Film Institutes - Heavy is the Head
The heads of European film institutes talk about documentary film financing possibilities.
Julianna Ugrin graduated from university in 2005, after which she began working in film at Flora Film International. In 2009 she was selected to the EURODOC producer’s workshop. Since March 2009 she has worked at Havas Films as a producer and production manager. She established Éclipse Film, an independent film production company in 2011, and has developed projects at various international workshops and pitching forums. Films she produced were screened, nominated and awarded at festivals like Sundance, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, or Sarajevo IFF. Since 2013 she has taught at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in documentary MA studies, where she is also a DLA student. Ugrin is part of Emerging Producers 2014, and is an EAVE graduate. She is organizer of DunaDOCK Master Class & Pitching series, and a member of the Hungarian Film Academy and of EDN. Holy Dilemma is her first feature documentary as a director.
Csaba Bereczki is a film director, screenwriter and producer.Since 2011 he has been the International Director of the Hungarian National Film Fund. Hungary's representative in the Council of Europe's film co-production organisation Eurimages since 2010. Since 2014, he has been a permanent member of the organisation's Board of Directors.
In 2014, he shot the creative documentary SOUL EXODUS, a story of identity told through klezmer music, through the stories of five American-born musicians of Eastern European descent. The film was released in Hungarian cinemas in December 2016 and won the Best Documentary Award at the 2nd Hungarian Film Awards Gala in March 2017.
On June 1st, 2018, Zuzana Bieliková was appointed the manager of the Slovak Film Commission (SFC) – the organizational unit of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. Under her leadership, a platform was created that actively presents the possibilities of filming in Slovakia, monitors the activities of film professionals intending to strengthen their position on the market, and continuously works with domestic and foreign producers who want to shoot in Slovakia. Since its launch, SFC has also been promoting the greening of the film industry and has created an enviro platform for film professionals where they can find useful information on how to film audiovisual works to reduce the environmental impact. SFC is involved with Flanders Audiovisual Fund and ProMalaga in creating an accessible and user-friendly carbon calculator: EURECA.
Born in 1964, Jannik Splidsboel studied film and art in Copenhagen and Rome, before graduating from EAVE. He has worked as a producer since the early 1990s, for RAI and ZDF, among others, on art, culture, youth, and more. Since 2004, he has been active as a documentary film director, with a dozen long and short films to his credit. His films have been praised internationally, including at the Berlinale and IDFA. He both wrote and directed Misfits, about LGBTQ young people in the American Bible Belt. The film was nominated for the Danish film critic award, Bodil. He has been a dramaturgical and artistic consultant since 2008, and teaches creative writing, pitch, development, and production.
