Ex Oriente Film x DOK Industry
37 filmmakers and producers converged in Leipzig to participate in the second session of Ex Oriente Film feature documentary and doc series workshops, resuming their training and mentorship programme. This partnership extended parts of its programme to the wider DOK Industry community, offering access to an array of masterclasses, lectures and case studies.
Independent producer Florian Schewe is the co-founder of Berlin-based award-winning production company Film Five, dedicated to producing high quality documentaries, documentary series, and narrative features for local and global audiences.
In this session, Florian Schewe shared insights and various aspects of the company’s path in producing a successful documentary series.
The Digital Campaigns and Audience Engagement for Documentaries
In her lecture Joanna Solecka, film marketing strategist and audience design expert (Poland) from renowned European digital marketing agency Alphapanda, gave exclusive insights into promoting film using digital platforms and point to new approaches and challenges arising from the increasing digitisation. Are documentaries an effective way to communicate serious matters to the public, foster debate and collective action to tackle the pressing issues of our time?
Award-winning documentary film editor, writer, story consultant, and director Yaël Bitton (“Demons”, “Hijos del Viento”, “KIX – Ten Years of Innocence”, “Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo”, “Machines”, Sima Editing Award for “Radio Silence”, Best Editing at Israel Documentary Forum for “Advocate”) shared some of her most inspiring experiences from the editing room, showed clips of her latest films and discussed various topics about the art and craft of documentary editing and artistic collaborations within the context of international co-productions.
Masterclass of one of world cinema’s most renowned and celebrated documentary filmmakers, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, famous for his unmistakable style, compositions, and framed wide shots in films like “Pripyat, “Homo Sapiens”, “Our Daily Bread”, “Matter out of Place” (DOK Leipzig 2022) and most recently “Stillstand” selected for International Competition at DOK Leipzig 2023.
Ex Oriente Film is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
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