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The Dragon Forum International Documentary Film Workshops in Kiev, part of the Docudays Ua Film Festival, has come to an end.
(2010-04-09)
The International Documentary Film Workshops in Kiev, the Ukraine, are a Polish-Ukrainian film initiative which took place between 28 March and 1 April 2010. The organisers of this event were the Dragon Forum (Poland) and the Ukrainian Docudays Ua International Documentary Film Festival, an event dedicated to human rights.This year's edition of the Dragon Forum International Workshops in Kiev featured 17 documentary film projects represented by nearly 40 documentary film-makers and television journalists from the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The workshops took place between 28 March and 1 April 2010, in the centre of the Ukrainian capital city, in the Cinema House. The number of observers of the works of the Dragon Forum reached a record high of 50!
the Dragon Forum International Workshops in Kiev feature discussions on film projects, their form and message as well as screenings of film footage.
For the majority of documentary film-makers from the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus this was the first professional encounter with lecturers from the European Union. It resulted in a very intensive work on the structure of individual projects, their adjustment to the requirements of the European film market, particularly to the demands of investors, film funds and potential viewers. The Dragon Forum meant group work and analysis of individual ideas whose goal was to prepare selected projects for a trial pitching carried out before the experts from various television stations.
The lectures and consultations featured Dorota Roszkowska (PL), Steven Seidenberg (GB), Radmila Sesic (NL), Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz (PL) and Svetlana Zinovyeva (UA), Jacek Bławut (PL), Patric Barberis (FR) and Valery Balayan (RUS).
On 1 April 2010, during the show pitching closing the Dragon Forum International Workshops in Kiev we had experts from Ukrainian TV stations and representatives of the most important film institutions as well as experienced documentary film directors:
- Andrei Benkendorf, head producer of Kiev TV, UA
- Hanna Tschmil, President of the Ukrainian Film Industry Committee, UA
- Mikchail Pavlov, head producer of ICTV, UA
- Sergei Bukovski, director, UA
- Waldemar Dziki, head producer Ukraina TV, director, PL / UA
- Sergei Trymbach, Chairman of the Ukrainian Film-Makers' Association, UA
After the show pitching, Hanna Tschmil announced that the Ukrainian Film Industry Committee, which she was representing, decided to grant patronage and financially support Ukrainian projects which participated in the Dragon Forum International Workshops in Kiev!
The Dragon Forum International Workshops Award and an invitation to the pitching in Cracow during the Cracow Film Festival was granted to a Russian project: ‘No Face’, dir. Nikita Sutyrin.
The Ukrainian Film-Makers Association Award was granted to: KUZHBYI / Кужбей, UA, 50’, director and producer Ivan Zotikov, Bronenosets Korobkin Production.
Awards were presented to the winners at the closing ceremony of the Docudays Ua Festival in the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev.
All the film-makers who participated in our workshops received honorary diplomas.
The list of projects which participated in the Dragon Forum International Workshops in the Ukraine, 2010:
- BY TOUCH / Hа ощуп, UA, 26’, director and producer Vitaly Krasikov
- CHILD OF WAR / Ребенок Войны, UA, 30’, dir. Dmytro Konovalov, producer Gennadiy Kofman, Dmytro Konovalov, MaGiKa Film Company
- DADDY AND MUMMY FELL DOWN THE HEAVEN / Папа и мама свалились с неба, BY, 52’, dir. Maxim Mihaltsov, producer Alexandre Gorjanec, the St. John the Warrior Studio
- GEORGIA.NEW AGE SPRING / Грузия. Начало нового века, RUS, 53’, dir. Roman Khavronsky, producer Denis Shabaev, Roman Khavronsky, Nataliya Valda; “Rectime’ studio, “Valmedia’ film company
- I’AM FAMOUS BUT IT HAS NOT YET GOT ROUND TO , GER, 52’, dir. Anastasia Aleksandrova, producer Evgeniy Doroshenko, Anastasia Aleksandrova, Platforma Production (Stuttgart/Moscow), Business Center NKSIU (Kiev)
- KRASNAJA MALANKA / Краснаja Маланка, UA, 40’, dir. Dmytriy Sukholytkiy-Sobchuk, producer Oleksandr Debych, KNUTFT
- KUZHBYI / Кужбей, UA, 50’, director and producer Ivan Zotikov, Bronenosets Korobkin Production
- LISA & LISA / Ліза і Ліза, UA, 20’, director and producer Olena Pronicheva, Mohyla School of Journalism
- NO FACE / Без лица, RU, 52’, director and producer Nikita Sutyrin, Moviement
- POSITIV / Позитив, UA, 26’, director and producer Polina Kelm
- SEARCHING FOR UNKNOWN / В поисках неизвестного… , RU, 75’, dir. Julia Panasenko, producer Sveta Strelnikova, Terre&Air
- THE CAPTIVE OF POLAR LIGHT / Пленник полярного сияния, UA, 26’, director and producer Myhailo Tkachuk
- THE NEW MOVIE / Новый фильм, UA, 50', dir. D. Gluhenky, producer Roman Braevsy, company ХТ0
- TO CROSS THE VISTULA / Перейти через Вислу, UA, 52’, dir. Svetlana Topor, producer Vasyl Malko
- UNDER THE BRIDGE / Под мостом, UA, 50’, dir. Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovgych, Dmytro Maksymenko, producer Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovgych, company O.P.P.
- UNLEARNED LESSON, UA, 56’ director and producer Ihor Czajka
- WEEKDAYS AND HOLIDAYS / Будни и праздники, UA, 30’, dir. Alexei Soboliev, producer Juri Soboliev.