DRAGON FORUM 2009 ENDS WITH SUCCESS

The last part of this year's Dragon Forum programme, supported by the Andrzej Wajda Film School, took place between June 1st and June 5th during the Cracow Film Festival. The international workshops and a pitching were organized at the Japanese Technology Centre Manggha.

During the two-day workshop, which prepared participants to the pitching, the participants were working on the final version of their trailers and were training public speaking guided by: Simone Baumann, Marcel Łozinski, Rada Sesic Dorota Roszkowska and Steven Seidenberg. There were presented 27 projects from: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary, Russia, Germany, Slovenia, Italy and Israel.

At the pitching we had some marvelous guests like: Andrzej Wajda, creator and host of the Manggha Centre, Czech documentary director Karel Vachcek, director of DocuDays Film Festival in Kiev - Giennadyi Kofman, Documentary Campus director - Donata von Perfal and director of Institute of Documentary Film in Prague - Andrea Pregnyhova, Simon Ho from Huanzho International Documentary Film Festival and Christine Hille from Leipzig Documentary Film Festival.

The level of the projects was evaluated as high; many of them met with great interest and some coproduction talks have already started. Apart from the public presentation, the participants had a chance to directly talk to the commissioning editors during pre-arranged individual consultancies.
  
The next edition of the Dragon Forum starts this fall. For detailed information go to: www.dragonforum.pl

 

(June 2009)