INDUSTRY DAY 1
Venue: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, address: Gedimino pr. 51, Vilnius
10:00 – 11:15
Statehood room, 2nd floor
Festival Distribution 101
by Jing Haase (Sweden)
In this hands-on session we will go through the things you need to think about to optimise your festival distribution. When to start, what material to have ready and how to proceed.
With a vast experience in the short film industry, including seven years working with festival distribution at the Swedish Film Institute, Jing will share good practices and give tips to your festival journey.
This session is meant for producers and filmmakers venturing into the world of festival distribution.
About speaker JING HAASE
Jing Haase is a curator and short film expert who has been working in the industry for more than two decades. She has previously worked with Nordic shorts and docs as market manager at Nordisk Panorama and as festival manager for short films at the Swedish Film Institute with a primary focus on international distribution. She has also worked as a programmer and in film production. Jing is often used as moderator, panellist, facilitator, and jury member at international festivals and industry events.
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00
Statehood room, 2nd floor
Masterclass: Susanna Wallin
by Susanna Wallinn (Sweden/USA)
Susanna Wallin’s cinema cuts across and frustrates the differences between conventions of reality and fiction by exploring witnessing with memory and imagination and probing the edges of events and plot. In this masterclass, she will share her processes for making and thinking through an ever-evolving practice.
About speaker SUSANNA WALLINN
Susanna Wallin is a Swedish born artist and filmmaker based between London and Tampa, Florida. Her work spans moving image, sound, performance and text and engages questions about how time is perceived, lived and acted attentive to what emerges in hesitation, unpredictably and open ended while directing as well as letting occasions invent their own lure. Her award-winning films have appeared in venues such as MOCA LA, American Cinematheque, The Barbican, The BFI, Whitechapel Gallery and ICA, London.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30
Statehood room, 2nd floor
Why Criticism is Poetry
by Michaël Van Remoortere (Belgium)
Michaël Van Remoortere, film critic, writer and philosopher, will take us through his personal journey of criticism trying to make sense of why it is that we write (and read) criticism and what exactly we talk about when we talk about criticism. Through a disparate collection of writings, references and authors he will chart his intimate development of coming to understand what is at stake for him in the critical endeavour and why he believes it is an artform closely related to poetry in its dialectic between the objective and the subjective, the personal and the political.
Presented by the European Network for Film Discourse “The END” and the European Workshop for Film Criticism.
About speaker MICHAËL VAN REMOORTERE
Michaël Van Remoortere is a Belgian writer who has published stories, essays, poetry and criticism in many English-language, Dutch and Flemish magazines, both online and in print. He finished his first novel which will be published at the end of next year.
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:30
Conference room, 5th floor
Every Second Counts: Catching and Keeping Interest of Festival Programmers
Festival programmers watch hundreds and hundreds of shorts each year, most of them in a limited and intense period of time. In this great sea of shorts, the hook to draw the programmers in is crucial for a film’s potential selection to a festival.
How do you catch the attention of the programmer (and later the audience) from the first second? The first scene of your film is often the make-or-break moment for keeping the programmers’ full attention.
In this session, we will watch the first scenes of a selection of shorts and hear from the programmers what draws them in and how to strengthen an opening sequence.
Panel members:
Fransiska Prihadi, Bali International Short Film Festival – Minikino Film Week (Indonesia)
Émilie Poirier, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (Canada)
Riina Mikkonen, Tampere Film Festival (Finland)
Sebastian Apel, Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Germany)
Moderated by Jing Haase, curator and short film expert (Sweden)
This session is dedicated exclusively to Lithuanian short films.
18:00 – 19:30
Conference room, 5th floor
Special Short Film Screening: European Stories
Presented by Austėja Milvydaitė, Head of Creative Europe Desk Lithuania MEDIA Office
This year’s special programme European Stories presents four fiction films by up-and-coming European filmmakers that boldly yet subtly reflect on themes of childhood, independence, family relationships, and inner freedom. Set in different corners of Europe, the stories reveal first encounters with the complex world of adults. While the films differ in style and narrative pace, they are all united by particular attention to the inner worlds of protagonists as well as distinctive auteur voice of the filmmakers and convincing acting even from the youngest of actors.
The productions were funded by the EU Creative Europe MEDIA programme. European Stories is presented by the Creative Europe Desk Lithuania MEDIA Office.
More about the films – soon.
