Sunday | 19. May. 2013

SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR WORKS IN PROGRESS PROGRAMME

The Pula Film Festival is now accepting entries for the Works in Progress Programme, the new and upgraded version of which will run from Thursday 25 until Saturday 27, 2013 at the Valli Cinema and at the festival centre. Croatian producers, both those holding majority as well as those holding minority production shares, are invited to submit applications for their feature-length films in progress. The applied projects are expected to be ready for presentation at the 61st edition of the Pula Film Festival in 2014, either in the main or in the minority co-production sections.

Participants will present their projects to a selection committee composed of relevant foreign and domestic visitors of the Festival. Each participant will get ten minutes to present the project (including audiovisual materials lasting up to five minutes) and five additional minutes to answer the selection committee’s questions. Presentations are open to the public.

Apart from the presentations, the programme also includes a preparatory workshop with Dr. Jasmina Kallay. The workshop is divided in two parts: after working in groups, outlining the basics of public presentations and how to avoid common mistakes, Jasmina Kallay will consult with each participant. The aim of these consultations is to identify crucial elements of specific projects and find the best and most economical way to present the core of the films in progress. Dr. Jasmina Kallay will also guide the participants as to how to present their projects before the committee.

The best project according to the committee will be awarded with a valuable award – post-production services of Teleking, the main sponsor of the festival.

Producers are urged to submit their applications by June 15, 2013 filling out the official application form (download). After this date the selected participants will be informed about the detailed programme schedule and about sidebar events.

Jasmina Kallay

A screenwriter and an author, Jasmina graduated from the American University of Paris with a degree in Film Studies in 1999. She went on to study Screenwriting at the National Film School in Dublin (Ireland), where she received a master’s degree with First Class Honours. In 2011 she acquired a doctoral degree in Screenwriting and Digital Media from the University College Dublin. After specializing in transmedia, Jasmina started collaborating with the production company beActive Media on three projects (Beat Girl, GirlHeartBoy, @TweetMeDeadly), as well as with Ripple World Pictures on several different projects. Apart from screenwriting jobs, Jasmina also works as a cinematic and transmedia artistic consultant for a number of national and regional film-media funds, as well as production companies in Ireland and Great Britain. Jasmina is a guest lecturer at several colleges and institutes where she teaches screenwriting and digital media and she also holds regular workshops. At the end of 2013 the British Film Institute will publish Jasmina’s book Gamin Film tackling the topic of how videogames influence contemporary film. After having lived and worked for many years in France, Great Britain and Ireland, Jasmina has recently moved to Croatia.

Teleking, SLO
Teleking is a post-production studio offering state-of-the-art digital solutions for the shooting and visual contents finalization processes, including organization of work and data processing during the shooting, introduction, adjustment and processing of material shot with different digital cameras, scanning of 16mm and 35 mm film, colour correction, preparation of material to be printed on the film, preparation and adjustment of credits and titles, visual effects and CGI, DCP creation and creation of all other masters for theatrical distribution and presentation. Teleking attends to the needs and wishes of film authors and its individual approach to each film project contributes to establishing an oriented work process. During its five years of existence, Teleking has cooperated on a number of film projects in the region (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, etc.), including more than 60 full-length, medium-length and short-length documentary and television films.