Panel Discussion about short films

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Mode of study:

module

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

For credit participation in discusssion and completion of online forms by which the student is evaluated by the panelists. Relationships of individual institutions to short-film issues.

Course contents:

Panel discussion on how (not) to shoot, project and broadcast short films in the Czech Republic. Is short film only a school exercise? Why have so called short films disappeared? Czech Television supports „shorties“? What does the Czech Film center do abroad? Why has the iShorts project started? What position does the State Cinema Fund take toward short format? Come and discuss the potential of short film.

Recommended or required reading:

http://fondkinematografie.cz/

www.ceskatelevize.cz

www.ishorts.eu

http://filmcenter.cz/

Assessment methods and criteria:

Participation in discussion + completion of online forms

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Note:

Petr Vitek - State Cinematography Fund

- support of short films (2. second summons in history)

- why together with experimental film?

- why should the State Cinematorgraphy fund support short film?

- call for development - for shorts also

- call for debutes

- call for documentaries (a short documentary is better to register to a call for short films)

Helena Uldrichová - ČT

- support for student short films

- film accelerator

- potential colloaboration outside the film accelerator

- does a slot exist in ČT for short film

- issues of short film from a dramaturgy perspective

- do ČT short film arise outside collaboration with film schools

Markéta Šantrochová - Czech Film Center

- what should the strategy by for distributing short films abroad

- short film festivals

- festival strategies

- pitching forum + work in progress

- development workshops

Petr Horák - iShorts

- why and how did the iShort project start?

- what places are iShorts screened?

- where do short films come from?

- does attendance differ in individual cities?

- how to get viewers to the cinema for short films?

Course:

- presentation of institutions - 10 minutes for each

- discussion

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