APPLY FOR EX ORIENTE FILM 2015!
EX ORIENTE FILM WORKSHOP DEADLINE IS: June 1, 2015
In the twelve years of its existence, more than 150 documentary projects from Eastern and Central Europe went through the Ex Oriente Film workshop, including award-winning films from the key European festivals, such as The Domino Effect, Blind Loves, At the Edge of Russia, Rabbit a la Berlin, Village Without Women, Bakhmaro.
The main tutors of Ex Oriente Film 2015 edition will be Mikael Opstrup (Head of Studies at European Documentary Network), director, commissioning editor, and a former producer of Finnish YLE TV, Iikka Vehkalahti, producer and director Filip Remunda and a director and commissioning editor Ivana Pauerová Milošević. Among others, the leading Russian director and one of the world’s most distinctive filmmakers, Victor Kossakovsky, confirmed his participation in the first workshop session in Rijeka, Croatia!2015 / 2016 Workshop Timeline:
1st Session: July 20 – 25, 2015 (Rijeka, Croatia, in cooperation with REFINERI workshop)
2nd Session: October 26 – 31, 2015 (Jihlava, Czech Republic, within Jihlava IDFF)
3rd Session & East European Forum: March 7 – 13, 2016 (Prague, Czech Republic, within East Doc Platform and One World IFF)Projects we look for:
Feature length (52´up) documentary projects in development and production tackling contemporary topics, challenging genre and media boundaries and audience participation. We welcome filmmakers who set out to conduct intense and engaged experiences and to change the way we think about topical issues, audiences, ways of storytelling and the world itself.Participants:
About 12 projects will be selected out of all submissions, which totals 24 participants (director-producer teams) attending the workshop. The workshop is designed primarily for directors and producers from Central and Eastern Europe and/ or for creative documentary projects dealing with stories from Central and Eastern Europe.
Please find detailed information in the attachment and on Institute of Documentary Film website – HERE.
Contact:
Veronika Lišková, Project Manager/ email: veronika@dokweb.net
Maša Marković, Project Coordinator/ email: masa@dokweb.net
Institute of Documentary Film (IDF)/ Štěpánská 14, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic/ www.DOKweb.net
