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Dragon Forum workshop on production in Warsaw
(2007-04-16)
The Dragon Forum 2007 workshop on the production took place on April 11 – 14, 2007 in Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle. Tutors were: Marcel Łoziński, Jacek Bławut, Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk, Dorota Paciarelli, Zbigniew Domagalski, Marjory van Mackelenbergh, Emma Whitlock, Bogumił Godfrejów.
Production workshop Dragon Forum 2007 was dedicated to presenting of the new projects’ versions, discussing a cost estimate, a financing plan, production assumptions and co-production’s possibilities. Discovery experts showed what kind of documentaries their station commissions and how does it work. The details of the prize awarded to the best project by Discovery Channel were given. In addition the films by the tutors, the films from Discovery Channel and from Andrzej Wajda Masterschool of Filmdirecting were screened in Kino.Lab.
Projects presented at the second Dragon Forum 2007 workshop:
- Ludzie z bagien/ Pople from the Marshes , 56 min
Dir. and prod. Piotr Sadziński, Poland
One year from the family life living in village Brzostowo on the territory of the Biebrzański National Park. Life there is going in the unchangeable form from about hundreds of years. Traditional pasturage of cattle is in symbiosis with nature. The people live true nature cycle, four seasons of the year. - Czerwoni Don Kichoci/ Red Don Kichots, 52 min
Dir. Pedro Gorostiza, prod. Zbigniew Domagalski, Poland
In the 50’s a group of Spanish left-wingers, revolutionists and their families were escaping from Franco regime. Deported from France they found a safe place and helping hand in communist Poland. Accommodated in Warsaw and Katowice, some of them still live in Poland. The document tells the story of their lives, experiences and is a difficult trial of understanding the rationale behind choices and decisions made by grandparents of Pedro Gorostiza (director) and Miguel Nieto (camera man). - Dzieci Franka / Franek’s Children, 30 min
Dir. Kinga Dębska , prod. Agata Rzepka, Monika Błachnio, Poland
A film about the difficulties of fatherhood, shot in Czesky Cieszyn but actual in any other place. - Fractal, 12 min
Dir. Miso Hudak , prod. Anna Fifikova, Slovakia
Document about atributes of adolescent in the suburb-full of flats through visual spellingbook. The concept reminds the fractal definiton; a self-similar structure whose geometrical and topographical features are recapitulated in miniature on finer and finer scales. - Galina. Mother Teresa from Odessa, 56 min
Dir. Kathrin Lennert, Ines Maria Müller, prod. Ella Shtyka, Ukraine
Mother of 26 children from Odessa. She’s the hero of the day! - Genialne dzieci/ Genius Children, 30 min
Dir. Maciej Adamek, prod. Radosław Styś, Poland
The protagonists of the film will be three highly gifted children. We will study their state of consciousness, avoiding adult commentary, leaving the audience to judge for themselves ups and downs of infant prodigy life. - I’m looking for a bride, 56 min
Dir. Marija Dzidzeva, prod. Vladimir Stojcevski, Macedonia
Documentary film about the life of Toni Despotovski and his search for wife, but as well a story of more then 500 men on age between 30 and 50 that live in the villages near the city of Bitola. All of them are not married and looking for brides - Kiedyś w Afryce / Some time ago in Afrika, 52 min
Dir. Piotr Jaworski, prod. Janusz Skałkowski , Poland
Illustrated by unpublished archival material expedition of Polish colonists to Liberia in Western Africa. Illusion, shameful and crazy idea of Europe before the 2nd World War, or answer for all type of depressions and melancholy for unknown land, treasures and adventure life deep-rooted in mentality of Europeans. - LUORAVETLAN – the Real People, 40 min
Dir. Kira Jaaskelainen, prod. Jarmo Jaaskelainen, Denmark
When the summer comes to Chukotka, the men of Uelen leave their families and draw to the sea to get fresh whale meat. The life on the sea is tuff, but in the end, their hard work and their families’ long wait is awarded in the annual whale feast, by which the Chukchis have celebrated the nature for thousands of years. - Odyseja złomowa/ Scrap odyssey, 52 min
Dir. . Paweł Ferdek , prod. Wojciech Szczudło, Poland
The Great Chinese Empire has bought almost all or the post-soviet scrap metal from the impoverished Kirgizstan. This growing Empire is living of the remainder of a fallen colossus. The film shows this phenomenon on a much smaller scale, observing slow rhythm of one family’s life, one truck drivel and a few small animals from the Tian Shan mountains. - Paris Dream, 52 min
Dir. Agnieszka Kowalczyk, prod. Anna Wydra, Poland
The film about Foyer, Polish island in the Arabic district in Paris. Its residents – post graduated students on probation in French companies and girls working as baby-sitters meet and make friends. - Wieś z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością / The Ltd Village , 28 min
Dir.& prod. Remigiusz Zawadzki, scr. Marcin Kołodziejczyk,Poland
Three years ago Dr. Waclaw Idziak, sociologist from Koszalin, came to few villages with a prophecy for their inhabitants – ‘you will be rich’. They though he is crazy, but soon it turned out that he was telling the truth. Now the villagers are making money on pretending Tolkien’s characters, juggling and making contact to UFO.
Also some observers and some journalists were present at the second Dragon Forum workshop.
