analyse successful transmedia projects from US and Europe alike, to present how producers and entrepreneurs can create synergy and actually monetise their content through new possibilities and technologies offered by transmedia. Panelists: John Heinsen (PGA, Executive Committee of the Interactive Media Peer Group, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences), Domenico La Porta (Chief Editor, CineEuropa)
Thursday, November 28 The Film Festival Programmers Talks During the past decade the role of film festivals has changed drastically from showcases of national cinema, to sites of international business in production, sales and development of new talents and film. Combined with the increasing stress on demand of world premieres in key festivals, the changes have also tremendously impacted not only the programming decisions, but also the whole production and distribution cycle influencing the film sector as a whole from producers to the sales agents and festivals as well. The pioneering Film Festival Programmers School will bring to Tallinn the representatives of both key and specialised film festivals in the world - Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Pusan, Sitges, Puchon, Karlovy Vary and Nippon Connection to discuss the most pressing issues in the festival cycle landscape and to provide attending filmmakers the possibility to meet and network with the programmers for future collaboration. The workshop hits the spot by following the debate on preserving the voice of smaller films within megafestivals by the Chief Editor of Screen International, Wendy Mitchell, in Autumn 2013. The topics include: • programming politics in the increasing competition for premieres • how to achieve a balanced distribution of films across the festival calendar • keeping the identity and focus of sidebars within a bigger festival landscape • the relationship and possibilities for specialized genre and niche festivals • how much is enough for a festival to be a festival? • how to communicate smaller films in the programme of “megafestivals”. Talk #1: Programming politics in the age of competition for premieres 10:00 - 11:15 A Nordic Hotel Forum, room Sirius Panelists: Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival & DohaFilmInstitute), Chanil Jeon (Busan Film Festival), Lenka Tyrpakova (Karlovy Vary Film
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Festival), Dennis Vetter (Nippon Connection Film Festival); Daniel Kim (Director, Asian Film Market, Busan Film Festival) Moderator: Xavier Puerto & Domenico La Porta (Cineuropa) #2: Who will hear your scream – building fan communities, and not being censored by doing it 11:30 - 13:00 A Nordic Hotel Forum, room Sirius Panelists: Mike Hostench (Sitges Film Festival), Jin Park (Puchon Film Festival), Stephanie Trepanier (Fantasia Film Festival) with special guest Brontis Jodorowsky Moderator: Sten-Kristian Saluveer (Industry Director, Tallinn Black Nights FF, University of Tokyo) Roundtable: How big does a festival have to be? Keeping the balance between quality and quantity 14:00 - 15:30 A Nordic Hotel Forum, room Sirius Panelists: Stefan Laudyn (Warsaw Film Festival), Natalie Lue (Toronto Film Festival), Anne Delseth (Cannes Critics Week), Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival) Moderator: Boyd van Hoeij (Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire)
Friday, November 29 Animated Dreams Film Festival presents “Animation 15 years ago and 15 years from now” 14:00 - 16:00 A Nordic Hotel Forum, room Capella The panel discussion featuring the representatives of Estonia’s leading animation studios Eesti Joonisfilm, Nukufilm, A-Film and Tolm Stuudio, seeks to investigate what is the current state of affairs in Estonian animation and what could one expect 15 years from now. 14:00 Priit Tender (Director, Eesti Joonisfilm) – The possibility of Joonisfilm (drawn film) from paleolithic to post-civilization 14:20 Kristel Tõldsepp (Producer, A-Film) – 15 years of A-Film Estonia and changes in Estonian animation industry 14:40 Andrus Raudsalu (CEO, Nukufilm) – What will the future bring between elitists’ handwork or global cooperation 15:00 Joosep Volk (Creative Director, Tolm Stuudio) – The emergence of new generation – self-taught generation The presentations are followed by moderated discussion which invites everyone to debate on the future of (Estonian) animation - newcomers, private entrepreneurs, independent creators, video artists, film critics, producers, and the audience alike. For more info about the panelists visit www.industryattallinn.com