Masterclasses at 9. PLANETE+ DOC FF
06.04.2012
Invitation to three masterclasses held during the festival
Invitation to three masterclasses held during the festival
Attractions at PLANETE+ DOC festival will include events for film industry representatives, film school students and film professionals organized as part of PLANETE+DOC Academy.
On May 14 in Warsaw’s Kinoteka theater, renowned Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger and his long-time cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler will hold a masterclass, in the course of which they will discuss their artistic credo, their collaboration and filming techniques as well as the ethical aspects of working as documentary filmmakers. The masterclass will be hosted by Michał Chaciński – art director of Gdynia Film Festival.
Glawogger and Thaler’s latest film Whores’ Glory, which received a special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the 2011 Venice IFF, will be screened in the main competition, vying for the Millennium Award. It will also compete for the Canon Cinematography Award, which is the only award of this type at a European documentary film festival.
3xGlawogger mini film retrospective will provide festival audiences with an opportunity to see all three parts of Glawogger’s work trilogy: Megacities, Workingman’s Death and Whores' Glory.
Also on May 14, Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky will hold the second masterclass. His prize-winning documentary debut Belvy (1993) is one of the msot well-known Russian documentary productions of the 1990s, receiving Joris Ivnes VPRO Award and Audience Award at IDFA in Amsterdam. Kossakovsky’s latest film ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, which opened Venice IFF, will compete for the Millenium Award (main prize) and Canon Cinematography Award at the 9th PLANETE+ DOC film festival. The film was shot in the few existing antipodes, or locations lying exactly at opposite ends of our planet, and comprises footage from eight antipodal corners of the world: Argentina and Chile, China and Russia, Hawaii and Botswana, and New Zealand and Spain.
In the course of the masterclass, Kossakovsky will share his unique perspective on the art of documentary cinema, his filming methods and principles he formulated for beginning documentary filmmakers. The masterclass will be hosted by cinematographer Szymon Lenkowski.
Also in Kinoteka, but on May 13, prominent Czech filmmaker and producer Petr Lom, director of films related to the subject of human rights (On a Tightrope, Letters to the President), whose latest production Back to the Square”, co-directed with Torstein Grude, will be included in the program of this year’s edition of PLANETE+ DOC.
Lom, who collected footage for films in countries including Iran, Egypt, China and Kyrgystan, will discuss:
1. ethical and practical challenges of filming closed societies;
2. independence and individual work of documentary filmmakers;
3. story-constructing process in a documentary and creating moving film narratives
4. ways of making a living out of documentrary filmmaking, practical advice on distribution channels and how to begin working on a documentary film.
All masterclasses are co-organized with MEDIA Desk Poland.
Masterclass partners include: Canon, Andrzej Wajda Film School, Polish Society of Cinematographers and FilmPro magazine.
If you wish to attend the masterclass, send your application to masterclass@planetedocff.pl by April 17. More information coming soon in the “PLANETE+ DOC ACADEMY” section.
Those with an academic interest in documentary cinema will have an opportunity to participate in an interdisciplinary conference organized in collaboration with University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw under the common title “Between tradition and mockumentary. The incidents of Contemporary Documentary Cinema”. In the course of the conference, participants will discuss the specific character and shape of contemporary documentary cinema. The conference will be augmented by film screenings and theme-oriented discussion panels. The two-day conference will be held on May 18 in Kinoteka and on May 19 in the School's Warsaw campus.
More information on the PLANETE+ DOC Academy will soon be posted in the “PLANETE+ DOC ACADEMY” section of the website.
On May 14 in Warsaw’s Kinoteka theater, renowned Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger and his long-time cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler will hold a masterclass, in the course of which they will discuss their artistic credo, their collaboration and filming techniques as well as the ethical aspects of working as documentary filmmakers. The masterclass will be hosted by Michał Chaciński – art director of Gdynia Film Festival.
Glawogger and Thaler’s latest film Whores’ Glory, which received a special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the 2011 Venice IFF, will be screened in the main competition, vying for the Millennium Award. It will also compete for the Canon Cinematography Award, which is the only award of this type at a European documentary film festival.
3xGlawogger mini film retrospective will provide festival audiences with an opportunity to see all three parts of Glawogger’s work trilogy: Megacities, Workingman’s Death and Whores' Glory.
Also on May 14, Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky will hold the second masterclass. His prize-winning documentary debut Belvy (1993) is one of the msot well-known Russian documentary productions of the 1990s, receiving Joris Ivnes VPRO Award and Audience Award at IDFA in Amsterdam. Kossakovsky’s latest film ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, which opened Venice IFF, will compete for the Millenium Award (main prize) and Canon Cinematography Award at the 9th PLANETE+ DOC film festival. The film was shot in the few existing antipodes, or locations lying exactly at opposite ends of our planet, and comprises footage from eight antipodal corners of the world: Argentina and Chile, China and Russia, Hawaii and Botswana, and New Zealand and Spain.
In the course of the masterclass, Kossakovsky will share his unique perspective on the art of documentary cinema, his filming methods and principles he formulated for beginning documentary filmmakers. The masterclass will be hosted by cinematographer Szymon Lenkowski.
Also in Kinoteka, but on May 13, prominent Czech filmmaker and producer Petr Lom, director of films related to the subject of human rights (On a Tightrope, Letters to the President), whose latest production Back to the Square”, co-directed with Torstein Grude, will be included in the program of this year’s edition of PLANETE+ DOC.
Lom, who collected footage for films in countries including Iran, Egypt, China and Kyrgystan, will discuss:
1. ethical and practical challenges of filming closed societies;
2. independence and individual work of documentary filmmakers;
3. story-constructing process in a documentary and creating moving film narratives
4. ways of making a living out of documentrary filmmaking, practical advice on distribution channels and how to begin working on a documentary film.
All masterclasses are co-organized with MEDIA Desk Poland.
Masterclass partners include: Canon, Andrzej Wajda Film School, Polish Society of Cinematographers and FilmPro magazine.
If you wish to attend the masterclass, send your application to masterclass@planetedocff.pl by April 17. More information coming soon in the “PLANETE+ DOC ACADEMY” section.
Those with an academic interest in documentary cinema will have an opportunity to participate in an interdisciplinary conference organized in collaboration with University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw under the common title “Between tradition and mockumentary. The incidents of Contemporary Documentary Cinema”. In the course of the conference, participants will discuss the specific character and shape of contemporary documentary cinema. The conference will be augmented by film screenings and theme-oriented discussion panels. The two-day conference will be held on May 18 in Kinoteka and on May 19 in the School's Warsaw campus.
More information on the PLANETE+ DOC Academy will soon be posted in the “PLANETE+ DOC ACADEMY” section of the website.
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