Visions du Réel, the Festival International de cinéma will be held from 21 to 29 April 2017 in Nyon, Switzerland. For film professionals will be organized a wide industry programme, including for example the id w / interactive documentary workshop that seeks to support audio-visual professionals in the development of interactive documentaries and nonfiction transmedia projects. Thanks to the cooperation with IDF, the i dw Award was given to the best Doc Tank project during the East Doc Platform 2017. The winning transmedia project Teslafy.Me received a full scholarship, covering tuition fees, subsistence and travel expenses to attend the id workshop in Nyon.
Media Library, which is the part of the overall industry programme of Doc Outlook – International Market (DOCM), selects and promotes films at every stage of their development and offers a key networking platform for professionals from all around the world. The selection committee has selected 466 films for its international sales potential. Thanks to the IDF´s activity East Silver Caravan, eight documentaries from our region will be presented: Blind Gulliver (dir. Martin Ryšavý), Cooltour (dir. Miro Remo), Helena's Law (dir. Petra Nesvačilová), Children Online (dir. Kateřina Hager) Licu, a Romanian Story (dir. Ana Dumitrescu), The Other Line (dir. Nenad Milošević), Planet Petrila (dir. Andrei Dascalescu) and Radiovision (dir. Miloš Tomić, Gregor Zupanc, Igor Simić, Jelena Milunovic). The Czech documentaries are also represented by additional three titles: Jamal's Own Images from the Prison (dir. Tereza Bernátková Freyová), Rino: The Spy Story (dir. Jakub Wagner) and Teaching War (dir. Adéla Komrzý). Zdenek Blaha, the manager of the project East Silver will be present (April 24-28).
For the 13th consecutive year Visions du Réel organises the Pitching du Réel, the international coproduction events dedicated to creative feature-length documentaries. It is intended for young as well as experienced and acknowledged filmmakers. Fifteen feature documentary projects in production have been selected for the Pitching du Réel 2017. The Institute of Documentary Film will be represented by Kristyna Balaban, the manager of the Ex Oriente Film.
Do you want to meet the Institute of Documentary Film's representatives in Nyon? Contact them directly:
Zdenek Blaha / zdenek@dokweb.net
Kristyna Balaban / kbalaban@dokweb.net
Visions du Réel, within the festival partnership Doc Alliance, has released for online streaming a selection of films that took part in the medium-length competition last year. Films are available until April 30th on DAFilms.com.
Blind Gulliver / The film is available online on DAFilms.com.
Helena's Law / The film is available online on DAFilms.com.
Teaching War / The film is available online on DAFilms.com.