Last few days to apply for Dragon Forum
by Christopher Reed
Jan 27, 2010The deadline for entries is January 29th.
This year workshops will take place in Warsaw in March and April and will end up with pitching forum during the Krakow Film Festiwal, in the first week of June.
Dragon Forum is an annual documentary film workshop in the middle of Europe ending with a pitching, giving practical advice on development and production of a film for international audiences.
The aim of Dragon Forum is to help creators of auteur documentary films who are involved in producing honest documentary cinema discovering the true reality. We are working in the spirit of a particular documentary school determined by our permanent lecturers: Marcel Lozinski (Dragon Forum’s Head of Studies) and Jacek Blawut and their friends. This team of directors and educationalists has already educated numerous new European documentary filmmakers. The author and the producer of Dragon Forum is Dorota Roszkowska, Arkana Studio. Dragon Forum is supported by experts from EDN European Documentary Network, who ensure the reliable consultation from production to marketing of documentary film. Dragon Forum wants to bring together the aspirations of the creators and the expectations of the audiences along with meeting the requirements of the modern market. The participants together with the tutors search new paths for documentary filmmaking. The commissioning editors and producers from the best TV stations and film institutions participate in a pitching in Krakow and take time the extensive meetings with the filmmakers at the riverside of Vistula.
Dragon Forum is financed by: Media - the program of the European Commission, The Polish Filmmakers Association, International Visegard Fund, Central European Initiative, Polish Film Institute, The Krakow Film Foundation and Arkana Studio. The participants receive diplomas of completion of the Dragon Forum, and awards are foreseen for the best projects.