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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.
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.

Other activities

EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION SEMINAR

Considering that the co-production films do not have a strong tradition in the Czech Republic, we decided to organise a theoretical Seminar about European Co-Productions.

The following commissioning editors from four European television stations took part in the seminar: Leena Pasanen (Yle Teema/ Finland), Wim Van Rompaey (Lichtpunt/ Belgium), Christiane Philippe (RTBF/ Belgium), Jutta Krug (WDR-Arte/ Germany).

Each of the comm. editors showed a film that had been made thanks to a Topic Fair held abroad. Many of the presented films were far from the mainstream of the usual television productions, and some had been honoured at renowned European festivals. After the screenings the guests, producers, and professionals from Czech Television discussed the ways these films were made, the scope of the TV stations represented and the standards of concluding European co-production contracts. The lively discussion took over two hours and had to be prolonged due to the strong interest of the Czech professionals.

After the seminar we invited the participating professionals and foreign guests for an informal meeting whose main aim was to facilitate contact and exchange among the East European independent producers and the Western commissioning editors.