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The 5th Dragon Forum ended with success!
(2010-06-09)
The last part of this year's edition – the pitching, took place between 1-4 of June during the 50.Krakow Film Festival in the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology.
During the two-day pitching preparatory workshop, participants worked on the final versions of the trailers and practiced speaking in public under the watchful eyes of tutors:
- Marc Lorber
- Dorota Roszkowska
- Steven Seidenberg,
- Peter Wintonick
- Vita Żelakeviciute
- Andrzej Fidyk
Days were filled with hard work on the projects, and evenings and nights were spent at festival screenings and dinners in lovely Krakow restaurants. The energy, however, had to be saved for the final pitching – a meeting with the commissioning editors. Between 3-4 of June there were presented 21 film projects from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Hungary, Russia, Germany, Finland and Israel.
Commissioning Editors:
- Anne Baumann, Commissioning Editor, ARTE, France/Germany
- Barbara Paciorkowska, Head of Documentary Department, TVP 2, Poland
- Barbara Pawłowska, Commissioning Editor, TVP 1, Poland
- Brigitte Manthey, Medienboard Berlin Fund, Germany
- Catherine Olsen, Commissioning Editor, CBC, Canada
- Flora Gregory, Commissioning Editor, Al Jazeera English, UK
- Grażyna Bukowska, Commissioning Editor, TVN, Poland
- Hans-Robert Eisenhauer, Commissioning Editor, ZDF/ARTE, Germany
- Heribert Schneiders, Commissioning Editor, MDR, Germany
- Jerzy Dzięgielewski, Commissioning Editor, HBO, Poland
- Katarzyna Malinowska, Acqusition Manager, TVP Kultura, Poland
- Marc Lorber, Head of Production HBO Central Europe, Hungary
- Michael Treves, Distributor, JMT Distribution, Israel
- Olaf Grunert, Head of Thematic Evenings Dept. ARTE, France/Germany
- Peter Wintonick, director, producer, co-funder of IDFA, Necessary Illusions, Canada
Although the projects were well received, the editors were quick to raise criticism where justified and any weak points were noted and discussed . Many projects met with great interest and co-production negotiations have already started.
Apart from the public presentation, participants had also an opportunity to talk directly with editors during the coordinated individual meetings.
Awards
The Sponsor of the Dragon Forum – HBO Central Europe awarded a project from Poland - “111 Hours”, Jerzy Dzięgielewski, presented the HBO Development Award to director and producer Tomasz Goldbaum-Wlaziński.
The Dragon Forum Organizers Prize went to the authors of the “There was a Mutiny” project – director Małgorzata Kozera and producer Łukasz Bluszcz and Krzysztof Dzięciołowski z Vision House.
Andrea Prengyova from Prague presented the IDF prize to the project "Faceless", directed and produced by Nikita Sutyrin from Russia.
Christie Hille from the DoxLepizig announced that the five best projects of Dragon Forum 2010 will be invited for the co-production meetings at the Festival..
The main prizes were awarded during the closing ceremony of the 50th Krakow Film Festival in the Kijów cinema. We would like to congratulate all the awarded projects and we are looking forward to see completed films.
Symposium
During this year 50th Krakow Film Festival and the 5th Dragon Forum Pitching, the international symposium “VIRTUALLY YOURS” took place on June 5th -6th in the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology. It was focused on the digital storytelling & promotion as presented by the renowned experts
- Adam Gee, Chanel 4, UK
- Alexsandre Brachet, Upian.com, France
- Andreas Lemons, Babelgum, UK
- Donata von Perfall, Reelisor, Germany
- Dorota Roszkowska, Dragon Forum / Arkana Studio, Poland
- Erkko Lyytinen, DocPoint Film Festival, Finland
- Esther van Messel, Filmsbazaar, Switzerland
- Grażyna Bukowska, TVN, Poland
- Heather Croall, Sheffield International documentary Festival, UK
- Ingrid Kopp, Shooting People, USA
- Jerzy Dzięgielewski, HBO, Poland
- Joanna Skalska, Wajda School, Poland
- Kinga Galuszka, Polish Film Institute, Poland
- Krzysztof Gierat, Krakow Film Festwial, Poland
- Krzysztof Kopczyński, Eureka Media, Poland
- Leena Pasanen, YLE Fact & Culture, Finland
- Lizzie Gillett, UK
- Olaf Grunert, ARTE G.E.I.E, France
- Ryan Harrington, Gucci Tribeca Film Fund, USA
- Stefano Tealdi, Stefilm, Italy
- Katarzyna Wilk, Krakow Film Foundation, Poland
We are very proud of this year’s edition as it proved that Dragon Forum is an event at the increasingly high level appreciated by the important players of the industry. It attracts outstanding filmmakers with very interesting projects, it gives a possibility to professionally develop project under supervision of renowned experts. At the same time, the demands of both the market and the participants are increasing – we will try to come up to these expectations organizing next editions of the Dragon Forum.
We would like to sincerely thank all those who were willing to meet us under the wings of the Dragon! We would also thank those who enabled us to spread those wings.
Stay alert. Soon the Dragon will belch fire again.
The next edition of the Dragon Forum starts already in Autumn 2010!
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