ITVS INTERNATIONAL AND THE FILMMAKER'S VISION - INTERVIEW WITH CYNTHIA KANE
06.11.2008Cynthia Kane, Programming Manager for ITVS International, attended this year's East Silver market as well as the East European Forum, along with 20 other funders and commissioning editors. ITVS International runs a fund that funds, promotes and broadcasts works made by international independent producers. Known for their policy of little interference with the filmmaker's creative vision, ITVS International has since 2005 supported more than 60 documentaries from over 50 countries.
SUNDANCE AND THE PIT - INTERVIEW WITH RAHDI TAYLOR
05.11.2008Rahdi Taylor, Associate Director of the Sundance Documentary Fund, was among the 21 panelists of the 2008 East European Forum and among the guests of the East Silver market. The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program provides year-round support to nonfiction contemporary-issue filmmakers internationally. The Sundance Documentary Fund is a key activity of the Documentary Film Program. Since 1996, the Fund has supported over 450 films in 52 countries.
TOO MUCH TIME FOR THINKING
28.10.2008The Polish documentary film Kites by Beata Dzianowicz and producer Krzysztof Kopczyñski is included in the Between the Seas competition at the Jihlava IDFF. In 2006, the authors developed the film within the Ex Oriente Film workshop under the working title Learning to Watch. This summer it premiered in Locarno and received the Critics' Week Award. In the following interview, Beata Dzianowicz talks more about the production details, Afghan students or the value of European advice.
DOCUMENTOR: NEW GATEWAY TO ROMANIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM
28.10.2008Documentor, Romania's first professional organization dedicated to documentary film, was founded in 2007 by Florin Iepan, Alexandru Solomon, Adina Bradeanu and Calin Meda. In a short time Documentor hosted a Discovery Campus session in Timisoara and this year it participated at the Sunny Side of the Doc. In an interview, Alexandru Solomon shared more about Documentor's aims and plans.
BELARUSIAN BELSAT TV AT EAST EUROPEAN FORUM
28.10.2008For the first time in the young history of Belsat TV, the first independent TV network in Belarus, its representative Victoria Dunaeva visits the Czech Republic. At the the East European Forum and East Silver market, she will introduce the network's programming profile in order to establish new contacts with other representatives of the European TV market and producers of East European documentary films. More information about so far the only alternative TV channel in Belarusian media landscape avaliable at www.belsat.eu, in the Jihlava IDFF industry programme or in the following interview. Photo: Ada Gallery, dir: Uladzimir Kolas
BETWEEN THE FIELDS
28.10.2008Timo Novotny's Life in Loops, a remix of Michael Glawogger's documentary film Megacities received the Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2006 Karlovy Vary IFF. In 2008, Timo Novotny attended the Ex Oriente Film training programme with Trains of Thoughts. He discussed his latest project in an interview conducted at this year's East European Forum.
DOCUMENTARY FILMS TURN MASSES INTO AUDIENCE
09.05.2008An interview with philosopher Václav Bìlohradský about documentary film and audiences who respect difference, as opposed to masses who always seek identification, about Guy Debord and his Society of the Spectacle and much more... Director Vít Janeèek made the interview for dok.revue, a regular documentary supplement of Literární noviny.
INTERVIEW WITH YURI KHASHCHEVATSKY
30.10.2007A leading voice in Belarusian documentary film, director Yuri Khashchevatsky (photo) presented his new project Probes at this year's East European Forum. In the interview, he talks about the outlines of his new film and shares his insights on filmmaking, Russia, imposed and voluntary roles, state power or the power of the internet...
DOCUMENTARY AS AN EXPERIENCE OF HIGHER ASPIRATION
27.09.2007Trying to define something is like trying to unify some space, attitudes or actions that have different directions but still have rather more in common. Text by Vít Janeèek has been written for East Silver catalogue.
CZECH FILMS ABROAD
03.04.2007One World Film Festival invided Czech documentary filmmakers to participate in a workshop entitled Czech documentary film in international context - are how Czech documentaries doing at foreign festivals? Answers to many questions were brought by a survey research.
THE GRANDMOTHERS OF REVOLUTION
21.11.2006Petra Seliskar, Slovenian documentary filmmaker, who at the last year's East European Forum presented her upcoming film The Grandmothers of Revolution, shifts her finished film from the edditing room directly to the Joris Ivens competition of this year's IDFA, Europe's biggest documentary film festival. The short trailer and the verbal expalnation has since last year transformed to a multiple layered film that through the narrative of director's relatives touches the intimite reality of three families as well as the political context of the 20th century. The interantional premiere will take place on Friday, November 24, at 17:45 in Cinerama 1.
I PACK MY STUFF IN A SNAP, MY SOCKS, MY BRIEFS, MY RAP
16.11.2006Rapper is a documentary filmmaker, who handles and grasps the world with his language, moves the words into new directions and plays with the meanings...There is a new documentary film coming up in Czech Republic - Czech RAPublic. Its director Pavel Abraham, co-screenwriter Tomáš Bojar and producer Martin Pošta, who participated on the East European Forum 2006, also received the support from the State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography.
RELIGION OF THE PLASTIC UTENSILS
06.11.2006The documentary film Art of Selling by Jaak Kilmi and Andres Maimik that took part in the year long thraining workshop Ex Oriente Film 2004 was finished in October 2006. Jakk Kilmi introduced it personally on the Case Study and on the screening just two days after its Estonian premiere within the open program ofthe East European Forum.
TIME IS THE GREATEST EXPENSE - INTERVIEW WITH JANA BOKOVA
06.11.2006At last year's Jihlava IDFF, Czech audiences had for the first time the opportunity to get acquainted with films by Jana Boková, an important exiled director and documentary filmmaker living in Argentina. The retrospective showed a selection of five documentary films from 1975 - 2004 that were made in several countries of Europe and South America. During her stay, she visited the open programme of the East European Forum. This year in September she submitted her project Waiting in Buenos Aires for the current edition of EEF. The project is not only about waiting. The pun in the title points to generations of the so-called gallegos, descendants of Spanish immigrants, who have passed the waiter profession from father to son. These experts on local psychology, tango, opera, football and global problems of the world guide the author into the fabric of the Argentinian capital.
LITHUANIAN FILM PERSPECTIVES - ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
24.04.2006The 9th Baltic Sea Documentary Forum, that was held in Vilnius, 7-11 September, 2005 opened a round-table discussion ‘Lithuanian Film Perspectives’. The discussion covered such topics as Lithuanian cinema contribution to the state culture and economics, problems of film support and promotion or necessity for a long-term cinema policy in Lithuania. The mentioned topics are locally-based, but illustrate simillar problems that are common for numbre of countries in the East and Central European region. (Photo: random round table)
INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT LAKATOS
02.02.2006One of the most original Hungarian documentary filmmaker, whos film about Transsilvanian friends Lari and Lori become known as a part of the international project Across the Border, is preparing a sequel called Bahrtalo! Champions of Freedom. The project has been so far successfully pitched on the East European Forum organized by IDF in Jihlava and on the Forum of IDFA.
AUTEUR FILMS AND PRIME TIME TELEVISION - INTERVIEW WITH SERGE LALOU
14.10.2005French feature-lenght documentary Etre et Avoir by Nicolas Philibert (2002) could well demostrate the often mentioned rising interest in documentaries and the chance for the genre to attract surprising number of cinema audience. Simple story avoiding fancy topics, straight approach and enormous succes in France and all around Europe. Producer of the film and one of the heads of the production company Les Films d'Ici - Serge Lalou, is attending EAST EUROPEAN FORUM in the role of Lecturer. The interview was made for DOX Magazine in 2003 by Tue Steen Muller from European Documentary Network.
THE DOCUMENTARY HAS MORALLY EXHAUSTED ME – AN INTERVIEW WITH SERGEI DVORTSEVOY
03.10.2005Sergei Dvortsevoy emerged in the 1990s as one of the key figures in Russian documentary film. His films Paradise (1995), Bread Day (1995) and Highway (1999) won over both audiences and film critics across nationalities and continents, winning prestigious awards at festivals in Yamagata, Amsterdam, Paris ad Nyon. (photo: Petr Neubert, EX ORIENTE FILM workshop 2005)
DOCUMENTARY FILM AND TOTALLY DIFFERENT TELEVISION
06.02.2005Vit Janecek’s interview with Thierry Garrel, chief producer of documentary films at the French-German cultural channel ARTE, who took part in the Documentary Film Symposium „Documentary at it’s Best“ held in Prague in September 2004 organized by Discovery Campus Masterschool and Institute of Documentary Film, Prague.
GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD: an interview with Peter Mettler
07.11.2004Both Peter Mettler and Mike Hoolboom visited this year’s 8th International Documenatary Film Festival in Czech Republic to present their latest films (“Gambling, Gods and LSD” by Peter Mettler and “Public Lighting” by Mike Hoolboom) Shortened version of their dialog was published in dok.revue – daily festival magazine. Bellow you can read the whole text.
HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM - INTERVIEW WITH GUY GAUTHIER
07.11.2004During the 8th Int. Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, Guy Gathier as a member of the international JURY presented his new book “Le Documentaire un autre Cinema”, which was recently translated to Czech. The interview made on that occasion was published in DOK.REVUE – daily festival newspaper.
CZECH DOCUMENTARY - DOCUMENTAL FILM (Jan Gogola Jr.)
12.10.2004“Documentary is a clumsy description, but let it stand.“ John Grierson’s quotation servers Jan Gogola Jr. (Czech director, script writer, commissioning editor in Czech Television, journalist and teacher at FAMU-Film Academy of Performing Arts) as a base for REthinking the usual understanding of the term “Documentary”. The essay was presented at the Symposium DOCUMENTARY AT ITS BEST: New Approaches in European Documentary Storytelling / organized by Discovery Campus and Institute of Documentary Film on September 17th – 19th, 2004.
ABOUT THE WORLD STILL NOT DEPICTED
23.05.2004Krysztof Kopczynski’s article presents an overview of the role of the state television, Polish documentary film’s position in the society and different possible ways of presenting documentary film as a specific Polish contribution to the transforming Europe. Krysztof Kopczynski (whose film project „Learning to Watch” is part of this year’s Ex Oriente Film Workshop) wrote his article for Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
Section DOC TEXTS offers deeper immersion into theoretical or reflective texts focused on documentary film and its context.
