Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival has revealed to Variety the projects that the participants of its 2023 Emerging Producers program are working on. The producers were asked to deliver an elevator pitch for their projects.
Every year since 2010, the festival has selected 18 up-and-coming producers of documentary films (17 European and one representing a non-European guest country), which are then provided with educational, networking and promotional support.
Here’s what they submitted:
“Dreams at Sunset”
Producers: Genovéva Petrovits, Kristóf Sólyom, Kino Alfa (Hungary)
Director: Ibolya Simó
Genre: Creative documentary
Synopsis: Procrastination is a basic human trait. Often we fail to do exactly what we want because we’re afraid we won’t succeed. Transylvania’s impoverished villages are largely populated by the elderly who have spent their entire lives in manual, agricultural and farm work. With the help of a social worker, motivated by only good intentions, they will be brought out of their comfort zone.
Every year since 2010, the festival has selected 18 up-and-coming producers of documentary films (17 European and one representing a non-European guest country), which are then provided with educational, networking and promotional support.
Here’s what they submitted:
“Dreams at Sunset”
Producers: Genovéva Petrovits, Kristóf Sólyom, Kino Alfa (Hungary)
Director: Ibolya Simó
Genre: Creative documentary
Synopsis: Procrastination is a basic human trait. Often we fail to do exactly what we want because we’re afraid we won’t succeed. Transylvania’s impoverished villages are largely populated by the elderly who have spent their entire lives in manual, agricultural and farm work. With the help of a social worker, motivated by only good intentions, they will be brought out of their comfort zone.
- 8/8/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Finnish film is made in co-production with Estonia.
Germany’s Rise and Shine World Sales has picked up Finnish director Juha Suonpaa’s Cph:dox competition title Lynx Man.
The film will have its world premiere on March 22 in the Dox:Award competition in Copenhagen.
The documentary follows a Finnish hermit who oscillates between sweating out his demons in a sauna, and crawling around the forest at night to document the endangered lynx.
It is produced by Pasi Hakkio and Niina Virtanen for Finland’s Wacky Tie Films, in co-production with Liis Nimik for Estonia’s Klara Films, and Suonpaa’s own Swamphead.
Germany’s Rise and Shine World Sales has picked up Finnish director Juha Suonpaa’s Cph:dox competition title Lynx Man.
The film will have its world premiere on March 22 in the Dox:Award competition in Copenhagen.
The documentary follows a Finnish hermit who oscillates between sweating out his demons in a sauna, and crawling around the forest at night to document the endangered lynx.
It is produced by Pasi Hakkio and Niina Virtanen for Finland’s Wacky Tie Films, in co-production with Liis Nimik for Estonia’s Klara Films, and Suonpaa’s own Swamphead.
- 3/14/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Finnish film is made in co-production with Estonia.
Juha Suonpaa’s Cph:dox title Lynx Man has secured world sales representation with Germany-based Rise and Shine World Sales.
The film will have its world premiere on March 22 in the Dox:Award competition in Copenhagen.
Described by the Cph:dox website as ”a Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man”, the documentary follows a bearded Finnish hermit who oscillates between sweating out his demons in a sauna, and crawling around the forest at night to document the endangered lynx.
It is produced by Pasi Hakkio and Niina Virtanen for Finland’s Wacky Tie Films,...
Juha Suonpaa’s Cph:dox title Lynx Man has secured world sales representation with Germany-based Rise and Shine World Sales.
The film will have its world premiere on March 22 in the Dox:Award competition in Copenhagen.
Described by the Cph:dox website as ”a Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man”, the documentary follows a bearded Finnish hermit who oscillates between sweating out his demons in a sauna, and crawling around the forest at night to document the endangered lynx.
It is produced by Pasi Hakkio and Niina Virtanen for Finland’s Wacky Tie Films,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Qatar is the guest country for the 2023 Emerging Producers.
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival has selected 18 participants for the 2023 edition of its Emerging Producers scheme, which it has launched this week at Sarajevo Film Festival.
The festival has also awarded two prizes in Sarajevo’s CineLink Industry Days, as part of the Docu Talents from the East selection.
Scroll down for the full list of producers
The Docu Talent Award, with 5,000 prize, was awarded to Ukranian feature Dad’s Lullaby, directed and produced by Lesia Diak. Shot since 2014, the film centres on a Ukrainian soldier who returns from the...
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival has selected 18 participants for the 2023 edition of its Emerging Producers scheme, which it has launched this week at Sarajevo Film Festival.
The festival has also awarded two prizes in Sarajevo’s CineLink Industry Days, as part of the Docu Talents from the East selection.
Scroll down for the full list of producers
The Docu Talent Award, with 5,000 prize, was awarded to Ukranian feature Dad’s Lullaby, directed and produced by Lesia Diak. Shot since 2014, the film centres on a Ukrainian soldier who returns from the...
- 8/16/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Finnish Film Affair industry event awarded the upcoming feature “Bubble” with top honors for its fiction in progress pitch on Thursday, capping a competition in which six projects presented a wide range of stories, settings and styles.
Mainly Finnish productions pitched their films, some seeking international partners, with most hoping for sales, festival and distribution deals.
“Bubble,” the story of a teenage girl whose life is turned upside down when her mother announces she is divorcing her father to be with her lesbian lover, was described by director Aleksi Salmenperä as a heartwarming dramedy focusing on the challenges facing teens in dealing with departures from their comfort zones.
While the protagonist of the story, 16-year-old Eveliina, is, like most teens, liberal in her beliefs, “this liberal thinking doesn’t extend to her parents,” as producer Minna Haapkylä put it.
In scenes that are both tense but also tinged with ironic humor,...
Mainly Finnish productions pitched their films, some seeking international partners, with most hoping for sales, festival and distribution deals.
“Bubble,” the story of a teenage girl whose life is turned upside down when her mother announces she is divorcing her father to be with her lesbian lover, was described by director Aleksi Salmenperä as a heartwarming dramedy focusing on the challenges facing teens in dealing with departures from their comfort zones.
While the protagonist of the story, 16-year-old Eveliina, is, like most teens, liberal in her beliefs, “this liberal thinking doesn’t extend to her parents,” as producer Minna Haapkylä put it.
In scenes that are both tense but also tinged with ironic humor,...
- 9/24/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
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