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Film Industry Events 2011

Press & Industry Screenings

Cinema A, Cinema B, Cinema C, Congress Hall

• daily screenings of films from Official Selection - Competition, East of the West, Forum of Independents and other selected films from the official program. Access only with Press or Industry accreditation.
• The screening schedule will be available on the website or in the Film Industry Office
• Press & Industry Screenings 2011 

MEDIA meeting point

Sunday July 3 - Wednesday July 6, Film Industry Office - Thermal Hotel, 1st floor

Sunday 03/07/2011

“COOPERATION WITH HOLLYWOOD” PANEL 2011

14:00-16:00 Grandhotel Pupp - Chopin Lounge

• For the fourth time the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will organize the much anticipated “Cooperation with Hollywood” panel. The goal of the event is to bridge the gap between Hollywood and Europe and bring together the skills, experience and talent from both sides of the Atlantic. Prominent representatives of the American film industry will offer their European counterparts useful insight into the workings of the Hollywood production machine. The discussion will allow both sides to gain important information for successful cooperation. This year’s subject will give the foreign filmmakers an invaluable insight into what it takes to make their dreams and aspiration reality.
• More information

PANEL DISCUSSION WITH CZECH FILM CENTER

15:30 Press Conference Hall, Hotel Thermal

• During the 46TH edition of the Karlovy Vary international film festival the Czech Film Center organizes the panel discussion The state support of Czech film: On thin ice between commercialism and art? The discussion will be moderated by screenwriter and script editor Jan Štern.
  The way the national film support functions is also reflected over the long term in the cinematography of the given country. What is the role and influence of the State Fund in the creation of Czech cinema? Does it merely “hand out” money or does its selection also determine which films get made, thereby building a “brand” of Czech film?
• The discussion will be held in connection with the debate of the new Czech audiovisual law, which also includes the reform of the State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography, which is the most important source for the support of screenplays and the production of Czech films.
  Representatives from the film industry from the Czech Republic and neighbouring Germany will be sitting on the panel in order to discuss the old and new structures of the fund, their visions and specific experiences from abroad:
  
  • Tereza Dvořáková (Member of the SF Council)
  • Helena Fraňková (Director of the Media and Audiovisual Department of the Czech Ministry of Culture)
  • Václav Kadrnka (Director, Screenwriter and Producer)
  • Kirsten Niehuus (Executive Director of Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg)
• Contact: Jana Černík, e-mail: jana@filmcenter.cz , mobil: +420 724 329 949
  

INDUSTRY MEETING WITH CZECH FILM CENTER

17:00 – 18:30 Meeting Point, Thermal Hotel

• Czech Film Center will host its annual GLASS OF WINE WITH CZECH FILM CENTER during the regular industry meetings at the Karlovy Vary IFF.
• At the informal get-together, CFC will present the Czech movies screening in the festival’s official selection and the latest news from Czech cinema and the domestic film industry. CFC will point the spotlight on the Slovak-Czech co-production Gypsy (Cigán) by Martin Šulík in the Official Selection, Solar Eclipse (Pod sluncem tma) by Martin Mareček in the Documentary Films in Competition and Nothing Aiganist Nothing (Nic proti ničemu) by Petr Marek competing in the East of the West section, this year’s Variety’s Ten European Filmmakers to Watch, organized as always by Variety and European Film Promotion, of which CFC is a longtime member, will present Zuzana Liova’s debut The House (Dům), a Slovak-Czech co-production. 
• The event is organized in cooperation with Media Desk Czech Republic.  

Monday 04/07/2011

WORKS IN PROGRESS 2011

13:30-17:00 Congress Hall, Thermal Hotel (the venue has changed this year!)

• A presentation designed for international distributors, sales agents, and festival programmers offering a selection of quality feature films, recently completed or in post-production, whose premieres are expected after July 2011. Producers will present their films in eight-minute pitch including the trailer or film clips.
• Selected projects


Tuesday 05/07/2011

MASTER CLASS WITH BRIAN NEWMAN AND TED HOPE (THE FUTURE OF FILM PANEL)

11 am, Jameson Festival Lounge

• Digital technology has forced radical changes on the media industries. What we’ve seen happen in music and publishing is now hitting film, and the changes will likely be more profound as our world becomes increasingly mediated by the visual image. Pioneering producer Ted Hope (Todd Solondz's DARK HORSE, AMERICAN SPLENDOR, and 21 GRAMS) and digital thought leader Brian Newman (former CEO, Tribeca Film Institute) will lead a participatory dialogue with the audience about finding the keys to success in this future.
  more information here

DOCU TALENTS FROM THE EAST 2011  

13:30 – 15:00 Cinema A, Thermal Hotel

• The Docu Talents from the East presents nine creative documentary projects in progress from Eastern Europe. Directors and producers will present their projects in a short pitch, including trailers, to the attending festival organizers, distributors, buyers and journalists. This year, among others Petr Hátle (Digital prints of a revolution on mobile phone camera as a democratic proof against the totalitarian control of images during an uprising), Miroslav Remo (Comeback about the life of two recidivists from the most closely watched Slovak jail), Igor Bezinović (The Blockade about the longest and politically most significant student protest in Croatia) or Helena Třeštíková (Family Diaries about the passing of time in one family) will present their work. The event is organized in collaboration with the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival - www.dokument-festival.cz
• Selected projects

DOCU Cocktail

15:00 – 16:30 Meeting Point, Thermal Hotel

• Meeting with Documentary film institute and IFF Jihlava

MEDIA Distribution at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

15:00 - 18:00, Film Industry Office, Thermal Hotel

• MEDIA Programme - Distribution sector representative, Violaine Somja, will be present at the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary from July 3rd to July 6th 2011.To schedule a meeting, please contact MEDIA Desk Czech Republic at info@mediadeskcz.eu.
• You can meet Violaine Somja on Tuesday, July 5th from 3 - 5 pm at the Film Industry Office, Hotel Thermal. and consult the MEDIA support schemes for the distribution of European films, in particular: Automatic / Selective support, guidelines, applications, currently running MEDIA agreements, submission of financial reports.  To schedule a meeting, please contact MEDIA Desk Czech Republic at info@mediadeskcz.eu.
• If you want to meet Violaine Somja prior to July 5th, please contact her directly at violaine.SOMJA@ec.europa.eu
• MEDIA Distribution - support for the transnational distribution of European films in cinemas

INDUSTRY MEETING WITH "2MORROW" FILM FESTIVAL

18:00 - 19:00 Meeting Point, Thermal Hotel

International Festival of Contemporary Cinema "2morrow" has been held in Moscow since 2007. The main objective of this venue is to introduce and maintain new tendencies and directions of the modern cinematic world and to familiarize Russian audience with the international independent film scene. Freedom of expression, ease of perception and originality of thought are among the main criteria for the selection and judging of the entries.

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