6 documentary projects have been chosen for DOK.RESTART workshops, which will take place during 54th KFF.
Six documentary projects have been selected to take part in DOK.RESTART workshops. Groups of filmmakers (director, editor, producer) will work under the guidance of eminent specialists to give their films their final shape and build the promotion and distribution strategy for them.
DOK.Restart! are four-day workshops, created especially for Polish filmmakers, organised by Wajda School in co-operation with DOK.Incubator. From all the submitted projects, the organisers have selected six best ones, whose makers will work on them in Krakow under the guidance of eminent experts. The selected projects are the following:
- Czech Swan by Aleksandra Terpińska, edited by Przemysław Chruścielewski, produced by Colab Pictures
- Ethiopiques – revolt of the soul, directed by Maciej Bochniak, produced by Pokromski Studio
- Football Brothers, by Marcin Filipowicz, edited by Wojciech Słota, produced by Wajda Studio
- K2 Passage, by Eliza Kubarska, edited by Bartosz Pietras, produced by Wajda Studio
- Nusrat. The Last prophet of Music, by Tomasz Wysokiński, edited by Bartosz Klimczak, produced by Tabla Film, Ayahuasca
- The Queen of Spades, by Agnieszka Zwiefka, produced by Ma.ja.de
The workshops will take place at the 54th Krakow Film Festival from 25th to 28th May 2014. The participants of six selected projects will work on creating a strong narrative and film structure in the teasers of their films. The teams will create a strategy which will allow them to reach the target audiences at the leading European festivals thanks to creative PR and distribution strategy.
All projects will be shown within the frames of Docs To Go!, co-organised by Polish Film Institute and Krakow Film Foundation within the frames of Industry Zone at Krakow Film Festival. One from among all projects taking part in Docs To Go! will be presented to international distributors, agents and representatives of festivals and the media during DOK.Incubator at the festival DOK Leipzig.
The list of all films selected for DOCS TO GO! (apart from 6 films from DOK.RESTART, 5-6 other films will be shown) will be announced soon.
The lecturers participating in the workshops:
Editing: the award-winning German editor and supervisor of Berlinale Talents Gesa Marten (DE), Danish editor of films such as "Armadillo” and "The Pirate Bay AFK”, the winner of the Emmy award Per K. Kirkegaard (DK), the editor of the film "Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains” (the winner of IDFA award in 2007) Claudio Hughes (FR)
Marketing: one of the most experienced Scandinavian specialists in the field of film marketing Freddy Neumann (DK) and experienced Czech specialist in the field of brand management Tomáš Hrivnák (CZ)
Distribution: award-winning producer of such films as "The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun," "Free the Mind" and "Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case" and self-distribution expert Sigrid Dyekjær (DK)
More: www.dokincubator.net, www.wajdaschool.pl
source: www.polishdocs.pl