International Pitches 18- 24 January 2021
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INTERNATIONAL PITCHES 18- 24 JANUARY 2021 BIARRITZ INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL WWW. FIPADOC. COM 1 INTERNATIONAL PITCHES WEDNESDAY 20.01 WEDNESDAY 20.01 > THURSDAY 21.01 > FRIDAY 22.01 09.30 11.00 > 11.00 PITCHING > 13.00 ONE-TO-ONE 14.30 SESSIONS 16.00 MEETINGS > 16.00 OPEN TO OBSERVERS > 18.00 CLOSED SESSION PITCHING SESSIONS AWARDS MODERATED BY GITTE HANSEN BEST INTERNATIONAL PROJECT & MARGJE DE KONING 5.000 € in post-production services from Saya. BEST FRENCH PROJECT International Pitches run for two days, 5.000 € in post-production services from Saya. shining a spotlight on 24 new projects during four thematic sessions. The projects presented THE LIGHTDOX AWARD are ambitious and eclectic, and above all have for a high-potential international project, high-potential. They cover a broad spectrum 2.000 € provided by the distributor LightDox. of storytellings and subjects. THE ECHO STUDIO AWARD for a project with high impact, 2.000 € granted As part of the 2021 Focus Visegrad, by the producer and distributor Echo Studio. the pitching session presents 2 Polish projects, 2 Hungarian projects, THE VISEGRAD AWARD 2 Czech projects and 2 Slovak projects. for the best project from one of Among the projects selected from more the four countries in our Territory Focus, than 160 applications received, 6 projects 1.500 € granted by the Visegrad Fund. have been scouted in partnering forums, markets and training initiatives: THE DOCSBARCELONA AWARD an invitation to pitch at the next co-production forum in the Catalan capital. THE WEMW AWARD an invitation to pitch at the next co-production forum in Trieste. The public pitches will be followed by one-to-one meetings between projects holders and financing partners. 2 3 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL PITCHES PITCHES THE PROJECTS ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. SOCIETY HISTORY ARTS & POLITICS & CULTURE 4 BROTHERHOOD 28 MUSICA 52 BLIX 76 ALREADYMADE O MUERTE: DESTINED TO FREEDOM 8 THE CAMERA 32 MY JANITOR 56 CONQUERING 80 CASIMIR NEVER CRIES THE WARRIOR TIME OBERFELD AND THE PLAGIARISED SONG 12 CANDIDATES 36 SWINGING 60 HARLEY MISSION 84 DEEP THROAT, OF DEATH FIELDS UNKNOWN 1972: THE YEAR ZERO OF PORNOGRAPHY 16 COLORS OF 40 VELVET 64 MURKY 88 FRANCIS FORD WHITE ROCK GENERATION SKIES COPPOLA, IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS 20 KIX 44 WE HAVE 68 SAVOY 92 KLASH! THE STORY OF TO SURVIVE ART IN ACTION A STREET KID 24 MARCHING 48 WEAH: 72 SVETLANA 96 UNTITLED CHRISTO IN THE DARK THE KING’S ARC DE TRIOMPHE SPEECH FILM 4 5 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Antek, 22, grows up in a homophobe him that she feels like a man caught BROTHERHOOD HANKA right-wing society, believing in in a woman’s body. Antek’s world MACIAG Catholicism and celibacy. crumbles. He leaves Manuela and (WT) AUTHOR When he falls in love against the rules gives himself completely over to HANKA of his Brotherhood, his friends from the Brotherhood, chanting against ONE-OFF MACIAG the “Konfederacija” – Movement can’t Gay Pride and fighting for a white SWITZERLAND know about it. Antek loves being supremacist Poland. PRODUCTION POLAND in love – until one day Manuela tells 52 & 90 MIN ESTHER VAN MESSEL First Hand Films, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ LOGLINE firsthandfilms.com +41 793 351 572 TORN BETWEEN WORLDS OF HATRED firsthandfilms.com AND LOVE, ANTEK GROWS UP IN DELIVERY DATE A POLAND OF WHITE SUPREMACY. Late 2021 WHILE HE GIVES THE BROTHERHOOD KNIGHTHOOD EVERYTHING, HIS HEART IS LEARNING DIFFERENT VALUES. 6 7 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS The project is at the same time I paid for Hana’s work from my pocket, PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Born in 1990 in Białystok, studied Interdisciplinary in development, in production, although financing in Switzerland with DESCRIPTION HANKA MACIAG Studies (Asia, Culture, Ethnology, Polish studies and in preparation of editing. a Polish director is nearly impossible. DIRECTOR and Arts). Acting since 2009 in theatre, Urgent scenes needed to be captured, making videos, installations and costumes. The director has been filming nationalist demonstrations, a brief her protagonist in the alt-right scene vacation at the shore, and Hana for more than three years. had run out of money. We put She has throughout remained together a proposal and we finally transparent and not imposed received financial support from both her mindset on the protagonist, the national and the regional film BIOGRAPHY First Hand Films (FHF) is an award-winning FHF works with ambitious and accessible despite the fact that during funds here in Switzerland where we ESTHER VAN MESSEL international sales company, a theatrical projects worldwide, combining intelligence, this time she was participating are based (Federal Office of Culture PRODUCER distributor in Switzerland’s four language regions practical knowledge and experience. FIRST HAND FILMS in and witnessing protests, strikes, and Zurich Film Foundation). and a producer based in Zürich. Today, First Hand Films have been seen by hundreds of millions of people around and acts of civil disobedience. Run by Esther van Messel since 1998, the world, in cinemas, on TV and online. She is transparent about her beliefs While we are shooting, we see FHF finds partners, finance and deals with as a leftist and a feminist and big changes in the Polish society, the entire production process. FHF has not undercover. a strengthening of the alliance sold hundreds of licenses worldwide, between the state and the church turned over millions of Euros and its films have won many awards including Emmies, In the past years, Hana has earned and the awakening of a new Golden Roses and Oscar Nominations. the trust of Antek, the main generation. protagonist, his friends, and his family. She is who she is, never fakes We are still filming while working an opinion, and certainly not on the script for the festival / cinema “one of them”. At the same time, feature and a shorter TV version. she believes that only inclusion At the same time, all materials are can bridge the way between being logged and spotted for editing the sides in these extreme times. both in Poland and Switzerland. She has been around for family We have 15' of selected scenes gatherings, for christenings available. In Poland, we now work and Easter celebrations, with Silver Frame productions. she has spent time with Antek’s mother at the seaside, and with Antek’s father in painful discussions about Poland’s future. Hana has filmed the Brotherhood in their meetings and at outings, in the woods and on the streets of the cities. She documents carefully and warmly PROJECTED 240.000 € what she sees, she doesn’t judge BUDGET STILL when she films but she tells the story REQUIRED 180.000 € from her own point of view. CONFIRMED SALES AGENT First Hand Films We met briefly at a one-day seminar CONFIRMED in Warsaw where I was talking about BROADCASTER FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL documentaries and their audiences, SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET and I noticed this young woman with PUBLIC FUNDING FEDERAL OFFICE CONFIRMED 25.000 € 10% her improvised pitch for a sincerity OF CULTURE and an audacity that are rare. I asked PUBLIC FUNDING ZURICH FILM FOUNDATION CONFIRMED 15.000 € 6% to speak to her more, and her PRIVATE INVESTMENT FIRST HAND FILMS CONFIRMED 10.000 € 4% producers, and was told that she was PRIVATE INVESTMENT HANA MACIAG CONFIRMED 16.500 € 7% alone, because nobody dares to work PUBLIC FUNDING FOC, ZFF PROJECTED 100.000 € 43% with such a project. We kept talking, PRE-SALES VARIOUS PROJECTED 73.500 € 30% texting, e-mailing, insta-following and WITH THE Federal Office of Culture SUPPORT OF and Zurich Film Foundation all that. We started to work on materials, ADVANCEMENT discussed more shootings, and tried STATE Production to find someone on Poland willing PREVIOUSLY to help and assist. PITCHED AT... 8 9 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS DIRECTORS SYNOPSIS From the beginning of the film we land On April 6, 2019, millions of Sudanese THE CAMERA ELSADIG in an intimate space with those two marched through teargas and bullets ABDELGAYOUM friends who are trying to re-visit their and occupied the area around ABUZAR NEVER CRIES ADAM memories of the revolution through the military headquarter in the capital their wide collection of footage. Khartoum. The Albashir regime fell اريماكلا ءاكبلا ديجت ال AUTHORS While commenting on their different on April 11, 2019, but a sit-in ensued ELSADIG ONE-OFF filming approaches, Elsadig and Abazar for another two months to ensure ABDELGAYOUM begin to recall their first encounter the Sudanese people’s demands of SUDAN ABUZAR with a camera and how it affected the transition to civilian rule were met. 75 MIN ADAM ALYA A their choices in life. The self-isolation After two months, the sit-in was MUSA environment of Covid-19 contrasts brutally attacked, leaving hundreds the images of Khartoum during dead, tens missing and a nation LOGLINE PRODUCTION the revolution of the year before. traumatised while still seeking justice. ALYA A The calmness of self-isolation is a ripe DRIVEN BY THEIR PASSION, MUSA time for self reflection and brings the Through their footage and online TWO FILMMAKERS ENCOUNTER DEATH Black Balance TO DOCUMENT THE 2019 SUDANESE Artistic Production, two friends closer to their unresolved archives taken from social media Sudan questions and traumas of the past during the revolution, the film moves REVOLUTION. DURING THE LOCKDOWN blackbalance@ year. They decide to interview each between the pursuit of life and OF COVID-19, THEY EXPLORE gmail.com +249 912 687 519 other hoping that they might help one or death for the sake of revolution. THE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION another open up about their personal Shifting between fear, defeat and AND THEIR GROWING FRIENDSHIP.