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DOCUMENTARY FROM A TO Z. FLAHERTIANA WILL HOLD 13 MASTER CLASSES

Traditionally, the educational program, Flahertiana Workshop will take place at the festival. Professional filmmakers will share their experience with colleagues and cinema lovers. Anyone can visit master classes at the venue named Campus on the territory of Premier Cinema Center.

The program is formed the way that the audience will be able to learn almost everything about filmmaking. About the basics will tell Alina Rudnitskaya, the President of the Student Competition Jury. On the example of her film “Blood”, she will share the main stages of making a film, from the idea to implementation.

About the peculiarities of the cinematographer’s work, we will learn from Artem Anisimov who was the Director of Photography for Aleksey Fedorchenko, Sergey Miroshnichenko, Evgeny Grigoriev and many other authors.

One of the steps in making a documentary is to choose a hero. Simon Brook who shot the film “Peter Brook: The Tightrope” about his father, the director Peter Brook, will talk about his experience of working with the main hero at the master class “How to Shoot People”.

A whole block of lectures on cooperation with foreign partners is planned with the participation of tutors and experts of Flahertiana Forum. The famous Estonian filmmaker and producer Marianna Kaat will tell what is the ground for a successful co-production. And the producers from Germany, France and Finland will describe the details of working with the international companies at the master class “Co-production with European Film Companies”. About the role of the producer in the film project will talk Kathrin Lemme, the member of Flahertiana’s International Competition Jury, the founder of Lemme Film company, using practical examples from her experience.

To get people involved in your project, you need to know how to pitch it well. The master class by Polish expert Dorota Roszkowska “How to Pitch, Impress and Make Them Want to See Your Film” is exactly about this. She will tell how to present the project right and make the producers and investors want to participate in it. Not the less important instrument of the great presentation is a good teaser. Producer, director and editor Frank Muller can learn you how to make it. And then the directors of Grant Buro company which helps to get international and Russian grants for film projects will discuss with the audience how to raise the chances of having money for your project.

Knowing festival trends is also a tool for finding support for your film. To find out more about the “cinema fashion” and cultural agenda of the documentary world, visit the master class by the founders of Russian agency for film festival promotion Eastwood Agency, Ekaterina Rusakovich and Olga Bazhenova.

Sometimes it happens so that your film requires years of shooting. How to cope with it and not break down? This you will know from Alexander Kuznetsov and Rebecca Houzel at their master class “How to Make a Film During Ten Years”.

If your film is already finished and you plan to promote it internationally, beware, bad translation can kill it. Foreign relations coordinator of Flahertiana Asya Alypova will tell how to avoid getting lost in translation at the master class for filmmakers and translators.

One of the last workshops at the festival row will be the meeting with Mustafa Unlu. The listeners will know what relates Turkish and Russian films and how to survive in documentary business.

Workshop of Kathrin Lemme is held under the support of the Goethe-Institut, Dorota Roszkowska’s workshop is held under support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the workshop of Simon Brook – under the support of the French Institute in Russia and Aliance Francais Perm.