CPH:FORUM
12 - 15 NOV 2013
ENUE VENUE ARL Cinema Cinemateque // The Danish Film Institute CARL//Cinema // Cinemateque // The Danish Film//Institute // othersgade 55 -CPH K55 -CPH K Gothersgade
ATES DATES 2-15 November 2013 12-15 November 2013
PH:FORUM 2013 CPH:FORUM 2013 estival Director Tine Fischer Festival-Director - Tine Fischer ead of Industry Kim Christiansen Head of–Industry – Kim Christiansen orum Coordinator – Mette Bjerregaard Forum Coordinator – Mette Bjerregaard orum Assistant – Jenelle-Lara Gonzales Gonzales Forum Assistant – Jenelle-Lara arket Coordinator - Casper Andersen Market Coordinator - Casper Andersen arket Assistant – Agnieszka MusialskaMusialska Market Assistant – Agnieszka sual Identity Line Gry-Hørup Visual- Identity Line Gry Hørup raphic Design – Marie Graphic DesignFrøhlich – Marie Frøhlich
WIM FORUM SWIM2013 FORUM 2013 ead of SWIM J. -Ljungmark Head-ofAnna SWIM Anna J. Ljungmark WIM Coordinator - Nina Nørgaard Jensen Jensen SWIM Coordinator - Nina Nørgaard WIM Forum assistant - Alexander Holm SWIM Forum assistant - Alexander Holm WIM Forum assistant - Tina Ryoon SWIM Forum assistant - Tina Ryoon WIM Forum assistant - Janelle-Lara Gonzales Gonzales SWIM Forum assistant - Janelle-Lara ommunication - Søren Rahbek Communication - Søren Rahbek
PH:DOX CPH:DOX is part of the Copenhagen Film Festivals is part of the Copenhagen Film Foundation Festivals Foundation
PH:FORUM is funded is byfunded MEDIA,byDet Obelske TheFond, Danish CPH:FORUM MEDIA, DetFamilie ObelskeFond, Familie The Danish lm Institute, Nordisk Film & TVFilm Fond, City Council, Film Institute, Nordisk & Copenhagen TV Fond, Copenhagen CityDanish Council, Danish inistry ofMinistry Cultureofand The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Culture and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts
PH:FORUM MAIN FUNDERS: CPH:FORUM MAIN FUNDERS:
PH:FORUM SPONSORS & PARTNERS: CPH:FORUM SPONSORS & PARTNERS:
KulturMetropolØresund KulturMetropolØresund
SWIM PARTNERS: SWIM PARTNERS:
SWIM FORUM SWIMFUNDERS: FORUM FUNDERS: THE EUROPEAN UNION The European Regional Development Fund
THE EUROPEAN UNION The European Regional Development Fund
CONTENT WELCOME TO CPH:DOX
2
HOW TO CPH:FORUM
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CPH:FORUM HOST
4
EURIMAGES
7
TIME SCHEDULE
8
PROJECT PRESENTATION
10
FORUM:FAVOURITES
73
SWIM
83
TALKS & SEMINARS
97
ART:FILM SYMPOSIUM
101
INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL
103
CONTENT / 1
WELCOME TO CPH:FORUM
Many thanks for joining this year’s edition of CPH:FORUM and a very warm welcome from all of us at CPH:DOX. Copenhagen might be cold outside this time of year but we guarantee that there will be lots of warmth generated inside. It is with pride that we present this year’s edition of CPH:FORUM consisting of four days of world-class pitches, seminars, and master classes woven with great networking, meetings and equally important, an enjoyable time. In only seven years, we have grown from a small pitching event to today, an exclusive event showcasing the very finest filmmakers and artist on the international film and art scene. We’re keen to present 27 new film projects for the official CPH:FORUM pitch. Because we had received so many outstanding projects, we have also created a new category, CPH:FAVOURITES- a new initiative that gives an additional 8 projects the possibility of being introduced at the FORUM. CPH:FAVOURITES are not be pitched publically but the pitch team will be available for meetings Wednesday and Thursday afternoon alongside the one-one meetings for the selected CPH:FORUM projects. You’ll find the project description right after the FORUM projects. Selected FORUM projects are presented in three different categories: FICTIONNONFICTION, CINEMA and ART:FILM. The FICTIONNONFICTION category represents projects of challenging works in the ever-growing hybrid landscape between fiction and non-fiction. The CINEMA category represents projects that are high-end theatrical feature-length documentaries with international distribution potential. Finally the ART:FILM category are projects intended to be screened both within the institution of cinema and that of visual arts.
We’re very proud this year to present a new collaboration between Eurimages and CPH:FORUM. Eurimages is the sponsor of the brand new Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of 15.000 EURO. The prize will be awarded at the International Dinner in Tivoli on Thursday evening, a few hours after the closing of FORUM. A special warm welcome goes to SWIM, With much pride CPH:DOX launches a new Transmedia initiative. Please see p. 85 ff for much more on all the great transmedia projects and activities presented by SWIM. Another new initiative is CPH:CO-PRO, a collaboration with EDN, European Documentary Network, and is a co-production networking event on Thursday afternoon during which European and Danish producers meet and present new projects open for co-productions to each other. On Friday, the final day of CPH:FORUM, we are delighted to host the ART:FILM SYMPOSIUM, an ongoing programme in collaboration with IFFR, LUX and Frieze. ART:FILM convenes and facilitates partnerships between artists, filmmakers, producers and other professionals working in the ever growing borderland between film and visual arts. This forum, network and meeting place that aims to discuss pressing issues is, in itself, a work-in-progress. Through think tanks, workshops, panels and co-production meetings, ART:FILM connects artists, filmmakers and stakeholders from the film and art world to exchange knowledge, practices, and ideas and thus, to explore and develop new ways of cooperation. We sincerely hope you’ll have an enjoyable and productive time at our festival. Last but not least, don’t forget to have fun! We hope to provide you with all the necessary tools.
TINE FISCHER FESTIVAL DIRECTOR TINEF@CPHDOX.DK + 45 3131 1037
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KIM CHRISTIANSEN HEAD OF INDUSTRY KIM@CPHDOX.DK +45 2970 5510
METTE BJERREGAARD FORUM COORDINATOR CPHMARKET@CPHDOX.DK +45 4086 5095
HOW TO CPH:FORUM
IMPORTANT INFO AND A FEW NOTES ON PRACTICALITIES On the following pages you will find the schedule for CPH:FORUM, project presentations, along with information on SWIM, seminars and talks, introduction to ART:FILM Symposium and a guide of all industry professionals.
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS The selected projects will be presented in four sessions to an audience of financiers, distributors, sales agents, funds, industry professionals, and art institutions.
The official CPH:FORUM programme runs from Tuesday, November 12th to Friday, November 15th. The majority of CPH:FORUM takes place at CARL Bio at DFI, The Danish Film Institute. Whenever the schedule permits, feel free to take advantage of all the great films and events at this year’s edition of CPH:DOX.
Each presentation team has 7 minutes to present their project. Clips and/ or trailers will be screened during the presentation. After the pitch, there will be a 7-minute feedback session from the panel, led by the moderators. We are delighted to have Karolina Lidin (Nordic Film and TV Fund), Mette Heide (Plus Pictures) and Michel Reilhac moderating this year.
Don't forget to visit CPH:MARKET, our curated digital screening market, which offers easy access to an extensive line-up of films selected for an official festival screening at CPH:DOX. The market is located on the 4th floor of the Danish Film Institute and this year's edition includes 4 exclusively curated series by Tate Media, Ben Lewis, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains and Doc Alliance Films.
Project presentations start ON time at 9:30am and 12 noon. Please arrive at Carl Bio no later than 5 minutes before the start of each session. Please try to be as quiet as possible during pitches and kindly do not leave the room, as this can be very distracting for the pitchers PRACTICALITIES All networking + social events are listed in the time schedule LUNCH Lunch will be served on the 13th and 14th of November in the SULT restaurant at the Danish Film Institute. ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS All pitch teams and FORUM:Favourites projects will have a table at SULT for the pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings. There will be a short intermission between lunch and the one-on-one meetings to prepare the tables at SULT. FUN AND NETWORKING Every evening during CPH:FORUM we host a wide range of receptions and parties to relax, unwind and meet and greet. More information can be found in the Time Schedule. This year’s receptions at Hotel 27 are kindly being sponsored by SWIM and MEDIA Desk. The parties at Kolonien are kindly sponsored by New Danish Screen and Bullit Film.
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FORUM HOSTS 2013 KAROLINA LIDIN
MICHEL REILHAC
METTE HEIDE
Karolina Lidin is a documentary consultant with 20+ years of experience on the international documentary scene, since 2008 engaged at Nordisk Film & TV Fond as film commissioner and at Sheffield Doc/Fest as MeetMarket Executive Producer. In addition, Documentary Campus has included Karolina in the Master School mentor team, developing projects with international potential. Karolina Lidin launched her career at The MEDIA Project for the Creative DOCUMENTARY and has since worked as creative producer for Holland House Productions, as commissioning editor and later as Head of Shorts and Documentaries at DFI and as CEO of Filmkontakt Nord, for Nordisk Panorama Market and Nordisk Forum for Co-financing of Documentaries. Karolina Lidin has been moderating the IDFA FORUM since 1997, the Toronto Documentary Forum since its launch in 2000 and numerous other co-financing events, including AIDC Documarts, Asian Side of the Doc, Documentary Campus and CPH:FORUM. In addition to extensive festival jury duty, panel & selection committee participation, Karolina Lidin is a regular tutor at international training sessions.
Michel Reilhac is an independant transmedia storyteller, writing, directing and developing his own projects, exploring hybrid forms of narration. He is also Head of Studies for the newly formed Venice Biennale College, Director of the Multi Platform Master Studies at the Media Business School. He teaches, does workshops and presentations on transmedia storytelling on a regular basis at many international events. He has directed a number of documentaries for television. Since 2008 he has become a flag bearer of the exploration of hybrid forms in storytelling, otherwise labelled « transmedia », offering an immersive, participatory, interactive experience to the audience/participants.
Mette Heide is an award-winning producer and owner of +plus pictures ApS a Danish production company that produces documentaries for the Danish and international market. Mette has worked as an executive producer for the past 18 years. Her most recently titles include Peabody winner “Solar Mamas” (2012) by Mona Eldaief & Jehane Noujaim, Sundance winner “Queen of Versailles” (2012) by Lauren Greenfield, award winning “Rent a Family Inc” (2012) by Kaspar Astrup Schröder and award winning short “The Record Breaker” (2012) by Brian McGinn. Mette Heide has a master’s degree in Political Science and Film and Media Studies.
DOCUMENTARY CONSULTANT/ NORDISK FILM & TV FOND
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TRANSMEDIA EXPERT
PRODUCER and CEO, +PLUS PICTURES
PLUS PICTURES Plus pictures is an award winning production company with a focus on documentaries, facts series and children's television. They are committed to engaging and thought-provoking contemporary stories told in a way so that they reach a large audience both in Denmark and abroad.
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EURIMAGES
CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD
EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD New this year, CPH:FORUM and Eurimages are very proud to introduce this year’s pitch award, The Eurimages Co-production Development Award of 15.000 EURO for the best pitch during CPH:FORUM. Eligible projects in the competition for the Eurimages Award are marked with “*eligible for the Eurimages Co-production Development Award “ in the catalogue and must comply with the Eurimages rules and regulations for support. Eligible projects must be open to co-productions between other partners of the Eurimages member countries. See below*.
*Rules and eligibility criteria: Project must be of min. 70’ length and intended for cinema release. Projects must be conceived for co-production, from an early development stage, as distinct from simple co-financing and therefore, must have the intention to involve at least two EURIMAGES’ Member Countries. Third countries can be also be involved in the project. The Jury evaluates: artistic quality as well as the project’s likelihood to become and remain a co-production involving at least two Eurimages’ Member Countries.
The Awards Ceremony will be held during the International Dinner in Tivoli Thursday, Nov. 14th, at 19:30. The Jury, consisting of three experienced industry professionals representing the following institutions, will award the prize.
PETRI KEMPPINEN
CEO NORDISK FILM & TV FOND (JURY CHAIRMAN) Before joining Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Kemppinen worked at the Finnish Film Foundation, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company and newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. Kemppinen is also a member of Management Board of Eurimages since 2006 and President of its promotion group since 2012. Established in 1990, the Nordisk Film & TV Fund's primary purpose is to promote film and TV productions of high quality in the five Nordic countries by providing support for top-up financing of feature films, TV-fiction / series and creative documentaries.
VANJA KALUDJERCIC
PROGRAMMER SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, HEAD OF PARIS PROJECT Vanja studied Comparative Literature and Cultural Sociology at University of Ljubljana. Vanja has worked at Radio Student Ljubljana, Motovun Film Festival in Croatia and on different projects at the Slovenian Cinematheque and art-house cinema, Kinodvor. In 2004 she organized Isola Cinema. Until 2007, Vanja ran and programmed the Human Rights Film Festival in Zagreb. From 2006 until 2008 she managed ZagrebDox Pro. She has worked at Hulahop Film and Art, in charge of production management of Animafest Zagreb. Over 3 years she was in charge of acquisitions for features and short films in Paris at Coproduction Office. Vanja is currently a programmer for the New Currents film at Sarajevo Film Festival and is the head of Paris Project, the Paris Cinema’s project market and leads the industry section at Les Arcs European Film Festival.
MARTIN SCHWEIGHOFER
CEO - AUSTRIAN FILM COMMISSION (AFC) Martin was born in Vienna. He studied journalism and drama at the University of Vienna. Until 1993, he was a film critic and arts editor at Austrian periodicals. He is the co-founder of and dramatic adviser at the theater company Theater im Kopf. He is a member of various selection boards of film subsidy agencies including; Founder and director of the film festival Diagonale (1993-1996); Member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Film Institute; Member of the Board of Directors of European Film Promotion (EFP); Member of the European Film Academy. He is the CEO of the Austrian Film Commission (AFC) since 1993.
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TIME SCHEDULE TUESDAY 12.11.13
WEDNESDAY 13/11 12.11.13
TIME
TALKS & SEMINARS / CARL CINEMA
TIME
CPH:FORUM / CARL CINEMA
10.30 - 11.30
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
PROJECT PRESENTATION SESSION 1 / CINEMA
12.00 - 13.30
FILM AND SOCIAL CHANGE - 2.0
9.30 - 13.30
14.30 - 16.00
HYBRID JOURNALISM
AMATEURS IN SPACE (DK) THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING (US) SPIED UPON (DE) DONKEYOTE (DE) THE CARS WE DROVE INTO CAPITALISM (BUL) GOOD (NO) AQUARELA (SCO)
SOCIAL 18.00 - 20.00
WELCOME TO CPH:DOX RECEPTION HOTEL 27, HOSTED BY SWIM
21.00 - 03.00
A TUESDAY BEER KOLONIEN, VED STRANDEN 16, 1061 KBH K
11.30
COFFEE BREAK
11.45
PROJECT PRESENTATION SESSION 2: FICTIONNONFICTION ODYSSEY (DK) THE ART OF DISSAPEARANCE (SE) PLAY WITH ME (AU) THE HIPPIES: PUNK ROCKED MY CRADLE (UK) MAGIC MOUNTAIN (RO) THE QUATRARO MYSTERY (DK)
13.30 - 14.30
LUNCH SULT
15.00 - 17.30
ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS SULT TALKS & SEMINARS
13.00 - 17.30
SWIM FORUM: TELLING TRANSMEDIA STORIES ASTA CINEMA
14.30 - 17.15
1+1=3 / FILM + ART + SCIENCE CARL CINEMA SOCIAL
8 / TIME SCHEDULE
18.00 - 20.00
DRINKS RECEPTION HOTEL 27, HOSTED BY MEDIA DESK DENMARK
21:00 - 03.00
NEW DANISH SCREEN PARTY KOLONIEN VED STRANDEN 16, 1061 KBH K
TIME SCHEDULE THURSDAY 14.11.13
FRIDAY 15/11 12.11.13
9.00 - 17.00
9.00 - 16.00
'THE WORLD 2.0 - DO IT TOGETHER' SMK - NATIONAL GALLERY OF DENMARK CPH:FORUM / CARL CINEMA
9.30 - 13.30
PROJECT PRESENTATION SESSION 1 / FICTIONNONFICTION BOMBAY STORY (FR) WHERE IS ROCKY II ? (BE) CINEMA THE MESSAGE (US) NATURAL DISORDER (DK) DANDELIONS (FR) THE AIR IS BLUE (FR)
11.15
COFFEE BREAK
11.45
PROJECT PRESENTATION 2. SESSION / CINEMA SHADOW WORLD (US) THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE (UK) ART DIS(PLACE) (FR) THE INVENTION (UK) THE LACK (IT) APRIL 30TH 1945 (UK) 89PLUS (FR)
13.30 - 14.30
LUNCH SULT
15.00 - 17.30
ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS SULT
'THE WORLD 2.0 - DO IT TOGETHER' SMK - NATIONAL GALLERY OF DENMARK ART:FILM / CARL CINEMA
10.00 - 11.30
ART:FILM CASE STUDY: MEET PIERRE BISMUTH & MARK LEWIS CARL CINEMA
12.00 - 13.30
ART:FILM & FRIEZE FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE FUTURE OF ART:FILM CARL CINEMA SOCIAL THE OFFICIAL CPH:DOX GALLA AWARD PARTY STÆREKASSEN, TORDENSKJOLDSGADE 5, 1017 KBH K
TALKS & SEMINARS 14.30 - 15.45
CPH:CO-PRO ASTA CINEMA
15.00 - 16.15
ANIMATION + DOCUMENTARY = ANIDOX CARL CINEMA SOCIAL
19.30 - 00.00
INTERNATIONAL DINNER PARTY TIVOLI, VESTERBROGADE 3, 1630 KBH V
00.00 - LATE
AFTER DINNER DRINKS KOLONIEN VED STRANDEN 16, 1061 KBH K
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10 / MONDAY / FICTIONNONFICTION
WEDNESDAY PROJECT PRESENTATION SESSION 1 /CINEMA
AMATEURS IN SPACE (DK) THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING (US) SPIED UPON (DE) DONKEYOTE (DE) THE CARS WE DROVE INTO CAPITALISM(BUL) GOOD (NO) AQUARELA (SCO)
FICTIONNONFICTION / MONDAY / 11
CINEMA
PRESENTATION OF TEAM DENMARK
MAX KESTNER / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 75 + 60 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: DECEMBER 2016 CONTACT: SIGRID@DANISHDOCUMENTARY.COM
Graduated in documentary from the National Danish Film School 1997. Lecturer at the National Danish Film School. Worked for DR TV (1997-1999). Selected works: Blue collar white Christmas (2003) received a GuldDok at CPH:DOX. Max by chance (2004) nom. for Best First Appearance at IDFA Amsterdam and received a GuldDok for Best Short Documentary at CPH:DOX, 2004. Copenhagen Dreams (2011) Best Doc. Beijing International Film Festival, nom. for Best Doc. CPH:DOX. I am Fiction (2012) nom. Best Doc. CPH:DOX, 2013.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: DR - DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION DFI - DANISH FILM INSTITUTE TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 388125 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 97863 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 290262
SIGRID DYEKJÆR / PRODUCER
MAX KESTNER / DIRECTOR /
Documentary film producer Sigrid Dyekjær has been working for the past 13 years producing international documentary films. Among the many films she has produced is The Monastery, Mechanical Love, Gambler, The Good Life, Love Addict, A Normal Life, and Free the Mind. She is part owner of the company Danish Documentary Production, together with directors Phie Ambo, Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Mikala Krogh and Eva Mulvad. Recently she has also produced Ballroom Dancer by Andreas Koefoed and Christian Bonke, Ai wei wei – the fake case by Andreas Johnson and co-produced I am Breathing by Emma Davie and Moreg Mckinnon.
PRODUCTION COMPANY Danish Documentary is one of the world’s leading production companies when it comes to producing creative documentary films for the big screen and television. The company is founded and co-owned by four celebrated Danish documentary directors, Phie Ambo, Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Eva Mulvad and Mikala Krogh, together with internationally acclaimed film producer Sigrid Dyekjær.
SIRIGD DYEKÆJ / PRODUCER /
ELIGIBLE FOR EURIMAGES 12 / WEDNESDAY / CINEMA
CINEMA
AMATEURS IN SPACE DIRECTOR MAX KESTNER
Amateurs in Space is the story of Peter and Kristian and their struggle to build their own rocket and travel into space. If they succeed, Denmark will be only the fourth nation in history to launch people beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s the story of one of the greatest dreams of humankind and how to make it come true in your own way. It’s a film about arriving at the sublime and unreachable despite such everyday obstacles as losing your screwdriver or fighting about whose turn it is to take out the trash. It’s a film about breaking free of the conventional systems and reaching for the stars. Peter Madsen, 42, and Kristian von Bengtson, 40, are the founders of the Danish rocket association Copenhagen Suborbitals, based in an old industrial building in a former shipyard near Copenhagen. They are the only two people on the project who work full-time building the rocket. Meanwhile, they have gathered around them a small group of space-flight enthusiasts from different backgrounds who contribute to the project alongside their regular work. Peter is building the engine. He is a selftaught engineer and blacksmith who used to build submarines. Having scrutinized all available footage from the good old days when space travel was space travel, he likes to cast the project in historical context by quoting the great pioneers of the past. Building space rockets isn’t his work – it’s his life. His wife, Sigrid, knows he will be the first one to make the flight when the rocket is ready.
Kristian is building the spaceship. An engineering graduate, he studied aeronautics at the International Space University in Strasbourg and later worked at NASA’s Habitability Design Center in Texas, specializing in manned space flight. His wife, Karla, and their two children are delighted that Kristian won’t be making the first flight. The goal is a suborbital flight. One hundred kilometers up into space, and down again courtesy of gravity. There is no political interference in the project, which is supported entirely by funds raised by a support association and via donations of materials from various sympathetic sponsors around the world. Everything in the rocket is homemade. Most is built from materials are available at any home improvement store. The first attempted launch took place in 2010 under the eyes of the assembled world media, including reporters from as far away as the U.S., Russia and China. But the rocket just stood there on the launch pad – nothing happened. The next year, it flew! But horizontally. Then, in 2013, the project had its big breakthrough. The rocket lifted off and soared upward, actively controlled by a homemade computer program. Straight up – and straight for the stars. We have been following Peter and Kristian since they started their project, and we will continue filming them until at least one of them has gone into space and made it back – hopefully, alive.
CINEMA / WEDNESDAY / 13
CINEMA
PRESENTATION OF TEAM US/UNITED KINGDOM/FRANCE/DENMARK
MIKE BONANNO & ANDY BICHLBAUM / ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS
Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum aka The Yes Men are an activist duo known for their outrageous satirical interventions at business events, on the Internet, television and in the streets. Their award-winning documentaries chronicle the Yes Men’s mind-blowing pranks that expose and publicize vital issues at critical times. They have authored several books, lecture internationally on art and social change, and are founders of the Yes Lab, an educational organization devoted to training next-generation activists.
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN POSTPRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: APRIL 2014 CONTACT: LAURA@FELTFILMS.COM OR OLE@CHILIFILM.DK CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: BERTHA FOUNDATION, BRITDOC, KICKSTARTER, YES LAB, MOTT PHILANTHROPIC, ACTION AID DENMARK
LAURA NIX / PRODUCER
MARKET PARTNERS (DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS): CHANNEL 4 (BRITDOC), DOGWOOF (NEGOTIATION), VPRO (NEGOTIATION), DR (NEGOTIATION), CBC CANADA (NEGOTIATION) CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: HUMANRACE (DELEGATE PRODUCER) USA RENEGADE PICTURES (CO-PRODUCER) UK CHILI FILM (CO-PRODUCER) DENMARK SENORITA FILMS (CO-PRODUCER) FRANCE
MIKE BONANNO & ANDY BICHLBAUM / DIRECTOR /
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 878.857 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 495.660 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 383.197
OLE TORNBJERG / CO-PRODUCER
Ole Tornbjerg, born 1967, is an experienced and award winning documentary film producer. He has been working with production of TV-series, TV-documentaries and documentary films since 1993. Since 2007 Ole Tornbjerg has been owner and managing director of Chili Film, a Copenhagen-based production company. Ole Tornbjerg graduated as film producer from EAVE in 2008. Selected film titles include: Isabella for Real (2012), Blood in the Mobile (2010), Truth Hunter (2008) and Diplomacy – The Responsibility to Protect (2007). LAURA NIX / PRODUCER /
OLE TORNBJERG / CO-PRODUCER /
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Laura Nix is a director-producer of the documentary The Light in Her Eyes, which premiered at IDFA, and was broadcast on the series POV on PBS. She recently cowrote the Emmy-nominated PBS doc California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown, and her short-form nonfiction work has been shown on HBO, IFC, the History Channel, and distributed on DVD worldwide. She produced the festival hit The Yes Men Fix the World and is currently producing their latest feature The Yes Men Are Revolting. She directed the feature documentary Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig, for New Line Cinema, which played in over a dozen film festivals in the US and worldwide. She is also the writer/director of the narrative feature The Politics of Fur, which played in over 70 festivals internationally and won numerous awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest.
CINEMA
THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING
DIRECTOR MIKE BONANNO AND ANDY BICHLBAUM
For nearly two decades, Yes Men Mike and Andy have pulled off notorious media hoaxes that expose corporate crimes against humanity and the environment. Now middle-aged and struggling to balance madcap pranks with mortgages, diapers, and faculty meetings, they’re also ready to kill each other. Can they resolve their issues fast enough to take down the world’s nastiest climate villains before the ice caps melt?
who skips the action to take care of his kids, leaving the work to fall on Andy. Despite their bickering, the action wildly succeeds. Andy poses as a Chamber spokesman at the National Press Club, and announces the Chamber’s dramatic reversal on climate change. Anchors on Reuters, Fox, and CNBC announce this too-good-to-be-true policy change, then awkwardly backpedal. The Chamber even sues the Yes Men, their first lawsuit ever!
The film opens in the midst of their most expensive prank ever. Masquerading as Shell Oil, the Yes Men are throwing an extravagant party for industry bigwigs in Seattle’s Space Needle to “celebrate” Arctic oil drilling. Leading up to the big event, Andy is wrangling a melting ice sculpture and a cadre of oiled muscle men. The tension is mounting, but he’s all alone because Mike is thousands of miles away in Scotland, with his family. On the day of the action Mike reveals the real reason he can’t be there; over Skype, he introduces his third baby. Andy is furious because Mike never even told him that he and his wife were pregnant again, and he tells Mike their friendship is over. How did it come to this?
The guys ride this momentum to the COP15 climate talks in Denmark, where they assemble a group of Ugandan and European activists to draw attention to climate debt and embarrass Canada over the Alberta Tar Sands -- the dirtiest energy on the planet. Andy is yelling at everyone because he’s going through a nasty breakup, so Mike picks up the slack. In a convincing, low-tech replica of the U.N. press room, the Yes Men and their allies impersonate government officials and announce Canada’s supposed reversal on Tar Sands development, nabbing press worldwide. But the world’s leaders are constrained by their deals with the fossil fuel industry, and the real Copenhagen talks fail miserably.
Andy and Mike learn that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce conducts the nation’s most effective lobbying and disinformation campaign to block sensible reform. The Yes Men decide to take on the Chamber’s position against the Cap and Trade bill making its way through Congress. But it’s not going well. Andy is furious with Mike,
The Yes Men have completed two popular movies and hundreds of actions, but they can barely pay the rent and keep their jobs. So how can they lead the revolution for the future of our planet? Still determined, they choose their next targets: the corporate goons and political hacks setting us on a collision course with nature.
CINEMA / WEDNESDAY / 15
CINEMA
PRESENTATION OF TEAM GERMANY JASON KIRKPATRICK / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 84/52 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: 2014 CONTACT: JASON@SPIEDUPON.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: GERMAN FILM FUND (FFA) MARKET PARTNERS (DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS): DECKERT DISTRIBUTION TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 267,795 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 35,000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 232,795 JASON KIRKPATRICK / DIRECTOR /
Born: 1968 in USA, Kirkpatrick's most recent documentary project was the 104min. collaborative project Action in Asia in 2011, which was shot in five countries, released in five languages, and promoted and shown in fifteen countries. Spied Upon will be his first feature film, and will be made with experienced collaborators such as the Berlinale winning film maker Agostino Imondi as editor. His 1998 short documentary Greening Cities received national distribution in the USA. His first collaboration with Spied Upon Co-Director and camerawoman Francesca Araiza was in 2003. In 2007 Kirkpatrick co-founded Black Helmet Productions, which has produced a number of short documentaries and image films. He has worked with a number of project partners including the City of Berlin, and his 2009 film Lieber Schokolade am Meer received a regional award. Jason also served as the Vice-Mayor of Arcata, California, where he sat on the Board of Directors of the public channel Arcata Community Access Television from 1994-1998. In this capacity he produced the successful TV program Community Link. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science and a Masters degree in Globalisation Studies.
HEINO DECKERT / PRODUCER
Born: 1959, Heino Deckert studied at Berlin’s German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in the 1980's. He is producer and managing director of ma.ja.de. filmproduktion based in Leipzig and Berlin, which he founded in 1991. He holds a share in Blinker Filmproduktion based in Cologne as well as running Deckert Distribution, a distribution company for documentaries. In 1995 Mr. Deckert founded d.net, an informal union of six European colleagues joining forces to exchange ideas and initiatives. Since the establishing of d.net the producers fnished more than 30 internationally co-productions together and became a signifcant player on the international film market. Deckert lectures on production and distribution of documentaries and has been Eurodoc group leader. He was the chairman of the European Documentary Network (EDN) from 2006-2008. HEINO DECKERT / PRODUCER /
Deckert has produced more than 70 documentaries, among them several flms by Thomas Heise and Sergei Loznitsa, who's feature debut My Joy was selected for the main competition in Cannes in 2010. His recent production, ¡Vivan las Antipodas! by Victor Kossakowsky, premiered at Venice Film Festival 2011.
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ma.ja.de. is one of the few German production companies to make documentaries and feature flms that, for years, now have won international film festival awards and proved themselves worthy of cinema acclaim and worldwide sales. Since 1991 the company has been involved in a number of successful collaborations with many renowned directors from both Germany and abroad. They include Sergei Loznitsa, Pirjo Honkassalo, Vitalij Manskij, Hartmut Bitomsky, Viktor Kossakovsky and Thomas Heise. ma.ja.de. has produced more than 70 documentary films so far. A number of our recent productions have especially had very successful major festival exposure, including Bravehearts (IDFA 2012), Condition (Berlinale, Visions du Réel 2012), Under Snow (Berlinale 2012), ¡Vivan Las Antipodas! (IDFA, Venice 2011), and Bad Weather (IDFA 2011). ma.ja.de has offces in Berlin and Leipzig. It is involved in Blinker Film Production in Cologne and has it’s own worldwide distributor, Deckert Distribution.
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SPIED UPON
DIRECTOR JASON KIRKPATRICK
What would you think if you found out that one of your best friends was an undercover police officer, sent deep undercover to spy on you and your environmentalist friends across the USA and Europe over the course of seven years? In Spied Upon I take viewers on a filmic road trip, beginning with me and other former friends of exposed UK undercover officer Mark Kennedy. On this journey we find out why we were targeted, how his undercover operation worked, how he was exposed, and who was in control of the operation. Our stories reveal what it's like to be branded an extremist, thrown in prison for six months without being found guilty of any crime, or to be put on an international terrorist list while not having any idea why.
through what I did, with no way to appeal any decision, or even to find out about why I was placed on this list in the first place."
At first those of us who were targeted are afraid, quite paranoid in fact, and hesitant to speak at all about our experience. However, while uncovering secrets of unregulated modern day private spying and underground spy networks extending from Europe to the Arab Spring countries and beyond, we begin to find our voices. By the end of the film we are involved in serious legal and other campaigns against the police who spied on us. We also help further victims by training them to deal with being spied upon.
I follow all of this action with my camera, narrating and connecting the dots as our characters develop and become empowered to create change; in the halls of parliament, courtrooms, and on the streets. Our protagonists actions expose the tangled net between private corporations, private spies, and a seemingly out of control global surveillance state, clearly painting the outlines of what is rapidly becoming a new "post-democracy" world, where both government and corporations try to oppose protests against them, at any cost.
Harry Halpin, an academic working on computer encryption, had trained Kennedy how to encrypt his emails, but then found himself kicked out of the UK and placed on a extremist watch list. "Kennedy made my life hell, no one should have to go
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A number of targets of undercover operations speak about their ordeals being tricked into long-term relationships, including Jacqui, who was targeted by undercover agent Bob Lambert. They had a planned child together before Lambert disappeared from her life at the end of his undercover operation, leaving her alone to raise their son. Jacqui gives testimony to the UK Parliament, stating that she feels she was "repeatedly raped by the state."
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM GERMANY/SCOTLAND
CHICO PEREIRA / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN DEV EXPECTED RELEASE: NOV 2014 CONTACT: INGMAR TROST: INGMAR.TROST@SUTORKOLONKO.DE
After completing a degree in Environmental Sciences at the University of Cordoba (Spain), Chico moves to Edinburgh and starts his film studies. Chico holds a BA (Hons) in Film and Photography from the Edinburgh Napier University as well as a MFA in Advanced Film Practice from the Screen Academy Scotland. Pablo’s Winter (2012), Chico’s graduation film and first feature length documentary, has won awards at festivals such as Leipzig, IDFA and Full Frame and it has also screened at the 2013 MoMA Documentary Fortnight in NYC and numerous international film festivals.
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: SDI PRODUCTIONS / OPA FILMS TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 266.944 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: SDI PRODUCTIONS / OPA FILMS CONFIRMED 6.674 IN KIND / DEFERRALS CONFIRMED 9.345 OWN INVESTMENT SUTOR KOLONKO CONFIRMED 6.674 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 244.251 €
Chico Pereira has recently obtained one of the prestigious scholarships granted by “La Caixa” to undertake a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnographic Film in an USA university from September 2014. CHICO PEREIRA / DIRECTOR /
INGMAR TROST / PRODUCER After graduating with a BA in Film Studies and Spanish & Latin American Studies, Ingmar did an MA course in Documentary Directing at Goldsmiths College in London. Since 2003, he has been directing and producing documentaries. In 2010, he founded Sutor Kolonko. Recent credits include SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE by Ilian Metev which was awarded the France 4 Visionary Award at the Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2012. Ingmar is currently working on the development and production of a slate of documentaries and feature films, including MODRIS by Juris Kursietis and MIMUPEPOTATI by Ilian Metev. He is a member of Documentary Campus and the EURODOC network.
SONJA HENRICI / PRODUCER INGMAR TROST / PRODUCER /
is co-founder and co-director of SDI Productions (since 2007); and Head of Development at Scottish Documentary Institute - an internationally recognised research centre for documentary at Edinburgh College of Art /University of Edinburgh. She has been part of the core SDI team since its beginning in 2004 and developed SDI with growing success. She is producer of the feature documentaries Future My Love by Maja Borg and I Am Breathing by Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon
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SONJA HENRICI / PRODUCER /
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Sutor Kolonko was founded in 2010 in order to create an independent platform for the development and production of challenging documentaries and feature films driven by strong stories told with a distinctive style. Sutor Kolonko strives at being a point of departure and harbour especially for young writers and directors. Recent credits include SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE by Ilian Metev which premiered at the Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2012 where it was awarded the France 4 Visionary Award. It has won several international awards since and is still touring the festival circuit. Current productions include MODRIS directed by Juris Kursietis and THE CHAMBERMAID by Ingo Haeb.
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DONKEYOTE
DIRECTOR CHICO PEREIRA
My uncle Manolo always liked to walk, even more since he is with his donkey Gorrion. They have done several long pilgrimages together, such as Santiago’s Way. Not long ago, I asked him why he enjoyed this pilgrim life so much. He said that it was all about a great feeling of freedom that he experienced being out and about in Nature. Also, since he was getting older, it was a way of connecting with his younger self. He told me that he wanted to do a long walk with Gorrion. He said that he would love to go to America. Why America, uncle? He replied that he always wanted to walk those vast landscapes, to know how people are really there. In addition, Manolo is in love with American Stetson hats and every time he knows of someone that is going to USA he asks for a hat to be brought back. And it was about time for him to go there and buy the next hat himself! Of course, he wanted to go with his donkey. Even though I was shocked by his decision and determination to go, I deeply felt that we had to make a film together about it. Manolo has always been considered a bit eccentric by the people around him, so even though his family is a bit shocked with Manolo’s decision to go to America with his donkey, nobody is actually too surprised. He is preparing himself and Gorrion
for the journey and this implies English courses, several visits to travel agencies in town, and even to the American Embassy in Madrid. Always walking from place to place. Always with Gorrion and his dog by his side. These walks sometimes last for a week and they will sleep wherever the night surprises them. Each of these long walks has the purpose of getting closer to the dream of going to America, but that is only the surface. The real objective is to offer the audience an insight into this nomadic lifestyle, a sensorial exploration of the natural world, and a reflection on how personal freedom clashes with an increasingly restrictive world. In those trips, a strong relationship between the man and his animals, and between them and Nature is established. Each of them is an important character and subjectivity for this film. In their walks they will meet and spend time with shepherds, farmers, countryside immigrant workers or homeless people, characters in the “border of representation” as Manolo is. They will be part of the film as Manolo encounters and engages with them, potentially becoming important elements of the story. In fact, Donkeyote is a film about borders: physical, social and psychological borders.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM BULGARIA
BORIS MISSIRKOV AND GEORGI BOGDANOV / AUTHORS AND DIRECTORS
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN / MINI-SERIES / MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: MARTICHKA BOZHILOVA, PRODUCER@AGITPROP.BG
The creative duo Missirkov/Bogdanov is among the most acclaimed Bulgarian filmmakers, cinematographers and photographers. They are founders of AGITPROP Production Company and the Bulgarian Photographic Association. Since 2000 Missirkov and Bogdanov are actively engaged in the international film scene. DOPs of the internationally most awarded films of AGITPROP and authors of multi-awarded full-length documentaries, videos, shorts and visual campaigns. Free-lance photographers for major local and international magazines, they have been presented in solo shows as well as major photography and contemporary art exhibitions in Europe and the USA. www.missirkovbogdanov.com
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION & AGITPROP OWN INVESTMENT MARKET PARTNERS (DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS): IN NEGOTIATION. CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: IN NEGOTIATION. TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 375 000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 85 000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 290 000
MARTICHKA BOZHILOVA, PROJECT’S CONCEPT CURATOR AND PRODUCER BORIS MISSIRKOV AND GEORGI BOGDANOV / DIRECTORS /
MARTICHKA BOZHILOVA / PRODUCER /
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Martichka Bozhilova has been producer of AGITPROP since 1999. She has degrees in law, art management, theology and graduated from the European program for producers EURODOC 2005. Her films have represented contemporary Bulgarian cinema at the top film festivals in the world: Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto, Pusan, IDFA and others. In 2006 she received the International Trailblazer Award, launched by Robert Redford and Sundance Channel at MIPDOC in Cannes for creativity, innovation, originality and breakthrough in documentary cinema. Director of Balkan Documentary Center (BDC) for supporting documentary filmmakers from the Balkans. Lecturer at various European workshops and events in the field of documentary cinema. Ambassador of the European Documentary Network (EDN) to Bulgaria. In 2012 Martichka was ranked on the 49th place in the prestigious selection “100 Most Influential Women” of Bulgarian newspaper “Capital” and in top 7 of the most influential Bulgarian visionaries in the creative sector, according to business magazine “Forbes”.
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CARS WE DROVE INTO CAPITALISM
DIRECTOR BORIS MISSIRKOV AND GEORGI BOGDANOV
For almost half a century, every year half of the Europeans were facing the complicated task of selecting a new car among hundreds of new models arriving to the market. The other half was free to choose among 10 to 15 makes and models available to them from their States. These products of Socialist automotive industry were usually out of fashion, slow, clumsy, a pain to drive and repair - but still, any Lada 1300S, Volga 24 or Skoda 120L was a status symbol. Moreover, producing cars was also a question of national prestige – even countries without any automotive traditions (like Bulgaria or Romania) felt obliged to start production of their “own” makes, even if it meant only assembling some other car-maker’s rebranded models. In almost every family there was a much loved, long-awaited (the average period of waiting for a new car from the shop was 8 to 15 years in many Eastern Block countries), polished and groomed Moskvich, or Trabi, or Dacia. It represented a touch of freedom, opening new horizons to make that long-dreamed trip to East Germany, Bulgaria or Hungary, or at least to the lake or the mountains. Pimping up your ride was a way to express at least a bit of individuality by adding a few horse powers to the engine or by filling the interior with furry carpets and plastic dolls. The rally drivers squeezing the last bits of power from their Ladas and winning international
championships had the status of national heroes, and auto-rodeo shows were part of every major popular event. This project will cover stories connected with the most popular Socialist cars from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s - the cars that made it to the fall of the Berlin Wall and basically collapsed with it. It will be about the cars that are still alive in the memory of the Europeans - as a sweet childhood remembrance or as laughing stock. There will be stories of industrial espionage, design, politics, speed and love. The concept is character-driven, focusing on personal stories of people who still own, love and serve every whim of their Lada, Wartburg or Skoda. Geographically, the stories will cover a variety of regions and lifestyles - from Cyprus to Finland, from Shropshire to Almaty. There will be between five and seven strong personal stories in the project, with small secondary characters appearing on the road. The vast amount of stories, archives and other materials collected during the research for the project will serve as a basis for a cross-media platform showing the unknown and unexpected twists in the life of the Socialist old-timers.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM NORWAY
MARGRETH OLIN / DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION/ FINANCING JUST STARTED EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: SPERANZA FILM BY MARGRETH OLIN SPERANZA@SPERANZA.NO CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTE, MONEY FOR DEVELOPMENT MARKET PARTNERS (DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS): CPH:DOX IS THE STARTING POINT FOR FINANCING CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: MEMFIS AB/ LARS JÖNSSON TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 738212 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 516.749 APPLIED NFI “NYE VEIER” 70% (TBC) REQUIRED AMOUNT: 221463
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Olin is an award-winning director from Norway. Her films have won numerous awards nationally and internationally, ther documentaries have reached a large audience at cinemas and created a lot of debate in the public. She has also received many awards for her social comittment. Her company Speranza Film AS was founded in 1995 and produces features, documentaries for the big screen, shorts and TV-series.
PRODUCTION COMPANY Speranza Film was founded in 1995. Speranza produce feature films, documentaries, music videos, short films, and TV-series. The films have won a number of International and Norwegian awards. MARGRETH OLIN / DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER
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GOOD
DIRECTOR MARGRETH OLIN
There’s beauty in life, for sure. Nobody contests that. And there’s good. There’s good in and of itself, and then there’s the good in people. Our actions and beliefs. Joralf Gjerstad have spent his whole adult life being good. He’s healed, helped and comforted thousands and thousands of people. He’s a living myth and a mystery. Every day of his life people have knocked on his door, from every walk of life, with every problem under the sun. And he’s welcomed everyone into his home. Sat them down and helped. Using his hands, his mind and his faith. Joralf Gjerstad has warm hands. A man of miracles. He cures diseases. He gives blind people their eyesight back. A singer her voice. The paralyzed gets his mobility back. 50 000 people has visited Joralf over the years, he is widley known also ouside of Norway. He is known as “Snåsamannen” (“the wizard from Snåsa”). He distances himself from healers, he has never charged anyone for his services.
It was always doing this for him. The good work. The beautiful. The humble. You have to work on it, he says, good isn’t easy, it takes longevity, faith and determination. Why would you not want to be good? Is his simple but penetrating view on life. He’s becoming an old man, but nothing is changed. The beauty of the world stuns him. The potential of man excites him. You have it in you to do what I do, he says. So why don’t you? Good shares the thought, dreams and prayers of a remarkable man whose life suggests an immense richness and togetherness in this world. It’s a movie that battles evil and fear, and celebrates the endless possibilities of the singular. Good is a storytelling documentary and a cinematic search for hope, light and compassion. It also question why we don’t readily believe in the mystery of man and our transcendent potential.
And such a man will always beg the question: are you for real, or is this a con? A question Joralf has had to live with for 65 years, but one’s that never deterred him.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM SCOTLAND / GERMANY
VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: AUTUMN 2015 CONTACT: AIMARA REQUES, ACONITE PRODUCTIONS CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: MARK THOMAS CREATIVE SCOTLAND (LOTTERY FUND) 17,700 HEINO DECKERT MA.JA.DE. (EUROPEAN MEDIA PROGRAMME) 25,000 NOE MENDELLE SDI (HUMANITY RESOURCE COUNCIL) 354,200 ANONYMOUS PRIVATE ANGEL INVESTOR 60,000
Victor Kossakovsky first received international attention in 1994 with his film Belovy which won him many awards at major international film festivals. All his films have won Kossakovsky many international awards and prizes. His last film “Vivan Las Antipodas!”, premiered at Venice Film Festival, was nominated for an European Academy Award and has been shown in more than 80 international festivals.
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VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY / DIRECTOR /
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CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: HEINO DECKERT- MAJADE (GERMANY) NOE MENDELLE -SCOTTISH DOC INSTITUTE (UK)
Aconite Productions is an innovative Scottish based production Company founded in 2011 by Aimara Reques, an award-winning producer who has over 20 years experience in the film industry in the UK.Aconite specialises in the production of quality feature documentaries fortheatrical audiences and our passion is to bring stories of global significance to the world stage. In its short period of existence, Aconite has been growing steadily and has become one of the leading companies in Scotland in the production and development of creative international documentaries.
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 1979600 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 456900 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 1,522700
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Aimara Reques (Producer) is the managing director of Aconite Productions. Aconite started to trade in 2011 and has become one of the leading production companies in Scotland making international documentaries. Aimara has more than 20 years experience in the film industry in the UK. She is a winner of two Scottish Bafta awards; a Fox Searchlight Award; an Amnesty International Media Award and was nominated for a Saltire Grierson Award at EIFF in 2005.
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AQUARELA
DIRECTOR VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY
In Aquarela ( ‘watercolour’), award-winning director Victor Kossakovsky draws on the centrality of water and colour to human life – and imagination. We are taken on a journey across the globe where in every scene, in every careful, devoted frame, water and colour are present; not simply as phenomena of nature or as political territory to be claimed, but as source of creativity and as expression of the way we interact with the world.
erties. The substance is a marvel - changed both by the colour it has taken on and by the ways in which we look at it.
As children, we learn to paint first by mixing water and base colour. Drops disperse in a jar of water, changing the medium from pure and colourless to delicately tinted or else murky and muddy. It is at this point we can, with a child’s attention, grasp that both beauty and corruption comes from our simplest of gestures. What we have changed we have changed irrevocably – and we must live with the consequences, our grief and our joy.
"I will be filming water. Filming underwater. Filming through water. With water as my guide, I will tenderly and with reverence, seek to reveal the very essence, of water. Together we will seek to create a piece of unforgettable, transparent cinematic imagery. Once again, I want people to feel happiness at least for those 90 minutes while watching my film. In true AQUARELA style my film “Aquarela” must be a glorious flowing visual symphony."
Aquarela seeks to make a place for the awe-inspiring complexities of water – water as potent, vital, disruptive substance, and water as active record of our humanity. To this day, we do not fully understand water's movements and structural prop-
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Technically complex, visually stunning and most of all deeply moving, Aquarela shows how our everyday interactions with water colours our understanding and perception of the world.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM DENMARK
MICHAEL MADSEN / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 75 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: EARLY DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015
Michael Madsen has a background in soundart and conceptual arts. As an artist he is primarily focused on philosophical issues and abstract thinking, which of course are not easy to film. Nevertheless, as film director he successfully made this his special trait and his films are intended for a wide audience. Recent works: INTO ETERNITY – a film on time and final solutions for nuclear waste (2010), THE VISIT (in production).
CONTACT: LLM@MAGICHOURFILMS.DK, CV@MAGICHOURFILMS.DK TELEAPATI@SOUNDART.DK CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: DANISH AGENCY FOR CULTURE DANISH FILM DIRECTORS MASSPRODUCTION MAGIC HOUR FILMS VALSTEDBRASK CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: IN NEGOTIATION
LISE LENSE-MØLLER / PRODUCER Lise Lense-Møller, film producer, founder, and CEO of Magic Hour Films, has produced and co-produced more than 50 films – including Michael Madsen’s INTO ETERNITY and THE VISIT. In addition, Lise has a long track record in professional training a.o. as expert and group leader for EAVE, and she has also published books. MICHAEL MADSEN / DIRECTOR /
CECILIA VALSTED / TRANSMEDIA PRODUCER
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 600.000 (TBC) CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 30000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 570.000
Since 2004, Cecilia Valsted has been working with documentary filmmaking at MAGIC HOUR FILMS. She graduated as EAVE producer in 2009, studied Film and Media Sociology at the University of Copenhagen and is co-founder of the production company VALSTEDBRASK.
PRODUCTION COMPANY Set up in 1984, Magic Hour Films has produced and co-produced a wealth of films, both fiction and documentary – most of them international co-productions award-winning, such as INTO ETERNITY, and the Oscar-nominated BURMA VJ by Anders Østergaard. Most recent releases include: THE OLD MAN AND THE WISDOM, MY AFGHANISTAN, THE WAR CAMPAIGN, and FOUR LETTERS APART – Children in the Age of ADHD – the two latter screening at cph:dox 2013. LISE LENSE-MØLLER / PRODUCER /
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ODYSSEY
DIRECTOR MICHAEL MADSEN
ODYSSEY is a spacecraft, a personality test – and a film. No doubt the day will come, where we must start looking for another planet. Traveling out into space in search of Neo-Earth can only be successful, if we can ensure the continuation of the mission over hundreds of generations of astronaut explorers. Which qualities will that require? Will the mission be best served by a selfish ‘survival of the fittest’ approach, or should the explorers rather be motivated by a moral obligation to provide for human continuance? Will success be dependent on the evolution of a viable proto-society in the totally artificial world of the spacecraft? What is acquired and what is left behind when one world is exchanged for another? How will stagnation or destructive aspects of change be avoided and managed? Through a ‘cinematographic questionnaire,’ candidates for this ultimate one-way mission into deep space are evaluated. The questions will be posed by Space Social Psychologist, Sheryl L. Bishop. She talks directly to the camera – thus transforming the viewer into ‘an applicant’. Every question is explored using both science and anecdote, examining the known, inevitable, and predictable events, but also speculating on the unknown. Our goal is to bring about a “philosophical launch” within the audience. The narrative of ODYSSEY will be propelled forward by incorporating known mission-threatening phenomena: the growing irrelevancy of directives from the pre-
vious world, conflicts within the crew, the evolution and revolution of sub-groups, development of divergent norms, challenges to existing structures of authority, boredom, and the psychosocial challenges faced by the ultimate “small town” mentality where everyone and everything is believed to be known and knowable. Above all, ODYSSEY’s closed-loop environment constitutes a radical cancellation of Modernity's individual self-realization as the ultimate meaning. STYLE The genre is ‘philosophical sci-fi’. The visual style, monochrome, abstract-minimalistic. The mood, almost like a piece of music or a fairy tale, which on the one hand is recognizable, on the other hand seems foreign – and worth entering and exploring. The visuals will reflect the fact that this is a psychological journey into a mythical space and a scientific thought experiment at all time taking bearing of the viewers’ point of entry and observation. STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT All scientific research has been concluded. We are now in the process of defining the central questions (the questionnaire) and developing the script in close cooperation with Dr. Sheryl L. Bishop, Dr. Regina Peldszus, and dramaturg Jesper Bergman (INTO ETERNITY & THE VISIT). The visual concept, a studio set up, is being developed with cinematographer Heikki Färm (INTO ETERNITY & THE VISIT).
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM SWEDEN
JESPER WACHTMEISTER / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90/52 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: JONAS KELLAGHER JONAS@EIGHTMILLIMETRES.COM
Founder of Solaris Filmproduction who is a director, producer and multimedia artist who today has directed more than ten films in different categories and who also works with multimedia installations. Director of films like Microtopia (2013), Test Site (2010), Great Expectations (2007) and Kochuu (2003) to name a few.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE MARKET PARTNERS (DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS): NOT YET CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: NOT YET
JONAS KELLAGHER / PRODUCER Founder of Eight Millimeters and producer. He has produced a string of award-winning documentaries and fiction films that have been broadcasted and shown on festival worldwide to great success. Films like “The Planet” directed by Michael Stenberg, Linus Torell and Johan Söderberg (2006), “Microtopia” directed by Jesper Wachtmeister (2013) and Genius and the Boys directed by Bosse Lindquist (2009) to name a few.
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 333 000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 20 000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 313 000 JESPER WACHTMEISTER / DIRECTOR /
PRODUCTION COMPANY Eight Millimetres was founded in 2003 and have since 2006 been fully owned by Jonas Kellagher who is Swedish based producer. Debuting as a producer with the award-wining and highest budget documentary in Sweden’s history The Planet in 2006. Both a feature length documentary and 4 part TV-series The Planet was shown around the world and was sold the USA, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands to mention a few. Eight Millimetres is today an established production company working with Sveriges Television and are regularly receiving development support from the Swedish Film Institute. At moment we are receiving development support for two of our productions; Gothenburg Lullaby and The Art of Disappearing. Our productions have been shown by the likes of BBC, ZDF/ARTE, SBS, AVRO, Documentary Channel, DR, NRK, YLE, TVP and have been released on DVD and download in Taiwan, UK, Sweden, USA, Japan and Australia. JONAS KELLAGHER / PRODUCER /
Eight Millimetres films have been The Genius and the Boys (2009), Test Site (2010), One Hundred Years of Evil (2010) and Microtopia (2013).
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THE ART OF DISSAPEARING
DIRECTOR JESPER WACHTMEISTER
Today approximately 55 people are waking up, getting dressed, perhaps kiss their loved ones – and then disappear, voluntarily. The brutal statistics for relatives and friends who are left behind, is that two thirds of the adults who disappear do it consciously: They do not want to be found. Of all the missing persons that can be traced and alive, only 20 percent return home and 40 percent refuse to take up contact of any kind. A missing professor who was tracked down said to those who found him: “How dare you come and look for me?” There is something irresistibly intriguing in the idea of disappearing, never to be heard of again. In literature the disappearance is often preceded by an everyday act – to go out to buy cigarettes or milk. The contrast between the routine act and an irreversible break with reality is the crux of the fantasy of disappearance: That the everyday struggles at any time could be abandoned and surpassed in a flash by a better reality. It poses questions about the nature of personality and identity. If you decide to leave your old life behind, and change your identity, the question remains: Is it possible to live as a different identity than your own? In The Art of Disappearing will meet a variety of people who have “changed their life and identity”. Some have chosen to disappear, some to start over, and some have
broken with their friends and relatives by choosing a life in solitude, or a life off the grid – a life under the radar. The questions are: 1. What were the underlying reasons to disappear? 2. How did they disappear? 3. How is/was the disappearance experienced by the person who disappeared vs. how it was perceived by relatives and/or friends. 4. To what extent was the disappearance executed, and how did the reappearance happen? 5. How did the disappearance change their lives, their relations and their self-image? The style of the documentary will combine hand held footage with stylized static photography that will be used as poetic passages in the story whilst for example hearing some of the more existential quotes from the interviews. Abandoned canoes, a lone cabin in the woods, clothes on the beach, a small house on a deserted island, a parked car on a bridge, a shack in the desert. There will be a mix of media, but there will be stringency to how each quality of media is used. We will use animation in order to animate anonymous interviews. The result will be a suspenseful documentary that will question the very nature of identity.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM AUSTRIA
ANJA SALOMONOWITZ / DIRECTOR
Anja Salomonowitz is a Vienna-based film-maker. She studied Film in Vienna and Berlin. In her films, she has developed a visual language that combines elements of documentary film making, classical narrative and demands on behalf of political and social circumstances. „You Will Never Understand This!“ in 2003, „It Happened Just Before“ in 2006 and „The 727 Days Without Karamo“ in 2013 have gained international recognition and won numerous film awards; they have also been mentioned in literature on documentary film-making. „Spain“ in 2012 was Anja Salomonowitz’ first feature film. „The 727 Days Without Karamo“ premiered at the International Forum of Young Cinema at the Berlinale 2013 and had its theatrical release in Austria on September 3rd, 2013.
RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2016 CONTACT: CHRISTIAN MÜLLER (ASSISTANT TO THE PRODUCERS): CHRISTIAN.MUELLER@AMOURFOUFILM.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: AUSTRIAN FILM INSTITUTE, FILMSTANDORT AUSTRIA (AUTOMATIC) TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 900.000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 250.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 200.000
ALEXANDER DUMREICHER-IVANCEANU / PRODUCER ANJA SALOMONOWITZ / DIRECTOR /
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu (*1971 in Vienna) studied philosophy and film theory in Vienna. In 1989 he started working as an independent film critic for Austria’s Public Radio and several newspapers and film magazines. He subsequently worked as a distributor for Polyfilm Verleih (Vienna), as a film programmer for movie theatres and as a curator for film festivals in Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Austria. In 1995, together with Bady Minck, he co-founded the production company AMOUR FOU Luxembourg. Since 2001, Dumreicher-Ivanceanu is managing director and producer of the Vienna based production company AMOUR FOU Vienna. In 2003, the AMOUR FOU had its international breakthrough when four of its films were invited to Cannes.
ALEXANDER DUMREICHER-IVANCEANU / PRODUCER /
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu is a member of the AAFP (Austrian Association of film producers), dok.at (Austrian Documentary Association) and EDN (European Documentary Network). In the period from 2004 to 2011 he was president of the DIAGONALE festival in Graz. In 2005, he was elected into the Advisory Board of the Vienna Association of the Film and Music Industry at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce.
COMPANY PROFILE
Founded in Luxemburg in 1995 and in Vienna in 2001, AMOUR FOU Luxembourg and AMOUR FOU Vienna, realize artistically exceptional feature, documentary and short films for the international market with international and, most frequently, European partners. Throughout the process AMOUR FOU stands for vision and pushing the envelope, whether in regard to aesthetics, production or distribution strategies. The focus is on European independent auteur cinema and the distinctive “handwriting” of the directors who work with AMOUR FOU.The associate partners of AMOUR FOU Vienna and AMOUR FOU Luxembourg are Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu.
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PLAY WITH ME
DIRECTOR ANJA SALOMONOWITZ
"Play with me" is a documentary about young families. Or, more precisely, about young families raising their children. Or, even more precisely, about parents dividing their time to raise their children. Not infrequently about the conflicts about how this time is split. "Play with me" is a portrayal of the so-called ‚new father’ just as much as it is a portrayal of families, where mothers are in charge of the education of their children. Who does what in the year 2014? How embedded is joint upbringing in our society? And how might it function better? How could this model become better established? It looks for examples, utopian models of how shared parenting can be managed to everyone's satisfaction. In the process, the film should never lose sight of the political dimension and will talk about, and reflect on, the social development of this issue. This film will be very personal and close to the people being portrayed, both the parents and the children. During this process, it should never lose sight of the political dimension and will reflect on the development of the issue of child-rearing in society. Children are magical; they are the best thing that can happen to you. It might be an illusion to believe that both partners can have it all: an intense family life and an intense career. But a better world is possible. In PLAY WITH ME, parents of young children have their say. An architect, an opera star, a youth counselor, an elementary school teacher – depending on who we can find. We will observe the protagonists in their day to day life and I will write the screenplay based on things they tell me, things I see. Things that I feel. For me, child-rearing has a lot to do with singing. You sing, when putting children to bed, when a child is hurt, you sing at a children’s birthday party and during the daily bathtub session. Mommy might not sing perfectly right, but she sings ardently,
the kindergarten teacher sings better and plays the guitar. The saviour and religion are conveyed through music. In musical education group and in the shower you can drumm loudly. Children know songs by heart, that not even their parents know. Children love singing. After an intense, personal and extensive process of casting, I will interview the people I eventually choose to include in the film. These interviews will focus on certain questions, certain issues that came to my mind while watching them. Later, I will let these people sing songs with lyrics, that evolved from their interviews. These songs reflect their own issues, in their own words. I will work with the composer Bernhard Fleischmann, who will compose music to go with the lyrics. On set these people will sing words that they have experienced – the singing can be perfect or a bit rough, faulty and charming – the only important thing is that it’s ‚real’ in that moment. When the project advances, we will figure out what people do while singing their song – be it looking towards the camera or preparing breakfast. Here lies the cinematic potential of my idea. I also want to let minor characters tell their story, a grandmother, a Mongolian nanny, the neighbours, that can’t stand the noise anymore, a sociologist who sings studies out loud, projections of how many fathers go on paternity leave in Austria. In the meantime she’s juggling files and folders. Music and singing are the common thread running through the film – they make it cheerful, rough and interesting. These every day pictures and sounds will paint a picture of the modern family and the status of child-rearing. It is to be a film that carves out the touching and affectionate sides of everyday madness. PLAY WITH ME is a documentary opera, a musical film, that could just as well stand alone as a musical composition – an expansion of documentary possibilities.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM UNITED KINGDOM
MATT HULSE / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 85 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: ASHLEY HORNER /PRODUCER ASHLEY@RADIOFILM.CO.UK
Matt Hulse is an artist and filmmaker. His diverse practice embraces moving image, music, sound, performance, written word, social media and community. His films and videos have screened in cinemas and on television in 23 different countries internationally. Matt’s second feature length film DUMMY JIM (2013) was an Official Selection at Rotterdam International Film Festival where it enjoyed four sell-out public screenings and was nominated for a prestigious Tiger Award.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: NORTHERN FILM & MEDIA MARKET PARTNERS (DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS): NONE CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: NONE
Canongate Books recently numbered him amongst The Future 40, a listing of artists who ‘tell beautiful stories in their own unique way’ and who in the opinion of creative organisations and individuals across Scotland ‘will dominate the next 40 years of Scottish storytelling’.
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 98,000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 5,000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 93,000 MATT HULSE / DIRECTOR /
ASHLEY HORNER / PRODUCER
In 2013 Ashley co-founded RADiO FiLM LTD with producer Andy Jones. Currently they are in post-production in South Africa on Mayenzeke Baza’s feature documentary THE BOY, THE BLADE & THE MAN, a ‘rites of passage’ film about ritual male circumcision. Ashley is a member of the prestigious ACE producer’s network. He founded Pinball Films Ltd in 1999 and has developed and creatively produced four feature films and twenty short films for the UK Film Council. His feature film BRILLIANTLOVE screened at Tribeca Film Festival in 2010 and was released internationally by IFC, SODA PICTURES & THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL in 2010 and was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in 2011.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
ASHLEY HORNER / PRODUCER /
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Based in Newcastle, Northern Britain, RADiO FiLM is the new international home for outsider art & maverick international documentary film. A collaboration between two of the UK's most successful indie producers, Ashley Horner & Andy Jones, who combine over 40 years of knowledge, experience and passion to bring unique stories to the screen. With numerous worldwide broadcast credits, film festival screenings, cinematic releases, DVD and VOD success, they worked for years in mono, now they are ready for stereo!
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THE HIPPIES: PUNK ROCKED MY CRADLE
DIRECTOR MATT HULSE
THE HIPPIES were a bizarre English punk band formed in '79 by the Hulse children, Toby (12), Matt (11) and Polly (8). Their cassette album 'A Sound for the Future' featured songs about disease, assassination & The Antarctic. "Would you please stop sitting around in your pyjamas, eating toast & singeing your legs by the gas fire. Get up & do something creative!" (Ruth Pendragon, Mother & Manager) Toby was singer/lyricist. Polly was Bontempi wind keyboardist. Matt scavenged ‘drums’ from household junk. Some recordings were homespun; ‘Dallas City Ghost’, the dystopic ‘Terra Nova’ and a rap on a Chinese maths teacher ‘Poh Song’. ‘Rabies’ was more sophisticated, 4 tracked with Moog, produced by local Cambridge record label 'Leisure Sounds'. Their DIY approach & domestic sound still resonates with semi-ironic naive charm, echoing The Shaggs, or Daniel Johnston. The band performed ticketed live shows for their mother’s kindly but chaotic group of friends, part of the ramshackle 'Cambridge fringe element': the homeless, drunks, animal rights activists, junkies, cross-dressers and a pair of gay Franciscan Friars. The Hippies star shone briefly, before breaking up due to musical differences and possibly an argument over crisps.
DIRECTORS’ NOTES The Hippies – as they are now, aged somewhere between 42 and 46 – will work towards a gig where they perform their four classics plus new covers material – and this is the basic through line, the spine of the film. Follow and shoot the recording process: the rehearsals, discussions, takes, mistakes, awkwardness, asides, reflections. There's been interest in covering Hippies' tracks from some well-known names, with acts based in Wales, Germany, Switzerland, the US and Japan. These Artists will record a version of a Hippies track and the band (as they are now) will reciprocate with a cover version, using the group's original instruments and recording techniques. Interwoven with this, the film explores in depth the extraordinary character of the band's mother, Ruth Pendragon. She's a maverick, a mystic, a punk. As a young divorcee, she raised these kids as best she could on social security benefits. This has had an impact - on her, on her kids, and on her kids’ kids. Ruth will play pivotal role in the bigger picture, as will survivors of the Cambridge scene, offering an insight into a time of personal and social upheaval, for the band and their family - set against the wider, unsettled social landscape of post-punk England '79. The film will be an energetic, jarring, comical musical ride through a part-remembered, kaleidoscopically fractured, family history, bringing both hope and resolution, culminating in a loud messy gig built on a love of the DIY punk aesthetic.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM ROMANIA/FRANCE/POLAND
ANCA DAMIAN / DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER Studied at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts where she obtained a diploma and a Doctor’s degree. Director, screenwriter and producer of Crulic – The Path to Beyond, (2011)– Selected at Locarno, BFI London, Annecy, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Pusan, New Directors/New Films, among others 150 film festivals. The movie got the Cristal Award in Annecy, Best Romanian movie of 2011 at the Romanian Filmmakers Union, Amnesty Award in CPH DOX and more than 25 prizes at other festivals. Director, screenwriter and co-producer of ‘Crossing Dates’ (2008) selected at Pusan, Chicago, Goa, Cottbus, Goteborg and Rome. Before this, worked as a director, screenwriter and producer for several documentaries on art, and also as DOP of two feature films.
RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: BENEDICTE THOMAS BENEDICTE@ARIZONAFILMS.NET ANCA DAMIAN ANCA.DAMIAN@APARTEFILM.NET CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: ROMANIAN NATIONAL CENTRE OF CINEMA CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: APARTE FILM, ARIZONA PRODUCTION TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 1.040.000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 387.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 653.000
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BÉNÉDICTE THOMAS Bénédicte Thomas, based in Paris (France), 38 years old. Bénédicte Thomas started as Production manager for several African coproductions, Waiting for Happiness by Abderrahmane Sissako (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2002), Abouna by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Directors Fortnight, Cannes 2002), The Forest by Bassek Ba Kobhio (Directors Fortnight, Cannes 2003) and then moved to Special Events for French public broadcaster France 3 between 2004 and 2008. Bénédicte joined Arizona Films in 2008 and she is Partner since 2009. She is also in charge of domestic theatrical distribution (allowing our talents to reach a wider audience and gain stronger recognition). She amplified this model by approaching new talents either for the acquisition of their current film for French theatrical release and/or the potential French co-production of their next project.
BÈNÈDICTE THOMAS / PRODUCER /
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PRODUCTION COMPANIES Aparte Film’s aim is to bring artistically interesting stories with important themes to wide audiences. All the projects are international coproductions: Crulic – The Path to Beyond, (2011) was selected in more than 150 festivals since the premiere in Locarno competition – among which Pusan, London BFI, CPH DOX Copenhagen, Telluride, New Directors/ New Films, Istanbul IFF, Annecy, and got 25 international prizes till now the most important being the Cristal for best feature at Annecy IFF. Other long features productions beside a number of award winning documentaries : „A Very Unsettled Summer”(2013), „Crossing Dates” (2008) . Arizona Productions, Paris based, is lead by Guillaume de Seille, Bénédicte Thomas and Rémi Roy to mainly produce art-house feature films directed by non-French emerging talents.
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MAGIC MOUNTAIN
DIRECTOR ANCA DAMIAN
Adam Jacek Winkler had a powerful personality: he was an individualist, sometimes living outside the law due to his love of independence, or due to his beliefs. He was extremely brave, but also impulsive, cynical and naïve. He believed himself to resemble a naïve but passionate character from Polish children’s literature, The Goat Motolek, and the way in which he tells the story of his life has plenty of humor and self-irony. What attracts me to make a film about the life of Adam Jacek Winkler is the similarity to a 20th century Don Quixote. The 11th of September 2001 marks the closing of an era, and the end of the illusion of chivalry. Siegfried, who killed the dragon and became a super-man thanks to the power of its blood; the medieval knight; the partisan living in the woods; the Afghan Mujahidin - these became memories from another era in which the battle had an heroic character. The ‘Dragon’ of the 20th century – communism / bolshevism – once disintegrated, was followed by other ‘Dragons’, more diffused, more implied, and the field of the battle no longer has a place for the solitary idealist knight.
Born just before the Second World War, as a child he was a witness to the battle against Nazism. At the time of Katyn, when the Soviet Army executed 4,000 Polish officers, he was just two years old. Profoundly marked by the destruction of the anti-communist resistance in his country, Adam Winkler, in a display of his spirit for adventure, left communist Poland in 1965. Arriving as an exile in Paris, he led an independent life, earning his living as a handyman, always working on the black.
Although 10 years have passed since the death of AJW, many different materials formed the basis for the film itself: he narrated the story of his life on a Dictaphone, and he also kept a kind of journal during his days in Afghanistan. His naïve paintings offer inspiration for an exciting visual style. These, together with his photos from Afghanistan, alongside a multitude of extremely exciting visual elements such as Afghan art and landscapes, iconography from two millennia of human history, and a century of cinema, provide the visual basis for an elaborate film that is rich in animation techniques.
Afghanistan for him exercised a kind of terrible fascination, and the Mujahidin as one of them accepted him. His connection with the land and its people was so powerful that he even received the title of Adam Khan (King Adam). His Afghan ‘story’ ended with the assassination of Massoud, two days before September 11 2001, a day that changed the world. One year later, Adam Jacek Winkler died on Mont Maudit, during the course of a solo ascent.
He became actively involved in the fight against communism, sometimes working on his own, sometimes with other groups of anticommunist émigrés from the east (though he never became part of their organizations). As soon as the ‘Solidarity’ movement appeared, he took a step back, due to the fact that he, personally, in no way felt proletarian and was no great admirer of crowds. Hearing about the Soviet army’s invasion of Afghanistan, he identified with the Afghan cause, and after two years of preparation, he left to fight along Commander Massoud.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM DENMARK/NORWAY
MADS BRÜGGER RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: PREPRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015
Mads Brügger (1972) is a Danish journalist, TV-host, author, filmmaker and radio station program director. He has created satirical docu-series as Danes for Bush (2004) as well as the feature-length documentaries The Red Chapel (winner at Nordisk Panorama 2009 and awarded the Jury Prize Sundance 2010) and The Ambassador (opening film and nominee at IDFA 2011 & in competition at Sundance 2012).
CONTACT: PRODUCER SARA STOCKMANN. SONNTAG PICTURES. SARA@SONNTAGPICTURES.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, DANISH FILM INSTITUTE (DEVELOPMENT), NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTE, VEST NORSK FILM FOND, FRITT ORD MARKET PARTNERS: DR INTERNATIONAL SALES (SALES AGENT) CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: PIRAYA FILM (NORWAY).
JEPPE RØNDE
MADS BRÜGGER / DIRECTOR /
Danish director Jeppe Rønde had his feature-length debut in 2003 with Jerusalem, My Love, which won several prizes amongst others the Audience Award at Nordisk Panorama. His international break through came in 2004 with The Swenkas. His Girl in the Water won the Danish Film Academy’s Robert. Jeppe Rønde is currently shooting his feature film debut in England.
SARA STOCKMANN / PRODUCER
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 794.666 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 489.368 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 305.298
Sara Stockmann has produced several award winning feature documentaries among others Cannes-Winner/Emmy Award Nominated ARMADILLO and IDFA-nominee ‘MERCY MERCY – A PORTRAIT OF A TRUE ADOPTION’. Founder of Sonntag Pictures (2011). She holds a master's degree in Media Science from The University of Copenhagen & University of Amsterdam.
PRODUCTION COMPANY Sonntag Pictures is founded by Sara Stockmann a Danish film producer with a strong focus on producing high-end, auteur-driven documentaries for a broad domestic and international audience.
JEPPE RØNDE / DIRECTOR /
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QUATRARO MYSTERY
DIRECTOR MADS BRÜGGER AND JEPPE RØNDE /
With The Quatraro Mystery the directors are unfolding a disturbing, darkly funny journalistic investigation of corruption and possible murder in the EU commission. During the film two highly controversial cases melt together: the 20-year-old possible murder case of Antonio Quatraro, who was Head of EU’s tobacco subsidies, and the recent case of EU Health commissioner John Dalli who was forced to leave the EU Commission in disgrace. Together the two cases form a powerful, irrefutable synthesis of everything which is dysfunctional about The European Union of today. In the month of March, in the year of 1993, Mr. Antonio Quatraro, former Head of The European Commissions’ office for tobacco subsidies, flew out of his office building in Brussels. He soon landed and smashed his face on the pavement of Rue de la Loi, “The Street of The Law”. This was the end of the 59 year old small and bulky Italian employee of The EU. Now, 20 years later, two Danish journalists Mads Brøgger and Mikael Bertelsen, travel to Brussels in order to investigate the case of former Commissioner of Health John Dalli, who recently was forced to leave The Commission, because of allegations of taking bribes from Big Tobacco. The two reporters face severe difficulties in
getting The Commission to talk about “the Dalli Gate” and when they learn about how dark forces broke into the offices of NGO’s in Brussels - who are fighting Big Tobacco lobbyists - and stole their computers, the reporters almost give up, because of resistance from The EU System as well as unsubstantiated fear of the tobacco industry. But then, in their moment of despair, Mr. Dalli himself give the reporters a hint: If they succeed getting to the bottom of the Quatraro case he would agree to meet them and lay the cards on the table. As a compromise they begin working this story, believing it to be much more easy to deal with as compared to The Dalli case. Instead, and much to their disbelief, they quickly descend into a bizarre netherworld of retired European mandarins, Greek and Italian tobacco gangsters, a former Italian mafia-related minister, and paranoid bureaucrats - a highly paranoid journey which leads towards documenting unresolved fraud on the highest levels, possible murder and the same systemic problems and mechanisms which brought down John Dalli. Towards the end of their journey we learn about how one of the longest serving and most controversial tobacco lobbyists in Brussel was recently reappointed as the president of The EU Commissions committee of ethics. At the end the audience is faced with a landmark portrayal of the dark side of The European Union, which will be the talk of Europe for a long time to come.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM FRANCE
EMMANUEL GRIMAUD / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: FINANCING EXPECTED RELEASE: JANUARY 2015 CONTACT: THOMAS@ROUGE-INTERNATIONAL.COM
Born on 22/10/1973 in Clamart (92), Emmanuel Grimaud is an anthropologist, filmmaker and a researcher at CNRS, Paris, France. After working as an assistant director to Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Devdas-2002, Black-2005), Emmanuel Grimaud made several ethnographic documentaries (Gandhi's lookalike, Cosmic City, Kings of Khwaang, Eaux Troubles), published the first ethnography of the Bombay film studios (Bollywood Film Studio, CNRS Editions , 2004) and then specialized in experimental anthropology, designing experimental protocols for ethnographic research. He did also several art installations (Contemporary Art Centre Enghien Les Bains, Beaubourg, MEG, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington) and is currently the curator of an exhibition in Quai Branly Museum (Persona, 2015, forthcoming)
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: - ARTMAP - CNRS / TECHNICAL SUPPLY : 10.000 € - PRIVATE INVESTMENT : 10.000€ - CONTINGENCY DEFERAL : 7579 € TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 174.579 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 27.579 REQUIRED AMOUNT:147.000 EMMANUEL GRIMAUD / DIRECTOR /
NADIA TURINCEV / PRODUCER Nadia Turincev was born in Moscow in 1970. Grew up in Paris. Studied anthropology in Nanterre. Cinema? Trainee at the age of 16 on Nikita Mikhalkov’s «Dark eyes» with Marcello Mastroianni. Followed by many jobs on many international co-productions, and as a producer, the development of two feature films. Europe ? On duty at ACE, Europa Cinemas, the European Producers Club, and since 2001 expert for EU programme Media Development. Festivals ? Selection committee of Cannes’ Directors Fortnight in the 2003 ephemeral team of François Da Silva, then for two years artistic director of the Moscow IFF. Since 2007 : Rouge International.
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rouge International is a production company founded in July 2007 by Julie Gayet and Nadia Turincev producing films for the silver screen such as A Spell to Ward Off The Darkness by Ben Rivers & Ben Russell – Locarno 2013 NADIA TURINCEV/ PRODUCER /
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BOMBAY STORY
DIRECTOR EMMANUEL GRIMAUD
In India, it is said that Ganesh, the elephant god, is equipped with special powers of perception. He is also a 'recycler' god, he is supposed to swallow all the ills of the world and purify them. This is probably the first truly green god. His stomach is a great mechanism for digestion and transformation. During the festival devoted to Ganesh every year in September in Mumbai, he comes down to earth to do his job of 'recycling', before being immersed in the sea. All families are supposed to feed idols of Ganesh at home through rituals and then accompany their idols to the sea where they are abandoned to their fate. At the end of Ganesh festival, the bay of Bombay is full of idols of elephant gods in plaster lying underwater. But who knows what the perception of a god is made of ? This film takes this mixture of mythology and reality seriously. What would happen if the elephant god was made into a self monitoring device, landed in Mumbai with a mission to record magnetic fields and produce a diagnosis on electrosmog pollution ? Imagine this divine machine wandering in the hectic city of Mumbai, collecting 1000 frames per second, gather-
ing images of the world in his stomach and equipped with an electrosmog pollution detector device. This weird machine who works as a kind of fast recording camera, highly sensitive to micro-movements, is boulimic in images. He stores, processes and recycles images throughout his 'road trip', slows down and accelerates images, analyzes faces and collects details of expressions, juggles with sounds, measures eye movements and transforms it into graphic spaghetti and many other things. Far from the clichés about India or tourist visions, this film will adopt the super view of this divine machine wandering in the tumultuous traffic in Mumbai.Throughout this journey, this god mixing the high tech and the low tech, will reveal the complexity of the invisible matrix in which people live, recycling the images he gathered as psychedelic visions before being finally immersed in the sea with his memory, like all Ganesh idols at the end of the Bombay Ganesh festival.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM FRANCE/BELGIUM/GERMANY
PIERRE BISMUTH / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: GREGOIRE GENSOLLEN GREGOIRE.GENSOLLEN@GMAIL.COM
Pierre Bismuth is a contemporary artist. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life, from Hollywood films, headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen's magazines. In 2005 he won the best original screenplay at the 77th Academy Awards along with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He lives and works in Brussels. Bismuth's work is represented by Team Gallery in NY, Jan Mot in Brussels, Bugada Cargnel in Paris and Christine König in Vienna.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: THE INK CONNECTION (101,566 EUR), CNAP GRANT (10,000 EUR), VANDERTASTIC (9,480 EUR) CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: THE INK CONNECTION (FRANCE), VANDERTASTIC FILMS (GERMANY), INTI FILMS (BELGIUM) TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 862,170 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 121,046 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 741,124
PRODUCER
PIERRE BISMUTH / DIRECTOR /
In parallel to running THE INK CONNECTION, Gregoire Gensollen joined FilmNation in May 2011 as SVP, International Distribution & Strategy where he works hand in hand with founder/CEO Glen Basner, former head of International for Focus Features and The Weinstein Company. His responsibilities include running distribution strategy, pricing international sales, as well as strategic planning and the structuring of productions’ finance plans. Prior to FilmNation, he spent five years at Lionsgate as VP of International Strategic & Sales Planning and two years at Focus Features, Fox Searchlight, and international divisions of Warner Bros and Paramount. Gregoire was recently featured in the 2012 Variety’s “Hollywood’s New Leaders”: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118061188
COMPANY PROFILE
GREGOIRE GENSOLLEN / PRODUCER /
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Together with feature film director Xavier Gens, Gregoire Gensollen founded THE INK CONNECTION in 2010 to create, develop and package a slate of international co-productions. In 2011, they delivered their 1st feature film production, THE DIVIDE, directed by Xavier Gens, released theatrically in the US in January 2012. In 2012, they produced a French short film directed by Mounia Meddour, EDWIGE, and completed the pilot of an animation feature film, THE PANDA PROJECT starring Charlotte Rampling, both feature films being financed for a 2014 shoot. Gregoire Gensollen also nurtures a passion for experimental film and works with international contemporary artists on the development of their film projects, among which Pierre Bismuth’s WHERE IS ROCKY II?, for which he has produced a pilot during the summer 2012.
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WHERE IS ROCKY II ?
DIRECTOR PIERRE BISMUTH
It is believed that an internationally acclaimed American painter produced in the late 70’s an artwork that almost no one has seen, “Rocky II”, hidden in the vast space of the Californian desert (the nature of the artwork and the name of the artist are kept secret here intentionally). The artist has acknowledged the existence of the piece, but refuses to provide any further information. If this artwork does exist, where exactly is it to be found, why is it hidden and what is there to hide?
discovery of the famous artwork in the desert, or not.
Director Pierre Bismuth, also known as a visual artist and for winning the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award in 2005 with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, hires a private detective on one hand and a duo of screenwriters on the other. Both the detective and the writers will be filmed separately, in real time, following the traditional conditions of a documentary as they engage in their assigned work routine to probe the existence of the mysterious artwork. They will proceed in accordance to the customary methods of their fields:
The screenwriters will thus be working “blindfolded” as they struggle to create a narrative unity out of scattered fragments, producing a scenario from their own imagination, but also based on a series of real elements that are shared from the detective’s investigation.
-The private detective will investigate the existence of the artwork and, if it is confirmed, try to find it. -The duo of screenwriters will elaborate together, through their work on the screenplay, a fictional hypothesis about the existence of the mysterious artwork. In his investigations, the detective interviews all possible witnesses in order to provide evidences about the existence and the location of Rocky II. The different stages of the investigation are filmed, resulting in a documentary that could end in the
As the investigation progresses, Pierre Bismuth collects notes, selecting situations, locations, characters etc. that he finds important. Bismuth then hands over his notes to the two screenwriters along with instructions that will be included in their script regardless of the story’s general direction.
Once their script is finished it will be handed over to a director that will shoot select scenes of this fiction. These short elements of fiction will be disseminated at regular intervals during the two documentary phases, and will provide an artistic color to the documentary, while being perfectly consistent with the overall “reality Vs fiction” theme of the film. Indeed, these two intertwined narrative threads will combine the complexity of an investigative documentary and a Hollywood thriller. Through its classic thriller narrative and its humor, Where is Rocky II? engages all audiences on an entertaining journey that lead them to reflect on the meaning of art, the act of creation and its process.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM US
AVI LEWIS / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: FALL 2014
Avi Lewis is a vetera documentary filmmaker and television journalist. Lewis reaches a global audience as a host and producer for Al Jazeera English Television, where he regularly reports from the United States and around the world. His award-winning first documentary feature, The Take (2004), followed Argentina’s new movement of worker-run businesses. It premiered at the Venice Biennale and was released theatrically across North America and Europe. It has since been shown in factories where workers seek to emulate the Argentine model from Serbia to Johannesburg, Chicago to Cairo.
CONTACT: JOSLYN BARNES PRODUCER THE MESSAGE PRODUCTIONS C/O LOUVERTURE FILMS 101 WEST 23RD ST #283 NY, NY 10011 USA TEL: +1-646 263 9085 EMAIL: JOSBARNES@ME.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: BERTHA FOUNDATION - $ 250,000 PRIVATE INVESTOR - $ 250,000 11TH HOUR PROJECT - $ 140,000 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD - $ 100,000 PAMELA ANDERSON FOUNDATION - $ 100,000 WALLACE GLOBAL FUND - $ 87,500 ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND - $75,000 PARK FOUNDATION - $ 50,000 OAK FOUNDATION - $ 35,000 EVE ENSLER - $20,000 SUNDANCE DFP - $15,000 SWIFT FOUNDATION - $ 7,500 ARTISTS PROJECT EARTH - $ 5,000 TOTAL: $1,135,000 USD MARKET PARTNERS (DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS): HAVE NOT APPROACHED AS YET. CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: KLEIN/LEWIS PRODUCTIONS (CANADA)
NAOMI KLEIN / WRITER AVI LEWIS / DIRECTOR /
Naomi Klein is a journalist and the author of international bestsellers No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, each of which have sold more than a million copies and been translated into more than 25 languages. No Logo inspired a generation of young people to rethink the commercialization of their lives and commit themselves to building alternatives. The Shock Doctrine has helped inspire and focus a global wave of organizing against governments using crises to push forward inequitable and undemocratic policies, from Haiti to the UK.
JOSLYN BARNES / PRODUCER
NAOMI KLEIN / WRITER /
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 1,116,350 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 839,371 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 276,979
Joslyn Barnes is a screenwriter and Emmy nominated producer. Among the films Barnes has executive produced or produced since co-founding Louverture Films with Danny Glover are the César nominated Bamako, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and Oscar and Emmy nominated Trouble the Water, the Oscar shortlisted Soundtrack for a Revolution, the award-winning Black Power Mixtape, Bollywood thriller Dum Maaro Dum, Oscar shortlisted Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The House I Live In. She associate produced Elia Suleiman's The Time that Remains, and the 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Barnes is currently producing The Narrow Frame of Midnight by Tala Hadid, The Shadow World by Johan Grimonprez, and The Message by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. Anadil Hossain & Driss Benyaklef.
PRODUCTION COMPANY The production company for the film, is called The Message Productions, LLC. The two companies that comprise that LLC are Louverture Films and Klein/Lewis Productions.
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THE MESSAGE
DIRECTOR AVI LEWIS
THE MESSAGE is a multi-platform project that combines an award-winning team of storytellers, a provocative thesis that will change how we take on the climate crisis, a feature documentary, and an ambitious engagement strategy. Based on ideas drawn from Naomi Klein’s forthcoming non-fiction book, THE MESSAGE film will show why the deep changes required to tackle climate change should not be viewed as a punishment to fear, but as a kind of gift. Climate change offers us a chance to solve the ecological and economic crises simultaneously, averting ecological chaos by changing an economic model that’s already in need of serious transformation. THE MESSAGE brings Naomi Klein’s radical, inspiring thesis to life through a connective thread of personal reflection, stunning visuals, interviews and verité storytelling. Unlike traditional activist documentaries that aim to shock, anger or educate viewers into action, THE MESSAGE adopts a meditative pace and tone that invites viewers to consider the seemingly impossible: that the economic, political and social changes the climate crisis demands of us may serve as a catalyst to rebuild our broken political and economic systems into alternatives that improve our quality of life, well-being and connectedness to one another. In the film, audiences will meet relatable characters living and working on the front
lines of change: a Lakota Sioux entrepreneur whose solar energy business provides jobs and cheap power in a region of the US where coal is king; a community borne out of El Salvador’s civil war that’s creating a sustainable local economy based on social justice principles and responsible agriculture and fishing; Greek activists who refuse to let the economic crisis open destructive extractive projects in their country’s most biodiverse regions; an emerging environmental movement of the poor in India that stopped a coal plant by organizing across class, caste, cultural and language barriers and launched a nationwide movement. Weaving stories from China, India, El Salvador, Greece, North America, and Africa, THE MESSAGE provides viewers with a roving intelligent eye across the planet at a unique moment in its history. Alongside Naomi Klein, viewers encounter passionate climate deniers, economists and philosophers that reveal the cultural and psychological forces that created and feed the current crisis. Eschewing didactic narration, THE MESSAGE lets viewers connect the dots between big ideas, and engage with them on their own terms. The extraordinary detail and richness of the RED camera provides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. Mysterious, subtle and compelling, THE MESSAGE will leave viewers refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the centre of it all.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM DENMARK
CHRISTIAN SØNDERBY JEPSEN / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 75 (+60) MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: OCTOBER 2014 CONTACT: SIDSEL LØNVIG SIERSTED, MAIL@SIDSELSIERSTED.DK
Director, born 1977. Graduated from The Danish Film School in 2007 with the film "There is a war outside my window". In 2008 Sønderby Jepsen won international recognition for his film "Side by Side", which was screened at festivals worldwide and won numerous prizes. “The Will” (Testamentet) (2011) was the director's first feature length documentary. The film received the prestigious Bodil award for the year's Best Documentary in 2012, won the Cph:Dox award in 2011, was selected for the official IDFA program and won the International award DOC ALLIANCE in 2012. Christian Sønderby Jepsen’s second feature length documentary Blood Ties "Blodets Bånd" (2013) was shown in the Danish cinemas.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: DANISH FILM INSTITUTE, DEVELOPMENT: 63698 EUR DR, DEVELOPMENT: 46935 EUR NATIONAL FUNDS: 26820 EUR MARKET PARTNERS: DR SALES CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: TBC TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 598.788 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 155.067 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 443.721
MALENE FLINDT PEDERSEN / PRODUCER CHRISTIAN SØNDERBY JEPSEN /DIRECTOR / Malene Flindt Pedersen, freelance producer since October 2012. Before that she was
Head of Development, Shorts and Documentaries at the Danish Film Institute from 2006-2012. Prior to working at the Institute she produced creative documentaries and documentary series for ten years in her own company.
SIDSEL LØNVIG SIERSTED / PRODUCER Sidsel Lønvig Siersted, freelance producer, born 1982, producing creative documentary films for Danish production companies Moving Documentary, Barok Film, and MadeinCopenhagen. As associate producer, assisting producer and production manager Sidsel has worked professionally with TV- and media production, documentaries and documentary series at Aller Press, Barok Film, Bezzo Film, Upfront Films, Guldbrandsen film and DR since 2004. Currently she is employed at Danish Documentary Production. MALENE FLINDT PEDERSEN / PRODUCER /
PRODUCTION COMPANY MOVING DOCUMENTARY is a director-owned production company with great documentaries to its owners’ names. Christian Sønderby Jepsen is known for the cinema hit "The Will" (Testamentet) from 2012 (the most seen Danish documentary in the Danish cinemas 2012) and the festival hit "Side by Side" (2009). Co-owner, Mira Jargil, is known for the award winning: "The Time We Have".
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NATURAL DISORDER
DIRECTOR CHRISTIAN SØNDERBY JEPSEN
Science is bringing us closer to creating the perfect human being. But what are the consequences of defying natural evolution?
Danish Theatre (Human Phase-out), and put matters straight once and for all. He will do away with normality as defined by the majority.
Recent advances in medical science bring us closer to the prospect of creating a genetically perfect and flawless human existence. An unborn human life can be screened and influenced in so many different ways. Sperm banks offer to determine the sex, eye color and blood type of your dream child. Nuchal scans and genetic tests allow us to reject defects before it is too late. The goal is to give a worthwhile and healthy life to as many people as possible. A life without disabilities. Or rather - a normal life.
The film Natural disorder, together with Jacob, examines, tests and challenges modern society’s concept of normality. The film follows the development of Jacob’s performance from his collection of empirical data to the premiere at the Royal Theatre. But the film also witnesses Jacob’s inner musings during the process and reaches the point where we get to know his most personal thoughts. The theatrical process will be combined with an independent cinematic layer that visually reflects on future scenarios concerning normality and disability. A "fable of consequences" spiralling from the fact that it is scientifically possible today to design the people of tomorrow. The unwanted can be eliminated. We take a close look at the near future, where someone like Jacob only exists in a glass jar in a scientific museum.
24-year-old Jacob Nossell is really bright, but he does not fit the typical idea of a dream child or the perfect life. Jacob suffers from cerebral palsy, a congenital physical disability. In addition to affecting his speech, it causes muscle cramps and stiffness. His words run together when he speaks and his movements are limited. With a normal intellect in a weakened body Jacob Nossell is the embodiment of the dilemma of normality – he is too disabled to be truly accepted by society and too normal to accept his own fate. Therefore Jacob has decided to stage a performance at the Royal
The aim is to make a moving film describing the ethical crossroads in human evolution anno 2013.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM FRANCE
CALLUM COOPER / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: CALLUM.A.COOPER@GMAIL.COM
Callum is an Australian artist and filmmaker based in London. In 2008 he received a Scholarship to undertake a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been exhibited in New York, Berlin, London, Toronto and Melbourne. His short documentary Mine Kafon won a jury prize at the Focus Forward film program at Sundance 2013 and has subsequently been viewed by over two million people online. More at www.callumcooper.com and www.ardentfilm.org
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURES: CHARITY FUNDS AND KICKSTARTER MARKET PARTNERS: NONE SO FAR CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: NONE SO FAR TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 300 000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 67 000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 233 000
LUCIE KALMAR / CREATIVE PRODUCER
CALLUM COOPER / DIRECTOR /
After handling festivals and coordinating acquisitions for WILD BUNCH from 2002 to 2009, Lucie developed FESTIVAL SCOPE from the initial concept with Alessandro Raja for two years. She is currently financing her first feature film, REY, by Niles Atallah that was presented at CPH:FORUM 2012. She met Callum Cooper in Toronto in 2010 and has been advising him on his projects since.
PRODUCTION COMPANY Mômerade is a Paris-based film company founded by Lucie Kalmar, producer and consultant, and Benjamin Mirguet, director, editor and festival programmer, in 2005. www.momerade.fr
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DANDELIONS
DIRECTOR CALLUM COOPER
Every morning, we seem to wake up to a new technical breakthrough that makes our lives more efficient, healthier, and safer. Therefore, why are people still employed to arduously sift through the soil, by hand, to remove land mines in the same dangerous way they were 65 years ago? Massoud Hassani, a young product designer born in Afghanistan, attempts to revolutionise this reality with his Mine Kafon, a wind-powered mine detonating invention. Celebrated widely in the design world, can his brillant idea cross-over to the real world? Massoud’s prototype is based on a wind-powered toy that he built as a child in Afghanistan. Now as an adult, living in Holland, he has made a 2-metre 90 kg version of that same toy. This time, it is heavy enough to detonate a land mine. His dream is now to return to his country of birth and release it. This narrative felt like a compelling basis to create discussion and inspire other designers to focus on humanitarian solutions. It prompted me to make a short called MINE KAFON. Upon its online release, it was watched by over 2 million people, spearheaded Massoud’s successful Kickstarter campaign and picked up by news
organizations globally… Watching the story spread, I became fascinated with how it began to separate from reality into myth. My film staging Massoud’s hope was re-edited and shown on television as news about a fully realised product. Then with each telling of the story, the reality shifted further from the truth until it became a fable concise enough to be placed into a news network’s twitter feed: @cnntech: An afghan designer and former refugee has developed a low-cost, wind-powered mine detonating device inspired by the toys he played with as a child. Presenting a year in Massoud’s life, the film will reveal the challenges and complexities of land mine removal, as well as celebrate the way it is done today, through portraying the traditional and current solution. This is a human carefully surveying an area, centimetre by centimetre, slowly mapping each land mine then removing them by hand. At the beginning of the film, this method will seem preposterous, dangerous and extremely time-consuming but as our understanding of the complex nature of the issue expands, it will gradually become apparent that it might well be, for now, the only realistic one.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM FRANCE
HANS ULRICH OBRIST / DIRECTOR Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1968. Since 2006, he has been the Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris. He has co-curated over 250 exhibitions since his first exhibition, the Kitchen show (World Soup) in 1991. The Marathon series of public events was conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist in Stuttgart in 2005. The inaugural Serpentine series, the Interview Marathon was conducted by Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas with Julia Peyton-Jones in 2006. Now in its seventh year, the latest edition was the Serpentine Gallery Memory Marathon held in 2012. His recent publications include The future will be…China Edition, Brief History of Curating, Ai Wei Wei Speaks, along with new volumes of his selected interviews.
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: SHOOTING EXPECTED RELEASE: 2014 CONTACT: ANNA LENA VANEY TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 549590 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: TBA REQUIRED AMOUNT: TBA
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ANNA LENA VANEY BULGARI / PRODUCER Anna Lena Vaney is a film producer, and a key supportive figure of the international visual arts.
PRODUCTION COMPANY Anna Lena Films, a Paris based film production company, founded with Victorien Vaney in 2001, is dedicated to bringing life to artists’ intense creative vision within the fields of art and cinema and includes collaborations with Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, Jesper Just, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Doug Aitken, JeanStephane Sauvaire,.
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THE AIR IS BLUE
DIRECTOR HANS ULRICH OBRIST
The Air is Blue is a 90 minute non fiction film directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the world’s most prolific curators today, who merges science, architecture and literature in his work, paving the way for a complete reconsideration of curatorial practice. The film documents Obrist’s unique practices as a curator, and focuses on his ‘house museums’ exhibitions. ‘These house exhibitions are something that I have always done. That is how I started as a curator, curating my first show, ‘World Soup’, in the kitchen of my apartment. Hans-Peter Feldmann’s work was exhibited in the fridge, while the work of British artist Richard Wentworth ended up in the sink. Artists make different artworks from the ones they would do for a show in a museum or in a gallery. The feeling of intimacy is important.’ Ever since that first exhibition, Hans Ulrich Obrist has been known for discovering “the new rules of the game” – new ways of curating exhibitions and bringing art and the contemporary audience closer together. This search has led him to many unconventional projects. ‘Today, we have more and more information; we live in an age of exponential growth of information, so the way in which we navigate this information becomes
more and more relevant with each passing day. That’s why even websites, blogs and shopping lists are being curated. Joseph Beuys once said that in this experimental notion of art, everybody is an artist; but today, 40 years later, we can maybe say that everybody is a curator. In this sense, curating becomes interesting to more people. The curator is an enabler. He is a catalyst. He’s a trigger. He’s somebody who makes things happen.’ A unique document, the film reveals the process, the content, the encounters and the conversations behind the exhibition and the objects that people see, a process that for Obrist is as important as the exhibition itself. ‘These house exhibitions provide one of those rare moments which we have in the world where we are out of this routine, of producing, of being an industry, because these exhibitions have the kind of intimacy that the exhibitions used to have when it was still a sort of hobby.’ The film focuses on Obrist’s last house exhibition project set in the Glass House in Sao Paulo, using the house as a platform to the city, and showing how the exhibition is contaminating the city, spreading out like a virus.
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/ FICTIONNONFICTION SHADOW WORLD (US) THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE (UK) / ART DIS(PLACE) (FR) THE INVENTION (UK) THE LACK (IT) APRIL 30TH 1945 (UK) 89PLUS (FR)
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM US/BELGIUM JOHAN GRIMONPREZ / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: FESTIVAL LAUNCH SPRING 2014 / RELEASE FALL 2014 CONTACT: JOSLYN BARNES ANADIL HOSSAIN PRODUCERS SHADOW WORLD PRODUCTIONS C/O LOUVERTURE FILMS 101 WEST 23RD ST #283 NY, NY 10011 USA CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: BERTHA FOUNDATION FORK FILMS (ABIGAIL DISNEY), DON RUBIN, CINEREACH/SUNDANCE JOINT DEVELOPMENT GRANT, SUNDANCE DFP PRODUCTION GRANT, VITAL PROJECTS FUND, GUCCI TRIBECA FUND, ITVS, VAF, SVT, RTS, YES, SBS, WIDE HOUSE (SALES MG) MARKET PARTNERS: - WIDE HOUSE (INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENT) - ITVS (INDEPENDENT LENS, US BROADCAST) - SVT - RTS - YES - SBS - CURRENTLY IN TALKS WITH YLE, ARTE FRANCE, BBC, NRK AND OTHERS CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: - ONOMATOPEE FILMS, BELGIUM - ITVS, US TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 1,262,145 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 903, 958 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 358,186
Artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his film DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y a collaboration with author Don DeLillo that tells the story of air hijackings since the 1970's and how these changed news reporting. With its premiere at Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in 1997 the film eerily foreshadowed the events of 9/11 and analyzed compellingly how the media participates in the construction of our perceived reality. In 2009 Grimonprez made DOUBLE TAKE which targets the global rise of ‘fear-as-commodity’. It premiered at Sundance and Berlin, and winning several Best Director awards including the Black Pearl Award in Abu Dhabi and the New Media Grand Prize in LA. In 2012, Cinema Scope named him one of the “Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50” in the world. JOHAN GRIMONPREZ / PRODUCER /
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Dillywood, Inc. is a New York based production company that develops and produces film, media, advertising, web content, and large-scale corporate events with a distinctly international focus. The company has worked on a wide range of projects in over 30 countries on five continents, establishing long-standing networks. Founded in 2004 by producers Anadil Hossain and Driss Benyaklef, the company has been built on their hybrid cultural backgrounds and breadth of experience. Over the years, Dillywood has worked with directors such as Doug Liman (Fair Game), Mira Nair (The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Namesake) and with Wes Anderson (The Darjeeling Limited), as well as notable directors from the Indian film industry producing films for Karan Johar, Nikhil Advani, Rakeysh Mehra and Oscar-nominated Ashutosh Gowariker. Dillywood is known for its pioneering work in helping forge cultural synergies between the US and Indian film industries. www.dillywood.com ANADIL HOSSAIN / PRODUCER /
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Louverture Films is dedicated to the development and production of films of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity. Taking its name and inspiration from the great leader of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture - famous for always creating an "opening" in the face of enormous obstacles - Louverture Films partners with progressive filmmakers and producers around the world and particularly from the global South, and pro-actively supports the employment and training of cast and crew from communities of color in the United States. www.louverturefilms.com
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SHADOW WORLD
DIRECTOR JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
The premise of the film is that the trade in arms, as currently conducted, undermines accountable democracy in both buying and selling countries. Through extraordinary new information, compelling characters, and a broad mix of footage, the film reveals the trade’s influence on how we are governed and how we perceive the world. The film aims to question the world as we find it, and to identify how we can make our world safer, more democratic and more humane. It is based on over 12 years of meticulous research and investigation that resulted in the globally acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade – 700 pages backed up by almost 3,000 footnotes and verified by numerous senior media lawyers. Shadow World reveals how mammoth arms deals are transacted, and the gargantuan, unpunished corruption that accompanies them. We explore the dominance of war-making in the political process, the rise of offensive “defense” in which assassinations and pre-emptive killing is regarded as legitimate and the reality that war is becoming continuous and endless, ironically, creating a far less secure world. This perpetual war, perpetrated by a national security elite who enrich themselves, results in the constant creation of new threats. It also leads inevitably to the turning
of the military power of the state on its own people, through heightened surveillance, the militarization of law enforcement, deployment of the military domestically and even the killing of citizens by their own governments. This brings us ultimately to the other “shadows” in Shadow World: the missing, the erased, the witnesses and victims of atrocity, those on the receiving end of the weapons trade. As an urgent response, we explore the media’s portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how war is now prosecuted. We turn our attention to alternatives, exploring, through the experience, thoughts and actions of some remarkable individuals and movements, how the active attainment of global peace is possible, and how the out-of-control arms trade could be leashed to serve the interests of sustainable security for all. On this tumultuous journey, in addition to compelling interviews, we employ extraordinary footage, works of literature, innovative photography and a sense of humor to communicate the important message that “the fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.”
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM UNITED KINGDOM
GRANT GEE / WRITER AND DIRECTOR Grant Gee is a film-maker working across documentary, artists film and video and drama. He has twice been Grammy-nominated for music documentaries for Meeting People Is Easy – about Radiohead - in 2000 and Demon Days – about Gorillaz. His film Joy Division won the Grierson award for best cinema documentary and the Sound and Vision award for ‘Best Music Film’ at the CPH:DOX festival. His 2011 feature Patience (After Sebald) received theatrical distribution both in the UK and US. In 2012 and 2013 he has been working in drama with acclaimed theatre director Katie Mitchell on a series of major pieces of multimedia theatre:The Rings of Saturn and Night Train at the Schauspielhause, Cologne and The Yellow Wallpaper for Schaubuhne, Berlin. He studied Geography at the Universities of Oxford and Illinois.
RUNNING TIME: 80 MINUTES PRODUCTION STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: JANUARY 2015 CONTACT: JANINE MARMOT JANINE@HOTPROPERTYFILMS.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: BFI DEVELOPMENT £FINITE FILMS £50,000 CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: ILLUMINATIONS FILMS & FINITE FILMS TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 350,000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 100,000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 250,000
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JANINE MARMOT / PRODUCER Hot Property was set up in 1995 by the critically acclaimed BAFTA winning producer Janine Marmot. The company specialises in films, documentaries and transmedia projects where the narrative content is strengthened by a strong visual realisation. Films produced by Janine have won numerous awards and screened at festivals around the world. Her feature credits include: Kelly + Victor by Kieran Evans, Shock Head Soul and Bodysong by Simon Pummell, No Greater Love by Michael Whyte, I Could Read the Sky by Nichola Bruce and Institute Benjamenta by The Brothers Quay. She is in post production on two films: Simon Pummell’s Brand New-U, financed by the BFI, the Dutch Film Fund and the Irish Film Board and Michael Whyte’s feature documentary profile of the acclaimed photographer Jane Bown, Looking for Light.
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Described by novelist Iain Sinclair as "the great facilitator of British cinema", he has been a crucial factor in the making of films by such unclassifiable talents as the Brothers Quay, Patrick Keiller, Chris Petit and Jan Svankmajer. Most recently he co-produced PRIMITIVE a multi-platform project by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and his feature film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the 2010 Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival and Peter Strickland's award winning Berberian Sound Studio. With Simon Field he manages the company Illuminations Films.
CINEMA
THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
DIRECTOR GRANT GEE
In the mid 1990's, Orhan Pamuk had an idea: to write a novel in the form of a museum catalogue, while simultaneously building the museum to which it referred. The plot of the novel would be reasonably straightforward: over many frustrating years, an unhappy lover (Kemal) contrives to steal a large number of objects belonging to his unattainable beloved (Fusun), after whose untimely death he proceeds to buy her family’s house and turn it into a museum dedicated to their affair. So, in 1999, Pamuk bought a run-down house in a run-down neighbourhood of Istanbul and began work on parallel projects - the writing of the novel and the building of the museum. The novel, The Museum of Innocence was published in 2008 and the museum, The Museum of Innocence, opened in Istanbul in April 2012. A beautiful, real museum housing real objects that trace a fictional affair. 83 exhibits, display boxes and vitrines corresponding to the 83 chapters of the book. An attempt to capture love’s time. The novel begins with these words, “It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” It’s May 26th 1975 and the lovers are making love. “he novel begins with these words, “It was have come free and, for all we knew, hovered in mid air before falling of its own accord.”
And the progression through the museum begins at Box 1 with that very earring suspended in a moment of its fall. The crazy meta complexity of the novel+museum equation increased by another order when in 2002 Pamuk decided to take a sabbatical from the novel and the museum to write another, parallel book, the memoir 'Istanbul: Memories of the City' a melancholy love letter to his beloved melancholy home where he had worked, writing for 20 years, 10 hours a day in the same studio looking out over the Bosphorus - writer's imagination and landscape superimposed. After completing 'Istanbul' Pamuk returned to work on 'The Museum of Innocence' but in 2005 as he was working on its lynchpin chapter, learned that he had been charged with "insulting Turkishness'. The charge carried a threat of 3 years in gaol and with right wing Turkish newspapers running front page hate campaigns against him and in the subsequent period of threats and protests he was dragged into a huge cultural and political storm. The following year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. The film will echo this meta complexity and be a layered journey through the Museum of Innocence, Pamuk’s life and work and the city of Istanbul.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM FRANCE
BANI KHOSHNOUDI / DIRECTOR RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: WINTER-SPRING 2015 CONTACT: JANJA KRALJ INFO@KINOELEKTRON.COM
Bani Khoshnoudi was born in Tehran in 1977. She was 2 years old when her family immigrated to the United States in 1979, during the Revolution. After studying photography and film, she moved to Paris, France in 1999. In addition to filmmaking, Bani makes more experimental work in the form of installation and video projection. Her video and sound installations have been showed in galleries and alternative spaces in New York, Berlin, Mexico City, Tehran, Paris, Rotterdam. Since 2009, Bani lives in Mexico City.
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 332.000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: TBC REQUIRED AMOUNT: 332.000
JANJA KRALJ / PRODUCER
BANI KHOSHNOUDI / DIRECTOR /
After finishing her master’s degree in Art History at the Sorbonne in 2006, Janja Kralj had her first experience in cinema as a production coordinator. She started then to work for Shilo Films where she spent three years working on international co-productions. In 2008, she started to produce her first feature film 2 Sunny Days by Ognjen Svilicic in co-production with Maxima Film (Croatia). In 2010, she founded a new company KinoElektron. She was a part of EAVE Media program 2010 and a year after she participated at Rotterdam Film Lab 2011. Her latest production Marussia by Eva Pervolovici was presented at Berlinale’s Generation.
PRODUCTION COMPANY KinoElektron is a production company based in Paris, founded by Janja Kralj. The company is committed to an international cinema. It is working with confirmed directors and emerging talents, defending a strong collaboration between the producers and the directors. KinoElektron believes in a free vision of the cinema, without borders or categorization.
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(DIS)PLACE
DIRECTOR BANI KHOSHNOUDI
There is a space, mental and emotional, that one creates when displaced and far from one’s roots and origins. It is not necessarily a question of forging identity, but rather finding a place to sense belonging and to negotiate feelings of being disconnected and fragmented.
al travels, on the road, contemplating symbolic places in their histories and cultures (ruins, archeological sites, etc). On this journey, she explores how they create cultural identity through myth and representation, and the inconsistencies that make up their national character today.
In today’s world we continue to belong to a certain nation and a specific culture, even though many of us have lives that go beyond classification. (DIS)PLACE comes from a desire to look at themes around displacement and the need for a (national) identity, while exploring how this affects artistic expression. Being labeled as an artist (or filmmaker) of a particular nationality implies many things, especially when you come from such charged places like Palestine or Iran. It can make artists victims to stereotype and expectations of the art (or film) world, while they may be working in a whole different realm. And what happens when they have a fragmented existence and identity, as in the case of Nida Sinnokrot, Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar and Bani Khoshnoudi, or many other artists from countries like those? Are the myths actually part of a realistic identity for artists? The dual-layered film will be organized as a voyage, where Bani Khoshnoudi, the filmmaker, travels to meet two other artists, one in Palestine and the other in Iran. Made as a travelogue, Bani’s interaction with the artists is juxtaposed with the actu-
There is no definite answer about cultural identity, but rather bring forth questions and space for reflection on this complex subject. What does it mean to belong to a place, to a nation? Can the artists be defined as national subjects in today’s world, and how the artists are expected to represent their cultures? When making work, do they consider themselves representatives of their culture? How are they considered by others, especially those in their governments and those who give shape to cultural myths (curators, programmers, critics)? As a framing device, the actual voyage evokes the search that is part of Nida, Mahmoud and Bani’s attempts to “cure” their fragmented identities. Just as the struggle to define them
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM UNITED KINGDOM
MARK LEWIS / DIRECTOR
RUNNING TIME: 100 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: AUTUMN 2014 CONTACT: EVE GABEREAU EVE@SODAPICTURES.COM
Mark Lewis is a leading visual artist who started as a photographer then moved into making filmbased installations, forming part of the 1980s photo conceptual movement The Vancouver School. Much of his work focuses on the technology of film and the different genres which have been developed in the 100+ years of film history. He has had solo museum shows at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art New York, BFI Southbank (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris) amongst others and upcoming in 2014 at the Musée du Louvre. In 2009, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, GRAMERCY PARK STUDIOS, SODA FILM + ART MARKET PARTNERS: SODA PICTURES (UK) CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: SODA FILM + ART, BACK-STORY FILMS TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 1.3OO.OOO CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 625.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 675.000
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EVA GABEREAU / PRODUCER Eve Gabereau is the co-Founder and Managing Director of Soda Pictures, a London-based independent distribution company. In addition, she works in production alongside films they prebuy as well as ones they develop in-house and through partnerships. She has co-produced three features and one documentary, is in development/pre-production on three others and has been involved in the release of over 200 films in the UK & Ireland.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
EVE GABEREAU / PRODUCER /
Soda Film + Art (SoFA) is a production and distribution company specialising in working with visual artists making feature films. Established in 2012, it is the coming together of film experts Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher (of Soda Pictures Ltd) and art curator/artist film & video producer Elena Hill (of Contemporary Art Programming). They are involved in a number of films in production, including Remainder (dir. Omer Fast) and Invention (dir. Mark Lewis), amongst others. This year, they distributed such artist films as Shezad Dawood's Piercing Brightness and Khalil Joreige & Joana Hadjithomas's Lebanese Rocket Society. Their combined back-catalogue also includes Gerhard Richter Painting (dir. Corinna Belz), With Gilbert + George (dir. Julian Cole), Eames: The Architect and the Painter (dirs. Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey), Grant Gee’s Patience (After Sebald), Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9 and Ben Rivers's Two Years at Sea, as well as such artworks as Sophy Ricket’s To the River (Venice Biennale 2011), Louisa Fairclough installations and Simon Martin’s Louis Ghost Chair.
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THE INVENTION
DIRECTOR MARK LEWIS
Imagine a contemporary world where cinema has not yet been invented; imagine a romance as allusive and illusionary as a motion picture. A celebrated and successful writer/broadcaster/cultural commentator (NATHANIEL) arrives in a contemporary city. He has been invited to give a keynote public lecture on the occasion of the publication of his latest book. The surroundings are familiar to us apart from one thing; the moving image has not yet been invented, but it is on the cusp. During the days of Nathaniel’s visit. Information on world affairs and advertisements are experienced through the medium of radio, the Internet, billboards, photographs and huge newsstands dedicated to the written word, all of which have reached sophisticated heights. Just like in our world there are cross platform integrations and the newspaper that has invited Nathaniel is also a radio and Internet conglomerate. Theatre and carnival-like spectacles dominate the entertainment world, and on the cusp of the cinema’s invention there are presentations of different models and ideas for how it might be developed. In the same hotel that Nathaniel is staying, a company is staging an elaborate tape-slide installation that mimics image movement. It’s also the city where Nathaniel was born and raised but he has not been back in 25 years. His only remaining emotional connections to the city are a woman who he loved and lost and an old friend who he used to work with (David). On the day he arrives it is his (49th) birthday and he his immediately pursued by acquaintances and fans, all hoping to persuade him to do projects or to meet him.
Even so, there is something wrong with Nathaniel and as he settles into his luxurious hotel room, he ignores all the phone messages, notes and emails. He finishes working on a text, disconnects the phone off and stands in front of a mirror to reflect on his life. Despite his fame and success, he is in crisis. Desperate for escape, Nathaniel searches out some form of non-committal companionship. He goes to his computer and finds someone offering just this (EVA). What ensues is a story of love and loss, illusion and reality. Nathaniel seeks solace and distraction by finding visual phenomena that seem animated or moving, something he will do throughout the film. In effect his relationship with Eva is like a film, and he energizes it and prolongs its illusion via his curiosity in moving images that appear naturally throughout the city (reflections, shadows and the machines, such as elevators and revolving doors, that produce mechanical image movement. Paradoxically his natural intellectual curiosity for the cinematic inventions that are beginning to mysteriously and fantastically appear all around him is thwarted because he is constantly distracted by his illusionary relationship with Eva. The ending is a montage of the denouement of their relationship entwined with images magically coming to life via flickering lights and shadows.The film ends with the camera, the camera that has shot this drama, now fully formed and established as a new dynamic leading character about to start a (romantic) adventure all on its own.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM ITALY
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: POST-PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: JAN / FEB 2014 CONTACT: VIVO FILM (MARTADONZELLI@VIVOFILM.IT) CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: IN BETWEEN ART FILM S.R.L. DIRECT INVESTMENT CO-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION PARTNERS: VIVO FILM S.R.L. TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 510.000 € CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 400.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 110.000 NICOLÒ MASSAZZA / DIRECTOR /
MASBEDO / DIRECTORS MASBEDO are Nicolò Massazza (1973) and Iacopo Bedogni (1970). They live in Milan and are active in the field of video art, performance and experimental films since 2000. Their works have been exhibited at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, National Picture Gallery, Art Basel Unlimited, MACRO and MAXXI Museum in Rome and the 53. Biennale of Art in Venice. In 2012 they presented at Teatro Strehler in Milan an audio visual performance with Fanny Ardant. Their docu film Tralala was premiered at 69° Venice Film Festival and then presented International Film Festival in Reykjavik. In the years they have participated with projects related to video art to several international film festivals such as Tremblay, Bellaria, Novi Sad, Locarno, Rome, Istanbul, Lisbon, Athens, Miami and Trieste. They wrote with Michelle Houellebecq The World Is Not A Landscape, a work of video art with the Oscar winning actress Juliette Binoche. BEATRICE BORDONE / PRODUCER Beatrice Bordone Bulgari lives and works in Rome and New York, as a set and costume designer for theatre and film. She has been involved in dozens of films including “Cinema Paradiso”, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. In 2007 she founded the Associazione CortoArteCircuito of which she is the Artistic Director directly involved in promoting the production of documentaries of living artists during their exhibits or installations in contemporary art museums. In Between Art Film was founded to produce and promote short movies or films, created by International directors to establish a dialogue between different languages of art.
IACOPO BEDOGNI / DIRECTOR /
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THE LACK
DIRECTOR NICOLÒ MASSAZZA AND IACOPO BEDOGNI
The Lack is a film which evokes, through four women’s portraits, the feeling of loss. Each one of the four female characters opens a laceration into emptiness. The story proceeds and expands in slow-taken breaths. It then opens in shy glimpses and bursts, which describe in a subtle way the relations between the characters. The story gathers momentum by visually building a strong and dramatic tension throughout the scenes, metamorphosing itself into an impalpable and quiet explosion. The choice of an unstructured narration is bound to the concept of “loss”, whereas fragmentation is the key expression of our contemporary world. The film deals with such a fragmentation; in its four chapters two elements stands out as a common denominator: the journey – assuming the traits of a performance beyond an usual spatial-temporal dimension –, and the complete absence of other human beings. In the first chapter a woman faces the pain of abandonment through a long nocturnal await that consequently springs into a strong and liberating gesture. In a sublime, terrific and ungenerous nature, love’s obsession leaves space to a complete and aware loneliness, exploding into a violent action. The second chapter takes place in a wasteland, a landscape buried into solitude. It tells the story of a “journey” from a well known to an unexplored dimension. Two sisters experience the hard but necessary event of separation and the feeling of de-
tachment. The elder one is leaving her homeland to begin a journey to a mysterious world, as in a ritual mission she “must” accomplish. Observing this departure, the younger sister starts a journey herself so to bring a gift to her sister: a plant, which symbolizes a beacon of light, the bud of hope and life. The third chapter narrates the attempt of a young Chinese woman to fulfil her father’s last wills. Through a letter, the father’s voice-over asks the woman to pay a tribute to a cinema director who had a strong influence in his life and that he was not able to honour during his life, as he had wished. The woman finds her way to do it, accomplishing her father’s wish both literally and mystically. After a long performance climbing on the rocks of Lisca Bianca, the island where Michelangelo Antonioni filmed L’avventura, the woman brings up on the cliff an old cinema projector. After having struggled to carry it, she then turns it on as a lighthouse in the night, illuminating the ocean. In the fourth chapter, through a psychoanalytic session, a woman experiences an interior journey, which brings her to dig deep inside her conscience. Through her words and visions, the woman tries to put together all the pieces of her broken existence, striving to reconstruct herself. The gaze of the analyst embraces her words. We never see the woman’s face, but we are with her through her recounting and through the visions of her intimate, unconscious and dreamlike world.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM UNITED KINGDOM
MARINE HUGONNIER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015/2016 CONTACT: MARINEHUGONNIER@GOOGLEMAIL.COM
Marine Hugonnier lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Her films, photographs and works on paper have been exhibited internationally and belong to collections such as : The MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA), the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris-ARC, (France) and The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (Spain). Her films have been screened in many festivals, among them: FID Marseille - International Documentary Film Festival, (France) and Rotterdam Film Festival, (Netherlands).
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: 59.000 EUROS MARKET PARTNERS: NONE FOR NOW CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: 'TBA21, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Future Production, created in London 2005
TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 520.000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 59.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 461.000 MARINE HUGONNIER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Collaborators Caroline Champetier is a famous director of photography. She has worked with JeanLuc Godard and received an Oscar in 2011. Cristian Manzutto is a sound engineer. I have worked with him on almost all my films. Kaat Dejonghe, from the Dejongue film postproduction company in Courtrai, Belgium is the lab I would like to work with.
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APRIL 30TH 1945
DIRECTOR MARINE HUGONNIER
Copyright Lee Miller Archive, 2013
This film takes as a starting point the famous photograph of Lee Miller in Hitler’s bath which was taken on april 30th 1945 in Munich. Lee Miller was at the time a war reporter imbedded with the US Army. This film is a feature film. It wants to tell the story of the first afternoon and night she spent in the Dictator’s flat. On April 30th 1945 a war reporter is coming out of Dachau and is being driven to Munich in a US army pick up. Dazed from what she saw there, she hardly notices where she is driven to. She follows the soldier who leads her through the entrance of a building at the door step of a flat. There are lots of soldiers coming in an out, setting up some sort of military and journalist HQ. She walks through the flat and every room: the kitchen, maid’s quarters, library, living rooms, dining room, bedrooms and bathrooms. Soon, as if to disrupt the order of the house, she starts arranging objects together and takes pictures of these set ups. While she is doing so the flat clears of all the soldiers. She meets the maid who is cleaning the flat. The sturdy old woman is reproachful. A long dialogue unfolds between them two as she keeps on moving things around. The war reporter finds a fur coat and she puts it on as if to become the Dictator. The shadows of both the war reporter and the coat,
which now resemble the figure of a beast, start a macabre dance which will last for the night. Once she has defeated all the shadows and monster (Wagner's and Fuseli's), she takes off all her clothes and walks into the bathroom to run the taps. Once out, she sets herself to bed and falls asleep. The next morning she puts the radio on to the BBC and hears that the Dictator has committed suicide. In the kitchen she finds some looters : three kids, two women and one man are having breakfast. She notices that the fur coat is on a chair. She is about to leave the flat and slam the door but she changes her mind and leaves it wide open. The film will show the ‘banality of the evil‘ in reference to Hannah Arendt. This story is a portrait in absence of the Evil figure of the dictator. It is an investigation of the normality of his domestic space. Her study of Hitler’s lived reality could be understood as a way to come close to the natural body of the Dictator in order to destroy the fantasy and myth that was attached to his body politic. Lee Miller used to say of herself ‘I looked like an Angel, but I was a fiend inside’. It then seems that humanising Hitler became for her a strange exercise of self reflection.
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PRESENTATION OF TEAM FRANCE
SIMON CASTETS / DIRECTORE Simon Castets, Director and Curator, Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art, New York, and Co-founder of 89plus
RUNNING TIME: ONGOING FOR WEB + MULTIPLATFORM (TBA) PRODUCTION STATUS: EARLY DEVELOPMENT
HANS ULRICH OBRIST / CO-DIRECTOR Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Galleries, London and Co-founder of 89plus
FELIX MELIA / CREATIVE DIRECTOR Felix Melia, Creative director, BA Fine Art Sculpture, Brighton University, Recently involved in ‘Station to Station' and 'Serpentine Galleries 89plus Marathon', writing for Flash Art. SIMON CASTETS / DIRECTOR /
ANNA LENA VANEY / PRODUCER Anna Lena Vaney, film producer and founder of Anna Lena Films, a Paris based film production company.
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89PLUS
DIRECTOR SIMON CASTETS
The 89plus Talk Show is the first dynamic talk show about and by the generation born with the Internet. It is hosted by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist for 89plus. 89plus is a long-term, international, multi-platform research project co-founded by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist. It is conceived as a mapping of the generation of innovators born in or after 1989. Without forecasting artistic trends or predicting the future of creativity, 89plus manifests itself through panels, books, periodicals, exhibitions and residencies, bringing together individuals from a generation whose voices are only starting to be heard, yet who account for almost half of the world’s population. Marked by several paradigm-shifting events, the year 1989 saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the start of the post-Cold War period; the introduction of the World Wide Web and the beginning of the universal availability of the Internet, as well as the orbit of the first Global Positioning System satellite. Positing a relationship between these world-changing events and creative production at large, 89plus introduces the work of some of this generation’s most inspiring protagonists.
tions throughout the world. We are creating a platform to showcase this generation’s contributions in all fields’. Since an introductory panel held in January 2013 at the DLD – Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich, 89plus has conducted research in Australia with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Hong Kong with Art Basel’s Salon series, New York through the 89plus Colony Conference at MoMA PS1, and Italy with the Innovation Festival Bolzano-Bozen and Palazzo Grassi, Venice. 89plus is developing a series of residencies with various partners internationally including the Park Avenue Armory in New York and the Tara Oceans Polar Circle Expedition taking place in late 2013. Recent major projects include the 89plus Marathon at London’s Serpentine Gallery, on October 18 & 19, 2013. Many other projects are yet to be announced. The 89plus Talk Show will harness this generation’s most promising figures globally in a condensed, weekly, transformative online television experience mixing interviews, documentaries, film, video and social media. A bidirectional, hyperlinked happening, the 89plus Talk Show features those who are inventing the future.
‘We formed the hypothesis that this completely new paradigm, both geopolitically and technologically, was to provide the conditions for an entirely new set of innova-
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FORUM:FAVOURITES BOY WITHOUT A VOICE CAPTURING THE DEVINE CHANCERS A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT FILM-FAKERS FLOWERS OF TAIPEI – NEW TAIWAN CINEMA FOREIGNERS FOR SALE HAITI GROUND ZERO IN CASE OF MURDER WULFF
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BOY WITHOUT A VOICE DIRECTOR GUY DAVIDI
PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: NOVEMBER 2015 CONTACT: GUY DAVIDI, GUY DVD FILMS (GUYDVD@GMAIL.COM) CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: YES DOCU (ISRAEL) - DEVELOPMENT MARKET PARTNERS: YES DOCU CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: LES FILMS D'ICI (FRANCE) TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 511,000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: REQUIRED AMOUNT: 511,000
GUY DAVIDI / DIRECTOR /
HILLA MEDALIA / PRODUCER /
People will continue killing and fighting. It's probably me who doesn't belong here. “Boy without a voice” follows three teenagers from childhood to adulthood and military. Two boys are followed through the camera: One deaf, one blind, both struggle to fit-in. Their innocence fades in a society emphasizing unified identities. The exempt from military service concludes their unlikeness. Their success in eventually recruiting after a long fight reflects the absurdity of military service duty in Israel. Illustrating their disabilities using cinematic means illuminates the suppression teenagers embrace as part of life in Israel at the price of corruption of sensitivity and destruction towards the other. What they don’t see and what they don't hear is what Israeli youth need to deny in order to survive in their world. The poetic narration of the third boy describes his adolescence experiences; his wider awareness sheds light on the other two characters' life-events. Using old video archive footage the narrator boy takes us on an epic journey as the disturbing darkness grows within him. With an innovative use of cinematic language and sensitive observation “boy without a voice” offers a shaking experience that exposes what it truly means to grow up in Israel. In this militaristic society childhood ends when every boy has to become a soldier and not every boy will be able to surrender to that.
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GUY DAVIDI / DIRECTOR Academy Award Nominated (Oscar©) Guy Davidi has been directing, shooting, and editing since the age of sixteen. His second feature "Five Broken Cameras" was an exemplary international success. The film was nominated to the Oscar 2013 in the Best Documentary section and is nominated for the 2013 International Emmy Award. Davidi won the prize for Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Audience and Jury awards at IDFA in Amsterdam.
HILLA MEDALIA / PRODUCER A Peabody Award-winning director and producer and co-owner of New York based Know Productions.
NETA ZWEBNER-ZAIBERT / PRODUCER Neta is a film and television producer and co-founder of New York based Know Productions.
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CAPTURING THE DEVINE
DIRECTOR SUSANNE EDWARDS
RUNNING TIME: 58/75 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: ROUGH-CUT. FINAL EDITING AND POSTPRODUCTION PLANNED SPRING 2014 EXPECTED RELEASE: AUTUMN 2014 CONTACT: STINA@MANTARAYFILM.SE CELLPHONE +46 70 7775259 CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: SWEDISH FILMINSTITUTE, SVT, YLE MARKET PARTNERS: LOOKING FOR DISTRIBUTOR AND BROADCASTERS CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: NONE TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 328 171 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 197 767 60% REQUIRED AMOUNT: 130 404 40%
SUSANNE EDWARDS / DIRECTOR /
STINE GARDELL / PRODUCER /
A music documentary about the worldmusic singer Natacha Atlas. In the midst of her own life crisis, documentary filmmaker Susanna Edwards, finds solace in the voice of singer Natacha Atlas, the inaccessible Middle Eastern diva. Susanna looks up Natacha and finds a contemporary soul mate, an apostle of love who becomes woven into her dreams. With camera in hand, Susanna becomes a stalker, penetrating layer after layer into Natacha Atlas' private sphere until suddenly, Natacha quits the project. It doesn't fit into this phase of her life. Natacha wants to be left alone. Her calendar becomes a gaping hole. She starts getting on in years and money is constantly lacking. Filmmaker Susanna Edwards sees her mission as a defense and exploration into the essence of love, which she finds in Natacha Atlas' voice. After some persuading, Natacha agrees to continue with one condition; that Susanna also be on camera. Natacha knows that Susanna hates being on camera and so in this way both sacrifice something. In an ingenious construction of meta-film and documentary, of divine presence and the trivial everyday, we follow Susanna as she captures the elusive Natacha Atlas, her haunting voice hovering over everything. How does this hold together: Myth and Reality? To be merely human yet always longing for the divine ecstasy.
SUSANNA EDWARDS / DIRECTOR Susanna Edwards directs both fiction and documentary with a strong comittment to find exciting stories as well as visual and emotional expression. Her work includes the ocumentary In the Shadow of the Sun on the bullfighter Christina Sánchez, which received the award Guldbaggen for Best Documentary as well as numerous international awards and was sold worldwide. Her fiction feature debut Keillers Park was immediately picked up for American theatrical and DVD distribution.
STINA GARDELL / PRODUCER With her background as a radio and documentary film director, Stina Gardell founded Mantaray Film in 2005. As a producer she has received the most prestigious Swedish awards; Guldbaggen, Kristallen and the Ikaros prize. In 2007 and 2012 her films won Prix Italia for Best Documentary and she was recently awarded a Prix Europa Special Commendation for the film He Thinks He’s the Best. In 2011, Stina Gardell received “The Silver Butterfly” award for: her personal, tenacious work in producing high-quality Swedish documentary film.
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CHANCERS - A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT FILM-FAKERS DIRECTOR BEN LEWIS
RUNNING TIME: 90 / 52 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT, TRAILER SHOT EXPECTED RELEASE: AUTUMN 2014 CONTACT: BEN@BENLEWIS.TV, BETTINA@BENLEWIS.TV, JOHN@RISEFILMS.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: BBC, DR, CHANNEL 8 MARKET PARTNERS: TBA CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: RISE FILMS TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 450.000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 116.101 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 333.899
BEN LEWIS / DIRECTOR /
Former London criminal-turned-film-director Paul Knight thought all those years of going straight had finally paid off, when an Iraqi millionaire and a glamorous Irish producer asked him to direct a British gangster movie. But he ended up working for the biggest bunch of crooks he'd ever met. Their plan was to fake a movie and make millions in tax credits. But the British taxman wasn't so stupid.... In 2009, an Irish actress-producer and an Iraqi richkid hatched a scam to defraud the British government of millions. They pretended to make a £20 million movie, and claimed £3 million back in tax credits. But they were found out, arrested and bailed. Then, instead of giving up, they contracted one of Britain's least successful directors – himself a former criminal and crime-writer – to make the film for them on the cheap. He contacted his friends from the world of British low budget gangster movies to star in and shoot the film. Then it wins awards at Festivals, while the producers await their trial. Today the producers are in jail, and the director is looking for work while British tax officials are uncovering other even bigger film frauds. This is a comic documentary but also a film with serious themes. It is about dedication and greed at the rarely seen bottom end of the film business. It will explore the quintessentially British gangster movie genre, where crooks and film–makers collide and will investigate from the perspective of the film biz, the topical issue of tax fraud and tax evasion.
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BEN LEWIS / DIRECTOR BEN LEWIS is an award-winning filmmaker in feature documentaries and series. Ben studied History and History of Art in Cambridge and Berlin. He has made documentaries on highly topical subjects, which have provoked public debate and influenced political decision-making. Premiered at Sundance and IDFA and garlanded by Grierson and Grimme. Ben's latest film GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, where it was in the World Documentary Competition. Another new film POOR US: An Animated History of Poverty was shown on over 70 TV channels across the world world 2012-13 as part of the global "Why Poverty?" documentary season and online campaign. It was jointly awarded a Peabody Award earlier this year within the framework of the "WhyPoverty?" project.
BETTINA WALTER, BLT TV / PRODUCER TEDDY LEIFER, RISE FILMS / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOHN STACK, RISE FILMS / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
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FLOWERS OF TAIPEI – NEW TAIWAN CINEMA DIRECTOR CHINLIN HSIEH
RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: JUNE 2014 CONTACT: CHINLIN HSIEH CHINLIN.H@GMAIL.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: CITY OF TAIPEI, FLÂNEUR CULTURE LAB (TAIWAN), PRODUCTION COMPANY: RICE FLOWER FILMS (TAIWAN) MARKET PARTNERS: APPLAUSE ENTERTAINMENT (TAIWAN/ HONG KONG) CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: MÉLISANDE FILMS (FRANCE) TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 250.000 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 135.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 115.000
Taiwan – tropical Pacific island devoid of tourists, former plastic manufacturing powerhouse turned technology hub in a mere score years. Not even a full fledged country for the United Nations, yet the sole territory in the Chinese sphere with a vibrant democracy. In 1982, under a still severe martial law, amidst the stormy climate of pre-democratization, a small group of Taiwanese filmmakers set out on a daring journey to discover their own identity, and in the process to reinvent Asian cinema. Unintentionally, these gutsy youngsters managed to offset the cheap-labor image of « Made in Taiwan » by bestowing a cultural identity upon their beloved homeland. New Taiwan Cinema has not only inaugurated modern cinema in the Chinese world, it has also secured a firm place on the world map of contemporary filmmaking. "Flowers of Taipei" is about the harbingers of this miracle: Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao Hsien and their peers. About their vision, their talent and the impact they have wielded upon contemporary cinema. Looking back 30 years, from Paris to New York, from Beijing to Tokyo, from Bangkok to Buenos Aires, filmmakers, artists and critics come round to share their thoughts and appreciations, in a visually creative, one of a kind testimony.
CHINLIN HSIEH / DIRECTOR Chinlin Hsieh was born and raised in Taiwan before immigrating to France in 1988. Hsieh studied piano, Fine Arts and French literature before venturing into films where she started out as assistant director and making-of operator to directors such as Wan Ren and Hou Hsiao Hsien. Subsequently she moved into production in 2000 and produced What Time Is It There by Tsai Ming-Liang. Hsieh is currently a programmer-curator at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Flowers of Taipei - New Taiwan Cinema is her directorial debut. ANGELIKA WANG GENG-YU / PRODUCER Angelika Wang Geng-Yu was born in Taiwan in 1962. She has been active as assistant director (to Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang among others), also as producer and festival curator for the past 25 years. She has produced numerous fictions and documentaries, including Island Etude by Chen Huai-En in 2007. Wang has also headed large-scale festivals such as Golden Horse and Taiwan International Documentary Flim Festival among many others.
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FOREIGNERS FOR SALE DIRECTOR DAVID BORENSTEIN
RUNNING TIME: 90/60 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: JANUARY 2015 CONTACT: JESPERJACK@GMAIL.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: MARKET PARTNERS: DR2 VED METTE HOFFMANN MEYER TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 278.300 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: TBC REQUIRED AMOUNT: 278.300
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The global housing bubble isn’t over yet. In China, where real estate prices are ballooning, Suky Yang’s selling the illusion of a never-ending boom. Suky wanted to make beautiful music. But in a country where homeownership is essential for getting married, being a struggling musician means struggling alone. So Suky decided to start an agency offering fake foreign pop stars. They can neither sing or play, but developers need foreigners for extravagant real estate openings designed to dazzle buyers when contemplating a lifetime of debts. The banks await by the stage with the paperwork ready. Initially, Suky’s doing well, though struggling with regret. His assistant, Yana, becomes his confidante. Her family works for a dime in Sichuan's factories. She knows what a middle class lifestyle is worth. Suky has trouble managing increasingly remote and absurd performances, as developers move their activities to the countryside. Business is on life support when Yana leaves with his best employees to start a rival agency. After years of hard work, he still can’t affort buying a home. As the mighty bubble starts bursting, Suky has to consider offering foreigners to customers on a more intimate basis. Whether or not he chooses to sell out completely, it seems he’ll be swallowed up by the predatory ”Chinese Dream”.
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DAVID BORENSTEIN / DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DAVID BORENSTEIN is a PhD candidate in anthropology at City University of New York (CUNY). He began developing Foreigners for Sale while conducting a research project on urbanization in west China for a Fulbright fellowship. During this period he worked as an employee of Suky’s company to make extra cash, gaining an insider’s understanding of the scene. David has experience working in a number of production and editing roles in academic documentary productions from CUNY's New Media Lab, where he is a resident in documentary production. He has previously lived in China for almost four years, speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, speaks and writes extensively about China, and is a published Chinese-English translator.
JESPER JACK / PRODUCER PRODUCER JESPER JACK is the artistic manager of HOUSE OF REAL, a brand new Danish production house, combining the thrill of new adventure with some of the most experienced capacity in the Danish documentary industry. Jesper was a traveler, crap musician, journalist and political activist before graduating as documentary director from the National Danish Film School in ’97. He has directed, edited, developed and produced documentaries and concepts for BBC, Canal +, NHK and all Danish broadcasters as a producer for Cosmo Film and Fridthjof Film Doc. He is an EAVE graduate and lecturer at the National Film School of Denmark. Between 2009 and 2011 he worked as a commissioning editor at the Danish Film Institute, commissioning more than 30 documentaries.
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HAITI GROUND ZERO DIRECTOR MICHELANGE QUAY
RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT / PRE-PRODUCTION EXPECTED RELEASE: 1ST SEMESTER 2015 CONTACT: SOPHIE ERBS / CINEMA DEFACTO CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: DEVELOPMENT GRANT (40 000 EUROS) + PRODUCER'S INVESTMENT (30 000 EUROS) MARKET PARTNERS: TBC CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: TBC TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 678 468 CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 70 409 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 608 059
HAITI GROUND ZERO weaves a hypnotic narrative - the past, present, future and parallel lives of a little girl trapped in the dark under the rubble of Haiti's earthquake, under hypnosis searching for light amidst three centuries of suffering, solitude, and survival.
MICHELANGE QUAY / DIRECTOR /
SOPHIE ERBS / PRODUCER /
Elise is our guide through the narrative line of the film: She is a survivor of the earthquake, adopted in Paris thanks to a powerful NGO, and accompanied through her trauma by a hypnotherapist – Elisabeth – paid by the same organization. During the hypnosis session, Elise falls into a parallel reality (dream? fantasy? History?) which draws the multiple identities of Haiti. From the pain of slavery to the sorrow of the earthquake; from the First World to the Third World; from life to death, to life! A bursting of life, which raises from chaos. This journey into the other side of the mirror will be represented through a poetic and sensual electro-vaudou montage inspired by the Haitian culture of the re-mix, a mosaic of survival, of rhythm and movements, in black and white. This physical approach aims to convey to the audience the despair and the hope that are the daily life of Haiti.
MICHELANGE QUAY / DIRECTOR Michelange QUAY is a writer director of American nationality and Haitian origin, He directed several shorts in Haiti, among which The Gospel of the Creole Pig (Official Competition at Cannes 2004, Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival). His first feature, Eat, For This Is My Body, was selected in many festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam, New Director/New Films, and was awarded at Miami Film festival. In the recent years, he expanded his work to the art field through exhibitions and performances.
SOPHIE ERBS / PRODUCER Sophie ERBS is associate producer of CINEMA DEFACTO, a Paris-based production company run by Tom Dercourt. Mostly focusing on international coproductions, she produced with the company Layla Fourie by Pia Marais (Special Mention Berlinale Competition 2013), The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said (Director’s Fortnight 2013) and Cesta Ven by Petr Vaclav (in post-production). She also produced with her own company the film Nana by Valérie Massadian (Leopard for Best First Film at the Festival del Film Locarno 2011).
WWW.VIMEO.COM/62940501 PASSWORD : DEFACTO2013
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IN CASE OF MURDER
DIRECTOR MADS KAMP THULSTRUP
RUNNING TIME: 75 + 58 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED RELEASE: 2015 CONTACT: VIBEKE VOGEL, VIBEKE@BULLITTFILM.DK CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: 40.000 EUR MARKET PARTNERS: DR DANISH BROADCAST CORPORATION CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS: TBC TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 456.020 CONFIRMED AMOUNT:40.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 250.000
A spectacular case has made it into court. Henrik Madsen disappears without a trace on 11 November 2010. A murder indictment is being raised without the slightest trace of a body or any physical evidence that a crime has taken place. Can this be a case of the perfect murder? One woman is in the center of it all. She is the crown witness and she has traced confidential information for what she hopes to be a safer future for herself. MADS KAMP THULSTRUP / DIRECTOR /
The unique case solely based on circumstantial evidence raises a number of universal questions about legal certainty, presumption of innocence, crime, punishment and even the notion of truth.
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MADS KAMP THULSTRUP /DIRECTOR Mads Kamp Thulstrup graduated from the National Film School of Denmark as a film director in 2005. Sharing interest equally between fiction and documentary, his debute was a feature length documentary about the biggest triumph ever in Danish sport history, bringing him an award for Best Danish Documentary in 2008. He has directed several episodes of The Protectors, one of DRs succesful drama series, and is currently preparing a feature length drama, ”The Forest”.
VIBEKE VOGEL / PRODUCER Vibeke Vogel started out with a special focus on video art and has developed a strong interest for documentary films with an international potential. She established Bullitt Film in 2007 in collaboration with her colleague Elise Lund Larsen. The company produces equally within fiction films and documentary. Latest releases were TURNING, a music film with Antony and the Johnsons directed by Charles Atlas, and WILD GIRLS, a documentary for prime time tv about marginalized teenage girls, directed by Tine Katinka jensen and Mette Carla Albrechtsen. Currently in production is „Cooper´s Challenge“, a documentary aimed for international audiences. Vogel holds a master in film and media at the University of Copenhagen and also holds a diploma of leadership, arts and culture.
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DIRECTOR DANIEL DENCIK
RUNNING TIME: 100 MIN PRODUCTION STATUS: DEVELOPMENT, FINANCING. 3. DRAFT EXPECTED RELEASE: SUMMER 2015 CONTACT: MICHAEL HASLUND-CHRISTENSEN HASLUNDFILM@GMAIL.COM CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: DANISH FILM INSTITUTE TOTAL BUDGET IN EURO: 2.3 MILL. CONFIRMED AMOUNT: 94.000 REQUIRED AMOUNT: 2.2 MILL
DANIEL DENCIK / DIRECTOR /
MICHAEL HASLUNDCHRISTENSEN / PRODUCER /
The year is 1836. The young Joseph Wulff is driven across the oceans by ambition and the dream of becoming governor of Danish possessions on the coast of West Africa. From the second he disembarks on the Slave Coast, his existence vacillates between life and death, between sublime experiences of nature and feelings of loss and longing for home. In a forgotten and dark chapter of Danish history, Joseph Wulff’s story is one of insurmountable challenges and inexorable destiny. Despite the official ban on the slave trade it continues to flourish. The Danish colonists enter unholy alliances with local tribesmen to maintain the supply of slaves along the river Volta. Wulff's short and tumultuous life in Africa is not only the story of cruel fate, human suffering and moral decay, but the story of the triumphant power of love and one man's ability to transcend his own time.
DANIEL DENCIK / DIRECTOR DANIEL DENCIK is educated as a film editor from the Danish Film School. He is also a scriptwriter, writer and director. Dencik has edited, written and co-written award winning films such as Outside Love (2007), Dark Horse (2005), Noi the Albino (2003), Into Eternity (2010) and The Five Obstructions (2003). As director he made Moon Rider (2012) and Expedition to the End of the World (2013). Dencik was awarded Talent of the Year at CPH:DOX in 2012.
MICHAEL HASLUND-CHRISTENSEN / PRODUCER MICHAEL HASLUND-CHRISTENSEN produced the Expedition to the end of the world, but also feature films as the feature films The Eye of the Eagle (1997) and co-produced Junk Mail (1997). He directed and produced The Track (1988) and The Wild East (2002). From 2005, he was Film Consultant for Documentaries at the Danish Film Institute. Since 2010, his focus has been on producing international documentaries and cross border features.
PRODUCTION COMPANY HASLUND FILM.
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SWIM WELCOME TIME SCHEDULE PROJECT PRESENTATION IF I CAN´T DANCE IT´S NOT MY REVOLUTION THE COSMIC TOP SECRET PROJECT EM TRANSITION TIME CIRCUS IMAGO HUMAN FEMALE SEXUALITY APRIL 28 – EVERY FACE HAS A NAME ODYSSEY LOST IN PERFECTION OPERATION CELESTE
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ACTIVITIES
SWIM is a transmedia initiative launched to stimulate innovation and new ways of thinking within media in the Region of Øresund. The project is an initiative by CPH:DOX in collaboration with New Danish Screen, Film i Skåne and BoostHbg. SWIM is co-financed by Interreg IVA.
THINK TANK Twice a year SWIM hosts a Think Tank with the intention of pushing forward the development of the industry.
We are living in a world of new opportunities. Being able to communicate stories about the past, present and future has always been essential to human beings. But never before have we had the possibilities we do today. Through the internet and cheaper, more user-friendly technology, people are able to tell their stories and share them with the world. This creates changes in what stories are told, the way they are being told and how we share and consume them. This is what SWIM is about.
SWIM LAB & FORUM In SWIM Lab 10 projects are developed over a period of 8 months – the process is specifically tailor-made for transmedia. SWIM Lab culminates with SWIM Forum, where the lab projects will be presented to financiers, distributers and experts. CONFERENCE SWIM and CPH:DOX host the 1st International Conference, `The World 2.0 – Do It Together´, during this year´s festival. The conference investigates how we can utilise creative methods in combination with new media and technology to enhance communication, create relevance to people and actively shape society. For more information visit swimbabyswim.dk THE EUROPEAN UNION The European Regional Development Fund
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PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 13.11.13
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
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IF I CAN´T DANCE - IT´S NOT MY REVOLUTION
SWIM:FORUM / ASTA CINEMA
13.00 Welcome and introduction to transmedia
THE COSMIC TOP SECRET EXPERIENCE
13.30 Project presentations - session 1: IF I CAN’T DANCE, IT’S NOT MY REVOLUTION THE COSMIC TOP SECRET EXPERIENCE EM
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14.45 Break 15.00 The Nordic Culture Fund, Maria Tsakiris 15.05 Project presentations - session 2: TRANSITION TIME CIRCUS IMAGO HUMAN FEMALE SEXUALITY 16.20 Break
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16.30 Project presentations - session 3: APRIL 28 – EVERY FACE HAS A NAME ODYSSEY 17.20 Wrap up 17.30 Thank you for today drink, Asta bar CONTACT Anna J. Ljungmark, Head of SWIM anna@swimbabyswim.dk +45 31 442 440 Nina Nørgaard Jensen, Operations Manager nina@swimbabyswim.dk +45 61 654 947
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IF I CAN't DANCE - it's not my revolution RECONNECTING YOU WITH THE SYRIAN ACTIVISTS WHOSE REVOLUTION WAS HIJACKED
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: Film: Total budget: 680.000 EUR In place: 496.000 EUR Transmedia: Total budget: 242.000 EUR In place: 0 EUR Expecting: KVINFO fund, we are negotiating for an amount between 80.000-100.000 EUR
TEAM: Marie Skovgaard, Director // Jesper Jack, Producer // Kerstin Übelacker, Transmedia Producer // Lina Srivastava, Consultant // Henrik Chulu, Digital Consultant
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When the Arab spring arose it held amazing promises. The world rejoiced as protesters demanded democracy and human rights. Now we speak of the Arab fall - the images of peaceful protesters in the streets have been replaced by heavily armed fundamentalists.
FRIDTHJOF FILM was founded in the year 2000 and is one of the leading companies in the Danish film industry. With a strong fiction and documentary department we strive to deliver the most entertaining products with the highest production and creative value. The documentary department focuses on high end, director-driven documentaries for a broad international audience and was nominated for 4 Emmy-awards for “Armadillo”, which also won Critic’s Week in Cannes in 2010.
IF I CANT DANCE is a feature length documentary film with a transmedia dimension that will give you a unique insight into the Syrian conflict through lived experience, reconnecting you with the dreams of the young activists whose revolution has been hijacked. The interactive online platform provides a place for a global community to meet the personal and human stories of those silenced and bereft of their revolution. In the digital experience you will be able to read the on-going, intimate multimedia diaries of 15 Syrian activists, follow their social media feed, comment on their videos, share content from the site and get access to see the film. The digital experience will contextualize, translate and curate the content created by the Syrian activists, enabling a global community to take part of the non-violent and creative resistance that is otherwise not accessible to outsiders. The platform will connect the exiled Syrian creative community as a group to the rest of the world, and provide an avenue for dialogue and co-creation.
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CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS Film: The documentary is produced by Fridthjof film and Dharma Film in co-production with Oktober Oy, Finland. Transmedia: The transmedia experience is produced by Fridthjof film in co-production with Substans film, Norway.
CONTACT kerstin@f-film.com
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THE COSMIC TOP SECRET EXPERIENCE DO WE REALLY KNOW EACH OTHER?
TEAM: Trine Laier, Director // Lise Saxtrup, Producer
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When ‘T’ grew up, her mother and father always kept her safe. But in secret they were also keeping the country safe. T’s parents were cold war warriors, clandestine operatives of the secret service arm of the Danish Army, fighting the Red Menace in a fantastic reality of double identities, top secret documents and coded signals. As true spies they kept their real identities hidden from the world. Even their own daughter. T was 39 years old before she stumbled upon the truth, and now she starts her own counter-espionage project, searching for the secret truth in her family history.
KLASSEFILM was established in 2004 by Lise Saxtrup. We aim at telling beautiful and thought-provoking stories sprouting from reality. We work with documentaries and have, since 2009, moved into the business of game development and transmedia production.
THE COSMIC TOP SECRET EXPERIENCE is an investigative, authentic spy adventure in tradition of Scandinavian storytelling. It’s a unique playable cocktail of James Bond, Find Your Family and The Walking Dead game - and it really is a true story. It consists of a playable documentary available for tablets and web, a companion app extending the facts of the story in audio and text, plus webisodes with additional recordings and animations. All targeted at intellectuals interested in documentary and interactive narratives. Secondarily targeted at mid-core gamers looking for new meaningful experiences.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES Danish Film Institute (New Danish Screen), Danish Film Institute (Danish Games Scheme), Nordic Game
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS GearWorks
CONTACT sax@klassefilm.dk
Come along on the quest to find truth and maybe get the answer to the question: Do we really know each other?
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EM A TRANSMEDIAL INVESTIGATION THAT LEADS TO THE DARKEST PLACES ON THE WEB
TEAM: Gunnar A.K. Järvstad, Writer and Director // Olof Spaak, Writer and Director // Sofie Palage, Producer
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The EM-universe is dirty, edgy, fast paced, cyberpunk, teen, sci-fi and it’s exploding with colors! The stories are about love, identity, loyalty, moral dilemmas, grief, death and digital resurrection. The experience consists of a web series and an Alternate Reality Game, which are interwoven through the narrative.
Primodrom is a Malmö-based film company, founded in 2011 by Sofie Palage, Olof Spaak and Gunnar A.K Järvstad.
ARG (Alternate Reality Game) The users will step into a story universe of cyber mystery, conspiracies and thrills! The game starts with the character ReplyGirl urging the user to join a forum called The Nest, to assist in looking into the circumstances surrounding a homicide and abduction. The gaming is based around collecting data and clues and collectively discussing and evaluating the findings. The story is going to be interactive in its core and will be altered along the way depending on user input.
WEBSERIES
The web series revolves around a group of young adults getting manipulated by an AI, posing as their dead friend. The group gets drawn into a mysterious and dangerous tangle that reaches beyond their safe world and far out to the web’s darkest places! Our main target users are 13-19 year olds, so-called “never cords” whom don’t use TV as a main screen. Our themes are universal and international, which will attract an even broader group.
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CONTACT sofie@primodrom.se
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TRANSITION TIME A TRANSMEDIA VERSION OF AN ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE TRADITION, WHERE MEN AND WOMEN GATHER TO EXPLORE THE MYSTERIES OF WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR, AND WHAT WE MAY BECOME.
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: DKK 350.000 FROM THE DANISH MINISTRY OF INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION
TEAM: Bente Milton, Director SYNOPSIS
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Transition Time is a bold and exciting new arena for collective storytelling and collaboration. We are inviting a global audience to join leading edge visionaries and wisdom-keepers in a collective quest for answers to four existential questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? And where are we going?
Skandha Media ApS was founded by Bente Milton in 2012. It is a network based company specializing in cross platform storytelling and transmedia production, strategic consulting, design and implementation of virtual spaces for community building and education. In 2012 Skandha Media was responsible for overseeing the development and management of Sustainia’s cross media strategy. In 2013 the company produced a series of live events, including an opera ”Promenade Abyss”, which was performed for the Queen of Denmark in May 2013.
A cornerstone of the project is a TV series, which we are developing in collaboration with PBS in the USA. The core narrative describes the human family moving from a long history of geographic and social separation, to nearly instantaneous global communication and connection. The TV series will be supplemented with an open-source platform, where the audience will be invited to explore the mysteries of time, space, reality and human consciousness and share their personal transition stories. The stories will be weaved into a high profile feature length documentary, which will be donated to The Long Now Foundation with the purpose of having it preserved for the next 10.000 years. We will also invite the audience to enter our 3D virtual world, team up with change-makers from different continents and cultures, and start to build the future they want. Last but not least, we will launch a series of live events culminating with a Transition Time world summit in Copenhagen in November 2014.
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS ELCAS - Ervin Laszlo’s Center for Advanced Study was established by Dr Ervin Laszlo in 2012 to provide a platform to host leading edge research programs and projects involving consciousness, well-being, culture and social change. THE CLUB OF BUDAPEST - With its roster of internationally renowned members the Club initiates a dialogue between different belief systems and world views. VIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE - As Denmark's largest university college, VIA UC are among the best educational institutions in the world.
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CIRCUS IMAGO EXPLORE THE CIRCUS IMAGO UNIVERSE AND FIND OUT HOW BRILLIANT YOU ARE!
TEAM: Leif Mohlin, Producer // Helene Mohlin, CEO SYNOPSIS
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Life at Circus Imago is anything but dull. In their pursuit of becoming the greatest circus in the world, they face disaster and success, fights and making up, falling in love, and learning that anything is possible if you put your heart into it. So far 32 episodes of the Circus Imago TV-series have been broadcasted on the Swedish children's channel and its success is based on its existential themes told through slapstick humour. Each episode is a story in itself, but is also a part of a long-term storyline. Circus Imago is a well-established story universe that also contains:
MINT is a Swedish production company, which deliberates and produces television, movies, documentary, events and books for children and youth. MINT’s strength lies in a long experience of drama, and movie production as well as stories for web tv and other platforms including moving media. Some of our clients include: SVT Swedish Broadcasting, City of Malmoe, Region Skåne, IKEA Communication, Swedish Film Institute, Film i Skåne.
3 matinée films in production, where the elevated scenery and format gives the viewer a chance to immerse in to this enchanted world. A theater play on tour, where two of the characters, Dag and Anna are looking for new circus acts, but they quickly realize that they need help from the audience. A free app. A working prototype of an iPad game, where all these parts come together in a challenging, comic and safe universe. The Circus Imago universe is a world of great fun with children of 4 - 6 as our primary target group closely followed by kids of 7 - 8 as a secondary group. However the physical humour and playfulness makes it appealing to the whole family and both parents and grandparents are sure to join in.
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CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES Ystad Filmfond ALMI
CONTACT helene.mohlin@mint-ab.se
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HUMAN FEMALE SEXUALITY PROJECT IF A VULVA COULD SPEAK
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES: For the film: The Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, DR, UR. Total budget: 350,000 EUR (30% financing in place) Status: Late development/ pre-production.
TEAM: Lea Glob, Director // Mette Carla Albrechtsen, Director // Jesper Jack, Producer // Riina Spørring Zachariassen, Producer SYNOPSIS
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The Human Female Sexuality Project is on a playful mission to send the audience on an erotic voyeuristic self-investigation. The project consists of a feature length documentary film, where the two Directors investigate female desire together with one hundred young Copenhagen women, and an online interactive experience that will encourage all women to take part in a collaborative documentary art piece on female sexuality - seen from female points of view.
FRIDTHJOF FILM was founded in the year 2000 and is one of the leading companies in the Danish film industry. With a strong fiction and documentary department we strive to deliver the most entertaining products with the highest production and creative value. The documentary department focuses on high end, director-driven documentaries for a broad international audience and was nominated for 4 Emmy-awards for “Armadillo”, which also won Critic’s Week in Cannes in 2010. JESPER JACK has directed, edited, developed and produced numerous documentaries. RIINA SPØRRING ZACHARIASSEN is a lawyer by training and has a background in film festivals.
In the digital experience you’ll be met by a manifesto that explains what the project is about: A piece that mirrors the over-sexualized imagery of women on the Internet. The art piece is designed as an erotic storytelling machine that allows the user to explore, contribute and take authorship on different levels. The machine randomly displays and remixes women’s true audio stories, photographs and texts into new constellations every time you enter the site. Within the site you’ll have different opportunities to be curious, explore, upload material (if you are over 18) and add comments as well as watch and interact. The machine is aesthetically designed to grow from contributions and evolve with filters and tagging systems and find ways into physical art spaces and installations.
CONTACT riina@f-film.com
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TEAM: Magnus Gertten, Director/Executive Producer // Ann Lundberg, Producer // Sebastian Claesson, Researcher // Lennart Strøm, Executive Producer SYNOPSIS
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April 28 - Walk a Mile In My Shoes is an interactive experience about refugee life in two time periods; 1945 and 2015. We want to give you a feeling of what it’s like to walk in the shoes of a war survivor.
The production company Auto Images in Malmö, Sweden, was founded in 1998 and is owned and run by Magnus Gertten, director/producer, and Lennart Ström, producer.
The basis of the experience is the events that took place in the harbor of Malmö April 28, 1945, when thousands of concentration camp survivors came from Germany. They were captured in unique pictures taking their first steps in freedom. Through extensive research we’ve managed to identify several survivors and learn about their extraordinary life stories.
Auto Images is primarily renowned for a vast number of documentaries, produced in co-operation with Sveriges Television (SVT) and screened at international TV channels and film festivals. Auto Images has also produced several successful fiction projects.
Our idea is to use these stories to create an interactive experience with a branching narrative. Mixing film with user choices and gamelike challenges. The narrative will be based on timeless refugee-themes like: Learning a language, finding your family or finding a place to live. The user will be able to immerse into the individual life stories as well as compare refugees from the different time periods, 1945 and 2015.
CONTACT ann@autoimages.se
Every year, around the world, millions of people become refugees. Through April 28 – Walk a Mile In My Shoes, we want to create awareness about this important subject within our main target group, youth ages 12-19.
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ODYSSEY ARE YOU SANE ENOUGH TO BE ALLOWED ON BOARD, AND CRAZY ENOUGH TO GO?
TEAM: Michael Madsen, Director // Cecilia Valsted, Transmedia producer // Lise Lense-Møller, Film producer SYNOPSIS
COMPANY BIO
The day will come. Humans will be forced to look for another planet: Neo-Earth! The Moon and Mars missions have people lining up to volunteer, but they expect to return. Not so with the Neo-Earth mission. It is an inter-generational space odyssey with no return and no known destination. Those who leave will die in transit, and those who arrive will never have seen the planet they represent. Will anybody want to go? Who? And why? Which qualities should we look for in the candidates?
Magic Hour Films has produced and co-produced a wealth of films, many of which are international co-productions and award-winning, such as Burma VJ a feature documentary by Anders Østergaard, with 51 international awards and an Oscar-nomination. Also included, Into Eternity by Michael Madsen with 19 international awards, and theatrical releases in the UK, US, Japan, France, Spain, DK, The Netherlands and Scandinavia. Presently in production 1989 (working title) by Anders Østergaard and The Visit by Michael Madsen, both with expected releases in August 2014.
ODYSSEY is a personality test seeking candidates for the ultimate mission to save Mankind. The theme is Human Core Values. What is worth saving, and how? The users will be potential space travelers, inter-generational astronauts, and potential future Neo-Earth settler. Aboard the space craft, everything is subordinated the mission: With whom to procreate and what Earth wisdom to keep alive - everything! The user, f/m, age 25-32, interested in sci-fi, philosophy, social responsibility and the human nature will experience ODYSSEY through an interactive APP film (The ultimate personality test), TV (episodes), games (extending the personality test), social media (PR campaigns), community website a.o. All elements are tied and cross-promoted, creating a synergy of experience between the collections as a whole.
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS In negotiation
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES Danish Agency for Culture Danish Film Directors
CONTACT cv@magichourfilms.dk
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LOST IN PERFECTION INTERNATIONALLY, SCANDINAVIA IS SEEN AS `THE PERFECT SOCIETY´. A ROLE MODEL, AND AN EXAMPLE OF THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN WHAT HUMANS CAN ACHIEVE. IS THIS TRUE?
TEAM: Erik Gandini, Director & Producer // Juan Pablo Libossart, Producer // Kristian Mosvold, Transmedia Producer
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In February 1972 a group of politicians in Sweden gathered to define a new idea for the future. Motivated by a strong urgency in challenging traditional social structures, they defined a new goal. The vision was to create ”A Society of Autonomous Individuals”. A manifest was written in which it was demanded that "no citizen should be depending on the other". Year 2013, forty years later, Scandinavia is the loneliest region in the world. Sweden is the country with the highest amount of people dying alone and tops the chart of single households with 47% living alone. Norway is second with 42% and Denmark third with 41%. LOST IN PERFECTION (working title) will try to penetrate the cracks of Scandinavian perfection and dig into the dysfunctional sides of this on the surface perfect society.
FASAD FILM is a production company based in Stockholm. Its productions have been awarded at some of the top film festivals around the world. The company’s filmography in-cludes: Blondie (2012), Avalon (2011), The Ape (2009), Bur-rowing (2009), among others. Current Fasad productions, extend to a number of productions including Erik Gandini's Lost in Perfection, Fredrik Wenzel and Jesper Kurlandsky’s Signs of an Open Eye, Anna Padilla’s Bara Fem Minuter Till, Angela Bravo’s An Imaginary Country and two yet-untitled Jesper Ganslandt films. More at www.fasad.se.
SOLO is a TRANSMEDIA digital interactive platform to be launched during the making of the documentary film LOST IN PERFECTION by Erik Gandini, to be released in 2015. The aim is to give the audience the chance to gather on a digital platform and participate in a discussion about the pros and the cons of our modern solo lifestyle. We want to make the filmmaking interact with the audience and ask them for help with questions such as: How do we live our life? Is freedom from each other meaningful? Do we want to die alone? Are we happy?
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS
SOLO will be a website and later an application that will gather an audience curious to participate in our research, questioning and potentially proposing solutions to the question of loneliness in the western world.
CONTACT juan@fasad.se
SVT, SFI, Film I Väst, YLE, DR, DFI, NRK, NFI, MEDIA, Zentropa & Indie Film (co-prod. partners for the documentary film).
CONFIRMED FINANCIAL SOURCES SVT, SFI, Film I Väst, YLE, DR, DFI, NRK, NFI, MEDIA (for the documentary film as well).
OPERATION CELESTE “DAG HAMMARSKJOLD WAS ON THE POINT OF GETTING SOMETHING DONE WHEN THEY KILLED HIM. NOTICE THAT I SAID, “WHEN THEY KILLED HIM"" - HARRY S. TRUMAN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT.
TEAM: Morten Bundgaard, Producer // Kasper Söderlund, Art director SYNOPSIS
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On September 19, 1961 the Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld, lost his life in a plane crash in the Rhodesian bush. Several courts of inquiry, both national and international, reached the same conclusion: It was an accident pure and simple, and that was all there was to it.
Electric Parc consists of two branches, Electric Parc Creative and Electric Parc Productions. Together we focus on the cross-media potential in films, games, music and art.
However, now that we have passed the 50-year anniversary of Hammarskjöld’s death, it has become evident that there is more to the story. Much more. It reaches much further than a common conspiracy theory – in fact there is not much theory about it. There is a disturbing amount of tangible substance to this case. Such significant substance calls for a documentary project stretching across multiple platforms and with an international stamp – after all, this could possibly be about the fully premeditated murder of the chairman of the World Community.
Electric Parc Creative was founded in 2003 and has over the years become one of Danish film industry's favorite design and digital agencies. We handle full launching campaigns for all types and genres of culture projects. Recently we have produced full campaigns for the feature film A Royal Affair by Nikolaj Arcel, This Life by Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis,The Ambassador, a feature-length documentary by Mads Brügger and The Keeper of Lost Causes by Mikkel Nørgaard. Electric Parc Productions, aims to create sensational documentaries, gaming and new talent movies with strong cross-media potentials. We focus on the good audience experience - for the international as well as the national market.
CONTACT morten.bundgaard@electricparc.dk
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INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM The conditions of investigative journalism in danish documentaries. Investigative journalism is a resource-intensive field that is struggling to survive in a time when the media landscape is changing fundamentally. In Denmark, investigative documentary filmmaking is shouldered by a relatively small group of journalists. We have invited a couple of heavyweights within the genre to talk about methods, challenges, funding and the future of independent documentary journalism. The debate will focus on the conditions needed to research
the important story. Is there enough time, goodwill and financing available to produce resource-intensive journalistic films in today's media landscape? Meet the journalist and filmproducer Helle Faber and the journalists and directors Tom Heinemann and Miki Mistrati, all of whom are filmmakers who have worked with Danish and international documentaries and earned major international acclaim. Moderated by: Christoffer Guldbrandsen. Running time: 60 min Cinemateket: CARL Bio Tuesday 12/11 10:30am
FILM THAT CHANGE THE WORLD - 2.0 A serious debate about the freedoms and limitations of critical journalism Critical documentary filmmaking has a little sister a new sub-genre that is storming ahead. It was born from the world 2.0, it is fundamentally activist, it wants to be more than film; it wants to change the world. It is filmmaking on a mission, filmmaking that strives for change, active campaigns and targeted social media. Can films change the world and get the audience to actively participate and demand social and political change? And what happens when documentaries get critically close to power and shake the structures that have strong interest groups behind them? We have
invited a strong panel of directors and broadcasters to talk about films that take a close-up look at things: Mark Donne, activist and journalist (his film UK GOLD is participating in this year's F:ACT AWARD), Mette Hoffmann Meyer, editor at the Danish public broadcasting channel DR2 and initiator of the series 'Why Poverty?' and finally the creative and talented directors from Golden Girls film produktion; Arash and Arman Riahi. Moderated by Martin Krasnik. Running time: 90 min Cinemateket: CARL Bio Tuesday 12/11 12:00am
HYBRID JOURNALISM Remarkable films are currently being produced, which have a foot in both the documentary as well as the journalistic film and research traditions. Films like 'The Ambassador' and 'The Act of Killing' indicate that something new is happening at the crossroads between the two genres, which is shaking the heavy foundations of the journalistic toolbox: New forms of investigative journalism, different approaches to the reportage format and a serious reinterpretation of the journalist's role. They are films on a mission, often a mission to change the world, rewrite history or experi-
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ence it from the inside in a new way. We invite you to a discussion about the tenuous field between documentary and journalistic method with the directors Mads Br端gger, Werner Boote and Ben Lewis. The moderator is the journalist and editor of BBC Storyville, Nick Fraser. Running time: CARL Bio 90 min Cinemateket: Tuesday 12/11 2:30pm
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CPH:CO-PRO For the first time, CPH:DOX and EDN - European Documentary Network are facilitating co-production opportunities between international producers. The aim is to match producers from Denmark and abroad to strengthen relations across borders, encourage co-productions and forge strong working relationships.10 selected film projects will be presented to a room of international producers. Each of the proj-
ects has specific co-production needs and requests. In addition to the projects being presented, each project team will introduce us to the co-production opportunities available in the country they come from. Running time: 75 min Cinemateket: ASTA Bio Thursday 14/11 2:30pm
SWIM FORUM: TELLING TRANSMEDIA STORIES Do you want to learn more about current possibilities with media? SWIM is an innovative cross-media initiative at CPH:DOX that supports the development of a new industry and ways of telling, financing and sharing stories using the multi-platforms available for storytelling. SWIM FORUM begins with an introduction to the field. After which current SWIM projects are presented to and receive feedback from a carefully selected panel of experts, potential investors and distributors. SWIM Forum aims to create networks
and challenge existing production, distribution and financing conventions for this emergent field. The event is closed, but the general public is welcome if there are enough seats. More information about SWIM and SWIM Forum can be found on swimbabyswim.dk. Running time: 240 min Cinemateket: ASTA Bio Wednesday 13/11 1:30pm
ANIMATION + DOCUMENTARY = ANIDOX A presentation of new, animated documentary projects from the anidox:lab project. AniDox:Lab is a new international workshop and a laboratory, during which documentary filmmakers and animation directors come together to develop new approaches to foster cooperation between animation and documentary filmmaking. Meet the students from The Animation Workshop, which is a part of VIA University College School of Creative Industries, when they present the best projects of the workshop. After
each presentation, there will be time for a Q&A with the directors. The head of the workshop, Tim Leborgne, and the AniDox:Lab instructors and producers Uri and Michelle Kranot will talk about the teaching process and the specific results that have come about by combining the two genres. Running time: 75 min Cinemateket: CARL Bio Thursday 14/11 3.00pm
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'THE WORLD 2.0 - DO IT TOGETHER' During this year's CPH:DOX festival, CPH:DOX will launch a conference in collaboration with SWIM, Scandinavian World of Innovative Media. The conference, 'The World 2.0 - Do It Together' gathers creative forces from different industries, and investigates how art, creativity and technology can enhance our communication both on the internet and in everyday life. 'The World 2.0 - Do It Together' will focus on the possibilities we encounter in a 'World 2.0' era, which is shaped by the new accelerating technological developments. Among the speakers you will meet: Gopi Kallayil, The Yes Men, Michel Reilhac, Paulina Bozek, Renzo
Martens, Ravi Amaratunga and Inna Shevchenko. The participants will represent a unique combination of creative professionals, entrepreneurs and academics working within the media, music, art, film, design and games industries. It will provide networking opportunities across many different sectors to explore the possibilities in the 'World 2.0'. Thursday 14/11: 9:00am-17:00pm Friday 15711: 9:00am-16:00pm. See you at the National Gallery of Denmark!
DR, DFI FILMWORKSHOP AND CPH:DOX TALENT AWARD 2013 Young filmmakers will again this year have a unique opportunity to present their film idea to the professional documentary film industry. 25,000 DKK are at stake in development and production funding from the Danish public broadcaster DR, with equipment being provided by the Danish Film Institute's "Filmværkstedet" film workshop. The Talent Award focuses on the development of young and creative directing talents. The 10 selected finalists will compete on Friday, 8 November at a talent pitch at Cinemateket. Here, a
professional panel will announce the final winner of the talent award 2013. The jury consists of Mette Hoffmann Meyer (DR), Prami Larsen (Filmværkstedet), Helle Faber and Nanna Frank Møller. Running time: 150 min Cinemateket: CARL Bio Friday 8/11 2:30pm
1 + 1 = 3 / FILM + ART + SCIENCE How do you make a documentary in an interdisciplinary context? What synergies come about when working across industries and disciplines? What is happening at the new interdisciplinary crossroads between documentary, research and art? A large number of new documentary and art film projects are taking innovative approaches to grapple with these questions. By interacting with research environments and engaging in other cross-disciplinary partnerships, they are developing new types of knowledge and insights. These are not films ABOUT research, but films and research, which themselves are approached in a way that creates knowledge and films in a new way. CPH:DOX, in collaboration with the MEDIA desks in Belgium, Denmark, Holland, and Germany, has invited a number of renowned directors, who all work in this new field. Meet Michael Madsen, Renzo Martens and 100 / SEMINAR AND TALKS
Adam Wakeling, and hear about their process, experience and visions for a new type of documentary. The case studies are followed by a discussion among experts with a background in both film and research: Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning, CEO of the Center for Culture and Experience Economy and chairman of European Creative Industries Alliance, Christian Fonnesbech from Investigate North, Ib Bondebjerg, professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen, as well as, the documentary film director Phie Ambo. Moderated by Jakob Høgel from the Danish Film Institute. Running time: 165 min Cinemateket: CARL Bio Wednesday 13/11 2:30pm
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ART:FILM SYMPOSIUM As years previous, CPH:DOX will again focus on the meeting between contemporary art and film, through seminars with leading artists, curators and filmmakers. Over the last three years, we have explored the borderland between film and contemporary art through film screenings, project presentations, seminars and performances. CPH:DOX's vision is to connect the film and art scene by joining the institutions of both worlds to exchange knowledge, ideas, and practices thereby, developing new ways of working that can support the growing community between film and visual arts. Based on a Think Tank held earlier this year at Frieze Art Fair we have invited artists, curators and filmmakers who work on these edges to discuss and present new methods, processes, ideas towards a shared future.
The idea behind ART:FILM and the Think Tank is to focus on financing, production and distribution of feature length films – films that exist on this frontier between cinema and visual art and attract professionals from both industries. CPH:FORUM is proud to present a list of these ART:FILM projects at CPH:FORUM. CPH:DOX highlights films at this year’s festival such as A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (2013, Ben River & Ben Russel) – pitched at CPH:FORUM 2011. ART:FILM is organized in a collaboration between CPH:DOX, Frieze Foundation, IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam) and LUX.
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MEET MARK LEWIS AND PIERRE BISMUTH Two of the finest artist working in the field between visual arts and film will talk about their works and methods. Pierre Bismuth is no stranger to the Danish audience. Bismuth often works with humour as an object, and we guarantee that he is not a dull person in real life. In 2004, he won an Oscar for best screenplay, which he developed together with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman. Bismuth is currently working on a surprising film full of wit and humor, a mix between a rigorous American thriller and an extravagant European conceptual piece, that Bismuth may reveal during
the session. Canadian artist Mark Lewis has had his films shown in museums and galleries all over the world. Much of Mark Lewis' works centers on the notion of the cinema itself, technology and the different genres of film and as such he is a meta master artist per se. Moderator will be director and art critic, Ben Lewis. Running time: 90 min Cinemateket: CARL Bio Friday 15/11 10:00am
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PANEL DISCUSSION AND THINK TANK WITH FRIEZE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF FILM IN THE FIELD OF ART. In October 2013, CPH:DOX hosted a think tank in collaboration with Frieze Foundation, LUX and International Film Festival Rotterdam during the Frieze Art Fair in London. A wide range of leading artists, curators, film foundations, museums and galleries were invited to the think tank to discuss the future and new opportunities for collaboration between art and film. Today, an increasing number of films are being produced at the crossroads between the two worlds, but it is remarkable how few institutional initiatives exist to cover both genres. The panel will present
some of the discussions that were central to the think tank. The panel will include the organisers of the think tank and a selection of invited experts, including: Filipa Ramos (Vdrome), Marie Schmidt (Danish Film Institute/NDS), Maggie Ellis (Film London), Eve Gabereau (Soda Pictures) and Marianne Torp (the National Gallery of Denmark). Running time: 90 min Cinemateket: CARL Bio Friday 15/11 12:00pm
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A AUSTRIAN FILM COMMISSION (AFC) MARTIN SCHWEIGHOFER/ CEO
Martin was born in Vienna. He studied journalism and drama at the University of Vienna. Film critic and arts editor at Austrian periodicals (until 1993). Co-founder of and dramatic adviser at the theater company Theater im Kopf; Member of various selection boards of film subsidy agencies; Founder and director of the film festival Diagonale (1993-1996); Member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Film Institute; Member of the Board of Directors of European Film Promotion (EFP); Member of the European Film Academy. CEO of the Austrian Film Commission (AFC) since 1993. CONTACT ms@afc.at www.afc.at
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ARTUR LIEBHART / CEO OF AGAINST GRAVITY + FESTIVAL DIRECTOR PLANETE DOC FESTIVAL CEO of distribution company Against Gravity and festival's director of the major doc event in Poland - PLANETE DOC F.F.. Expert of Polish FIlm Institute. Chief programer of ALL ABOUT FREEDOM Festival of Arts in Gdansk. Director of PLANETE DOC ACADEMY - education programe based in documentary films for Higher Education schools. Received Golden Cross of Merit by President of Poland on June 4th 2013. CONTACT aliebhart@docreview.pl www.againstgravity.pl www.planetedocff.pl
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WERONIKA ADAMOWSKA / PROGRAMMER + ACQUISITION MANAGER
Against Gravity is one of the leading arthouse film distribution companies in Poland. It distributes high-quality documentary and feature films. CONTACT weronika@docreview.pl www.againstgravity.pl, www.planetedocff.pl
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A THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP / SCHOOL OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES URI KRANOT / DIRECTOR
Originally from Israel, he has lived away from his “homeland” for the last seven years, making films in different countries, searching for his “utopia” in film and in reality... His films have won more than thirty international prizes and participated in numerous film festivals. He has given master classes all around the world and had retrospective screenings including at the Forum des images in Paris 2009. Uri has worked as an artist in residence at the “Animation Workshop” in Viborg, Denmark, where he also teaches at the bachelor program and leads the AniDox:Lab seminars. CONTACT urikranot@yahoo.com www.tindrumanimation.com
THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP / SCHOOL OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TIM LEBORGNE / DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
Born from a French father and an American mother in New York in 1974, Tim graduated with a Master’s degree in social psychology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Since 2003, Tim has joined The Animation Workshop in Viborg as the director of its international Professional Training and Open Workshop (artist residencies) departments. Besides organising The Animation Workshop’s vocational animation/CG/VFX courses and master classes for European professionals, Tim runs the school’s talent development and independent production activities and takes part in the school’s work placement programme. CONTACT tim@viauc.dk www.animwork.dk; www.viauc.dk
THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP / SCHOOL OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES MICHELLE KRANOT / DIRECTOR & AUTHOR
Michelle is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary Artists. Originally from Israel, she has been living, working and making films in different countries. Michelle has been working as artists in residence at "The Animation Workshop” in Viborg, Denmark, where she also teaches and produces various professional programs including the AniDox:Lab seminars. CONTACT mickranot@gmail.com hollowlandfilm.wordpress.com
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KAREN MICHAEL/ COMMISSIONING EDITOR, CHARGEE DE PROGRAMMES
Karen Michael has been working for La Sept/Arte since its beginning. Since 2008 she has been Commissioning Editor for the current affairs, Social issues and geopolitical department, in charge of Themed evenings and of Biography slot dealing with engaged personalities. She still runs Metropolis, Arte’s weekly cultural magazine, and l’Art et La Manière a collection of documentaries that follows leading European contemporary artists at work. Since September 2011, Karen is Commissioning Editor for the Society and Culture Department and in charge of Culture. CONTACT k-michael@artefrance.fr www.artefrance.tv
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ALEXANDRE PIEL / DEPUTY HEAD DRAMA, INTERNATIONAL ACQUISITIONS AND COPRODUCTIONS
Alexandre has a background in the television industry dating back to 1997 within the international sales division of France Télévisions Distribution. He joined Télé-Images/Marathon in 2006 to work on pre-financing and coproduction in the documentary and animation field, and then was in charge of project development and acquisition. In 2011, Alexandre was managing the Paris office of Zodiak Rights, handling the drama sales and acquisitions. CONTACT a-piel@artefrance.fr
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ANNA MANDLIK / RELATIONSHIP MANAGER, LONDON VISUAL ARTS TEAM
Since 2010 Anna has worked at Arts Council England as a Relationship Manager in the London Visual Arts team. Her specialty is artists’ moving image work and she manages a portfolio of funded organisations including Lux, Film and Video Umbrella and Film London as well as advising individual artists on funding. She leads on international work across art forms for the London area. Previously Anna worked for 5 years as part of the Philanthropy team at Bloomberg; this involved making decisions on the funding of arts projects and managing the organisation’s contemporary art gallery Bloomberg SPACE. CONTACT Anna.Mandlik@artscouncil.org.uk www.artscouncil.org.uk
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TIMO KORHONEN/ FILM COMMISSIONER
Has worked as film commissioner in AVEK (Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture in Finland) since 2010. Producer of a large documentary training and production project The Other Finland in 2002-2006. Has worked as documentary film director and producer since 1990. Doctor of Arts degree,2013 (Theme of the dissertation: Moral code in the Finnish Documentary film). CONTACT timo.korhonen@avek.kopiosto.fi www.facebook.com/AVEKfi
AUTLOOK FILMSALES PETER JÄGER/ CEO
Born in Belgium, Peter studied law and philosophy. As a young film freak, Peter created a new film magazine with fellow university students and became ‘Commercial and Marketing Director’. Following his passion for film, Peter became ‘Marketing and Acquisitions Consultant’ for several major independent theatrical distributors and film exhibitors with films like "Festen", "Mulholland Drive", "The Lord Of The Rings trilogy". In 2005 Peter founded AUTLOOK Filmsales GmbH, a worldwide distribution company for Docs. Today Autlook is 6 people strong and a leading global distributor for Documentaries. Peter is a distribution expert consultant of MEDIA Programme, a jury member of the Flemish Film Fund, Vienna Film Fund and a distribution-marketing-sales Lecturer for Film Academy Vienna, Donau-University Krems, Film Academy Berlin, Eurodocs, Cine Regio, MAIA workshop and National Film Institutes & Festivals (like IDFA, Hot Docs, Berlinale, Cannes). CONTACT peter@autlookfilms.com www.autlookfilms.com
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KATE PICKERING/ SENIOR PRODUCER
Kate is a senior producer at the BBC. She has worked in the broadcast and digital industries for 17 years, across television and online content. Kate currently leads development for CBBC Interactive. She works with drama, factual and entertainment teams to deliver cross platform. Ongoing projects include: games, video (both linear and interactive), comics, digital toys and native app. CONTACT Kate.pickering@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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NICK FRASER / COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Nick Fraser was born in London in 1948 and educated at Oxford. He has worked as a journalist, independent television producer and a programme editor. Currently he is editor of Storyville, the BBC’s long-running and successful series of international documentaries. Programmes shown on Storyville have won many awards, including an Oscar, Sundance prizes, Peabody awards, IDFA trophies and Griersons. Nick Fraser has written five non-fiction books, including The Voice of Modern Hatred, Encounters with the European Far Right, and he is a contributing editor of Harper’s magazine, New York. His latest pamphlet, Why Documentaries Matter, is published by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Nick was the series editor of the global documentary project Why Democracy? and executive producer of Why Poverty? CONTACT nick.fraser@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/storyville
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BEN LEWIS / DIRECTOR, AUTHOR AND ART CRITIC
Ben Lewis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and art critic whose films are commissioned by the BBC, Arte and a long list of broadcasters from Europe, North America and Australia. Ben Lewis has made many feature documentaries and series on contemporary and historical subjects, which combine insight and humour and which have provoked public debate and influenced political decision-making. Ben's latest film "Google and the World Brain" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013 and has been shown in 40 festivals around the world. Another new film "Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty" was shown on over 70 TV channels across the world world 2012-13 and was jointly awarded a Peabody Award. Ben Lewis is currently developing 'Falciani's List' about the Edward Snowden of tax evasion; "Chancers', a comic documentary about a bunch of producers who faked a movie; and Human Nature", a film about the Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko and Soviet agricultural wackiness.
BONNIERS KONSTHALL SARA ARRHENIUS / DIRECTOR
Sara Arrhenius is a curator and a critic. She is the director of the Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm. Arrhenius was the director of IASPIS (International Artists’ Studio Program in Sweden) between 2000-2005. She was the curator of the third Biennale in Gothenburg, and contributes regularly to magazines and publications focused on contemporary art. She has written and edited several book on contemporary art and culture. CONTACT sara.arrhenius@bonnierskonsthall.se
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LIZZIE FRANCKE / SENIOR PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE
Lizzie Francke is a Senior Production and Development Executive at the BFI’s Film Fund. Over the last couple of years she has overseen films as diverse as Andrew Kotting’s Swandown, Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea and Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers. She was formerly a Development Producer for the UK Film Council’s Development Fund where she oversaw the First Feature programme, out of which was developed such projects as Clio Barnard’s The Arbor and Gillian Wearing’s Self Made. She started her career as a film critic in the early 1990s contributing to the Guardian, The Observer, Sight and Sound and Screen International amongst others. During this period she also wrote the book Script Girls: The History of Women Screenwriters in Hollywood (1994, BFI Publishing). In 1997 she was appointed Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and in her five years there re-established the festival as a key showcase for British cinema. CONTACT lizzie.francke@bfi.org.uk www.bfi.org.uk
BRITDOC FOUNDATION LUKE MOODY/ GRANTS OFFICER
Luke Moody is Grants Officer at BRITDOC Foundation supporting filmmakers through funding and project development with a particular focus on the PUMA Catalyst Awards and Channel 4 Fund since 2010. He has recently compiled a funding and development resource for international filmmakers pursuing traditional and new funding models: CONTACT britdoc.org/resources
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KATE PICKERING / DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER CBBC INTERACTIVE
Kate is a development producer for CBBC interactive, a role that combines idea generation for new projects and business development. Beginning her career at the BBC, she has freelanced in television production and development for 10 years. She has worked cross sector helping people generate ideas for product, service, and project development. She is very interested and always engaging in organisations using new technologies to develop content and communications and create platforms for collaboration and innovation. CONTACT Kate.pickering@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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CATHERINE LE CLEF/ PRESIDENT
In November 2009, Catherine Le Clef started her own international worldwide documentary distribution company, CAT&Docs. In 2007, Le Clef joined Fortissimo Films from Paris based Doc & Co. Prior to this, she was with Films Transit International in Canada where she worked for more than a decade. She distributes: 5 Broken Cameras, The Staircase, Planet of Snail, Last Train Home, Call Me Kuchu, Special Flight, The Road to Fame, The Oath, Which Way Home, just to mane a few. CONTACT cat@catndocs.com www.catndocs.com
CAKI- CENTER FOR APPLIED ARTISTIC INNOVATION PERNILLE SKOV/ DIRECTOR
Pernille is the director at CAKI, where she works to increase innovation, interdisciplinarity and entrepreneurship in the art educations. She is also founder and partner in the private agency Art+Innovation Hub, which focus their activities on bringing contemporary art in front as an active, visible factor in society and an equal contributor to growth and development. Finally Pernille also has a small communication agency, which produces web casts and small films for museums, galleries, art foundations etc. CONTACT pernille@caki.dk www.caki.dk
CAMERA FILM
KIM FOSS/ CEO MANAGING DIRECTOR AT CAMERA FILM / GRAND TEATRET
Camera Film acquires some 20 films pr. year for Danish distribution – mostly of the high end art house variety. Grand Teatret is Copenhagen’s prime waterhole for art house films boasting 6 screens and a total capacity of almost 800 seats. Grand Teatret received the Europa Cinemas Award for best programmation in 2006. CONTACT kim@camerafilm.com www.grandteatret.dk
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ADAM GEE / MULTIPLATFORM COMMISSIONING EDITOR (FACTUAL)
Adam is one of the most experienced commissioners in UK broadcasting of multiplatform interactive projects around TV. Recent projects range from Hugh’s Fish Fight to The Sexperience 1000, from Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic to The Great British Property Scandal. Adam has won over 70 international awards for his productions. He has served on BAFTA’s Television and Interactive Entertainment committees and is a voting member of the European Film Academy. He is a trustee of Culture24. CONTACT agee@channel4.co.uk www.channel4.co.uk
CENTRE POMPIDOU
CHARLENE DINHUT/ FILM CURATOR, HORS PISTES Hors Pistes is a 15 days-long event that curates art films as well as an exhibition. It is interested in artists that play with the narration, invent innovative forms, and whose filmic work invests performance, contemporary art or new medias. This year, Hors Pistes is more involved in the production of new works, that will be present in a very unique way during Hors Pistes (January 10 to 26, 2014). Charlene Dinhut also works as a film curator for the Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum for Hunting and Nature), a very peculiar place in Paris for contemporary art. CONTACT Charlene.DINHUT@centrepompidou.fr www.centrepompidou.fr
CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION
DAVE KRANENBURG, DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING
Dave Kranenburg is a social innovation strategist and practitioner with the passion and patience for developing long-lasting initiatives. The Centre for Social Innovation has a mission of catalyzing social innovation in Toronto and around the world. As its Programming Director he supports members as they pursue their world-changing visions through an approach that mixes art, technology, urban and rural renewal, social justice, environmentalism and business development. CONTACT dave@socialinnovation.ca www.sociationinnovation.ca
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C CENTER FOR CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE ECONOMY RASMUS WIINSTEDT TSCHERNING / CEO
Managing Director, CKO Center for Cultural and Experience Economy and Chairman of the European Creative Industries Alliance, appointed by DG Enterprise. Founder of Creative Business Cup, a global competition for entrepreneurs from the creative industries, and in charge of KreaNord initiatives by the Nordic Council of Minister. Passionate about promoting entrepreneurship and growth in the creative industries, cross sector innovation and the role of policy. Holds a master’s degree in political science but has a creative dna. Rasmus also runs his own artist-in-residency program. CONTACT rwt@cko.dk www.howtogrow.eu/ecia / www.cko.dk/english / www.kreanord.org
CHI-HUI YANG
INDEPENDENT CURATOR + CONSULTANT
Chi-hui Yang is a film programmer, lecturer and writer based in New York. Yang sits on the selection committee for MoMA's Documentary Fortnight and his guest curatorial work includes the 2013 season of PBS' POV documentary series for which he was consulting series producer and the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar (“The Age of Migration”). From 2000-2010 he was the Director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Yang is also the programmer of “Cinema Asian America,” a video-on-demand service offered by Comcast, a Visiting Scholar at NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Institute and an adjunct professor at Hunter College and Columbia University. CONTACT chihui.yang@gmail.com
CINEREACH
NATALIE DIFFORD / FELLOWSHIP MANAGER
Natalie runs the Cinereach Fellowships program. The fellowship program is tailored to each fellow, creating an environment of risk-taking and artistic exploration as fellows work towards developing new concepts. Prior to joining Cinereach, Natalie ran another film fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures. Her other film experience includes: This is That, IFP, London Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival as well as producing the user-generated documentary 11/4/08 (SXSW '10) and Adam Leon's debut feature, Gimme the Loot (Grand Jury Prize, SXSW & Un Certain Regard, Cannes ‘12), distributed by IFC Films/Sundance Selects. In June 2012, she was featured as part of the “Jezebel 25 Amazing and Kick-Ass Women.” CONTACT info@cinereach.org cinereach.org
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C COPRODUCTION OFFICE
PHILIPPE BOBER/ CEO AND PRODUCER
Cooproduction Office handles the smallest slate of films by choice. It acquires one or two films with distinctive handwriting, per year. It produces and sells internationally daring and engaging award-winning films by directors with a strong personal vision. It was founded by Philippe Bober in 1987 and has a reputation for discovering and nurturing new talent. CONTACT office@coproductionoffice.eu www.coproductionoffice.eu
THE CREATIVE GARDEN
SARAH BAYNES/ CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Sarah is pitch training the SWIM Lab projects. She specializes in concept creation and development within the creative industries. She advises international broadcasters, creatives and opinion-formers on a range of issues including channel launches and multi-platform ventures. She also coaches talent from the screen to the boardroom. Clients range from small digital producers to global news organizations. Before establishing The Creative Garden ten years ago, Sarah was a Commissioner at Channel 4. She was part of the launch team and commissioner for The Big Breakfast before assuming responsibilities for the first youth strand, T4. CONTACT sarah@thecreativegarden.co.uk www.thecreativegarden.co.uk
CSI- CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION TORONTO
DAVE KRANENBURG / DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING
The Centre for Social Innovation is a social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in Toronto and around the world. We're a coworking space, community, and launchpad for people who are changing the world, with three locations in Toronto and a location in New York City. We provide our members with the tools they need to accelerate their success and amplify their impact. Together, we’re building a movement of nonprofits, for-profits, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists working across sectors from farming to finance and everything in between. We’re catalyzing new ideas for a better world. CONTACT dave@socialinnovation.ca www.socialinnovation.ca INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 113
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C CBC- CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION / RADIO CANADA PIERRE-MATHIEU FORTIN/ HEAD OF ORIGINAL ONLINE CONTENT
Since 2008, Pierre-Mathieu Fortin is the creative head of original content for the Music and Digital Services of CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada's national broadcaster. He has developed multiple online webseries, second screen websites and applications for Television, webdocumentaries, interactive fiction and major scale transmedia projects. CONTACT pierre-mathieu.fortin@radio-canada.ca www.radio-canada.ca
CT TV
IVANA PAUEROVA MILOSEVICOVA / COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Born in Sarajevo. She graduated in humanities (macroeconomics and political science) at Charles University and in documentary film direction at FAMU in Prague. Her creative professional experience includes direction of documentary films mainly on social and political topics. From 2003 to 2012, she worked in the Institute of Documentary Film as Head of programme of Ex Oriente Film and East European Forum. For the last four years, Ivana has been a lecturer at the Prague Film Academy (FAMU). In 2009 she was elected a board member of the European Documentary Network (EDN). Since the fall of 2012, Ivana has been working in the Film Center of Czech Television as a documentary film script editor. CONTACT www.ceskatelevize.cz Ivana.Pauerova@ceskatelevize.cz
DANISH DOCUMENTARY PHIE AMBO / DIRECTOR
Phie Ambo (born 1973) was trained at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating as a documentary film director in 2003. Famous for her feature length documentary films true to the tradition of poetic, personal and cinematic language, Ambo deals with essential topics such as family relations, love, creative processes and artificial life. Phie Ambo has directed a number of award-winning films for the cinema, including major works such as Family (2001), Gambler (2005) and Mechanical Love (2007). In recent years Ambo has been especially interested in pursuing work of a more thematic nature, and this in the form of a trilogy focusing on the relation between science and human existence. CONTACT www.danishdocumentary.com
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D DFI- DANISH FILM INSTITUTE
DORTE HĂ˜EG BRASK / COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Dorte graduated from the Danish Film School and has since worked as producer, director and photographer among other roles. She has taught film at the Danish Film School, Copenhagen University and Aarhus University. In addition, she is a consultant at Film Workshop, chairman of the Council of Short Films and Documentaries and has since 2008 been chairman of the Danish Film Directors. Since 2010, she has been a consultant for short films and documentaries at the Danish Film Institute. CONTACT dortehb@dfi.dk
DFI- DANISH FILM INSTITUTE
HELLE HANSEN / FILM COMMISSIONER
The Danish Film Institute department for Production & Development and the unit New Danish Screen provide development and production funding for short fiction, documentary and feature films. The Danish Film institute can award subsidies to the co-production of short and documentary films that have a non-Danish delegate producer. The purpose of subsidizing co-productions is to strengthen partnerships between Danish and international producers and to develop skills in the Danish Film Industry. CONTACT helleh@dfi.dk
DFI- DANISH FILM INSTITUTE STEEN BILLE / FILM COMMISSIONER
The Danish Film Institute department for Production & Development and the unit New Danish Screen provide development and production funding for short fiction, documentary and feature films. The Danish Film institute can award subsidies to the co-production of short and documentary films that have a non-Danish delegate producer. The purpose of subsidizing co-productions is to strengthen partnerships between Danish and international producers and to develop skills in the Danish Film Industry. CONTACT steenb@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk
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D DFI- DANISH FILM INSTITUTE KLARA GRUNNING-HARRIS / COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Emmy Award winning Grunning-Harris is commissioning editor at the Danish Film Institute (Armadillo, Into Eternity, Burma VJ, The Good Life, Love Addict, Why Democracy, Why Poverty etc.). Her background is, freelance production, distribution, financing consultant and executive producer for international film, TV and media. Recently Grunning-Harris was the Commissioning Editor of KUDOS Family (Norway), and prior, the Coordinating Producer for ITVS International (US). Her background is independent producer, director and cinematographer. CONTACT klaragh@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk
DFI- DANISH FILM INSTITUTE SØREN TARP / PRODUCER
Søren Tarp is as DFI-producer, part of the team working with production and development support for short-and documentaries that DFI - the Danish Film Institute. Søren’s background includes media studies, national and international courses and workshops and practical experience in Producing, filming and editing shorts, and documentaries. CONTACT soerent@dfi.dkv
DFI- DANISH FILM INSTITUTE, NEW DANISH SCREEN NANNA MAILAND MERCADO/ PRODUCER
Nanna Mailand-Mercado is a producer at New Danish Screen, a talent development scheme granting development and production support to documentaries, fiction, series, and transmedia proejcts. CONTACT nannam@dfi.dk
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MARIE SCHMIDT OLESEN/ PROJECT EDITOR
Marie worked as an award-winning producer in Scotland as company director of Autonomi Ltd. and its offspring Diversity Films CIC, before joining the Danish Film Institute as a commissioning editor with their talent development scheme New Danish Screen. Producer credits include: Minefield, Kurdi, Milk, Good Cop, Wasted Nation, Run, Some Distant Day, Come Closer. CONTACT mmarieo@dfi.dk
NEW DANISH SCREEN, DFI
JAKOB KIRSTEIN HØGEL / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
New Danish Screen aims to strengthen talent development in Danish films and to ensure the future development of Danish film, so that Danish film retains its originality, diversity and dynamics. Jakob Kirstein Høgel founded and co-owned Danish production company, Cosmo Doc in 2004-7, producing award winning films, such as Prostitution behind the Veil (Emmy nominee 2005) and Gasolin (2006, the best grossing Danish documentary ever). From 1999-2004 he was commissioning editor for Documentaries & Shorts at the Danish Film Institute. He supported Family (Idfa winner 2001), The 5 Obstructions (Venice 2002) and Tintin et Moi among others. He has directed two films “Warhol Nation” (1996) and “Child Veterans” (1999). He has an MA in Anthropology from University of Copenhagen and an MA (distinction) in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre, University of Manchester, where he was lecturer for a year. CONTACT jakobh@dfi.dk
DIE ASTA EXPERIENCE ASTA WELLEJUS/ CEO
Asta Wellejus is the developer and one of the head mentors at SWIM Lab. She has worked with interactive formats since 1997, where she was headhunted by Lars Von Trier to form Zentropa Interaction. She has since then developed and produced alternate marketing and interactive narratives for films, redesigned and rebuilt museums (up to 7,5 euro mill and 3.000 guest per day). She creates interactive strategies, projects and formats for production companies, NGO’s, cultural heritage institutions, regions, broadcasters. She is currently spending her time on leading a collaborative project between 10 countries and 30 cultural institutions to create new shared formats for cultural experiences for the 7-10 and the 12-16, and running the Connectivity Lab, a development space and innovation arena at MEDEA, a design lead research center for collaborative media at Malmø University. CONTACT asta@dieasta.dk www.dieasta.dk
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ALESSANDRO IACOPONI/ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Prior to joining Distrify, Alessandro worked for MUBI in London where he defined and executed the business development strategy and gained high level of background knowledge about the connected TV market, the IPTV/OTT market and the digital content market. He has been a VOD panelist at a range of Film Festivals including IDFA and Rotterdam. At Distrify Alessandro is focusing on European content and marketing partnerships. CONTACT alessandro.iacoponi@distrify.com dsistrify.com
DOC ALLIANCE FILMS
DIANA TABAKOV / ACQUISITIONS MANAGER
Has an M.A. degree in Documentary Film at the London University of the Arts. She has worked for the Prague`s Institute of Documentary Film (IDF), in the head of the Czech Project. Apart from this the IDF organizes East Doc Platform and Ex Oriente Film Workshop for films in progress. Diana has been part of various festival teams in both dramaturgical and manager`s positions, e.g. Sheffield Doc Fest, Jihlava IDFF, One World Film Festival, London International Documentary Festival, LIFF and many others. Since 2012 she also curates the documentary programme at the largest arthouse cinema in Prague Kino Svetozor. Film professionals can meet Diana also as the Industry Matchmaker for Jihlava IDFF 2013. CONTACT tabakov@docalliancefilms.com
DOCHEADS
TRISTAN ANDERSON/ DIRECTOR & FOUNDER, DOC HEADS
Tristan Anderson has directed and produced films and TV shows for BBC, Channel 4 & the Emmy award winning Current TV in the UK, USA, Italy and South Africa. He founded Doc Heads in 2009, which is the UK leading screening, funding and networking organisations for new and emerging documentary talent. Contact Tristan@docheads.org www.docheads.org
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ANDREA PRÛCHOVÁ / PUBLIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR
Andrea works for Doc Alliance Films since October 2013 as a Public Relations Coordinator. After achieving Master degree in Media Studies she became a doctoral candidate at the department of Sociology at the Charles University in Prague. She worked as a head of public programmes at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art for 2 years and co-worked with number of the Czech journals and television channels (TV Prima, TV Barrandov, A2, Theory of Science). Andrea is a founder of the project Fresh Eye devoted to the study of visual culture and a co-founder of the PictureLab, an academic platform for the visual culture. CONTACT andrea@dafilms.com
DOCPOINT
ULLA SIMONEN/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Ulla Simonen, based in Helsinki, Finland, is a producer in production company MADE and the Artistic Director of DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival. She has been working with documentaries from 1997, with a focus on documentaries challenging the borders between documentary and fiction. She also works as Sources and Berlinale Talents tutor. CONTACT ulla.simonen@docpo www.docpoint.info
DOGWOOF
VESNA CUDIC / INTERNATIONAL SALES AND ACQUISTIONS
Dogwoof Global is the international sales arm of Dogwoof, the leading UK distributor of documentaries. We offer filmmakers worldwide sales representation along with a guaranteed UK distribution deal. We think of our films as global releases, and work with distributors, broadcasters and top digital partners to achieve a cohesive universal release. We come projects at any stage of the project. CONTACT vesna@dogwoof.com www.dogwoof.com
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OLI HARBOTTLE/ HEAD OF DISTRIBUTION
Oli is Head of Distribution at Dogwoof, the leading UK film distributor of documentaries, and is responsible for acquisitions and overseeing all film release campaigns. He has overseen the highly successful and innovative campaigns for titles over the past two years years such as Dreams of a Life, Bombay Beach, The Queen of Versailles, The Spirit of ‘45, The Act of Killing, and Blackfish. CONTACT oli@dogwoof.com www.dogwoof.com
DOK LEIPZIG
ILO VON SECKENDORFF/ HEAD OF TRAINING
Since 2011 Ilo is head of DOK Training at DOK Leipzig. She started to bring transmedia to DOK Leipzig, curating cross media screenings and case studies and initiating the DOK Leipzig Net Lab, an international two days conference lab on transmedia storytelling and media architecture. Ilo is curator of the DOK panel discussions, the festival’s master classes and workshops and she works as tutor at the international rough cut training initiatives DOK.Incubator and DocWoc. She graduated from the Faculties of Cultural Sciences and Communication and Media at the University of Leipzig in 2004. CONTACT seckendorff@dok-leipzig.de www.dok-leipzig.de
DOXBIO
MARLENE SCHIÖTT RASMUSSEN / CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
Together with her partner Josephine Michau she initiated DOXBIO in 2009-10 which in very short time has become the most widespread and recognised platform for theatrical distribution in Denmark - and often collaborating very closely with CPH:DOX. CONTACT marlene@doxbio.dk www.doxbio.dk
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JOSEPHINE MICHAU/ CO-FOUNDER
DOXBIO is a theatrical distributer of documentary films. They are characterized by linking audiences across the country through events and live debates, followed by a regular theatrical release. DOXBIO has in very short time created a strong brand for documentary film and is today the biggest platform for theatrical distribution in Denmark. More than 50 cinemas have joined the network, yearly committing to a pre-selected programme of 6 films (plus a 1-3 extra films). CONTACT josephine@doxbio.dk
DR – DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION / DOCUMENTARIES ANDERS BRUUS/ ACQUISITIONS EXECUTIVE
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) is a five channel public broadcaster showing a wide range of documentaries and factual programming. Dokumania is a weekly feature length doc strand showing the world’s best documentaries. They may be award winning or simply great films telling great stories in an engaging and entertaining way. CONTACT andb@dr.dk www.dr.dk
DR- DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION/ SALES ANDERS KJÆRSGAARD SØRENSEN / MANAGING DIRECTOR
Our focus is on great stories in all genres, but we specialize in documentaries. We are looking for new, engaging projects on contemporary stories; unique stories and strong narratives for an international audience. CONTACT akso@dr.dk
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D DR- DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION/ SALES CHARLOTTE GRY MADSEN / CO-PRODUCTION MANAGER
Charlotte has a Master’s Degree in media studies from Copenhagen University and supplementary training in documentary co-production and financing. Previously worked with television production, but moved on to DR and international sales and distribution in 1998. CONTACT cgma@dr.dk www.drsales.dk
DR - DANISH BROADCASTING COPORATION CHRISTOFFER GULDBRANDSEN / JOURNALIST & FILMMAKER
Christoffer Guldbrandsen (1971) is an acclaimed Danish journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has won TV Oscars for many documentary films and in 2006 nominated for the Cavling Award. He is known for "Stealing Africa" (2013), The President (2011), "The Secret War" (2006), "The Road to Europe" (2003), "The Red Wine Generation" (2003) and many more. He has worked for the major newspaper, Politiken, and both TV2 and DR. CONTACT chgu@dr.dk
DR - DANISH BROADCASTING COPORATION / SALES
HELENE AURØ/ DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
DR Sales is the largest international distributor in Scandinavia, distributing an array of different, high quality programmes on a worldwide basis. The programmes are produced by DR as well as by independent film companies and range within the genres of documentary, drama, children & youth and music & arts. As an international distributor, DR International Sales puts emphasis on taking in programmes that deal with current and global issues. CONTACT heau@dr.dk
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D DR- DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION/ SALES JAN DAAE/ PROGRAMME & SALES MANAGER
DR International Sales, the sales department of DR, is Scandinavia’s largest international TV-distributor. We distribute and sell films and TV programmes produced by DR and by independent production companies around the world. CONTACT jada@dr.dk
DR – DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION / DOCUMENTARIES METTE HOFFMAN MEYER / HEAD OF DOCUMENTARIES AND CO-PRODUCTIONS
Mette is head of documentaries and co-productions at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR TV. She is responsible for documentaries on four DR-channels showing some 1100 hours of documentaries and factual programming in all genres each year. In addition to factual acquisition she commissions both international and Danish documentaries for DR2. She is board member of Steps International and spearheaded the documentary events ‘Why Democracy?’ and ‘Why Poverty?’ with global reach. CONTACT meho@dr.dk
DR- DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION/ SALES METTE VORM/ SALES MANAGER
Our focus is on great stories in all genres, but we specialize in documentaries. We are looking for new, engaging projects on contemporary stories; unique stories and strong narratives for an international audience. CONTACT mevo@dr.dk
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D DR - DANISH BROADCASTING COPORATION MARTIN KRASNIK / JOURNALIST
Martin Krasnik (1971) is an anchor at Deadline, DR's current affairs program. He has been the international correspondent for Weekenavi- sen, the weekly newspaper and its correspondent in London and Jerusalem. He has a degree in Political Science from Copenhagen Univer- sity. CONTACT mti@dr.dk
DR K- DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION ASTRID SOFIE JELSTRUP/ ACQUISTIONS EXECUTIVE, DOCUMENTARIES
Astrid is Acquisitions Executive of documentaries for DR, Danish Broadcasting Corporation. She buys documentaries from all over the world and in addition to acquisitions of documentaries she commissions both international and Danish productions mainly for DR1 and DR K. Astrid looks for all kinds of documentaries both for the broad audiences for DR1, current affairs for DR2 as well as history, culture and arts for the niche channel DR K. Astrid also coordinates events and premieres of DR2 documentaries, she has been working with Why Poverty? and evaluates international as well as Danish co. productions in DR’s documentary group. CONTACT asje@dr.dk
DR- DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION FLEMING HEDEGAARD LARSEN/ CHANNEL EDITOR, CHANNEL K
DR K Channel Editor since 2009, Acting DR2 Channel Controller 2011-2012 Commissioning editor 2006-2009, Acting DR1 Channel Controller 2004-2005 Looking for art, culture, history and religious programs. CONTACT fhl@dr.dk
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DOROTHY WOODEND/ DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING
DOXA Documentary Film Festival is Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival. The goals of the organization are to present documentary films to a broad audience through the DOXA festival as well as through on-going public screenings; to foster community education through documentary screenings, panels, and workshops; to present programming that provides a forum for critical discussion and debate of the form and the content of documentary films; to work in collaboration with a cross-section of cultural and community organizations; and to heighten awareness about perspectives not commonly given a voice by the mainstream media. CONTACT dorothy@doxafestival.ca www.doxafestival.ca
ANTON CALLEJA/ EURIMAGES COUNCIL OF EUROPE Anton Calleja studied Film Production in Rome (EMAM) in 2001. He also participated and completed the EAVE European Producers Training. Prior to that he graduated Doctor of Laws with a thesis on fiscal and financial incentives for the film industry. He practiced as a lawyer in Malta and also worked in London and Luxembourg. As a lawyer, he advised and represented producers and other film industry players. Since August 2006, Anton has been working as a Project Manager at Eurimages, where he takes care of feature films and feature-length documentaries. He is also in charge of legal affairs. He is a visiting lecturer in Entertainment Law & Film Financing at the University of Malta. CONTACT anton.calleja@coe.int www.coe.int/eurimages
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E EDN- EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY NETWORK PAUL PAUWELS/ DIRECTOR
EDN - European Documentary Network is a global network for professionals working with documentary film and TV. Over 1000 members from more than 60 countries have joined EDN. Our organisation is open for both newcomers and established filmmakers from around the world. EDN provides documentary consulting and informs about possibilities for funding, financing, development, co-production, distribution and collaboration across borders. EDN started in September 1996 as a documentary organisation for filmmakers, producers, production companies, distributors, associations, film institutions & boards, universities, festivals, broadcasters and film & television agencies. CONTACT paul@edn.dk www.edn.dk
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY NETWORK OVE RISHØJ JENSEN / FILM CONSULTANT AT EDN
Ove has been with EDN - European Documentary Network since 2003. EDN is a global network for professionals working with documentary film and TV. Over 1000 members from more than 60 countries have joined EDN. Our organisation is open for both newcomers and established filmmakers from around the world. EDN provides documentary consulting and informs about possibilities for funding, financing, development, co-production, distribution and collaboration across borders. This is done via individual consultancy to members on documentary projects, activities like workshops, seminars and conferences as well as through the two indispensable publications DOX magazines and The EDN Financing Guide. AT EDN Ove is in charge of the web site, runs various documentary screenings, workshops, seminars and master classes, participates in the selection of projects to workshops and pitching sessions as well as handling press & communication. CONTACT ove@edn.dk www.edn.dk
EDN- EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY NETWORK
CECILIE BOLVINKEL / NETWORK COORDINATOR AND EVENT PRODUCER Among other things she is in charge of the EDN membership base and the EDN Financing Guide. Furthermore she organises different workshops and events – among others Crossing Borders and Twelve for the Future for young Nordic talent. Cecilie also writes for EDN’s international documentary magazine DOX. CONTACT cecilie@edn.dk www.edn.dk 126 / INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
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E ECC-EGMONT CREATIVE CENTER ANNA-METTE STEVN / INTERNATIONAL EDITOR
ECC creates stories and art as a content provider across print platforms and lately also as an App developer. We work with licensed brands, like Disney, Mattel, Sanrio, Hit Entertainment and Warner, and our main focus is good storytelling. We are content providers for up to 27 countries. Anna works as an international editor on comic stories and Disney pre-school Magazines. She also develops new concepts for print formats and collaborate with our licensors on new properties. CONTACT ams@ecc.egmont.com www.egmont.com
FAIRPIE
ANDREAS POUSETTE/ CO-FOUNDER
Co-founder of fairpie.com which has been created to be a destination site for independent documentaries where filmmakers distribute direct to fans, and connect and interact with supporters and organizations. The long term goal is to develop into a sustainable end-to-end platform with production finance, distribution support and impact analytics tools. Prior to founding fairpie, Andreas has worked in broadcasting as a journalist and with social games as a producer. He was educated at Stockholm University (Sweden) and at the National Film and Television School (UK). He lives in London. CONTACT andreaspousette@fairpie.com www.fairpie.com
FESTIVALSCOPE
ALESSANDRO RAJA / FESTIVAL SCOPE CEO AND FOUNDER
Based in Paris, he founded FESTIVAL SCOPE (www.festivalscope.com) in 2010. Since 2012 he is also programmer for the SARAJEVO Film Festival and, since 2013, for the 2MORROW Independent Film Festival in Moscow. Festival Scope is the B2B platform for film professionals only, allowing programming of selected festivals around the world to be viewed online. CONTACT alessandro@festivalscope.com www.festivalscope.com
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F FIDLAB MARSEILLE
FABIENNE MORIS / CO-HEAD FIDLAB
FIDLab offers a rendez-vous to discuss film projects selected within an international call, in order to offer their directors and authors an opportunity for useful meetings and networking with producers, distributors, international sales agents, fund raisers and programmers. Each year FIDLab select more or less 10 international projects, chosen with no particular requirements regarding format, lenght, and subject matter, and including both fiction and documentary films whether they are at the writing stage, in development, in production, or post-production. In a diverse, international context, FIDLab wants to reinforce projects chosen not only for their artsitic and creative qualities, in link with the FIDMarseille's editorial programme, but also for their international potential and market access. CONTACT fmoris@fidmarseille.org rebeccadepas@fidmarseille.org www. fidmarseille.org
FILMBY AARHUS
CARSTEN HOLST / CEO AND THE WASTDANISH FILMFUND
2011-BA in cultural project leader management from The Chaospilots. Producer at Zentropa, CpH from 2000-2010 producing over 30 features, shorts, TV series and documentaries. Projectleader at Væksthuset at Aarhus Theatre from 1997-2000 Board member at Muskelsvindfonden, Buster Festival. CONTACT holst@aarhus.dk www.filmbyaarhus.dk
FILM LONDON
MAGGIE ELLIS / HEAD OF PRODUCTION AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT
Maggie has been in the film and TV industries for 24 years, working with broadcasters, distributors and associated companies. She has set up commissioning schemes, for shorts and feature films, including the ‘Microwave’ production scheme for debut feature film-makers. These initiatives have helped launch the careers of some highly regarded UK film-making talent. Maggie is Head of Film London’s Artists’ Moving Image Network, a department which commissions artists’ films and runs the prestigious annual Jarman Award. She is also a freelance producer and film advisor to a number of cultural organisations. CONTACT Maggie.Ellis@filmlondon.org.uk www.filmlondon.org.uk
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ROSE CUPIT / MANAGER, FILM LONDON ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE NETWORK (FLAMIN)
Rose manages the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) - an advice, information, brokerage and advocacy service specifically aimed at Londonbased artists working with moving image. Through their unique development and production funds FLAMIN has commissioned over 100 productions, and supported the careers of artists with programmes of one-to-one advice sessions, residencies and workshops. CONTACT Rose.cupit@filmlondon.org.uk www.filmlondon.org.uk
FILM I SKÅNE
LISA NYED / COMMISSIONER SCREENING AND DISTRIBUTION
As Commissioner Screening and Distribution at the regional resource and co-production centre Film i Skåne in South Sweden Lisa gives counselling to projects on festival- and sales contacts and distribution possibilities, as well as working with development projects for cinemas, CineSkåne and co-produce festivals and film events in the region. Lisa Nyed was Festival Director of the19th Nordisk Panorama film festival for short and documentary film in Malmö, 2008 this year also joining the festival team as Program Manager. Lisa initiated and produces M:DOX, Malmö Dokumentärfilmträff, the annual meeting for documentary filmmakers, financiers and distributors in Sweden and has been tutoring at the EDN run development lab Twelve for the Future 2010-12. CONTACT lisa@filmiskane.se www.filmiskane.se
FILM I SKÅNE
JOAKIM STRAND/ COMMISSIONING EDITOR SHORT AND DOCUMENTARY FILM
Film i Skåne is a regional resource and film production centre that promotes all aspects of films since 1995. Film i Skåne promotes feature film production and the development of a professional film industry in the region. The audience, filmmakers and the media industry are tools for developing the film milieu in Skåne. CONTACT joakim@filmiskane.se filmiskane.se
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F FILM I VÄST
ANTHONY MUIR / SENIOR EXECUTIVE INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTIONS
Film I Väst is a regional film fund located in West Sweden. Film i Väst acts as a co-producer, part owner and financier of feature, short and documentary films, and quality drama for TV and is now involved in 30-40 feature film co-productions each year, making Film i Väst one of the most significant regional film funds in Europe. Some co-productions include Dancer in the Dark, Dogville and Melancholia by Lars von Trier, In a Better World and Love Is All You Need by Susanne Bier, A Royal Affair by Nikolaj Arcel, The Hunt by Thomas Vinterberg, The Killer Inside Me and Trishna by Michael Winterbottom, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Niels Arden Oplev, and Filth by Jon S. Baird. CONTACT anthony.muir@filmivast.se www.filmivast.se
FILIPA RAMOS / ART CRITIC
Filipa (b.1978, Lisbon) is an art critic based in London and Milan. Her area of research is located on the threshold between art and cinema. She has lectured at several universities and educational institutions in Europe. Ramos is currently curator of Vdrome, a programme of screenings of films by visual artists and filmmakers. She is former Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal, former Curator of the Research Section of dOCUMENTA (13), and co-author of the book Lost and Found - Crisis of Memory in Contemporary Art (Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2009). She has been a guest curator at diverse public and private art spaces and is a regular contributor to several international publications. CONTACT laprimavera@gmail.com
THE FILM SALES COMPANY JASON ISHIKAWA/ DIRECTOR OF SALES
Jason Ishikawa is the Director of Sales at The Film Sales Company. His responsibilities include handling international sales, digital strategy and festival/non-theatrical bookings for the Company's slate of over 200 films. Prior to this he was the Acquisitions Manager at the Company. CONTACT Jason.ishikawa@filmsalescorp.com www.filmsalescorp.com
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F FILMS TRANSIT INTERNATIONAL
JAN ROFEKAMP / FOUNDER AND CEO
Founded in 1982 by Jan Rofekamp, Films Transit International is one of the longest running, renowned and respected international sales agencies of quality documentaries with offices in Montreal (Jan Rofekamp and John Nadai) and in New York (Diana Holtzberg). Films Transit specializes in the worldwide release and marketing of high profile, theatrical and TV documentaries in two large genre fields: Arts & Culture and Society & Politics. Each year we take on 20 to 25 new films. Our entire catalogue is comprised of about 150 titles and we try to keep our catalogue to this size, so we can keep it active, stay focused and give the films a serious shelf life. CONTACT jan@filmstransit.com www.filmstransit.com
THE FINANCING FORUM FOR KIDS CONTENT
ANNETTE BREJNER/ HEAD OF THE FINANCING FORUM FOR KIDS CONTENT
Annette has started, developed and been in charge of The Financing Forums predecessor: BUFF Financing Forum 2007- 2012. She conducted the re-launch of the Forum fall 2012. Since 2010 she has also been Head of Kids Cluster, an umbrella construction comprising network and a training lab for professionals producing screen content for young audiences. She has a Master's Degree from The Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, specialized in Visual Communication and is former Festival Director of International Female Film Festival Malmö. CONTACT annette@filmiskane.se www.thefinancingforum.com
FIRST HAND FILMS ESTHER VAN MESSEL / CEO
Before being independent and free (i.e. depending on the market and working long days), Esther van Messel worked for Warner Bros., Israel, and headed its distribution, releasing films like Bonfire of the Vanities and The Rookie. She holds a BFA from Tel Aviv University. In Switzerland, where she’d grown up, she was in charge of international co-productions and sales. Today, Esther van Messel also works as a consultant and creative Executive Producer for projects, companies and public institutions around the world, and serves regularly on various juries. CONTACT esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 131
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F FLAG, THE CREATIVE DISRUPTION INDUSTRIES ROBERTO MARTINI/ CEO + CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER
Martini has been part of the digital marketing industry since 1995. He co-founded AG2 (Publicis), RAGE (Prax Holding) and Santa Transmedia Productions before creating Flag Holding (Interpublic Group) where he holds the position of CEO and Chief Creative Officer. During his career Martini has worked with clients such as Google, Unilever, Coke, Nike, Samsung, Kraft and Pepsico. He is a programmer and art director graduated in Strategic Management and Finance, but still searching for knowledge in educational institutes such as Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Stanford and Singularity University. CONTACT martini@flag.cx www.flag.cx, www.cubo.cc
FLY FILM
HANNA SAHLOUL / DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER
Hanna Sahloul has recently joined Fly Film as a development producer, working across Fly’s film and television slate. Hanna previously worked in the development team at Film4 for 5 years, prior to which she worked for the digital channel More4 in the documentary department, working across their True Stories strand and scheduling their film seasons. CONTACT hanna@flyfilm.co.uk www.flyfilm.co.uk
FORMAT ART SPACE ANNE RIBER/ OWNER
Anne Riber is owner of Format Artspace - an artspace for editions and multiples. Besides that, she is also in charge of PR and communication at Overgaden – Institute of contemporary art, she acts as agent for some selected Danish artists and finally, she is works as a PR consultant for a number of art projects, among others: Copenhagen Art Week, Råderum – mobile office for contemporary art and the Theater Filiorum. For years she has been the head of communication at Nikolaj Kunsthal, and worked as a project manager at Have Communication, and has also been organizing the press for U-TURN quadriennale for contemporary art and New Museum, New York. CONTACT anne@formatartspace.dk www.formatartspace.dk
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PERNILLE FONNESBECH/ CURATOR
Pernille Fonnesbech (born 1974) Holds a Research Degree in Art history and a BA in Art History and Film history from University of Copenhagen. Since 2007 Exhibition Curator at Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen. Over the years she has curated several group and solo exhibitions with Danish and international artists including Yang Fudong and Nathalie Djurberg and is curator of the newly established GL STRAND Art Cinema screening art documentaries, video art and experimental films on a permanent basis. CONTACT pef@glstrand.dk www.glstrand.dk
GOLDEN GIRLS FILM
ARMAN & ARASH T. RIAHI / PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS & WRITERS
Arash: Born 1972 in Iran, lives in Vienna since 1982. Writer, director & producer. Studied Film and the Arts. Founded the film production company “Golden Girls Filmproduktion” in 1997. His films “The Souvenirs of Mr. X”, “Exile Family Movie”, “Mississsippi” & “For a moment, freedom” have won more than 50 international awards. “For a moment, freedom”, was the Austrian candidate for the Academy Awards 2010. Arman: Born in Iran and grew up in Austria. He studied media technologies and worked as a screen- and graphic designer in London (Less Rain Ltd.) & Vienna. Director of 25min-TV-shows, “Sendung ohne Namen”, “Sunshine Airlines”, “Momentum” and “Africa Race” for the ORF, Terra Mater and Red Bull. His short film “Elektrotrash” won the nation wide short film award. In 2006, Arman took part at the Berlinale Talent Campus as director/screenwriter. In 2011 his first cinema documentary “Schwarzkopf” (Darkhead) had a cinema release. CONTACT arash@goldengirls.at / arman@goldengirls.at http://www.goldengirls.at / www.everydayrebellion.com
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G GOOD INC
JOSHUA NEUMAN/ HEAD OF PROGRAMMING, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Joshua Neuman is the Head of Programming and Editorial Director of GOOD Magazine. The former editor of FLAUNT and Heeb Magazines, he has also written for Esquire, Slate, and Black Book and appeared on VH1, A & E and National Public Radio. He is currently at work on a short film called Johnny Physical Lives. CONTACT joshua@goodinc.com www.good.is
THE GUARDIAN
MARK DONNE / JOURNALIST + FILMMAKER Mark Donne is a journalist, film-maker, and political campaigner. His first feature "The Rime of the Modern Mariner" examined the relationship between historic sea trades/cultures and nation states. His second "The UK Gold" - a collaboration with Thom Yorke and Massive Attack - looks at the role of the City of London within global poverty cycles. CONTACT www.theguardian.com/profile/markdonne www.independent.co.uk/biography/mark-donne
HEINEMANN MEDIA
TOM HEINEMANN / DIRECTOR
100 % independent, investigative journalist and documentarist. Heads the production company, Heinemann Media, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Twice awarded "Best Investigative Journalist" in Denmark. Several international awards: Prix Italia, Lorenzo Natali Grand Price, Envirofilm, Ibiza FF etc. Loves cross border journalism, and believes that the World is not fair at all. CONTACT www.tomheinemann.dk
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H HOT DOCS
CHARLOTTE COOK/ DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING
Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival. Charlotte was previously Head of Film Programming at the Frontline Club in London. Charlotte has worked with BBC Storyville, the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation’s Puma Creative Catalyst Fund and the Edinburgh International Film Festival and specializes in international conflict, investigative journalism and the role of technology for the media. CONTACT ccook@hotdocs.ca www.hotdocs.ca
INVESTIGATE NORTH
CHRISTIAN FONNESBECH/ PARTNER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
For 12 years Christian Fonnesbech has used the internet as a medium to tell stories. After spending a large part of his childhood in front of a computer he studied Film and Media studies at University of Copenhagen, while he also directed 10 short films and one underground series. Educated in 1999 he jumped straight into the world of computers. Since then Christian has directed and produced more than 35 online and transmedia projects for education, communication and entertainment. As the driving force behind all the projects, Christian has explored and refined how dramatic stories work, both on the Internet and across media. Along the way, he and his team developed a method that combines social networking with games and movies for a single narrative experience where documentary and fiction merge. CONTACT Twitter: @cfonnes christian@investigatenorth.com
ICARIUS FILMS
LIVIA BLOOM/ DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND EXHIBITION
Livia Bloom Is a film curator and distributor. She also contri-butes to Cinema Scope and Filmmaker Magazine, organizes a series quarterly theatrical premieres for the Maysles Documentary Center, and edited the book “Errol Morris: Interviews”. She currently lives in New York. CONTACT livia@icarusfilms.com www.icariusfilms.com
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I IKON
MARGJE DE KONING / HEAD OF RTV & NEW MEDIA
After finishing her studies, during 12 years Margje de Koning made all sorts of documentaries for many different broadcasting companies. In 2004 Margje de Koning became a part time teacher at the Culture & Media studies (department Film & Television at the University of Amsterdam). In August 2004, Margje de Koning became Commissioning Editor for a documentary slot of 52’ docs. This means producing and co-producing creative single 52'-documentaries on contemporary social, social-cultural and moral issues with a strong human interest angle. CONTACT margje.dekoning@ikon.nl www.ikon.nl
ITVS - INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE CLAIRE AGUILAR / EXECUTIVE CONTENT ADVISOR
CLAIRE AGUILAR is Executive Content Advisor at the Independent Television Service (ITVS), which funds, promotes and distributes independently produced programming to public media. At ITVS, she oversees programming strategy and advises on content recommendations and the international funding initiative. She commissions programming from the global community of independent producers and is curator of Independent Lens, the PBS prime-time series of independently produced programming. CONTACT Claire_aguilar@itvs.org www.itvs.org
ITVS-INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE JEN KACZOR/ INTERACTIVE DIRECTOR
Jen Kaczor is Interactive Director at the Independent Television Service in San Francisco, the largest public funder of independent film in the U.S., and the leading provider of indie content to PBS. She joined ITVS in 2005, and leads the interactive team in online and digital efforts, including OVEE (the Online Video Engagement Experience, a new social TV platform) and the Independent Lens documentary series site at PBS.org. Jen entered the interactive world in 1996 and has held roles in editorial, content development, and product development. Prior to ITVS, she spent many years producing online sports and tech coverage at companies including Wired Digital and Quokka Sports. CONTACT jen_kaczor@itvs.org www.itvs.org
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J JACOBINE VAN DER VLOED / FREELANCE MEDIA CONSULANT, ADVISOR AND TRAINER
Jacobine van der Vloed is a freelance media consultant, advisor and trainer. She worked for over ten years for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), as well as in many other capacities within the industry. Together with Tobias Pausinger, Jacobine consults film professionals and visual artists on development, financing and distribution as well as international film festivals and institutions on strategic matters and lectures at various training initiatives throughout Europe. In 2011, together with the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart and CPH:DOX, Tobias and Jacobine founded the Art:Film initiative, a platform to enhance and nurture highly artistic cinema and visual arts. CONTACT jacobinevloed@gmail.com
JUST FILMS- FORD FOUNDATION
YANCE FORD/ COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Ford is a recipient of a 2012 Creative Capital grant (Theo Westenberger Award), a MacDowell Colony fellow and was among Filmmaker Magazine’s 2011 25 New Faces of Independent Film. From 2002 to 2012 Ford was Series Producer of POV where her work curating the acclaimed documentary won 8 News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Yance is a graduate of Hamilton College and the Production Workshop at Third World Newsreel and is currently in post-production on a feature documentary. JUST FILMS is an initiative of the Ford Foundation, which advances social justice worldwide through the talent of emerging and established filmmakers. JustFilms has supported more than 80 documentary films in its first three years. CONTACT yanceford@gmail.com www.fordfoundation.org/issues/freedom-of-expression/justfilms
K-HOLE
GREG FONG/ CO-FOUNDER
K-HOLE is a trend forecasting group based in New York, founded by Greg Fong, Sean Monahan, Chris Sherron, Emily Segal, and Dena Yago. They release free PDF reports exploring the plausible limits of corporate and consumer strategy. K-HOLE's work has been exhibited at the Renwick Gallery and MoMA PS1 in New York, Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler in Berlin and the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. CONTACT greg@khole.net www.k-hole.net INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 137
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K K-HOLE
EMILY SEGAL/ CO-FOUNDER
Develops corporate and consumer strategies for cultural products. Experts in branding strategies and trend analysis. Advisers in how to use marketing for aesthetic ends. They are creative producers who work in the intersection of art, culture and marketing. They provide sharp analysis on the youth culture of today from the inside, since they belong to this generation. CONTACT emilyjsegal@gmail.com www.k-hole.net
KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION KATARZYNA WILK/ POLISH DOCS, FILM PROMOTION AGENCY COORDINATOR
Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe. During 8 festival days viewers have an opportunity to watch about 250 films from Poland and abroad. Films are presented in competitions and in special sections like retrospectives, thematic cycles, archive screenings. Polish docs promotes documentary films abroad and assistance to Polish filmmakers to present their films to the wide audience. CONTACT katrarzyna@kff.com.pl www.kff.com.pl (MISSING HEADSHOT)
KUNSTHAL CHARLOTTENBORG HENRIETTE BRETTON-MEYER/ CURATOR
Henriette Bretton-Meyer (b. 1972) comes to Kunsthal Charlottenborg with a thorough know-ledge of international contemporary art and several years of experience as a curator and director, most recently as artistic director of the exhibition site Overgaden in Copenhagen. Before that, Bretton-Meyer worked for several years as a freelance curator and educator living in Berlin. She has curated exhibitions and projects in many different contexts, from established art centres and international biennales to medium-sized non-profit institutions as well as in public spaces. CONTACT hbm@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk
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L LAURENCE KARDISH / SENIOR CURATOR EMERITUS IN FILM Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator Emeritus in Film, worked at The Museum of Modern Art for 44 years as the Department of Film transitioned to the Department of Film and Video, then to Film and Media and then back to Film when Media (now the Department of Media and Performance Arts) became its own curatorial Department. Kardish organized over a thousand moving-image exhibitions covering the art, history and culture of cinema. Among the several national honors he holds are Germany’s Service Cross with Ribbon and France’s Order of Arts and Letters, Officer Level.
LEVEL K
TINE KLINT/ CEO
LevelK handles world-wide distribution for International production companies. Established in 2009, LevelK has assembled a stable of critically-acclaimed titles and commercial hits. Based in Copenhagen and New York, the company has a presence that extends globally and a dynamism that is reflected through LevelK’s approach to innovative cross-platform distribution and marketing alongside traditional means. LevelK is a recognized distribution partner for iTunes, Amazon, YouSee, Cinecliq etc. CONTACT tine.klint@levelk.dk www.levelk.dk
MADE IN COPENHAGEN
HELLE FABER / PRODUCER
Made in Copenhagen produces compelling stories from the real world to Danish and International audiences. Our main focus is to make documentaries and TV-series that will move the audience and create debate. Our productions are ambitious and of high cinematic quality: we search for the right character, the taut tale, told in strong visual images – whether it be for smaller audiences or for primetime shows on the largest networks. We work with the most dedicated directors in Denmark and have a solid foundation within an expanding network of Danish and International funds, broadcasters, co-producers and distributors. CONTACT faber@madeincopenhagen.dk www.madeincopenhagen.dk INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 139
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M MADS BRÜGGER / DIRECTOR
Mads Brügger (1972) is a Danish journalist, TV-host, author and filmmaker. He has written several books, worked for magazines and newspapers, produced award winning radio programmes and hosted the critically acclaimed late night TV-programme The 11th Hour as well as the daily news/debate programme Deadline. Furthermore, he has created satirical docu-series as Danes for Bush (2004) and the feature-length documentary, The Red Chapel (winner at Nordisk Panorama 2009 & Sundance 2010) as well as The Ambassador (official selection Sundance 2012). Brügger is renowned for his distinctive methods of “performative journalism” as he infiltrates various milieus.
MAGIC HOUR FILM
MICHAEL MADSEN / DIRECTOR
Conceptual artist and director of the multiple Award-winning Into Eternity (2010), The Average Of The Average (3D, 2012), art film, world premiere at MoMA, New York, 2012 and To Damascus – a Film on Interpretation’ (2005) a.o. Founder and artistic leader of the Sound/Gallery, a 900 square meter sound diffusion system underneath the Town Hall Square in Copenhagen, Denmark (1996-2001). Selected art projects include: ‘Audience (van Gogh#7)’, design of SPOR 2007, festival for new music and sound art; and ‘Public Service (van Gogh#6)’: Idea and concept for a new music library in Denmark. In addition, Michael has been guest lecturer at a.o. The Royal Danish Academy of Art, The Danish Film School, and The Danish School of Design, University of California. School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London CONTACT teleapati@soundart.dk
MAMA CASH
AMANDA GIGLER / DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Mama Cash is the world’s oldest women’s fund. In this role, she seeks out and develops alliances with people and organisations committed to advancing women’s, girls’ and trans people’s rights internationally. She is convinced that activism, media, art and pop culture are key to disrupting unjust power systems worldwide, and that people have the power to make change happen. Amanda coordinates a fierce team that keeps Mama Cash’s fundraising and communications political, creative and relevant. CONTACT a.gigler@mamacash.org www.mamacash.org
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M MEANS OF PRODUCTION TRACIE HOLDER/ FILMMAKER + CONSULTANT
Tracie Holder is an award-winning filmmaer, engagement specialist for social issue documentaries and consultant to Women Make Movies. As a fundraising consultant and engagement specialist, Holder advises non-American documentary filmmakers on potential grant opportunities available to them in the U.S. She also has extensive experience with proposal writing and story structure. Holder's most recent film is JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has gone on to play at more than thirty film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. CONTACT tresgrey@gmail.com www.joepappfilm.com
MEDIA DESK ANTENNA BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
SUSANNE SCHMITT / HEAD OF MEDIA DESK ANTENNA BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
The MEDIA Antenna is one of four German contact points of the EU MEDIA Programme, which will become part of Creative Europe in 2014. We provide advice on funding possibilities for creative projects aimed at international audiences, for cross border training and collaboration in the field of audiovisual production and moving image. CONTACT mediaantenne@medienboard.de www.mediadesk-deutschland.eu
MEDIA DESK BELGIUM
JOYCE PALMERS / ASSISTANT
MEDIA Desk Flanders is the local representative for MEDIA, the European Union's support programme for the film, television and new media industries. As the Flemish Desk we put our focus mainly on innovation and documentaries in the audiovisual sector. Our team consists of Nathalie Goethals, head, and Joyce Palmers, assistant. CONTACT joyce@mediadesk.be
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ENE KATRINE RASMUSSEN / HEAD OF MEDIA DESK DENMARK
Our main focus is to advise and inform the professionals in the film, TV and multimedia sector about audiovisual policies and funding possibilities within the Media Programme of the EU. Media is a support programme of the European Union, which aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the European film, TV and new media industries and to increase the international circulation of European audiovisuals. From 2014, the MEDIA programme will become Creative Europe and the Desk Creative Europe Desk. Creative Europe merges the MEDIA, MEDIA Mundus and Culture programme. CONTACT ener@dfi.dk www.mediadeskdenmark.eu
MEDIA DESK DENMARK
DITTE COHN / ASSISTANT MANAGER
MEDIA DESK HAMBURG
CHRISTIANE SIEMEN / CEO MEDIA DESK HAMBURG (B)
Ditte Cohn has been employed as Assistant Manager at MEDIA Desk Denmark since May 2009. Her main focus is to inform the media professionals about EU’s MEDIA Programme and the selection of MEDIA supported training activities. Part of the job is to organize seminars and try to keep track of the fast moving development in the media world as such. After obtaining her degree Master of Arts in Film Studies from University of Copenhagen in May 2008 Ditte was working as print manager in the Festival department at The Danish Film Institute. Before that she has build up a broad experience in the film and media business working as a marketing and distribution coordinator at SF Film, post producer at Easy Film and expanding her international network working as producer assistant at Liberator Productions in Paris. Parallel to this she has participated in a variety of MEDIA supported training programs and several film festivals across Europe.
MEDIA Desk is the German information office of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. The programme supports the audiovisual industry in the fields of development, distribution, promotion and festivals, pilot projects and training. MEDIA Desk gives advice with the applications, promotes the programme in the country via professional events, website, publications etc. The German desk is part of a network of information offices in all 33 MEDIA member states. CONTACT nfo@mediadesk.de
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M MEDIA DESK NETHERLANDS ANDREA POSTHUMA / ADVISOR - MEDIA DESK NETHERLANDS
MEDIA, the European Union's support program-me for the film, television and new media industries is represented in the Netherlands by MEDIA Netherlands, hosted by Dutch Culture. The MEDIA Programme offers financial support to professional training, project development (fiction, creative documentary, animation, interactive works), distribution (VoD, Digital Cinema Distribution, sales agents), and promotion (markets and festivals) of European audiovisual works. The Dutch MEDIA team promotes the MEDIA programme in the Netherlands and help Dutch audiovisual industry professionals understand and apply to the MEDIA Programme’s funding schemes. CONTACT www.mediadesknederland.eu
MEDIENBOARD FILM FUNDING BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
DR. TERESA HOEFERT DE TUREGANO / FUNDING ADVISOR
Teresa Hoefert de Turégano has both an academic and professional in the European film milieu. A cinema professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, she has also worked for both Eurimages (the European cinematographic co-production fund) and the European Audiovisual Observatory at the Council of Europe. In addition to her responsibilities at the Medienboard as a funding advisor for international co-productions, she evaluates projects for the EU-ACP film fund and consults on film and cultural policy, with an emphasis on the global South. CONTACT t.hoefert-de-turegano@medienboard.de www.medienboard.de
MEDIENBOARD FILM FUNDING – BERLIN BRANDENBURG
DANIEL SALTZWEDEL/ FUNDING CONSULTANT, FICTION AND DOCUMENTARIES
Daniel Saltzwedel is a Funding Consultant specialising in creative documentaries. Before joining the Medienboard in 2008, Daniel has worked in film production as a producer. Daniel has studied Business, Cultural Studies and Philosophy in Germany and Wales. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is one of the largest regional film funding agencies in Germany. The annual budget for film funding is about 29 million euros. It supports national and international film productions and has both cultural and economic objectives. CONTACT d.saltzwedel@medienboard.de www.medienboard.de INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 143
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M MICHEL REILHAC TRANSMEDIA EXPERT
Michel Reilhac is an independant transmedia storyteller, writing, directing and developing his own projects, exploring hybrid forms of narration. He is also Head of Studies for the newly formed Venice Biennale College, Director of the Multi Platform Master Studies at the Media Business School. He teaches, does workshops and presentations on transmedia storytelling on a regular basis at many international events. He has directed a number of documentaries for television. Since 2008 he has become a flag bearer of the exploration of hybrid forms in storytelling, otherwise labelled « transmedia », offering an immersive, participatory, interactive experience to the audience/participants. CONTACT www.twitter.com/michelreilhac
MIKI MISTRATI
JOURNALIST AND DIRECTOR
Multi Award-Winning Director. Senior Editor. Head of Investigative Journalism. More than 15 years experience in broadcast television, print and online media. Daily responsible of developing and producing online documentaries and education of interns at a national newspaper corporation in Denmark. Miki Mistrati has won 7 awards and has been nominated 17 times in 7 countries. Miki Mistrati has written 3 novels plus a biography. He joins the public debate on television and radio as a media, crime and human trafficking expert with extensive lecture experience in many countries. CONTACT Miki.Mistrati@eb.dk
MIP CUBE
LILIANE DA CRUZ/ ACCOUNT MANAGER
Liliane Da Cruz is responsible for northern and southern Europe for MIPTV and MIPCOM - the Worlds’ Entertainment Content Markets held every six months in Cannes, France. MIPTV and MIPCOM, including the MIPDoc and MIPJunior screening events, are the largest international content markets for TV and online media, each attracting over 11,000 participants from 100 countries and over 1,400 exhibiting companies. Liliane has been working at Reed MIDEM since 2006 and is fluent in English Spanish, Portuguese and French. She has extensive experience in assisting media and production companies to develop their presence in international markets. CONTACT liliane.dacruz@reedmidem.com www.miptv.com
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AMY BASIL / MARKETING AND PRESS EXECUTIVE
Her work focuses on partnerships and building relationships with talent and institutions alike, across all types of media, old, new, offline and on. She is evangelical about new distribution models, curation and good storytelling in whatever form. In addition, Amy is a curator of the Wassaic Film Festival in New York and her current producing project is a documentary feature in Israel and Palestine. CONTACT abasil@mubi.com www.mubi.com
NORDISK FILM & TV FOND
KAROLINA LIDIN / DOCUMENTARY CONSULTANT
Karolina Lidin is a documentary consultant with 20+ years of experience on the international documentary scene, since 2008 engaged at Nordisk Film & TV Fond as film commissioner and at Sheffield Doc/Fest as MeetMarket Executive Producer. NORDISK FILM & TV FOND: Established in 1990, the Fund's primary purpose is to promote film and TV productions of high quality in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), by providing support for top-up financing of feature films, TV-fiction / series and creative documentaries CONTACT karolina@nordiskfilmogtvfond.com www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com
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PETRI KEMPPINEN / HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Before joining Nordisk Film & TV Fond Kemppinen has worked at the Finnish Film Foundation, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company and newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. Kemppinen is a member of Management Board of Eurimages since 2006, president of its promotion group since 2012. Established in 1990, the Nordisk Film & TV Fund's primary purpose is to promote film and TV productions of high quality in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), by providing support for top-up financing of feature films, TV-fiction / series and creative documentaries. CONTACT petri.kemppinen@ses.fi www.ses.fi INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 145
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N NATIONAL GALLERY OF DENMARK – STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST MARIANNE TORP / CHIEF CURATOR
Marianne is chief curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Denmark. As many contemporary artists are working with film and video these media have an obvious focus in my curatorial practice. Also in terms of acquisitions the museum has included film and video based works in the collection, most recently by Joachim Koester and Marina Abramovic. I have been running the museum's project space, the x-rummet venue, for a decade and have commissioned several film and video based works for the venue, most recently new films by Lindsay Seers and Emily Wardill. CONTACT marianne.torp@smk.dk www.smk.dk
NORDISK KULTURFOND MARIA TSAKIRIS/ SENIOR ADVISOR
Responsible for the DIGITAL 2015-2016 initiative, which is a support to digital arts and culture in the Nordic region. One Nordic project will be awarded the 3 million DKK grant and will be carried out through 2015-2016 as The Nordic Cultural Event of the year. Deadline for submitting applications is February 15, 2014. CONTACT mats@norden.org www.nordiskkulturfond.org
NOTION PICTURES
ADAM WAKELING / DIRECTOR
Adam Wakeling is a self-taught documentary filmmaker. 'Up in Smoke' (2011) was his first film, which won multiple awards in festivals worldwide and was broadcast across the globe, including screenings on More4 (UK), NHK (Japan), ARTE (France/ Germany) and Pivot (USA). Adam also has over 10 years experience in international TV distribution and co-production, which he continues through his company, Notion Pictures. He is also carving out a space working as a freelance editor. He currently lives and works between Berlin and London. CONTACT adam@notionpictures.net notionpictures.net
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TOM PERLMUTTER/ FILM COMMISSIONER AND CHAIR OF NFB BOARD
Under his leadership, the NFB has revitalized its documentary and animation programming, forged critical ties with important partners abroad and provided greater access to up-and-coming filmmakers and those from cultural minorities. The NFB has also garnered a number of prestigious honours and awards during this time, including four Oscar® nominations, two Oscar® wins and a record five nominations at the 2010 Webby Awards, the Internet’s highest honour. Prior to joining the NFB, Perlmutter enjoyed a distinguished career in the film industry. CONTACT t.perlmutter@nfb.ca www.nfb.ca
NFI- NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTE
EVEN GOTTFRED BENESTAD/ FILM COMMISSIONER
Even Benestad was a documentary filmmaker before he went behind the iron curtain to become a film commissioner. He best known as a director for the movies All About my Father(2002) and Pushwagner(2011). CONTACT Even.Gottfred.Benestad@nfi.no www.nfi.no
PIETER VAN HUYSTEE FILM
PIETER VAN HUYSTEE / PRODUCER
In 1995 Pieter van Huystee started his own production company. Since then he has produced 135 film projects, most of them documentaries, but also feature and short films and single plays – with both renowned Dutch filmmakers like Johan van der Keuken, Heddy Honigmann, Renzo Martens and Boris Gerrets and young talented directors like Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden. In 2000, Pieter van Huystee was awarded a Golden Calf, the highest distinction in the Dutch film industry, for his work as a producer. By combining daring with decisiveness, Pieter van Huystee Film nowadays has become one of the leading Dutch independent production companies, highly esteemed for the quality and wide range of its projects. Moreover, many of its documentaries and features are screened at festivals all over the world and have been awarded many times. CONTACT pieter@pvhfilm.nl pvhfilm.nl INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 147
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P +PLUS PICTURES METTE HEIDE / CEO
Mette Heide is an award-winning producer and owner of +plus pictures ApS a Danish production company that produces documentaries for the Danish and international market. Mette has worked as an executive producer for the past 18 years. Her most recently titles include Peabody winner “Solar Mamas” (2012) by Mona Eldaief & Jehane Noujaim, Sundance winner “Queen of Versailles” (2012) by Lauren Greenfield, award winning “Rent a Family Inc” (2012) by Kaspar Astrup Schröder and award winning short “The Record Breaker” (2012) by Brian McGinn. Mette Heide has a master’s degree in Political Science and Film and Media Studies. CONTACT heide@pluspictures.dk www.pluspictures.dk
POWER TO THE PIXEL LIZ ROSENTHAL/ CEO
An early advocate and pioneer of cross-media storytelling, digital distribution and filmmaking. She is the Founder and CEO of Power the Pixel (PttP), an organisation helping international film and media businesses adapt to stay relevant in an ever-evolving connected world. PttP helps creators and businesses to create, finance and distribute stories that engage audiences across multiple platforms. Power to the Pixel’s services include advisory on projects and business strategy, project development labs, think tanks and international forums. CONTACT liz@powertothepixel.com www.powertothepixel.com
PURPOSE
HEATHER MCGEORY / DIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIPS
Purpose is a home for building movements that use the power of participation to change the world. Heather believes the deepest, most positive changes happen through innovation, collaboration and the development of strong alliances. Over the last 15 years, she has worked to create successful projects and partnerships in and across the public and private sectors in social innovation, climate change and social justice. CONTACT weare@purpose.com www.purpose.com
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R RENZO MARTENS
ARTIST, WRITER AND FILM DIRECTOR
Martens is a Dutch artist and filmmaker and currently serves as director of the Institute of Human Activities, which runs an arts-based development program in Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the director of the acclaimed films Episode 1 and Episode 3, also known as Enjoy Poverty, that have been shown at the 6th Berlin Biennial, Tate Modern in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Kunsthaus Graz, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as well as at numerous film festivals and on public broadcast channels. Renzo co-founded the Institute for Human Activities in 2010. The Institute has launched a five-year capital accumulation program in the Congolese interior. With a nod to precedents set in cities like New York and Berlin, the Institute aims to turn art production into an engine of economic growth in the rainforest, hoping to improve the lives of the people around its settlement - and generate knowledge on the role of art in this world. Renzo is currently a World Fellow at Yale, working with researchers and entrepreneurs to further the Institute’s mission.
RISE AND SHINE FILMS
STEFAN KLOOS / MANAGING DIRECTOR
RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES is one of the leading boutique sales agents for documentaries. With an average of 15 new films per year, we take an exquisite catalogue of award-winning films and directors to all markets and platforms incl. TV, theatrical, non-theatrical, DVD and VOD. Stefan Kloos also heads the production company KLOOS & CO. MEDIEN, an established player for international coproductions for cinema and TV. CONTACT stefan.kloos@kloosundco.de www.kloosundco.de/en/
SVT- SWEDISH TELEVISION
EMELIE PERSSON / COMMISSIONING EDITOR Emelie Persson is a commissioning editor for arts &culture docs at K special SVT. She’s been working with K special the last four years. Before that that she’s been a producer for culture programs on SVT since 1997. Except being a commissioning editor and producer she’s a culture journalist and an art historian. Films commissioned for K special are among others "Searching for Sugar Man", "Weather War", "Ström åt folket", "At Night I Fly", "Google and the World Brain", "Snille & Smak en film om Svenska Akademien". CONTACT emelie.persson@svt.se www.emelie.persson@svt.se INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 149
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S SVT- SWEDISH TELEVISION AXEL ARNÖ / COMMISSIONING EDITOR, DOCUMENTARIES
Axel Arnö has been commissioning editor at Sveriges Television (SVT) since 1998. Sveriges Television (SVT) is the Swedish public service television company with the widest range of programming of all TV companies in Sweden. Arnö was previously a newspaper reporter, working in news, feature and current affairs. Since his move to national television, Axel has been reporter, editor and editorial executive. Since 2004, Axel works at SVT’s documentary department where he deals with current affairs, special series and creative documentaries. He has commissioned numerous award winning international co-productions. CONTACT axel.arno@svt.se www.svt.se
SVTi- SWEDISH TELEVISION MARIA GROOP RUSSEL / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INTERACTIVE DIVISION
Maria Groop Russel is the Executive Director for digital plattforms at SVT. She has been working at SVT for many years, as a journalist, reporter, producer, projectleader, as developper and as Commission Editor for Factual, Documentaries and Children, for broadcast. She has been head of program departments at SVT in Stockholm (drama, documentaries, childrens, culture and entertainment). Since april 2013 She´s head of SVT's interactive division ( SVT-play, Öppet Arkiv, Pejl mm). CONTACT www.svt.se
SVTi - SWEDISH TELEVISION
PETER WISSMAR/ HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT
Peter manages product, content and concept development for web/interactivity at SVT Interaktiv within the genres: Factuals, Documentaries, Current Affairs, Lifestyle. SVT Open Archive. CONTACT peter.wissmar@svt.se www.svt.se
SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE -SFI CECILIA LIDIN/ FILM COMMISSIONER DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cecilia Lidin has been involved in structures that support the financing and development of documentary projects since 1993. 1993-1996 at the first MEDIA supported office for the creative DOCUMENTARY, 1996-1998 Filmkontakt Nord, 1998-2010 EDN, 2006-2009 Artistic Director Odense International Film Festival, 2011 - Documentary Consultant at SFI. CONTACT Cecilia.Lidin@sfi.se www.sfi.se
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S SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
ISLA BADENDOCH- MARKETPLACE & INDUSTRY ASSISTANT
Isla Badenoch is a word-smith, idea-smith, storyteller and creative of all sorts. Having worked in various roles within the film industry from critic, writer, director, producer and in distribution, she now works for Sheffield Doc/Fest. Isla works to help support filmmakers and decision makers alike and tailor their festival experience to their specific market needs and business development plans at an on-going personal basis. CONTACT isla@sidf.co.uk www.sidf.co.uk
SHAREPLAY
METTE MARCUSSEN/ HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS
Shareplay is a joint media venture between the Northern Denmark Region and the Central Denmark Region. The purpose of Shareplay is to create growth within the business sector and raise the employment and the creativity in the two danish regions by encouraging and cultivating collaborations across competencies and media formats within the audiovisual businesses. CONTACT mm@shareplay.dk www.shareplay.dk
SODA PICTURES
ELENA HILL/ CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Elena Hill is Creative Director of Soda Film + Art. Soda Film + Art is a Londonbased international agency for artist film production, distribution and sales, with associated publishing and online businesses. Soda Film + Art are currently working on feature films by Mark Lewis (Invention) and Omer fast ( Reminder), as well as distributing Shezad Dawood’s Piercing Brightness and Khalil Joreige and Joana Hajithomas’ Lebanese Rocket Society. Elena has ten years experience working as an artist film curator and producer. She has special interest and experience in audience development for artist moving image including Sophy Rickett’s To The River, which was launched as a collateral event at the 54th. Venice Biennale. Elena Hill is a trustee at Arnolfini, Bristol. CONTACT elenahill61@mac.com www.sodapictures.com INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 151
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JASON DAPONTE/ MANAGING DIRECTOR
Jason DaPonte is on of the head mentors at SWIM Lab. He has over 15 years experience working at the junction where media and technology collide – and he loves it. THE SWARM produces and designs digital content and services for the television, arts and culture sectors. Before starting THE SWARM, Jason spent 3 years working in the midst of the mobile content explosion overseeing the content across the BBC’s mobile web, apps and messaging properties. Before that, he was an Executive Producer for BBC Online and a mentor/facilitator for the BBC Creative Network. He is on the advisory board for: Ravensbourne (London’s world-class college focusing on innovation in broadcasting, digital media and design), Sunday Drive (an in-car mobile content startup), Endz2Endz (a youth charity dedicated to the positive portrayal of young people in the media to encourage positive behaviors) and PodAcademy (which publishes consumer-friendly podcasts of the latest academic research). CONTACT jason@entertheswarm.com www.entertheswarm.com
TASKOVSKI FILMS
INKA ACHTE / SALES COORDINATOR
Inka has ten years of experience in the film and TV industries in her native Finland and in the UK. Alongside independent filmmaking, she has a wide range of experience from film consultancy, TV broadcasting, directing and script writing in both single documentaries and series. Inka joined the international Sales and Acquisitions team at Taskovski Films in 2012. CONTACT salestf@taskovskifilms www.taskovskifilms.com
TATE MODERN
GEORGE CLARK/ ASSISTANT CURATOR: FILM
George is on the advisory board of the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and curated the Lav Diaz focus at the AV Festival 2012. He co-edited the book A Detour Around Infermental following the exhibition Infermentalco-curated for Focal Point Gallery, 2010. He has written for Afterall, Art Forum, Mouse Magazine and Sight & Sound among others and has collaborated with artists including Beatrice Gibson and Luke Fowler on new film works. CONTACT george.clark@tate.org.uk www.tate.org.uk
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KATE VOGEL / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Kate started in the independent sector but moved to Channel 4 Commissioning in 2002 working in the DocumentaryDepartment, commissioning the shortfilm prime time strand 3 Minute Wonder and championing new Talent and arts programming. In 2007 she helped to establish the Jarman Award with the Serpentine Gallery, set up New Sensations, a new prize for graduate artists with the Saatchi Gallery and televised the Turner Prize Live for the first time. In November 2010 she joined Tate Media as an Executive Producer, with the aim of working closely with artists and the Tate exhibition programme to produce exciting and challenging films around the visual arts for television and cinema and online audiences. CONTACT Kate.Vogel@tate.org.uk www.tate.org.uk
TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE OPEYEMI OLUKEMI, TRIBECA NEW MEDIA FUND
Opeyemi has managed the TFI New Media Fund since 2011 and has expanded the Digital Initiatives department to include TFI Interactive—a day-long immersion into the world of digital storytelling, Tribeca Sandbox—an interactive field report, and Tribeca Hacks—a playground of exploration for filmmakers and technologists. Opeyemi frequently engages with content creators to embrace emerging platforms and tackle tech integration. CONTACT OOlukemi@tribecafilminstitute.org www.tribecafilminstitute.org
TOBIAS PAUSINGER
INDUSTRY ADVISOR AND CONSULTANT
Tobias was trained in international film production and financing in Ludwigsburg, Los Angeles and Rome and is a MBA graduate of the TU Munich. Together with Jacobine van der Vloed, Tobias consults film professionals and visual artists on development, financing and distribution as well as international film festivals on strategic matters and lectures at various training initiatives throughout Europe. In 2011, together with CineMart and CPH:DOX Tobias founded the Art:Film initiative, a platform to enhance and nurture highly artistic cinema and visual arts. Among others, he is co-selecting the IFFR/ CineMart projects and offering overall advice to the festival. CONTACT pausinger@gmail.com INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 153
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ALEXANDRA HANNIBAL / DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING
The Tribeca Film Institute is a 501(c)(3) year-round non profit arts organization founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in the wake of September 11, 2001. TFI empowers filmmakers through over $1.2 million in grants annually for documentary and new media projects. TFI funds 40-45 feature documentaries annually via our 4 documentary funds. TFI is a filmmaker focused organization that aims to support creatively authored original stories, driven by thoughtful and in-depth storytelling and bolstered by a compelling visual narrative. CONTACT ahannibal@tribecafilminstitute.org tribecafilminstitute.org
TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FRANCESCO GIAI VIA / PROGRAMMER One of Europe’s most important cinematographic events. The purpose of the Festival is to constitute a meeting point for contemporary International cinema and to provide the opportunity for a discussion on all its perspectives and artistic trends. Particular attention is paid to emerging cinemas and filmmakers. CONTACT francescogiaivia@gmail.com www.torinofilmfest.com
TV 2 PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT HEIDI KIM ANDERSEN/ COMISSIONING EDITOR
TV2 is Denmark’s largest tv station. It is a commercial station with public service obligations. Our target audience is 21-50 years old. We are looking for stories that appeal to a wide tv audience. CONTACT heka@tv2.dk www.tv2.dk
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TAKASHI ASAI/ INDEPENDENT FILM AND DVD DISTRIBUTOR
Takashi is a Japanese movie producer, exhibitor, film distributor, and the CEO of UPLINK CO, a film distribution company, cafe, and multicine space. Started in 1987, UPLINK distributed and co-produced the 4 films of Derek Jarman until his death. UPLINK has also released films by Francois Girard, Rose Troche, Susanne Ofteringer, Sergei Bodrov, Spike Lee, Darren Arnofsky, among others. CONTACT asai@uplink.co.jp www.uplink.co.jp
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
IB BONDEBJERG / PROFESSOR
Ib Bondebjerg is professor of film and media studies, University of Copenhagen. He was chairman of The Danish Film Institute (1997-2000). He is on the advisory board of the journal Studies in Documentary film. He has published two books in Danish on the history of the Danish television and film documentary. His later books on documentary are 'Engaging With Reality. Documentary and Globalization' (2013) and 'The Danish Directors 3. Dialogues on the New Danish Documentary Cinema' (2013, co-editor). CONTACT bonde@hum.ku.dk www.ku.dk
UR KUNSKAPSKANALEN
DANIEL PYNNÖNEN/ HEAD OF ACQUISITIONS
With a past in commercial TV Daniel moved to public service in order to work with quality factual programs. Having spent the last six years at UR - Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company he is currently Acting Head of Acquisitions. CONTACT daniel.pynnonen@ur.se www.ur.se urplay.se kunskapskanalen.se
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V URBAN DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL FRÉDÉRIC CORVEZ/ CEO
Frederic started his career at Equinoxe (Sony Pictures Intl and Canal +) where he was in charge of the international development. Frédéric Corvez is also the founder and manager of URBAN FACTORY, an independent company dedicated to domestic production and international coproduction’s. In 2011, UDI has also extended its activities to theatrical distribution in France with a new arm: URBAN DISTRIBUTION. CONTACT frederic@urbandistrib.com www.urbandistrib.com
VANJA KALUDJERCIC HEAD OF INDUSTRY LES ARCS, PARIS CINEMA AND PROGRAMMER SARAJEVO FF
Croatia-born festival programmer, who started out working at the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia and the Slovenian Cinematheque before organizing several festivals in Zagreb like the Human Rights Film Festival, the ZagrebDox Pro workshop and the Animafest. For the past six years she programs the short film section at Sarajevo Film Festival. For three years she was in charge of acquisitions at the Coproduction Office in Paris, while now she is head of Paris Project, the Paris Cinema’s project market and she is also in charge of industry section at Les Arcs European Film Festival in France. CONTACT vkaludjercic@pariscinema.org www.pariscinema.org
VICE MEDIA GROUP- DENMARK
FREDERIK ANDERSEN/ COO STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS
Frederik crosses traditional boundaries of marketing and design to redefine the way businesses engage their audiences. For nearly 20 years, Frederik has helped some of the world’s most influential brands achieve creative excellence through a clear and authentic voice and brilliant storytelling. Previously located in London and New York as Executive Creative Director, in charge of developing content based always-on campaigns. Ensuring high-quality work for all aspects of the audience experience, messaging, and digital engagements for brands such as Lexus, Faberge, JoMalone, Unilever, Google and Cisco. CONTACT frederik.andersen@vice.com www.vice.com
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JAMIE KING/ FOUNDER
Jamie King is founder of innovative online content distributor VODO. He was formerly Media Evangelist at BitTorrent Inc, and is director/producer of the massively pirated documentary STEAL THIS FILM. CONTACT jamie@vodo.net www.vodo.net
VPRO
BARBARA TRUYEN/ HEAD OF DOCUMENTARIES
Barbara Truyen has worked in the industry since 1990. She started out as a producer. She established BT Agency in 1998 to raise finance and arrange international co-productions for documentaries in development. For 8 years BT agency ran the European Office for Films Transit International, a sales agent of quality documentaries. In 2007, Barbara was appointed Commissioning Editor for creative documentaries at public broadcaster VPRO in the Netherlands. In 2009, she became Head of Documentaries. She has commissioned and co-produced about 135 so far a.o Danish docs Armadillo, The Visit, 1989. CONTACT B.Truyen@vpro.nl www.vpro.nl
VISIONS DU RÉEL
EMILIE BUJÈS / CURATOR, SELECTION COMMITTEE
Born in France, Emilie Bujès lives and works in Geneva and Berlin. Master in Art History, is a member of the selection committee of Visions du Réel - International Film Festival (Nyon, Switzerland) and a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre of Geneva. Exhibitions and programs under her curatorship are particularly focused on film archives and often explore documentary practices and their relation to history and memory. Currently developing a publication (co-edited by Matei Bellu) that discusses the notion of trauma as conceived and questioned as a cultural paradigm, she has presented several curatorial projects in public and private galleries - including e.g. Forde, in Geneva, and Marcelle Alix in Paris – and has participated in festivals such as Berlinale and Lausanne Underground Film Festival. CONTACT emilie.bujes@centre.ch www.centre.ch INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 157
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W WERNER BOOTE / DIRECTOR
Werner Boote´s current documentary "Population Boom" (2013) questions the nightmarish worldview of overpopulation. His film "Plastic Planet" (2009) was a box-office success and shown in 66 countries. Born in 1965 in Vienna, Werner Boote started at the bottom as a best boy, and then continued to acquire the skills and hone his special talent for making films. He studied theatre, communications and sociology at the University of Vienna, and film-making at the Vienna Film-Academy. He was assistant director for Robert Dornhelm and Ulrich Seidl for many years. Since 1993 Werner Boote has been writing and directing films, which focussed initially on music and the arts. He has won numerous awards, including the ROMY for Best long feature documentary in 2010. From 1993 to 2002 he lived and worked in Amsterdam. Werner Boote now resides in Vienna. CONTACT www.wernerboote.com
WIDE MANAGEMENT
ANAïS CLANET / GENERAL MANAGER
Anaïs Clanet opened Wide House, Wide’s Documentary branch, with Loic Magneron early 2011. Wide House represents THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 sold in more than 20 territories theatrically and to broadcasters, ELENA by Petra Costa and MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN BLACK by Jonathan Holiff among other theatrical documentaries. The company also handles worldwide one of the biggest Cinema and Ballet documentary collection including BERGMAN & MAGNANI: THE WAR OF VOLCANOES and MILOS FORMAN, WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU… CONTACT ac@widemanagement.com www.widehouse.org
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES
DEBRA ZIMMERMAN/ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Women Make Movies is a non-profit NY based film organization which supports women filmmakers, since 1983. During her tenure it has grown into the largest distributor of films by and about women in the world and our internationally recognized Production Assistance Program has helped hundreds of women get their films made. CONTACT debra@wmm.com www.wmm.com
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TRACIE HOLDER/ PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
As the Program Consultant for the Production Assistance Program, Tracie organizes skill building workshops, a Meet the Funder series, and works with fiscally sponsored filmmakers to fine tune their funding proposals, screen rough cuts and provide fundraising advice. When she is not consulting for WMM, Tracie is making films. CONTACT tholder@wmm.com www.wmm.com
YLE - FINNISH BROADCASTING COMPANY ERKKI ASTALA/ HEAD COMMISSIONER
Erkki is in charge of films (fiction and documentary) and drama mini-series. Previously Head of Production in the Finnish Film Foundation, and before that worked together with Aki Kaurismäki and Mika Kaurismäki in various capacities in production, distribution and at the Midnight Sun Film Festival. Currently a member of the board of the Finnish Film Foundation, and a former member of the boards of the Eurimages Fund and the Nordic Film & TV Fund. CONTACT erkki.astala@yle.fi www.yle.fi
YOUTUBE / GOOGLE
VICTOR POTREL / PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER
Victor Potrel is currently focusing on launching the YouTube partnership program in Denmark, Norway and Finland and growing new and existing partners in the Nordics region. He has been part of the YouTube team for more than 2 years where he developed expertise on monetization and the digital media industry. Prior to this, Victor launched the French operations at Preview Networks, a Danish video distribution startup and participated in the creation of a VC -founded restaurant business. Victor graduated with a MSc in Innovation and Technology from Sorbonne University. As part of his curriculum he spent one year at the Copenhagen Business School and University of Minneapolis. He has also been competing in acrobatic martial arts at international level. CONTACT victrel@youtube.com INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS / 159
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MARIE-LOUISE LETENDRE/ AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIST
Marie-Louise Letendre graduated with a BA in Communications from Concordia University and a MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics. She worked for organizations including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian National Film Board and Paramount Pictures before joining Google three years ago. For the past two years, Marie-Louise has been working as a YouTube Audience Development Strategist for EMEA. Her focus is on developing platform strategies, growing sustained YouTube audiences and assisting creators and media organizations in establishing their creative online video presence. CONTACT mlletendre@google.com
ZEITGEIST FILMS
IAN STIMLER / HEAD OF MEDIA SALES
Ian Stimler manages all VOD, digital, and DVD distribution and sales for Zeitgeist FIlms. Zeitgeist is of the most respected independent distribution companies in the US. Ian also runs the boutique film distribution label KimStim. He previously worked with Adam Yauch in the creation and launch of the film distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories. CONTACT ian@zeitgeistfilms.com www.zeitgeistfilms.com
ZERO ONE FILM
JUTTA DOBERSTEIN / PRODUCER
Jutta Doberstein is affiliated with Zero One Film for over 10 years now, as a dramaturge and content developer for non-fictional movies and formats. She is also a member of a research- and development team for transmedia content at the Moving Image Lab at the Leuphana University Lueneburg. Zero One Film is an independent film production company in Berlin. The company produces high value cinema documentaries and fiction films as well as innovative formats for German and international TV and online distribution. They focus on crossing boundaries, finding new means, partners and formats – also in the area of international coproduction. She is also a member of a research- and development team for transmedia content at the Moving Image Lab at the Leuphana University Lueneburg. CONTACT jutta@zeroone.de zeroone.de
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ISA OSTERTAG/ MANAGING EDITOR, EDITOR, ISA OSTERTAG/ MANAGING NEW MEDIA NEW MEDIA
Isa Ostertag a managing editor for editor New Media at ZDF. Her is infocus transmedia Isa is Ostertag is a managing for New Media at focus ZDF. Her is in transmedia story telling and crossmedia projects. She was in charge of charge the transmedia-thrillstory telling and crossmedia projects. She was in of the transmedia-thriller Dina Foxx, of webisodes for the primetime series „Pater Castell“, for the er Dina Foxx, of webisodes for the primetime series „Pater and Castell“, and for the productions „Elektrischer Reporter“,Reporter“, „Mashups“ for the digital channels ZDFneo ZDFneo productions „Elektrischer „Mashups“ for the digital channels and ZDFinfo. recently, commissioned a motion comic for comic the historical tv andMost ZDFinfo. Most she recently, she commissioned a motion for the historical tv movie „Unsere Väter“. IsaVäter“. Ostertag up in Glasgow, Scotland Scotland movie Mütter, „Unsereunsere Mütter, unsere Isa grew Ostertag grew up in Glasgow, and Hamburg, Germany.Germany. She studied Studies and Spanish Madrid,in Madrid, and Hamburg, SheAmerican studied American Studies and in Spanish Berlin andBerlin Hamburg. She has been working ZDF asfor a TV and editor and Hamburg. She has beenfor working ZDF as New a TV Media and New Media editor since 1999. since 1999. CONTACTCONTACT Ostertag.I@zdf.de Ostertag.I@zdf.de www.zdf.de www.zdf.de
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MARTIN PIEPER HEAD OF/ HEAD DEPARTMENT MARTIN/ PIEPER OF DEPARTMENT From 1990-1994 he was athe ZDF resp. ZDFresp. Enterprises (commercial branch ofbranch ZDF) of ZDF) - ARTE-THEMA From 1990-1994 was at ZDF ZDF Enterprises (commercial - ARTE-THEMA responsible for legal for andlegal business affairs of affairs the ECA Copro¬duction responsible and business of (European the ECA (European Copro¬duction Association, a joint venture France 4, 2, France ORF, RAI, SRG/SSR, TVE Association, a jointbetween venture Channel between4, Channel 2, ORF, RAI, SRG/SSR, TVE and ZDF with co-produce long running andseries TV movies) well asas well as and the ZDFaim withtothe aim to co-produce longseries running and TVas movies) for some chosen international co-productions. From 1994-1996 he has been for some chosen international co-productions. From 1994-1996 he assishas been assistant of thetant Director European Joint Venture (Direktor Europäische of thefor Director for European JointProgrammes Venture Programmes (Direktor Europäische Programmbeteiligungen) and from and 1996-2000 assistant assistant of the Director Euro- for EuroProgrammbeteiligungen) from 1996-2000 of the for Director pean Satellite (Direktor (Direktor Europäische Satellitenprogramme – 3sat, – 3sat, pean Programmes Satellite Programmes Europäische Satellitenprogramme ARTE, Digitaler ZDF-Vision). Till June Till 2000June he has commisARTE, Theaterkanal, Digitaler Theaterkanal, ZDF-Vision). 2000been he has been commissioning editor andeditor head and of the department culture &culture science&programmes/ARTE. sioning head of the department science programmes/ARTE. Since MaySince 2011May is he2011 headis of department “ARTE - Thema” covers thecovers the hethe head of the department “ARTE -which Thema” which areas culture, and wildlife. Since 2003 areashistory, culture,politics, history,human politics,interest, human nature interest, nature and wildlife. Since 2003 he is member the funding selection board of the Baden-Württemberg Film he is of member of theand funding and selection board of the Baden-Württemberg Film Funding Corporation. He received Grimmeaaward in 2006. Funding Corporation. Heareceived Grimme award in 2006.
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LUCAS SCHMIDT/ EDITOR EDITOR LUCAS SCHMIDT/
CONTACTCONTACT pieper.m@zdf.de pieper.m@zdf.de www.zdf.de www.zdf.de In addition the dramaturgical support ofsupport featureoffilms andfilms documentaries, he In to addition to the dramaturgical feature and documentaries, he is the coordinator of Quantum, the format offormat the laboratory little television play, is the coordinator of Quantum, the of the laboratory little television play, responsible for the development of new TVofformats. current responsible for the development new TV His formats. Hisprojects currentinclude projects include the award-winning feature films "ceasefire" by Lancelot Naso von andNaso "Gravity the award-winning feature films "ceasefire" by von Lancelot and""Gravity " by Maximilian Erlenwein, the documentary " Login2Life " by Daniel Moshel and the and the by Maximilian Erlenwein, the documentary " Login2Life " by Daniel Moshel international co-production " Easy Money " by Daniél Espinosa. During hisDuring studies international co-production " Easy Money " by Daniél Espinosa. his studies he workedheasworked a writer numerous TV channels and several andmovie television asfor a writer for numerous TV channels andmovie several and television productions. In addition, is involved Script Workshop of the School Film of Film productions. In he addition, he is in involved in Script Workshop of theofSchool and Television in Munich.in Munich. and Television CONTACTCONTACT Schmidt.l@zdf.de Schmidt.l@zdf.de www.zdf.de www.zdf.de
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