A workshop on the mindset of expression in short and very short, the shortest possible forms. In talking, writing, playing, drawing, video and animation. The selected contents the participants bring will be stripped to their atomic essence. The participants will face a series of challenges, tasks, games in various art forms, even if they are beginners with no experience. Along the way, they will learn to cope with impossible work conditions and perhaps discover how dire conditions spawn challenging new, fresh solutions. They will learn, or at least try, to pack their grandiose ideas into matchboxes. A novel into an SMS or a graffiti, a mural into a jar, a film into a frame that passes in the blink of an eye. The result of the workshop will be a video collage of short forms intertwined with documentary footage of the work process.

Miloš Tomić

Stubborn filmmaker and striving musician since 1993. Always on a bicycle. Still active in making new and fixing his old bad movies.

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Why and how to produce films with a cultural and even political aspiration, in a context dominated by the ideology of the free market and by the increasing value of the economic and commercial results. Why it seems better to resist to this tendency and how the development phase is so relevant in the process of making a documentary, from an artistic and productive point of view, for the decisions to be made, consistency with an editorial line and with the poetics of the author. What steps have to be taken to protect and give visibility and recognition to this type of cinema.

Case history: the film Selfie by Agostino Ferrente.

Gianfilippo Pedote 

Producer, director and screenwriter. He has produced over 40 feature films and documentaries with directors such as Agostino Ferrente, Sandro Baldoni, Alina Marazzi, Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola, Paolo Rosa and Studio Azzurro, Giuseppe Bertolucci; Godfrey Reggio, invited by the main international festivals. He teaches at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

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Belgrade March Debut Workshop is aimed at debut film projects with international potential of emerging filmmakers. The selected projects are discussed in the group. Every project is the separate case study. Andrijana Stojković discusses projects from the point of the director’s approach (visual style, storytelling, sound …). Jovana Nikolić discusses projects from the point of production (marketing, fundraising, distribution strategy) and moderates sessions. Sari Volanen discusses the film projects from the point of an active decision-maker at European film markets, and also, from the point of TV programming.

Experts

ANDRIJANA STOJKOVIĆ – director (ALL INCLUSIVE FILMS)

Andrijana Stojković holds MA in Film and TV directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Author of 7 short fiction and 8 short documentary films; 1 feature and 2 mid-length documentary and 1 feature fiction film. Her films were screened and awarded at festivals like IDFA, HotDocs FF, Rotterdam IFF, FidMarseille, Raindance FF, Sofia, IFF, Havana IFF, Krakow FF etc. She established film production company ALL INCLUSIVE FILMS whose special interest lays in films that creatively interweave two film forms – documentaries that impress like fiction films and fiction films that seem like documentaries. She is a founding member of Association for Education in Audiovisual Culture FILMKULTURA. She is a member of Film Artists‘ Association of Serbia, Serbian Film Directors Guild and DokSerbia – Documentary Filmmakers of Serbia. As the associate professor she teaches documentary filmmaking at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

JOVANA NIKOLIĆ – producer (PRABABA PRODUCTION)

Jovana Nikolić is the main producer of documentary films The Undertaker (IDFA 2013), The Caviar Connection (IDFA 2008) and National Park (IDFA 2006). She is a minority co-producer of the first Swiss-Serbian co-production Real News (Locarno film Festival 2021). She coproduced with ITVS International (US), Cognito Films (CH) and ARTE ZDF (DE), in association with Channel 4 (GB), SVT (SE), YLE (FI), NRK (NO) etc. Jovana is a founding member of DokSerbia where she served in 2017 as the President of the Board. Holds a PhD from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, with a focus on the management and production of documentary films. An EAVE, EURODOC and Berlinale Talents alumna, and the associate professor at Academy of Arts in Belgrade and Academy of Arts in Banja Luka.

SARI VOLANEN – commissioning editor (YLE)

Sari Volanen is a commissioning editor at YLE (Finish Broadcasting Company). She works at YLE’s Co-production department producing mainly short films with Finnish independent filmmakers and producers, and she is in charge of a strand called “New Cinema”. As a comissioning editor she was involved in Oscar and European Film Academy nominated films. “New Cinema” is an open-end strand on Tuesdays at 23.00. The main focus of “New Cinema” is on cinematic, surprising, original, and quirky films. The films in the strand are acquired through co-productions (main producer Finnish), but also prebuys (international) and acquisitions. The latest prebuy from Serbia was the documentary Speak so I can see you by Marija Stojnić, premiered at IDFA, and shown in MoMA.

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Animation is fun and a great way of creating imaginary worlds where anything is possible. But, how can we go one step further and use this almost boundless technical potential to talk about some real-world issues you find important? This workshop will quickly cover all stages of making an animated film, from the idea to storyboard to animation and post-production, resulting in a collective animated film.

Ana Nedeljković obtained her BA and PhD degrees from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Involved in the

Nikola Majdak Jr obtained his BA camera from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. He has been active as an independent cameraman, animator, director and lecturer for 20 years.

Their collaborative films, selected for numerous international festivals: Rabbitland (2013), won many awards (Crystal Bear, Berlinale…), Non-Travels (2018) qualified for an Oscar and was nominated for an Annie Award. They are developing a project for their first animated feature New Rabbitland.

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Participants will have a unique opportunity to try their hand at making a short experimental film. How do we see an experimental film? What makes it different from other film genres? What is the greatest significance of such films, and what can we learn from them? In times of increasing use of moving images, learning about film can improve your communication, help you show your most interesting ideas, and accomplish something that has interested you for a long time. The workshop results will be presented on the program of the 69th Martovski Festival.

Lectures on the theory and practice of experimental film will be held by the auteur Miljana Niković (Belgrade-Berlin) and Professor Andrzej Marzec (Poznan, Poland). The workshop will last for five days in cooperation with the art association artterror: film editor and auteur Vladimir Šojat and visual artist and journalist Milica Lapčević.

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