film campus innsbruck 2023
edition IFFI
From June 6 to 11, 2023, nine selected talents immersed themselves in the Film Campus edition IFFI. Through workshops, seminars and networking events, the participants were able to gain valuable insights into several aspects of the film industry, deepen their knowledge and skills and obtain feedback for their own projects. Topics like festival strategies, directing between fiction and documentary and film production abroad were covered by the experts.
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Program dedicated to reflecting on the choice of elements that make a film. Starting from the film versus product dichotomy, which characterizes the artisanal and authorial dimension in cinema. The relationship of hibernated forms that come from the elements of life for the construction of a film – gestures, bodies, texts, attitudes and obstacles.
Susana Nobre earned a degree in Communication Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has been part of the Terratreme production company since 2006, where she directed the films CIDADE RABAT (2023), NO TAXI DO JACK (2021), TEMPO COMUM (2018), PROVAS, EXORCISMOS (2015) or LISBOAPROVÌNCIA (2010). These have been shown at festivals such as Berlinale (Forum), Cannes (Director’s Fortnight), Rotterdam, Viennale, Rio de Janeiro, among others.
With plenty of film festivals out there and new ones popping up every day, it is easy to get lost trying to find the ones that suit your film (and you) best.
When and where to start whilst working on your film, what festivals to screen at in the beginning and what choices should you make after having your premiere? How can you get the most out of your festival run? What are the possibilities for spreading and screening your film online? In this talk we will explain the best way to get your short film out into the world.
Wouter Jansen is the founder of the sales and festi-val distribution company Square Eyes. The company represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and in close collaboration with the filmmakers it devises bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. He is an expert for Locarno Open Doors and First Cut Lab, and has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy.
How to bring lived experience closer to the staged one, how to bring written experience closer to the filmed one, how to make film a practice that is free from predetermined choices? Using objects left over from his creative processes, the director will share his vision and his questions about the gesture of making a film like a craftsperson.
Leonardo Mouramateus (Fortaleza, 1991) earned a Master in Multimedia Art by the University of Lisbon, graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual at the Federal University of Ceará, always staying close to the performing arts and dance dramaturgy. He wrote and directed films shown at several festivals such as Locarno, Viennale, IDFA, Cinéma du Réel and Bafici. Retrospectives of his filmography were presented in Portugal, France, Colombia, and more recently at the IFFRotterdam.
„Life lasts two days“, his second feature film, received an honorable mention of the international competition jury at the FIDMarseille.
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Melanie Hollaus was born in 1980 in Austria. After acting school graduate she worked on performance art, short experimental videos and multi-channel-videos. Sin-ce 2008 she focussed her work on documentary film, art videos for exhibitions and music videos. She is a writer, director, cinematographer and editor.
„One of my concerns in the production of films is the careful handling ‚in front of and behind the camera‘ – in the cooperation. Especially when shooting in ‚foreign‘ cultures, respect is of great importance and a challenge: some effort and a lot of attention during the whole production phase
is required. What can we do in the preparation (research), during the shooting and afterwards for the most respectful interaction possible? Based on „MAHATAH – Side Stories from Main Stations“ (IFFI 2023) we will discuss tips and experiences with other film works in different countries & continents (Ethiopia, Namibia, India, Canada).“
Franziska Reck is the founder and owner of RECK Film-produktion GmbH Zurich; before that she was a film distributor (Filmcoopi Zurich), built up the CH distribution funding and produced her first films.
„Doc, fiction, everything in between. And beyond. Case study: Europa“
Kivu Ruhorahoza is an award-winning Rwandan filmmaker. Kivu’s films include Father’s Day (Berlinale 2022), Europa (IDFA 2019), Things of the Aimless Wanderer (Sundance 2015) and Grey Matter (TriBeCa 2011). Kivu is the 2022-2023 Stewart McMillan Resi-dential Fellow at Harvard University.
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talents
Mitja Mlakar
Eva Ceh
Claudia Scheffel
Kaspar Panizza
Maria Galliani Dyrvik
Pavel Ruzyak
Masha Lind
Stella-Joy Puelacher
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thanks
Stadt Innsbruck, Land Tirol, VdFS – Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden, FAMA – Fachverband der Film- und Musikwirtschaft, Peter Paul Mölk und Julia Zraunig von Innsbruck Tourismus, Johannes Köck und Angelika Pagitz von Cine Tirol Film Commission, Roland Teichmann vom ÖFI – Österreichisches Filminstitut, Markus Schennach vom Stadtteiltreff Wilten, Julian Schöpf von Brennpunkt Coffee, IDM Film Commission Südtirol für die Kooperationsmöglichkeiten, Heval Özkan und Futterkutter für Catering, TKI – Tiroler Kulturinitiativen, Daniel Jarosch und Dino Bossnini für die schönen Fotos. Besonderen Dank gilt unseren Expert*innen und Teilnehmenden und nicht zuletzt Evelin Stark und Christoph Fintl für reibungslose Übergabe des film campus innsbruck <3
