As every year, the Krakow Film Festival is accompanied by many branch events addressed to the film professionals present at the festival. Industry Zone is the space dedicated especially to the film professionals.

The most important events within the frames of the Industry Zone:

– Krakow Film Market

– Dragon Forum

– Focus on the Netherlands Conference

– Industry Screenings

– FilmPRO Industry Drink

– The Panel of the Polish Filmmakers Association

– Energizing Krakow in the eyes of the young filmmakers. Documentary Workshops

– Documentary control: documentary film market in Poland. Conference

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Krakow Film Market

The Krakow Film Market is the biggest film market for documentary and short film in Central East Europe and is more and more important on the international map of events prepared for film professionals. In the digital video-library you will have the opportunity to watch about 300 newest titles from all over the world.

The Market is the meeting place, where professionals share their experiences and establish new, interesting branch contacts. About 1500 films, documentaries, short films and animations, were entered to this year’s edition of the Market, out of which the organizers have chosen about 300 films. We are immensely glad of the fact that the selection of the most interesting documentaries from Germany, Swiss, Greece, East and Central Europe has been once again prepared by our partners: DOK Leipzig, East Silver, Thessalonki International Documentary Film Festival together with Greek Film Centre, Swiss Films and Visions du Reel Film Festival. All qualified films will be in a specially prepared catalogue, and during the Market they will be available for viewing in the digital videolibrary. Extremely efficient, unique software for watching films, introduced by the organizers 5 years ago, was a pioneer enterprise in Europe and one of the first system of this kind in the world. The system, apart from a multifunctional browser of the films amassed on the market’s server, has a system of tools enabling the viewer to have a direct Internet contact with the person possessing copyrights to the film, and to save comments and notes regarding the watched films, which are immediately sent to the e-mail address of the registered user. The system requires the viewer to assess the watched film, and his assessment is recorded in the summarizing report for the producer/distributor, who receives via e-mail daily reports enabling him to check how many people and who exactly has watched his film – and if is interested – contact this person immediately. After the end of the Market producer/distributor receives a complete report, summing up his film’s presence at the Market.

Dragon Forum

Dragon Forum is the annual workshop of documentary film in the middle of Europe ending with pitching, that is, the presentation of film project in the early production phase, looking for new financing sources. The aim of Dragon Forum is to help film-makers making author’s cinema, which is also committed and honest documentary cinema, discovering the true reality in the development and production of documentary film dedicated to the international audience. We work based on a group of trusty Polish and foreign lecturers. The following lecturers visited the Dragon Forum, among others: Jacek Bławut, Heino Deckert, Zbigniew Domagalski, Marcel Łoziński, Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk, Dorota Paciarelli, Leena Passanen, Marijke Rawie, Dorota Roszkowska, Rada Sesic, Stefano Tealdi, Vita Żelakeviciute. These lecturers provide also reliable consulting with regard to production and marketing of documentary films. The workshops’ aim is to reconcile the film-makers’ aspirations with the audience’s expectations and at the same time help in coping with the demands of the contemporary market. The most important distributors, consultants, editors and Documentary film producers from the best television channels and film institutes come to the pitching in Krakow, at the Krakow Film Festival.

Tutors of Dragon Forum 2011 in Krakow: Vita Zelakeviciute (director, Lithuania), Patrice Vivancos (MEDIA Programme, Belgium), Dorota Roszkowska (producer, head of Dragon Forum), Marijke Rawie (ExpertDox, Holandia)

Commisioning editors and decision makers at the pitching sessions:

Margje de Koning, IKON TV (The Netherlands) Adam Gee, Channel 4 (United Kingdom), Hanneke Hagen, VPRO (The Netherlands), Cynthia Kane, ITVS (USA), Philippe Muller, ARTE (France), Emelie Persson, SVT (Sweden), Martin Piepper, ARTE/ZDF (Germany), Aleksandra Biernacka, TVP (Poland), Ruxandra Cernat, EEFA ( Romania), Irina Demyanova, Listapad (Russia), Jerzy Dzięgielewski, HBO (Poland), Christine Hille, Dok Leipzig (Germany), Marje Jurtshenko, ERR (Estonia), Gennady Koffman, (Ukraine), Catalin Leescu, EEFA (Romania), Katarzyna Malinowska, TVP Kultura (Poland), Natalia Manskaja, ArtDocFest (Russia), Rafał Orlicki, KFC (Poland), Barbara Paciorkowska, TVP 2 (Poland), Barbara Pawłowska, TVP 1 (Poland), Estelle Roger, MEDIA Programme (Belgium), Daniel Saltzwedel, MBB (Germany), Heribert Schneiders, MDR (Germany), Denis Viren, Polish Institute Moscow (Russia), Nathalie Windhorst, NPS (The Netherlands), Manuela Buono, Taskovski Films (Great Britain), Hana Rezková, IDF (Czech Republic)

Focus on the Netherlands Conference

The event promoting Dutch documentary cinematography is a highlight of the „Focus on the Netherlands” programme introducing different aspects of the Dutch documentary production to the Polish audience and professionals. The main axis of the conference will be presenting how the Dutch cinematography deals with certain questions and tasks within production, distribution and promotion sector. The invited guests are professionals working in the field of production, distribution and institutions financing the film projects as well as film festivals. The conference will also spotlight the future coproduction opportunities between Poland and the Netherlands.

Participants: Ally Derks (IDFA), Claudia Landsberger (EYE FILM INSTITUTE), Marijke Rawie (Expert Doc), Jeroen Berkvens (Nederlandse Film Academie), Margie de Koning (IKON)

Industry Screenings

A special closed screenings for accredited guests and the press, during which some of the festival films can be watched. There are also meetings with producers, distributors and filmmakers held and one can get informational materials about a given film. At this year’s Industry Screenings one can watch dubut films accepted for the Krakow FF competitions.

FilmPRO Industry Drink

Daily, informal meetings, with a glass of wine, where the festival’s guests – interested film-makers, producers, distributors have the opportunity to talk with the representatives and organizers of the largest international documentary and short film festivals.

Confirmed festivals representatives: Grit Lemke, DOK Leipzig (Germany), Ally Derks, IDFA (The Netherlands), Erja Dammert, Docpoint FF(Finland), Petr Kubica, Jihlava International Documentary FF (Czech Republic), Tue Steen Müller, Docs Barcelona (Spain), Annamaria Percavassi, Triest Film Festival (Italy), Simon Weaving, Canberra International Film Festival (Australia), Giona Antonio Nazzaro, Visions du Réel (Szwitzerland), Delphine Lyner, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Szwitzerland), Massimiliano Nardulli, Brest European Short Film Festival (France), Vaiko Edur, Pärnu Int. Documentary Film Festival (Estonia) and distributors: Juan Escudero, Some Like It Short (Spain), Christophe Deverdun, Wide House, (France), Ayse Poffet, First Hand Films (Szwitzerland), Ina Rossow, Deckert Distribution (Germany), Manuela Buono, Taskovski Films (United Kingdom), Stefan Kloos, Rise and Shine Wolrd Sales (Germany)

Documentary control: documentary film market in Poland Conference

The conference analysing Polish documentary market, which will deal with myths and present the facts. "Documentary Control" is an objective insight into Polish documentary film.

The meeting will consist of two parts: the first devoted to analysis of the market and financing of documentary films in Poland, the second will deal with issues of promotion and distribution of documentaries in Poland and abroad.

Panelists: Susanne Guggenberger (Programmer of Vision du Reel and DOK Leipzig), Artur Majer ( Head of Film Production and Projects Development at the Polish Film Institute), Dariusz Kowalski (producer and distributor), Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz (scriptwriter and director), Joanna Skalska (Head of PR & Distribution in Andrzej Wajda Studio & Film School) , Katarzyna Wilk (Coordinator of POLISH DOCS Project and Industry Zone at Krakow FF) and a representative of the public television. The meeting will be moderated by Anna Wydra (producer and the owner of Otter Films).

Energizing Krakow in the eyes of the young filmmakers. Documentary workshops

Restricted workshops for a narrow group of participants, addressed mainly to young film-makers or film lovers with a small filmmaking expericence. The subject of the workshops, run by recognised Polish filmmakers, will help to widen the practical knowledge about using the video camera, photography composition, usage of light and the basics of editing in the documentary film to list just a few. The workshop will be completed with making a short lenght documentaries upon the subject of Krakow in film.

The participants are going to work in small groups in the assistance of experienced film executers using a professional equipment. Facilities, lodging and service is being provided by Krakow Academy Television Studio.

Workshops is run by three documentary film directors: Mirosław Dembiński, Paweł Łoziński and Tomasz Wolski assisted by cinematographers Andrzej Musiał, Wojciech Staroń, Patryk Jordanowicz and editors Tymek Wiskirski, Mateusz Romaszkan.

Coorganised by Krakow Film Commssion.

MAY 2011