Riga Latvia September 2–6 2015 CONTENTS 10 Years of BSD in Riga, Latvia

3 10 Years of BSD in Riga, Latvia 6 Introduction by Dace Melbārde, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Latvia 7 Introduction by Dita Rietuma, Director, National Film Centre of Latvia 8 Film Programme To BE or To BE

BSD PROJECTS

12 14 Cases – Estonia/Latvia 14 D is for Division – Latvia 16 Delta – Ukraine 18 Demigods Rocking Pyongyng – Latvia/Norway 20 El Padre Medico – Lithuania 22 Fatei and the Sea – Russia 24 A House on the Borisovka – Finland 26 I Would Love to Tell You Everything – Poland 28 Knutification – Latvia 30 Leningrad Symphony – Germany 32 Mary’s Journey – Latvia 34 Olga Go Home – Germany 36 Paradise Behind the Fence – Estonia 38 People Animals and Things – Lithuania 40 People from Nowhere – Latvia 42 The Pioneers’ Palace – Georgia 44 Release Oleg Sentsov – Estonia/Ukraine/Russia 46 The Return – Belgium 48 Returnees – Russia 50 Shipping Pollution – Russia 52 Strip and War – Poland 54 tragedy, ecstasy, destiny – Ireland 56 A Voice in a Choir – Ukraine

58 Decision Makers 63 Tutors 67 List of Participants

3 Baltic Sea Docs 2014 Baltic Sea Docs 2014

4 5 Baltic Sea Docs 2015 Baltic Sea Docs 2015

he Baltic Sea Forum Centre. The Forum looks after t’s possible that the Danish nine current, courageous and projects (September 4), which for Documentaries not only film professionals, but Prince Hamlet may have humane films – will demonstrate will highlight the question of will offer, for the 19th also audiences. Each year in Riga, something to say about this the context and address a wider documentary film presentation time, a wonderful and for the fourth time across year’s BALTIC SEA DOCS’ audience as well. The Forum, intermediaries, with the increasing Topportunity for documentary Latvia, the Forum offers a first-rate sloganI – TO BE or TO BE – old, though, has always been an arena role of not only TV, but also on-line film professionals to meet, to documentary film programme. but essential words in a new form. for ideas, intents and project platforms, will serve to inspire. discover their colleagues’ latest TO BE or TO BE – that is the main Yet, this slogan also emphasizes presentations. 23 projects from achievements, and to find question for this year’s films. I am not only the Forum’s historic ties 12 countries – Belgium, Georgia, Hopefully, the days of this potential collaboration partners. pleased that Latvian audiences to Denmark, which was the first Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, anniversary Baltic Sea are introduced to high-quality, host country in 1997, but also the Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden Documentary Forum (the 10th The projects, which will presented educational documentary films, Forum’s special interest in nuances and UK – will participate in the organized by the National Film in the film market, attest to which widen horizons and allow and cusps – nuances of artistic international documentary film Centre) will be full of valuable very different forms of being. I for a chance to see the world from a expression and individual civil project pitching session, where meetings, powerful films and hope that among the projects, previously unknown vantage point. stances, and the cusps of political they will be evaluated by decision surprising new projects! representing the thematically I’d like to thank the Forum’s sharp-sightedness and awareness. makers from 12 countries. diverse and varied audio-visual organizers, the National Film At a time when Europe, and Latvia cultures from Belgium, Georgia, Centre, the Creative Europe as well, is facing difficult issues The Forum is also an educational Germany, Estonia, Finland, MEDIA Desk in Latvia and the that are testing the humanism, platform – offering training from DACE MELBĀRDE Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, European Documentary Network. understanding and intelligence September 2-4, during which Minister for Culture of the Sweden and UK will shine. From May the 19th annual Baltic Sea of not only politicians, but also project representatives will Republic of Latvia an investigation into expressions Forum for Documentaries bring of each individual, the amplitude analyse their aims and improve of Western culture in North Korea, many new impressions and of the Forum’s film programme their presentation skills in to the long-term effects on places valuable discoveries! is extremely vital. There’s a film collaboration with international of war crimes, to portraits of about a very topical issue within tutors. The team of tutors will exceptional cultural personalities all Latvian press about the be led by Mikael Opstrup, Head and breath-taking stories of saving degradation of human values of Studies & Co-production works of art during WWII – the as the (only?) condition of the Guide Editor for the European scope of interests of Latvian existence of the press in today’s Documentary Network (EDN), documentary filmmakers cover capitalism (dir. Mikala Krogh’s Denmark. the entire world. The Newsroom: Off the Record), as well as films that explore harsh The notion of multi-media and The Danish-founded Baltic survival conditions in following the call for virtual platforms in Sea Forum for Documentaries the fates of Syrian refugees and today’s world has become just took place in various countries Moscow’s homeless (dir. Sean as present as the reminder of during its first years. Since 2006, McAllister’s A Syrian Love Story, Prince Hamlet’s reflections on the Forum’s home is in Riga, and dir. Hanna Polak’s Something the essence of being. Hopefully, DITA RIETUMA and for the 10th year the main Better to Come), et. al. The Forum’s the Forum’s seminar on creating Director, National Film organizer is the National Film documentary film programme – and distributing multi-media Centre of Latvia

6 Photo: Karlīna Vītoliņa Photo: Kristaps Kalns 7 Film Programme To Be or To Be at Cinema K.Suns Riga, Elizabetes str. 83/85 Film Programme To Be or To Be at Cinema K.Suns Riga, Elizabetes str. 83/85

Guinness record-holding “We, the Europeans, we always had SCREENINGS Friday, 19:00 16 + FILMS pensioner hip hop artists, whose to come up with a way to explain September 4 SOMETHING BETTER eldest member is 96 years-old. to ourselves that we are actually TO COME CHUCK NORRIS VS Memories of lives lived well are good people while we are killing intertwined with dance rehearsals, everyone else on the other side of Wednesday, Hanna Polak, 97 min, 2015, COMMUNISM 16 + where under the tutelage of an the world.” H. Sauper 18:00 Denmark/Poland Dir. Ilinca Calugareanu, September 2 Vernonfilms, 83 min, 2014, ambitious teacher, they prepare SOMETHING UK/Romania/Germany for their performance at the World BETTER TO COME Hip Hop Dance Championships in THE RUSSIAN 18:00 Hanna Polak, 97 min, 2015, 21:00 Las Vegas. The film convincingly WOODPECKER Denmark/Poland THE NEWS ROOM: HIP HOP-ERATION counters the stereotype of the Dir. Chad Gracia, Roast Beef OFF THE RECORD After the screening – meet Bryn Evans, Inkubator Limited, limits of old age, leaving the Productions, Gracia Films, Mikala Krogh, with executive producer, 93 min, 2014, New Zealand viewer dumbfounded but happily Rattapallax Production, 82 min, Danish Documentary, HBO representative Hanka aware that the best is yet to come. 2015, UK/Ukraine/USA 90 min, 2014, Denmark Kastelicová and journalist Aija This year marked the 20th occasion After the screening – a Kinca Sunday, of the eldest generation’s folk discussion about media September 6 dancing festival, involving 1400 responsibility with film ■ In 1980s Romania, thousands of participants from across Latvia. producer Sigrid Dyekjaer and 21:00 Western films smashed through Alternatively, the Latvian Seniors Poul Madsen, Editor of Ekstra the Iron Curtain opening a ALL OF ME / LLÉVATE 13:00 Dance Association, founded in Bladet. Moderator: media window into the free world for MIS AMORES ALL OF ME/ LLÉVATE 2006, has popularized a special expert Anda Rožukalne. Arturo González Villaseñor, those who dared to look. Mr. MIS AMORES type of dancing that unites Acanto Films, 90 min, 2014, Mexico Zamfir, a black-market VHS Arturo González Villaseñor, Acanto racketeer, helped inspire political ballroom, with German, British, ■ Director Chad Gracia’s first 21:00 Films, 90 min, 2014, Mexico change, while a courageous female Balkan and other national dancing feature-length documentary is Saturday, translator brought the magic of styles. Hip Hop is not part of their a mutinously tense thriller, full WE COME AS FRIENDS film to the people and sparked a repertoire as of yet. of non-traditional activism and Hubert Sauper, September 5 15:00 revolution. A suspense-filled romp warning signs. It has quickly Adelante Films KGP, 110 min, HIP HOP-ERATION drawing viewers into the not- gained international recognition 2014, Austria/France so-distant past, when a censure- WE COME AS FRIENDS and festival jury notice for its 16 + Bryn Evans, Inkubator Limited, 11:00 93 min, 2014, New Zealand choked Eastern Europe came into Dir. Hubert Sauper, artistry is unmasking the Soviet Thursday, DREAMCATCHER contact with illegal video films. Adelante Films KGP, 110 min, system. The main character, artist Kim Longinotto, Rise Films, 2014, Austria/France Fjodor Aleksandrovich, was four at 16 + September 3 Green Acres Films, Vixen Films, 17:00 In the territory of the USSR, in the the time of the Chernobyl nuclear 98 min, 2015, UK battle against the West, for Soviet disaster. While battling daily life A SYRIAN LOVE STORY citizens, the access to American films in a war-shadowed Ukraine, he 18:00 16 + Sean McAllister, Tenfoot Films, was forbidden by article 228 of the discovers a dark secret and must 80 min, 2015, UK criminal code, and the punishment decide whether to risk his life by A SYRIAN LOVE STORY 13:00 for storing or duplicating films revealing it. Sean McAllister, Tenfoot Films, WE COME AS FRIENDS 16 + with pornographic content or films 80 min, 2015, UK Hubert Sauper, Adelante Films 19:00 propagating cruelty and violence, “Russian Woodpecker” is the After the screening – meet with KGP, 110 min, 2014, Austria/France DREAMCATCHER was up to 3 years in prison or hard nickname for the infamous low- film director Sean McAllister Kim Longinotto, Rise Films, labour. ■ A 21st century odyssey – a frequency radio signal, transmitted and journalist Pauls Raudseps. Green Acres Films, Vixen Films, dizzying, science fiction-like from 1976 to 1989 from within 15:00 98 min, 2015, UK journey into the heart of the Soviet Union, which disrupted THE RUSSIAN HIP HOP-ERATION Africa. Sudan, the continent’s international communications 21:00 WOODPECKER Dir. Bryn Evans, Inkubator biggest country, whose ancient with its random frequency hops. civilizations have been around Some sources say the signal was THE RUSSIAN Chad Gracia, Roast Beef Prods., 21:00 Limited, 93 min, 2014, since 3500 B.C., is experiencing a renewed in 2014. WOODPECKER Gracia Films and Rattapallax New Zealand CHUCK NORRIS VS humanity-destroying epidemic: Chad Gracia, Roast Beef Prods., production, 82 min, 2015, COMMUNISM modern-day colonialism. The Gracia Films and Rattapallax UK/Ukraine/USA Ilinca Calugareanu, Academy Award® and other production, 82 min, 2015, UK/ Vernonfilms, 83 min, 2014, prestigious award-nominated Ukraine/USA UK/Romania/Germany Austrian director, in his tiny, 17:00 self-made, tin and canvas flying CHUCK NORRIS VS machine, leads the viewer into COMMUNISM The films will be screened the most improbable locations, Ilinca Calugareanu, Vernonfilms, in their original language allowing for a chance to get to 83 min, 2014, UK/Romania/ know this frightening, yet richly with subtitles in English and ■ The upbeat and uplifting story Germany of a group of New Zealanders – fascinating world. 8 translation into Latvian 9 Film Programme To Be or To Be at Cinema K.Suns Riga, Elizabetes str. 83/85

LLÉVATE MIS AMORES most hideous and demeaning of the charismatic Brenda, who works circumstances. tirelessly in support of women who Dir. Arturo González Villaseñor, have suffered from sexual abuse Acanto Films, 90 min, 2014, Mexico In accordance to the 2011 census, and prostitution. The film uncovers there are 2 070 371 inhabitants Brenda’s own challenge-filled past, in Latvia, of whom 0.1%, or 2070 as well as her unbreakable spirit persons, are homeless. This statistic and belief in the good. was obtained in counting only those homeless residing in shelters. Some 39% of Latvian women have experienced physical or sexual abuse in their lifetimes, which is THE NEWS ROOM: the 7th highest indicator in the EU, as concluded by researchers from ■ A freight train known as The OFF THE RECORD the European Union Agency for Beast makes its daily voyage to the Dir. Mikala Krogh, Fundamental Rights (FRA). US, ferrying on top of it hundreds Danish Documentary, of illegal Mexican migrants – 90 min, 2014, Denmark desperate people on a dangerous journey, hoping to fulfil their A SYRIAN LOVE STORY dreams of a more humane life. A Dir. Sean McAllister, Tenfoot Films, Forum group of selfless Mexican women, 80 min, 2015, UK the Patronas, have been making food every day for some two decades and tossing it those who travel atop the train.

The Mexican coastal area La ■ Newspaper circulation is Patrona is home to only 3500 continuously decreasing in many inhabitants. In 2013, townswoman parts of the world. The Danish Norma Vázquez Romero received newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, which the Mexican Human Rights Award has been publishing for more than ■ A poignant, Bermanesque for her selfless work in saving the 100 years, is currently looking for close-up of two political refugee lives of the refugees. stories that balance on the border families. What does it mean to be of ethics. This film is a remarkable the child of parents who met while insight into the behind-the-scenes in political lock-up? How do you Projects SOMETHING BETTER of a modern daily. Is the era of defend your country if your life is TO COME printed media coming to an end? in constant danger and you lose a And what are the stakes in looking friend a day? How do you preserve Dir. Hanna Polak, for a solution to survival? love and humanity above it all? Danish Documentary, 97 min, The film, which just received the 2015, Denmark/Poland “If I want to knock a story off Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015 Grand the front page, I just change my Jury Award, is the essence of 400 hairstyle.” Hillary Clinton hours of material that Scottish director Sean McAllister shot over the course of five years in Syria, DREAMCATCHER Lebanon and France. Dir. Kim Longinotto, Rise Films, Green Acres Films, Vixen Films, The Syrian civil war is viewed as 98 min, 2015, UK the most-devastating conflict in modern history. Since the spring ■ 18 km from the Kremlin, on of 2011, when the protests against the outskirts of Moscow, in the President Bashir al-Assad’s regime biggest landfill in Europe, director developed into a military conflict Hanna Polak has documented and later outright war, some 240 the past 14 years of young Yula’s 000 people, mainly civilians, have life. Film critics are calling this lost their lives. In accordance with the documentary twin of Richard UN estimates, by the end of the Linklater’s Boyhood. Apocalyptic, year the number of Syrian refugees harsh life conditions, akin to a could reach 4.27 million – almost Dickens’ novel, are interwoven ■ Outstanding British half of whom are children who with epic landscapes, highlighting documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto introducers viewers to have lost relatives in the war. 10 the humanity in the seemingly BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

14 Cases

PRODUCTION COMPANY: BALTIC FILM PRODUCTION OÜ Baltic Film Production Oü is an independent production company based in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 1998 by award-winning producer and director Marianna Kaat (PhD). The main activity is the production of creative non-fiction films with a strong focus on Eastern European subjects. BFP has produced several documentary serials and TV shows for different Estonian broadcasters. Since 2006 the company has produced award-winning quality full-length documentaries screened at many international film festivals and broadcast to a wide-range of audiences all PROJECT TITLE: 14 Cases over the world. PRODUCTION COMPANY: Baltic Film Production / VFS Films (Latvia) COMPANY ADDRESS: PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Paldiski mnt. 183-38, stonia, along with motherland, but nevertheless MARIANNA KAAT Tallinn 13518, Estonia a few other former feel that they are not qualified Internationally awarded producer & director TELEPHONE: +372 502 7509 E-MAIL: [email protected] Soviet republics, is to be full-blooded members Marianna Kaat is one of the most successful Estonian SKYPE: marianna_kaat linguistically divided of Estonian society because of documentary filmmakers. She graduated from WEB: www.bfp.ee intoE two culturally separate some cultural disconnect and a the St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy in SYNOPSIS parts, and children’s education is lack of language. Their future is Russia with a PhD, and during her long career in Estonia is linguistically divided into still conducted in two different difficult to change, but no that the industry she worked as a script editor and director at Eesti Telefilm two culturally separate parts, and even children’s education is still conducted languages. Therefore, Russian- of their kids - sending five-year- Studio. After that for five years she acted as the acquisition manager for in two different languages. This film speaking families find it difficult olds to an Estonian kindergarten Estonian Television. In 1998 she founded the independent production takes a fresh look at the 3rd generation of migrants and the newcomers who feel to decide which curriculum to where they can learn language company Baltic Film Production (BFP), and since then has produced and obsessed with languages and fucked by choose. The clock is ticking for not through a curriculum, but directed TV serials and feature documentaries for local and international the politics, but nevertheless desire to five- and six-year-olds, and most through total immersion, may markets. She also teaches documentary practices to both postgraduate secure their children’s future. of the non-Estonian speaking change their fates dramatically. and undergraduate students at the Baltic Film and Media School since LANGUAGE: Russian/Estonian/English parents with children that age The film will follow several it was established. She has been a guest tutor at numerous workshops FORMAT: HD LENGTH: 90 min/52 min are at a crossroads. This film Russian-speaking families as for producers, film schools and universities outside Estonia. Marianna is taking a fresh look at the well as other connected people is a member of the European Documentary Network (EDN); one of PRODUCER: Marianna Kaat Russian-speaking population and groups for three years in the founders of Estonian Documentarians Guild, and member of the PREVIOUS FILMS: A Working Title Wunderkind, documentary, 2012 living in Estonia, focusing their search of options, when Estonian Journalists Union. She was named European Trailblazer at Pit No 8, documentary, Estonia/Ukraine, on the personal stories of not only the level of language MIPDOC 2009 in Cannes. 2011 Lobotomy, documentary, Estonia/ young families who represent proficiency is put at stake, but Belarus/Germany/Poland, 2010 the 3rd generation of Soviet their children’s future ethnic CO-PRODUCER: ULDIS CEKULIS Kalinovsky Square, documentary, 2007 Union migrants. They may feel identities as well. Uldis Cekulis created the independent production The Last Phantoms, documentary, 2006 obsessed with languages and company VFS Films and won the International Co-PRODUCER: fucked by the politics, but they In our modern multicultural Trailblazer prize at MIPDOC in Cannes, which Uldis Cekulis, VFS Films, Latvia passionately do their best to Babylon of identities there are recognises the best documentary filmmakers. He has DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: integrate their children into a plethora of subject matters worked on more than 50 creative documentaries and Marianna Kaat contemporary society. and their variations. The film is TV productions both as a producer and sometimes PREVIOUS FILMS: A Working Title Wunderkind, separating them into cases, and also as a cameraman. Many of them, such as Roof on the Moonway, documentary, 2012 The paths of three ethnic each case may correspond with DreamLand, Theodore, Three Men and a Fish Pond, Klucis, and Ramin – Pit No 8, documentary, Estonia / Ukraine, 2011 Russian families based in one or another case connected have travelled around the world. He has co-produced documentaries The Last Phantoms, documentary, 2006 Tallinn intersect at the intense to the question of the Estonian with Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian, German, Italian, French, Greek, Estonian language course for language (Who? What? Whose? Icelandic, Finnish and Georgian production companies. Member of the YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 190 000 pre-school children and later in Whom? etc.). Deriving from European Documentary Network (EDN) since 1998; Executive Board the kindergarten. Mothers and the film’s title and Estonian member since 2011. FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: Estonian Film Institute / fathers, even though some speak grammar, there will be 14 of Kaarel Kuurmaa / EUR 50 000 Estonian fluently, continue them. Estonian Cultural Endowment / to “think in Russian”. All EUR 25 000 Estonian TV (ERR) / Katrin Rajasaare / 12 families consider Estonia their EUR 1 500 13 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

D Is For Division

PRODUCTION COMPANY: EGO MEDIA Riga-based Ego Media was established by Latvian producer Guntis Trekteris to produce documentaries and fiction for local and international audiences. Credits include: documentaries Beyond The Fear by the late Herz Frank (co-directed by Maria Kravchenko, Latvia/ Russia/Israel), which had its international premiere at HotDocs, 2015; Chronicles of the Last Temple by Dāvis Sīmanis, and Viestur Kairish’s new and ambitious story about life after the end of world in The Invisible City, shot on location in Chernobyl.

Glane massacre, was captured in PRODUCER: GUNTIS TREKTERIS Germany but later released due Experienced producer of more than 30 the lack of evidence. documentaries and 10 fiction films, including many ne petrifying photo and the Arab boy who turned their award-winning international co-productions. PROJECT TITLE: D Is For Division shows the dead guns on each other, or the woman The film takes this particular PRODUCTION COMPANY: Ego Media COMPANY ADDRESS: body of Hermīne who wanted to protect her child temporal parallelism as the basis DIRECTOR: DĀVIS SĪMANIS Baznicas 8-20, Riga LV1011, Latvia Puriņa, a Latvian, from Russian soldiers. to unite two lines of narrative. One Documentary director, editor, story editor, lecturer. TELEPHONE: +371 2921 9373 E-MAIL: [email protected] Okilled at the Maslenki border post will reconstruct the crime scene His recent documentaries have been screened and SKYPE: guntis.trekteris with Russia on July 15, 1940, when For instance, the former Maslenki on the photo (before and after the awarded in festivals including Leipzig and the IDFA WEB: www.egomedia.lv the Soviet occupation of Latvia border post is currently on the take), using a method of precise among others, as well as distributed internationally. SYNOPSIS began. The four photographs Russian side. It is a half-forsaken stylization. The second will explore Four terrifying historical photos mark bear witness to the acts of absurd village where almost nothing the life of these places today, four places of crime. Four places still have to live with its horrid past. A violence and cruelty, caused by testifies to the existence of the as well as the influences, which documentary exploring how some of the the conflicts between countries, former checkpoint, except the rails make this life dependant on the darkest moments of the 20th century nations or social groups. The stretching towards the Latvian past events. This will be revealed manifest themselves through particular people and places caught on film, and death and ideals, resistance side, fully overgrown with small through social, exploratory and how these “crime moments” strangely to injustice and unjustifiable trees and bushes. On the border at the same time aesthecized but still intensely affect the life in these places today. murder are all present here the Russian veterans celebrate the observation. The film will capture simultaneously. The number of occupation of Latvia with dancing the specific presence of history in LANGUAGE: Latvian/Russian/German/ places where historical crimes and drinking. Locals welcome these four fateful places. English/French FORMAT: HD / 2K have been committed is endless. the “silent” Russian invasion into LENGTH: 52 min/80 min Maslenki, Oradour-sur-Glane, Ukraine, and discuss the option We like to think that the world PRODUCER: Guntis Trekteris Berlin, or Jerusalem, are just a of splitting off part of Eastern has changed, but fundamentally PREVIOUS FILMS: few of them. The photographs Latvia in order to found a pseudo- it has not. We are still ruled by Beyond the Fear serve as silent witnesses, as some republic, loyal to Russia. undying “ghosts” of the past and by Herz Frank and Maria Kravchenko, Latvia/Russia/Israel, 2014 special tool to grasp the actual delirious illusions of the future. The Invisible City scope of the tragedy and its Another photograph shows a Neither political nor national by Viesturs Kairish, 2014 Chronicles of the Last Temple impact still felt today. bleak wall of a burnt church with or religious conflicts have by Dāvis Sīmanis, 2012 a pile of dead bodies heaped ceased. The notorious places of Any place where some secret alongside it. The photo was history each have had their own DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: Dāvis Sīmanis of history is still concealed taken during WWII in the French fate: turned into a symbol of PREVIOUS FILMS: can become the object of village of Oradour-sur-Glane. popular culture, a conflict zone, Escaping Riga, 2014 Chronicles of the Last Temple, 2012 cinematic study. In this film our On June 10, 1944, the German a tourist magnet, or just sunk Sounds Under the Sun, 2010 “protagonists” are the locations – SS brigade burnt alive almost all into oblivion. There are many each place has its own sad story of its inhabitants. Now the ruins locations of historical crimes in YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 210 000 taken in the photograph, and each have been turned into a museum the world; the significance of each has its further existence in the reserve where archaeologists and differs, but they all still represent FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: Creative Europe MEDIA Development / current world. Photos play their museum guards work next to the some kind of borderline. Between EUR 25 000 part as witnesses – either about a flocks of tourists. In 2014, Werner territories or ideas. Between National Film Centre of Latvia / man, who tried to fly over Berlin Chistukat, one of the former memory and conscience. EUR 3 900 State Culture Capital Foundation / 14 Wall and failed, or the Israeli girl participants of the Oradour-sur- Between life and death. EUR 4 000 15 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Delta

PRODUCTION COMPANY: HONEST FISH DOCUMENTARY STORIES Honest Fish Documentary Stories is an independent documentary film production company based in Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 2010 by Yulia Serdyukova and Oleksandr Techynskyi. During its first years the company produced video reportage for foreign media, mostly cooperating with PROJECT TITLE: Delta Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Eventually, they began to create author- PRODUCTION COMPANY: Honest Fish Documentary Stories driven films. Their full-length documentary debut All Things Ablaze was COMPANY ADDRESS: awarded an MDR Film Prize for the best Eastern European documentary at 82 Naberezhno-Korchuvatska Str., DOK Leipzig 2014, and also took part in many international film festivals. Kyiv 3003045, Ukraine TELEPHONE: +380 67240 2139 E-MAIL: [email protected] PRODUCER / SCRIPTWRITER: SKYPE: yu.liko YULIA SERDYUKOVA WEB: www.honestfish.com.ua board chatting with her neighbours as much of a fairy-tale to them as Yulia came to filmmaking from being a documentary SYNOPSIS a small about the love affairs of local the beluga – another symbol of photographer and photojournalist. She has worked as At the crossroads of the savage East and the civilized West, the people of the boat priests. Their friends Viktor, a happy, careless life. What they a freelance line producer and production manager for Danube Delta earn their living cutting near probably the only sober man don’t see is that people over there more than 5 years. She has produced one short and reeds in the winter, while dreaming of the ultimate catch: the legendary beluga fish, theW source of thee Danube, and in the town, spends his days stare at the flowing water with two feature length films, all of which were very suc- worth a fortune. With dreams instead the boat begins to move along driving his boat through the delta the same hope, wondering if their cessful at various international film festivals. In addition to her production of goals and water instead of ground the vast river. Sailing by Vienna, veins – transferring people from dreams will come true in some work, Yulia has been working at the Docudays UA IDFF since 2013. beneath their feet, they revel in every moment of this unbearably light being. Budapest, Belgrade and other home to work and back again. place over the horizon where the European cities, we see – in vague In the evenings they all hang out river meets the sea. What nobody CO-PRODUCER: KIRILL KRASOVSKIY LANGUAGE: Russian/Ukrainian FORMAT: HD glimpses between clouds of fog, in the Anchor Bar, where men knows is that they all have what Born in Russia, Kirill Krasovskiy moved to Germany in LENGTH: 90 min/52 min like in a dream – how one bridge dream aloud of catching beluga. they need. 2003. In 2014 he graduated from the German Film and is replaced by another, a belfry Fishing for beluga is prohibited, Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB), and launched PRODUCER/SCRIPTWRITER: Yulia Serdyukova is replaced by a castle, ships and but sometimes it gets caught in Rudenych watches a barge full his own production and world sales company, PREVIOUS FILMS: people pass by. Then, just as we the nets set out for herring. A rare of reed bundles sailing up the Faktura Film. During his studies Kirill worked for All Things Ablaze, documentary, 81/52 min, 2014 turn a corner and seem to sink fisherman would let such a catch stream, heading for Europe. As the various German and international film production Euromaidan. Rough Cut (one of ten into a completely different world go back into the water. However, barge sails away, we find ourselves companies, notably NFP, Ma.Ja.De Fiction, Atoms & Void NL, Film directors), documentary, 60 min, 2014 inhabited by timeless fairy-tale there are only so many ways the next to a nice house with a reed United CZ, and others as a junior producer and production manager. His Sirs and Misters, documentary, 35 min, 2013 characters in a town with no delta men can imagine what they roof somewhere at the source of graduation feature Proletarian Winter’s Tale, directed by Julian Radlmaier, roads, we have arrived at Vilkovo, can do with such luck beyond the Danube. An old gentleman had its world premiere at IFF Rotterdam 2014, and was shown at the CO-PRODUCER: Kirill Krasovskiy/ Faktura Film, Germany a small Ukrainian town in the squandering those fantastic sits on a bench near his house. He Viennale, Seville IFF, Ljubljana IFF, Basel, and FICUNAM Mexico. PREVIOUS FILMS: Danube delta. earnings in the nearest resort with stares at the river flowing down, to Proletarian Winter’s Tale, gambling and girls. the sea. dir. Julian Radlamaier, 63 min, DIRECTOR / SCRIPTWRITER: Germany, 2014 There among the endless arms OLEKSANDR TECHYNSKYI A Spectre Is Haunting Europe and channels, water is neither While waiting for the beluga, the Oleksandr was born in 1979 in Dnipropetrovsk, (dir. Julian Radlamaier), 46 min, Germany, 2012 sweet, nor has yet absorbed salt. delta people do any work available Ukraine, but spent his childhood in the Sakha Knee-deep in the icy January to feed themselves. Cutting reed in Republic (known as Yakutia) in Russia’s Far East. DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: water, Rudenych, a hat covering winter is the quickest way to earn He graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Medical Oleksandr Techynskyi PREVIOUS FILMS: his eyes, rinses a pot after some money. Reed is used for roof College in 1999, and worked as a medical assistant All Things Ablaze, documentary, his morning porridge. In the coverings somewhere far away, in a psychiatric emergency team. In 2001 he left medicine and began 81/52 min, Ukraine, 2014 Euromaidan. Rough Cut (one of ten deafening silence of dense fog, near the source of the Danube. It is working as a freelance photographer. Since 2005 he has worked at the directors), documentary, 60 min, one can hear only splashes of among the few things that connect Kommersant-Ukraine daily newspaper. Also, from then until now he has Ukraine, 2014 water and the far cry of wild geese two worlds – civilized Europe cooperated with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany). In 2010 he left Sirs and Misters, documentary, 35 min, Ukraine, 2013 flying by... and the savage Ukrainian town the Kommersant and focused on his own documentary projects, including situated at its foot. photography and film. That year, together with Yulia Serdyukova, he YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 144 000 While Rudenych spends his nights founded the independent production company Honest Fish Documentary in a reed bed warming himself Time passes, revolutions happen, Stories. As Oleksandr came to filmmaking from photography and is always FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: with work and wine, his wife wars are waged, but life hardly a DOP on his own films, strong cinematography is one of the distinctive Own investments / Honest Fish (UA) and Faktura Film (DE), MG by Arthouse 16 Valentina process reeds at home, changes in the delta. Europe is features of his work. Traffic (distributor, UA) / EUR 20 000 17 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Demigods Rocking Pyongyang

PRODUCTION COMPANY: VIDES FILMU STUDIJA VFS FILMS is an independent film production company with a special interest in social, man & nature and travel & adventure stories. The mainstay of its creative output is documentaries and young-audience- oriented TV programmes. Creative documentaries produced by PROJECT TITLE: Demigods Rocking Pyongyang VFS Films have won awards and been nominated in prestigious PRODUCTION COMPANY: VFS Films / international film festivals, as well as aired by national and international Norsk Fjernsyn (Norway) COMPANY ADDRESS: broadcasters, including: Arte, ARD, ORF, YLE, SVT, RAISAT, TVP, TV3, Lapu iela 17, Riga LV1002, Latvia ERT, SBS and others. VFS Films is a member of the EDN. TELEPHONE: +371 6750 3588 E-MAIL: [email protected], [email protected] SKYPE: uldisan PRODUCER: ULDIS CEKULIS WEB: www.vfs.lv Uldis Cekulis created the independent production SYNOPSIS company VFS Films and won the International A rock band from the West obsessed with August 2015 But what North Koreans probably audience to experience something Trailblazer prize at MIPDOC in Cannes, which totalitarian images plays a show in a something do not know is that the Western so unfamiliar, and at the same recognises the best documentary filmmakers. He has totalitarian dreamland in the East, where people have never heard rock ‘n’ roll. unprecedented world also has human gods. The time similar to their world order. worked on more than 50 creative documentaries and will happen – closest things to living gods are We, a group of Latvian filmmakers, TV productions both as a producer and sometimes LANGUAGE: English/Latvian/ Norwegian/Croatian strangeIn people from the West rock stars. I don’t doubt that for a have an opportunity to document also as a cameraman. Many of them, such as Roof on the Moonway, FORMAT: Full HD will go to North Korea – the most second. Music is the most magical this event. DreamLand, Theodore, Three Men and a Fish Pond, Klucis, and Ramin – LENGTH: 90 min secluded country on the planet, of all arts. It can bypass every have travelled around the world. He has co-produced documentaries PRODUCER: Uldis Cekulis ruled by a half-human / half-god. filter of our brain and get right with Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian, German, Italian, French, Greek, PREVIOUS FILMS: They are masters of an art form to the core, where it discharges a Icelandic, Finnish and Georgian production companies. Member of the Obliging Collaborators, documentary, 2014 that can take them to half-divine current of pure emotion. Music European Documentary Network (EDN) since 1998; Executive Board Planet Amber, road movie, 2014 heights as well. They are the is also a medium that translates member since 2011. Oki In The Middle Of The Ocean, fiction, band Laibach – rock musicians the delicate swirls of a musician’s with Krukfilms (Lithuania) and Backyard Productions (USA), 2014 who grew up in dictatorial sub-consciousness into megawatt CO-PRODUCER/scriptwriter: The National Touch, documentary, 2014 Yugoslavia, and their music sound waves that make listeners’ Morten Traavik, Lones Soms, documentary, 2014 still embodies an image system hearts skip a beat. NORSK FJERNSYN CO-PRODUCERS: Hans Lukas Hansen, inspired by totalitarianism. It will Norsk Fjernsyn AS was founded in March 2013, and Morten Traavik be a mythological encounter of Laibach is a Slovenian band that is owned by four senior producers and Monday DIRECTOR: Uģis Olte a dream audience – people who grew out of soil that has been Media (Danish). Norsk Fjernsyn AS is located in Oslo, PREVIOUS FILMS: have never heard rock music, and fertilized with totalitarian ideas for where some 20 persons produce documentaries, Instrumenti – Procrastination Live, concert film, 2015 a rock band that symbolizes a long enough to make an imprint. documentary series and comedy shows, of which 7 documentaries and Double Aliens, documentary, 2015 totalitarian regime. The band has 2 everlasting 5 series have already been broadcast. There are currently 5 documentary King of the Wild Things, “dictators”: Milan Fras and Ivan projects in production with Norwegians broadcasters, and 4 projects in musical short film, 2014 The chance to film a crowd of Novak, and ever-changing band development with the Norwegian Film Institute. SCRIPTWRITERS: people hearing rock ‘n’ roll for members. The pseudo military Morten Traavik, Uģis Olte PREVIOUS FILMS: Morten Traavik: the first time seems even more industrial imagery and dark DIRECTOR: UĢIS OLTE Laibach. The Whistleblowers, unbelievable than the possibility intonation of their art flirts with Playful re-arranger of sounds and images. Journalist- music video, 2014 of filming in space. North Korea totalitarianism, and does not cum-self-taught TV/film director. Believer in film Uģis Olte: Planet Amber, road movie, 2014 just may be the most reclusive hesitate to point to the direct language, but excited by television. Instrumenti – Procrastination Live, country on the planet. The images similarities between the power concert film, 2015 TE!, TV show, 2012 – to date from there look like talentless but of rock ‘n’ roll and the power of Ciemos, TV show, 2014 ambitiously made film sets from totalitarian regimes. a parallel universe. They even YEAR OF RELEASE: 2016 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 120 000 have their own human god who Something unbelievable will can climb the highest peak in happen in Pyongyang, North FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: D’Art (Croatia) / EUR 5 000 lacquered shoes, invent cinema, Korea in August 2015. Laibach will National Film Centre of Croatia / win the World Cup, and create an play a show for the eyes and ears EUR 5 000 heir to keep his world from losing of 1 000 North Koreans. One show, Self-investment / EUR 7 000 National Film Centre of Latvia / 18 its mind. which will allow this unspoilt EUR 5 000 19 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

El Padre Medico

PROJECT TITLE: El Padre Medico PRODUCTION COMPANY: IRONCAT (Alexander The Grand) PI Ironcat mainly works with documentary, feature film and cultural PRODUCTION COMPANY: Ironcat COMPANY ADDRESS: projects that have historic, educational and artistic value. With a goal A. Jaksto 3-14, Vilnius, Lithuania to produce projects of great quality, Ironcat has proven trustworthy TELEPHONE: +370 6188 7174 as a partner for many official Lithuanian institutions that perceive E-MAIL: [email protected] SKYPE: pauliusjuo the importance of these projects and are willing to fund them. The WEB: http://alexanderthegrand.com company provides development, producing, partnership research SYNOPSIS and co-production services for feature and documentary films, and A young traveller discovers a jungle also organizes film camps, online film platforms/competitions, and missionary who, despite being the educational film screenings. greatest man in the Amazon, appears to have an immense dark side. Priest, missionary, doctor, aristocrat and “Great PRODUCER: PAULIUS JUOČERIS White Father” to the natives, Alexander Bendoraitis (1919-1998), created an CEO/Managing Director and co-founder of PI entire empire in the heart of the Amazon: the year 2015, a philanthropic work they did influences peoples’ lives to this Ironcat, Paulius Juočeris started film management a boat-clinic system, two modern young Eastern for the indigenous community, day. Doctor Vitas is “angry with studies at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre hospitals, a brick factory, the first jungle radio, and even a football team. However, European but radiates superiority and God” and has stopped attending Academy, and later successfully extended his studies the quest to understand how one traveller hate for the ‘uncivilised natives’. church because of his miserable to the University for Creative Arts, UK, where he becomes a Great man shifts dramatically as the dark side of glory is discovered: a stumblesIn upon the heritage of Doctor Vitas speaks of how he existence in the Amazon. Antenor acquired a Bachelor’s degree specializing in film cult, a macabre murder and the mystery a jungle missionary in the vast came all the way from Australia is troubled by his conscience as production. While studying Paulius, as producer, twice participated in the of Bendoraitis’ past in Europe. What then South American jungle. Strangely to “do something beautiful for he turned to crime to take over Summer Media Studio International Film Workshop and Seminar. After is the price of greatness? An exploration of the balance between the greatness of enough, the missionary was born God” with Bendoraitis, but is Padre’s inheritance. Finally, a graduation Paulius began working in the Lithuanian production house the human spirit and hubris. in the same Eastern European trapped in his house with a Lithuanian priest is about to Cyclopes. After working as a producer/project manager for some time, LANGUAGE: English/Portuguese/ village as our traveller. So he sets severe case of insomnia that has release a book and introduce he decided to leave and beganto work as a freelancer and established his Spanish/German/French/Lithuanian off on a quest to uncover the truth lasted 10 years. Padre’s German a new hero into the country’s own company, PI Ironcat. Recently Paulius was selected to participate in FORMAT: DCP about his fellow countryman’s sponsor Baumann insists on history. the Emerging Producers 2015 workshop, Berlinale Talents 2015 and the LENGTH: 90 min/52 min mysterious life. their telepathic friendship, but MAIA 2015 workshop. PRODUCER: Paulius Juoceris cannot name a single detail of the As the investigation into PREVIOUS FILMS: ABC’s Of Death 2 (Part: Letter K-Knell), Alexander Ferdinand Bendoraitis missionary’s past. Bendoraitis’ life continues, his ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: horror, 7 min, 2014 (1919-1998), missionary and mysterious past before the jungle TADAS BOJARSKAS 15 Years Together, doctor, came to the remote jungle As the investigation progresses, is revealed: forged aristocratic Worked in A.Adamkus charity and support fund as documentary short, 35 min, 2014 Tricolour, area of Brazil in the early 1960s. He another side of El Padre Medico roots in Lithuania, a non-existent project manager for 8 years. Tadas area of expertise documentary feature, 83 min, 2013 became famous for establishing appears. The locals gossip about doctor’s diploma and shady are cultural and educational projects, management, Victim, drama short, 15 min, 2012 Book Smuggler, a boat-clinic network and two him being a Lithuanian prince activities during WWII in Europe. from development of an idea to distribution. Having adventure short, 40 min, 2011 modern hospitals, eventually and how he liked to show off: Thus the film’s characters face a experience working in PR company also proves saving thousands of natives and with a coat of arms carved dilemma – do they acknowledge invaluable in film production industry. Tadas has produced several DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: Vytautas Puidokas their tribes from extinction. around his mansion, a swimming the reality or live in an eternal documentaries and has experience in working with nontraditional PREVIOUS FILMS: Everyone referred to him as El pool, a private zoo and even a delusion? funding sources and PR/marketing strategies. Mission Siberia. Khakassia, documentary short, 44 min, 2013 Padre Medico and boldly claimed football team: FC Bendoraitis. The Best of Youth, that Bendoraitis could be globally The surviving archives give us a DIRECTOR: VYTAUTAS PUIDOKAS documentary short, 24 min, UK, 2011 compared to Albert Schweitzer hint of his godlike status for the After successfully graduating from the Film Studies Future Profession (12 episodes), TV show doc, 25 min, 2012 and Mother Theresa. But how Amazonian tribes. Yet Bendoraitis programme at the University of Surrey (UK), Vytautas is it that today he lies in his lost his entire jungle empire in was offered to direct a weekly TV show in Lithuania. YEAR OF RELEASE: End of 2016 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 260 000 tomb completely unknown and the course of one night. His foster In his 1.5 years in television, Vytautas has worked forgotten? child Francisco, the “millionaire’s as a director, scriptwriter and producer on various FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: son”, killed a doctor working in projects. His first mid-length documentary: Mission Lithuanian Film Centre (development) / EUR 13 791 Meetings with Bendoraitis’ Bendoraitis’ local hospital, and El Siberia. Khakassia, premiered on Lithuanian National Television (LRT). Lithuanian Film Centre (production) / former colleagues slowly Padre was accused of organizing Currently, he dedicates most of his time and energy to the development EUR 90 000 Private investors / Charity Foundation reveal the surreal atmosphere the crime. of the feature-length documentary El Padre Medico. Vytautas also directs Bėdų turgus / EUR 5 218 surrounding Bendoraitis as a educational films and works as a freelance director for TVC production Company investment Ironcat / historical figure. His right-hand Despite the horrific murder, companies. Recently Vytautas was selected to participate in the Archidoc crowdfunding EUR 13 470 Co-production company Lente Viva 20 man, Antenor, boasts of the the ‘cult’ of El Padre Medico still 2015 workshop by La Femis. Filmes / EUR 1 471 21 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

FATEI AND THE SEA

PRODUCTION COMPANY Proline Film was founded in 2004 by a famous Russian movie composer and producer Andrey Sigle. It cooperates with: Canal+, Mact Productions, Rezo Films (France), Downtown Pictures (Italy), Barrandov (Check Republic), Sagafilm (Iceland), Generator Post (Finland) and others. Our mission is to promote Russian Auteur Cinema worldwide. The Sun PROJECT TITLE: Fatei and the Sea (2005) directed by Alexander Sokurov was the first company’s project and PRODUCTION COMPANY: Proline Film premiered at 55th International Film Festival in Berlin. In 2006 the Proline COMPANY ADDRESS: Kamennoostrovsky pr., 29. of. 34, Film co-produced Serko – a French project by Joel Farges. In 2007 the St. Peterburg 197022, Russia company presented Alexandra at Cannes International Film Festival, a TELEPHONE: film by Alexander Sokurov. +7 91510 43410; +7 81223 31051 E-MAIL: [email protected] In the following year Proline Film released The Orchard by Sergey [email protected] Ovcharov premiered at Moscow IFF. In 2011 Faust by Alexander Sokurov SKYPE: milakud WEB: http://en.prolinefilm.ru/ his is the story of a man as much as he battles the sea. It’s who come at night in boats, won The Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival. In 2013 Proline Film who follows his dream, is a Sisyphean task. When Fatei is armed and ready to steal. The law presented a new film by Konstantin Lopushansky The Role, nominated SYNOPSIS a man who battles the quiet, the authorities do nothing. doesn’t protect a marine farmer. for the Best Film at Moscow International Film Festival. At the present Rikord Island situated off the south-east coast of Russia. Sea farmer Fatei struggles elements from the When he sounds the alarm, All his plantations are in federal moment Proline Film studio is working on a film Kharms by Ivan with the nature as well as the local Tdepths of the ocean to the lawless they promise to help and hold waters. And the rule for many Bolotnikov. authorities. In his work for the common land above. It’s about a man’s fight hearing after hearing. But when people is simple: if it belongs to wellbeing, he finds himself on the wrong side of the law. When a man fights for his for his dream and how he risks his he begins to get to the bottom of the state, it means it belongs to PRODUCER: ANDREY SIGLE dream, he risks more than his own life. life and the life of his family to see the problem himself, they threaten no one. The poachers are usually Born on May 15, 1964. Graduated from The Rimsky-Korsakov He puts his family at risk, too.

his dream come true. It’s about a him with jail. after the sea cucumbers, which Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music in Gothenburg (Sweden). LANGUAGE: Russian man who somehow manages to are a delicacy and effective cancer Has composed music for more than 40 films. Andrei Sigle’s creative work FORMAT: 1,66 keep his family and his business This is one of his main conflicts: treatment. Any attempt of the sea has been awarded with prizes of Russian and foreign festivals many LENGTH: 90 min safe – in spite of all the odds he tries to work to help others, farmer’s to defend themselves times. He’s a participant of international film forums of Cannes, Berlin PRODUCERS: against him. but in the process he finds might lead to a jail term. That has and Venice. He’s an Honoured Art Worker of Russian Federation (2006) Andrey Sigle, Mila Kudryashova PREVIOUS FILMS: Andrey Sigle himself on the other side of the already happened once – Fatei’s and a member of the European Film Academy (EFA). Arventour, animated feature, The hero of this film is called law. A law on marine farming son was sentenced to three years dir. Irina Evteeva, 2015 Gennady Podkorytov, but most was passed last year, but it is of probation for self-defense. The PRODUCER/SCRIPTWRITER: Faust, fiction, dir. Alexander Sokurov, 2011 people call him by the name of still incomplete. One question poachers have friends in high MILA KUDRYASHOVA Missing Man, fiction, his father – Fatei. When he retired, remains unanswered: is the farmer places. Graduated from Saint Petersburg State University, dir. Anna Fenchenko, 2010 Alexandra, fiction, he founded his own marine farm the owner of the products that Faculty of Journalism, Department of Radio and dir. Alexander Sokurov, 2007 on Rikord Island, the largest he grows in water owned by the Fatei’s children, Masha and Dima, Television. Executive producer and scriptwriter The Ugly Swans, fiction, uninhabited island in the Sea of state, or can everything be taken are the only people the farmer for more than 20 projects. Currently, a producer, dir., Konstantin Lopushansky, 2006 Japan. Fatei’s dream is a tough away from him at any moment? can trust. Fatei had once dreamed CEO at Capricorn-film. Member of Russian DIRECTOR: Alina Rudnitskaya one. All of his marine fields are Sea cucumbers and other marine of becoming a microbiologist – Union of Journalists, International Federation of Journalists, Union of PREVIOUS FILMS: under water, and it’s hard to put produce are in the Red Book, and and Dima became one. Masha Cinematographers of the Russian Federation. Victory Day, documentary, 2014 Blood, documentary, 2013 a price on the labor that he and any work with them is an offence. is also ready to support Fatei’s I Will Forget this Day, documentary, 2011 his family put in every day. The So the farmer can’t be certain that business – but it’s a hard burden DIRECTOR: ALINA RUDNITSKAYA SCRIPTWRITER: Mila Kudryashova elements are against him: fierce he has the right to what he grows. to bear, risking one’s life for the Born on December 31, 1976, Alina Rudnitskaya has PREVIOUS FILMS: storms cut off the island from The water where he farms can’t be right to dream. been directing documentaries since 2002. Winner Ships and Captains, documentary, 2014 the mainland with no way to get fenced off, since the waters and of the Lavr, Russian national award and the White Senator, Get Acquainted, documentary TV series, 2014 there or even to signal in case of everything in them belong to the But Fatei has not lost his spirit. Elephant award from the Russian Guild of Film Sochi: Hope & Suspense, emergency. Ocean waves pound government. The sea still draws him like a Critics. Her works have been shown worldwide documentary, 2013

the shores and they have their magnet. When he dives into this and won numerous prizes at festivals such as YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 messengers – the orcas bring good This gap in the legislation is magical world, the salt water Leipzig, IDFA, Madrid, Oberhausen, Toronto, Zagreb, Berlin, Belgrade, ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 198 000 news, the sharks – bad. But Fatei made us of. It’s much easier to washes away all his sorrows as Moscow and St.Petersburg. Rudnitskaya’s documentaries always have a FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: has found a common language rob and get wealthy on someone’s the underwater world reveals characteristic original perspective; she is interested not only in depicting Confirmed: EUR 39 600 with them. work than to put effort into its secrets and whispers lines of the facts of life but also in exploring the internal worlds of her characters. In negotiation: such a dubious endeavor. Fatei’s poetry. As long as Fatei has the sea, She succeeds in painting a vivid image of modern man while maintaining Saxonia Entertainment EUR 40 000 Applied for: Ministry of Culture of the 22 Fatei battles the local authorities Leviathan is a group of poachers, he has nothing to fear. a very personal and humanistic approach to each one of her stories. Russian Federation EUR 79 200 23 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

A House on the Barisovka

PRODUCTION COMPANY: ILLUME LTD. Illume Ltd. is a Finnish production company specializing in creative documentary filmmaking. The company was established in 1987 by filmmakers Pertti Veijalainen, Jouko Aaltonen and Heimo Lappalainen. Since then more than 100 productions have been completed, including twelve international co-productions. The company invests in developing entertaining, emotionally-engaging films that spark debate about society and politics in today’s world. Illume produces films for cinema and TV distribution as well as TV series. Illume films feature regularly in domestic festivals and they have won a number of prestigious awards worldwide. The company has received European Union MEDIA development slate funding three times, in 2003, 2010 and 2012.

PROJECT TITLE: ecades of experience outside the family home, feels the A bunch of stray dogs, fed by PRODUCER: MERJA RITOLA A House on the Barisovka with our neighbour situation is emotionally difficult, Sveta and the villagers, regularly Producer Merja Ritola has 15 years experience in PRODUCTION COMPANY: Illume Oy COMPANY ADDRESS: to the East, raises whereas Svetlana has a broader follow this outing. The advancing features and documentaries. She has participated Palkkatilankatu 7B, the same question view and philosophy. As Asja and entourage is accompanied by in several EAVE trainings during her career, most Helsinki FI00240, Finland TELEPHONE: Dover and over again: what’s going Vitali meet in family gatherings, barking behind every house and recently the Ties That Bind Asia-Europe Producers +358 9148 1489, +358 50593 7714 on in Russia? Following the there’s always the danger of dire gate. The alley is also the lifeline Workshop 2013. She completed her first feature film E-MAIL: [email protected] media wars from both sides, one conflict. of the house, with Sveta delivering as a producer Apeiron (Koskela Art & Media House/ SKYPE: merjaritola WEB: www.illume.fi can only venture to guess at the supplies in the family’s off-road dir. Maria Ruotsala/2013), which premiered at the Love and Anarchy FF situation. What does an ordinary The house is located in Northern vehicle. The scenes follow the 2013. She has previously served as Head of Production on the science SYNOPSIS What does an ordinary life seem and feel life feel like in Russia, amidst Moscow in the dacha area of calendar: New Year, spring, fiction film Iron Sky (Blind Spot Pictures/dir. Timo Vuorensola/2012). like in Russia, amidst the propaganda the propaganda war? How is it Mytischi, and is surrounded by summer, fall, winter, New Year. Currently, as producer, she completed the documentary film The Voice war? How is it possible to hold on to one’s possible to hold on to one’s own a tightly knit village community, Anecdotes punctuate the film: “A of Sokurov (Illume Oy/dir. Leena Kilpeläinen), which premiered at the own values when the message from the surrounding society is one of aggression values when the message from with its people, stray dogs and Russian babushka is asked why Locarno FF 2014, and worked as a line producer on Monsterman (Illume and of enemies lurking everywhere? the surrounding society is one of homeless cats. Piano sounds she follows the news so closely, as Oy/dir. Antti Haase/2014). LANGUAGE: Russian aggression and of enemies lurking often stream from the house, as it’s all lies and propaganda. She FORMAT: HD everywhere? both twins are professionals and answers: ‘I need to keep up with DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: LENGTH: 80 min play fourhanded. Their musician the world. I just turn everything I LEENA KILPELÄINEN PRODUCER: Merja Ritola The film follows the unfolding friends frequently drop by to give see and hear upside down’.” Leena, who grew up bilingually and started her PREVIOUS FILMS: of the Russian political situation pre-concert performances. The studies in 1986 at the Moscow film school VGIK, The Voice of Sokurov, documentary, Finland/Estonia/Germany, 2014 through a family in Moscow. The door is always open to people became a witness to Perestroika and the opening The Bicycle Man, short film, family consists of parents Vitali of all walks of life, and deep, up of the archives, when many forbidden films Finland/Sweden, 2014 and Klara, as well as 49-year-old philosophical discussions as well were screened publicly for the first time. Most of The Best Friend, novella film, 2014 Apeiron, feature film, 2013 twins Veronika (Nika) and Svetlana as heated debates on the future of Leena Kilpeläinen’s works are made in Russia: The Children of the Big (Sveta), and their older sister Asja. the country often take place - the Bear in Saha-Jakutia, On the Edge in the Tula area, and Whale Island in DIRECTOR/ SCRIPTWRITER: Leena Kilpeläinen Asja has two sons, but the twins goings-on closely observed by the the Solovtetsky Islands. Member of the administration of the Finnish PREVIOUS FILMS: are childless. The family is divided household’s three cats and dog. Documentary Guild from 2007; President of the guild, 2009-2010. Leena The Voice of Sokurov, documentary, into those opposing the aggressive The garden, which comes to life speaks fluent Russian. Finland/Estonia/Germany, 2014 As cinematographer: expansion, and those in favour. in the spring, is lovingly tended I Think, I Am, documentary, Vitali is a retired construction by Klara and her daughters. dir. A. Soisalon-Soininen, 2009 My Brother Juhani, short film, 2009 engineer, an ethnic Ukrainian Jew. The surrounding world only A Garden of Rousseau, documentary, He’s a strong opponent of Putin’s exists in TV broadcasts, eagerly dir. by R. Ahola, 2007 policies. The oldest daughter Asja, commented on by the family. Autumn Story, dance/short film, dir. by M. Lappalainen, 2007 a cultural intellectual living in St. Petersburg, is in turn a fanatic The area is dissected by an alley, YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 250 000 Putin fan. Mother Klara is from used by people and dogs alike, a Kazakh family and she often each according to their standing. FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: questions her husband’s views. The family dog Sherif is walked Script grant / The Finnish Film Foundation / Elina Kivihalme / 24 Veronika, the twin sister who lives around the village once a day. EUR 4 875 25 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

I Would Like To Tell You Everything

PRODUCTION COMPANY: PLESNAR & KRAUSS FILMS Plesnar & Krauss Films is a production company founded by Joanna Plesnar and Maria Krauss in 2012. After working together for many years, the idea to establish a company came naturally. The company specializes in international co-productions (with a very wide spectrum of PROJECT TITLE: genres), and film services at each stage of production. Their passions and I Would Like To Tell You Everything PRODUCTION COMPANY: interests are reflected in the films that have already been made, and those Plesnar & Krauss Films currently in the works. COMPANY ADDRESS: Wiktorska 8 lok. 3, Warsaw 02-587, Poland PRODUCER: MARIA KRAUSS TELEPHONE: +48 60593 5018 Maria Krauss (1981) is a filmmaker and historian. E-MAIL: [email protected] SKYPE: marykrauss Graduated in history at Warsaw University, has also he film’s three The video-letters of Mariusz, worked as a literary magazine and book editor. SYNOPSIS protagonists did not Daniel and Marek to their Collaborated with historical institutions such as In every human being love for his child is deeply encoded. This movie is about choose to be isolated children are the skeleton of the the Historical Museum of Warsaw. In 2007 began to parental love that desires to be fulfilled, from their children for film. They sit alone in front of the work with film producer Ozumi Films. In 2012, with but was suddenly interrupted; about three men – fathers who haven’t seen Tmany years – they are hardened camera, looking straight into the Joanna Plesnar, founded the production company Plesnar & Krauss Films. their children for over a decade. criminals, all serving long- lens, talking to their children and term prison sentences. Their dealing with crucial questions: do DIRECTOR: LANGUAGE: Polish/English subtitles FORMAT: HD relationship with their children they deserve to be fathers to their Gregory ZVIKA PORTNOY LENGTH: 79 min is the only dimension of their children? If yes, what can they Zvika Portnoy is a graduate of photography at the PRODUCER: Maria Krauss innocence that has not yet been do for them? Is it even possible Academy of Art and Design Bezalel (2007, Jerusalem) PREVIOUS FILMS: ruined. after years of isolation and lack and the Faculty of Direction of Photography and The Yatzkans, dir. Anna Yatzkan, of contact? The more we hear, Film Direction at the Sam Spiegel School for Cinema documentary, France, 2014 (line producer) Marek was a professional the more we can open to their (2011, Jerusalem). Member of the Israeli Association We Film The People, dir. A. Szczepanska, financial offender. Mariusz hit emotions. of Photographers. Author of photographic and video-art exhibitions (A documentary, France/Poland, 2014 (executive producer) a man to death. Daniel almost Moment Before Leaving in Jerusalem, Israeli Beauty in Tel Aviv). DOP Salt, dir. Maria Lloyd, documentary stop killed his ex-wife with a knife, We will observe a dramatic on a number of shorts and feature diploma films and documentaries. frame animation, Norway/UK/Poland, the mother of his only kid. What transition from people who are Since 2011 has lived and worked in Poland. DOP on world-acclaimed 2013 (co-producer) Bloody Daughter, dir. Stephanie Argerich, connects them is that they all acting (because this is what a documentary 15 Corners of the World directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz. documentary, France/Switzerland 2012, came to the realization that they prison is about: to act, to pretend, (line producer)

want to change. But it’s a long and to hide your true self as emotions DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: painful process. are weakness), to people who Gregory Zvika Portnoy connect more deeply to their PREVIOUS FILMS: No Reason to Leave, documentary short, They are ordinary human beings emotions. The reason behind this Poland, 18 min, 2012 with no intellectual background. film is to see and feel this flicker Together, documentary short, Israel, 14 min In the beginning the words “I love of truth in a father’s love for his A Moment Before Leaving, you” are not filled with emotions. lost child. documentary short, Israel, 23 min When their words are finally full The Diary, documentary short, Israel, 27 min of true love, they fall into despair. Israeli Beauty, Why? Because they realize their documentary short, Israel, 3 min love has no recipient. The end YEAR OF RELEASE: 2016 is tragic. Life is passing by. They ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 75 000 struggle to change themselves FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: and prove to their children they Plesnar & Krauss Films company are good people, but this brings investment / EUR 14 355 Sybllafilm, co-producer, confirmed, in forth a painful fact: they win – but kind / EUR 4 785 the victory is to realize and accept Krakow Film Klaster / EUR 2 392 the loss. Miejskie Centrum Kultury / EUR 2 154 Polish Film Institute / funding EUR 51 314 26 (applied July 2015/decision Sept 2015) 27 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Knutification

PRODUCTION COMPANIES: MOJO RAISER / POMEGRANDE The film is produced by a group of three production companies. The main producer is The Mojo Raiser Production (producer Guna Stahovska) in association with Pomegrande Production (producer Krišjānis Kirilovs), and producers Sanda Zālamane and Jānis Klimanovs. The Mojo Raiser Production was established in 2011, with a main focus on emotionally touching and edgy stories in every genre. Bringing a new, fresh approach to filmmaking in Latvia, using high quality shooting and supplementing documentary reality with artistic atmosphere shots and visualisations is PROJECT TITLE: Knutification the centrepiece of the filming method. PRODUCTION COMPANY: Mojo Raiser Production/Pomegrande Productions COMPANY ADDRESS: PRODUCER: GUNA STAHOVSKA Veldres str. 1-14, Riga LV1064, Latvia his film aims to provoke as seen through Knuts’ ironic The Great Gulag Before establishing her own company, producer TELEPHONE: +371 2947 3007 a review of one’s own eyes, the desire for freedom is Knuts returns from the prison Guna Stahovska worked as the film development E-MAIL: [email protected] existence and place reborn. Knuts restarts his life as camp recovered, yet drained. He is producer at Platforma Studio since 2004. She SKYPE: gunigunda1 in this world through a decent citizen with a wife and a full of vigour to continue his work, participated on Defenders Of Riga (2007) and WEB: mojoraiserproduction.com Tthe prism of the Zeitgeist and proper job as a newspaper editor. but is once again disappointed. Rudolf’s Gold (2010), produced director Rolands SYNOPSIS personality of the poet Knuts He writes poetry and is actively While he has reshaped himself, Kalniņš’ feature Bitter Wine (2007)); was an Knutificationis a deep and thorough Skujenieks – revealing the eternal involved in the reformation of society turns out to be passively associate producer on Egils Mednis’ animated short The Ship (Svešas record of the views and teachings of a genius. It serves as a historical and struggle of a strong personality the Writers’ Union, and has no standing on the spot and sinking Tehnoloģijas, 2006); and produced director Roberts Rubīns’ award- cultural account of the crucial stages in coming to terms with a society suspicion of how much the world in stagnation and desperation. winning documentary How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming? (2010, Juris the evolution of moral and human values in the post-Soviet space, and a story and system in which an individual has changed since the death Knuts appears as a modernist who Podnieks Studio). Since 2011 she runs her own company, The Mojo Raiser about a poet who embodies these values. is seen as the minimum, never the of Stalin. Knuts is then falsely has broken away from everyone, Production, focusing on film development and production of every genre maximum value. Knuts Skujenieks sentenced to seven years in and becomes the new rebellious suitable for international co-productions. Projects have included co- LANGUAGE: Latvian FORMAT: 16:9 is not a macro revolutionary prison camp. and un-publishable luminary producing the debut feature of young Latvian talent Andris Gauja, The LENGTH: 75 min aiming to change the system, but attracting emerging poets around Lesson (2014); and the development of several feature film projects such PRODUCER: Guna Stahovska rather a micro rebel in his own Gulag him. Though an inspiration to as The Apartments, written by Mārtiņš Slišāns (the script won the 2012 PREVIOUS FILMS: inner world. This is the becoming of Knuts. others, he still feels oppressed by Krzysztof Kieslowski Award at Cannes FF for best screenplay from Eastern The Lesson, fiction, 2014 As Knuts is torn away from his the Soviet system. and Central Europe). How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming? documentary, 2010 The Present everyday, he is forcefully faced The Bitter Wine, fiction, 2007 Knuts Skujenieks – an old with existential questions: what Freedom DIRECTOR: IVARS TONTEGODE The Ship, short animation, 2006 man, weary, physically ill, is life and the purpose of it all? Without Soviet ideology, people Ivars Tontegode received the Latvian National Award ASSOCIATED PRODUCERS: contemplating death. A man, While in the Soviet prison camp, are left without direction and are Lielais Kristaps for his short filmObsession , and then Krišjānis Kirilovs, Sanda Zālamane who has given so much to the Knuts starts to lose any sense of now juggling between Western directed a full-length feature The Mushroomers. DIRECTOR: Ivars Tontegode world with his craft, has survived importance of the surrounding and Eastern values. Tragically, He is widely known for his urge to experiment and PREVIOUS FILMS: censorship, repression, the world, and instead – he finds the loss of the Soviet Union as depict the inner struggle and evolution of strong Mushroomers, comedy feature, 2013 Obsession, comedy short, 2009 banning of his art. He is now himself. Poetry becomes Knuts, an existential antagonist has personalities in a highly creative and modern manner. Casting, drama short, 2008 recognized and rehabilitated and Knuts becomes poetry; he affected Knuts and he, along with from the now non-existent Soviet becomes his own words, creating other artists, has stopped writing. SCRIPTWRITERS: SCRIPTWRITER/EDITOR: Ivars Tontegode, Jānis Klimanovs system. A man who wants to see his own world. In its absurdity, Although Knuts is aware of his JĀNIS KLIMANOVS PREVIOUS FILMS: Jānis Klimanovs the fruits of his creative labour the prison camp, instead of respected status in society, he is Jānis Klimanovs is a Latvian photographer and Weathering Love, drama short, 2013 before his death, he accepts the being a rehabilitation facility, liberated from any illusions by filmmaker born in 1986. In 2013 he graduated YEAR OF RELEASE: Early 2016 adoration with dignity. has turned out to be a factory his humbling experiences in the with a Masters in Media Design (Lens-based ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 80 000 producing unique and strong Gulag. Despite the absurdity of Media) from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: The Becoming personalities. The weakness in the world billowing around Knuts, The Netherlands. His graduation short film The State Culture Capital Foundation of The life of Knuts as illustrated Soviet power is revealed, as the his fortress still stands against a Weathering Love participated in several international festivals, receiving Latvia / EUR 15 200 National Film Centre of Latvia / through chronicles, camp’s purpose – to destroy its transient world. His views of the awards and nominations for best film. EUR 6 000 simultaneously reflecting the ideological opponents – instead future are rigid and severe, yet State Municipality of Kekava, Latvia / naive totalitarianism ideals of makes empowers them. without the lost generation’s usual EUR 2 000 State Municipality of Salaspils, Latvia / 28 the time. With the death of Stalin, bitterness. EUR 3 999 29 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Leningrad Symphony

PRODUCTION COMPANY: BEETZ BROTHERS FILMS PRODUCTIONS Beetz brothers film productions has produced more than 120 high-quality feature documentaries for the international market and, according to the leading industry publication Realscreen, is one of the top 100 most important independent production companies worldwide. The company’s PROJECT TITLE: Leningrad Symphony productions compete regularly at all international A-festivals, and have won PRODUCTION COMPANY: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion numerous respected awards, including: three Grimme Awards, the Cinema COMPANY ADDRESS: for Peace Award, three British Independent Awards, the Prix Europa, the Eppendorfer Weg 93a, Hamburg 20259, HotDocs Filmmakers Award, and the IDFA Special Jury Award. In 2013, the Germany TELEPHONE: +49 40769 73070 beetz brothers’ co-production Open Heart was nominated for an Academy E-MAIL: [email protected] Award®. In 2014, the documentary The Wagner Files was nominated for an WEB: www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/ company International Emmy® Award for Best Arts Programming. uring the Leningrad the middle of a war, they commit For the first time, the informative Many of our films emerge in the course of international co-productions SYNOPSIS Blockade, themselves to the mission of and emotionally gripping and are aimed at a broad audience. We regularly work with all national and Leningrad Blockade. Conductor Eliasberg receives an assignment: surrounded by conductor Karl performing a symphony that docudrama Leningrad Symphony international public broadcasters – ranging from ARD, ZDF and ARTE, to death, he must conduct Shostakovich’s Eliasberg receives the renowned composer Dmitri puts one of the most unbelievable almost all European and North American broadcasters, such as BBC, the 7th Symphony with his orchestra. He accomplishes the impossible, and for Dan unbelievable assignment: Shostakovich is composing during concerts in history and its Smithsonian Channel and WNET. The main focus is documentary content in a moment the war is interrupted as the surrounded by hunger, cold, the siege. The initial situation is protagonists at the centre of a the fields of history, culture, and society. Leningrad Symphony wafts through the and death, he must conduct bleak: only 15 surviving members film. Our heroes’ weapon is art, Since 2007 we have complemented our cinematic content with cross- city all the way to the German trenches. It is a symbolic triumph of art over the Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony of the orchestra remain. Half which proves mightier than any media formats such as web campaigns, apps for tablet PCs and smart savagery of war. with his surviving orchestra. starved, the conductor is brought bomb or gun. phones, web documentaries, media events and books. In order to reach our LANGUAGE: English/German Against all odds, he accomplishes to rehearsals on a child’s sleigh, target audience, we work together with an interdisciplinary team from FORMAT: HD the impossible, and for a short during which the emaciated the games, mobile and web sector. In particular, the award-winning, LENGTH: 90 min/2x52 min moment the war is interrupted musicians periodically faint. exceptionally comprehensive cross-media project Farewell Comrades! PRODUCER: Reinhardt Beetz by the sounds of the Leningrad Interactive set new standards for the documentary market. With our tri- PREVIOUS FILMS: Symphony wafting through the A second storyline follows the media project Make Love (TV, web, radio) we produced a format that was Hostages of the SS, 2x52 min, docudrama, ZDF, ZDF/ARTE, RAI, 2014 city all the way to the German events through the eyes of the outstandingly successful: with the 5-part TV series we achieved a rate of more Four Seasons, 20x43 min / 4x52 min, trenches. This is the heroic story German Wehrmacht who, having than 1.5 million viewers; for the website (www.make-love.de), we counted more TV series, MDR, SWR, NDR, Arte, 2014 of an orchestra and the symbolic learned of the Russians’ plan than 2.2 million visitors since its release. Viking Women, 2x52 min, TV series / docudrama, NDR, Fabelaktiv, Luckyday, triumph of art over the savagery to perform the symphony, will Arte, Servus TV, NRK, SVT and DR, 2013 of war. September 8th, 2016, will do all in their might to prevent PRODUCER: REINHARDT BEETZ The Medici Files, 2x52 min, TV series / docudrama, ZDF, ORF, Arte, 2012 mark the 75th anniversary of it from happening. The powers Reinhardt Beetz is the executive producer and managing Munchausen – The Truth Behind the Lies, the beginning of the Leningrad that be suddenly wrestle for the director of Gebrueder Beetz Media GmbH. Reinhardt 1x52 min, docudrama, NDR and Arte, Blockade. performance of a concert. It has over 20 years of experience in the international 2012 carries such symbolism for Stalin’s market. His main focus lies in developing and producing DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: September 1941: German forces regime that the Red Army sends for prime time slots including high quality re-enactments, Tilman Remme PREVIOUS FILMS: are amassed outside Leningrad the musical score via special like the 5-part series From Pioneers To Millionaires or Bible Hunters, 2x60 min, BBC2 / when the order comes straight plane to Leningrad, breaking Saving The Titanic, as well as developing new formats. Smithsonian Networks, 2014 from the Führer’s headquarters: the air blockade, and smuggles Mafia Rules, 1x25 min, docudrama, Pilote History Channel, 2014 not a single German soldier will additional musicians from the DIRECTOR: TILMAN REMME Inside the Gangster Code – The Grypser set foot in Leningrad, as the front lines into the besieged city. Tilman Remme is an award-winning writer, producer/director, executive Gang, 1x44 min, presented by Lou Ferrante Discovery Channel, 2013 Luftwaffe and the artillery are to Finally, a diversionary manoeuvre producer and series producer with a strong track record in factually based Ken Follett’s Journey into the Dark Ages, raze it to the ground. The ensuing by the Red Army enables a dramas, drama-docs and documentaries. Tilman worked for the BBC for 2x46 min, Channel 4 UK, Sat 1, 2012 blockade lasting 872 days is one seamless performance that is 15 years before pursuing a career as an independent filmmaker in 2004. Raiding Russia, 1x60 min, docudrama, 2011 of the worst catastrophes of broadcast via radio in all of Russia Highlights include the multi-award-winning series The Nazis, A Warning WWII, claiming nearly 1 million and, as a means of psychological from History, the BAFTA and RTS nominated BBC1 blockbuster Colosseum, YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 1 251 000 lives. We witness the blockade warfare, via loudspeakers all the the factual drama, Blackbeard, the Real Pirate of the Caribbean, the award- through the eyes of the members way to the German soldiers in the winning Legends of the Crystal Skulls and the ground-breaking Earth Under FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: of the Leningrad radio orchestra trenches outside Leningrad. Water on future sea level rise, shown in 50 countries around the world. His Creative Europe, MEDIA Development / EUR 25 000 30 and conductor Karl Eliasberg. In recent, Inside the Gangster Code, was runner-up at the Grierson Awards 2013. NDR / Marc Brasse / EUR 600 000 31 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Mary’s Journey

PRODUCTION COMPANY: VIVAT! Founded in 2008, VIVAT! is an organization initiating and carrying out audiovisual projects. The founder and company head – Elvita Ruka – has worked in the Latvian film industry for 15 years as a producer and scriptwriter at various production companies. Elvita Ruka produces her ideas and collaborates with acknowledged film professionals on the basis of a common philosophy of life and attitude towards crucial issues. In 2014, the film Restart (26 min) was completed (financed by the National Film Centre of Latvia and Latvian Television). Simultaneously, with the support of the Latvian National Film Centre and EURODOC, the development of the documentary Inheritors (Mantinieki) commenced. The studio unites personalities with common views and willingness to create human, vital, tenacious films, not avoiding existential questions about the meaning of 944. Riga, Latvia. There is a in the private diaries of Mary’s any pathos, about individual life. The project Mary’s Journey is exactly about that – about the heroism of break point in WWII – the mother – dubbed The Black choice, personal responsibility a woman led by her ideals. PROJECT TITLE: Mary’s Journey Soviet army approaches Notebooks – found after her death. and selflessness. Mary’s destiny, PRODUCTION COMPANY: VIVAT! the Nazi-occupied Latvian Why does a young, educated in spite of its dramatic nature, PRODUCER: ELVITA RUKA COMPANY ADDRESS: Ķeguma 14-1, Rīga LV1006, Latvia 1capital. While retreating, German woman from a family of artists, is enviable, as she knows the With a filmography comprised of more than 10 remarkable films released TELEPHONE: +371 2949 7277 occupation forces are eager to diplomats, entrepreneurs, and answer to the question about the before 2009 by different production companies, Elvita Ruka founded E-MAIL: [email protected] take with them the valuables clergymen, and with close relatives purpose of life. She completed VIVAT! in order to work independently. The first large-scale international WEB: www.elvita.lv from Latvian museums. 35-year- abroad return to her homeland, an act of heroism in the name of project was 15 Mad Sheep, supported by the European Culture SYNOPSIS old museum employee, Mary now a part of the USSR? How can higher ideals, neither awaiting nor Foundation and other European organizations. It was aimed to mark the A year and a half in the boots of Mary, a Latvian, who travels across a Europe Grinberga, is the only one who she continue her life in Latvia – receiving gratitude. 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Elvita Ruka returned destroyed by WWII, guarding the volunteers to accompany the forced to work at a factory, her to documentary production in 2014. cultural treasures removed from Latvian train containing the unique family’s apartment taken and museums by the Nazis. A docudrama about a controversial character and Latvian cultural treasures. It is nationalized, and now full of DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: situation. hard to imagine what it meant strangers? KRISTĪNE ŽELVE LANGUAGE: Latvian/English/Russian for a young woman at that time A proficient, delicate and very patient professional FORMAT: 16 mm to travel all alone through seven The film is an attempt to restore focused on intricate themes. A surprisingly versatile LENGTH: 70 min war-torn European countries for Mary’s journey and reveal and intelligent director, she is known in Latvia as a PRODUCER: Elvita Ruka a year and a half… Though there unknown facts from that period. “cultural icon” for her 10 years of work at the leading PREVIOUS FILMS: were attempts to plunder the A symbol of the journey – a pair culture telecast at Latvian Television. Kristīne has Restart, documentary, 26 min, 2014 Against The Wind, valuables along the way, Mary of boots held together by thirty decided to devote herself fully to directing – she offers cinematic portraits documentary, 90 min, 2011 managed to protect the exhibits. nails, in which she walked across of remarkable personalities on TV and works in the documentary genre, What Makes A Man, She accomplished her mission and Europe. currently focusing on Mary’s Journey and its psychological nuances. documentary, 90 min, 2009 Checnya. No Politics, returned to Soviet Riga. However Her most acclaimed film is Fedya – an international co-production that documentary, 52, 2007 – instead of gratitude – she was A docudrama - merging authentic was supported by MEDIA in 2009. The film was nominated for Best Worm, documentary, 71, 2004

dismissed from her position at the period footage, photographic Documentary and Best Scriptwriter for the Latvian national film festival HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT: museum and treated as a suspect, stills of Mary and her family, Lielais Kristaps. Asnāte Vasiļjeva ordered to write explanations press clippings and paintings in DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: to the State Security authorities. a cinematographic combination HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT: Kristīne Želve Mary’s hair fell out due to the with dramatized re-enactments ASNĀTE VASIĻJEVA PREVIOUS FILMS: Fedya, documentary, 52 min, 2012 stress and sorrow; yet, nothing using actors. The plot will be With an academic background in philosophy and Wives, documentary, 54 min, 2008 could change her warm and based on the diaries combined law, Asnāte switched from the position of senior Blonde Stories, documentary, generous character. with historical context – expert in international relations within government 52 min, 2003 A fulfilling life prior to the newspaper articles, historical structures to the sector of culture projects, public YEAR OF RELEASE: 2018 occupations is documented in facts and footage, archival files, relations and literary translations. Lately she has ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 260 000 chronicles and journals, as is the and interviews with some still- undertaken a new challenge as head of development in film production. FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: pitiful existence during Soviet living witnesses. She has more than 15 years of experience in organizing film events and Latvian National Film Centre / times – in the records left by the executing tasks of project-development, management, marketing, public EUR 12 000 (development) Creative Europe MEDIA Development 32 Committee of State Security, and A story about heroism without relations and interpretation in a number of festivals in Latvia. (submitted) 33 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Olga, Go Home!

PRODUCTION COMPANY: DOPPELPLUSULTRA Doppelplusultra is a film production company based in Hamburg, founded in 2000 by Frank Müller and Kerstin Reich. Our varied production includes documentaries, media art, short films, corporate films and music videos. We are especially proud of our track record in post-production. The experience with different genres, styles and production methods enables us to tread new paths in form and content. We try to challenge conventional methods of film production just as much as we try to cross the lines between various cinematographic and artistic forms of aesthetic expression. The films we have produced or participated in have been featured at numerous international festivals and have won several awards.

What?! Still unmarried at Or does the patriarch confuse the I will watch how the younger PRODUCER: FRANK MÜLLER your age? That’s not good. family’s happiness with his own generation is torn between Filmmaker and avid-editor Frank Müller is one of Without a man you are no interests? traditional values and dreams of the two founders and the Commercial Director at woman!!“ While staying self-fulfilment. Doppelplusultra. Frank Müller (born in 1969 in in“ Onon-Borzia, a small Siberian I will have a closer look while Mainz), after his cinema studies in Moscow, took PROJECT TITLE: Olga Go Home! village one thousand kilometres living with my cousins Oleg and In a humorous and intimate part in many international film productions and won (Siberian Love) East of Lake Baikal, I often hear Sasha, and their large families manner, I will document how numerous awards for his movies. PRODUCTION COMPANY: Doppelplusultra critical comments concerning in Onon-Borzia. As the richest these experiences affect me, and COMPANY ADDRESS: Repsoldstraße 45, my relationship status. There, my farmer, Sasha not only dominates my Western ideal of relationships. DIRECTOR: OLGA DELANE Hamburg 20097, Germany TELEPHONE: +49 17277 88135 relatives live a simple life shaped the village, but also his women And, who knows, perhaps I will Olga Delane, born in 1977 in Krasnokamensk, is E-MAIL: [email protected] by traditional values. “A woman (wife and three daughters), while even fall in love with a Siberian a photographer, editor and director. During the SKYPE: doppelplusultra must bear children; that is what Oleg and Ljuba live a pragmatic man and find out firsthand what last five years she has taken several trips through WEB: www.doppelplusultra.de she is here for!” “Isn’t that a bit too and simple life without any space Siberian love is all about. Siberia for her photo, video and movie projects. Her SYNOPSIS stereotypical?” I ask in return. for romance – or so it seems. first documentary feature-length film: Endstation Russian-German director Olga Delane returns home to her native country to the Krasnokamensk – Ein Heimatbesuch (Final desolate Siberian village of Onon-Borzja. Discussions on role models, I will show how the complex Destination Krasnokamensk) ran successfully in many German art Here she examines the entanglement of traditions, personal freedom relationships and role models house cinemas. the villagers’ relationships and confronts them with her questions about love. (career or family), continue within these families have passionately, until my relatives developed over several LANGUAGE: German/Russian FORMAT: HD even deploy the Russian language generations, and how they are LENGTH: 80 min to make their ultimate point: changing. Intimate conversations the Russian word for marrying with the people of the village will PRODUCER/SCRIPTWRITER: Frank Müller (becoming / being a wife), замужем complement my observations. PREVIOUS FILMS: (zamujem), literally means behind Provincial Girls 2.0, documentary, HD, 90 min, Austria, 2014 (za) the man (mujem). I will speak with young girls who Lapiths and Centaurs, experimental film, have recently fallen madly in love, HD, 3 min, 2013 A challenge! Especially when and listen to old women talk of Herr Schulz sticht in See / Mr. Schultz sets Sail, documentary, HD, 21 min, 2012 comparing this relationship ideal the long gone loves of their lives, Provincial Girls, documentary, 35mm, with my life in Berlin. Because back when they were infinitely 30 min, 1996 zamujem not only means that the young. I will observe the village DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: wife humbly walks five metres people in their daily lives, and sit Olga Delane behind the husband, but also that with them for hours to talk about PREVIOUS FILMS: End Station Krasnokamensk. Motherland the husband will stand in front of their (love) lives. Visits, documentary, HD, 90 min, 2013 his wife, protecting her, and giving YEAR OF RELEASE: Nov 2016 her security. There is certainly I will observe how men get their ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 132 000 something to be said for that. But way with the women, how the is it really like that? Does this ideal women cope, and how they FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: Arte/RBB Lucarne / Dagmar Mielke / 34 really exist in Siberian villages? nevertheless dominate the men. EUR 25 000 35 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Paradise Behind the Fence

PRODUCTION COMPANY: AMRION Amrion is a production company founded by Riina Sildos in 2003 to produce high quality feature films and documentaries for local and international cinema and TV markets. The main aim is to make international co-productions with young, promising talent as well as accomplished directors. What all the projects have in common is the filmmakers’ personal vision, both in regard to subject matter as well as visual aspects. Besides the creative criteria Amrion develops projects with a clear audience profile. Amrion has produced four documentary films: Wounds of Afghanistan (2005), Is the Best Enough (2005), Lieutenant, Von PROJECT TITLE: Paradise Behind the Fence and the Manor of Leetse (2006), and Viru. The Embassy of Freedom (2013), PRODUCTION COMPANY: Amrion OÜ and eight features: box office hit Mat the Cat (2005), multi-award winning COMPANY ADDRESS: Nurme 45, Tallinn 11616, Estonia youth drama The Class (2007), I Was Here (2008), The Poll Diaries (2010), TELEPHONE: +372 677 6363 his is a story about of the Olympic facilities took Hella W (2011), Une Estonienne à Paris (2012), Kertu. Love is Blind (2013), E-MAIL: [email protected] Estonians in the place in the territory of the I Won’t Come Back (2014) and a short film, Pink Cardigan (2014). WEB: www.amrion.ee Caucasus, about one Estonian village. SYNOPSIS small nation in the PRODUCER: RIINA SILDOS The Russian resort town Sochi was chosen as the venue of the 2014 Winter Thuge Russian Federation. It is We monitored the changes and Riina Sildos established Amrion Productions in 2003, Olympic Games. President Putin also a story about nature and technological developments in and is active in the development and production promised enough snow, big investments technological progress, and the the region over 7 years, between of high quality feature films and documentaries for and a new way of life. What then is the afterlife like in the ancient villages in this ordinary people who inhabited 2008 and 2014. This film portrays local and international cinema and TV markets. Her unique ecological environment that was the tiny mountain villages of Esto- two opposite worlds and their productions include the internationally awarded stormed by massive construction and thousands of tourists? Sadok and Krasnaya Polyana in the rhythms. On one hand the Sochi drama The Class (2007, national Oscar nomination in Sochi region before the Olympic summer resort transforms into 2007), the box-office hit I Was Here (2008), successful animation features LANGUAGE: Russian storm that affected their lives. the 2014 Olympic Winter Games Lotte from Gadgetville (2006) and Lotte and the Moonstone Secret (2011), FORMAT: HD LENGTH: 60 min venue. But on the other hand, and the dramas The Poll Diaries (2010) and Hella W (2011). In 1871, 63 Estonian families left there is insight into this almost- As the former Head of the Estonian Film Foundation Riina Sildos PRODUCER: Riina Sildos PREVIOUS FILMS: their homeland on the shores on forgotten part of Estonian history. has extensive knowledge and experience in international financing I Won’t Come Back, drama, Estonia, the Baltic Sea, the area nowadays and marketing and is one of the most recognized persons in Baltic Russia, Finland, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, known as the Republic of Estonia. Valter, the spokesman for film industry. She is a national representative of Estonia at EAVE and 2014 Viru. The Embassy of Freedom, They fled from poverty and the Estonians, is a down-to- a member of ACE and the European Film Academy. Riina is also the documentary, Estonia, Finland, 2013 hopelessness in search of a better earth, dynamic, talkative and member of the board of international co-production market Baltic Event, Kertu. Love is Blind, drama, Estonia, 2013 A Lady in Paris, drama, Estonia, France, life. After 13 years of wandering, charismatic character who takes and the head of the B’EST training program. In 2008 Riina Sildos was Belgium, 2012 37 families found a new home an active part in the local social awarded the Estonian national Order of the White Star for outstanding The Poll Diaries, drama, Estonia, and settled in this very remote life. Through him we get to know work in Estonian cinema. Germany, Austria, 2010 region of the Caucasus Mountains the other inhabitants of the DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: where they founded the village villages – they turn out to be a DIRECTOR: ALJONA SURŽIKOVA Aljona Suržikova PREVIOUS FILMS: of Esto-Sadok (Estonian Garden) lively, robust, headstrong bunch. Aljona Suržikova is a director of short documentaries The Bachelor and Volga, and began to farm. They thought and documentary features and TV broadcasts. documentary, 2014 they had reached paradise – vast The local Estonians had been Education – Tallinn University, television direction, Not My Land, documentary, 2013 Singing Nadezhda, documentary, 2011 areas ripe for farming, offering living like this for more than BA in Film and Video / St. Petersburg State University Miss Robinson, documentary, 2009 everything needed for a happy 130 years, but the villages for Film Industry and Television, director of Semjon Shkolnikov’s War and Peace, documentary, 2008 life. Today the village inhabitants were facing destruction in documentaries, MA. She has made broadcasts and are trying hard to preserve their the face of technical progress documentaries for the following channels: ETV & ETV2 (Estonia), Kanal2 YEAR OF RELEASE: 2015 cultural roots and customs, as and development of the area. (Estonia), Kanal Kultura (Russia), TV5 (Russia). ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 185 007 most villagers have intermarried Tractors tearing down 200 year- FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: with Russians. old trees, people crying, gardens Estonian Film Institute / EUR 50 000 Cultural Endowment of Estonia / demolished, emptiness replacing EUR 25 000 In 2007 Russia won the right to life. In the end the inhabitants Wien Film Fund / EUR 50 000 hold the Olympic Games in Sochi have no other choice than to look Austrian co-producer / EUR 5 988 Amrion OÜ / EUR 8 519 36 and its vicinity. The construction on from behind the fence. Creative Europe MEDIA / EUR 45 000 37 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

People, Animals And Things

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MENO AVILYS NGO Meno Avilys has been operating in the area of film education and heritage since 2005. In 2006 it initiated the first national film education project in Lithuania: Film at My School. The company publishes film compilations on DVD, which are accompanied by teaching guides. In 2009 Meno Avilys became a member of the international video education network Viducate, and organised the European Video Education Forum (2009) in Vilnius. Since 2014 Meno Avilys is a member of two European projects within the framework of Audience Development: A Framework for Film Education in Europe led by BFI (UK), and Moving Cinema led by A Bao A Qu (Spain). Since 2015, Meno Avilys has begun working in film production with the aim to promote the Lithuanian film industry and work with young filmmakers. the current era will also reflect wider aspects of in a memory of his glorious past, PROJECT TITLE: of re-creation human communication; humans finds it as an opportunity to prove PRODUCER: GIEDRĖ BUROKAITĖ People, Animals and Things PRODUCTION COMPANY: Meno Avilys and re-design, living among people, animals and to other stuffed animal masters In 2004 Giedrė Burokaitė graduated with a BA COMPANY ADDRESS: Vilniaus 39, taxidermy as things. that he is still a professional in Cultural History and Anthropology at Vilnius Vilnius, Lithuania TELEPHONE: +370 6752 1161 aIn craft reflects one of the major taxidermist. Kęstutis, who is University. In 2015 she graduated with a MA in E-MAIL: [email protected] social conflicts. Can we restore There are two main criteria in affected by existential crisis, Film Producing from the Lithuanian Academy of WEB: http://menoavilys.org and re-create everything? Can we a taxidermy competition: the participates in the taxidermist Music and Theatre. Giedrė now works as a junior SYNOPSIS bring life back to something dead? animal’s posture and gaze. In the championships to find himself producer in the production company Fralita Films In 1998, three Lithuanian taxidermists words of a master of stuffed birds and trigger his creativity. This (since 2012), and as a cinema project manager and producer in the media won first prize at the World Taxidermy Championships. Right after the The film tells a story of 3 and animals: “Anyone who is not spring the masters plan to rent education centre and production company, Meno Avilys (since 2008). She competition, the trio disbanded and taxidermists who are traveling afraid of blood can pick out the a vehicle all together in order has produced a number of short films and is currently working on her stopped talking to each other. After 17 to a taxidermy championship. brains, guts and meat, but not to head for the Taxidermy first feature. years, the taxidermists are still battling it out in every competition. But whose However this story has another, everyone can produce proper Championships in the town of “posture” and “gaze” are more important philosophical level. It is somehow posture”. Oulu in Finland 1200 km away DIRECTOR: AISTĖ ŽEGULYTĖ in this fight – those of the stuffed animal or the craftsman? fascinating, paradoxical situation, from Lithuania. Aistė Žegulytė was born in 1986 in Panevėžys, when taxidermists are killing 16 years ago, Vasilijus, Egidijus and Lithuania, where she graduated from high school LANGUAGE: Lithuanian animals and then trying to create Kęstutis, as a team of taxidermists In this journey the animal exhibits, and the Fine Arts School. From 2006 - 2009 she FORMAT: RED, 4:3 LENGTH: 60 min life again. To keep something that representing Lithuania, won first traveling together, become studied Photographic Technology at the Vilnius is already gone. prize at the World Taxidermy protagonists as well. Their lifeless University of Applied Engineering Sciences. In 2009 PRODUCER: Giedrė Burokaitė PREVIOUS FILMS: Championships. They skin the eyes will be looking through the she began studying Television and Cinema Directing Jackie, short fiction, 2014 It is a film about taxidermists animal fur, separate the meat from van window and waiting for the at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, and graduated in 2013. Sobaka, short fiction, 2014 who are preparing to participate bones and clean them up. They time they get put on a pedestal. Her graduation project was the documentary film Identities. So far she Project Fuga, short fiction, 2014 Floor Scrappers, short fiction, 2014 in the taxidermy championship completely mould their figures, The competition medals will be has made several fictional and documentary short films. and to challenge one another. looking for evermore lifelike poses put on the stuffed animals, but DIRECTOR: Aistė Žegulytė PREVIOUS FILMS: Identities, They are eagerly seeking to and realistic look in their life-long their look will not change. short documentary, 2013 give their stuffed animals still attempt to do what is naturally Nikodemas, short fiction, 2012 more perfect pose and more impossible: to re-create a wild This is a film about people who are Shoo!, short fiction, 2011 natural look. Year after year their animal. not afraid to turn into beasts and SCRIPTWRITERS: proud creations are going to the beasts that slowly turn into Aistė Žegulytė, Titas Laucius PREVIOUS FILMS: Titas Laucius: the taxidermy championship to However, each master puts things, grounded by the idea about Youngblood, short fiction, 2013 become protagonists, even more a different meaning to the the restored life, which does not Normal People Don’t Explode Themselves, important than their creators. This competing. Darius, who is pressed exist anymore. short fiction, 2013 Rehearsal, short documentary, 2012 raises issues that extend beyond by professional competition the practicalities of taxidermy and between him and his wife, finds YEAR OF RELEASE: 2016 ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 90 000 into human relations. it a test of masculinity. Vasilijus, who hasn’t received funding to FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: The film will show the day-to- participate in the championships Lithuanian Film Centre / EUR 18 650 Meno Avilys / EUR 5 000 38 day life of taxidermists, but it for several years and who lives Sponsorship / EUR 1 900 39 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

People From Nowhere

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MISTRUS MEDIA Mistrus Media was established in 2000 and has since become one PROJECT TITLE: People from Nowhere PRODUCTION COMPANY: of leading production companies in Latvia and a notable partner in Mistrus Media Ltd. the Baltic States. Mistrus Media produces and co-produces creative COMPANY ADDRESS: 11/13-13 documentaries, short and feature fiction films and TV programs, and Blaumaņa Str., Riga LV1010, Latvia TELEPHONE: +371 6731 3314 also provides production services by bringing together the best Latvian E-MAIL: [email protected] and international authors and film professionals. The main principle WEB: www.mistrusmedia.lv

is to be open to any ideas if only they serve to make this world more SYNOPSIS interesting, responsible and enriched. Mistrus Media productions have Morning in 1987. The Iron Curtain rattled received several national and international festival awards, and have open for Ieva – a girl from the USSR – who faced a blunt choice: she could either been broadcast on Latvian Television, YLE, SVT, ERR, Kanal PIK and denounce her double agent father Imants Korea EBS. Currently in production: feature documentary Dangerous Lesinskis as a traitor to the KGB, or defect with him to the U.S. and never see her Liaisons (supported by MEDIA) and feature drama Chronicles of Melanie homeland again. A personal story from 1978, Ieva CIA declined to comment on the moments of euphoria. In many (supported by Eurimages). the daughter of a Cold War double agent. Lesinska was most intriguing element of the photos, one can see Ieva together LANGUAGE: English/Latvian/Russian a university story Mr. Lesinskis told them in with her father and stepmother in PRODUCER: ANTRA GAILE FORMAT: HD student in Soviet the 1980s – that he had served as their various homes in America. Antra Gaile holds a degree in Social Sciences and LENGTH: 85 min / 52 min LatviaIn with dreams of becoming a a double agent for two decades is currently working towards an MBA at the Riga PRODUCER: Antra Gaile writer. She had just spent a heady working undercover for the KGB Many of these events are of key Business School, Latvia. She joined Mistrus Media PREVIOUS FILMS: month in New York visiting her by day, while slipping secrets to importance in Ieva’s memory, in 2012, and has gained profound experience in Over the Roads, Over the River, documentary, 2014 father, Imants Lesinskis, a Soviet the CIA by night. providing meaning and context to producing creative and historical documentaries for Cats in Riga, documentary, 2014 translator working at the United those days. The film will be based the domestic and international markets. Prior to that Littering Prohibited! documentary, Latvia/Estonia, 2014 Nations. He was an employee of This is the story of a young woman on a concept through which Ieva she was in charge of management and marketing communications for The Old Jewish Cemetery, documentary, the KGB and a member of the caught in the middle of spy games tries to restore the moments that social responsibility and cultural projects at a daily newspaper for almost Latvia/Netherlands, 2014 Communist Party. During her trip in which she had to make a choice, are missing from her albums. six years. Ghetto stories. Riga, documentary, 2013 to the US, Ieva’s father informed a choice that would sever her from Together, we will travel through DIRECTOR: Jaak Kilmi her that he and his wife Rasma her former life for good. She is the those same places in America DIRECTOR: JAAK KILMI PREVIOUS FILMS: Christ Lives in Siberia, documentary, were about to defect. He offered principal narrator and protagonist, that played an important role in Jaak Kilmi graduated from the Tallinn University, Estonia/Finland, 2015 her a blunt choice: take a taxi to and we will join her on her journey her memories, and unravel them majoring in film directing. He has co-directed and Littering Prohibited! documentary, the Soviet Embassy and denounce as she searches for the truth about moment by moment. produced a string of award-winning short films, a Latvia/Estonia, 2014 Paper Town, documentary, Estonia, 2014 him as a traitor, or stay with him her father and the investigation of number of documentaries and two feature films. Disco and Atomic War, documentary, and never see her mother or her a Cold War in which she herself, His films have received international recognition Estonia/Finland, 2009

homeland again. She chose to stay. unwittingly, took part. and have often been broadcast abroad. He is well DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: known for his socio-critical films dealing with the Soviet era and its Gints Grūbe The new family officially became Using personal archival materials, repercussions on today’s life. PREVIOUS FILMS: Larger than Life, documentary, East German immigrants with observational style filmmaking 52 min, 2014 new identities: Peter and Linda and dramatic reconstructions, CO-DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: Sounds under the Sun, documentary, 62 min, 2010 Dorn, and their daughter Evelyn. the film will bring a past from the GINTS GRŪBE 1 x 1, documentary, 52 min, They were citizens of nowhere, late 1970s to life, wrapped up with Gints Grūbe has TV and film industry experience co-director Daina Rašenbauma, 2009 who possessed re-entry permits intimate details of a young woman for almost 20 years. In 2000 he started his own YEAR OF RELEASE: but no passports. In 1985, soon who had unexpectedly entered production company Mistrus Media that for Late 2016 / Early 2017 after Mr. Lesinskis publicly into a new and unfamiliar world. seven years co-produced TV program The Evening ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 320 678 disclosed confidential information Interview broadcast on Latvian TV. The National FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: on various KGB operations in The memories of these years are TV and Radio Council have repeatedly awarded the program as the best Creative Europe MEDIA / EUR 25 000 Latvia, he died under mysterious stored in Ieva’s photo albums, TV program of the year and Gints Grūbe was acknowledged the best National Film Centre of Latvia / EUR 85 909 circumstances. After his death, filled with faded Kodak photos television broadcast host. Since 1998 Gints Grūbe has been scriptwriter, State Culture Capital Foundation / the CIA acknowledged that that, in their own mysterious way, producer and director for more than 10 documentaries. Gints has a EUR 13 644 Latvian Television / EUR 1 000 / Mr. Lesinskis “had made a introduce us to Ieva/Evelyn. These notable experience in script writing and directing and possesses deep Anna Rozenvalde significant contribution to the US portraits reflect Ieva’s emotional knowledge in politics, history and cinema. Lithuanian Radio and Television / government and the Agency after state at that time, ranging from EUR 500 / Renata Petrauskaite Juodeike Estonian Television / EUR 700 / 40 his defection.” Nevertheless, the deeply repressed emotions to Viola Salu 41 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

The Pioneers Palace

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MATCHHOUSE FILM Matchhouse Film is a film company with a goal of producing creative documentaries and developing an educational platform for emerging documentary filmmakers in Georgia. Matchhouse film was founded by Ana Tsimintia and Mikheil Svanidze in 2012. The company produced Ana Tsimintia’s debut-documentary Biblioteka, co-produced the short film The Shadow Day, and in 2013 began the realization of an educational project, Documeter. At the moment the company is working on the production of the documentary feature The Pioneers Palace and is actively involved in the film education process in Georgia. PROJECT TITLE: The Pioneers Palace PRODUCTION COMPANY: PRODUCER: ESMA BERIKISHVILI Matchhouse Film (Georgia) / Born in 1986. After graduating with Master’s Degree Anaben Films (Lithuania) provincial mothers are not just housewives. from Sociology and Social Anthropology Department COMPANY ADDRESS: Georgia, where They gather in groups while he worked as a researcher working on the topics Pavilnio Sodu 18-oji, Nr. 29, Vilnius 11303, Lithuania real palm trees are waiting for their children to finish of sub-culture and youth activism. At the moment TELEPHONE: +370 6266 9378 being replaced activities, sharing problems and Esma is a PHD student in anthropology and a new E-MAIL: [email protected]/ byIn plastic palm trees, where dust secrets, gossiping and chatting member of a Matchhouse team. The Pioneers’ Palace [email protected] weighs more than the air, where about everything on earth. is Esma’s first step as a producer. However, she worked as production SKYPE: ana.tsimintia kids have nowhere to play, and manager on Ana’s debut film Biblioteka and her anthropological point SYNOPSIS where a large market emits an Maia and Gocha are the couple of view was proved to have an motivating creative input in documentary A film about the Pioneers Palace, where unpleasant odour – stands the who started Ezi over 20 years ago, production. provincial children stumble along on Pioneers Palace, as if declaring war and still lead the club. Gocha is a their way to becoming stars, while on its surroundings. man with dynamite in his throat, CO-PRODUCER: mothers watch it all unfold. which can explode at any minute, BERNARDAS ANDRIUSIS, LANGUAGE: Georgian The Pioneers Palace is a 700 m2 and Maia – looking reasonable ANABEN FILMS FORMAT: video piece of the universe consisting and calm, is the only one who can Bernardas Andriusis attended Baltic Film and Media LENGTH: 70 / 90 min of fragments that do not directly light that dynamite. They, with School in Tallinn, Estonia. While studies and after his relate, but aggregate through their chemistry and drive unite activities included directing, cinematography and PRODUCERS: Bernardas Andriushis, Esma Berikishvili rhythms and atmospheres. the ‘pioneers’ and the mothers of editing. He’s director and producer of few short films PREVIOUS FILMS: the Palace for a New Year’s concert and documentaries. Has founded Anaben Films in 2010. Bernardas Andriushis There are small singers, trying – the main event in the life of Biblioteka, documentary, 54 min, to learn their solos, while tightly the Palace. After the concert, the DIRECTOR: ANA TSIMINTIA Georgia/Lithuania, 2014 holding hands and waving. best performer receives a music Ana Tsimintia was born in 1986 in Zugdidi, Georgia. Shadow Day, short fiction, 12 min, 2013 Airless Balloon, fiction, 70 min, Estonia/ There are the ‘patriotic readers’ video as an award - to be made She received a Master’s Degree in Film Art in Tallinn Lithuania/Georgia, 2012 who know poems about their and broadcast by local television at the Baltic Film and Media School. During and after homeland by heart – dismal in during winter holidays. school, Ana was involved in the production of several DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: their gestures and intonation. short fiction as well as documentary films. In 2011 Ana Tsimintia she founded the production company Matchhouse PREVIOUS FILMS: Dear Hunters, documentary short, There are thoughtful chess Film, in Tbilisi, Georgia. 24 min, Slovakia/Georgia, 2015 players, staring at the board and Biblioteka, documentary, analyzing, as if analyzing the 54 min, Georgia/Lithuania, 2014 moves of the other characters The Queue, short fiction, 10 min, 2013 in the Palace. There are the The Missing Story, documentary short, 10 min, Holland/Georgia, 2013 contemporary dancers of the Ezi club dressed in an aggressive YEAR OF RELEASE: October 2016 red and black, twisting their ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 93 000 legs upon the orders of their FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: domineering teacher, Gocha. Georgian National Film Centre / EUR 10 000 42 The Palace is the only place where Anaben films / EUR 8 000 43 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Release Oleg Sensov

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MARX FILM A Tallinn-based production company founded in 2012 by Max Tuula and Maria Gavrilova. Focused on docs and feature debuts from Russia, Estonia and Eastern Europe. It is interested in new blood and bold ideas in production, marketing and distribution. The company’s first successful project was the experimental documentary dramedy, I Don’t Love You by Pavel Kostomarov and Alexander Rastorguev. The studio continued to work with the directors, co-producing their new documentary – the “revolutionary” cross-media project The Term, which became an important social and political phenomenon for contemporary Russia. The full-length version of the documentary premiered in Karlovy Vary in 2014.

attempt to the chronology of this dramatic DIRECTOR: ASKOLD KUROV look into an detective story. The film’s starting Born in Uzbekistan, Askold has been living in Russia PROJECT TITLE: Release Oleg Sentsov An investigation – point is Oleg’s arrest in May since 1991. He majored in philology, theatrical and PRODUCTION COMPANY: the case of film director Oleg 2014. After sketching his portrait theological studies. Prior to studying documentary Marx Film/Ukrkino COMPANY ADDRESS: Sentsov, arrested by the Russian through the media and outlining filmmaking, he worked for 8 years as a package Keemia 19, Tallinn 10616, Estonia security service at his home in the circumstances of his arrest, designer. In 2010 Askold graduated from Moscow’s TELEPHONE: +372 5304 0483 Russian-occupied Crimea, for his we’ll begin our own investigation. Marina Razbezkina Film School. He was one of the E-MAIL: [email protected] SKYPE: mtuula pro-Ukrainian sentiments. But Step by step, detail-by-detail, directors of the award-winning documentary Winter, Go Away! (2012, WEB: www.sentsov.com it’s not only a political-themed we’ll add strokes to the picture – Locarno IFF, DOK Leipzig, IDFA, HotDocs). His next films Leninland and SYNOPSIS inquiry into the injustices in through interviews with witnesses, Children 404 (with Pavel Loparev), 2014, also received wide critical and An attempt to look into an investigation – contemporary Russia. This court chronicles, and political and festival acclaim as a thoughtful look into human rights problems and the case of filmmaker Oleg Sentsov – is an absurd and frightening social events in the both countries. social issues in contemporary Russia. arrested by the Russian FSB in Crimea for his pro-Ukrainian sentiments. It is an Kafkaesque story about how absurd and frightening Kafkaesque story anyone can become a victim of PRODUCER: MAX TUULA about how anyone can become a victim of the soulless state machine. the soulless state machine. We will Born in 1980 in Vladivostok, Russia, Max is an Estonian producer who try to draw a portrait of Oleg and lives between Estonia and the USA. He collaborated as a journalist with LANGUAGE: Russian/Ukrainian/English the colossus he is opposing. While various film trade magazines and participated in the production of a FORMAT: HD LENGTH: 90 min/52 min shooting our film, with the help few shorts that enjoyed success at festivals from Berlin to Abu Dhabi. In of the European Film Academy, 2012 Max coproduced the experimental docudrama I Don’t Love You by PRODUCERS: Max Tuula / Maria Gavrilova / Olga Zhurzhenko we also recorded and posted Aleksander Rastorguev and Pavel Kostomarov, and continued to work PREVIOUS FILMS: interviews with international with the filmmakers on their cross-media project The Term and their two- Max Tuula / Maria Gavrilova: celebrities speaking in support part documentary Kiev / Moscow (2014). Kiev / Moscow. Part 1, documentary, Russia/Estonia, 2015 of Sentsov. They were screened at Kiev / Moscow. Part 2, the DocuDays UA Human Rights PRODUCER: MARIA GAVRILOVA documentary, Russia/Estonia, 2015 The Term, Film Festival in Kyiv, and will be Born in Moscow, Maria worked in journalism, advertising and on films documentary, Russia/Estonia, 2014 shown at the OpenDocs Festival big and small. For several years she was the program director of the I Don’t Love You, hybrid documentary, in London, and the goEast Film Texture Film Festival in Perm, Russia, and the editor-in-chief of the Russia /Estonia, 2012 Festival in Wiesbaden. We hope Russian magazines Action! and The Booker’s Bulletin. Together with Max DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: that these videos, as well as the Tuula she founded the Estonian production company Marx Film. Askold Kurov PREVIOUS FILMS: finished film, will contribute to Children 404, documentary, the international campaign and PRODUCER: OLGA ZHURZHENKO with Pavel Loparev, 2014 help him regain his freedom. Olga has been working as an independent producer since 2009. In Leninland, documentary, 2013 Winter, Go Away! documentary, Sometimes you don’t have the 2011 she founded the company Ukrkino, aiming to pursue her own with other directors, 2012 choice to remain silent. production strategy. She has produced several feature films, including September 25, short documentary, 2010 Gaamer by Oleg Sentsov, four shorts and one documentary. Her recent YEAR OF RELEASE: Early 2016 The documentary will be a film, Trumpeter (2014), screened at Cottbus FF, Molodist Kyiv IFF, and ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 90 000 tapestry of various materials, Kinoshock IFF in Anapa, Russia. Olga’s upcoming project, Rhino, by Oleg FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: 44 through which we will reconstruct Sentsov, has been put on hold as a result of Oleg’s arrest. Private investments / EUR 18 000 45 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

The Return

PRODUCTION COMPANY: OFF WORLD Off World is an independent production company based in Brussels, capital of Flanders, Belgium and Europe. Eric Goossens founded Off World in 1995, joined by Frederik Nicolai in 2002. Off World is focused on the production of international, author-driven documentaries. Over the last 10 years the company has built up a large portfolio and a solid reputation as producer and co-producer of many creative and original documentaries. Besides a long-term collaboration with their national broadcasting companies VRT-Canvas, Lichtpunt and RTBF, Off World has also established an international network and is collaborating on a regular basis with foreign broadcasting companies, producers, PROJECT TITLE: The Return distributors and sales agents. Off World’s trademark is a contemporary PRODUCTION COMPANY: Off World COMPANY ADDRESS: and wayward look on the world, which springs from the passion and Deschampheleerstraat 24-26, his is how SHE escapes creativity of the documentary authors. Starting from its own clear and Brussels 1000, Belgium the prostitution net- sometimes narrow context, Off World wants to tell stories with a broader TELEPHONE: +32 2412 4040 E-MAIL: [email protected] work. Wearing extremely truth, with universal values, reaching people across all borders. Besides SKYPE: frederiknicolai high heels, too short a being a key player in the industry, Off World also works to usher Flanders WEB: www.offworld.be Tskirt and too deep a cleavage…This into the global documentary sphere. In 2009, the production company SYNOPSIS is how her life as a prostitute ends. founded the professional organisation Flanders Doc along with fellow A young Eastern European girl escapes Her looks are the symbol of an- Flemish documentary producers. Flanders Doc unites creative forces from the clutches of a prostitution network. The film tells the pungent story other life. A wrong life. She leaves in order to enhance the level of performance, professionalism and of her long way back home. for home looking like that. To an globalisation of the Flemish documentary industry. Off World is also an LANGUAGE: English/Romanian/ obscure village in Eastern Europe, active EDN member. Latvian/Polish where people wear boots or sturdy FORMAT: HD work shoes, warm pullovers and PRODUCER: FREDERIK NICOLAI LENGTH: 52 min hats, where people have chapped Frederik Nicolai has been sharing his love for PRODUCER: Frederik Nicolai hands and dirty fingernails. How documentaries with Eric Goossens since 2002. PREVIOUS FILMS: Desert Haze, dir. Sofie Benoot, can SHE possibly fit in? Can she Frederik started his career by executive producing Zeppers Film (NL), 2014 go back to her old life? What is she short films such as Haun and Carlo. The following Red Star Line, dir. Daniël Cattier and to do? The contrast between these years he worked as a production leader in the Fabio Wuytack, VRT-Canvas, RTBF, Eklektik, RSL Museum two worlds cannot be better high- Netherlands for fiction series and films such as Rêve Kakudji, dir. Ibbe Daniels and Koen lighted than by her looks, and those Burgers/Reizigers (VPRO/MotelFilms), Little Girl Blue (NPS, Motel Films). Vidal, VRT-Canvas, 2013 Little Heaven, dir. Lieven Corthouts, of the people in her village. Then he completely dedicated himself to author documentaries as well DGOS, Lichtpunt, 2012 as producing (among other films) 4 Elements (Jiska Rickels, Fu Works, The Boy is Gone, animated documentary, Women from the former Warsaw opening film of IDFA 2006), Filmen zonder grenzen (Hans Heijen, NPS, dir. Christoph Bohn, Simple Production, VRT-Canvas, BRF, RTBF and SeriousFilm pact countries becoming victims Zeppers Film), Panna (Nordin Iasfar, NPS, Zeppers Film), Johnny Hoes (NL) of pimps and being forced into (Hans Heijen, NPS, Zeppers Film). Besides being a coach for young DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: prostitution. Everyone knows filmmakers, Frederik is also a founding member of FlandersDoc. Piet Eekman the story. Sometimes one gets PREVIOUS FILMS: liberated or is able to escape. She 100 tage Jean-Claude Juncker, DIRECTOR: PIET EEKMAN 52 min, ARTE, 2014 can then return home. Is this a Piet Eekman, born in Berlin in 1964, studied The Mount of Temptation, happy ending? For a lot of women directing at the Brussels Film School INSAS and in 45 min, ARTE / Bitcom, 2013 PTBS – unsichtbar verwundet, a second ordeal commences. With East Germany at HFF. After working as a cinema 46 min, ZDF-ARTE, 2011 their souls broken they have to operator in the Brussels Film Museum, he spent Ein Pferdeleben, 25 min, ARTE, 2007 pick up the pieces of their old and several years working as a journalist at the German Le sommeil perdu, 64 min, ARTE, 2006 empty lives. The kind of life they public broadcaster ZDF. In the year 2000 he left YEAR OF RELEASE: 2016 once tried to escape. journalism to return to filmmaking. As an independent author and ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 300 915 director, he has made several, mainly socio-critical documentaries, often FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: This films shows one of them. produced by ARTE. Flanders Audiovisual Fund / EUR 7 500 A woman with a life after Creative Europe MEDIA Slate Funding / EUR 25 000 46 prostitution. ZDF-ARTE / Martin Pieper/ EUR 60 000 47 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Returnees

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MARINA RAZBEZHKINA STUDIO Marina Razbezhkina Studio specializes in documentary production. It has also had a long-term collaboration with the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theatre.

PRODUCER: MARINA RAZBEZHKINA Director, scriptwriter, producer. Born in Kazan. Graduated from Kazan University as a philologist. Taught at a village school, later worked as a reporter for republican newspapers. Since 1989 has written and directed more than 40 documentary films. In 2004 Razbezhkina made her first feature film, Harvest Time, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the MIFF in 2004. This film was screened at more than 50 international festivals and everal young Russians, Tolya (32) came back from the 12. Nastya can’t explain why she won prizes in Chicago, Thessaloniki, Taipei, and Jeonju among others. It PROJECT TITLE: Returnees who left their native US in 2011. He is a teacher, wants to go back to Russia; she was nominated for the European Film Academy’s Fassbinder Award. For PRODUCTION COMPANY: Marina Razbezhkina Studio country in early businessman and inventor. He just calls this state her ‘existential the past 7 years Marina has headed the School of Documentary Film and COMPANY ADDRESS: 4 Kashirskoe childhood and moved invented a people-meter – special itch’. In comparison to Sasha and Theatre in Moscow, which she founded together with Mikhail Ugarov. In shosse, Moscow 4115230, Russia TELEPHONE: +7 91910 77841 toS North America and to Western technology enabling the counting Slava, Nastya shares the liberal 2005 Marina Razbezhkina became an active member of the European E-MAIL: [email protected], Europe, have now decided to come of the numbers of people using ideas of the West. Film Academy. She is a member of the Film Union of Russia, and an [email protected] back home. All of them are about just a web-cam and a PC. Tolya academic at the Russian Academy of Film Art Nika. WEB: www.razbeg.org 30 years old, most of them have not began using this invention at mass Many of our protagonists came SYNOPSIS been back to Russia since they left, protests, and he is now offering back because they think it is really ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: 2014 showed a record number of Russian people leaving their homeland. This and have quite foggy and romantic up his technology to big shopping interesting to live in today’s Russia, KSENIA GAPCHENKO film tells the story of those who instead expectations. But they must now malls. He has received start-up and all of them hope to find their Ksenia Gapchenko is a young producer, The decided to come back. Several young build a relationship with the new support, but is still hesitating place here. The authors of the Returnees is her first feature length documentary people, who spent their childhood and youth in the West, decide to come back Russia, which is quite removed where to use his knowledge – film are of the same age as their project. Born 1986. Working as programming to Russia to start new life. from their idealistic dreams. continue to try his luck in Russia heroes, but grew up and still live director at the Documentary film center (Moscow) LANGUAGE: Russian / English or go back to the US to start his in Russia. We will attempt to see gained experience as a film programmer and project FORMAT: HD Each has made the decision to business. which thin and not always obvious manager (incl. show cases of DOK Leipzig and IDFA in Russia). Graduated LENGTH: 80 min come back independently, each connections we utilize to build from Marina Razbezhkina’s Film School. Currently is based in the PRODUCER: Marina Razbezhkina with their own fears, reasons and Slava (25) came from Toronto our relationships with our native Netherlands. PREVIOUS FILMS: motivations. First off they decide a few months ago. He says land, and how the events in our The Last Limousine, documentary, dir. Daria Khlestkina, 2014 to create a special community nothing is holding him there: country influence our lives. We are DIRECTOR: ANNA MOISEENKO Together, documentary, called We are back!, and to meet he just received his Master’s interested in the stories of people Anna Moiseenko, born in Ulyanovsk (USSR). dir. Denis Shabaev, 2014 monthly with the aim of helping degree in economics, and was who face daily challenges and Studied Philology, Journalism and Marketing at the 21 Days, documentary, dir. Tamara Dondurey, 2014 each other experience Russia all dumped by his girlfriend while choices in the context of a rapidly Moscow State Humanitarian University. Worked as Optical Axis, documentary, over again. his rental contract came due. changing reality. a journalist in mass media. In 2012 graduated from dir. Marina Razbezhkina, 2013 Winter, Go Away! documentary, 2012 At his new/old Russian home the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School The protagonists include: Sasha Slava is trying to find a job, new of Documentary Film and Theatre (Moscow). Anna ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: (34) an ideologist, the head of love and new friends. He leads was one of 10 authors of Winter, Go Away! which was Ksenia Gapchenko DIRECTORS/SCRIPTWRITERS: the We are back! community, and active discussions on social screened at the Locarno IFF and has won awards around the world. Anna Moiseenko, Pavel Loparev the main initiator of the monthly media with his western and pro- PREVIOUS FILMS: Children 404, documentary, 2014 meetings. He returned from the western friends, trying to dispel DIRECTOR: PAVEL LOPAREV S.P.A.R.T.A.: The Territory of Happiness, US three years ago with feelings myths about Russia. He feels Born in 1980 in Tyumen (Russia). From 1999 to 2008 documentary, 2013 of deep rejection against Western very comfortable in Moscow, but worked as a news reporter at First Channel, the main Winter, Go Away! documentary, 2012 society. Sasha got a very good confirms that he will head back to Russian TV channel. In 2002 graduated from Tumen YEAR OF RELEASE: Sept 2016 education in Boston, but always Canada if he does not find a job University. In 2008 graduated from Moscow’s Marina ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 80 080 felt out of place. He considers soon. Razbezhkina’s Film School. Pavel Loparev is currently FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: himself a real patriot and likes the leader of CATOUT animation studio, which Directors’ investment / EUR 3 000 to attend public events with a Nastya (27) moved to Canada specializes in social projects. One of the directors of the documentary Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation: EUR 20 000 (status: applied) 48 Russian flag in his hands. with her mother when she was drama Children 404 about queer teenagers in Russia (2014). Financing required: EUR 57 080 49 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

SHIPPING POLLUTION

PRODUCTION COMPANY: FRP AB In 1995 Folke Rydén founded FRP AB, an independent production company producing film & television for the international market in current affairs, social issues, human rights, history, politics, science, environmental issues and sports. Productions have been aired by more than 40 broadcasters, shown in over 30 countries and have garnered dozens of international awards.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: FOLKE RYDÉN Folke Rydén has won numerous international awards as a reporter producer and director. His documentaries have been aired around the world. he Baltic Sea contains Folke Rydén was born in 1958 in Uppsala, Sweden. one of the highest With an MA in journalism from the University of concentrations of Stockholm, he began working for Swedish national television in 1982. shipping in the world. After a decade as a foreign correspondent including 7 years in the USA, he THowever, it is also one of the is now based in Stockholm Sweden. most sensitive landlocked seas, and shipping has impaired the In 1993, Folke Rydén was honoured with the Bonnier Grand Prize in environment to an extent that Journalism – Sweden’s foremost award for excellence in journalism. The most people are unaware of. company is currently involved in documentaries, cinema releases and PROJECT TITLE: Shipping Pollution PRODUCTION COMPANY: FRP AB television series. On a non-profit basis, FRP supports young and creative COMPANY ADDRESS: This film investigates the talent by acting as executive producer for a range of different film and Fatburstrappan 18, Stockholm, Sweden environmental impact of harmful television projects. TELEPHONE: +46 8714 7880 E-MAIL: [email protected] emissions and waste from SKYPE: folkeryden increased shipping on the Baltic Folke Rydén is also a popular lecturer, public speaker and moderator. In WEB: www.folkeryden.com

Sea. We have documented dead his characteristic way, he inspires any audience with talks about a rapidly SYNOPSIS sea beds and suffering wildlife. As changing world from his perspective as a reporter and filmmaker. Folke The Baltic Sea contains one of the well as human victims of shipping Rydén is furthermore a five time national skydiving champion. highest concentrations of shipping in the world. However, the Baltic Sea is also pollution. And when we took a one of the most sensitive landlocked closer look at the expanding cruise seas, and shipping has impaired the environment to an extent that most industry – we could not believe people are unaware of. our eyes. LANGUAGE: English FORMAT: HD 2K Gigantic floating cities with LENGTH: 52 min/58 min thousands of inhabitants. All PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/ of them eating and drinking – SCRIPTWRITER: Folke Rydén and producing huge amounts PREVIOUS FILMS: of sewage and toilet water. But The 10th Year, creative documentary, Sweden/Thailand, 2014 instead of using port facilities, The Second Wave, the cruise ships dump their toilet creative documentary, 2013 The Price Of Gold, water straight into the sea. creative documentary, 2012 For Cod’s Sake, So we tracked down the experts creative documentary, 2009 From Bill to Barack, creative at the highest international documentary, USA, 2008 level. The whistle-blowers and YEAR OF RELEASE: 2015 the scientists who call for action ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 220 000 and rectification. They shared with us astonishing findings and FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: BalticSea2020 / EUR 100 000 50 frightening conclusions. YLE / 3 000 51 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

Strip and War

PRODUCTION COMPANY: EVEREST On September 3rd, 1991, Miroslaw Dembinski founded Film Studio Everest. In the 20 years of its existence, over 50 films and film series have been produced, including documentaries, reports, short fiction, promotion and advertising. These films have been awarded some 90 times at various international film festivals. Film Studio Everest specializes in documentary films made for television. It co-operates regularly with Polish Television TVP (First and Second Channel, Culture, Education, Army Programmes, TVP Belsat, TVP Polonia), Canal+ Poland (documentary and short fiction film), and also with educational film producers and the film school. Apart from television, the productions are financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture, the Media Plus programme (EU), and social organizations and foundations. In 1995 Film Studio hen he was to engineering. But the young Everest began producing international co-productions. a teenager, man believes in his choice. He Anatoly was adores the fast pace of living, PRODUCER: MIROSŁAW DEMBIŃSKI a successful the night work, the stage, and Miroslaw Dembinski was born in Bydgoszcz in break-dancer.W Nowadays he the spectacular audiences at 1959. From 1977-1981 he participated in a student performs on stage at bars and nightclubs. Anatoly comes home theatre movement as an actor and director, first PROJECT TITLE: Strip and War nightclubs – as a stripper. He early in the morning, and falls in Bydgoszcz and then in Torun. In 1978 he began PRODUCTION COMPANY: Film Studio Everest lives in a military camp 10 km asleep. About the same time studying mathematics at Nicolaus Copernicus COMPANY ADDRESS: from Minsk together with his Anatoly Mikhailavich wakes up, University. Having received a diploma with a pl. Zwyciestwa 2d/2, Lodz 90-312, Poland TELEPHONE: +48 60933 3407 grandfather, who is a retired has his breakfast and proceeds distinction, he worked as a teacher at the Mathematics Institute at N. E-MAIL: [email protected] lieutenant colonel. Anatoly with work for his organization. Copernicus University. In 1986 he began studying directing at the Lodz SKYPE: [email protected] Mikhailavich leads the regional Film School. After graduating he taught directing at the school. In 2007 he WEB: www.studioeverest.pl veterans organization, writes The worlds of the two men hardly received his doctorate in film. In 1991 he founded Film Studio Everest. SYNOPSIS military and patriotic articles, ever overlap. It seems they live The story of a small family, consisting of a grandfather, retired from the army, and participates in meetings with in the same territory, but in DIRECTOR: ANDREI KUTSILA his grandson, a stripper. It is not just a pupils and socializes with different countries: the grandson Andrei Kutsila was born in 1983 in Baranovichi in history of conduct, but also a reflection colleagues. His life is impregnated lives in modern Belarus with Belarus. In 2007 he earned a degree in journalism of the whole of Belarus and the post Soviet world. with the Soviet past, with a Lenin its consumer society, while the from the Belarusian State University. In 2009 he in Smolny painting hanging on the grandfather remains Soviet and finished the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. LANGUAGE: Russian FORMAT: HD wall above his desktop. socialist. Young Anatoly suffers Currently he works as a freelancer for studios and LENGTH: 60 min under his grandfather’s pressure, TV. He has made more than 10 documentary films. Anatoly left the engineering but they are still dependent on Andrei Kutsila was a participant in many international projects including PRODUCER: Miroslaw Dembinski PREVIOUS FILMS: profession of because the work each other. The grandson needs the First International Film School in Belyje Stolby (Russia, Moscow), Counterpoint, documentary, 2014 neither satisfied him, nor brought somewhere to live; the grandfather IDF Academy (Holland, Amsterdam), 15 Young by Young (Latvia-France), Kotan’s Children, documentary, 2012 The Disobedient Lovers, documentary, him high profits. That’s why grows older and needs more care. Berlinale Talents 2015, and others. He has been a participant in and 2012 Anatoly sculpts his body using Nevertheless, for a new life the winner at international film festivals; his films have been broadcast The World from Dawn till Dusk exercise machines, maintains a grandson must decide to leave the on ARTE (France/Germany), Polish Television TVP (Poland), Belsat TV (Moscow, Minsk, Kiev, Beijing, Tokyo), documentary series, 2011 pleasant tan at the solarium, and grandfather. (Belarus/Poland), Belarusian TV Company (Belarus). works up a sweat in the dance hall. DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: Andrei Kutsila He knows it’s impossible to be a PREVIOUS FILMS: stripper for life, so he sincerely Love in Belarus, 2014 dreams of creating an erotic Enough! To Freedom…, 2012 Fight For, 2011 theatre company one day. Kill the Day, 2010 Focal Distance, 2008

The old soldier doesn’t like his YEAR OF RELEASE: 2016 grandson’s activity. From time to ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 70 000 time he tries to convince Anatoly FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: 52 to change his mind and return Belsat TV (TVP S.A.) / EUR 12 000 53 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

tragedy, ectasy, destiny

PRODUCTION COMPANY: GAMBIT PICTURES LIMITED Since being established in Dublin, Ireland in 2009, Gambit has completed a number of documentaries for television and the cinema. It has also produced an online series for the Irish Times, the Irish newspaper of record. Its’ latest production, A Doctor’s Sword – a feature documentary funded by the Irish Film Board and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland – was released theatrically in August 2015. To date the company has been successful in six out of seven submissions for funding from the two principal national public funding bodies, the Irish Film Board and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Gambit has two projects currently being financed:The Dream Shall Never Die, a feature documentary on Ted PROJECT TITLE: tragedy, ecstasy, destiny Kennedy, widely acknowledged as the greatest politician of the modern PRODUCTION COMPANY: emember the last The main component of era; and a documentary series based on George Kimball’s bestselling Gambit Pictures Limited time you went to an the project, the theatrical book, Four Kings, about the U.S. boxing world of the 1980’s. COMPANY ADDRESS: Powerscourt Townhouse, art gallery? I do: it was documentary, will have several 59 South William St., Dublin 2, Ireland busy, noisy, enervating other strands running through PRODUCER: GARY LENNON TELEPHONE: +353 87906 4041 E-MAIL: [email protected] and,R overall, a frustrating it, in addition to this “access” A documentary and factual producer for more SKYPE: garlenno experience. There was little or element. Though much more than a decade, Gary recently directed his first WEB: www.gambitpictures.eu no opportunity to “commune” than a straightforward “biopic”, feature-length documentary: a mixed format film SYNOPSIS with the artists’ work on display. the film will explore Rothko’s life using animation, entitled A Doctor’s War, which A groundbreaking project that will The main aim of this project is to search for clues as to where his was released theatrically in Ireland in August 2015. enable a new, and wider audience to experience and understand the power, to improve access to the work of talent came from and how it was From 2000-2005 Gary was based in China, initially the influence and the meaning of the painter Mark Rothko, a Latvian shaped. The film will be shot in working as a journalist & writer and subsequently as a publisher. Since artist Mark Rothko’s work. Shot in 4K emigrant to the USA, who rose to Latvia, where he was born; in the his return, he has produced for all of the main broadcasters in Ireland: and featuring both the artist himself and his children, Kate and Christopher, the worldwide fame in the mid-to-late USA, where he created most of his RTE, TV3, TG4 and Setanta. Gary has a B.A in History & Politics from project will consist of a truly cinematic 20th century. works; and in Switzerland and the University College Dublin, and an M.A. in Modern East Asian Studies documentary film and several shorter pieces, all designed for large scale UK where many of these works from Durham University. He is a recent graduate of the Zelig School of projection in cinemas, galleries and By “access” I mean allowing the now sit. Additional elements will Film ESoDoc programme. other public spaces. audience to really engage with the be the insights from his daughter, LANGUAGE: English paintings in a way that is almost Kate Rothko Prizel, and son DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: FORMAT: 4K / HD impossible in galleries today – Christopher, now the guardian of RAYMOND McCORMACK LENGTH: 90 min there are people constantly his legacy. A producer for more than 20 years, Raymond made PRODUCERS: passing in front of you; photos his directing debut with A Crude Awakening – The Gary Lennon, Raymond McCormack being taken; groups on guided The cross-media element of Oil Crash, which screened at more than 70 festivals CO-PRODUCER: Riina Sildos, Amrion Production, Tallinn, Estonia tours; etc. etc. Instead, imagine a the project will involve creating around the world, gaining numerous nominations, PREVIOUS FILMS: Gary Lennon: darkened movie theatre or other several 5-10 minute clips, works, including a “Grierson”, and going on to win 8 awards. A Doctor’s Sword, 75 min, 2014 Listowel Radio Museum, public space where the paintings for projection in galleries and Amongst these were the Zurich Film Prize; Best Feature Documentary documentary short, 2012 will often fill the screen/display other public spaces. from Palm Beach International FF and the Green Award 2008 from IT Matters, documentary web series for wall as we hear the voice of the the Environmental Film Festival Network. The film went on to be sold The Irish Times, 2011 artist himself elaborate on both to more than 20 territories by Cinetic Media and Telepool, screening DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: the impulses that drove him to theatrically in Switzerland and all English-speaking countries. Raymond McCormack PREVIOUS FILMS: create a painting and what he Dampfmaschinen, 34 min, wanted to communicate by it, Switzerland, 2007 through it. A second form of Vulkane, 34 min, Switzerland, 2007 A Crude Awakening, 83 min, access I aim to provide is to make Switzerland, 2006 it possible for audiences to see and YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 appreciate works held in private ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 650 000 hands that are seldom if ever displayed in public spaces. FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: No confirmed sources yet, applying to 54 Irish Film Board on August 29 55 BSD Projects 2015 BSD Projects 2015

A Voice in a Choir

PRODUCTION COMPANY: INSPIRATION FILMS Inspiration Films Company was founded in Kiev, Ukraine in 2002. The primary objective of the company is the production and co-production of creative, author-driven documentaries – many have been distributed internationally and won awards at international film festivals.

PRODUCER: SVITLANA ZINOVYEVA Education: 1971 – 1976, MFA, Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts, Film Department, MFA (director of photography). Professional activity: 1993 – PROJECT TITLE: A Voice in a Choir present / Independent film producer head of PRODUCTION COMPANY: Inspiration Films Company. 2004 – 2012 / Initiator, Inspiration Films COMPANY ADDRESS: Director – Ukrainian Co-production Workshops for Mayakovskogo St. 95 A, Ap. 72, he singing point is the that in the autumn of the same unrepeatable? Surely, these Documentaries. 2006 – present / Expert, jury member, lecturer. Kiev 02232, Ukraine place below diaphragm year everything would break questions don’t apply only to Selected Filmography: Positive, dir. P. Kelm, HD 28 min, 2013 – Official TELEPHONE: +380 50334 1656 E-MAIL: [email protected] from where the voice open with Maidan. Thousands of choral singing… selection: Leipzig, Krakow, HotDocs SKYPE: Redfox1451 grows. This phrase people took to the streets. Car tires Loli Kali Shuba (dir. A. Balagura), HD, 52 min, 2013 WEB: www.facebook.com/ InspirationFilmsUA Tbelongs to Irina Sablina, manager burned and the city was shrouded Life Span of the Object in Frame (dir. A. Balagura) HD, 116 min, 2012, of the Schedrik Children’s Choir. It in black smoke. Then the shooting Ukraine / Italy – 2013 FID Marseille Special Jury Mention SYNOPSIS was almost forty years ago that two started, and blood was spilled. My Father Evgeni (dir. A. Zagdansky), USA/Ukraine – Golden Laurel award The 1970s student documentary Singing point was accidently discovered in film school students made a short Afterwards, war broke out in for best documentary IFF Artdocfest, Russia the archives. The world has changed film called Singing Point. In the the eastern part of the country. Wings of a Butterfly (dir. A. Balagura), Ukraine/France – award for best drastically in the past years – did the young choristers imagine life like this? 1970s, Schedrik was likely the only Everything we had wanted to Ukrainian film, IFF Molodist 2008 Did they think that the cost of their choir that was not singing debonair narrate on the Choir under Revue (dir. S. Loznitsa) – Golden Horn award for the Best Documentary freedom in Ukraine would be so high? and patriotic Soviet songs. peaceful life conditions was called Film, 48th Krakow IFF, 2008 LANGUAGE: Russia/Ukrainian into question by reality itself. Did FORMAT: HD Can you imagine how difficult it the young choristers imagine DIRECTOR: IGOR MINAEV LENGTH: 52 min was for Irina Sablina to have Bach’s circumstances like this? Did they Attended film school in Kiev from 1972-1977. He currently lives in Paris. PRODUCER/SCRIPTWRITER: music and Negro spirituals in the know that they would be obliged Selected filmography: Blue Dress, Trempel Films 2015, Ukraine Svitlana Zinovyeva repertory of a Soviet children’s to fight for their lives under fire in Far from Sunset Boulevard, Adesif Productions (France), President Films PREVIOUS FILMS: Sister Zo, by Alisa Kovalenko, choir? What price did she pay for the city where they once sang in a (Russia) Grand Prix at the Festival du Cinéma Russe à Honfleur (France), documentary, 2014 this victory? choir? Best Actor (Kinochok Russia) Positive, by Polina Kelm, documentary, 2013 The Clearings of the Moon, Artcam International (France), NTV Kino Loli Kali Shuba, The film Singing Point was found We managed to do a number of (Russia), Grand Prix and Best Actress (Kinochok Russia) dir. A. Balagura, documentary, 2013 by accident in January 2013, in interviews with former choristers The Flood (l’Inondation), Erato Films (France) with Isabelle Huppert (Best Life Span of the Object in Frame, dir. A. Balagura, doc/experimental, 2012 the archives in a section of films in 2013; then, the filmmaking Actress and Best Director / Kinochok Russia), 1995 Italy Wings of a Butterfly, dir. A. Balagura, made in the 1960s to 1970s, inside process was stopped by the war. documentary, Ukraine/France, 2008 Revue, dir. S. Loznitsa, documentary, a rusty box behind creaking metal Now we would like to revert back Germany/Russia/Ukraine, 2008 doors. The world has changed to the subject that the reality drastically since then. amends endlessly. We are first DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER: Igor Minaev of all interested in the destiny PREVIOUS FILMS: The Berlin Wall fell. Perestroika of the former choristers. What Blue Dress, fiction, 2015 Far from Sunset Boulevard, fiction, swept across Eastern Europe and has happened to them? Did they France/Russia, 2006 Ukraine regained independence. realize their dreams? The Clearings of the Moon, fiction, Then the Orange Revolution took France/Russia 2002 Le Temple sousterrain du communisme, place, and there was so much We have thought about whether documentary, France/Ukraine, 1991 hope for a different life. you can distinguish a single voice YEAR OF RELEASE: 2016 in a choir. Does it disappear in ESTIMATED BUDGET: EUR 75 000 The movie project on the Scherdik the singing or break through Choir was on its way in March the collective sound barrier in FINANCIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED: Ukrainian State Film Agency / 56 2013. No one could have imagined order to be heard, unique and EUR 32 000 57 DECISION MAKERS

HANSEN, GITTE MÜLLEROVÁ, ALENA First Hand Films, SWITZERLAND CT, CZECH REPUBLIC

Joined First Hand Films in 2002 Alena Müllerová completed where her work includes project her studies in dramaturgy and development, financing & screenwriting at FAMU (Film packaging, marketing strategy, and TV School of the Academy of executive producing, sales and Performing Arts in Prague). She acquisition. Previously Gitte participated in the production has worked with international or in dramaturgic capacity distribution of feature films, in-house factual in dozens of documentary films and journalistic production at DR-TV, she was Head of Information programmes, cooperating with leading Czech and Promotion with Filmkontakt Nord for five years documentary filmmakers (for example Helena in Copenhagen, coordinator of the Nordisk Forum for Třeštíková). In cooperation with Helena Třeštíková she Co-financing of Documentaries, and has worked for founded the Foundation of Film and Sociology, and the former MEDIA project DOCUMENTARY, which was Chair of its Editorial Board for several years. She included the first edition of the EDN TV Guide and a was a jury member of IFF One World, Karlovy Vary. In study on the European Documentary sector regarding 2004 she participated in the Eisenhower Fellowships co- production and film financing. She has joined Programme in the United States. Vertigal Strategies, Eurodoc session, Transmedia She is lecturer for the course Programme Strategies of Next and serves as consultant and tutor at local and Public Service TV Broadcasters at Masaryk University, international workshops and events. Gitte has served Brno, and screenwriter and editor of several TV on several juries at film festivals around Europe projects. Since 1998 she has fully devoted herself to Makers and holds a master in Film and Rhetoric from the working with Czech Television, where she is currently University of Copenhagen. head of one of creative groups. Alena as creative producer also works with docs, searching for current affairs, social issues, culture, human interest and Jurtshenko, Marje strong-character driven stories, mostly 52 min to Estonian Public Broadcasting, ERR, ESTONIA feature-length. The docs she produces are in house productions or international coproduction. Recent General: Estonian Public titles, which are co-productions with ARTE, include: Broadcasting consists of 5 Život podle Václava Havla (dir. Andrea Sedláčková), radio channels and 2 television the series Nejpodivuhodnější kina světa, and the big channels, ETV and ETV2. European project Generation What. ETV main channel is for general audience while ETV2’s programming consists of DEREWIENKO, ALEKSANDRA outstanding cultural and educational broadcasts, Taskovski Films, UK documentaries, TV shows and films. It has a special daily children’s slot and daily news broadcast in Taskovski Films is a London Russian. based international sales and Acquisitions: Average yearly budget for acquisitions – production company producing about 1 million EUR. independent documentary films. Co-Productions: Mostly local co-productions but We welcome innovative, playful open to pre-buys (for creative documentaries mainly). and risky forms of filmmaking Can only support international co-productions capable of engaging and involving an Estonian independent production surprising audiences around the globe. Our passion company. is discovering new talent and creative, author-driven Main documentary film slots: stories. Our portfolio includes multi-award winner

Decision Current affairs docs: weekly, 1 hour documentary Czech Dream by Vit Klusak & Filip dokkaader (docframe): creative author films, weekly Remunda; People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am AegRuum (TimeSpace): scientific docs, weekly, 1 hour by Boris Gerrets (winner of IDFA, Visions du Réel, Natural History: weekly, 1 hour Hot Docs); Cooking History by Peter Kerekes (Special Music documentaries: weekly, 1 hour Jury award at Hot Docs); Work Hard – Play Hard by Theme evenings, thematic events, special events Carmen Losmann (FIPRESCI award, Ecumenical 59 DECISION MAKERS DECISION MAKERS

Jury award at DOK Leipzig 2011). We are looking for group and is now member of the Culture group within MDR is situated in Leipzig and is part of the RASHID, XAVIER HENRY author-driven, creative docs with a strong authorial the Nordvision, the Nordic television co-operation ARD family, Germanys First Public Channel. The Film Republic, UK point of view. Our focus is on social and human rights DR is the national public service broadcasting documentary department History and Society is issues, politics, history, people & society, gender company in Denmark, operating 6 national television responsible for many different documentary slots Launched in 2012 at the equality, personal stories, culture and arts. channels, 8 national radio channels and an extensive within the regional MDR TV and the nationwide ARD. Rotterdam Film Festival, Film online service. DR is a media company free from It also produces a wide range of programs for ARTE, Republic is a London based commercial and political affiliations, and carry no such as Theme Nights, Arte Découverte, Les mercredis world sales agency specialising in FUCHS, STEPHANIE advertising. DR is funded by license fee. de l’histoire, and L’aventure humaine. We do in-house art house fiction and cinematic Autlook FilmSales, AUSTRIA productions as well as commissioned films and documentaries. Our line-up international co-productions. includes titles from veteran Stephanie studied computer KOERING, ANTOINETTE We have a weekly prime time slot for historical production houses as well as emerging and first time science at the Vienna University ARTE G.E.I.E., FRANCE documentaries (45 min, single films or series). There filmmakers, with a focus on intelligent, cinematic of Technology, and has been is also a weekly slot for feature length films (52 -120 and non-mainstream titles. Film Republic has quickly working in the creative industries From 1974 to 1988 – min). Documentaries about cultural topics are established itself as one of Europe’s leading art house since 2012. After her position psychotherapist in cancer and produced for MDR, ARD and arte as well. Among agencies for taking on risky and daring titles by the as a project manager at ars geriatric clinics, University our latest productions: Gerhard Richter Painting and next generation of master filmmakers. electronica festival, she joined Hospital Strasbourg, France. Wahnsinn Nietzsche. In addition, our department Autlook in 2014, where she is in charge of servicing, Since 1980 – filmmaking, videos, produces science and nature documentaries marketing and TV sales. reportage and documentaries. mainly for ARTE Découverte, for example: The Most RUDUŠA, RITA The Autlook line-up includes Song of Lahore by Commissioning editor for the Dangerous Ways to School. Latvian Public Television, LATVIA Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken, The first European cultural channel at arte TV since its Forecaster by Marcus Vetter, The Visit by Michael foundation in Strasbourg, France (1992). Rita Ruduša is the commissioning Madsen, Bikes vs. Cars by Fredrik Gertten, Art and Antoinette Koering Spielmann is responsible for the LIBERGAL, GRIGORY editor for news, current affairs Craft by Sam Cullman & Jennifer Grausman, and Toto 360° GEO Report – a prestigious international arte THE Right Film Company, RUSSIA and documentaries at the and his Sisters by Alexander Nanau. TV slot, in 43 min and 52 min lengths on Saturday Latvian Television (LTV), a Autlook Filmsales is an international sales agent nights. This program offers fascinating escapes while Grigory Libergal studied Art public broadcaster with two for powerful, daring and acclaimed docs. We select discovering stories in far-off countries or just around History at Moscow University, channels. She works with both around 25 TV documentaries per year, and up to 6 the corner. Our stories are character driven: we follow and worked as fellow researcher in-house content producers docs with international theatrical potential. Autlook these everyday heroes in their houses, regions and and film interpreter at Illusion, and a broad network of independent producers in is a full-service sales agent, 6 people strong, handling countries to see the world through their eyes. All of the USSR Film Archive Theatre, the genres ranging from TV debates to current affairs festivals, TV / theatrical / educational / DVD and them have a passion, a mission or a challenge that for more than two decades. In documentaries to travel shows. Rita is closely involved digital sales worldwide. opens a question, which we promise to try and answer the 1970-80s Grigory worked at in the annual short documentary competition We look for auteur-driven, cinematic docs with during the film. 360° GEO Report offers amazing the All-Union Radio where he produced more than Latvijas Kods (The Latvian Code), held jointly by the international appeal. footage during authentic trips with original music 500 music programs. In 1990s he worked for the National Film Centre of Latvia and LTV, and is also inspired from the shooting. Soviet Export Film Agency where he participated in charge of developing partnerships with public in joint projects with Paramount and 20th Century broadcasters in other countries. This year, one such Hedegaard, Flemming Fox. He is one of Russia’s top specialists in partnership – between LTV, ERR and LRT – resulted DR, Denmark KUTTER, FRANK cinematography, TV programming and the history in a documentary Rue de la Baltique, the first-ever ARD/MDR, GERMANY of cinema. From 1994-2007 Grigory was the Program Baltic TV co-production, a project Rita has led since Channel Editor Flemming Director at Internews for the Open Skies Program. its inception. Rita has also worked for the Radio Free Hedegaard graduated from Frank Kutter currently works as This project helped to distribute more than 2500 Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and has an extensive Roskilde University in a commissioning editor in the of the best Russian and foreign documentaries to news editor’s experience in both newspapers and communication and has been editorial office History and Society hundreds of Russian TV stations. news agencies. working for DR since 1996. He at MDR Television in Leipzig, Grigory Libergal has produced more than 30 started as Audience researcher Germany. He commissions documentaries, including such well-known films as from 1996-2002, from 2002- historical documentaries Everything about Vertov (2002), Dreams about Alfeon 2004 he was research deputy manager. 2004-2005 for MDR, arte and ARD, e.g. (2002), Dziga and his Brothers (2002). Acting Channel Controller for DR1, 2005-2008 Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands (The History of Central He is currently the curator of Documentary Programs Commissioning Editor for Life Style, 2008-2009 Germany). His past positions include programme of the Moscow International Film Festival, a buyer Commission Editor for Factual programs, 2011- manager for documentaries at ProSiebenSat1 TV for TV Kultura creative documentary Smotrim 2012 Acting Channel Controller for DR2. Since 2009 Deutschland, one of Germany’s largest private TV- Obsuzhdaem show, as well as other broadcasters in Flemming Hedegaard has been working as Channel Groups, and commissioning editor for Galileo, a Russia and Ukraine. He is also one the owners of The Editor for DR K, and is also at the moment Acting leading TV science magazine. As editor, producer and Right Film Company which distributes documentaries Channel Editor for the Children Channel. Flemming director he has also worked for various other German on BluRay, DVD and new media. 60 Hedegaard has also been member of the Factual TV stations from the private and public sector. 61 DECISION MAKERS

SIPARIS, MARIUS Coach Zoran And His African Tigers (Century Film); Lithuanian National Radio and Television, Shooting Big Foot (Minnow Films); Bolshoi Babylon LITHUANIA (Red Zed Films); Unlocking The Cage (Rosadel Valera/ Frazer Pennebaker); An Honest Liar (Left Turn Films); Marius Siparis, 24 years-old, from Particle Fever (Anthos Media). Lithuania. Currently programme- planning producer at the Lithuanian National Radio and WESTERGARD, JENNY Television cultural channel LRT YLE, FINLAND Kultura. LRT Kultura’s mission is to bring the best quality Commissioning Editor Jenny information on all cultural genres to the viewers – Westergard graduated from Tutors we come up with the best programme by covering Helsinki University in journalism different slots – art, science, language, ethnographic and has been working for YLE relics, portraits, animation, TV programs for kids, since 1985. She is experienced in theatre, opera, ballet, local and foreign films, sports, a large range of programming, religion, international news, etc. I also currently including news, current affairs, produce some 15 TV programmes about culture and children’s and educational programming – from cultural events including live broadcasting. Prior to 1994-2000 as head of the Documentary Department this position studied in Malaysia at the Limkokwing and from 2003-2005 as head of the Acquisitions and University of Creative Technology, receiving a Co-production Department. She currently works as Bachelor’s degree in Digital Film and Television. Commissioning Editor for documentaries on the YLE In 2011 Marius directed a short-film Closure that Co-production team. Jenny Westergard has also been won first place at the Avon Lithuanian short film chairman for the Documentary Group within the festival, which was a great kick, but after the studies Nordvision, the Nordic television co-operation, and ended had to return to Lithuania, and it separated a board member of the Documentary Group within him from his team. Now he sets out to find a team EBU (European Broadcasting Union). as great as they were. And so, in the meantime, he’s YLE is the national public service broadcasting company made several TV programmes for various TV channels, in Finland, operating 4 national television channels, 6 documentaries, commercials, etc. In 2013 he began national radio channels and an extensive online service. working as a director at the national television. YLE ranks first in television viewing in the country. YLE is the main purveyor and producer of domestic programming, and 48% of its television programs TOWNSEND, KATE are made in Finland. YLE is owned by the Finnish BBC Storyville, UK people and funded by a special tax from January 2013. YLE is a media company free from commercial and BBC Storyville is the BBC’s political affiliations, and carry no advertising. YLE was flagship feature documentary established in 1926 and joined EBU in 1950. strand. With a key role in the international documentary community, supporting directors with editorial expertise and vital funding, as well as providing viewers in the UK with the best in quality character- driven documentaries from around the globe. The strand looks for ambitious, narrative, contemporary films to commission in co-production with other funders, to pre-buy or acquire. Screening over 350 films, from some 70 countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: 4 Oscars, 18 Griersons, 3 Peabodys and 4 International Emmys. Kate Townsend has joined Storyville team as an executive producer since 2011. Her Previous credits include: Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends; Paddington 62 Green; Mad Dog: Gaddafi ‘s Secret World (Fresh One); TUTORS TUTORS

Bernfeld, Wendy media services, in startup, operational and expansion innovation in the media sector. which recently screened to Sweden’s parliament as Rights Stuff, THE NETHERLANDS phases. It provides shortcuts, trends, concrete As a Creative Producer, Mike has worked with some a cautionary tale on child abuse. He’s brought his knowhow (pricing, deal terms, foreign markets etc) of the best storytellers in the market, including experience on the international market to bear in Wendy Bernfeld (@wbernfeld), around content ranging from big brand (studio, TV production companies, digital agencies and workshops across Europe and Asia, and is currently founder and MD of Rights minimajor) to independent, including more eclectic, broadcasters. He’s been involved in developing consulting on several projects in production and Stuff Amsterdam since 1999, niche, thematic, foreign language, festival, etc. multi-platform gameshows for the BBC, interactive development, as well as editing his own co-production is a passionate film buff On the other side of the table, Rights Stuff assists dramas and documentaries for Channel 4 and the with director Annika Gustafson, whose previous specialized in content acquisition content owners (producers, distributors, sales agents, BBC, music/comedy hybrids for Sony Playstation and collaborative film, Killing Time, won the grand prix at and distribution, licensing aggregators, festivals) who want to sell to, or produce gamified toys for Lego and Scalextric. Montreal’s Human Rights Film Festival in 2008. negotiations, and related strategy with, such digital services, including beyond the As a Trainer and Public Speaker, Mike has helped and rights advice, for traditional media (film, TV, Pay Big5, and overseas. Not conventional distributors, we inspire hundreds of creative people with wide- TV), digital media (Internet, IPTV, mobile/tablets, usually work on an agency/consultant basis, and help ranging, generous talks that provide an insight into Jashi, Salome VOD, OTT /connected devices, and the business side balance traditional with digital buyers and, funders. the murky world of telling stories across multiple Film Director, GEORGIA of web, cross platform, transmedia production and technologies. Mike regularly trains for the National distribution. Film and Television School, the Indie Training Fund, Salome Jashi (1981) is a Originally from Montreal and Toronto, then in Clanet, Anaïs EsoDoc and the Multi-platform Business School and documentary filmmaker from Europe since ’91, Wendy has over 23+ years (16+ in Wide House, FRANCE has spoken or chaired session at conferences that Georgia. With a first degree Europe) experience in film/Pay TV/VOD channel include MIP, Ambulante, Content London, Wildscreen in journalism, she studied startup and program buying, beginning originally as Wide House is Wide’s and the BBC Academy. documentary filmmaking at an entertainment lawyer, then crossing over to the documentary branch founded As an Agent Provocateur, Mike has lobbied for better Royal Holloway, University business side in various international pay tv networks. in 2011. The company’s purpose terms for content makers with Channel 4 and the of London. Her films are Her earlier in-house positions (before Rights Stuff) is promotion and international BBC when working for the Producers Association for observational, discovering tiny details that surprise were as SVP Acquisitions/Special Projects for Movie distribution of cross-cultural, Cinema and Television (PACT). Mike has also brought but also evoke a feeling of some intuitive familiarity. Network (Canada)(1984-‘91); then as M.D. Alliance- social, creative and innovative together trade bodies from Digital (BIMA), Advertising Salome is co-founder of the production company Atlantis(international distribution/coproduction) titles for all rights and all media. (IPA) and games (UKIE) to provide cross market Sakdoc Film. Through Sakdoc Film Salome has (1991-‘93), and finally as CEO Canal+ International Wide House will handle 5 to 10 new feature-length networking and learning. coordinated the training initiative CAUCADOC, Acquisitions (1993-’98). documentaries per year, and a wide range of TV Mike is now on his third career – revisiting his aiming to support the development of documentary Wendy has a Juris Doctor Law Degree (L.L.B.)/J.D.) programs. Wide House offers a global service to secure Graphic Design skills and working with scientists, film in the South Caucasus region. from Queens University, after a year of B.A./M.B.A. production financing and pre-sales with appropriate lawyers, start-ups and media companies to create Salomé’s recent film Bakhmaro received Honorary courses in McGill and University of Toronto. She is a partners for specific projects. Wide House has the infographics, logos, websites and packaging designs. Mention for Young Documentary Talent at DOK member of the Law Society of Upper Canada as well know-how to launch and increase the commercial Most recently Mike has become obsessed with digital Leipzig, was awarded the Best Central and Eastern as on the Roll of Solicitors in the UK. value of the films with the right festival strategy. Over politics and satire, he runs the popular anti-ukip European Documentary at Jihlava IFF, and was Alongside Rights Stuff, Wendy is a frequent lecturer the years Wide House has built a strong network by Twitter account @Trumpton_UKIP for kicks, and is nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Silver on digital media, as well as a strong supporter of the attending every cinema and TV market. busy launching a new satirical website and social Eye Awards in 2011. Salomé is currently working on her production and festival sectors, including on advisory The company is currently handling The Great media magazine called The Trump. new documentary. She is based in Berlin and Tbilisi. boards (IDFA, Binger Film Institute, Seize the Night Museum, by Johannes Holtzhausen, sold in more than Outdoor FilmFest, The Film Collaborative, Viewster 38 territories (awarded the Caligari Prize at Berlinale Online Film Fest, etc). Wendy was named as one of 2014), The Circle by Stefan Haupt (Best Documentary Jandaly, Phil Kastelicová, Hanka the “Brave Thinkers of Indie Film, 2010” by Oscar- and Audience Award at Berlinale 2014), and the Film Editor, SWEDEN HBO Europe, Hungary winning independent producer Ted Hope. One of her upcoming titles Our Last Tango by German Kral, more well known detailed articles (“Brave New World: Shadow World by Johan Grimonprez, and Life & Death It started as a love of film before Based in the Budapest head office, Digital Distribution Beyond the Old World”, spring Of Max Linder by Edward Porembny. Phil turned it into an unhealthy Hanka works closely with HBO 2012) was published by Sundance. In May 2014, her obsession with its construction. Europe’s production centers in updated TheFilmCollaborative (TFC) blog article Part of the last generation of Warsaw, Prague and Bucharest, “Carpe Diem for the Indie Filmmakers in the Digital Dicks, Mike editors to physically cut actual and is responsible for the VOD Sector” on international digital distribution was Descience, UK film, Phil has pursued the development and production of published, followed by a more detailed chapter in the architecture of great stories HBO Europe’s documentary films. June 2014 TFC book Selling Your Film Outside the U.S.: Mike Dicks is an independent for the past 20 years. He’s cut independent and She earned a Master of Arts degree from the Digital Distribution in Europe. Digital Provocateur, who has international feature films, labour of love shorts, and Faculty of Film and TV Documentary Department been agitating the digital content art installation media. But his love for documentary at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She RIGHTS STUFF market since it was all in black keeps him coming back to help tell real stories about continued her professional career in Slovenia, where On the platform/channel side, Rights Stuff provides and white. Mike combines a human rights abuses, and everyday injustice. she worked for more than 25 years as a documentary content strategy, curates content, and negotiates deals passion for creative storytelling, Recently transplanted to Sweden from his native director and producer, latterly as commissioning in pay tv/VOD (TVOD, SVOD, ADVOD, DTO etc) across a geeky love of technology and Canada, Phil has continued to edit documentary and editor and Head of Development of documentary 64 various devices for international traditional and digital a chip on his shoulder about fairness to provoke fiction, including Setareh Persson’s Cutting Loose, programming. As an experienced and dedicated 65 TUTORS

documentary film-maker, she has lectured on release of documentaries. documentary filmmaking, and participated in the In 1988 he attended script writing at the organization of master classes, industry seminars DanishFilmSchool. Worked as a freelance production and courses. She has also served as a moderator and manager up through the 90’s and organized the film participant on numerous industry panels and other festival ‘Films from the South’ from 1995–1998. Made documentary events in many countries. a desk-cross-over from 1998-2002, where Mikael worked as production adviser at The Danish Film Institute. Mikael started his exclusive career as tutor Müller, Tue Steen at EDN workshops in the same period. Attended EAVE Documentary Consultant, DENMARK 1998/99. 2002-2008 was a co-owner and producer at Final Cut Productions in Copenhagen. Has produced Born 1947. Danish. He worked a number of international documentaries, among with short and documentary them The German Secret, Joris Evens Competition at films for more than 20 years at IDFA 2005. An EDN Executive Committee Member the Danish Film Board – as press from 2005–09, the last year as Chairman. Now serves secretary, head of distribution at Head of Studies at EDN. and information and as a commissioning editor. He’s co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Paes, Marie-Clémence Filmkontakt Nord and Documentary of the EU. He Director/Producer, has travelled to European short and documentary Laterit Productions, FRANCE festivals often to be seated as a jury member. He has given documentary courses and seminars in more Marie-Clémence A. Paes is both Participants than 30 countries. Malagasy and French. She has In 2004 he was awarded the Danish Roos Prize a Master’s degree in Sociology for his contribution to the Danish and European and a Marketing & Advertising documentary culture. In 2014 he received the EDN CELSA Diploma (Sorbonne). Award “for an outstanding contribution to the In 1988 she created Laterit development of the European documentary culture”. Productions, an independent From 1996 until 2005 he was director of EDN production company based in Paris, also committed (European Documentary Network). He has written to distribution and publishing. With her husband, articles for national and international newspapers the Brazilian DOP and director Cesar Paes, she wrote and magazines. From 2006 he has been a freelance and produced documentaries such as Angano... consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, Angano... Tales from Madagascar, Songs and Tears of DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Nature, and Awara Soup that have won top awards at Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Cinema du Réel, Festival dei Popoli and the Leipzig Caucadoc as well as programme consultant for the FF. Her productions have been screened by Arte, festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, WDR, WNYC, Canal+, Nordic and Taiwanese public Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. broadcasters. Her feature-length documentaries, co- From September 2007 he has taught at the Zelig directed with Cesar Paes, such as Saudade do Futuro, Documentary Film School, Bolzano, Italy. He writes Mahaleo and An Opera from the Indian Ocean, have (almost) daily about documentaries in English on been theatrically released in France and the USA. www.filmkommentaren.dk DVDs and original soundtracks of the films have been released worldwide. List of List Opstrup, Mikael Head of Studies, EDN, DENMARK

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TIBBO-HUDGINS, PIRET RUSSIA KIREJEVA, INESE EEKMAN, PIET FINLAND Head of Production National Film Centre of Latvia Observers The Return Estonian Film Institute KUROV, ASKOLD Peitavas 10/12, Riga LV1050 Off World RITOLA, MERJA Uus 3, Tallinn 10111 Film Director Tel: +371 6735 8878 BELARUS Tel: +32 2412 4040 A House on the Barisovka Tel: +372 627 6064 Marx Film Mob: +371 235 2400 Mob: +32 4792 66003 Illume [email protected] Tel: +7 91634 46321 [email protected] SHABLOUSKAYA, VIKTORIYA [email protected] Tel: +358 9148 1489 www.filmi.ee Skype: askold_kurov www.nkc.gov.lv [email protected] www.offworld.be Mob: +358 5059 37714 [email protected] [email protected] VASTRIK, RIHO Ozola, Lelda RUSSIA ESTONIA Skype: merjaritola Associate Professor UK Creative Europe Latvia / www.illume.fi Baltic Film and Media School MEDIA Office NEKRASOVA, ELENA KAAT, MARIANNA OÜ Vesilind McALLISTER, SEAN Peitavas 10, Riga LV1050 Journalist 14 Cases KILPELÄINEN, LEENA Mob: +372 507 8067 Film Director Tel: +371 6735 8857 Isskustvo Kino/Kinoart Baltic Film Production A House on the Barisovka [email protected] http://seanmcallister.com Mob: +371 2946 0646 Tel.: +7 90460 93609 Tel: +372 656 8621 Illume www.vesilind.ee [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mob: +372 502 7509 Tel: +358 9148 1489 Skype:leldamediadesk www.kinoart.ru [email protected] [email protected] LITHUANIA www.radosaeiropa.lv Skype: Marianna_kaat www.illume.fi Organizers SWEDEN www.bfp.ee BRAZDŽIONYTĖ, EVA PAKALNIŅA, ANNA GEORGIA Creative Europe Lithuania / CIRE, ELĪNA National Film Centre of Latvia SHIRIAIEFF, ALEX KILMI, JAAK MEDIA Office National Film Centre of Latvia Peitavas 10/12, Riga LV1050 Producer People from Nowhere BERIKISHVILI, ESMA Lithuanian Film Centre Peitavas 10, Riga LV1050 Mob: +371 2924 7659 Dixit International Kuukulgur Film The Pioneers Palace Z. Sierakausko 15, LT03105 Vilnius [email protected] www.nkc.gov.lv Tel: +46 70541 6172 Mob: +372 564 0354 Mob: + 9 95932 71969 Tel: +370 5213 0643 Mob: + 371 2657 8940 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.nkc.gov.lv RAMĀNS, MIKS www.dixit.se Skype: viiger17 Skype: esma berikishvili www.lkc.lt Editor, VFS films www.kuukulgur.ee www.matchfilm.com Dimiševskis, Uldis Tel: +371 6750 3588 KVIETAUSKAS, ROLANDAS Head of Production Mob: +371 2821 8118 Pitch Team SILDOS, RIINA TSIMINTIA, ANA Director National Film Centre of Latvia [email protected] Paradise Behind the Fence The Pioneers Palace Lithuanian Film Centre Peitavas 10, Riga LV1050 www.vfs.lv Members Amrion Matchhouse Film Z. Sierakausko 15, LT-03105 Vilnius Tel: +371 6735 8862 Tel: +372 677 6363 Mob: +9 95555 125565 Tel: +370 5213 0734 [email protected] RIETUMA, DITA BELARUS Mob: +372 504 8985 [email protected] [email protected] www.nkc.gov.lv National Film Centre of Latvia [email protected] Skype: ana.tsimintia www.lkc.lt Peitavas 10, Riga LV1050 KUTSILA, ANDREI www.amrion.ee www.matchfilm.com Dūdiņa, Zanda Tel: +371 6735 8878 Strip and War RUOKYTĖ-JONSSON, LIANA National Film Centre of Latvia [email protected] Studio Everest SURZHIKOVA, ALENA GERMANY Head of Department of Film Peitavas 10, Riga LV1050 www.nkc.gov.lv Mob: +48 6093 33407 Paradise Behind the Fence Promotion, Information and Tel: +371 6735 8858 [email protected] Amrion BEETZ, REINHARDT Heritage Mob: + 371 2648 8782 RIMKUS, MARGARITA www.studioeverest.pl Mob: + 372 5569 3961 Leningrad Symphony Lithuanian Film Centre [email protected] National Film Centre of Latvia [email protected] Beetz Brothers Filmproduction Z. Sierakausko 15, LT03105 Vilnius Skype: zanda.dudina1 Peitavas 10, Riga LV1050 BELGIUM Skype: saljonas Tel: +49 40769 73070 Tel. +370 5216 4408 www.nkc.gov.lv Tel: +371 6735 8858 www.amrion.ee [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] NICOLAI, FREDRIK www.gebrueder-beetz.de www.lkc.lt Gaide, Sarma www.nkc.gov.lv The Return TROFIMOV, SERGEI National Film Centre of Latvia Off World Paradise Behind the Fence DELANE, OLGA ŠIMANSKYTĖ, IRMA Peitavas 10/12, Riga LV1050 Tel: +32 2412 4040 Amrion Olga Go Home Head of the Department of Film Tel: +371 6735 8857 Mob: +32 4854 04207 Mob: +371 5556 1130 Doppelplusultra Production [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mob: +49 17277 88135 Lithuanian Film Centre Skype: sarma.gaide www.offworld.be Skype: psypixy Skype: doppelplusultra Tel: +370 5 213 0451 www.nkc.gov.lv www.amrion.ee [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.lkc.lt Grinbergs, Arnis www.doppelplusultra.de Graphic Designer www.olgadelane.de [email protected] 70 71 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Müller, Frank OLTE, UĢIS ŽELVE, KRISTĪNE POLAND MOISEENKO, ANNA Olga Go Home Demigods Rocking Pyongyang Mary’s Journey Returnees Doppelplusultra VFS Films VIVAT! KRAUSS, MARIA Marina Razbezhkina Studio Mob: +49 172582 44430 Tel: +371 6750 3588 Mob: + 371 2919 2647 I Would Like to Tell you Everything Mob: +7 98513 64505 [email protected] Mob: +317 2648 0909 [email protected] Plesnar&Krauss FILMS [email protected] www.doppelplusultra.de [email protected] Mob: +48 6059 35018 [email protected] Skype: ugis.olte LITHUANIA [email protected] Skype: a_n_s_o_n IRELAND www.vfs.lv Skype: marykrauss www.razbeg.org BOJARSKAS, TADAS https://www.facebook.com/ McCORMACK, RAYMOND RUKA, ELVITA El Padre Medico Plesnar.and.Krauss.FILMS RUDNITSKAYA, ALINA tragedy, ecstasy, destiny Mary’s Journey Ironcat Fatei and the Sea Gambit Pictures Ltd VIVAT! Mob: +370 6143 6696 PORTNOY, ZVIKA GREGORY Proline Film Mob: +353 8637 98497 Mob:+371 2949 7277 [email protected] I Would Like to Tell you Everything [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.ironcat.lt Plesnar&Krauss FILMS Tel: +7 81223 31051 Skype: rayoshea www.elvita.lv Mob: +48 6065 02267 Mob: +7 91191 95868 www.gambitpictures.eu BUROKAITĖ, GIEDRĖ [email protected] http://en.prolinefilm.ru SĪMANIS, DĀVIS People, Animals and Things https://www.facebook.com/ LATVIA D Is For Division Meno Avilys Plesnar.and.Krauss.FILMS SWEDEN Ego Media Mob: + 370 6752 1161 CEKULIS, ULDIS Mob: +371 2986 5770 [email protected] RUSSIA RYDÉN, FOLKE Demigods Rocking Pyongyang [email protected] Skype: giedre_bu Shipping Pollution VFS Films www.egomedia.lv http://menoavilys.org GAPTSCHENKO, KSENIA FRP AB Tel: +371 6750 3588 Returnees Mob: +46 8714 7880 Mob: +371 2929 8077 STAHOVSKA, GUNA JUOČERIS, PAULIUS Marina Razbezhkina Studio [email protected] [email protected] Knutification El Padre Medico Mob: +31 6275 96262 Skype: folkeryden Skype: uldisan The Mojo Raiser Production Ironcat (the Netherlands) www.folkeryden.com www.vfs.lv Mob: +371 2947 3007 Mob: +370 6188 7174 Mob: +7 91910 77841 (Russia) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] UKRAINE GAILE, ANTRA Skype:gunigunda1 Skype: pauliusjuo Skype: gaptschenko People from Nowhere www.mojoraiserproduction.com www.ironcat.lt www.razbeg.org SERDYUKOVA, YULIA Mistrusmedia Delta Tel: +371 6731 3314 TREKTERIS, GUNTIS PUIDOKAS, VYTAUTAS KUDRYASHOVA, MILA Honest Fish Mob: +371 2919 5876 D Is For Division El Padre Medico Fatei and the Sea Mob: +380 67240 2139 [email protected] Ego Media Ironcat Proline Film [email protected] Skype: skepse Mob: +371 2921 9373 Mob: +370 6786 1761 [email protected] Skype: yu.liko www.mistrusmedia.lv [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +7 81223 31051 www.honestfish.com.ua Skype: guntis.trekteris www.ironcat.lt Mob: +7 91510 43410 GRŪBE, GINTS www.egomedia.lv Skype: milakud ZINOVYEVA, SVITLANA People from Nowhere ŽEGULYTĖ, AISTĖ http://en.prolinefilm.ru A Voice in a Choir Mistrusmedia VASIĻJEVA, ASNĀTE People, Animals and Things Inspiration Films Tel: +371 6731 3314 Mary’s Journey Meno Avilys KUROV, ASKOLD Mob: +380 50334 1656 [email protected] VIVAT! Mob: + 370 6887 5281 Release Oleg Sentsov [email protected] www.mistrusmedia.lv Mob: + 371 2922 5127 [email protected] Marx Film Skype: Redfox1451 [email protected] Skype: aiste cramberr Mob: +7 91634 46321 https://www.facebook.com/ KLIMANOVS, JĀNIS http://menoavilys.org Skype: askold_kurov InspirationFilmsUA Knutification ZĀLAMANE, SANDA [email protected] The Mojo Raiser Production Knutification NORWAY Mob: +371 2646 6408 The Mojo Raiser Production LOPAREV, PAVEL [email protected] Mob: +371 2645 1456 TRAAVIK, MORTEN Returnees www.mojoraiserproduction.com [email protected] Demigods Rocking Pyongyang Marina Razbezhkina Studio www.mojoraiserproduction.com Norsk Fjernsyn Mob: +7 98525 38031 [email protected] [email protected] www.norskfjernsyn.no Skype: a_n_s_o_n www.razbeg.org 72 73 EDITORIAL BOARD: Sarma Gaide, Zanda Dūdiņa, Lelda Ozola, Elīna Cire, Margarita Rimkus

DESIGN&LAYOUT: Arnis Grinbergs

FRONT COVER: Stills from Dreamcatcher by Kim Longinotto, Rise Films, Green Acres Films, Vixen Films, 98 min, 2015, UK We Come as Friends by Hubert Sauper, Adelante Films KGP, 110 min, 2014, Austria/France

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