ORGANIZERS FUNDERS Projekt se uskutečňuje za podpory Ministerstva kultury České republiky WORKSHOP AWARDS: INDEX Team 6 Tutors 9 Workshop Awards Guests 12 Observers 14 Czech & Slovak Delegation 15 Amazona /CO, IR, BE, UK/ 20 Clare Weiskopf, Gustavo Vasco, Nicolas Van Hemelryck LIST Cheer Up /FI, CA/ 34 Christy Garland, Liisa Juntunen OF Emergency Exit /BE/ 44 Lieven Corthouts, Jan De Coster, Emmy Oost Holy Cow /DE, RO, AZ/ 54 PROJECTS Imam Hasanov, Philipp Gromov, Veronika Janatkova, Andra Popescu H*Art On /CZ/ 64 Andrea Culková, Thomas Ernst, Christian Falvey Thy Father's Chair /IT, ES, US/ 74 Antonio Tibaldi, Alex Lora, Enrica Capra Ukrainian Sheriff s /LV, UA, DE/ 86 Roman Bondarchuk, Kateryna Gornostai, Darya Averchenko, Uldis Cekulis, Tanja Georgieva IFP Guest project The Road from Hainan /USA/ 100 Nanfu Wang, Michael Shade Guest Projects Journey to Success /SK/ 113 Daniela Meressa Rusnoková, Janka Vlčková, Mario Homolka Organizers 120 Media Program 122 Evaluation Form 125 Who is Who 130 Location 132 Map 133 Practical info 134 TEAM TEAM 6/7 Andrea Prenghyová /CZ/ Head of Program Graduated in journalism at Charles University and in documentary direction at FAMU. She has been working as a reporter for the Refl ex magazine, shooting and producing docu mentary fi lms for the Czech Television as well as for private broadcasters. In 2001 she stood at the birth of the Institute of Documentary Film, which under her 10 years leading developed into the biggest NGO supporting documentary fi lms in the Eastern European countries. From 2003 to 2007, she was a member of EDN Executive Commit- tee. In 2006 and 2007, she joined a working group creating the proposal of the new Czech cinema law, in the years 2007 and 2008 she participated at creating of Audiovisual Train- ing Coalition. Since the year 2011 she is free lance working as lecturer (FAMU, University of New York) director, producer and expert. With DOKLeipzig she started DOK.Incuba- tor training project focused on new tools in documentary marketing and distribution. Mail [email protected], Tel. /DE/+49 0151 2351 1251 Tereza imíková /CZ/ Program Manager Tereza was graduated at the Film Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and works as a documentary director, journalist and translator from Italian. Author of fi ve documentary projects – e.g. Grandmap, or Double life of Saint Vit, awarded on the international festival of science documentaries AFO in 2006. Since 2003 she’s a member of a non-profi t organization TRK, aiming to reconstruct a Czech- German cross border communication and creative activities among teenagers. As a journalist and fi lmmaker she deals with gender issues, social, political and historical context of the daily life and cultural identity of a nation. Mail [email protected], Tel.: /DE/+49 0151 2351 1293 ofie Strachotová /CZ/ Head of Production While studying Arts Management at the University of Economics in Prague, Žofi e started to work at One World in schools program of People in Need. For 4 years, she has been pro- duction manager of screenings for schools during International Human Rights Documen- tary Film Festival One World, coordinated preparations of audiovisual portal jsns.cz and organized other activities there. She participated in production of various cultural events such as United Islands music festival, Tribute to Václav Havel, Association of Czech Cine- matographers awards. In 2014, she worked as a production manager of accompanying program of International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava. She is currently a student of FAMU, focusing on Production, where she has produced number of student fi lms. Mail zofi [email protected] Tel. /DE/+49 0151 2358 2224 DOK.INCUBATOR Marco Weisse /DE/ Local Production Manager Worked ten years at offi ce and studying business economics (M.Sc.) now. Marco is a member of the local Baptist church where the workshop takes place. Mail [email protected] Tel. /DE/+49 0173 8489 184 Hana Gomoláková /CZ/ Consultation/Observer coordinator After attending the University of Economics in Prague Hana had worked in many diff erent business areas until she decided to pursue a fi lm career with focus on documentaries. Since 2008 she has worked as freelance translator as well as journalist reporting from major fi lm festivals and cultural events in the Czech Republic for the leading Prague-based media in English including The Prague Post or Prague Daily Monitor. During three years she lead the program department of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and helped develop creative documentaries as part of Creative Group for Social Aff airs and Documentaries in Czech Televison for nearly two years. Mail [email protected] Tel. /DE/+49 0175 1226 595 Myrtille Mamelle-Perrot /FR/ Workshop Assistant Born in 1995 in France, Myrtille studied at the SSLMIT (School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators) of the University of Trieste in Italy. She is currently studying Intercultural Communication and Management at ISIT in Paris. Mail: [email protected] Tel. /DE/+49 0151 2351 0995 TEAM 8/9 Tereza Ritterová /CZ/ Program Assistant Tereza Ritterová (born in 1988) graduated from Multimedia and language culture at UHK (2012) – she also completed the program Animation as a learning tool (VIA university, Viborg, Denmark). She has been continued in Film and Theatre Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc. During this study she worked as an intern at the postproduction company Films at 59, the production company Tigress production (both based in Bristol, GB) and for the event East Doc Platform in Prague, where she has been assisting since then. She also worked for local international festival (One world in Mladá Boleslav, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, PAF – Festival of Animation Film, AFO – Academia Film Olomouc). Mail [email protected] Tel. /CZ/ + 420 608 412 666 Tomá Kraus /CZ/ Technical Support Tomáš successfully fi nished the Film school in Zlín. During his studies he cooperated on about twenty fi lms and now he continues his education at Hradec Králové University, studying informatics and new technologies. He works in company 3heads, developing technical equipment for recording sport matches. Mail [email protected] Tel. /DE/ +49 0151 2351 1090 Peter Morávek /SK/ Technical Support Peter was born in 1988. He is a fi fth-year student at the Film and Television Faculty of The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. During his studies, he has worked on several festivals and workshops as a technician. He has cooperated as an editing assistant on a few documentaries, e.g. Velvet Terrorists of Peter Kerekes. Peter has cooperated as a fi lm editor in the feature fi lm dé but of Iveta Grofova, Made in Ash. Last year, he was a member of the student jury on IFF Bratislava. Mail: [email protected] Tel. /SK/ +421904820935 TUTORS Per K. Kirkegaard /DK/ Editor Per is one of the most established editors in the Danish fi lm industry. He edited numerous critically acclaimed documentaries and features, among them, Accused, awarded with the European Film Academy Discovery Prix Fassbinder. His latest merits include fi lms like Armadillo, for which he awarded an Emmy for best editing of a long format documentary; TPBAFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, recently selected for the Berlin Film Festival; The Sound of a Revolution, a Greenlandic documentary, premiered at this year's CPH:DOX; and Chuck Norris VS Communism, selected for this year's Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary competition. Yael Bitton /CH/ Editor Yael has been working extensively as a fi lm editor since 2000, for both cinema and television. She has been editing in the USA, France, and Switzerland, cutting mostly documentaries and experimental fi lms; her fi lms have been shown in festivals worldwide, and won numerous prizes. Yael currently works a lot with young fi lmmakers, accompanying them in their creative process. She currently tutors students at the HEAD in Geneva. In the past she has also participated at Greenhouse, tutored at FEMIS, CINEDOC, at New York University, DCTV, and has taught fi lm-making in psychiatric hospitals. Claudio Cea /CH/ Editor Claudio Cea is a Motion Picture Editor working in feature fi lms, documentaries, commercials, and fi lm trailers. A member of the European Film Academy, the Swiss Film Academy and the Canadian Cinema Editors, Claudio is an alumnus of the Vancouver Film School in Canada and the International Film School of Cologne in Germany, and an AVID Certifi ed Instructor. In addition to his diverse portfolio of theatrical work, he also shaped over 100 factual/reality, documentary, and dramatic programs for SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (Swiss National Radio and Television) over fi ve years. Claudio Cea is in the Jury for the 2015 Canadian Cinema Editors. TUTORS 10/11 Sigrid Dyekjær /DK/ Producer /Danish Documentary/ Sigrid Dyekjær has worked as a producer on both feature fi lms and documentary fi lmssince 2000. She was the producer of ”The Monastery”, winner of the JorisIvens Award at IDFA in 2006, and nominated for a European Film Award and several other Awards. Sigrid Dyekjær is one of the most experienced producers in Denmark both when it comes to national documentary fi lms, but also international documentary fi lms in fi nancing, producing and creative consulting on fi lms. In her spare time she teaches at the National Film School of Denmark, as well as doing master classes and lectures at fi lm schools around the world and courses in documentary fi lmmaking like “Bridging the Gab”, and pitch sessions around the world. She is educated in dramaturgy from the University in Århus, and has been a part owner of the production company Tju –Bang Film before she became part owner of Danish Documentary Production.