The purpose of DISCOPRO is to bring international TV content producers together with "qualified" Central & Eastern European coproduction partners selected on the basis of their ability to:
1. Provide straight funding
2. Provide talent & production services that can "substantially" impact
overall costs
3. Provide bankable "pre-distribution" agreements in one or more territories
East Silver and Institute of Documentary Film are proud to announce a special panel within DISCOPRO called:
10 Steps how to produce a Documentary in Central & Eastern Europe!
Dates: June 19, 2007
Time: 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm:
Venue: Budapest Gerbeaud Café
East European Docs Aiming For Coproduction panel will present nine upcoming outstanding East European Docs in development. Panel will present film projects and tell more about their coproduction aims, which deserve appropriate strategy from day one of the project execution:
MOON INSIDE YOU
Producer: Svetlana Gajdosova, Ubac Media / gsm: +421 905 191 360 / svetlana_gajdosova@yahoo.com
Director: Diana Fabianova
Diana suffers from irregular and painful periods. Her gynaecologist prescribes her the usual medicines but she suspects that there must be other ways of living with her menstruation. With her, we will undertake a journey to a place so far almost unknown: the female universe.
(Ex Oriente Film Participant)
EUROPEAN POLITICS
Director and Producer: Marko Škop, Artileria / gsm: +421 903 789 198 / skop@artileria.sk
The main characters are the Orthodox Priest and Mayor together with their wives. The Priest and Mayor organize the politics in Osadne. They have to be both diplomats and bureaucrats. Local politics has its funny and sad moments, as any politics, even in Strasbourg or Brussels. Our heroes will be visiting European Parliament, as will many ”ordinary people”, invited to Brussels by EU politicians.
NORMALIZATION
Director and Producer: Rober Kirchhoff /gsm: +421 904 610 694 / robertkirchhoff@hotmail.com
The film is a Slovak fusion of Thin Blue Line with Twin Peaks recounting the unsolved disappearance and murder of a young woman that happened thirty years ago. It was a case that was paraded in the communist mass-media at the end of which 7 individuals were found guilty of this heinous crime. They are the same individuals who at present proclaim their innocence and claim that they were caught up in the middle of a grand-scale political conspiracy involving The Soviet Union, Iran, Lybia and Czechoslovakia.
THE LAST TWO TIGHTROPE DANCERS IN ARMENIA: A FUNERAL FOR DYING GODS
Producer: Vardan Hovhannisyan, Bars Media
Director: Inna Sahakyan / gsm: +37491340337 / inna@barsmedia.am
Two old men, 78, 75, are shouting at each other under the tightrope, arguing whose student is the best; ‘I started to walk when I was thirteen, 30 musicians died whilst I was dancing!’ ‘But I won the competition in the fifties; the cultural minister said if there was a science of tightrope I would be a Professor.’ These are the last two Tightrope masters in Armenia, who were once treated like gods. With a smile we will show the ‘funeral’ of their art: even though their troupes walk now, they are sure that their students will not continue.
(Ex Oriente Film Participant)
PLANET KIRSAN
Producer: Krzysztof Kopczyński, Eureka Media / gsm: +48 602 790 802 / krzysztof.kopczynski@ntcm.co
Director: Magdalena Pięta
There is place within the borders of Europe where the President most of all loves Chess. In this little republic lives a 12 years-old boy who studies at the Moscow University and who mainly loves the President.
(Ex Oriente Film Participant)
MIND THE GAP
Director: Maciej Gorski
Producer : Monika Braid - Baidmade Films (Great Britain) / gsm: +44 7881 755 548 / monika@braidmadefilms.co.uk
A London tube driver, a Sikh, Dari Mankoo and his two daughters embark on the journey to the place of their roots in the Garhwal Himalayas. The trip is an eye-opener for the girls ‘cocooned’ by their sheltered home life.
Hungary
(East European Forum Participant)
NEW ELDORADO 2 – SAVE ROSIA MONTANA
Producer and Director: Tibor Kocsis, Flora Film International / gsm: +36 309529995 / florafilm@t-online.hu
There is a wonderful village in Romania: Roşia Montană. There are several hundred-year-old houses, and there are people who stick to their land, houses, churches and the mortal remains of their fathers. The surrounding mountains hide 300 tons of gold and silver. Roşia Montană Gold Corporation, a Canadian-Romanian company wants to open a new open-cast gold mine here. They promise state-of-the-art technology and offer locals to be moved into new, modern homes, while their houses would be destroyed. There would be gold. There would be silver. There would be a new Eldorado. But there would also be an 800-hectare cyanide containing tailing pond, with a 180-meter-high dam. Only this beautiful village, Roşia Montană and the surrounding mountains would disappear from the face of the Earth.
(Ex Oriente Film Participant)
WAITING IN BUENOS AIRES
Director: Jana Bokova
Producer : Pablo Diego Salomon - Morocha (Argentina) / gsm: +54 15 524 81 342 / pasalo@fibertel.com.ar
Intimate world of each table enables a look into the reality of a contradictory, conflictive Argentinean society from the point of view of a waiter.
(East European Forum Participant)
MAN AND WOMAN OR UNDERGROUND DREAM
Director and Producer: Filip Remunda - Hypermarket Film Ltd. / gsm: + 420 603180312 / filip@docuinter.net
An anarchist punk-rock documentary opera… Meeting of Dead Kennedys, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn with Sergei Kuriochin on Anti-Bush Demonstration taking place at the Tien An Men Square. A rhythmical dialogue of “cultural dissidents” of Tábor (a provincial medieval town in Czech Republic), Saint Petersburg, Beijing, Belgrade, Tokyo, Havana, New York and San Francisco conducted by Hilary (42) and Chris (47), platonic lovers, charismatic “artists in life” and musicians, who consider their own life as a laboratory focused on the research of working approaches to alternative lifestyles, musical and artistic forms as well as cultural understanding and tolerance through the arts. Rhizome World Map.
