Researcher
1995 Anne Frank Remembered (documentary) - Film Researche
HUBERT BEST (Sweden)
Hubert Best is an expert in copyright law, and legal counselor for the media and entertainment industry. Authors, composers, actors, and acting agencies, publishing houses, television, film, and music producers benefit from his experience and advice. Hubert Best collaborates with major firms specializing in media and communication. He also acted as a legal counselor for the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Hubert Best is a visiting professor at Queen Mary and Westfield College and at King’s College of the University of London. He regularly conducts workshops, has published articles widely, and is co-author of numerous books on copyright.
LAURIEN TEN HOUTEN (The Netherlands)
IDFA Forum
The FORUM is Europe's largest gathering of filmmakers, television commissioning editors and independent documentary producers. Founded in 1993, the FORUM has become the first market for the international co-financing of documentaries in the world. Over the years, the FORUM has expanded and remains to be a unique opportunity to find financing for documentary films: more than 90% of all submitted projects end up being made.
IDFA Docs for Sale
Docs for Sale is the world's leading market place for creative documentaries. Each year, the most important players in the documentary industry come together in Amsterdam; their attendance, coupled with the high-quality offering of documentaries, are the secrets to Docs for Sale’s success.
IIKKA VEHKALAHTI (Finland)
Commissioning Editor for YLE TV2 Documentaries, Finland since 1998. Executive Producer for Steps For The Future and Another Finland and one of the Series Producers for Why Democracy. He is a board member in Steps International, Steps India and IDFA. In YLE he has commissioned several internationally awarded documentaries like 3 Rooms Of Melancholy by Pirjo Honkasalo, Decent Factory by Thomas Balmes, Gone To The Wind by Gennadi Gorodin, Recepies for Disaster by John Webster, The Journey by Markku Lehmuskallio, Lakshmi and Me by Nishta Jain, Paradise by Elina Hirvonen, In The Shadow Of Holy Book by Arto Halonen, Northern Star by Erkko Lyytinen and Riot On ! by John Hakalax. He has been a partner in several awarded documentaries produced in Asia, Middle-East and Africa. Before YLE he directed several awarded documentaries for Epidem and Musafilm, among them Past is Present, Amal, Inam, Naila, Man from the Shadow , Daughter of a Terrorist, Our Common Future? and Tehri - Two Journeys. Among the publications the most recent is a 2008 published book “Steps By Steps”, written together with Don Edkins.
