Dear Colleagues & Friends,
Let us inform you about thepresence of Slovak films at the 47th KARLOVY VARY International Film Festival (June 29 – July 7, 2012):
Debut feature film by young Slovak filmmaker Iveta Grófová MADE IN ASH will open the EAST OF THE WEST Competition on Saturday, June at 13:00 in PUPP Cinema.
MADE IN ASH (orig. Až do mesta Aš, SK – CZ 2012, 84 min., aka Town of Ash) is a debut feature film by young Slovak filmmaker Iveta Grófová, as taken from KV IFF website:
Noteworthy social drama about a Romany girl named Dorota, who leaves her native Slovakia after graduating from high school for a job in the Western Bohemian town of Aš. Thanks to authentic shots and the use of non-actors, the director achieves marked rawness and maximum punch.
Official Website of the film: www.madeinash.com
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THE SUN IN A
NET
we are happy to announce a very special screening of one of the treasures of the Slovak cinema, THE SUN IN A NET by Štefan Uher, to commemorate the film´s 50th anniversary. The premiere of the film in a digitally restored copy/DCP will be part of the section Out of the Past dedicated to bringing the best classic films to contemporary audiences.
Premiere screening:
Sunday, July 1 – 4:30 p.m. - PUPP Cinema, in the presence of the cinematographer Stanislav Szomolanyi
THE SUN IN A NET (orig. Slnko v sieti, CS 1962), directed by Štefan Uher, with the excellent cinematography of Stanislav Szomolányi, is considered the beginning of the New Wave in Slovak and Czech cinema and is a breakthrough pioneering achievement for Slovak, and the Czechoslovak cinema. In the period of a relative relaxation of the Communist regime, the film brought a new way of film narration (breaking up the traditional linear story narration into smaller episodes and motifs), a new, analytical view of reality focusing on people and their emotions as well as on the historical and social backgrounds. The film was restored by the Slovak Film Institute (National Film Archive) within the Project of the Systematic Restoration of Audiovisual Heritage, and will be presented from a DCP.
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Several further Slovak and Slovak coproduced films will be screened
in the festival program. Please, see the newsletter SLOVAK FILMS IN KARLOVY VARY
2012 here: http://www.aic.sk/files/vary-
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Within the INDUSTRY DAYS of the Festival, new platform for films in development from Slovakia and the Czech Republic will be introduced: PITCH & FEEDBACK organized by the Czech Film Centre, Slovak Film Institute, Karlovy Vary IFF, in partnership with Barrandov Studios. The project presentation us scheduled for Tuesday, July 3, 10:00 at “Becher Villa”.
Find invitation attached. Please note, the event is reserved for film professionals with the festival Film Industry Accreditation.
For
even more information to
Slovak participation at Karlovy Vary IFF, please,
see: our website, under the direct link: http://www.aic.sk/aic/en/news/
and we hope to meet with many of you in Karlovy Vary and enjoy and celebrate the Slovak presence there.
Contact Slovak Film Institute in Karlovy Vary:
Peter Dubecký, general manager (June 30 – July 5)
Viera Ďuricová (June 29 – July 3)
Miroslav Ulman (July 1- 4)
Katarína Tomková (June 29 – July 8)
Alexandra Strelková (June 29 – July 6)
With my best regards,
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Alexandra
Strelková National Cinematographic Centre - Slovak Film Institute Grösslingova 32, SK 811 09 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Tel: +421 2 5710 1527, Fax: +421 2 5273 3214, Cell: +421 905 730 040 |
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