Friday, May 10 | 11:00 a.m. | The National Ethnographic Museum
Progress Pitching Session
An event dedicated to visually interesting, creative documentary projects with international potential. It is an excellent chance to discover films which are looking for international co-production or distribution opportunities in their different phases, from concept to post-production. Selected finalists will present their projects to leading Polish and international film industry representatives: producers, investors, sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. The pitching aims to leverage the festival guests' expertise and create a place where world-class projects are born.
Organizator: Against Gravity
Partner: CANAL+ Poland, Polish Filmmakers Association, SMAKJAM, SoundMind, Pitch the Doc
Moderator: Ola Salwa
Projects:
CANDIDATES OF DEATH, dir. Maciej Cuske
LIGHT IN THE DARK, dir. Alina Aleksandrova, Tadeusz Chudy
FRONTLINE, dir. Alisa Kovalenko
MY SUNNYSIDE, dir. Matylda Kawka
MY FATHER, THE ICEMAN, dir. Łukasz Kowalski
SUGARLAND, dir. Julia Groszek
DEKONSTRUKT, dir. Mateusz Góra, Kamil Wilk
LEONARD COHEN: BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, dir. Eric Bednarski
BAŁTYK, dir. Iga Lis
BIRDIE, dir. Aneta Ptak
Awards:
CANAL+ Poland - Cash prize of 3,000 euros
Polish Filmmakers Association - cash award of PLN 10,000
SMAKJAM - color-correction service worth PLN 15,000
SOUNDMIND - sound post-production service worth PLN 10,000
Tutors:
Kim Christiansen (DR Sales)
Executive Producer - Documentaries & Co-productions - DR Sales
Master degree in Film and Law from University of Copenhagen. Worked with international documentary (selling, buying, commissioning and co-prod.) for the last +20 years. Previous Head of Sales at TV 2 WORLD and Head of Industry at CPH:DOX (2012 & 2013)Selected work on following international productions: The Mole - Last Men in Aleppo (OSCAR nominated 2018) – Cold Case Hammarskjöld - Armadillo - India's Daughter - Pervert Park -– DEMOCRATS - The Red Chapel - Putin’s Kiss - Blood in the Mobile - Dark Side of Chocolate - Queen of Versailles - Ai Weiwei the Fake Case - The Why Poverty Series.
Currently: Overseeing all our documentary films for the international market mainly from independent producers from the Nordic region but also from US, UK, Germany etc. as well as helping the producers with getting their films financed. DR Sales is the sales department of the Danish Broadcasting Corp. It is Scandinavia’s largest international distributor, specialized in social and political contemporary documentaries and present at all major television markets and festivals. DR Sales also handles film projects in production in close collaboration with independent producers eligible for international co-productions and pre-sales.
Martijn J. te Pas
Martijn te Pas studied Psychology, English and Film & Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. From 2000 onwards until 2019 he was part of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) as senior programmer. He was an advisor for the IDFA Bertha Fund and also read projects for the IDFA Forum. Between 2000 and 2020 he traveled to many film festivals as a guest or jury member. Martijn also was a documentary advisor of the Dutch Mediafund (currently NPO Fund) between 2007 and 2013. In 2019 Martijn moved from Amsterdam to Stockholm and in 2020 he was Guest Documentary Programmer at Nordisk Panorama. Currently he is a programmer and festival advisor of MIRAGE - a hybrid/documentary festival in Oslo. April 2020 Martijn started e u R O P E doconsultancy which is aimed at directors and producers and offers tailor made SWOT analysis of films both at development and edit stages. Martijn also offers expert advice and guidance on curation, festival and distribution strategies. Martijn is an advisor of Eurimages, worked for SFI Talent to Watch in 2023, is an advisor for Sheffield DocFest and is an EAVE and Sources 2 alumnus. Occasionally he writes reviews - and interviews filmmakers for Business Doc Europe.
Thom Powers Keynote Speech: The Power is in Our Hands
TIFF programmer and Pure Nonfiction podcast host Thom Powers addresses how documentary filmmakers can push back against the political and corporate forces that conspire to limit what stories get told.
Admission with Industry/Media accreditations or by email request at industry@againstgravity.pl
English language event
MDAG Industry Catalog: https://bit.ly/3UIg7os
