 May 9 Tuesday │Morning Sessions 09:00~13:00
Session Leader : Béatrice Barton
How can Public Service Television enter the reality format world without losing its soul? Can you educate AND entertain? Can art, health and ethical issues become popula
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 (30')Entertainment,Spain
 Director Ferran Monegal
Telemonegal has a critical and at the same time lucid, caustic and at the same time ironic way of looking at the reality that offers us the TV every day. It is another way of watching television, so as to do it having a critic vision of it. Ferran Monegal invites us to make a "television tour of inspection" through the different channels, comparing the different ways of treating the same piece of news. He points out the controversial aspects of it and talks about the positive or the comic side of different programs. The different TV cuts are used in order to illustrate with a guest related with the TV scene. At the same time they help to emphasize positive or unknown aspects of the guest, confronting him with his own television image. |
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 (60')Documentary,US
A growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis is threatening East Asian peace: the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape thier homeland and China. Seoul train exposes the complex geopolitics and bureaucracy entangling the lives of thousands of North Korean refugees as well as the story of activists who put themselves in harms way to save them via a clandestine underground railroad. More info: www.pbs.org/independentlens/seoultrain/ , Filmmakers site: www.seoultrain.com
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(60')Documentary,Ukraine
 In December, 2004, in the aftermath of the highly contested election victory of the incumbent president Yanukovych, the Orange Revolution, led by supporters of the opposing candidate Viktor Yushchenko, took root in Kiev, While this was happening, Iossif Pasternak returned to Boguslav, a small town located 130 km from the capital. Fifteen years earlier, he shot De la petite Russie à l’Ukraine in Boguslav. During the eventful electoral period, Pasternak listened closely to the voices of rural Ukraine. While Yushchenko supporters campaign in the marketplace, the inhabitants of Boguslav are prey to mixed feelings: weariness, enlightened by the hope that a new president might finally improve their lot. Alexi, the choir director, feels election day is a turning point. As he awaits the fulfillment of the promises of post-communism, he shares his concerns about Ukraine\'s future with the former first secretary of the local Party, who is firmly of the opinion that the old order should be left in the past. The film ends with this excerpt from a poem by Vasyl Stus: You clutch a branch of bitter oranges and bitter hopes. |
Session Leader: Vivi Mellegard
Once upon a time there was a story told through images and not words. In four very different programs that use animation, observational and historical documentary styles, we’ll explore what happens when the program maker’s voice remains silent and the pictures speak for themselves. What kind of stories can be told without using commentary or voice over? How is the viewer’s perspective influenced by images and mood alone? What place is there on public television for this kind of programmaking?
May 9 Tuesday │Afternoon Sessions 14:00~18:00
Session Leader: Jo Raknes
Many documentary’s are driven by the TV-makers desire to make a change or do something about a situation. Often the making of the programme involves an intervention of the TV-maker witch can have a big influence on the lives of the people involved the story. How aware are we of the role the appearance of a TV-team play in real life stories, and when is it appropriate to intervene? Does the cause always justify the means? What happens in real life when the cameras are off and the story is broadcasted?
Session Leader : Rupsha Dasgupta
How do you describe what is going on in someone’s head or heart ? Someone who is a victim of either a mental or a physical illness…someone who dares to face the camera and voice his/her opinion.
Three bold documentaries that virtually take the camera to the mind to help us understand them better.
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(42')Documentary,Denmark
Days editing 30 Total budget 80.000 US$
In January 2004 Niels hijacked a train. A tv-crew was on the spot. They found that this was not a story about a hijacker but the story of a psychotic man not getting proper care and the story about how his madness influences other people’s lives. During the last 20 years, the number of mentally ill committing crimes has quadrupled. Often psychiatrists and families have to remain passive while the mentally ill person becomes more and more dangerous “Insanely Dangerous” gives a unique opportunity to understand the mind of a mentally ill person. Niels, the hijacker, has made his own video diaries when he is seriously psychotic, and this material allows the audience into the very strange and very scaring universe of a psychotic mind. Niels describes himself as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. When medicated he is a sympathetic, bright and creative young man. When not medicated he turns insanely dangerous. Producing the program raised a lot of ethical issues, because of the very special conditions of the main character. How can you make decent and proper deals with a main character that is much of his time insanely mad and totally fails to have any idea of how to take care of himself? How can you make sure that your main character knows the consequences of his participation in a tv-program?
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(52')Documentary,Autralia
Funding sources: SBS Independant, Australian FIlm Comission, NSW FIlm & Television Office
Total budget 342,843 US$
A tall girl with a tall story, 31-year-old Jabe Babe measures six foot two inches (188cm), works as a dominatrix and has a life threatening genetic condition called Marfan syndrome. This hybrid documentary, merging fiction and non-fiction forms, inhabits the heightened Technicolor world of the tall woman, the outsider, to provoke questions about society’s desire for sexual, visual and genetic conformity.
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(43')Documentary,Canada
Key crew size 14 Days editing 40 Total budget 175,000 US$ Funding sources CBC, RDI, Knowledge Network, Canadian Television Fund, Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit
 He’s boisterous. He’s abrasive. And Paul Nadler refuses to let a traumatic brain injury stop him from living the life he wants. Left for dead after an automobile accident, he overcomes the prognosis that he will remain a vegetable. A world traveler, a television director and bon vivant who enjoyed the company of beautiful women and fellow artists he is forced to set new goals that seem physically and psychologically impossible. Never shying away from attention, Nadler eventually goes back to school for his master’s degree in communications and along the way fights the insurance industry for medical and dental benefits, mounts a one-man dance performance and tries to regain his love life. But there’s more to this documentary than first meets the eye, stay tuned for the surprising conclusion.
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Shop Steward: Joan Carreras
What ever happened to public broadcasting’s duty to deliver wonderful and educational television? Why do we think public service television is boringly instructional while private broadcasters reach huge ratings screening entertainment and blockbusters? Sometimes public TV is overly concerned with social responsibility but perhaps we need new ways of engaging the audience. Chatting, counting, chopping, dumping… all are EMBODIED in this session where everyone is teacher’s pet. Enter the classroom even if you hated school and you may get a pleasant surprise!
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 (35')Documentary,Latvia
Director: Laila Pakalnina
There are places that we don't want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don't exists at all. One such place is a dumpsite.
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(60')Others,UK
 In this new four-part series, anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Professor John Lee get right under the skin to reveal the processes in life that tie us to our ultimate fate in death. The two scientists perform a series of autopsy demonstrations at the Institute of Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany, in which they point up the process of finding a cause of death. With the aid of human dissection, live models and scientific models they are able to reveal what disease really looks like and how it works. |
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(29')Infotainment,Norway
”Typical Norwegian” is a magazine series, dealing with useful and useless, but always entertaining explorations of the Norwegian language. In this episode we get introduced to the art form "Battling" – where contestants compete in rap, singing their own lyrics, and get rewarded for the best rhymes and the best messages. We also meet a guy who finds and samples wonderful music in the reading of the safety instructions on board a plane. Music in the human language is this episode’s topic, and maybe there are things to be learned from the way birds communicate? Language is power. Language is identity. Language is culture. Language is important. This is the basis for host Petter Schjerven, when he gives you facts, statistics, useful guiding and absurd oddities in the universe of every day language. |
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(60’)Documentary, France
“I grew up in the town of Dandong, on the lower reaches of the Yalu River, just opposite North Korea. When I was a child, what I knew about this neighbour country on the other side of the frontier river was what I had learnt in the classroom: the North Koreans were our closest friends, we had helped them to defeat the American imperialists, and we were supposed to look on North Korea as a younger brother… This fraternal atmosphere prevailed until the early 1990s. China's policy of reform and openness was then beginning to produce its first results. Since then, while the vitality of China is clear, when you look at the multitude of tower blocks that are rising up, the landscape on the North Korean bank of the river has stayed exactly as before. The only difference is that the people at the water's edge no longer wave at us at all in welcome. Today the name of North Korea is no longer mentioned except for references to the higher incidence of poverty there and the devastating outbreaks of famine, or to talk about the failure of North Korea's dialogue with the United States. For some time, I have felt myself becoming curious about this country which has always been our neighbour, and which has today become the most closed and secret country in the world.” The words of this remarkable young director who today lives in Pekin, explaining the desire he had to make this documentary about the frontier zone between China and North Korea, a story that speaks not only of geography and politics, but also of psychology. It is a travel journal enlivened by a host of encounters, filmed along the two rivers that mark the frontier: the Yalu River and the Tumen River, up to the film maker finally penetrates in North Korea, the country which looks like the China of his childhood. |
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A polygonian girl tried to make herself prettier by using her new cosmetic tools (for polygon modeling of course), and by doing so accidentally ruined her own face. This tragedy may have inspired one of the world's most famous paintings. 
Hereafter is a retrospective of the life and work of Gould, seen from today’s point of view. Based a synthesis of all the documents existing on Gould, whether of a musical or of a literary and intellectual nature, this film strives to deal with the question of Gould’s genius such as it is perceived by his audience, an audience that extends far beyond the strict notion of a musical audience. It is made with the participation of anonymous “disciples”, making it seem as if Gould himself was answering their questions; meanwhile, Gould appears as the master of narration of the film. 
