An open session introducing a modern promotion tool, used by award winning Danish documentary filmmakers to get the attention for their films takes place in Warsaw, next week

There is a lot of noise out there, thousands of films made every year, hundreds competing for the same audience, tens on a similar topic to the yours. How can you build a closer relation to our audience? How can you increase the awareness, get people to talk about our film – and conquer an audience which would perhaps not come to cinema otherwise?

DOK.Incubator /CZ/ in cooperation with Wajda School School /PL/ invited renowned Danish PR expert Freddy Neumann and the “Monastery” producer Sigrid Dyekjær to Warsaw to deal with this topics and provide filmmakers with concrete tools of modern branding and strategic communication.

The session takes place in Kino Kultura, Warsaw (PL), March 26th from 10:00 to 12:00.

This open session is a part of the international documentary rough-cut workshop DOK.Restart, which takes place in Krakow, May 25th - 29th. It’s open to polish documentary film makers and producers. More information and the application you can find at www.dokincubator.net.

Speakers

Freddy Neumann /DK/

Freddy Neumann is based in Copenhagen and has been working with film promotion since 1990. He is working in the Danish Film business with several major companies and distributors of both feature- and documentary films. He is educated MA CC at School of Business and Social Sciences, MA Dramaturgy and worked as associate professor at Aarhus University, DK.

Sigrid Dyekjær /DK/

Sigrid Dyekjær is one of the most experienced Danish documentary producers, having produced both feature films and documentary films since 2000. She was the producer of ”The Monastery”, winner of the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA in 2006, nominated for a European Film Award and several other Awards. She produced dozens of award winning films, among all Enemies of Happiness, A Normal Life, Free The mind or Ai Weiwei, the Fake