copenhagen international documentary film festival
10 - 12 nov 2010
cph:dOx is a part Of cOpenhagen filM festivals
THE BRANDING
Mediepartnere:
Offentlige bidragsydere:
DENMARK FUND mfonden.dk
contents
VENUE
ASTA BIO Cinemateket The Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 DK-1123 Kbh K
DATES 10-12 November 2010
DOX:FORUM 2010 Festival Director: Tine Fischer Head of Industry: Daniella Eversby Strategic Consultant: Helle Ulsteen Forum Coordinator: Jasmin Blom Forum Coordinator: Truls Nordstrand Jacobsen Catalogue Editor: Rebecca Bro Visual Identity: Silke Brandes Graphic Design and layout: Signe Lupnov Production: Susanne Thygaard, Frederik Sølberg
CPH:DOX is part of the Copenhagen Film Festivals Foundation
DOX:FORUM is supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Nordisk Film Fonden, The Branding Denmark Fund & The Danish Film Institute Thanks to our partners and a special thank you to EAVE for a great collaboration.
THE BRANDING
WELCOME TO DOX:FORUM
4
HOW TO DOX:FORUM
5
DOX:FORUM HOSTS
6
TIME SCHEDULE
7
Project presentations
8
Industry professionals
64
TALKS AND SEMINARS
98
CONTACT DETAILS
103
MAP
104
DENMARK FUND
mfonden.dk
welcome to dox:forum It is with great pleasure that we are welcoming all of you here in Copenhagen to this years brand new version of DOX:FORUM - From solely focusing on distribution, we are now relaunching as a financing and co-production forum. And as always, DOX:FORUM is dedicated to supporting the creative, free and auteur-driven documentary films. We have an incredible line-up this year and can’t wait to get started with these next 3 tightly packed days of project presentations, pre-arranged one-on-one meetings, seminars, informel networking, dinners and good old fun. This year, an exclusive selection of 24 outstanding projects have been selected for presentation and we are extremely proud of the line-up. Reflecting CPH:DOX’ overall interest in strong cinematic films, crossing boundaries between fiction, documentary and art, we have taken a new and different approach with the aim of exploring new, untested ways of breaking down conventional notions of genre. The 24 selected projects will be presented in three sections: The FICTIONONFICTION category representing a line-up of challenging works in the ever-growing hybrid landscape between fiction and non-fiction. The CINEMA category for high-end theatrical films, and the ART category for film projects conceptualized to be screened both within the institution of cinema and that of visual arts. The film projects will be presented to an excellent line-up of major international funds, sales agents, buyers, distributors, broadcasters, online platforms, festivals, museums and other film and art institutions. Since its inception in 2007, DOX:FORUM has gained a world-class reputation for bringing together key international professionals who are changing the way films are being created, financed and distributed. We hope, with this years DOX:FORUM, to have created an exclusive meeting and networking place where leading European and International professionals will develop strong working relations across fiction, documentary and the arts. We cross our fingers and hope to see lots of unexpected alliances. So, in short, a very warm welcome to all of you – and the best of luck to the filmmaking teams. Thank you all for joining us and making the time to come to Copenhagen.
how to dox:forum On the following pages you will find the schedule for DOX:FORUM, information on the project presentations and an overview of all the industry professionals attending. In the back of the program you will find our contact details along with a map containing all relevant locations. The official DOX:FORUM program runs from Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th November. The main part of DOX:FORUM will take place in ASTA bio at The Danish Film Institute. Whenever the schedule allows it, feel free to make use of all the great films and events at this year’s edition of CPH:DOX. And don’t forget to visit DOX:MARKET, our curated digital screening market offering you easy access to an extensive line-up of recent documentaries in cosy surroundings. The market is located on the 4th floor at Cinemateket. PROJECT PRESENTATIONS The selected projects will be presented in four sessions to an attending audience of financiers, distributors, sales agents, funds, industry professionals, producers and directors. Each presentation team has 7 minutes to present their project. Clips and/or trailers can be screened during the presentation. After the presentation, there will be a 7 minute feedback session from the panel. Project presentations are moderated by Jess Search and Ingrid Kopp. Project presentations start ON time at 9.30 and 11.30. Please arrive at Asta Bio no later than 5 minutes before the start of each session. PRACTICALITIES All networking / social events are listed in the time schedule.
We hope you will have an enjoyable, fun and successful festival. BREAKFAST For the guests staying at Hotel 27, the breakfast buffet is available every morning between 6:30 and 9:30 during weekdays and between 7:30 and 10:30 on weekends. LUNCH Lunch will be served on the 10th and 11th of November in SULT // Cinemateket.
festival director // tine fischer 4 / welcome / dox:forum
head of industry // daniella eversby
strategic consultant // helle ulsteen
DINNER If nothing else is announced in the program, dinner will be available at Hotel 27 where the buffet is open every night between 18:00 and 21:00 for the guests staying at the hotel. dox:forum / how to dox:forum / 5
forum host: jess search
time schedule
channel 4 britdoc foundation // CEO Jess Search Jess is the CEO of The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation which she co-founded with Maxyne Franklin, Beadie Finzi and Katie Bradford. Previously she was a Channel 4 commissioning editor and once upon a time an actual documentary producer. Jess is also a co-founder of Shooting People, the online filmmakers network started in 1998. She is a Cool Brands judge, a moderator of the IDFA pitching forum and is attempting to complete a Film MBA. She directs weekend films on a flip camera that can be found on Vimeo. Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation has given funding and support to over 60 British docs including Afghan Star, We Are Together and The Yes Men Fix the World. The Foundation also supports international filmmakers with the PUMA.Creative Catalyst Awards, offering 40 development awards annually. In partnership with the Sundance Institute we run The Good Pitch which partners filmmakers with NGOs, foundations and brands. This year the Foundation launched the PUMA.Creative Impact Award of 50.000 Euros for the documentary film which creates the most significant social impact. FAVORITE FILMS [excluding ones I worked on!] The Arbour, Man on Wire, Exit Through the Gift Shop
WEDNESDAY 10.11
THURSDAY 11.11
FRIDAY 12.11
09.30 // WELCOME
09.30 // PROJECT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 1 / FICTIONONFICTION Bridgend Hassel 12 Manifesto The Scribe of Uraba AutoPersonifiction Marussa
seminars and talks
11.15 // Coffee break
13.30--15.00 Mob Rule: Kickstarter on Crowdfunding
9.45 // PROJECT PRESENTATIONS SESSION ONE / FICTIONONFICTION The Ambassador George: Man and Boy Muerte and Me Jealous A spell to ward off the darkness Something.has.to.break. 11.15 // Coffee break
forum host: ingrid kopp shooting people // Director US Office Ingrid Kopp Ingrid Kopp is director of Shooting People in the US. She began her career in the Documentaries department at Channel 4 Television in the UK and moved to New York in 2004 to work as a producer for a number of independent production companies before taking her current post at Shooting People. She writes about film, social media and technology for various publications and teaches Digital Bootcamp workshops for filmmakers, focusing on audience engagement. Shooting People Founded by filmmakers Jess Search and Cath Le Couteur, Shooting People started in the belief that the best way to get independent films made and out into the world was to learn from others doing it themselves. Now, with 38.000 members and over 100 new crew and cast joining every week, this core principal remains the same and as important as ever. Independent filmmaking can be a pretty tough business. But it’s also a pretty exciting business right now. And Shooters are doing great things; creating bold films. FAVORITE FILMS Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Gates of Heaven, Exit Through the Gift Shop
6 / forum hosts / dox:forum
11.30 // PROJECT PRESENTATIONS session two / CINEMA Petey and ginger Iran Evolution Canned Dreams The Art of Making Money Crulic Vanishing Worlds
11.30 // PROJECT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 2 / CINEMA Teenage Lung Neaw Fuck for Forest The Desert Nowhere home Democrats
11.00--12.00 New platforms: Guggenheim, Youtube & Babelgum 12.15--12-45 New International Funds
// gala 20.00--05.00 / The official Closing Gala Award Party at Hal D
13.00 // LUNCH
13.00 // LUNCH
14.00 --16.00 // ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS
14.00 --16.00 // ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS
19.30 -- 00.00 // The big DOX dinner at Odd Fellow Palæet
16.00-17.00 // Networking drinks at SULT / Cinemateket 16.00 -- 18.00 // SEMINAR The Art Museum as TV Station? at The National Gallery of Denmark 21.00 – 01.00 // New Danish Screen Party at ZOO Bar dox:forum / time schedule / 7
project presentations fictiononfiction wednesday 8 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
THE AMBASSADOR // GEORGE: MAN AND BOY // MUERTE AND ME // JEALOUS A SPELL TO WARD OFF the DARKNESS // something.has.to.break. dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 9
the ambassador
presentation of team
Director // ..............
the ambassador Running time: 60 / 90 min Production Status: In production Expected release: May/June 2011 executive producer / co-producer:
Co-producer: Carsten Holst Executive producer: Peter Ålbæk Jensen contact: peter.engel@filmbyen.dk Confirmed financial sources:
New Danish Screen (DK), Ministry of Education (DK), Media TV distribution (EU), NFTF SVT (SE), YLE, (FI), Canvas (BE), Channel 4 (UK), Ceska Televize (CZ), RTV (SI), ERR (EE) Film in West (SE), Anjou Lafayette (HU), Against Gravity (PL), Clorofilm (RO), Trollhättan (SE) Market Partners:
Trust Nordisk, SVT (SE), YLE (FI), Canvas (BE), Channel 4 (UK), Ceska Televize (CZ), RTV (SI), ERR (EE), Film in West (SE) Anjou Lafayette (HU), Against Gravity (PL), Clorofilm (RO) Co-production partners:
Trollhättan (SE), Cine Works (FI) Potemkino (BE) BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: notes:
The project - part fiction, part fact (a documentary with fictional elements) - tells a dramatic, tragically funny and emotionally disturbing tale about the most forgotten place in Africa..............
10 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
conf
l a i t iden
852.206
director // The director is a Danish journalist, TV-host, author and experimental documentary director. In 2004 he began experimenting with role-play in journalism in ‘Danes for Bush’ (TV-series), where he plays a neoconservative Dane, who travels across USA to help George W. Bush get re-elected under the slogan “save us from Old Europe”. In the documentary ‘The Red Chapel’ (winner at Sundance 2010) he took his role-playing even further when he went on a “cultural exchange” in North Korea.
director
producer // peter engel Peter Engel has produced radio, television and films for all ages during the last 20 years. He has worked for DR, TV2, The Danish Film Institute, Koncern Film/TV, Nordisk Film and presently for Zentropa. His credits include amongst others the TV series ‘Yallahrup Port’ (satire with hand-puppets for adults), ‘Danes for Bush’ (mocumentary), ‘Big Wash’ (animation series for kids) and ‘The Red Chapel’ (award winning documentary, feature length). Zentropa Zentropa is founded by producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen and director Lars Von Trier in 1992 and has grown to become the largest film production company in Scandinavia. The general foundation of it is, that it consists of separate producer offices, which each have their own brand, such as Zentropa RamBUk run by Peter Engel. They all refer to the central management. In 2010 Zentropa RamBUk won the World Cinema Jury Prize; Documentary at Sundance Film Festival for ‘The Red Chapel’.
producer // peter engel
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 11
george: man and boy
presentation of team
Director // Brian Hill
contracted polio as a baby. George was delighted by this vision, ‘she was disabled and she was an exhibitionist’ he chortles. His next love was David Bowie who still fondly holds a place in George’s heart. George aimed himself at the club scene in London, living in squats, and collecting a riotous group of friends from music, modelling, fashion and clubland. Constantly reinventing himself visually in ever more eccentric and original guises, George slowly got himself noticed around the London scene. After a brief brush with Malcolm McLaren, he formed Culture Club collecting band members through friends. They struggled at first to find their sound but their first release “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me” went to number one in several territories. Hiding his turbulent love affair with the band’s drummer Jon Moss, the group had a spectacular run of successes with hits and tours all over the world. But fame and the collapse of his relationship with Jon caused George to resort to drugs and his addiction drove him near to death.
BOY GEORGE was one of the most influential pop figures of his generation. This film will be a personal, honest, and entertaining look at an extraordinary life told in his own words using archive, reconstruction, and a wideranging soundtrack. George O’Dowd started life in a working class area of South East London as one of 5 children. His father, a builder and his mother, a housewife, George tells of his child 12 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
er, a housewife, George tells of his child hood home as a sometimes tempestuous place, full of children, noise, arguments, and strong characters. His earliest memories are dominated by music and style. Continually seeking role models and like-minded people he recounts his joy at discovering an Auntie he never knew he had aged 11. AuntTheresa appears in his kitchen in full twotone garb and also wearing calipers as she contracted polio as a baby. George was de-
Most recently, George is famous for sweeping the streets of New York doing his Community Service there and going to prison in the UK charged with the false imprisonment of a male escort. Despite this his appearance on a prime time British chat show prompted the show’s highest ratings. George is a celebrity survivor. He was foremost in the UK music and fashion scene at a time when Britain was the most exciting place for these things in the world. His self-deprecating wit and almost painful honesty is his trademark. Perhaps it is this refusal to dress things up or to fit the mould that is part of why so many people, male, female, gay, and straight have such a huge fondness for him.
george: man and boy Running time: 90 min Production Status: Financing Expected release: Summer 2012 Executive producer / co-producer:
Alan Moloney, Parallel Films, Ireland Contact: brian.hill@centuryfilmsltd.com emma@stellarproductions.co.uk Confirmed financial sources:
Confirmed financial sources: UK Film Council and Irish Film Board TBC Teaser financed by UKFC and IFB BUDGET in euro:
Total budget:
notes:
1.000.000
Director // Brian Hill Brian Hill is an award-winning filmmaker (BAFTA, Grierson). He has made over 60 films for the BBC and Channel 4 including his landmark films with poet Simon Armitage which saw the development of a new form, the documentary musical, including ‘Feltham Sings’ and ‘Songbirds’, which was selected for Sundance. He has directed two theatrical documentaries: a biography of Robbie Williams ‘Nobody Someday’, and ‘Climate of Change’, about the efforts of everyday people in the fight against global warming. Producer // Emma Clarke Emma Clarke began Stellar Productions to produce a wide range of tv and feature films for a commercial, intelligent audience. Previously she ran the London office of Fine Line Features, and was then a Senior Exec at the UK Film Council. Her films there included works by Andrea Arnold, Paul Greengrass, Andrew MacDonald, and Shane Meadows. She is proud to have championed SON OF BABYLON which is Iraq’s entry to the Oscars in 2011. Century Films Century Films is an award-winning independent television production company with a long track record of making documentary films for all the major UK broadcasters, predominantly Channel 4 and the BBC. We specialise in high quality, visually distinctive and innovative films that explore human stories and social issues. Century Films was set up in 1994 by Producer/ Director Brian Hill, with the aim of making intelligent, crafted documentaries. Century’s output has always been unique and exciting.
Director // brian hill
producer // emma clarke
Goals at DOX:FORUM We want to find the right partners to take this project into production. We are interested in talking to distributors and TV. channels as well as equity financiers.
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 13
presentation of team
muerte and me Directors // ross mcdonnell and Carter Gunn
muerte and me Running time: 80 minutes Production Status: Pre Production Expected release: Winter 2011 Contact: Morgan@fastnetfilms.com Ross@losthillspictures.com Cartergunn@gmail.com
Director // Ross McDonnell Ross McDonnell completed his BA in Communications Studies at DCU and an MA in Film from DIT. He has worked on a variety of commissions, long-term projects and grant awards as a photographer, cinematographer and director.
Confirmed financial sources:
Director // Carter Gunn Since graduating from the Manhattan School of Visual Arts Carter Gunn has worked in production and post-production on a number of documentaries most notably HBOs I am Animal, No End in Sight and Quest for Honor. Colony was both their feature length directorial debut.
Irish Film Board BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Confirmed loan stage 1 + 2 (IFB) Total budget:
notes:
Muerte & Me aims to present a meditation on the culture of death in contemporary Mexico by depicting stories of the individuals that live their lives within its grasp. Muerte & Me aims to form a visual journey through the Mexican culture of death in relation to the country’s failure to cope with the current outpouring of violence. From those who increasingly seek solstice by worshiping the skeletal figure of Santa Muerte; the Weegee-esque street photographers who prowl Mexico City for the latest crime scene; the body collectors who clean the streets of Ciudad Juarez to those who spend their lives on the run in Mexico’s badlands, the film plans to document the epiphanies and tragedies of those that walk hand in hand with death itself. Rather than sensationalise and catalogue ongoing current events into a documentary film, our aim is to make a film that both borrows from cinematic and literary sources and re-invents them within the context of 14 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
this world. In short, it intends to be a piece of non-fiction filmmaking that utilises the conventions of cinematic mise-en-scene, of literature and of reality, to construct a narrative that explores the perception that: “death seems to lack meaning to the Mexicans, that it comes easily and matters little.” (Day 1990:67) Informed and inspired by author Charles Bowden whose 2010 non-fiction work ‘Murder City’ is to date the seminal account of the epidemic of violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the book is the perfect source material for the project, with Bowden’s hard-boiled voice the perfect vehicle for guiding audiences into the violent world that exists south of the Border. Our aim is to collaborate closely with the author to create a sustained original voice-over, perhaps even from the perspective of death himself, stalking the land, that gives structure and oversight to the real life characters and stories that we follow. This scripted approach will allow us the space as filmmakers to subjectively explore this topic
and maximise its cinematic potential. By delving into the myths of Mexican cultural history we hope to explore the idea that: “The Mexican of today continues to be anguished by the prospect of death, the same as all humanity, but in contrast to other peoples’, he does not hide behind death, but rather lives with it, makes it the object of jokes and tries to forget it by turning it into something familiar.” (Vargas 1971:57) How is it that this stereotype now seems to be manifesting itself as a grim reality in Mexican border cities in a daily deluge of murder and violence? This is what we seek to shape into a documentary narrative, this journey between cultural myth and harsh reality. At this early stage of pre-production it is impossible to state whether the film will form a series of vignettes that inform our thesis or a succession of interweaving narratives that follow the fortunes of individuals over a long-term period. In both cases it is a project that has vast cinematic and narrative subject matter.
435.959 15.000 202.979 217.979
Director // Ross McDonnell
Producer // Morgan Bushe BA Film (IFSW). EAVE graduate. BLOOD AND INK (nominated Best Doc Series 2008 Celtic Film and Television Awards; TV Now Awards 2008), A BLOODY CANVAS (nominated Radharc 2008; Commendation 2008 Prix Circom; Best Doc IFTA 2009), COLONY (First Appearance award IDFA; Reel to Real Section TFF, nominated Best Doc IFTA 2010), NOTHING PERSONAL (nominated EFA Prix FIPRESCI 2010, six awards Locarno FF 2009, three Dutch Calf Awards 2009), CIRCUS FANTASTICUS (eight Vesna awards Slovenian FF 2010). Fastnet Films Irish based Fastnet Films is the production company of producers Macdara Kelleher, Morgan Bushe and director Lance Daly. The company produces and co-produces feature films, television drama series and documentaries for domestic and international release.
Director // carter gunn
Goals at DOX:FORUM: The primary goal is to introduce the project to the marketplace in order to raise the remaining finance required through a partnership with a European co-producer or co-producers, sales agent involvement or television presales. producer // morgan bushe dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 15
jealous
presentation of team
Director // Hanne Myren
jealous Running time: 70-80min Production Status: In Development Expected release: Autum 2012 Contact: stine@mop.no, hanne@mop.no Confirmed financial sources:
NFI by Thomas Robsam (development) Market Partners: Euforia Film AS BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
Jealous is to be a development of the technique and thematic focus of Hanne Myren’s innovative short film Control. Jealous is a film about young couples and emotions like jealousy, uncertainty and cowardice. Stories we like to keep to ourselves. In Control, we explore the power relations between Marnie (24) and her boyfriend Adam. The film particularly explores Marnie and her role in the powerplays of the relationship. We identify with her, her strengths and vulnerabilities, and see how she acts in contradictory, provocative ways. Yet we powerfully sense her need of - and closeness to Adam, so universal problems associated with romantic commitment, and the individual’s struggle within the couple, are subtly brought to the fore. What is innovative about Control is Hanne’s combination of observational, direct documentary techniques with measured cinematic and narrative authorship. Hanne 16 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
casted a real-life couple and observed them over time. She wrote a series of scenes and a narrative framework that would best explore the dynamics of the couple. The scenes were then enacted within the parameters of their everyday lives. The camera captures these scenes unobtrusively, but in a pre-designed manner that provides for a deliberate, meaningful aesthetic. The effect is of real life captured cinematically, documentary shaped to provide the insight of story. Jealous will represent further development of these themes and approaches. Three or four interwoven stories will be rendered exploring the balance of power and need within relationships. A three-act structure will be employed, telling three main stories. The first story will follow a young couple discovering first love and then losing it. The second story will explore the conflicts of a girl wrestling with her self-destructive need to remain in complete control of her relationships. The third story
will focus on the painful break-up of a young couple co-habiting for the first time. Each of these stories will be explored from the female perspective. A fourth story will provide a prologue and epilogue to the film. This story will be rendered from the other point of view –a boy as the main character. Hanne will again cast and develop stories from reality. Real people and relationships will be the source and the substance of the film. Its expression will come from Hanne’s shaping of narrative and cinematic technique, where the goal is to paint an inner landscape rather than to describe an objective reality. “Stories about relationships can have many themes and angles of approach, but mine will be to reflect in depth and detail on the structures of power that govern the interior life of a couple. Each of my couples will be at a tipping point – a key moment towards the gaining or the losing of control.“ Hanne Myren
69.237 1.162.763 1.232.000
Director // Hanne Myren Hanne Myren co-founded Medieoperatørene in 1995 and has since been involved in a number of films for theatrical release and TV in Norway and Europe. Hanne’s feature directorial debut was the documentary Girls. Girls won Amanda for Best Documentary and Best Children and Youth Film and saw 47,000 box admissions in Norway. Hannes next project was the drama-documentary short Control, which won the Terje Vigen award 2009 and was nominated for an Amanda in the category best short film. Producer // KriStine Ann Skaret Kristine Ann Skaret has been working with Medieoperatørene since 2007, producing award winning documentaries and short fiction such as “From Prison to Parliament” (2008), “Human”(2009) and “Samaritan” (2010). She has a special interest in ”cross-over” projects films that in form and method challenges the borders between fiction and documentary. Medieoperatørene Since 1995 Medieoperatørene has produced documentaries, short films and television programmes with a unique and characteristic signature, among them award-winners at the national film awards, Amanda, the national tvawards, Gullruten, and the Norwegian Shortand Documentary film festival. The company is one of four Norwegian production companies eligible for slate funding of documentaries from The Norwegian Film Fund. Jealous is the company’s first fictional feature length project.
Director // hanne myren
producer // kristine ann skaret
Goals at DOX:FORUM To present the project to Nordic financers, potential co-producers and distributers. To network with other companies and share experience in the field of “cross-over” genres. To develop our knowledge regarding alternative platforms and financing possibilities.
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 17
a spell to ward off the darkness
presentation of team
art
Directors // Ben Russell // Ben rivers
a spell to ward off the darkness Running time: 90 minutes Production Status: Preproduction Expected release: February 2012 Co-production partner: Nadia Turnicev Contact: Leif Magne Tangen lmt@vitakuben.org, Ben Rivers riversben@googlemail. com, Ben Russell br@dimeshow.com Confirmed financial sources:
Rouge International BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Total budget:
notes:
From Viking re-enactors to 60s-style communes, Arctic hermits to Black Metal, and the forever Golden Hour to the Aurora Borealis, A SPELL is a filmic inquiry into the possibilities of transcendence within an increasingly secular western culture. A participatory ethnography in the best possible sense, A SPELL choreographs the actions of non-actors within existing Norwegian landscapes in an effort to arrive at a hybrid document of the past, present, and future. Equal parts documentary, ethnography, and narrative, A SPELL is a record of experience that proposes belief in transcendence as a viable outcome of living in the present. Shot on Super-16mm film, this film is collaboration between two young and highlydecorated cinema artists: Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (USA). Taking the form of both a feature-length triptych and a threescreen video installation, A SPELL will follow the everyday actions of a single in18 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
dividual (Robert AA Lowe) as he traverses three seemingly disparate spaces within an indeterminate timeline. Beginning with a fire in the wilds of Norway, we follow Robert as he hunts, cooks, and builds a boat; as he leaves his hermitage and travels over water to a small village where a series of rituals, mock battles, songs and processions are taking place. Robert is the only audience for this Viking re-enactment and he stands on the outskirts – watching, choosing not to participate. The second section of A SPELL introduces language into what has previously been a mostly wordless film. Following the form of A Chronicle of a Summer, this section takes a neo-verité approach as Robert returns to visit the members of a Drop City-style commune in the Lofoten Islands. Through a series of on-screen discussions our characters sift through the ideologies that first brought them together; they talk about “intentional communities” and failure, and the dialogue vacillates between degrees of
emotional and intellectual engagement. There is talk of the sublime, of idealism and the 60’s talk of drug use and its effects. Robert gets high and/or declines the offer to get high. Part three of A SPELL begins in a fit of noise and flashes of darkness. Robert’s face is painted gothic black and white, his body steaming under the stage lights. He is the drummer for a local black metal band – and it is only bit by bit that we understand the space of performance, the audience, the context. The set ends and Robert leaves the stage to remove his make-up, change his clothes and walk out into the nighttime streets of Bergen. He goes unnoticed as he walks to the outskirts of the city and stands at the water’s edge, looking out into the blackness. The silence is broken by the flickering lights of the Aurora Borealis: A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS
85.000 380.000
Director // Ben Russell Ben Russell (USA, 1976) has had solo screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art. He is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient. Director // Ben Rivers Ben Rivers (UK, 1972). Recent solo exhibitions include A Foundation, Liverpool and Indielisboa. He has been awarded the London Artist’s Film and Video Award, and was shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2010. He is currently working on his feature debut.
Director // ben russell
Producer // Leif Magne Tangen Leif Magne Tangen (NO, 1978) is born in Reine in Lofoten. He has been the curator for a not for profit in Leipzig, director of a not for profit in Leipzig and New York as well as director for a not for profit in Oslo. He is the co-author of the science fiction novel PHILIP. He lives in Leipzig, Germany. Vitakuben Vitakuben is a production platform established by artist Aksel Høgenhaug and curator Leif Magne Tangen in 2001. This is its first feature film production. Earlier productions and projects have been from web based exhibitions, solo shows, group shows within museums and short films.
Director // ben rivers
Goals at DOX:FORUM As the production is hybrid in its nature, we hope to get in contact with producers, curators, financiers or others that could be a valuable part of our production. We are searching for collaborators in the Nordic countries in particular, but also from other parts of the world. All dialogues are welcome.
Director // leif magne tangen dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 19
something.has.to.break.
presentation of team
Director // ester martin bergsmark
but he is not. He must have his lipstick in the back pocket, otherwise he suffocates. He has given his inner self a name, Ellie, which is Sebastian’s dream of himself as an adult (female). She is tough, sets her own limits, doesn’t take any crap, she is angrier, more expressive, upright, uncompromising. He idealizes her a lot. Sebastian loses himself constantly in his dream about another world, “otherworld”, where he is Ellie and all the problems are solved.
A beautiful and brutal love story between two young men. The story about discovering sides of yourself and feelings that you did not think existed and the dilemma whether to follow your heart or to follow a path that is perhaps more comfortable. Our main character is Sebastian- an androgynous girlie-boy who lives a monotonous life. Only in anonymous meetings with older men, Sebastian can feel truly whole. On the street and in the subway, he is often stopped and que20 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
stioned. He is in a way both sacred and cursed. When he meets Andreas, they are both passionately attracted to each other. Andreas has never been with a guy. They meet in a park and initiate a subversive love affair, which leaves them both changed forever. Andreas is the first who really is curious about Sebastian and does not just see him as an exotic object. They both share a loathing and a desire for normality and security. With high hopes Sebastian throws himself headlong into the whirlwinds of love. Sebastian sometimes tries to dress as a boy,
Andreas did not know what he wanted before he met Sebastian. He thought life sucked in general. He has dreams of moving to London. He is a person who is always on the move. When he meets Sebastian, he suddenly doesn’t know who he is. Sebastian’s androgynity confuses and fascinates Andreas.Sebastian and Andreas quickly become best friends and lovers. They have sex and plan their future together. They walk around the shopping mall and shoplift chef’s knives and evening gowns. They dream of a house in Italy. They laugh at 1000 euro espresso machines. They form a bubble, a symbiosis. They hang out, have fun, doing sexual experiments, shoplifting and making love. The boredom and a feeling of not belonging to neither the hetero nor the homo-community make them create their own laws, with their own morality. They understand each other, they are escaping reality together, but their different desires and fears catch up with them. Sebastian hopes that they will be together forever, while Andreas has big problems with Sebastian’s androgynity, which does not match with his view of himself as heterosexual. This is something that he never has reflected on before. Together Sebastian and Andreas set out like two warriors in clean and homestyled Stockholm. They act in reaction against the violent purity. They respond to the steel wool that rubs their skin. But it is too much. No one captures them or wants them, which makes their love impossible.
SOMETHING.HAS.TO.BREAK. running time: 78 min. Production Status: script and development Expected release: Fall 2011 Contact: amk@upfrontfilms.dk Confirmed financial sources: SFI, Konst-
närsnämnden BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
270.000 830.000 1.100.000
director // ESTER MARTIN BERGSMARK In 2008 the Swedish director Ester Martin Bergsmark was awarded a Guldbagge (Best Swedish documentary) for Maggie in Wonderland. In 2009 he contributed to the debated feminist porn suite “Dirty Diaries” with his short “Fruitcake”, shown on numerous film festivals. He is currently in production with Pojktanten that will premiere in 2011. producer // ANNA-MARIA KANTARIUS Anna-Maria Kantarius graduated from the producer program at the National Film School of Denmark in 2005. Since then she has been producing and co-producing creative documentaries for an international audience, with a particular interest in projects mixing fiction and non-fiction methods of development and production. She works for Copenhagen-based production company Upfront Films (fka Cosmo Doc). Anna-Maria Kantarius is also attached to Filmbasen/ Stockholm, coaching young film talents. UPFRONT FILMS Upfront Films is a leading film company with a number of award-winning documentaries to its credit. The company is attracting both experienced filmmakers and new talent. Resent releases include Love on Delivery and Ticket to Paradise (Janus Metz), Side by Side (Christian S. Jepsen), Dreams in Copenhagen (Max Kestner), Mumbai Disconnected (Camilla Nielsson and Frederik Jacobi), Bogota Change (Andreas M. Dalsgaard) and Trafficking (Judith Lansade and Sine Plambech).
Director // ESTER MARTIN BERGSMARK
producer // anna-maria kantarius
GOALS AT DOX:FORUM Meeting potential co-producers, sales agents and distributors for fiction film, with a specific interest in art house films. We are looking for more development funding and interest for production funding.
dox:forum
/ industr 19 y partners / 21
project presentations cinema wednesday 22 / cinema / dox:forum
petey and ginger // IRAN EVOLUTION canned dreams // THE ART OF MAKING MONEY // crulic // VANISHING WORLDS dox:forum / cinema / 23
petey and ginger
presentation of team
Director // ada bligaard søby
Petey & Ginger is about life in the financial crisis as seen through the eyes of two outsiders who never owned anything and who never had anything to loose. It is an intimate and highly aesthetic portrait on how to survive in a dreamland gone down. Petey and Ginger are both white Americans in their 30s. He lives in San Francisco and she lives in New York. They don’t know each other. They’ve both grown up poor without a college fund awaiting, no supportive
24 / cinema / dox:forum
parents and with few hopes and visions to success and happiness. They both left home very early and have never stopped to look back. Ginger is a stripper and former escort girl, and Petey packs and ships dildos, porn films and sex toys for a porn distribution center. When Petey is not packing porn, he is in a indie band called ‘Thee Oh Sees’ – whose philosophy isn’t about getting big, but to share energy and an experience with their audience. When Ginger is not stripping, she dreams of
opening her own Tarot reading business at a New York late night bar location. Both Ginger and Petey are in the industry of selling fantasy in a country with a system rooted on selling just that. But with no money to buy it, even fantasies don’t sell – and with the economical crash of Dreamland America, money lacks everywhere. Neither Petey nor Ginger ever really owned anything and none of them ever had an expectation of getting to own anything. They stand outside of the established society and their lives were always a financial crisis. But their life stories also reveal their honest attempts to find their own way, their own values and their own sense of dignity. How does the era of economical downfall look to outsiders like Petey and Ginger? And what do they know about life that might come in handy for the rest of us while we are loosing our jobs and getting evicted from our houses? Director Ada Bligaard Søby, is at her best when she tells very intimate and personal tales on life, but with the universal themes crossing borders, generations and cultures. As in her earlier docs ‘Complaints Choir’ (2009, Hot Docs), Black Heart (2008, Rotterdam Int. FF) and ‘American Losers’ (2006, Nordic Panorama) Ada connects through her images and creates a space where the audience feels that they have something to do with the lives on the screen. This is why Ada chooses to look at the financial crisis not through experts, but through the eyes of outsiders who can share perspectives on how to live your life that might seem strange and remote but also eye opening for the rest of us while we try to cope with the reality of the failing economy. Petey & Ginger is an intimate portrait on how to survive in a dreamland gone down. The story is told by gradually revealing the life stories of Petey and of Ginger intersected by slice of life scenes with Wall Street stockbrokers, people who have been evicted from their homes etc. It is a current affair, human interest doc with a strong artistic feel.
PETEY AND GINGER RUNNING TIME: 58/75 min PRODUCTION STATUS: In production Expected release: 2012 Co-producer: Anna Byvald, Silverosa Film (SWE) cONTACT: juhl@beofilm.dk adasoby@hotmail.com Confirmed financial sources:
Danish Film Institute, development support (Jesper Jack) Market Partners: Smog Veil Records, LOI on distribution of film and soundtrack, Northern America.
BUDGET IN EURO: Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
25.500 226.000 251.500
Director //Ada Bligaard Søby Ada Bligaard Søby, born in Denmark,1975. Trained at the New York School of Visual Arts in 1995. Recipient of the Danish State Art Fund’s two-year working grant for young artists in 2000. Assistant to photographers Terry Richardson and Francois Halard in New York City. Self taught film director of several docs amongst them ‘AMERICAN LOSERS’ (Nordic Panorama, CPH:DOX & Cinequest, 2006) and ‘COMPLAINTS CHOIR’ (Hot Dox, 2010 & CPH:DOX 2009, broadcast on Israeli, Polish, Swedish & Finnish television). Producer // Morten Kjems Juhl Morten Kjems Juhl (DK), born 1976, is a producer in the fields of fiction features (Skyskraber, Rune Schjøtt, postproduction, Teddy Bear, Mads Matthiesen, production, Lillebror, Jacob Tschernia, development), tv drama series (Lulu & Leon, TV3, 2009 & DR, 2010, dev. producer) and documentary (Complaints Choir, Ada Bligaard Søby, 2009 et.al. Morten is a producer with Beofilm I/S and holds a master in Film Science, Univ. of Cph, 2005, and graduated from the independent film school Super16, 2008. Beofilm Beofilm is primarily known as an in-house postproduction department, specialised in RED postflow and as a producer and coproducer of shortfilms (Megaheavy, Fenar Ahmad, Berlinale 14+, 2009) and short docs (Ønskebørn, Birgitte Stærmose, special mention at the Berlinale 2010). With the aim of producing features, docs and TV drama series of a high quality and with a clear artistic voice addressing tomorrow rather than today, Beofilm have attached producer Morten Kjems Juhl to the company.
Director // Ada Bligaard Søby
producer // Morten Kjems Juhl
Goals at DOX:FORUM Nordic prebuys, international prebuys, attaching sales agent.
dox:forum / cinema / 25
iran evolution
presentation of team
Director // Arash T. Riahi
iran evolution running time: 90/52 min production status: Around 1/3 of budget
financed, preproduction stage expected release: 2012 Name of executive producer / co-producer:
Michael Seeber contact: arash@goldengirls.at and arman@goldengirls.at confirmed financiel sources:
Austrian Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture (BMUKK) budget in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
Armed with mobiles, youtube and twitter, millions of young Iranians form an uncontrollable mass fighting against repression and terror of the fundamentalistic-islamic regime. They create a new type of (r)evolution. Iranian society is long overdue for a revolt. More than three quarters of the population are under the age of 30. The lack of any professional prospects, the catastrophic economic situation and oppression by the fundamentalist Islamic regime is driving young people to the streets. Their weapons are mobile phones, YouTube and Twitter. Due to this media, we see the dawn of a completely new type of insurgency, a horizontal revolt. There are no real leaders and no political program except the omnipresent wish for change. Plus: every individual is his own radio and TV station thanks to the possibilities of the new communication technologies. Against this no longer controllable mass, 26 / cinema / dox:forum
the fundamentalist Islamic regime can only counter with repression and terror. The unrelenting cruelty and ruthlessness that was wielded against any critique can only mean one thing: the regime considers itself to be in danger. The new forms of communication are creating unprecedented means and ways for networking and communication that elude the direct control of rulers and represent a massive threat to the establishment. In the globally spread messages of the Iranian youth we can see a rapid and irreversible development in the apparent paralysis of Iranian society. Evolution is happening not only in the peoples minds, but also due to their actions. Where will evolution lead them? IranEvolution is an unusual essay film that plunges into the image and sound archives of this tumultuous society, interweaving the many forms of communication into a contemporary and expressive documentary. Further-
more, the film itself develops, mutating from found footage and mixed media to found people, and embarks on the search for the faces behind this evolution in society in order to understand the current changes, their origins and impact. Existing audio, video and text material on the largest protests of the Iranian pro-democracy movement since the cultural revolution in 1979 – thousands of mobile phone videos, Twitter tweets, interviews and recordings – and with the aid of secretly filmed video material, interviews, sound bites and tourist videos, personal photos and archive material from the Iranian government, produce an unusual essayistic documentary film with work by Chris Marker, J.L. Godard and Eric Gandini as models. Analogous to the cracking of Iranian society, the borders of the essay film disintegrate in the last act as IranEvolution goes in search of the personal stories of some key figures behind the YouTube videos.
102.000 189.000 291.347
Director // Arman T. Riahi Studied media technologies and worked as a screen- and graphic designer in London & Vienna. Has directed 25min-TV-shorts, f.x. “Sendung ohne Namen” (ORF youth programme), “Sunshine Airlines” (ORF culture programme) and TV-documentary series “Momentum – What drives you” (Red Bull Media House). His short film “Elektronikschrott” (“Elektrotrash”, 11min.) won the nation wide short film award “Shorts On Screen 2005”. Currently he is finishing his first cinema documentary “Schwarzkopf” (“Dark Head”). Director // Producer Arash T. Riahi Studied Film and the Arts. Has written, directed and produced several award-winning documentaries, shorts, experimental films, music videos and commercials as well as 6 cinema documentaries and more than 25 tv documentaries. “The Souvenirs of Mr. X” (www.HerrX.com) (ARTE/ORF), “Exile Family Movie” (www.exilefamilymovie.at). (7 Awards) “For a moment, freedom” (2008) (www.foramomentfreedom.com) (30 international awards and Austrian candidate for the Academy Awards 2010). Golden Girls Filmproduktion Golden Girls Filmproduktion is a Vienna based production company founded in 1997 by Raphael Barth and Arash T. Riahi. The films that the members of the Golden Girls have produced or directed, including Arash T. Riahi’s “Exile Family Movie”, “For a moment freedmon” and “Mississippi” and Igor Hauzenberger’s “Beyond the Forest” which received more than 50 international awards.
Director // Arman T. Riahi
producer // Arash T. Riahi
Goals at DOX:FORUM To gain some of the required amount of money to finish the financing through new partners and tv stations that want to come on board as co-producers or pre-buyers.
dox:forum
/ cinema / 27
canned dreams
presentation of team
Director // KATJA GAURILOFF
canned dreams running time: 52/80 min production status: In production expected release: July 2011 contact: Katja Gauriloff: katja@oktober.fi Joonas Berghäll: joonas@oktober.fi confirmed financiel sources:
Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, MEDIA programme, Nordisk Film & TV Fund, YLE TV2, ARTE, RTP, NRK, TG4, Noga Communications market partners:
Deckert Distribution Gmbh budget in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
CANNES DREAMS - A film about workers and the journey of a canned food product. This film is a lyrical journey across the world. In our film, we build a portrait of ordinary workers, through their own personal stories. All this happens in a frame of following a route of one tin can, which starts it’s journey from the other side of the world and travels all across Europe. The film concentrates primarily on an individual level. We meet a selected sample of working people; men and women of different ages and from different cultures. They tell about the most important moments in their 28 / cinema / dox:forum
life, and the dreams that would make their own world a better place. They tell short stories about their own everyday life, turning points of their past and moments that have stopped and touched them. On the other level the major theme is work. The film entails many different job types; we will focus on shooting the real workers who make their living with their own hands. We will discover a whole diverse range of working lives; from someone who is waiting eagerly for retirement days, someone wanting to earn money and do something personally meaningful in their pastime, someone
genuinely happy about their work, someone struggling. All these stories combined, build a portrait of working people today. The film draws a picture of one everyday product that symbolises the whole global food production. In this film, beauty of humanity is seen through working hands.
430.000 60.000 490.000
DIRECTOR // KATJA GAURILOFF Katja Gauriloff was born in 1972 in Inari. She has studied filmmaking at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, School of Art and Media (2000 – 2004). She has been involved in film making since 1998. Today she is a film director and part-owner of Oktober Oy. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: A Shout into the Wind (doc. / 55’ / 2007 / director) PRODUCER // JOONAS BERGHÄLL Joonas Berghäll (born in July 1977) graduated from the Tampere School of Art and Media in 2005. He has worked in film since 1998. He is the founder of the film production company Oktober and works in the company as a producer, director and managing director. He has also participated in the EURODOC training program for producers. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: Steam of Life (doc. / 90’ / 2010), A Shout into the Wind (doc. / 55’ / 2007), Smoking Room (doc. / 58’ / 2006) Oktober Oy Oktober Oy is a Finnish production company located in Helsinki and was established in 2004. In just five years, it has created a reputation as a creative production house producing quality documentary and fiction films focusing on strong social issues. Oktober has developed strong international connections through co-production and distribution of its films. In Finland it has received the State Quality Support three times which is granted to the producer for an artistically high-quality film.
Director // KATJA GAURILOFF
producer // JOONAS BERGHÄLL
Goals at DOX:FORUM The goal is to secure the rest of the financing for the production.
dox:forum
/ cinema / 29
the art of making money
presentation of team
Director // Nathan Truesdell
the art of making money Running time: 90 min. Production Status: In development Expected release: Early 2013 contact: NathanTruesdell@gmail.com
AJSchnack@sbcglobal.net
BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
THE ART OF MAKING MONEY takes a stylistic look at the direct correlation between counterfeiters, money artists and governmental currency designers. Money and art that looks and feels like money provide the beautiful canvas for the film, and the values of these notes and coins raise questions about legalities and artistic statement. THE ART OF MAKING MONEY will take an indepth look at the perceived differences in the value of our currency vs. the value of art and expression. The film takes the viewer to the intersection of art, money and crime and asks the question - what makes money valuable? Why is one piece of paper with design work printed on it worth more than another? Art and commerce collide in money itself - where success can mean art-world fame or time in a federal prison. Or both. The film will track bills and coins through the hands of three groups: money artists, counterfeiters and currency designers. Each group literally creates money, some for financial gain, some as a form of fine art or others as work for hire. 30 / cinema / dox:forum
We will point our cameras directly at the lines where the financial world meets the art world and the criminal world. One person who lives at this intersection of art and money is Lars Kræmmer, the founder of The Bank of International Art Money (BIAM) located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Kræmmer created the BIAM as a global alternative to what we know as currency exchange. The Danish government recently forced Kræmmer to change the name of BIAM because they said he could not use the word “BANK” to describe his organization.Yet, whether you think of them as a bank, renegade social revolutionaries or arts coop, Kræmmer and his fellow money artists have had success creating a world where you can subsist mainly on art money. Kræmmer purchases groceries and coffee with art money and even pays for his dental work with art. Does creating his own money lead to the financial freedom and enlightenment that Kræmmer is seeking? Glenna Goodacre, a sculptor from New Mexico, designed the obverse side of the Sacagawea Dollar coin for the U.S. Mint and was paid $5000 in return for her work. Instead of a check, Goodacre asked the Mint to pay her in the coins that she
designed. The Mint agreed to her request. Since these coins were very rare, Goodacre teamed up with a coin company, encased and autographed all of the coins, and began selling them for nearly $1000 each. What literally began as $5000 was now worth millions - even if their face value remained just $5000, the perceived value became much greater. How did Goodacre have the foresight to increase the value of American currency a thousand times over?The perception of value underscores both Kraemmer and Goodacre’s stories - particularly in their ability to create worth that, on face value at least, doesn’t exist. The counterfeiter, on the other hand, creates a product that technically has no value, but through deception they can manipulate anyone from a corner shop owner to the fate of global economies. We follow “Mary Jordan”, an anonymous convicted counterfeiter free on parole and willing to share her tale of crime with the audience. How did she learn to counterfeit, and what drove her to do so? She leads us through a step-by-step guide to making fake currency. What precautions are taken in order to beat the system?
10.000 235.000 245.000
Director // Nathan Truesdell Nathan Truesdell is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker based in Columbia, Missouri. The Art of Making Money will be his feature-length directorial debut. He is currently producing and co-editing a film about Branson, Missouri with directors AJ Schnack and David Wilson. He is a producer for the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking in New York City for 2010 and 2011. Producer // AJ Schnack AJ Schnack is a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles. His previous films include the ensemble documentary, CONVENTION (2009), KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON (2006) and GIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) (2002). Schnack is the author and editor of the popular nonfiction film blog All these wonderful things (http://edendale.typepad. com), and the founder and co-chair of the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking.
Director // nathan truesdell producer // aj schnack
Goals at DOX:FORUM We are interested in seeking funding for the film to begin principle photography in early 2012 and to look into the possibilities of what sort of interest in the project we should expect in the international market.
dox:forum / cinema / 31
crulic
presentation of team
Director // Anca Damian
crulic Running time: 73 min Production Status: In production Expected release: June 2011 Name of co-producer: Arkadiusz Wojnarowski contact: anca.damian@apartefilm.net Names of confirmed financial sources:
Romanian National Centre of Cinema, Polish Film Institute, Krakow Film Commission Romanian Ministry of Culture/ Editura Video Market Partners:
TVR (Romanian National Television) Co-production partners:
Fundacja im. Ferdynanda Magellana Romanian Ministry of Culture / Editura Video Krakow Film Commision BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
CRULIC - an animated documentary feature focuses on the life story of Crulic, the Romanian citizen who died in a Polish prison during a hunger strike. The story is ironically told from the point of view of the victim by the acclaimed actor, Vlad Ivanov.
giving special attention to his last months alive. Crulic tells about his life and what happened to him during the trial and in prison. The well-known Romanian actor, Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days) impersonates the voice of Claudiu Crulic.
While being arrested and imprisoned for a presumed theft in Poland – Claudiu Crulic, a 33 years old Romanian, claims he is innocent and struggles to make himself heard by starting a hunger strike. Nobody stops him or helps him, thus he ultimately dies in an advanced state of emanciation. The story is told from the point of view of Crulic: the narration has distance as well as humor. The story is told in the present tense, nowadays, after he died. The story line recomposes the life of Claudiu Crulic,
On the 11th of July 2007, the wallet of an important judge, containing some credit cards, in Poland is stolen. Two transactions were made from the cards – amounting to a total of 500 Euro. Claudiu Crulic was accused for having stolen from the judge, on the 11th of July. The next morning Claudiu is brought to the Krakow Detention Centre and put in Custody. He claimed that he was in Italy on the date of the theft and named the travel agency with which he travelled. He asked to have a meeting with somebody from the
32 / cinema / dox:forum
Romanian Consulate; to get a new attorney and to be transferred to Romania if possible. The prison administration and court officials insist they’ve done nothing wrong. Acting within the bounds of the law, they insist, they couldn’t do more. Not only the bus ticket, but also the table containing the passengers’ names and the guide, Sabina Ciepiela, confirms the innocence of Daniel Claudiu Crulic. Ignored by the Prison, the Court, the Romanian Consulate, Claudiu Crulic dies on the 18th of January, after 4 months of hunger strike. He was released 16 hours before his death. The last person to see him alive was the doctor Piotr Płaskocinski, who compared the dying Crulic with the victim of a concentration Camp.
notes:
242.200 38.000 280.200
Director // Producer // Anca Damian Anca Damian (producer, writer and director) studied at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts where she obtained a diploma in Cinematography and a Doctor’s degree in Arts, Cinema and Media. In 2008 she made her first long feature film as a co-producer, director and screenwriter on “Crossing Dates”. It was selected at Pusan, Chicago, Cottbus, Goa, Pune, Goteborg, and Rome International Film Festivals. Prior to that she worked as a director, screenwriter and producer on several documentaries on art, most of them selected for important festivals. Some of which, have obtained national and international prizes. She has also worked as director of photography on two long feature films, both awarded for national competitions.
director // producer // anca damian
AParte The company so far produced a number of award winning documentaries, and coproduced the fiction film, CROSSING DATES – (2008) a Romanian-Finish co-production. This movie was selected at Pusan, Chicago, Gothenburg, Pune, Cottbus, Goa and Rome International Film Festivals. Beside the animated documentary feature „Crulic –The Path to Beyond”, which is in production as a co-production between Poland and Romania, we are very close to production “A Very Unsettled Summer”, a feature film with 60% of the finance secured. Goals at DOX:FORUM We are looking for pre-sales.
dox:forum
/ cinema / 33
vanishing worlds
presentation of team
Director // Estephan Wagner
vanishing worlds Running time: 60 & 90 min Production Status: In development Expected release: June 2012 contact: docs@estephanwagner.com, Rachel@bungalow-town.com, michellefilm@hotmail.com Confirmed financial sources:
BBC Docs, UK Film Council BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
VANISHING WORLDS explores the extreme consequences of changing climates for people in Alaska, India and China. By interweaving our protagonists’ struggles with their collapsing environments, we build a powerful, multilayered picture of a global disaster. When Nick was a child the elders warned a terrible change was coming. Now Nick is an elder and he knows the change is here. His hometown is a remote village in western Alaska and it is literally sinking. Now Nick is helping to build America’s first climatechange refugee camp, his future home. In their lifetime Binodini and Durga have lost 8 houses and all their land to the sea. Once again their makeshift houses cling to the embankments of their island in east34 / cinema / dox:forum
ern India. But there is not much land left to migrate to. In the past two decades, four neighbor islands have sunk and over 6,000 families became homeless. Now the sea is swallowing up their island of Ghoramara. Not long ago Zhou’s flock of goats were well fed and his fields were abundant. But temperatures in his northern China hometown have been rising, the desert has dried his land and sandstorms make the air unbreathable. His neighbors have been forced to migrate, but Zhou is too poor to afford it. We will witness how he tries to enlarge the herd against all odds. He has no choice but to fight back. The film will explore how these characters – Zhou in China, Binodini and Durga in India, and Nick in Alaska - are directly affected by
climate change. We tell their story: of trying to move the whole village in Alaska to a safer location; of the floods forcing our Indian characters to find a new shelter; of our Chinese protagonist trying to resist the droughts by all means. Combining the dramatic stories of our characters with the powerful vistas of the Alaskan arctic, the Indian coast and the Chinese deserts, we will create both a narrative and poetic film that intimately focuses on events that are increasingly affecting all of us. There are no interviewed experts, no didactic indoctrination or preaching to the converted. VANISHING WORLDS is the bottom up, reallife struggle of its protagonists.
27.471 378.989 406.460
Director // Estephan Wagner After completing an MA at the National Film School in London, Estephan was nominated for the best newcomer British Documentary award, for his hugely successful graduation film, Waiting For Women. After premiering at IDFA, it has played at over 60 international festivals winning 14 awards. Before film school, Estephan was an international correspondent editor for ARTE and more recently worked as assistant director at Victor Kosakovsky’s Antipodas and directed The Finishing Line for Channel 4. Producer // Rachel Wexler Rachel runs Bungalow Town Productions with her partner Director/producer Jez Lewis. She specialises in producing international feature documentaries for a worldwide audience. She has produced many acclaimed films including: The English Surgeon, My Perestroika, All White in Barking, Shed your Tears and Walk Away, Out of the Ashes and Garbage Warrior. Producer // Michelle Eastwood Michelle runs Escape films with her producing partner, Purnima Ramadorai. She is a BAFTA nominee and Producing graduate of the NFTS. Michelle’s short films By The Grace of God and Cherry on the Cake have played in over 70 festivals, including premièring in competition in Cannes. In 2009 Michelle was named by Screen International as a “Star of Tomorrow” and also by Edinburgh Intl Film Festival as a “Trailblazer”.
Director // Estephan Wagner
producer // Rachel Wexler
Bungalow Town Productions Ltd // Escape Films. Vanishing Worlds is a co-production between Bungalow Town Productions Ltd and Escape Films. Goals at DOX:FORUM We are seeking to raise production finance.
dox:forum / cinema / 35
project presentations fictiononfiction thursday 36 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
BRIDGEND // HASSEL 12 MANIFESTO // THE SCRIBE OF URABA // AUTOPERSONIFICTION // marussa dox:forum
/ fictionon fiction / 37
bridgend
presentation of team
Director // Jeppe Rønde
bridgend Running time: 90 min. Production Status: Script writing. Princi-
pal Photography May 2011 Expected release: February 2012 contact: malene@blenkovschonnemann.dk Confirmed financial sources:
LOI from The Danish Film Institute BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
In the county of Bridgend, more than 30 youngsters have committed suicide the last 2 years. Filmmaker Jeppe Rønde investigates the phenomenon by telling the story through the eyes of the teenagers. The film is fictitious, but with the people from Bridgend playing themselves, in their own town.
able to solve the riddle. The film offers no answers to our most profound of questions but navigates through these young adults’ precarious and harsh world and the destructive power of their teen alienation in a post humanist, competitive and consumerist culture that leaves them on the margins.
Following several characters, the film explores the chilling and haunting mystery of a troubling epidemic of teen suicides in a post industrial provincial no-future town. Why are these young people eager to die? No one is
We explore the spread of the suicide epidemic, its irrepressible contagion through an unrequited love triangle, choreographing our characters’ anger, disappointments, the making and breaking of allegiances, their
38 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
turmoils, their fears and vulnerabilities and the existential tragedy of their short lives in a lyrical and expressionist style. The script is currently being written by Rønde and Laurence Coriat (Writer of a.o. “Wonderland”, “Genova” and “Seven days” by Michael Winterbottom) and co-written by Peter Asmussen (Writer of a.o. “Breaking The Waves” by Lars von Trier and “Day and Night” by Simon Staho).
680.000 670.000 1.350.000
Director // Jeppe Rønde Jeppe Rønde had his feature-length documentary debut in 2003 with ”Jerusalem, My Love”, which won international prizes at several film festivals, including Nordic Panorama, Taiwan IFF and Leipzig Festival. “The Swenkas”, his second feature, won the prestigious Danish Academy Award “Robert “ in 2005 for “Best Feature Documentary”, and Rønde himself received the “Best International Director” award at Hot Docs in Toronto. Last year Rønde directed the critically acclaimed TV documentary series “The Quatraro Mystery”, about the mysterious death of an EU civil servant. Producer // Malene Blenkov Over the past decade, Malene Blenkov has established herself as an arthouse producer, developing and producing everything from award-winning children’s TV, via creative documentaries and feature films - most recently Kasper Holten’s provocative filmic re-interpretation of Mozart’s opera “Don Juan”. Blenkov is a creative producer in the true sense of the word, always working to create the necessary artistic space for talent to unfold. Blenkov & Schønnemann Pictures Aps A Copenhagen-based production company founded in 2003 by Malene Blenkov and Michel Schønnemann. Blenkov & Schønnemann take pride in developing their own projects, committing themselves fully on every production, working with both new talent and experienced filmmakers. Blenkov & Schønnemann follow their passion for the artistically daring, and believe that even highly original, “narrow” films can reach audiences globally.
Director // Jeppe Rønde
producer // Malene Blenkov
Goals at DOX:FORUM To introduce the film to possible financiers in order to prepare financing. We expect a financing draft ready by December 2010.
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 39
hassel 12
presentation of team
Director // Måns Månsson
hassel 12 Running time: Approximately 90 min. Production Status: Early pre-production Expected release: Cannes 2011 Executive producer / co-producer:
Martin Persson contact: mampasi@aol.com charlotte.mostfilm@gmail.com BUDGET in euro:
Total budget:
notes:
Ex-cop Roland Hassel can’t let go of the mysterious assassination of Olof Palme in 1986. As the 25th anniversary approaches, Hassel is desperately pursuing the $10 million reward in this study of male powerlessness and the Schwedenkrimi phenomenon. Ever since Walter Matthau took the first struggling steps as police detective Martin Beck in the 1973 Hollywood release of The Laughing Policeman - adapted from the Sjöwall-Wahlöö novel of the same name – the Swedish crime genre has developed into an international multimillion dollar film and television industry. Derek Jacobi did it all over in 1980 with The Man Who Went Up in Smoke and in 2008 Kenneth Branagh portrayed police inspector Kurt Wallander in the BAFTAwinning BBC-series based on Henning Mankell’s best-selling novels. Both Wallander and Beck features have been produced in Sweden ever 40 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
since 1993 and multiple spin-off books and series are increasingly popular all over the world. The Millennium-trilogy with its massive international 2009 release and the subsequent Hollywood remake directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig are the very latest additions to this genre. One of the internationally lesser-known Swedish police characters is Stockholm-based Roland Hassel. He was created by prolific pulpcrime writer Olov Svedelid in 1972 and went on to gain commercial success in both Sweden and Germany through 29 novels. In 1986, Swedish National Television produced the first out of eleven feature length films with Roland Hassel portrayed by actor Lars-Erik Berenett, which subsequently went on to become cult-television in Sweden and broadcast in Germany. The local success of the Roland Hassel films sparked the mass-production of Swedish crime for television and cinema that flourishes to this day. Hassel 12 will finally
take this genre to the next level and create an existential policier suedois-thriller for an art-house audience. Merging the fictitious character Roland Hassel, once again portrayed by the original actor Lars-Erik Berenett, with the existing documentary realities of the still unresolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. As the real Palme police investigation collapsed, re-emerged in shambles and slowly disintegrated, an increasing number of ex-cops and private detectives surfaced with the controversial accusation that the Prime Minister was murdered by a far right-wing police conspiracy. These marginalized and ridiculed ex-detectives continue their investigations through retirement in an effort to collect the elusive reward and uphold the pride of a police force they have long since left. When all hope seems lost of finding a killer, Roland and his fellow private investigators are left behind as the last rear guard in a sad attempt doomed to fail.
650.000
Director // Måns Månsson Måns Månsson was born in Stockholm in 1982. His award-winning films have been screened at various festivals and venues around the world, including the Berlin International Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Cinémathèque Française, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam, FESPACO and the São Paolo International Film Festival Producer // Charlotte Most Charlotte Most has a Masters degree in Economics from The School of Economics in Gothenburg, Sweden. Currently she is part of the 2010 EAVE producer’s workshop with a feature project. For many years she produced commercials and since 2007 when she produced her first short drama for Swedish Television. She is today working on several feature and drama projects. Anagram production Anagram production is a Swedish production company focusing on features, documentaries and drama/TV-series. It is also frequently involved in European co-productions. Among Anagram’s latest acclaimed productions are the award-winning documentary Mr Governor and TV drama The Gynaecologist of Askim. Currently in production are the documentary The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, the second season of The Gynaecologist of Askim and the Zentropa co-production Happy End directed by Björn Runge.
Director // Måns Månsson
producer // Charlotte Most
Goals at DOX:FORUM DOX: FORUM will be the first event to present Hassel 12 to a broader audience of possible investors and decision makers. Our aim is to find a Danish co-producer, a distributor and a sales agent.
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 41
manifesto
presentation of team
Director // David Dusa
manifesto Running time: Manifesto: 6 x 90 // 6x 40/52 min production status: In development Expected release: Fleurs du Mal: Decem-
ber 2010. Manifesto: January 2011 contact: eblezat@sciapode.net,
david.dusa@gmail.com
Confirmed financial sources:
Arte France-Festival Temps D'images, Le Fresnoy-studio National des Arts Contemporains, La Ferme du Buisson-scene Nation, Ale de Marne la Vallee, Fondation Romaeuropa BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget: MANIFESTO is a series of films mixing documentary and fiction, exploring the power of social networks on the Internet and the way they can be tools for social struggle and political change. The films portray a young, global generation, who through the Internet accomplish a personal or global revolution. FLEURS DU MAL is the first episode followed by UNTOUCHABLE, CHINA UNMADE, and ONE’S TALE
It all started with the way the Iranians used the internet to publicise and organise their struggle. David Dusa wrote FLEURS DU MAL in July 2009 during the demonstrations with the idea to use the images from the web as a narrative, dramaturgical, structural and emotional tool. His intent was to personalize these images, to make them intimate for the audience. This gave us the idea of the whole series about the power of Social Network and new Media for individual and global revolutions. FLEURS DU MAL. ParisTehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian in exile – tangled up in History and steeped in Internet. Anahita is obsessed by the current event in her country, and little by little their story is contaminated by History and its breathless mediatisation 42 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
on the Internet. June 2009: after the controversial election in Iran, the citizens take to the streets. The Islamic government, worries about the image conveyed, stops journalists from doing their work. The citizens start collecting and broadcasting information through websites like YouTube. These brutal images reaches the public world directly. FLEURS DU MAL personalises them. This young man, a bullet in his head, carried away by his friends could be one of yours… The Iranians also use Twitter to coordinate their protest: they short-circuit the Tehran power supply, organize massive traffic jam… Internet is taking part of History and the film. Anahita confronts herself with these images and looks for her beloved ones. With her, Gecko confronts his own history and together they start a new identity quest. The film is born from the confrontation of these two individuals moved by their will of freedom. FLEURS DU MAL rebels. It was born from the thousands of videos that the Iranian people shoot and broadcast on the internet and the way they used social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to organise their fight. The brutal images reached the world public directly and without analysis, demanding the audience to form its own opinion. Simultaneously, the demonstrators
were using Twitter to organize their resistance, programming massive actions: “At 8:56, switch off all electric appliances and turn them on at 9:00 to short-circuit the Tehran power supply.” Little by little, the world’s most influential news outlets started reading Twitter to find information about Iran. Suddenly, a social networking website became a geopolitical issue: Hillary Clinton asked Twitter to delay its update so that the Iranian people could keep communicating..... UNTOUCHABLE. A story set in India based upon the life of Maymon Madathingal, an untouchable, who through the Internet managed to find the courage to unveil his social identity. CHINA UNMADE. In China a labour movement enabled by technology: the working class stand up! Thanks to text messaging and video uploads on the internet, they organize, exchange ideas, and find courage to strike for higher wages. ONE’S TALE. The fight against corruption of Aleksei Dymovsky, a former policeman in Southern Russia. Thanks to a video he uploaded on YouTube, where he denounced the institutionalized corruption and which was viewed more than 2 million times, other ordinary Russians found the courage to make similar videos and bring attention to a social problem.
notes:
150.000 1.500.000 1.650.000
Director // David Dusa David Dusa (Budapest 1979) grew up in Sweden & South Africa. He studied film at Gothenburg University, then worked for a year in a fish factory in Norway. In 2006 he directed his first short film MACHINE (Rotterdam IFF, Berlinale Talent Campus). He directed L’EMEUTE DES EMOTIONS (Temps d’Images ARTE France, Roma Europa) in 2009 and FLEURS DU MAL, his feature debut (Cannes film festival 2010, Discovery Price of Best First Feature & Junior Award Namur IFF). Producer // EMILIE BLEZAT EMILIE BLEZAT graduated from the High Business School of Paris (ESCP) and obtained a MBA in Entrepreneurship at Olin Graduate Shool of Business (Boston). She had a degree in Art History (Ecole du Louvre) and Philosophy (Sorbonne). She trained at Centre Pompidou, MK2, Agat Films and Samsa Film, before working in Strategy Consulting and Fund raising in New Technologies. She created Sciapode in 2003. Emilie Blézat is part of ACE, European Film Academy and Power to the Pixel. SCIAPODE SCIAPODE produces films by artists: Sophie Fiennes, Wim Vandekeybus, David Dusa, Andrew Kötting, deLaTullaye & Barret, Jan Lauwers, Wayn Traub... : OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW by Fiennes (Official Selection Cannes 2010, Toronto IFF). FLEURS DU MAL by Dusa (Cannes Film Festival 2010 Acid, Discovery Price for Best First Feature & Junior Award for Best Feature Namur IFF.) IVUL by Kötting (Official selection at Locarno IFF 2009, Pusan IFF)
Director // david dusa
producer // EMILIE BLEZAT
Goals at DOX:FORUM: Find broadcaster, distributor and sales agent for FLEURS DU MAL. Find co-producers, broadcasters and distribution partners for the film series - MANIFESTO. dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 43
the scribe of uraba
presentation of team the scribe of uraba Running time: TBC Production Status: Pre-production Expected release: TBC Executive producer / co-producer:
XYZ Films (USA), Antorcha Films (Colombia), Vaca Films (Spain) CONTACT: jeff.zimbalist@gmail.com zimbalist@gmail.com Confirmed financial sources:
Colombian Ley de Cine, Colombian FDC Grant, Vaca Films, Ibermedia Grant, Six Sales MG, SFFS/KRF Grant, Private development donation, LEF Foundation granted Co -production partners:
XYZ Films (USA), Antorcha Films (Colombia), Vaca Films (Spain) BUDGET in EURO
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget: When a union worker is killed at a Coke bottling plant in Colombia, his daughter embarks on a quest for justice larger than her family, or even her country. Worlds away, a Coke executive is offered a promotion…if she executes a controversial assignment. Caught in the crossfire between a guerrilla insurgency and a paramilitary army defending multinational business interests, three million farmers have been displaced and 300,000 murdered in the last fifty years in Colombia. Drawn from real events in the tradition of THE INSIDER and TRAFFIC, THE SCRIBE OF URABÁ is the story of Alcira Gil, a 14-year-old Colombian girl violently uprooted from her home; and of Samantha Morris, a self-made, African-American Coca-Cola executive at company headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, assigned to protect corporate interests in Colombia’s most sought after land, Urabá. Alcira’s father organizes fellow workers to 44 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
demand fair wages from the local Coca-Cola bottling plant in northern Colombia. But when regional businesses team up with a paramilitary army infiltrating the Urabá region, the paramilitaries sweep through Alcira’s peaceful community, killing her father and exiling the residents to a Red Cross camp in the valley below. Faced with an international lawsuit against Coca-Cola for complicity in the violent union bust in Urabá, Samantha is put in charge of a pro-active Public Relations campaign to distract from negative publicity. When a growing student activism movement escalates pressure on the company, Samantha is sent to Colombia to gather evidence discrediting the accusations against the company. As Samantha works to cover up Coca-Cola’s involvement in the Urabá scandal, Alcira fights to reveal the stories of its victims. Having learned to type from her father, Alcira records the testimonies of her displaced community,
gradually restoring the people’s dignity and hope for a return to their land. Although Alcira aims only to uphold her deceased father’s mission, the truths she uncovers may reveal an unprecedented path to justice, if she is not silenced by the paramilitaries first. When Alcira’s life collides with Samantha’s, Alcira hands Samantha copies of her community’s testimonies and asks Samantha to help. Samantha is faced with a difficult decision – turn a blind eye to the injustices in Colombia and continue her ascension through her beloved company’s ranks, or listen to the truths of her own past and risk everything for which she’s worked her whole life by going against corporate interests and taking Alcira’s testimonies public. When Samantha’s efforts backfire, Alcira must make a difficult choice herself – fall in line and promise to forever remain silent, or risk her life to lead her displaced community in a heroic battle to reclaim their homes.
notes:
1.110.800 600.000 1.710.800
Directors // Jeff & Michael Zimbalist Emmy nominated writer/directors Jeff & Michael Zimbalists’ THE TWO ESCOBARS was an official selection of the Cannes, Tribeca, IDFA & LA Film Festivals & was theatrically released & broadcast in over 20 countries by Disney/ESPN. FAVELA RISING, which Jeff directed, shot, edited and produced, was shortlisted for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary & among the 36 awards it has won are IDFA Film of the Year and Best Director at Tribeca. With ThinkFilm/HBO, FAVELA hit theaters in 5 continents. Producers // Jeff & Michael Zimbalist Jeff and Michael Zimbalist’s films have been broadcast on HBO, MTV, PBS,, BBC, UK4 and theatrically distributed worldwide by companies such as Thinkfilm, Disney, ESPN Films and Wild Bunch. The brothers are Ford Foundation grantees, have produced award-winning documentaries for clients such as the United Nations and the World Bank, recently finished a 4-part series for the Sundance Channel, a segment for HBO’s series The Addiction Project, and are now developing a 3D IMAX film on Rio’s Carnaval with Quincy Jones. William Morris Endeavor & XYZ Films William Morris Endeavor, along with XYZ Films, are the packaging, financing and sales agency handling SCRIBE. WME is one of the largest talent agencies in the world. Johnny Hendrix’s Antorcha Films is the Colombian co-production company, producer of the recent DOCTOR ALEMÁN and PERRO COME PERRO, one of Colombia’s largest box office hits. Borja Peña’s Vaca Films is the Spanish co-production company, producer of CELL 211, the highest grossing film in Spain in 2009.
director and producer // Jeff Zimbalist
director and producer // Michael Zimbalist
Goals at DOX:FORUM Film financing and Co-Producers
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 45
autopersonifiction
art
presentation of team
Director // john akomfrah
Art, memory and storytelling collide in this dramatized documentary on the multiple lives of internationally renowned disabled artist, Yinka Shonibare. AutoPersonifiction is an unflinching but uplifting portrait of an artist working against the impossible odds of disability and disfigurement. As the name implies, AutoPersonifiction is a hybrid project; playing fast and loose with the rules and norms of a documentary film, the film will be a creative mélange of fact and fiction about a unique figure in contemporary art. Structured as a series of chapters and conceived as part filmed Autobiography, part Per46 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
sonal essay film and part imaginative Fiction AutoPersonifiction will be a series of stories about the works, ideas and imaginations of Yinka Shonibare, the world renowned British- Nigerian Artist . At the centre of the film will be a very intense engagement with the key question and experience of Shonibare’s entire creative life: the shocking and brutal arrival of physical disability into his life. Disability has been the ‘unseen guest’ throughout his creative life and in AutoPersonifiction; we want to look at the place and status of it in his life, his works and his imaginings. Disaster has haunted and shaped Yinka Shonibare’s life in a very complex and complicated way and
this notion of the ‘coming of disaster’ will be one of the narrative spurs of Autopersonifiction. Disaster has haunted and shaped Yinka Shonibare’s life in a very complex and complicated way and this notion of the ‘coming of disaster’ will be one of the narrative spurs of Autopersonifiction. Disaster first entered his life when at the age of five, he had his first brush with physical disability: he contracted polio in Lagos, a city the family relocated to from London in 1965. Shonibare survived the polio scare and in 1981, returned to London to study Fine Art. While doing a foundation course at the Wimbledon School of Art, disaster returned: he contracted a viral infection that left him completely paralyzed for a month and in a wheelchair for three years. He was nineteen years old and from that point, disaster took charge of his life becoming a very visible and very taxing presence in it. Although able to get about, he has impaired mobility, including limited use of his left side. Through his work , his testimonies , his memories and a series of carefully selected fictional scenarios, AutoPersonifiction will revisit these moments of the Disaster in order to construct a film portrait of how pain – in the hands of a very talented artist – becomes the raw material for a series of astonishing works of art. For AutoPersonifiction, the work of Yinka Shonibare will be both the referent as well as the source of narrative inspiration, mirroring its many complicated games with truth , with history, with storytelling and with art . Anyone who first sees a piece of work by Yinka Shonibare is instantly struck by how highly stylised and absolutely unique they are. Clearly referring in many subtle ways the established art canon and employing an array of narrative approaches, they do nevertheless display a unique ability to suggest narratives and characters and imbue them with an accessibility and popular appeal singularly rare in contemporary art.
autopersonifiction Running time: 90 minutes Production Status: Development Expected release: 2012 Co-producer: Lina Gopaul contact: david@smokingdogsfilms.com Confirmed financial sources:
Private Equity Market Partners: Private Equity BUDGET in Euro
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
100.000 450.000 550.000
Director // John Akomfrah The child of radical political activists who was born in Accra (Ghana) in 1957, John Akomfrah is one of the influential figures of the 80s black British cultural scene. As an artist, lecturer, writer, critic and film director, his twenty-year body of work is considered among the most distinctive and innovative to be produced in contemporary Britain. His most recent feature film, THE NINE MUSES had its world premiere at the 2010 Venice Biennale Film Festival and recently screened at the 2010 London Film Festival. Producer // David Lawson David Lawson started his film producing career in film festival programming and distribution in the mid 1980’s. He was head of distribution, marketing and festivals for the seminal film group the Black Audio Film Collective launching its groundbreaking films Handsworth Songs and Testament theatrically in the UK. Davids most recent feature film THE NINE MUSES was screened at the 2010 Venice Biennale and subsequently at the 2010 London Film Festival and is due for international theatrical release in 2011. Smoking Dogs Films Smoking Dogs Films is the film and television production company founded in London ,1998, by three members of the acclaimed British cinecultural group Black Audio Film Collective. The founders of the company are film director John Akomfrah and producers Lina Gopaul and David Lawson. From its inception, Smoking Dogs Films has sought to produce challenging work on a variety of media, expanding upon the narrative possibilities of creative documentary, feature films, music videos and art based films.
director // John Akomfrah
producer // david lawson
Goals at DOX:FORUM: To meet co- production partners for a range of future projects
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 47
marussa
presentation of team
Director // Eva Pervolovici
marussa Running time: 90 min Production Status: In development Expected release: November 2011 contact: jk@kinoelektron.com eva@metacult.ro Confirmed financial sources:
Producer’s share in kind BUDGET in euro
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
A story of journeys and spaces: The journey from Russia to France… from school to church… The space between mother and daughter. It is a film about what the Mother and Daughter figures entail, without clear boundaries in-between, and how these overlap, becoming one and the same “Cendrillon” or “Madam Bovary”? Both, at the same time: First of all, “Cendrillon” (Cinderella), because the story of Marussa has that genuine, very strong and at the same time innocent hope of fairytale stories. Larisa, 34 years old Cendrillon, The Mother, coming from a small village from Russia. She puts on the magic 600 euros Versace dress and becomes a princess, that’s her chance to find a Prince who will rescue her from misery. Her daughter, Marussa, is the magic pumpkin – she allows her access to the castle – it’s her passport to France and for to people’s 48 / fictiononfiction / dox:forum
heart. A restless quest for the Prince, stoically waiting to be saved… Marussa is Cendrillon at her own turn, a 4 year old girl – she has also embarked on a quest, but if the fairytale doesn’t appear in flesh and blood, Marussa can fabricate her own from sand in the playground – the result will be the same, and the sand fairy is good enough for Marussa to make her dreams come true. It is a film about the relationship between daughter and mother, where the roles change constantly. A daughter who loves her mother in a maternal way, a mother who loves her daughter in a childish, irresponsible way. How Mother and Daughter figures entail without clear boundaries inbetween, and how these overlap, becoming one and the same – there is no Mother without the Daughter, and no Daughter without the Mother. The film will follow how the child deals with this time of both confusion and excitement, oscillating between security and
danger. The security of what it means to be attached to the Mother and the actual danger of being attached to a mother like Larisa, who is a child herself. The danger of growing up and separating from the Mother, and the security of discovering herself and making her own decisions. Ultimately, the film captures how the single Mother-Daughter character, so tightly bound at first, gradually detaches and becomes two characters, two personalities emerging. It is not about the two of them against the system (although they are immigrants from Russia and change social housing night after night) but about one against each other and both together, about the dynamic of their relationship and their points of view. It’s not a social story, but a personal one. The end of the Russian Cinderella story: the salvation doesn’t come in the form of a prince and of a better life, but in the happiness of the tender moments between the two of them.
50.000 150.000 200.000
Director // Eva Pervolovici Eva Pervolovici is a young Romanian director. Multiple by its forms and styles of expression, the heteroclite work of Eva always carries the same intention: to make visible the subjectivity by leaving surrealism to arise in everyday situations. In 2010 she received Berlin Today Award that offered her the opportunity to realise her new short film Little Red. Eva is currently developing two feature films: Ileana produced by Strada Film (Berlinale Silver Bear 2010) and You can call me Ada, produced by KinoElektron. Producer // Janja Kralj Janja Kralj was born in 1980 in Zagreb, Croatia. She had her first experience in cinema as a production coordinator on Laurent de Bartillat’s The Vanishing Point (Rome IFF 2007). She then joined Shilo Films and collaborated on the feature Tehilim by Raphael Nadjari (Official Competition Cannes 2007). In 2008, she produced her first feature film Two Sunny Days by Ognjen Svilicic. In November 2009, she founded a new company, KinoElektron. She is part of EAVE Media program 2010. KinoElektron KinoElektron is a production company based in Paris, founded by Janja Kralj. The company is committed to an international cinema. It works 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 categorisation. For the line up and upcoming projects please check : www.kinoelektron.com
Director // Eva Pervolovici
producer // Janja Kralj
Goals at DOX:FORUM To meet broadcasters, financial partners, distributors and sales agents for the project. To get feedback, find eventual co-producers, create a network for future projects, present Eva as an upcoming young director and to present KinoElektron as a company.
dox:forum / fictiononfiction / 49
project presentations cinema thursday 50 / cinema / dox:forum
TEENAGE // LUNG NEAW // FUCK FOR FOREST // THE DESERT // NOWHERE HOME // DEMOCRATS dox:forum / cinema / 51
presentation of team
teenage Director // Matt Wolf
teenage Running time: 70-80 min. Production Status: Late Development Expected release: 2011 - 2012 contact: Matt Wolf, mail@mattwolf.info Confirmed financial sources:
Guggenheim Foundation, Cinereach, BritDoc Puma Creative, LEF Foundation BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
Teenage is an unconventional historical film about youth culture based on an acclaimed book by the seminal punk author Jon Savage. The film examines the moment we first gave teenagers a name, and how they would become so influential today. Tradition holds that teenagers, as we think of them, were born in the 1950s as rockers and beatniks. In fact, all the basic tenets of postwar teen life—from consumer passions to emotional unrest—had been in place years before that. Teenage focuses on a less familiar period: 1900 – 1945, an era of incredible social change and tumult. By 1945, the term “teenager” had been coined and its popular associations were understood across the globe. 52 / cinema / dox:forum
The arrival of the teenager represented the end of a decades long battle between adults and adolescents to define the second stage of life. Groups like the Hitler youth were regimented and brainwashed by adults into a murderous militarism. Other groups like the Flappers, the Swing Kids, or the giddy SubDebs were created by adolescents themselves, despite their parents’ mystification or disapproval. Teenage will use actors to bring to life fascinating youth of the early 20th century in period-blurring 16mm recreations. We’ll meet youth like Brian Howard, the decadent “Bright Young Thing” from the 1920s, the Hitler Youth leader Melita Maschmann, whose diary chillingly describes the allure of Fascism, and Tommie Scheel, who ingen-
iously opposed Nazis by illegally celebrating Swing music. Narration presented by Jon Savage, an incredible array of archival footage, and a contemporary soundtrack will connect these seemingly unrelated figures. In this living collage—of different groups, in different countries, and at different times— lies the seeds of today’s complex, creative global youth culture. Everyone wants to be a Teenager today. It is the most dynamic period in our lives: a time of perpetual change, of self-discovery, of heightened emotions—that moment when we engage with the world. This is a film that ends with a beginning. In 1945, the old world ended and a new figure arose from the ashes: the Teenager—the ideal of youth to which we still aspire.
57.000 400.000 457.000
Director // Matt Wolf Matt Wolf is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow. His award-winning feature documentary Wild Combination, about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was released worldwide by Plexifilm, and broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Matt has made short documentaries for The New York Times, the Sundance Channel, and he recently directed documentary components of the SXSW award-winning film NY Export: Opus Jazz for PBS Great Performances.
Producers // Kyle Martin // Ben Howe // Jacqui Edenbrow US Producers: Kyle Martin- Wild Combination (Berlin, Sundance Channel), Tiny Furniture (SXSW winner, IFC Films), NY Export: Opus Jazz (SXSW winner, PBS); Ben Howe: Wild Combination, Treeless Mountain (Berlin, Toronto, Independent Spirit Nominee), The Exploding Girl (Berlin, Tribeca) both released by Oscilloscope. UK Producer: Jacqui Edenbrow- Joy Division (Toronto, Weinstein Company and the Works, Grierson winner), The Posters Came from the Walls (London BFI)
Goals at DOX:FORUM We are seeking production funding, international co-producers, broadcast partners, brand supporters, and digital platform collaborators.
Director // Matt Wolf
producer // kyle martin
dox:forum / cinema / 53
lung neaw
art
presentation of team
Director // Rirkrit Tiravanija
lung neaw Running time: 120 min. Production Status: Post-production Expected release: Spring 2011 Co-Producers:
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cristian Manzutto Contact: rirkrit@mac.com cristian@estudiodeproduccion.net Confirmed financial sources:
Studio Tiravanija, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Estudio de Producción, Cristian Manzutto, Kurimanzutto, Gavin Brown Enterprise. Co-production partners:
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cristian Manzutto, Kurimanzutto, Gavin Brown Enterprise BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
80,327 116,593 196,920
Director // Rirkrit Tiravanija Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1961, and is based in New York, Berlin, and Thailand. Tiravanija’s installations and actions provide platforms for artistic, public, and private activities—effectively blurring the boundaries that customarily separate them. His projects invite the public to enter into and literally engage with his work; in fact, the active participation of the viewer is necessary for the work to be fully realized. Producer // Cristian Manzutto Cristian Manzutto, Born in Medellin Colombia is dedicated to sound and image, with a production studio in Mexico City, works with filmmakers and contemporary artists who work with the medium of film; Eugenio Polgovsky, Rodrigo Plá, Francis Alys, Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Kim Sooja, Allora & Calzadilla, Phillipe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foester, Marine Hugonnier, among others.
Director // Rirkrit Tiravanija
notes:
We follow Lung Neaw, living off the land, visiting neighbors, in a world of simple realities and compassion for his environment and fellow villagers. We see the basic truths of a humble man, another man making our world turn, to a better revolution. At the age of sixty, Lung Neaw (Uncle Neaw) finds himself retired from his life as a rice farmer in a small village in the Northern Thai Province of Chiang Mai. Away from the chatter and noise of recent political upheaval, in the capital Bangkok, and the demand for democratic reforms, we follow Lung Neaw 54 / cinema / dox:forum
in his daily life. We see Lung Neaw living off the land that he has known since he was born, fishing, hunting and foraging for herbs and vegetation in the open fields and forest nearby his home. He goes about the chores of living and fills up his idle time with the practicalities of a rural existence, and in between he finds time to spend with neighbours, from the local sage, to the ailing and aged elephant king deep in the valley, to children who play in his front yard and the youngsters at the local watering hole. Lung Neaw is known in the surrounding villages as the man without enemies, a fair man without judgment and
humble with his humility. We have to ask, “What more can one want when one is already living in Paradise?” In this moment when many people are asking for equality, opportunity, self determination and for democracy in the hands of the people, in Lung Neaw we find both answers and questions to these demands. We find it in the sustenance of self awareness and sufficiency and in compassion and humility, we find it in the narrative of the real and of the simplicity of each day.
Estudio de producción For the last three years, estudio de producción has evolved as a space for independent documentary and artists film production alongside existing as a sound, video and film production and post-production studio. We are now in a position to be able to independently co-produce a small number of film projects which are of the greatest interest. Goals at DOX:FORUM We have achieved over 50% of the financing to date, during DOX:FORUM we would like to find further financing possibilities, as well as exploring diffusion and exhibition opportunities, and also hopefully generating overall interest in and promotion for the project.
producer // Cristian Manzutto
dox:forum / cinema / 55
presentation of team
fuck for forest Director // Michal Marczak
fuck for forest Running time: 80 min. Production Status: In Production Expected release: 2012 contact: marczakmarczak @ gmail.com mikolaj@pokromskistudio.pl maedae@gmail.com Confirmed financial sources:
Pokromski Studio Co-production partners:
Kwiecinski Studio, Krakow.
Director // Michal Marczak Michal Marczak was born and raised in Warsaw. He studied directing and multi media at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, California and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan as well as documentary making in the Andrzej Wajda Master Film Directing School of Warsaw. His documentary short “A Woman Sought” 2009 won prizes in Koszalin and Poznan. “At the Edge of Russia” is his debut feature documentary which won the Magic Hour at Planete Doc Review Warsaw 2010. It is in the main competition this year at CPH:DOX.
BUDGEt in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
FFF is a Berlin based, Norwegian registered, non-profit pornographic ecological organisation founded by Tomy, a former Norwegian school teacher and Leona, a Swedish girl he met at a psychedelic concert. From their mutual passions was born: fuckforforest.com. Yoko Ono, whose 1969 Bed-ins for Peace with John Lennon made international headlines hailed the efforts of FFF as the best art project she had seen in Norway. In the summer of 2005, at a music festival in Norway in front of 5,000 people, the couple gave a short talk about the human impact on natural forests. Tomy then shed his clothes and proceeded to give a live fuck for forest demonstration, while the heavy metal band on stage played a piece called “Go Forth and Fuck.” The couple were fined the equivalent of $1,500 each. Refusing to pay, they moved their operation to a more liberal minded Berlin, where FFF is now based. Subsequent publicity, (they were 56 / cinema / dox:forum
on the front page of all major Scandinavian newspapers) launched their project worldwide. Notoriety has done wonders. People from all over started sending them their erotic videos and pictures. The Site grew and became a member’s only pay site.Today, the site has over 1,000 paying members from which they finance ecological projects. All the proceeds go towards the support of ecological projects mostly in Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil.These neo hippies strongly believe there is something seriously wrong with today’s world and make regular journeys to the isolated Amazon with the idea of introducing principles from these micro cultures that have been in existence since time immemorial to the Western World. They have purchased parcels of land in the jungle and give it back to the local indigenous population who, for centuries have been living off the land but have never actually owned it. The only condition is that they are never allowed to
sell the land or cut down any trees. In general it is an outlook on sexuality and life that does not resemble anything in the Western World. For example, Ayawasca, a strong hallucinogenic drug is given to 8 year olds to raise their immune system and according to the Shamans, to establish their direct link with nature. In exchange the shamans of the villages share their vast knowledge of plants and drugs with them. For the past two years they have been living in a threesome with Natty, a twenty year old Berliner and together they “hunt” for people for the website. Today there is no one great conflict or opponent that unifies people. Can their teachings and the rituals of the indigenous cultures or their drugs give the world what they are missing? Is it possible to be happy in a threesome? What can this hedonistic lifestyle offer? This film is also the story of the many people they encounter and delivers a large mosaic of the state of contemporary counterculture.
15.000 240.000 255.00
Producer // Mikolaj Pokromski The education and background of producer Mikolaj Pokromski (German-French Masterclass Program 2004/2005, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg & La Fémis, Paris / Media Plus), gave him a head start in international experience and projects. From very early on, his extensive work and experience in production management for well known international and local productions have led him to provide high standard services for foreign productions in Poland. POKROMSKI STUDIO Company Established by Aldona & Waldemar Pokromski in September 1992, the company’s business profile is specialising in services and Pan European Co-Productions of documentary and feature films. The company has completed its first feature length film as a German Polish Co Production and is currently in production with 4 documentaries and 2 features in development.
Director // Michal Marczak
producer // Mikolaj Pokromski
Goals at DOX:FORUM We hope to find co-producers on a real collaborative level We also hope to get in touch with broadcasters and World Sales Agents that will help us to complete the budget.
dox:forum / cinema / 57
the desert
presentation of team
Director // Michael Madsen
l a i t iden
conf
The desert Running time: 90 min. Production Status: Second stage develop-
ment with initial shooting to start November 2010. Expected release: 2012 Co-producers: Sami Jahnukainen,
Torstein Nybø contact: teleapati@soundart.dk, llm@magichourfilms.dk Confirmed financial sources:
The Danish Film Institute Application responses from Finnish Film Foundation and Nordic Film and TV-Fund for development support are expected in November. Market Partners:
YLE, In negotiation with others. Co-production partners: Mouka Filmi, Finland, Mediamente, Norway BUDGET in euro:
An idea-historical Odyssey with a vibrant visuality, asking what it means to conduct civilization and featuring one of the only persons in History who has had the opportunity to create a society according to his own visions. Filmmaker, Michael Madsen, has made it his special trait to turn very abstract and philosophical subjects into intensely meaningful films with a vibrant visuality. In THE DESERT, Michael Madsen will explore the very basis of our co-existence. Through a very distinct keyhole, he will look at society and ask the questions: What is civilization really? Is it an inevitable progress that follows a society’s need to develop almost as a natural law? Or is civilization subject to the dreams and whims of individuals? What did the French and American Revolutions really discover in terms of universal human rights? Are hu58 / cinema / dox:forum
man beings blank slates that can be shaped by whatever society they happen to live in and make visions become reality, or are certain ideas bound to fail, because we humans can only understand ourselves as individuals? If you had an entire country and virtually unlimited funds at your disposal and were able to create a society in your own vision – what would the framework for a just, true and genuine life look like? THE DESERT is an idea-historical odyssey and a high profile feature documentary with a vibrant visuality and an innovative style. The narrative is based on meetings with one of the only persons in History who has had the opportunity to create a society according to his own Visions. We want to know what his experiences are, when it comes to conducting civilization. The film will be directed by Michael Madsen, shot in scope by Heikki Färm,
edited by Stefan Sundlöf, and produced by Lise Lense-Møller, Magic Hour Films. The team also co-operated on the film ‘Into Eternity’, which premiered in November 2009. ‘Into Eternity’ was awarded The Nordic Documentary Award / Nordic Panorama 2010, Grand Prix, Visions du Reel/Nyon, Switzerland 2010, Planete DocReview, Poland 2010 and the Audience Award cph:dox, Denmark 2009. For confidentiality reasons, we are not at the moment able to make the project presentation public, nor to pitch openly. However, a very extensive project presentation does exist, and we are happy to present it and discuss the project in one-on-one meetings, where confidentiality is preserved.
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
95.000 855.000 (tbc) 950.000 (tbc)
Director // Michael Madsen Michael Madsen has a background in sound art 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 a film director he successfully made this his special trait and his films are intended for a wide audience. Earlier works: INTO ETERNITY – a film on time and final solutions for nuclear waste (2009), TO DASMACUS – a film on interpretation (2005), and CELESTIAL NIGHT – a film on visibility (2003). Producer // Lise Lense-Møller As film producer, founder and CEO of Magic Hour Films, Lise Lense-Møller has produced and co-produced some 50 films - both documentary and fiction – many of which have been award winning and many them international co-productions. In addition, she has a long track record in professional education a.o. as expert and group leader for EAVE, EU’s post-education for independent producers with 3 annual international workshops. Lise is board member of the Producer’s Association. Magic Hour Films Set up in 1984 Magic Hour Films has produced and co-produced a wealth of highprofile and award-winning films. Most recent releases include INTO ETERNITY by Michael Madsen (2009), which so far has received 5 awards and BURMA VJ, by Anders Østergaard (2008). The film follows the underground video journalists who covered the Saffron revolution in Burma in September 2007, and has received 47 international awards and an Oscar nomination.
Director // Michael Madsen
producer // Lise Lense-Møller
Goals at DOX:FORUM To find interested financiers and market partners, especially in the field of theatrical distribution and broadcasting.
dox:forum / cinema / 59
presentation of team
nowhere home Director // Margreth Olin
Nowhere home Running time: 90 min Production Status: In production Expected release: 2012 Co-production partners:
Lars Jönsson / Memphis Film contact: margreth.olin@speranza.no Confirmed financial sources:
Norwegian filmfond, Nordisk Film og TV fond Fritt Ord, Fond For lyd og bilde, Redd Barna (Save the children) Market Partners:
Sandrew Metronome, NRK, Folkets Bio BUDGET in euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
NOWHERE HOME is a full-length documentary about lone minor asylum seekers that are granted temporary residence permits in Norway till they turn 18 and then sent back to an uncertain future in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq or other conflict areas. There is a tightening of the asylum policy all over Europe. It is all about protecting the borders, not the single human being. “I don’t like the sun going down every day because it means that the days pass, that I have to return. I’d like to hold on to the moment, stop the time.“ (boy, 16 years old, at reception centre for lone minor asylum seekers) NOWHERE HOME is a full-length film about lone minor asylum seekers. Their encounters with Europe, who they are, why they come. This group of youths don’t get sufficient care and protection, and are discriminated according to how the different countries treat their “own” children in similar circumstances of life. Norway, for instance, spends four times more resources on Norwegian children in 60 / cinema / dox:forum
equivalent situations. A new measure in Norway’s retrenchment policy is to give lone minors provisional residence permits. Other European countries now look to Norway and consider adopting this practice, before the measure has been evaluated in Norway. I want to follow some youths over time, while they are waiting for their 18th birthday and deportation. I want to show how much Europe’s more and more cruel asylum policy costs these children. One of the boys: Goli is from Iraq. He has spent four years in Norway, and was sent back home on his 18th birthday in the early hours of May 7th. His father and oldest brother were killed in the war. His mother remarried and his stepfather kicked Goli and his younger brother out of their house. Goli had to get along by himself from when he war 9 or 10 years old. He began hanging out with criminals, sniffed glue, stole food and witnessed a lot of brutality. The criminals he hung out with kidnapped people for ransom. He describes how he once robbed a dead body. When he’s 11, his step-
father attempts to kill him with a knife. Goli swims across the river on the Turkish border. He is jailed, and 11 years old he spends seven months in a Turkish prison where 40 men share one cell. After his release, he arrives in Paris where he lives in the streets for two years. He arrives in Norway as a 14-year old and seeks asylum. He continues living like before, stealing and dealing. He’s regarded as a difficult case and sent around to various reception centres and institutions. At 17, he receives a sentence for violence after stabbing a man in a fight. In prison, Goli attempts suicide by hanging three times. One month before he turns 18, he has served his sentence. Then he’s confined at Ila - Norway’s institute for preventive detention. This is where Norway’s sickest killers and rapists are put in detention. Behind nine locked doors I get to meet him. I film him in the visiting room during the month he spends there. During the night when he turns 18, he’s picked up by the immigration police and put on the plane back to Iraq.
notes:
636.334 105.597 741.931
Director // Producer // Margreth Olin Margreth Olins breakthrough came in 2002 with the documentary film My Body which was highly acclaimed both internationally and nationally. After this film she was personally invited by Lars von Trier to make a “dogumentary”, made after the dogumentary-rules: the full length documentary film Raw Youth became a theatrical success in Norway seen by more than 60.000 at Norwegian cinemas and it was nominated for the European Film Award, best documentary, 2005. Her newest film The Angel has been seen by over 100.000 at norwegian cinemas, and is the norwegian Oscar-candidate 2010. Margreth Olin is also a writer. In Norway she is known for bringing up social and political issues, and her voice in the public debate on subjects like drugs, criminal welfare and asylum politics/integration is being listened to by politicians. She is awarded with many prizes from different organisations for her storytelling and important contribution in the Norwegian society to develop tolerance and ability to appreciate differences.
Director // producer // Margreth Olin
Speranza Film 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. Homepage: www. speranza.no Goals at DOX:FORUM: To get the film fully financed by selling it to the nordic television channels
dox:forum / cinema / 61
presentation of team
democrats Director // Camilla Nielsson
democrats Running time: 90 /60 min. Production Status: In production Expected release: Beginning of 2012 contact: camilla@upfrontfilms.dk
hv@upfrontfilms.dk
Confirmed financial sources:
DR, Mette Hoffmann Meyer // The Danish Film Institute, Jesper Jack // Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aase Mikkelsen Market Partners:
DR International Sales, Kim Christiansen BUDGET in Euro:
Confirmed amount: Required amount: Total budget:
notes:
DEMOCRATS is a political drama focusing on the process of creating a new constitution in Zimbabwe, that can lead the country a decisive step closer to democracy - and away from Robert Mugabe’s 30-year long dictatorship. Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe’s new constitution. It is the ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy – and away from Robert Mugabe’s 30-year dictatorship - or toward renewed repression. With a people who are troubled and impatient, pressure from the international community, and hyperinflation running rampant, is failure an option? DEMOCRATS follows two top politicians, MP Paul Mangwana (ZANU-PF) and MP Douglas Mwonzora (MDC) – respectively, from the governing party and the opposition, who have been appointed to lead the country through the process of making a constitution. 62 / cinema / dox:forum
In 2008, the two men opposed each other in one of Africa’s bloodiest elections. Today, they are still political enemies but united in the ambition to make history by making Zimbabwe a modern democracy. For the opposition MDC party, a new constitution is the key to winning any future democratic election. For the governing ZANU-PF, however, a new constitution might strip the party of its de facto control over the country. By going behind the scenes of the constitutional process, DEMOCRATS offers a unique insight into the inner workings of the Zimbabwean government at the highest level. We will be present at a critical and, possibly, history-changing juncture as the political elite struggles to find a new post-colonial identity – a struggle that may be the harbinger of a new epoch in the development of modern African states. The film is a political drama portraying African politicians in their work clothes, as they battle to forge the future of Zimbabwe. Much
is at stake. On issues such as land rights, gay rights and control over the nation’s massive natural resources, the MDC and ZANU-PF share little common ground. Our two protagonists are under tremendous pressure from the international community, which has frozen aid, and millions of Zimbabweans, who want the country out of the hands of the army and under democratic control. They demand human rights, freedom of speech and independent media. For many years, the government of Zimbabwean has been hostile to the press, especially foreign media. After months of meticulous preparations, UPFRONT FILMS has gained unprecedented access to document the constitution-making process in all its phases. The film will take us into the machinery of the political give-and-take – from the initial negotiations to the conclusion of the process with a popular referendum expected by Summer 2011.
265.500 515.000 780.500
Director // CAMILLA NIELSSON Born in 1970, Denmark. M.A. in visual anthropology and Certificate in Culture and Media from New York University. Nielsson’s film The Children of Darfur (2006) won the Monte Carlo TV Festival Grand Prix, the TV3 Award of Spain, and the Miradas Doc Award. Nielsson co-directed Mumbai Disconnected (2009), which was selected for IDFA’s Reflecting Images: Panorama 2009 and the national competition at CPH:DOX 2009. Producer // HENRIK VEILEBORG Born in 1964, Denmark. Education: Film producer graduated from The National Danish Film School in 1995. Professional experience: Producer and managing director of Upfront Films (formerly known as Cosmo Doc) since 2006. Head of Development, shorts and documentaries at The Danish Film Institute 2002-2006. Producer and production manager at Magic Hour Films 19952002
UPFRONT FILMS Established in 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Formerly known as Cosmo Doc, changing it’s name to Upfront Films in 2009. Main staff: Producers Henrik Veileborg and Anna-Maria Kantarius and production manager Signe Tillisch. Upfront Films’ recent releases include Trafficking (Judith Lansade and Sine Plambech, 2010), Dreams in Copenhagen (Max Kestner, 2009), Mumbai Disconnected (Camilla Nielsson, Frederik Jacobi, 2009) and Bogotá Change (Andreas M. Dalsgaard, 2009).
Director // CAMILLA NIELSSON
producer // HENRIK VEILEBORG
Goals at DOX:FORUM We are looking for television pre-buys and production funding
dox:forum / cinema / 63
industry professionals 64 / industry professionals / dox:forum
against gravity - planet doc review // angel scandinavia // autlook filmsales // babelgum // bbc storyville // cat&docs // channel 4 britdoc foundation // channel 4 Television // chicken & egg // cine-regio // cinetic media // cinetic rights management // danish film institute - dfi // dogwoof // dox:bio // dr - danish broadcasting corporation // dr international sales // eurimages // film i skĂ…ne // film kontakt nord // gucci tribeca documentary fund - tfi // guggenheim museum, new york // hot docs // independent filmmaker project - ifp // irish film board // itvs - independent television service // kickstarter // lux // media desk denmark // medienboard film funding - berlin brandenburg // new danish screen - nds // norwegian film institute nfi // nhk - japan broadcasting corporation // nordisk film and tv fund // participant media // sandrew metronome // sf film a/s denmark // swedish film institute - sfi // sloan filmmaker fund - tribeca film institute // sundance institute // sveriges television - svt // tate media // the film sales company // tv2 denmark // visions du reel // vpro // wide house // yle co-productions // zdf - das kleine fernsehspiel // zeitgeist films dox:forum / industry professionals / 65
angel scandinavia
against gravity - planete doc review
peter sølvsten thomsen // Acq. & Sales manager
Artur Liebhart // ceo
Against Gravity Local Films distributor and festival organiser in Poland dedicated to feature length documentary films and art house features. Theatrical&DVD releases, VOD, sales to 12 TV channels in Poland. Looking for Innovative and emotionally engaged cinema documentary films. recent commitments Eyes Wide Open // Home for Christmas // Human // Videocracy // Erotic Man GETTING INVOLVED aliebhart@docreview.pl www.againstgravity.pl FAVOuRITE FILMS The Age of Stupid // Burma VJ // Videocracy
Angel Films A/S Angel Films has been handling feature film acquisition, distribution and production (also short films and Tv) in Scandinavia since 1987. Also involved in international co-productions. Full Studio and post production facilities. Dvd authoring and encoding in all formats. recent commitments Panique au village (series + feature film) // I’m Still Here // Aftershock GETTING INVOLVED peter@angelfilms.dk www.angelfilms.dk FAVOURITE FILMS Many, many, many
autlook filmsales
against gravity - planete doc review Anna Desponds // Festival Programming and Events
Planete Doc Review With 31.000 entries in 2010, PLANETE DOC REVIEW F.F. sets appetite for documentary films. The programme consists of acclaimed and awarded premieres, retrospectives, debates and masterclasses (i.e. Werner Herzog, Martin Strange-Hansen, Nicolas Philibert and Alan Berliner in 2010). Planete Doc Review is organised by the distribution company AGAINST GRAVITY. The Festival has been awarded by the Polish Film Institute for the Best International Film Event. Looking for Documentary films, all kinds. Recent commitments Vincere // Home for Christmas // Women Without Men // David wants to fly GETTING INVOLVED annad@docreview.pl www.docreview.pl www.againstgravity.pl
Peter Jäger // CEO
AUTLOOK FILMSALES Autlook filmsales is a worldwide sales agent for powerful, daring and acclaimed docs. We are a full-service sales agent, handling festivals, TV-, theatrical-, educational-, DVD- and all digital sales worldwide. We select around 25 TV-documentaries a year and up to 6 docs with worldwide theatrical potential. AUTLOOK attends all important theatrical markets (Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Pusan, Locarno, Sundance, AFM, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, etc.) and all Doc markets (IDFA, Hot Docs, Sheffield, CPH:DOX, Leipzig, Visions du Réel, MIPTV, MIPCOM, etc.). We look for auteur-driven, cinematic docs with international appeal. RECENT COMMITMENTS Our Daily Bread // Bananas*! // Petropolis // Long Distance Love GETTING INVOLVED peter@autlookfilms.com www.autlookfilms.com
FAVOuRITE FILMS Waltz with Bashir // Jardins en Automne // Dreaming by Numbers
66 / industry professionals / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 67
babelgum
cat&docs
Andreas Lemos // Director of Acquisitions
Catherine Le Clef // President
Babelgum Babelgum is an integrated web and mobile video content platform free for users and supported by advertising available on-demand to a global audience. Babelgum Mobile is an original application currently available in the United States, UK, Italy, Germany, France and Spain which brings regionally tailored programming to smart phones. (www.babelgum.com/mobile). We are looking for documentaries that would work well on both fixed platform internet and mobile, that can be presented episodically. Editorially fitting in with our key channel genres – independent film, music, comedy or hip urban culture.
CAT&Docs CAT&Docs’ focus is on promoting and distributing all types of documentaries in all media around the world. CAT&Docs is run by Catherine Le Clef along with her partner, Maelle Guenegues. CAT&Docs are looking for pertinent and impertinent films on topical questions and timeless subjects; Documentaries that are carefully researched; Documentaries that rigorously explore the subject matter, that are audacious, open to the diversity of the world and that have their place on the international scene; Documentaries that question the world and propose new ways of looking at it.
recent acquisitions Rage // Manufacturing Consent // Native Voice Films // Dark Fibre
recent commitments My Barefoot Friend // Agnus Dei: Lamb of God // The Oath // William S Burroughs: A Man Within
GETTING INVOLVED Andreas.lemos@babelgum.com www.babelgum.com
GETTING INVOLVED cat@catndocs.com www.catndocs.com
FAVORITE FILMS Capturing the Friedmans // Happiness // American Gigolo
FAVOURITE FILMS The Staircase // The Beautiful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
bbc storyville
channel 4 britdoc foundation
Nick Fraser // Commissioning Editor
68 / industry professionals / dox:forum
Beadie Finzi // Director
BBC Storyville BBC Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Our aim is to try to bring the most interesting character-based stories from around the world to the screen. That gives us amazing scope to commission across a huge range of genres and subjects. The strand looks for ambitious, narrative, contemporary films to commission in co-production with other funders, to pre-buy or acquire. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, we are looking for Strong Narrative, Cosmopolitan themes, reportage, brilliant, ground-breaking films. No turkeys, no worthiness and no dullness.
Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is a not-for-profit organization sponsored by Channel 4 Television and supported by a number of Foundations both in the UK and the USA. Over the last 5 years our mission has been to build a creatively ambitious and diverse future for documentary. We do this by creating brilliant films and engaging new partners to ensure that those films have lasting global impact. Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation has produced over fifty documentaries (and still counting) – films that have won audience awards at Film Festivals all over the world.
RECENT COMMITMENTS Acquisition: Red Chapel Commissions: Reagan // Marathon Boy // films focusing on Chinese life - Shanghai Tales series
recent commitments Afghan Star // The Yes Men Fix The World // Sounds Like Teen Spirit // The End of the Line
GETTING INVOLVED Storyville@bbc.co.uk, http://www.bbc.co.uk/storyville
GETTING INVOLVED beadie@britdoc.org www.britdoc.org
FAVOURITE FILMS A Prophet // The Rules of the Game // The Sorrow and the Pity
FAVOURITE FILMS Exit Through The Gift Shop // The Devil & Daniel Johnson // Calvet //Love For Sale
dox:forum / industry professionals / 69
channel 4 britdoc foundation
chicken & egg pictures Natalie Difford // Senior Program Officer
Maxyne Franklin // Director
Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is a new social entrepreneurship organization bringing new thinking to public service delivery. The Foundation exists to nurture talent and work with new approaches to documentary filmmaking and funding. In addition to film funding the Foundation also runs the international Good Pitch event in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Program. We are looking for early stage developments from international filmmakers for the newly launched ‘Catalyst Awards’ in partnership with PUMA.Creative recent commitments Self Made // To Hell and Back // Erasing David // Moving to Mars GETTING INVOLVED www.britdoc.org www.britdoc.org/puma maxyne@britdoc.org FAVOURITE FILMS The Devil and Daniel Johnson //The Thin Blue Line // Banksy Exit Through the Giftshop
Chicken & Egg Pictures Chicken & Egg Pictures is a film fund dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re exploring on film. We match strategically-timed financial support with “hands-with” mentorship and community-building to nurture women filmmakers whose diverse voices represent a range of lived experience and realities that have the power to change the world as we know it. We operate from a basic belief that people respond to stories, not issues. Grants We grant around $400k a year, our most recent open call resulted in 12 new grantees including Mona Nicoara, Natalia Almada, Jacqueline Olive and Margaret Brown. GETTING INVOLVED info@chickeneggpics.org www.chickeneggpics.org FAVOURITE FILMS Summer Pasture // Last Train Home // Sun Come Up
channel 4 television
cine-regio Charlotte Appelgren // General-Secretary
Tabitha Jackson // Commissioning Editor Arts
Channel 4 Television Channel 4 commissions programmes from more than 300 independent production companies across the UK, a far greater number than any other broadcaster, including the whole of the BBC. It works very closely with the independent production sector, and invests heavily in training and talent development throughout the industry. I am looking for films, series and performance pieces that reflect and are part of contemporary arts and culture, and which are conceived for the screen that speak to contemporary themes.
Cine-Regio Cine-Regio is a pan-European association of regional film funds in Europe. We act as a network and lobby for our members. We represent 34 regional film funds from 16 EU and EFTA Member States. The members of Cine-Regio represents a total funding capital of 140 million euros per year. The members exhibit a range of support schemes and services to the film sector which aim to support film culture, encourage social cohesion and build regional infrastructure.
RECENT COMMITMENTS The First Movie // The Arbor // Royal Ballet in Cuba // The Story of Film
GETTING INVOLVED http://www.cine-regio.org ca@cineregio.org
GETTING INVOLVED tajackson@channel4.co.uk www.channel4.com/4producers FAVOURITE FILMS The Mona Lisa Curse // Dirty Dali // Into Eternity // Armadillo
70 / industry professionals / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 71
cinereach
cinetic rights management
Adella Ladjevardi // Grants Manager
Matt Dentler // Head of programming
Cinereach Cinereach is a NY based non-profit film production company and foundation that champions vital stories, artfully told. Cinereach is drawn to films at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry, and vital subject matter. It has awarded over $3 million to more than 50 feature films. Cinereach supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that favor story over message, character over agenda, complexity over duality. Grants range from $5,000 – $50,000 and are awarded to films at any stage, including development, production and postproduction.
Cinetic Rights Management Cinetic Rights Management (FilmBuff) curates the best in original content for online audiences. FilmBuff scours the earth in search of compelling stories and ensures that content is available for viewers regardless of their viewing platform. As one of the largest and most successful suppliers of digital entertainment content, FilmBuff delivers to all of the leading platforms across North America and Europe through its partnerships with cable, satellite and telco companies, game consoles, online retailers and wireless platforms. Looking for Fiction and non-fiction films, 30’ to 120’.
RECENT GRANTS Teenage // Girl Model // Circumstance // Look // Stranger
recent commitments Collapse // The Dungeon Masters // Pelada // Exit Through the Gift Shop
GETTING INVOLVED Adella@cinereach.org http://www.cinereach.org
GETTING INVOLVED Mattd@cineticmedia.com http://filmbuffondemand.com FAVOURITE FILMS Sunset Boulevard // Do The Right Thing // Hoop Dreams
cinetic media
danish film institute - dfi
Dana O’Keefe // Manager / Sales Agent
Cinetic Media Cinetic Media is a leading provider of strategic advisory services to the entertainment and media industries. Key areas of concentration include film finance, film sales, corporate consultation, research and digital rights management as well as talent management. Through Cinetic Media’s transactional and consulting relationships, Cinetic Management allows artists unprecedented opportunity to take greater control of the filmmaking process. Looking for documentaries and Narrative features seeking distribution in North America. recent commitments Exit Through The Gift Shop // Inside Job // My Trip To Al-Qaeda GETTING INVOLVED dana@cineticmedia.com www.cineticmedia.com FAVOURITE FILMS Armadillo // Cave of Forgotten Dreams // Carlos
72 / industry professionals / dox:forum
Jesper Jack // Film commisioner
Danish Film Institute The DFI is the national agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture. Our operations extend from participation in the development and production of feature films, short films and documentaries, over distribution and marketing, to managing the national film archive and a public cinema. As a minimum a Danish production company must be involved and it is a priority that a substantial Danish input is engaged in the creative team. Looking for films that tell unreal stories from the realms of the real – generally anything original worth making that will change my perspective on the world. RECENT COMMITMENTS Into Eternity // Democrats // The Will // Pojktanten GETTING INVOLVED Jesperj@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk FAVOURITE FILMS The Berlov Family // Szpital // Terminus
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 73
danish film institute - dfi
danish film institute - dfi
Klara Grunning-Harris // Shorts and Documentary Film Commissioner
Danish Film Institute The DFI is the national agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture. The institute’s operations extend from participation in the development and production of feature films, short films and documentaries, over distribution and marketing, to managing the national film archive and a public cinema. For the year 2010 we expect to subsidize 30 shorts- and documentaries. The budget for production and distribution of shorts- and documentaries for 2010 amounts to a total of approx. EURO 4.000.000. A minimum of 25 % of this budget is allocated to films especially for children and young people. recent commitments The Good Life // Armadillo // Law of the Jungle // The DeVilles
Steen Bille // Film commissioner feature films
Danish Film Institute 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. I am looking for films combining documentary and fictional elements. RECENT COMMITMENTS Funding to the feature films: Dirch // Beast // Alle for én GETTING INVOLVED steenb@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk
GETTING INVOLVED www.dfi.dk klaragh@dfi.dk FAVOURITE FILMS The New Americans // Please Vote for Me // A Lion in the House
danish film institute - dfi
danish film institute - dfi Kim Leona // Film Commissioner - feature films
Malene Flindt Pedersen // Head of development, Short- and documentary
Danish Film Institute The DFI is the national agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture. Our operations extend from participation in the development and production of feature films, short films and documentaries, over distribution and marketing, to managing the national film archive and a public cinema. As a minimum a Danish production company must be involved and it is a priority that a substantial Danish input is engaged in the creative team. The Head of Development for Shorts and Documentaries evaluates the Danish involvement in the film. The next deadline is 28th of February 2011. RECENT COMMITMENTS The Survivors // Sandhedsjæger // Slaves // Videocracy GETTING INVOLVED malenefp@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk
danish film institute The Danish Film Institute department for Production & Development is in charge of processing applications for subsidies for Danish feature films and short & documentary films. The process includes an artistic evaluation. Allocations of subsidies are for screenplay development, project development and production development. The unit also processes and evaluates projects involving Danish producers participating in international co-productions. Recent commitments After 3 years in New Danish Screen, I am looking forward to new challenges and commitments as a feature films commisioner. Getting involved: kiml@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk
FAVOURITE FILMS Armadillo // The Regretters // Into Eternity 74 / industry professionals / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 75
dogwoof
dr - danish broadcasting corporation
Oli Harbottle // Head of Distribution
Mette Hoffmann Meyer //Head of Documentaries
Dogwoof Dogwoof is the leading UK independent film distributor for documentary and social issue films. Successful releases over the past year include Mugabe and the White African, Crude, Food INC., Videocracy, No Impact Man, Budrus, Collapse, and Restrepo. As well as achieving great success with these titles, Dogwoof is unique in that it identifies a double bottom-line and sees the potential of film to bring about social change. Feature length documentaries, with a focus on social issue and campaigning films.
DR – Danish Broadcasting Corporation Mette is responsible for documentaries on four DR-channels showing some 1100 hours of documentaries and factual programming per year. She commissions both international and Danish productions for DR2. She is a board member of Steps International and spearheaded ‘Why Democracy?’ Mette has supported many award winning films from the Oscar-winning ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ to the Chinese ‘Please Vote for Me’. She is looking for strong human interest stories, current affairs, natural history, factual series, feature length documentaries.
RECENT COMMITMENTS Gasland // Countdown to Zero // A Small Act
RECENT COMMITMENTS The Cove// Marathon Boy // The red Chapel// Why Poverty
GETTING INVOLVED oli@dogwoof.com www.dogwoof.com
GETTING INVOLVED meho@dr.dk, www.dr.dk
FAVOURITE FILMS The Age of Stupid // Burma VJ // Videocracy
DOX:BIO
FAVOURITE FILMS: Murder on a Sunday Morning // Capturing the Friedmans
dr - danish broadcasting corporation Anders Bruus // Acquisition Executive
Josephine Michau // co-director Marlene S. Rasmussen // co-director DOX:BIO DOX:BIO is a cinema-distribution platform launched in 2010 and characterized by linking audiences across the country in shared debates and events through the use of live streaming. During it’s first year 40 cinemas have signed up to the network, distributing a yearly catalogue of 6 feature length documentary films (plus 1-2 bonus titles). The focus behind the concept is to create a distribution-form that maximise press coverage and distribution to cinemas in all parts of the country. DOX:BIO works both independently as distributor and collaborates with other national or international distributors. 2-4 international titles will be selected each year. RECENT COMMITMENTS The Erotic Man // Tommy // Blood in the mobile //Food Inc. FAVOURITE FILMS The English Surgeon // Nede på jorden // Burma VJ
DR TV - documentary factual, dr2 DR TV 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. We are looking for one hour late night social/political/current affairs/human interest documentary strand. RECENT COMMITMENTS Too many to mention GETTING INVOLVED andb@dr.dk www.dr.dk/dokumania FAVOURITE FILMS Dokumania // The Red Chapel // Murder on a Sunday Morning
76 / industry professionals / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 77
dr international sales
dr international sales
Kim Christiansen // Co-production Manager
Charlotte Gry Madsen // Project Manager
DR International Sales DR international Sales is the sales department of DR, Danish Broadcasting Corporation. It is Scandinavia’s largest international TV-distributor, present at all major television markets and festivals. DR International Sales distribute and sell films, television programmes and archive footage produced by DR as well as independent companies. We specialise in Documentaries, Kids Programming and TV-Drama. We also handle film projects in production for international co-productions and pre-sales. We are looking for new engaging projects on contemporary stories. Laughter and cry are also good selling points.
DR International Sales DR international Sales is the sales department of DR, Danish Broadcasting Corp. It’s Scandinavia’s largest international TV-distributor, present at all major television markets and festivals. DR International Sales distribute and sell films, television programmes and archive footage produced by DR as well as produced by independent companies. We specialise in Documentaries, Kids Programming and TV-Drama. We also handle film projects in production for international co-productions and pre-sales. We are looking for new engaging projects on contemporary stories. Laughter and cry are also good selling points.
RECENT COMMITMENTS The Red Chapel // Armadillo // The Good Life
RECENT COMMITMENTS The Red Chapel // Armadillo // The Good Life // My Cousin – The Pirate // At the Edge of Russia
GETTING INVOLVED -kimc@dr.dk www.drsales.com
GETTING INVOLVED cgma@dr.dk www.drsales.dk
FAVOURITE FILMS The Red Chapel // Armadillo // Mad Men (at the moment)
FAVOURITE FILMS Regretters // Grey Gardens // Drinking for England
dr international sales
eurimages
helene aurø // Head of Sales
DR International Sales DR international Sales, the sales department of DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corp., is Scandinavia’s largest international TV-distributor, present at all major television markets and festivals. We specialize in documentaries, children’s programming and TV-drama. We are looking for new engaging projects on contemporary stories, preferable stories unheard of. Social issues, current affairs and strong author driven narratives for an international audience. Ambitious storytelling and an interesting approach. RECENT COMMITMENTS: The Red Chapel // Armadillo // The Good Life // My Cousin – The Pirate GETTING INVOLVED heau@dr.dk www.drsales.dk FAVOURITE FILMS Ask me!
78 / industry professionals / dox:forum
Anton Calleja // Project Manager
Eurimages Eurimages is the Council of Europe fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinematographic works. Set up in 1988 as a Partial Agreement it currently has 34 Member States. Eurimages aims to promote the European film industry by encouraging the production and distribution of films and fostering co-operation between professionals. We are looking for feature length documentaries for theatrical release. RECENT COMMITMENTS Forgotten Space // Pianomania // Entente Cordiale GETTING INVOLVED anton.calleja@coe.int www.coe.int/eurimages FAVOURITE FILMS Workingman’s death // Burma VJ // La Ciudad De Los Fotografos (City of Photographers)
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 79
film i skÅne Joakim Strand // Commissioning Editor, Short and Documentary
Film i Skåne Film i Skåne is a regional resource- and film production centre with the task of promoting all aspects of films. We take an overall view, where the development of the audience, film makers and the media industry is a tool for developing the film environment in Skåne. Through the coproduction of short, documentary and feature films Film I Skåne attract capital that is spent in the region on services, facilities and labor that help develop the audio-visual infrastructure in Skåne. We are looking for creative documentaries with strong characters and stories. The production must have a co-producer in Skåne. RECENT COMMITMENTS Armadillo // Bananas*// Smiling in a war zone...amongst lots of other films GETTING INVOLVED joakim@filmiskane.se, www.filmiskane.se FAVOURITE FILMS Man on Wire // Yes man fix the world // Videocracy
gucci tribeca documentary fund / tfi Ryan Harrington // Director of Documentary Programming
gucci tribeca documentary fund / tfi documentary fund The Tribeca Film Institute was founded to educate, entertain and inspire filmmakers and film lovers alike. We create innovative programs that draw on the power of film to promote understanding, tolerance and global awareness. The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund seeks feature-length documentaries that are in production or post-production. Eligible films highlight the most critical, important stories affecting the world we live in today. The TFI Documentary Fund, presented by HBO, seeks engaging feature-length documentaries in advanced development, production or post-production and which emphasize character. grants The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund 2010 Grantees: African Deep // Donor Unknown // The Mosou Sisters // The Warlords’ Wife. The TFI Documentary Fund will award five grants as well as 3 HBO fellowships to films in the advanced stages of development, production or post-production. GETTING INVOLVED documentary@tribecafilminstitute.org www.tribecafilminstitute.org FAVOURITE FILMS Clueless //Heathers // The Breakfast Club
filmkontakt nord Katrine Kiilgaard // Head of Nordisk Panorama Industry
Filmkontakt Nord Filmkontakt Nord has since its establishment in 1991 by the independent Nordic short & documentary film community been dedicated to the promotion of Nordic short films and documentaries internationally, in addition to the advancement of Nordic-international professional networks. FkN’s main function is to serve as a common Nordic platform for a stronger production and distribution network within the Nordic countries and a visible united exposure internationally, joining a strong cultural profile with a driven and future-oriented industrial perspective. We are looking for all Nordic documentaries. GETTING INVOLVED katrine@filmkontakt.com www.filmkontakt.com FAVOURITE FILMS Grey Gardens // Darwin’s Nightmare // Some Kind of Monster
80 / industry professionals / dox:forum
guggenheim museum, new york Joan Young // Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution and the heart of an international network of museums with sites in Berlin, Bilbao, New York, and Venice. Founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond. Recent commitments YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video, inaugurated in 2010 to recognize the ever-expanding realm of online video. YouTube Play recognizes the effect of new technologies on creativity by celebrating outstanding talents working in digital media.
GETTING INVOLVED jyoung@guggenheim.org www.gugggenheim.org
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 81
hot docs
irish film board
Sean Farnel // Director of Programming
Hot Docs Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival, market and conference. We are looking for everything that documentary can do, but mostly feature-length nonfiction films with a good balance of attention to form and content. RECENT COMMITMENTS The Oath // Into Eternity // Steam of life // And about 170 others each year GETTING INVOLVED sfarnel@hotdocs.ca www.hotdocs.ca FAVOURITE FILMS McCabe and Mrs. Miller // L’avventura // STranger than paradise
independent filmmaker project - ifp
Alan Maher // Production Executive
Irish Film Board The Irish Film Board (IFB) is Ireland’s national film agency. Our role sees us directly involved in the creative process of films from script to screen. We provide investment for the development, production and release of feature films, animation, feature documentaries, short films and some television. We are looking for Co-Productions with cinema potential. RECENT COMMITMENTS The pipe // His & Hers // Pyjama Girls // Colony GETTING INVOLVED alan.maher@irishfilmboard.ie www.irishfilmboard.ie FAVOURITE FILMS Hoop Dreams // Dog day afternoon
itvs - independent television service
Danielle DiGiacomo // Community Manager
Independent Filmmaker Project IFP’s Project Forum is the centerpiece of Independent Film Week, designed specifically as a place for industry to meet with new talent, as well as discover fresh projects from emerging and veteran filmmakers. The program is also qualitatively and quantitatively the best opportunity in the nation for independent film and media artists to find funders, supporters and/or producers. Across a broad range of genres, budget ranges and sensibilities. 60-70 documentary projects are chosen each year. We are looking for character-driven, universally accessible documentaries that can appeal to American funders and audiences.
ITVS - Independent Television Service ITVS brings to local, national and international audiences high-quality, content-rich programs created by a diverse body of independent producers. ITVS programs take creative risks and explore complex issues seldom seen on commercial or public television. We commission and acquire one hour and feature documentaries from international producers. Approximately 30 projects annually are from international producers. The average license or acquisition fee ranges from $30,000USD to $150,000 USD. Documentaries cover diverse social and global issues such as politics, culture and arts, economics, health and environment.
RECENT COMMITMENTS War Don Don // Girl Model // Off and Running // Prodigal Sons
RECENT Commissions Commissions: The Last Train Home // My Perestroika // The Boy Mir Acquisitions: A Film Unfinished // Bhutto // The Parking Lot Movie // Fiction: Goodbye Solo
GETTING INVOLVED Dgiacomo@ifp.org www.ifp.org FAVOURITE FILMS Gates of Heaven // Paradise Lost: The Child Murders of Robin Hood Hills // Man On Wire
82 / industry professionals / dox:forum
Claire Aguilar // Vice President of Programming
GETTING INVOLVED claire_aguilar@itvs.org www.itvs.org FAVOURITE FILMS Welfare // The best years of our lives // Kaboom dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 83
kickstarter Yancey Strickler // Co-founder
Kickstarter Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. Since the site’s launch in April 2009, more than $20 million has been pledged to more than 9,000 creative projects. The company is based in NYC’s Lower East Side. We are looking for creative projects looking to share their story and connect with their audiences.
media desk denmark Ene Katrine Rasmussen // Head of MEDIA Desk Denmark
recent commissions Kickstarter has already hosted more than 2,000 film projects in a year and a half. They range from features and documentaries to shorts and webseries.
MEDIA Desk Denmark The main focus of MEDIA Desk Denmark is to advise and inform the professionals in the film, tv and multimedia sector about the audiovisual policies and funding possibilities within the MEDIA Programme of the EU. MEDIA 2007 is a programme of the European Union to strengthen the competitiveness of the European film, TV and new media industries. MEDIA 2007 runs until 2013 and has a budget of 755 million euro. Independent European production companies can apply for development or production funding in the form of grants and interest free loans. Eligible projects are: fiction (min. 50’), creative documentaries (min. 25’) and animated films (min. 24’).
GETTING INVOLVED projects@kickstarter.com
RECENT COMMITMENTS Love Addiction // Those Who Kill // Blood in the Mobile // Antichrist
FAVOURITE FILMS The Third Man // The French Connection
GETTING INVOLVED Email: ener@dfi.dk Web: www.mediadeskdenmark.eu FAVOURITE FILMS The White Ribbon // Idiots // Armadillo
lux Benjamin Cook // Director
LUX Founded in 2002, LUX is an agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image. LUX represents one of Europe’s largest collections of artists’ film and video and its main activities include distribution, exhibition, commissioning, publishing, research and education. We are looking for international artists’ moving image productions. recent commitments Commissions: Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright // This Quality // Pulmo Marina // The Coat Acquisitions: Get Out of the Car // Flag Mountain // Monolog // Travelling Fields GETTING INVOLVED ben@lux.org.uk www.lux.org.uk FAVOURITE FILMS Ningen Johatsu // Journal d’un curé de campagne // A Canterbury Tale
84 / industry professionals / dox:forum
medienboard film funding - berlin brandenburg Daniel Saltzwedel // Funding Advisor, Feature length documentaries
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Berlin-Brandenburg is Germany’s film metropolis, the Medienboard its regional fund. We support films and film-related projects in the categories of script development, project development, package promotion, production, distribution and sales, and other activities. At the Medienboard, funding decisions are at the discretion of the managing director. Funding advisors participate in the decision making process and handle all client relations. We are looking for films that have both – art and an audience. RECENT COMMITMENTS Our overall annual investment, across the range of projects, is roughly 28 million Euros annually, including various national and international documentary projects. GETTING INVOLVED d.saltzwedel@medienboard.de www.medienboard.de
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 85
new danish screen - nds Jakob Kirstein Høgel // Artistic Director
New Danish Screen - NDS New Danish Screen is a talent development scheme granting development and production support to documentaries, fiction and video games. NDS has recently supported films such as R (90 min fiction, 2010, Best Film in Gothenburg), Applause (90 min fiction, 2009, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, Mumbai FF), Out of Love (30 min doc, 2010, prizes in Rotterdam, Berlin FF) and Dr. Nakamats (52 min doc, 2009, IDFA) and games such as Max and the Magic Marker and Limbo (both awarded at the Independent Games Awards 2010) Looking for Any type of film, distinct talent and Danish connections. RECENT COMMITMENTS See above GETTING INVOLVED jakobh@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk
norwegian film institute - nfi Stig Andersen // Commissioning editor for documentaries
Norwegian Film Institute The Norwegian Film Institute is funded by the Norwegian government. There are two commissioning editors for documentaries giving out approx. 40.000 euro yearly. The Norwegian Film Institute is looking for documentaries with strong content representing challenge and “freedom of speech” in the way of dealing with society. The films should be sophisticated in visual approach and form. RECENT COMMITMENTS Tears of Gaza // Emanuel // The Network // The Price of War GETTING INVOLVED stig.andersen@nfi.no www.nfi.no FAVOURITE FILMS I don´t have any static perception on films.
FAVOURITE FILMS Too many.........
norwegian film institute - nfi
nhk -japan broadcasting corporation
Thomas Robsahm // consultant for feature films
Tomoko OKUTSU // Producer, Programming Department
Norwegian Film Institute - NFI NFI operates under the authority of the Ministry of Church and Cultural Affairs. The objectives in the area of film policy, adopted by Parliament, govern the Norwegian Film Institute’s activities. The objectives of the Norwegian Film Institute are to support the production, promotion and distribution of quality films, as well as to represent Norwegian film internationally, and to highlight film as an expression of art and culture. The Norwegian Film Institute invites colleagues, partners and other stakeholders to dialogue and collaboration. RECENT COMMITMENTS The Liverpool Goalie // Home For Christmas // Baby Call // Theory & Practice GETTING INVOLVED Thomas.Robsahm@nfi.no www.nfi.no FAVOURITE FILMS Amarcord // Der Freie Wille // Sagolandet
86 / industry professionals / dox:forum
NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK is Japan’s sole public broadcaster. NHK promotes intercultural dialogue, and continually undertakes new co-production projects with broadcasting stations, production companies and distributors around the world. For our ‘World Documentary’ strand on Satellite Channel 1, we acquire about 90 documentary films from abroad. We also coproduce around 15 programs with broadcasters and independent productions all around the world. We are looking for Documentaries that are well constructed, well researched, and have innovative directing styles, with exclusive footage and information with strong appeal to the Japanese audience. RECENT COMMITMENTS Acquisitions: Pirate Hunting // Afghanistan Co-production: // Cities on Speed // H1N1 GETTING INVOLVED okutsu.t-ii@nhk.or.jp FAVOURITE FILMS The Mirror // Let’s Be Together // Jack // the Balkans and I
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 87
nordisk film and tv fund
sandrew metronome
KAROLINA LIDIN // DOCUMENTARY CONSULTANT
Frederik Juul // Head of distribution
NORDISK FILM & TV FUND 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 and creative documentaries with sufficient Nordic audience potential. Nordisk Film & TV Fond’s special focus remains supporting and furthering high-quality Nordic filmmaking, giving priority to extraordinary, ambitious projects that strengthen, enrich and challenge the Nordic tradition - with the potential to engage audiences across the Nordic borders and beyond.
GETTING INVOLVED Frederik.juul@sandrewmetronome.com www.sandrewmetronome.dk
RECENT COMMITMENTS Pojktanten // Aranda // Armadillo // The Others
FAVOURITE FILMS Fanny & Alexander // The Godfather // Happiness
Sandrew Metronome Sandrew Metronome is part of Sandrew Metronome in all of Scandinavia. We distribute Warner titles, independent titles and local titles. We are looking for commercial products. Maybe one could find that hidden gem in documentary.
GETTING INVOLVED Karolina@nordiskfilmogtvfond.com www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com FAVOURITE FILMS Into Eternity // Armadillo // Regretters
Participant Media
sandrew metronome
Courtney Sexton // Director, Documentary Production
Jordan Savel // Market Manager
Participant Media Participant Media (participantmedia.com) is a Los Angeles-based global entertainment company specializing in socially-relevant documentary and non-documentary feature films, television, publishing and digital media. Participant exists to tell compelling, entertaining stories that bring to the forefront real issues that shape our lives. For each of its projects, Participant creates extensive social action and advocacy programs. Participant’s online Social Action Network is TakePart (takepart.com). We are looking for feature documentaries for the cinema, which inspire social change.
Sandrew Metronome We are active in most aspects of the film industry’s value chain, distributing films in cinemas, on video and on television as well as participating in film productions. The business concept involves creating, acquiring and managing rights to feature films for all current and future forms of distribution. The company is 1 of 3 major integrated film companies in the Nordic region. We are looking for feature-length documentaries with theatrical potential (Scandinavia) and/ or doc series with commercial DVD potential.
RECENT COMMITMENTS Food, Inc. // The Informant! // The Cove // The Crazies
RECENT COMMITMENTS Blekingegadebanden // Roskilde // It might get loud // Submarino
GETTING INVOLVED Courtney.sexton@participantmedia.com www.participantmedia.com www.takepart.com
GETTING INVOLVED jordan.savel@sandrewmetronome.com www.sandrewmetronome.com
FAVOURITE FILMS The English Surgeon // The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun // The War Room 88 / industry professionals / dox:forum
FAVOURITE FILMS 0Let the right one in // The five obstructions // AFR
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 89
sf film a/s denmark
swedish film institute - sfi
Sune Lind Thomsen // Head of theatrical distribution & release
SF Film A/S Denmark SF Film – a part of Svensk Filmindustri – is a Danish distribution company mainly buying for theatrical release and DVD. Over recent years the company has distributed both Fiction and Documentaries like Lord of the Rings, Food Inc, ARN, The Kid Stays In The Picture, Sicko, Sin City, Sex and The City, Sunshine Barry and Disco worms, Capitalism: A Love Story, Eastern Promises. We are looking for Documentaries with theatrical potential, great stories with a new angle on life as we normally perceive it. RECENT COMMITMENTS Sanctum // Somewhere // The Kings speech // The American GETTING INVOLVED slt@sf-film.dk www.sf-film.dk FAVOURITE FILMS Godfather part 2 // The King of Kong – a fist full of Quarters // Moulin Rouge
swedish film institute - sfi
Lars G Lindström // Film commissioner
Swedish Film Institute - SFI SFI supports a broad variety of documentary films, long, shorts, traditional, creative, animation and experimental films. The projects should have a Swedish artistic participation. As a feature film commissioner, I am looking for feature length projects presenting stories that affect us on a deeper level, challenging our existing beliefs and stimulating intellectual debate. Films that have the ambition to involve you in the life of the participants and their story. And if we are fortunate, leave us asking more questions about the subject and life in general. All told with cinematic and artistic energy in a contemporary context. RECENT COMMISIONS The Black Power Mixtape // Melancholia //Limbo // Baby call GETTING INVOLVED lali@sfi.se www.sfi.se FAVOURITE FILMS Are the ones that takes me to new places and keeps my attention and makes me forget that I’m a film commissioner…
sloan filmmaker fund, tribeca film institute
Tove Torbiörnsson // Film Commissioner
Erin Meri Hildebrand // Program Manager
Swedish Film Institute - sfi We support a broad variety of documentary films, long, short, traditional, creative, animation and experimental films. The projects should have a Swedish artistic participation. The Swedish Film institute may only finance International co-productions through a Swedish coproducer provided that the film has distribution in Sweden. I look for a strong story that moves and disturbs me and where something important is at stake. This story must be told with cinematic and artistic energy. RECENT COMMITMENTS Maggie in Wonderland //Mr Governor //The Regretters //Hair
The Tribeca Film Institute The Tribeca Film Institute grants over 500K annually to narrative and documentary worksin-progress through its filmmaker support programs: Tribeca All Access, Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund and the TFI Documentary Fund. The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund seeks narrative features at any stage from treatment to completed film that creatively approach the role of science and technology in everyday lives, or depict the lives of scientists, engineers and mathematicians in new, but still accurate, ways.
GETTING INVOLVED tove.torbiornsson@sfi.se www.sfi.se
GETTING INVOLVED ehildebrand@tribecafilminstitute.org www.tribecafilminstitute.org
recents Grants Future Weather // Face Value // Cockeyed // Map of the Universe
FAVOURITE FILMS Memento // Pan’s Labyrinth // Grizzly Man
90 / industry professionals / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 91
sundance institute Patricia Finneran // Managing Producer, Documentary Film Program
sveriges television - svt Peter “Piodor” Gustafsson // Commissioning Editor Drama and Culture + Member of the board of Eurimages
Sundance Institute Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through our programs we seek to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists. The Sundance Documentary Fund supports cinematic feature documentaries about pressing Human Rights and related topics.The Fund grants $1-2 million USD per year, to between 35 and 50 filmmakers each year. Grants are made at either Development or Production stage, and are open to filmmakers worldwide. Note that Sundance Documentary Fund does not take any distribution rights.
Sveriges Television - SVT Sveriges Television (SVT) is the Swedish public service television company with the widest range of programming of all TV companies in Sweden. SVT programming is non commercial. Advertising is not allowed but sponsoring of sports events are. The programming covers the whole genre spectre. In 2010 SVT1 was the biggest channel and also considered the “best” by the Swedish audience. We have four slots for documentaries every week and two drama slots. Anything outstanding is always of great interest, but each department has their own detailed agendas.
RECENT COMMITMENTS A Small Act // Budrus // El General //To Catch A Dollar
RECENT COMMITMENTS Feel free to ask me
GETTING INVOLVED Patricia_Finneran@Sundance.org www.sundance.org
GETTING INVOLVED peter.gustafsson@svt.se www.svt.se
FAVOURITE FILMS A Small Act // Please Vote For Me // Gimme Shelter
FAVOURITE FILMS The Thin Blue Line // Videocracy // Grey Gardens
sveriges television - svt
tate media
Axel Arnö // Commissioning editor
sveriges television - svt SVT is Sweden’s public service broadcaster. It runs three major broadcast channels (SVT1, SVT2 and Barnkanalen) and a host of other platforms including the very succesfull SVT Play. SVT Documentary department has a number of weekly slots, notably Söndagsdokumentären (domestic one-offs), Dokument utifrån (international current affairs) and Dox (international creative). We are looking for international current affairs and creative films that have the potential of creating a buzz. RECENT COMMITMENTS: Armadillo // Russia and the West //Steam of life //The Cove GETTING INVOLVED axel.arno@svt.se www.svt.se FAVOURITE FILMS All the films that have been selected for Dox (our slot, that is)
Kate Vogel // Executive Producer
Tate Media Tate Media is a production unit that sits at the heart of Tate’s collections and exhibition programme. We support film projects that will further and promote the public’s understanding and enjoyment of British, Modern and Contemporary art. Tate Media is uniquely placed to work with digital media to distribute films and interact with audiences both online and in-gallery in new and exciting ways. Our Films are published at http://channel.tate.org.uk, an arts channel that offers over 800 films on art and artists. RECENT COMMITMENTS Films for gallery and online with artists such as Miroslav Balka, Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Fiona Banner. In October 2010, we produced films by Turner Prizer artists for Channel 4. GETTING INVOLVED kate.vogel@tate.org.uk www.tate.org.uk FAVOURITE FILMS Little Dieter needs to Fly // Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
92 / industry professionals / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 93
the film sales company Alex Cannon // Manager of Sales
visions du reel Gudula Meinzolt // Head of Doc Outlook International Market
The Film Sales Company Since its inception in 2002, The Film Sales Company has sold over 175 films for domestic and international distribution and has raised financing for numerous fiction and documentary projects. We specialize in both highly commercial movies and critically acclaimed, award-winning films. We develop unique strategies for our clients which draw upon our internationally recognized expertise in sales, financing and distribution, our extensive relationships with all of the major and specialized distributors, and our experiences participating in countless domestic and international film festivals and markets.
Visions du Réel Visions du Réel is a unique international Festival providing an overview of the best of cinema du réel, with films challenging the usual border of the genres, made by independent filmmakers and producers taking risks in radical aesthetical choices, in strong writings and new forms of storytelling. As part of Visions du Réel, Doc Outlook-International Market with its Pitching Sessions, Market Screenings and Panels attracts numerous professionals from all over the world. We are looking for premieres of creative documentaries, long, medium and shorts. For the Pitching du Réel: long creative documentaries for cinema
RECENT COMMITMENTS A Mother’s Courage // Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound // Every F*cking Day Of My Life // Marwenkol
RECENT COMMITMENTS We offer a platform of networking and exchange for film professionals
GETTING INVOLVED Alex.Cannon@filmsalescorp.com www.FilmSalesCorp.com
GETTING INVOLVED gmeinzolt@visionsdureel.ch www.visionsdureel.ch
FAVOURITE FILMS My Architect // Marwenkol // Manda Bala
FAVOURITE FILMS See our catalogues
tv2 denmark
VPRO
Barbara Truyen // Commissioning editor
Irene Strøyer // Commissioning Editor
TV2 Denmark TV2 is Denmarks 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. Focus is on strong identification for the danish audience, eye-opening stories and big characters. RECENT COMMITMENTS: Armadillo // Love Addiction // Love you forever // The new Helena Christensen GETTING INVOLVED www.tv2.dk irst@tv2.dk
94 / industry professionals / dox:forum
VPRO The VPRO operates in various media, producing radio and television programmes, filling digital theme channels, operating an innovative website, publishing a programme guide and organising cultural activities for members. The website www.vpro.nl is progressive in terms of technology and more in depth in terms of content, and it is updated daily. We are looking for documentaries only: INSPIRING UNIVERSAL CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCES.Character led films that look and feel current, with a clear dramatic development and narrative urgency that inspire people. RECENT COMMITMENTS: Armadillo // This is my pictures from when I was dead // The Kids Grow Up // Why Poverty Project 2012 GETTING INVOLVED p.vermeulen@vpro.nl www.vpro.nl www.hollanddoc.nl
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 95
wide house
zdf - das kleine fernsehspiel
Anais clanet // Manager
WIDE HOUSE WIDE HOUSE is the documentary branch of WIDE MANAGEMENT funded in 2010. Our purpose is promoting and distributing internationally cross-cultural, social, creative and innovative titles for all rights and all Media. We handle 5 to 10 new feature length documentaries per year and a wide range of TV programs. WIDE HOUSE has the know-how to launch and increase the commercial value of the films with the right festival strategy, We have also built a strong network by attending every Cinema and TV market. Looking for feature length and creative documentaries, 52’ titles, TV series. recent commitments Scena del crimine // Severn, the voice of our children // Johnnie got his gun // Packaging GETTING INVOLVED ac@widemanagement.com, Mobile: +33 6 83 22 18 06 website in construction FAVOURITE FILMS Jackie Brown // Rosemary’s baby
Lucas Schmidt // Commissioning Editor
Das kleine Fernsehspiel Das kleine Fernsehspiel offers authors, directors, editors, actors and producers a chance to make their first films. As broadcasters of innovative film and young artists’ work, we offer a weekly slot on Mondays around midnight. In addition we broadcast two second primetime series of young films. Every year we commission 23 new productions covering fiction, documentaries, essays, experimental pieces and hybrid forms. Most are shown at international film festivals. We encourage low budget films of any duration, with a minimum of 40 min. RECENT COMMITMENTS Snabba Cash // Ajami // On the Path // Gravity // Forgetting Dad GETTING INVOLVED schmidt.l@zdf.de www.zdf.de FAVOURITE FILMS Burch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid // There will be blood
yle co-productions
zeitgeist films
Erkki Astala // Head of Co-Productions
YLE Co-Productions YLE is Finland’s public service broadcaster. Four national television channels. YLE TV1: The leading news, current affairs, factual journalism channel. and documentary strands. YLE TV2: Service and lifestyle programmes, children’s programmes and sport. TV2 Documentaries: Open end strand for creative documentary. YLE Teema: Culture, science and education, documentaries from various fields, and theme evenings. YLE FST: Full service swedish-language channel. Three weekly slots for documentaries. With regards to co-productions, we are looking for personal, cinematic creative documentaries with a strong human interest, dealing with social and political issues. RECENT COMMITMENTS Blood in the Mobile // The Presidency // Svinalängorna // Happy End GETTING INVOLVED erkki.astala@yle.fi yle.fi/fbc
96 / industry professionals / dox:forum
Ian Stimler // Head of Sales
ZEITGEIST FILMS For over 20 years New York based ZEITGEIST FILMS has distinguished itself as one of the leading distributors of arthouse, documentary and foreign films in the United States. Zeitgeist has distributed first films by notable directors Todd Haynes, Francois Ozon, Christopher Nolan, and the Quay Brothers. Besides our emphasis on theatrical, we look towards all rights deals for high quality, full length, features and documentaries. In general we are attracted to great looking films that have powerful political, philosophical, social or emotional messages. recent commitments Afghan Star // Last Train Home // The Oath Vision // Mid-August Lunch GETTING INVOLVED ian@ zeitgeistfilms.com www.zeitgeistfilms.com FAVOURITE FILMS Don’t Look Back // We Jam Econo // The Thin Blue Line
dox:forum
/ industry professionals / 97
talks and seminars 98 / talks and seminars / dox:forum
The Art Museum as TV Station? // New platforms: Guggenheim, Youtube & Babelgum // New International Funds // Mob Rule: Kickstarter on Crowdfunding dox:forum
/ talks and seminars / 99
the art museum as tv station?
new international funds
WEDNESDAY 10.11.10 // 16:00 // Statens Museum for Kunst
Art museums have increasingly become involved in the production of media content. Many museums have started their own digital TV channels, where such productions are shown, e.g. Tate Media and Boijmans van Beuningen’s Arttube. The development raises several interesting questions. What, for example, are the implications for the conventional players of the media industry (producers, broadcasters, directors)? What relationship is there between museums as vertically integrated producers / broadcasters and the directors involved? What qualitative criteria are at stake? And is there space for institutional (self-)criticism, or is this kind of TV an advanced form of museal marketing? The invited panel members are Kate Vogel (producer, Tate Media, formerly Channel 4), Rasmus Nielsen (artist’s group Superflex), and Mathilde Schytz Juul (Head of Digital Productions, SMK). The event is free of charge. The event is supported by Rytmisk Center and 10 Procent Puljen.
new platforms: guggenheim, youtube and babelgum
friday 12.11.10 //13:30 // CINEMATEKET
We have invited two of the latest hottest international funds, with money in their pocket for development and production of international documentaries, to CPH:DOX. We invite you to come along and exchange ideas and business cards with them at this short, inspiring and enlightening panel.. Ryan Harrington introduces the new TFI Documentary Fund from The Tribeca Film Institute, which can offer HBO scholarships and grants worth over $100,000. Maxyne Franklin from Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation talks about their recently announced partnership with PUMA.Creative. In this connection, they have launched a whole series of awards, one of which is The Catalyst Awards - an international fund for documentary films in development, which awards 40 prizes each year. Come and be inspired and find out what types of projects they support, how much they finance and, not least, how you can get some money from them. The funds are open to filmmakers of all nationalities. Speakers: Ryan Harrington / TFI Documentary Fund, Maxyne Franklin / BritDoc Moderator: Ingrid Kopp / Shoting People
mob rule: kickstarter on crowdfunding FRIDAY 12-11-10 // 13:30 // CINEMATEKET
FRIDAY 12.11.10 // 11:00 // CINEMATEKET
Three exclusive takes on new and alternative distribution models. We have invited Joan Young from Guggenheim, who recently announced a partnership with YouTube for their first Biennial for ‘Creative Video’, a collaboration which embraces the changing landscape within new media. Next up: the London-based distribution company DOGWOOF and Oli Harbottle, whose innovative and experimental strategies within the marketing and distribution of films are some of the most talked-about in the industry. And finally, Andreas Lemos from the free internet TV portal, which in 2007 launched ‘The Babelgum Online Film Festival’, the first global online film festival, where the award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee is the judge. Panelists: Joan Young / Guggenheim, Oli Harbottle / Dogwoof, Andreas Lemos / Babelgum
There is a rapid growth of crowdfunding through social, internet-based networks, and CPH:DOX is proud to invite the ultra-hip New York-based Kickstarter to Copenhagen. Kickstarter is the pioneer of crowdfunding, and addresses young artists, entrepreneurs, creatives and filmmakers who would like to realise their project. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has hosted over 7,000 projects, which have been supported by over 150,000 minor donors. ‘TPB AFK’ aka ‘The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard’ is one of them. The director Simon Klose managed to raise 51,000 USD in one month with a campaign that attracted over 400,000 unique visitors. Meet the founder of Kickstarter, Yancey Strickler, together with Simon Klose for an inspiring dialogue about crowdfunding. Speakers: Yancey Strickler / Kickstarter, Simon Klose / TPB AFK Moderator: Ingrid Kopp / Shoting People
Moderator: Sean Farnel / Hot Docs
100 / talks and seminars / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ talks and seminars / 101
DOX:FORUM SPONSORS
THE BRANDING
DENMARK FUND
mfonden.dk
DOX:FORUM PARTNERS
contacts DOX:FORUM STAFF Tine Fischer / Festival Director + 45 31 31 10 37 / tinef@cphdox.dk
cph:dox sponsors
Daniella Eversby / Head of Industry + 45 28 36 68 48 / daniella@cphdox.dk
THE BRANDING
Helle Ulsteen / Strategic Consultant + 45 21 43 52 38 / ludovica@iname.com
DENMARK FUND
mfonden.dk
102 / sponsors and partners / dox:forum
dox:forum
/ contact / 103
æ GA
EB
37
36
RR
vestersø
RO
e
gade
pebli
ngesøe n
æ
4
20. Støberiet Blågårds Plads 3 kubik.kk.dk/kultur2200
10
ga d
DE
ds
17
24 nse
33
nsg 29 ade
SE
N
de
LA
D
æ
U H ÅD R
agsg ade
ade
ade
23
3
øster
E
voldg
AD
torv
ny
19
ade
købm
2
TH
8
GO
31
9
agerg ade
H.
C.
AN
ER
DE
SG
D voldg vester
fa rim
25
14
AR EV UL BO S EN
13
T
RS
øster
nørrevoldg
L
GE
22. Vester Vov Vov Absalonsgade 5 Tel. 33 24 42 00 vestervovvov.dk
32
nsstr
jør 30 arsb
SP
TIVOLI
12
sølvg ade
21. VEGA Enghavevej 40 Tel. 33 25 70 11 vega.dk
Frederiksborgg
na
6
RØ
17. Palads Axeltorv 9 Tel. 33 14 76 06 kino.dk
19. Posthusteatret Rådhusstræde 1 Tel. 33 11 66 11 posthusteatret.dk
æ
11. Empire Bio Guldbergsgade 29F Tel. 35 36 00 36 empire.dk
åg år
18
ST
10. DOX:CLUB Teater Grob Nørrebrogade 37 Tel. 35 30 05 00 grob.dk
16. National Gallery Of Denmark Sølvgade 48-50 Tel. 33 74 84 94 smk.dk
1
ade
15. Hal D Strandgade 100 Tel. 70 26 70 80
bl
DE
9. Det Kolde Gys Helgoland Amager Strandvej Tel. 50 42 18 50
20
GA
6. Dagmar Teatret Jernbanegade 2 Tel. 70 13 12 11 dagmar.dk/kino.dk
14. Grand Teatret Mikkel Bryggersgade 8 Tel. 33 15 16 11 grandteatret.dk
11
RO
5. Cinemateket The Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 Tel. 33 74 34 12 cinemateket.dk
8. Det Grøndlandske Hus Løvstræde 6 Tel. 33 91 12 12
21
22
RB
4. Bremen Nyropsgade 39-41 Tel. 70 26 32 67
13. Gloria Biograf Rådhuspladsen 59 Tel. 33 12 42 92 gloria.dk
18. Planetariet Gammel Kongevej 7 Tel. 33 12 12 24 tycho.dk
STE
3. Botanisk Have Øster Farimagsgade 2B Tel. 35 32 22 22
12. Geologisk Museum Øster voldgade 5 Tel. 35 32 23 45
VE
2. Borups Højskole Fredriksholms Kanal 24 Tel. 33123445
7. Den Danske Filmskole The National Film School of Denmark Theodor Christensens Plads 1 Tel. 32 68 64 00
æ
1. Bakken i Kødbyen Flæsketorvet 17-19 bakkenkbh.dk
NØ
cinemas + alternative venues
16
5 kongens have
26 28 34
HOTEL, STATIONS & BARS 27
24. Central Station København H 25. Nørreport Metro and S-train
27. Palæ Bar Ny Adelgade 5 palaebar.dk
104 / map / dox:forum
29. Bibendum Nansensgade 48 vincafe.dk 30. Floss Bar Larsbjørnsstræde 10 barenfloss.dk 31. Ruby’s Nybrogade 10 rby.dk
32. Tire bouchon Teglgårdsstræde 5 tire-bouchon.dk 33. Bankeråt Ahlefeldtsgade 27-29 bankeraat.dk Tel. 33 93 69 88
36. Props Coffee Shop Blågårdsgade 5 propscoffeeshop.dk 37. Harbo bar Blågårdsgade 2D
KONGENS NYTORV
7
ippelsbro kn
15
æ æ
26. Bobi Bar Klareboderne 14 Tel. 33 12 55 43
28. Byens Kro Møntergade 8 Tel. 33 12 55 89
S TO
RE
KO
bredg ade
NG
EN
SG
AD
E
35
34. ZOO Bar Sværtegade 6 zoobar.dk 35. Odd Fellow Palæet Bredgade 28 Tel. 33385900 dox:forum
/ map / 105