Apart from more than 100 films from all four corners of the world brought to you by the 13th edition of Zagreb Film Festival in the Croatian capital between 14 and 22 November, this year a parallel Industry program will run and offer its visitors a handful of opportunities to find out first-hand about the experiences of many renowned filmmakers.
The fourth edition of this program intended for both film professionals and amateur enthusiasts interested in various aspects of filmmaking features many training programs: a screenwriting workshop My First Script is this year gathering six new participants who will develop their screenwriting debut features under the mentorship of script doctors (Srđan Koljević and Pjer Žalica), while elementary schoolchildren will again try to master (theoretical and practical) basics of fiction film at Yellow Bib for Kids by RBA’s Film Workshop.
Masterclasses at the Academy of Dramatic Arts will be held by two members of this year’s feature competition jury, director Jessica Woodworth and producer Christoph Thoke, and Danish film editor Jesper Osmund, who will share his 25 years of experience in film (post)production. Osmund is also having a Rough Cut workshop for previously selected Croatian documentary projects. In the PLUS program, intended for high schoolers, Dutch director and actress Tamar van den Dop, after a screening of her film Supernova, will share her thoughts about filmmaking experience with our young audience.
Celebrating the 10th birthday of Checkers, Croatian short film competition, several of ZFF’s programs will focus on short film. A panel about placement and distribution of short film will host speakers Laurence Raymond (short film selector at Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight), Salette Ramalho (one of the directors of Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival in Portugal, one of the most important short film festivals in the world), Mario Kozina of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and ZFF’s director Boris T. Matić.
In association with the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, we will present the Polish Wajda Film School, i.e. the intense EKRAN+ program, and a continuation of previous collaborations with Sarajevo Film Festival and film.factory program of the Sarajevo Film Academy.
Industry this year includes two book promotions, as well, the first Croatian screenwriting handbook Napiši scenarij, written by Jasmina Kallay, PhD, and Marko Njegić’s collection of essays FILMoteka, with some of his many film reviews.