Forum on the promotion of upcoming Slovak films
Art Film Fest International Film Festival will host the pilot edition of the FORUM ON THE PROMOTION OF UPCOMING SLOVAK FILMS (June 23 - 24, 2011), an event aimed at supporting the promotion, co-production, festival presentation and sales of Slovak films on the international market.
FORUM consists of lectures by renowned international experts and a panel of upcoming Slovak feature films. It also provides selected producers and their films space for individual meetings with the FORUM experts.
The lectures and panel presentation are open to all accredited festival visitors, the professional public, journalists and students.
International experts:
Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Germany - scripteditor and film project consultant, founder and former director of the co-production market Connecting Cottbus
Martina Bleis, Germany - Connecting Cottbus
Florian Weghorn, Germany - Berlinale MFF
Marzena Moskal, France - MFF Cannes - Directors' Fortnight
Raymond van der Kaaij, Netherlands – independent producer
Jean Luc Ormières, France - independent producer, founder of the UniversCiné VoD platform
Matthieu Darras – Torino Film Lab, MFF Cannes, MFF San Sebastian
Dragoslav Zachariev – project manager of EuroVoD
The profiles of the experts available on the CHARACTER FDA website.
Selected projects of the FORUM / PANEL 
SCHEDULE:
| June 22, 2011 | June 23, 2011 | June 24, 2011 | ||
| Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | ||
| open for all participants 09:30 am - 10:45 am Master class 1*: Creative production of low-budget films and their path to international festivals (expert: Raymond van der Kaaij), presentation of the VoD platforms UniversCiné and Euro VoD(experts: Jean-Luc Ormières, Dragoslav Zachariev) Festival Hotel Pax, Congress Hall |
for participants with projects 09:00 am - 11:00 am one-2-one meetings (individual meetings of producers of the presented projects and FORUM guests) |
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| open for all participants 11:00 am - 12:00 am Master class 2*: How to take part in international co-production markets (experts: Gabriele Brunnenmayer, Martina Bleis), presentation of Torino FilmLab (expert: Matthieu Darras) Festival Hotel Pax, Congress Hall |
open for all participants 11:00 am - 01:30 pm Panel of Upcoming Slovak Feature Filmsx (selected projects), Producers Network Cannes presentation (by Peter Badač) Kúpeľná dvorana |
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| open for all participants 12:15 am - 01:15 pm Master class 3*: Festival strategies (experts: Florian Weghorn, Marzena Moskal) Festival Hotel Pax, Congress Hall |
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| for participants with projects 03:00 pm - 04:30 pm operative meeting of the Panel presenters (expert: Jean-Luc Ormières) |
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| for participants with projects 06:00 pm - 07:00 pm opening meeting of the experts and participants with projects |
open for all participants (both FORUM and Midpoint) 06:00 pm - 07:00 pm Master class*: Jean-Claude Carrière Kúpeľná dvorana |
* Lecture in English
x Presentation in Slovak, simultaneous interpreting to English
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CHARACTER – Film Development Association: http://www.character-fda.eu/ | character@character-fda.eu Marta Lamperová, marta@character-fda.eu Barbara Janišová Feglová, boruska@character-fda.eu |
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Slovenský filmový ústav (Slovak Film Institute): www.sfu.sk, www.aic.sk | cinecentre@sfu.sk Alexandra Strelková, cinecentre@sfu.sk |
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Art Film Fest: www.artfilmfest.sk | info@artfilmfest.sk
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| PARTNERI | |
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Goethe Institute in Bratislava |
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Royal Netherlands Embassy in Bratislava |
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Autocentrum, a.s. Trenčín |
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The Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava |
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The event was supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund |
More on participation and accomodation at Art Film Fest:
Accreditations www.artfilmfest.sk/en/info/accreditation
Accomodation www.artfilmfest.sk/info/ubytovanie
published: 08.06.2011
updated: 09.09.2011