This master class and
forum will be open for everybody, it is enough to have an idea and wish to
discuss it, strength to defend it and wish to fulfil it. Go Young Generation will cover only feature film field
(doesn't matter short or long one). It will not be a classical pitching forum,
it's more a place for sharing ideas and conceptions, environment were the
thoughts can be brought into the light and young directors and producers get
ready for their first real start in film. Classical pitching results show that
young filmmakers not always know how to present and defend their projects. We
offer the solution for them.
Go
Young Generation is:
·
Screenings of films, created by
young successful directors (moderators);
·
Screenings of films, created by
young directors from Baltic states
(participants);
·
Master class moderated by young
successful directors;
·
Face-to-face conversations;
Go
Young Generation
will be organized by Public Institution "Kino
aljansas", which organizes Nordic Film Forum SCANORAMA, and has experience in
organizing forums and master classes. That is why this forum will be arranged
during Nordic Film Forum Scanorama that to
l have a strong background.
The target groups of
this event are Baltic countries (Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia), neighbour countries (Poland, Germany,
Czech Republic, Austria), Balkan countries (Slovenia, Croatia,
Serbia), and experienced
Nordic countries (Iceland, Denmark, Norway,
Sweden, Finland).
Early Scanorama forums have
already given some results. Discussions
about fundraising for film, financial opportunities from EU funds and film
promotion helped to produce Lithuanian movie "Ghetto" (dir. Audrius Juzenas, Lithuania). The film was actually a co-production and was
successfully sold to some distributors in different countries. Not enough, a
young script writer Saulius Drunga (Lithuania) was a winner of Media
programmes competition "New talents 2007".
One more example - Latvians
production "Devini" is finishing the film now, whose co - production idea was
born during one of the forums in Scanorama. This example shows that
co-production forum has an ability to be continues event and can be directly
useful not only for Lithuanian A/V professionals, but for A/V professionals
from the whole young Europe.
In
2007 Scanorama is planning to invite:
·
Pia Marais (winner of Film
festival Crossing Europe Linz 2007, director
of Die Unerzogenen)
·
Ognjen Svilicic (director of Sorry for Kung Fu);
·
Rachel
Robey, Alastair Clark and Ken Marshall (Producers of London to Brighton, best first feature in UK);
·
Thomas Arslan (director of Ferien - screened in Berlinale (German
program), Linz,
etc..);
·
And others...
Together with them there will
be colleagues from European Producers Club, FIPRESCI, Kleine Kammerspiele, Film
Artists Network etc.
01-08-2007
Go Young Generation at Scanorama FF Nov. 9-29
Co-production and master
class forum Go Young Generation - is the way for the young directors to
find partners for their production, discuss them, and foresee the possibilities
of its realization. Master class will be exclusively held by young directors and
producers, whose first attempts in filmmaking were successful, - their films
won prizes, and were accepted internationally. The participants will also be young
filmmakers, who still do not have such a needed experience.
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