Industry Youth! Pitching Workshop
Young professionals have long been in the focus of the Industry section and two years ago we have launched a separate program of student funding – Industry Youth!. In association with six film academies from the region – Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje and Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje – 12 students were selected with six projects to take part in the Industry training program, open to the public, where they will attend preparatory workshops and develop their short fiction films.
Workshop coordinators
Philippe Avril
With his first production company Les Films de l’Observatoire and after that, Les Films de l’Étranger – co-founded with Francisco Villa-Lobos – he has co-produced many internationally acclaimed films. Some of them are: Eureka (2000) by Aoyama Shinji, The Ditch (2010) by Wang Bing, Colossal Youth (2006) by Pedro Costa, Golden Palm winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) by Christian Mungiu, Left Foot Right Foot (2013) by Germinal Roaux, Hunting Season (2017) by Natalia Garagiola, which was also screened at ZFF, Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie (2018; Golden Bear), etc. He has also co-produced Manta Ray (2018) by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, which is screened in the main competition program at this year’s ZFF. Since 1989, he has co-produced 44 feature-length art-house films, 17 of which were directorial debuts.
Čedomir Kolar
He graduated in film production at the Belgrade Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since 1991, he has been a producer for Noé Productions in Paris. His credits include Before the Rain (1994) by Milcho Manchevski (Oscar nomination), No Man’s Land (2001) by Danis Tanović (Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film), etc. In 2003 he started the new Paris based production entity, A.S.A.P. Films, together with director Danis Tanović and his fellow producer Marc Baschet. He has since produced many films, with Foxtrot (2017), by Samuel Maoz as one of the most recent ones (screened at ZFF in 2017).
Inja Korać
She graduated in Political Science and Journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb and holds an MA in Audiovisual Management from the Media Business School in Spain. Works for Zagreb Film Festival as the Industry program producer, for Motovun Film Festival as program coordinator and programmer, and for Beldocs as the teen program selector. Worked as programmer and producer for Dokukino cinema and coordinated the Restart Label distribution. She is currently in charge of Motovun Film Festival distribution. Finished an internship in London at Dogwoof. Since 2011, works as an associate for Croatian public TV – HRT. Member of the Croatian Producers Association.
