Ex Oriente Film Workshop
Session Two: Production Development
June 13 - 19, 2011 / Prague, Czech Republic
The second session will host a number of notable tutors and guests, among others, Jonathan Oppenheim, a renowned US editor whose credits include Sister Helen and the Oscar nominated Children Underground; Dr. Stefan Rüll who has many years of experience with legal consultancy for the film and television community, and producer Marta Lamperová who will dedicate her master class to distribution strategies that are available for creative documentaries. A heavy dose of inspiration will be provided by young video artists and activists Itamar Rose and Tamara Moyzes.
Selected parts of the Ex Oriente Film programme (e.g., master class, film screenings) will be open to the general public.
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Manskiy Vitaly
ocuppation: Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Scriptwriter
country: Russia
company: Studio Vertov
Born December 2, 1963 in Lvov, Ukraine. Graduated from the filmmaking school VGIK in 1990. In 1999, became the writer and presenter of the Russian television show Real Cinema. He has created an internet journal about documentary film. Selected filmography: Yevreyskoe Schaste (1991); Anatomy t.A.T.u. (1993); Chastnye kroniki. Monolog (1999); Broadway. Black Sea (2001); Gagarin's Pioneers (2005); Tenders' Heat: Wild, Wild Beach (2006); The Blind Family (2008); Virginity (2008); Sunrise/Sunset: Dalai Lama XIV (2009). His works were presented at more than 400 international film festivals (Cannes, San Sebastian, Rotterdam, Berlin, Amsterdam, Moscow, Oberhausen, San Francisco, Locarno, Munich, etc.). He has received over 50 festival awards, including Silver Dove at DOK Leipzig, Best Directing Award at Locarno IFF, Prix Court Metrage Visions du réel Nyon, Golden Spire at San Francisco FF, IDFA Amsterdam, and others.
Oppenheim Jonathan
ocuppation: Producer, Editor
country: USA
Jonathan Oppenheim's editing credits include Sister Helen (Documentary Directing Award, Sundance); Children Underground (also co-producer, Oscar nomination, Sundance Special Jury Prizee, Gotham and IDA awards); the classic documentary feature Paris Is Burning (Sundance Grand Jury Prize, New York Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics and IDA Awards); Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love, about the African singer's attempt to transmit moderate Islam through music; Out of the Shadow (PBS), about a woman’s life with her paranoid schizophrenic mother; Caught in the Crossfire (PBS), a cinema verite look at three Arab-American New Yorkers in the wake of 9/11; Phyllis and Harold, an exploration of a failed 60-year marriage; Strongman (co-editor, 2009 Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature); Arguing The World (Peabody Award, along with producer/director Joseph Dorman). Most recently, Oppenheim edited and co-produced The Oath, a highly acclaimed portrait of Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard.
Rüll Stefan
ocuppation: Attorney-at-law
country: Germany
company: Stefan Rüll Law Officecountry: Germany
Lamperová Marta
ocuppation: Distributor, Sales Representative
country: Czech Republic
company: Film Europe
Marta Lamperová graduated from Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University in Bratislava and FAMU in Prague. Currently she is the managing director of Film Europe. Company profile: Film Europe is an independent international sales and distribution company based in Central Europe. We specialize in finding, promoting, financially supporting and distributing films created by talented directors from all of Eastern Europe.
Marta Lamperová graduated from Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University in Bratislava and FAMU in Prague. Currently she is the managing director of Film Europe. Company profile: Film Europe is an independent international sales and distribution company based in Central Europe. We specialize in finding, promoting, financially supporting and distributing films created by talented directors from all of Eastern Europe.
Cobos Carmen
ocuppation: Producer
company: Cobos Films
Born in Southern Spain. Graduated as a social worker at the University of Seville, then moved to the UK. In 1991, started working as free-lance researcher/location manager for the BBC. 1994 - 1996 worked for several British production companies. In 1997 she moved to The Netherlands where, after working several years with Ryninks Films BV, she started her own production company Cobos Films BV, producing internationally successful cinema documentaries. In 2007 Carmen started to develop feature films as well. A regular tutor for EDN workshops and other European organizations, expert for several European AV funds and a jury member for Seminci (2010), Seville Film Festival (2009), Punto de Vista (2008), IDFA (2006), Infinity Festival (2005) and DocLisboa (2004). Member of EFA and EDN. Her credits as producer include: The Player (dir. John Appel, Best Dutch Feature Documentary, IDFA 2009), Comrade Couture (dir. Marco Wilms), El Olvido (dir. Heddy Honigmann), The Last Victory (dir. John Appel), Forever (dir. Heddy Honigmann).
Bozhilova Martichka
ocuppation: Journalist, Producer
country: Bulgaria
company: Agitprop Ltd.
Martichka Bozhilova (degree in Law and Art Management; Graduate EURODOC 2005) has been producer of AGITPROP since 1999. Her films include Georgi and the Butterflies (Silver Wolf Award, IDFA 2004), The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories (Cannes 2007; Grierson Award, London Film Festival 2007; Grand Prize, Sunny Side of the Doc 2008), Corridor #8 (Berlinale 2008 – FORUM, Ecumenical Jury Award; Hot Docs 2008 - HBO Documentary Film Emerging Artist Award), See You at the Eiffel Tower (IDFA 2008). One of the producers of the omnibus film 15 (short fiction film Omelette produced within 15 won Honorable Mention at Sundance 2009). Also producer of the first original Bulgarian productions for HBO, Concrete Pharaohs and Paradise Hotel. In 2006 she received the International Trailblazer Award. Lecturer at various European workshops and events. Director of the Balkan Documentary Center (BDC). Official representative of the European Documentary Network (EDN) in Bulgaria.
Rose Itamar
ocuppation: Director
country: Israel
Itamar Rose was born in 1979 in Israel. He was a student at the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem and started working on satirical material, with Yossi Atia who was his film partner at that time, during the settlers’ struggle to prevent the disengagement. They went to the Gaza settlements where they satirically documented the battle. Their films combine documentary and satirical materials. Recently their work has been seen at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunstverein, Hamburg, and at the Tate Gallery, London. Itamar is in his last year in the M.F.A film studies at the Tel Aviv University, and he continue working on a satirical-documentary films.
Moyzes Tamara
ocuppation: Director, Other
country: Czech Republic
Born in 1975, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Lives and works Prague, Czech Republic. Education: 2000-05 MA studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of New Media, Prague, 2003-04 Exchange program, The Bezazel Academy of Fine Art and Design, Jerusalem, 1999 The Bezazel Academy of Fine Art and Design, Dept. of Video and Documentary Films, Jerusalem, 1997-98 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, 1996-97 Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Tel Aviv. Selected exhibitions: 2011 Mediations Bienale Poznan, PL (group), Czech Center in Stockholm (solo), 2010 Transgression, Videotage, Hong Kong, CN (group), Mute Signs, Barcsay Hall, Budapest, HU (group), SHE DEVILE 4, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, IT (solo) / 2009 Formáty transformace 89-09, Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ (group), The Other Kind of Blue, Czech selection, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague (group), Welcome to Prague, Output Gallery, Prague (solo), Family Happiness, Czech Parliament, Prague (solo) / 2007 TV t_error, Entrance Gallery, Prague (solo).
