What's Slovak in Jihlava 2010?
Jihlava will become the center of various activities and events concerning the Slovak documentaries in the next few days: in addition to the presentation of a Slovak film in the competition of the 14. edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Slovak films will be also presented at the 7. Film Market East Silver, at the Slovak Day on October 26, 2010 and a Slovak project will be presented at the 10. co-production East European Forum, as well.
14th JIHLAVA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - October 26 - 31, 2010
The Czech and Slovak co-production project Matchmaking Mayor (original title: Nesvatbov) by Erika Hníková was included to the Czech Joy competition section and also is the opening film of the festival. The film tells a story of a generation of singles in their thirties who live in a medium-sized Slovak village and their mayor who, in an effort to maintain the population, intends to bring them together. Film professionals had a chance to see the film at the presentation of upcoming documentary films Docu Talents from East, taking place at 45th Karlovy Vary IFF.
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Original title: Nesvatbov English title: Matchmaking Mayor Section: Czech JoyCZ, SK - 80 min. - 2010 director: Erika Hníková production: endorfilm [CZ], UN FILM [SK] SCREENING AT 14. IFDF JIHLAVA: 28. 10. 2010 (Wednesday) - 17:00 - DKO I. |
10th EAST EUROPEAN FORUM - October 25 - 26, 2010
East European Forum is the platform for East European filmmakers to meet European film professionals - producers, distributors, buyes, sales agents, fund representatives, etc. Directors and producers present their projects in order to find co-production parters or financial support. The Slovak participant in the forum is the producer Tomáš Kaminský (Mandala Pictures) with the project by Jaroslav Vojtek Romanies Go to Election.
7th FILM MARKET EAST SILVER - OCTOBER 25 - 31, 2010
Within the 290 presented projects of the film market focused on documentary films from Central and Eastern Europen, 8 Slovak dokumentaries will be available in the video database. Three of these films are among 33 nominations for the Silver Eye Award - the award for the Best Documentary at the film market.
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Out of the Round - What Is Behind? director: Jaroslav Vojtek SK - 30 min. - 2010 |
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Cigarettes and Songs director: Jana Kovalčíková, Marek Šulík SK - 52 min. - 2010 |
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Ilja director: Ivan Ostrochovský SK - 30 min. - 2010 |
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Mother director: David Horinek SK - 19 min. - 2010 |
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Mongolia - In the Shadow of Genghis Khan director: Pavol Barabáš SK - 61 min. - 2010 |
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Portrait to USA director: Peter Kováčik SK- 16 min. - 2009 |
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The Man Who Changed Shanghai réžia: Ladislav Kaboš SK - 68 min. - 2010 |
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Matchmaking Mayor director: Erika Hníková CZ, SK - 80 min. - 2010 |
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War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them director: Dariusz Jabloński PL, SK, FR, DE - 113 min. - 2009 |
Within the East Silver market the Slovak Day will take place. On October 26, 2010 there will be not only some of the upcoming Slovak documentaries and Slovak audiovision in the context of documentary filmmaking presented, but also study cases and lectures on this topic will be given. The organizers of the event are IDF Prague, sentimental film and the Slovak Film Institute, with the support of the Audiovisual Fund.
The program of the SLOVAK DAY - OCTOBER 26, 2010:
| 09:00 - Slovak Networking Breakfast | Introduction: IDF (Miriam Šimková) and sentimental film (Marek Urban) Slovak Film Institute presentation (Alexandra Strelková, Miroslav Ulman) Audiovisual Fund presentation (Martin Šmatlák) Slovak Television presentation (Monika Mikušová) Presented projects: Konkoly - Kúkoľ (Konkoly - Corncockle) dir. Peter Begányi presenters: Peter Begányi (Piknik Pictures), Anna Fifiková, Alexandra Boskovičová Vlk (Wolf) dir. Janek Ružička presenters: Erik Panák (ARINA Film) Okwhan Yoon dir. Marek Mackovič, Dušan Milko presenters: Peter Neveďal (Filmpark), Marek Mackovič Salto Mortale dir. Anabela Žigová presenters: Anabela Žigová |
| 14:00 - Documentary Distribution - Cooking History Case Study | Study case to the film Cooking History (dir. P. Kerekes, 2009) lecture by: Marta Lamperová, Jarmila Outratová |
| 17:30 - Slovak Documentary Film since 1990 | lecture by: Mária Ferenčuhová, Ivan Ostrochovský |
OTHER SLOVAK PARTICIPATION
Slovakia will be also represented in the Jury of the competition section Between Seas of the 14th Jihlava IDFF - the Jury member will be the Slovak photgrapher Lucia Nimcová. In Jihlava, she will also present her work as a part of the Darkroom project, which exhibits the photographs of authors directly in the film theatres of the festival.
The Slovak director Viera Čakányová is the author of the festival spot, her two films Olda and Update are included to the festival program.
The successful Slovak director Peter Kerekes will present his Czech project What If - Hilter Had Won the War? in the Czech Television Presents section.
More information at:
http://www.dokument-festival.cz/
http://www.dokweb.net/
http://www.eastsilver.cz/
Related AIC articles:
Slovak Film at Jihlava 2009
published: 22.10.2010
updated: 29.10.2010