Round tables
LET’S SAVE OUR PAST!
Moderator Bruno Kragić
Croatian Chamber of Commerce, 20 July at 16:00
Do you remember Fellini's Roma? In the film there is a sequence in which cameras, followed by reflectors, enter underground halls decorated with frescoes. Faced with the light, the frescoes begin to fade and disappear before our eyes forever.
Entering the history of Croatian film increasingly reminds of this sequence. Our film past literally disappears before our eyes and very little, recently almost nothing, has been done to stop this filmocide. And this is what this sounds like in figures: out of some 400 feature films made in Croatia there have been made renewed film copies of about a hundred of them, on materials of a relatively short duration. Only 24 films have been digitally restored, which for now means that they have been rescued from decay. These disappointing numbers only refer to feature films. In terms of documentary and animated films the ratio between the existing film stock and the preserved films is even more devastating.
(Rajko Grlić, selector of the Pula Cinematque Programme)
ACADEMIES
Croatian Chamber of Commerce, 21 July at 17:00
The newly established cooperation between the Pula Film Festival and national and regional universities, faculties and academies is aimed at connecting and engaging students and professors in different activities (student film screenings, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and round tables) so as to create a creative and educational platform. This helps to internationalize audiovisual education and extra-institutional training, create networks between universities, faculties, academies, as well as to improve student mobility. The following topics will be discussed: From the Academic to the Professional Work, The Challenges of the New Digital AV Market, Coproduction of student films and Student Pula, among others.
FILM FESTIVALS: How can a film travel beyond festivals to a wider viewership?
Moderator Mihai Gligor
Croatian Chamber of Commerce, 22 July at 16:00
The round table on film festivals was launched at the 61st Pula Film Festival with a view to strengthening and upgrading communication and cooperation between festivals. This year’s round table is dedicated to films that have to find their way towards a broad audience after their festival run. How to succeed? How can festivals help films in this process? How to increase the impact of festival films? These are the questions that festival representatives from Croatia and around the world will try to answer.
Workshop RED
RED Workshop is a creative workshop established in partnership between the PFF and Dado Valentić, a founder of the Mytherapy Studio, a leading company for digital mastering based in the United Kingdom, and is supported by RED Digital Cinema and Adobe companies. RED Workshop main objective is to indicate to the youth the latest developments in the film industry and digital technology, so as to discover future potential digital cinematography stars. Camp participants will write and produce their own short film having an expert guidance, shoot it using RED EPIC camera, edit in REDucation postproduction studio and watch their own creations on the big screen. In all for that at the level as professional film directors! The camp is designed as a week long course using English as a main workshop language, hosting national and international participants aged 12 to 16.
PROGRAMME
The programme consists of practical and educational parts, also having special lectures organized by the leading film professionals. All camp participants will have a unique opportunity to use the most modern cameras, and a chance to, step by step, learn everything about production and post-production, just in the way the Hollywood professionals work. Children will be able to shoot with the same 5k RED EPIC cameras, which Peter Jackson used while filming “Hobbit”. Using advanced tppls to shoot and screen their work, camp participants learn about the latest technologies in the film industry, as well as every other aspect of film and television industry, behind and in front of the camera, including:
• creative writing
• directing
• acting
• cinematography
• costume design and make-up
• editing
The premiere date and venue of camp RED participants’ short films are to be announced soon afterwards.
The applications will be published on June 5, 2015.
DADO VALENTIĆ (MYTHERAPY STUDIO)
 Dado Valentić is a founder of a leading London studio Mytherapy for digital mastering, whose work produced more than 80 feature films, including Total Recall, Sherlock Holmes, Gulliver's Travels, Mr. Nice, Game of Thrones and many others. Dado Valentić worked for many famous and renowned companies, such as Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Armani, Bentley, Jaguar, Orange, Coca-Cola, Nike, Christian Dior and Speedo. He was awarded with many prizes: The Best commercial on the British Television Advertising Awards having a T-mobile as a client, the Golden Lion at Cannes for Philips, BAFTA award for Best Specialist Factual Programme – Flying with Monsters 3D, The Golden Lion in Cannes for the Nike commercial Write the Future. He is well renowned for his contribution to digital film camera development. He teaches on the International Colourist Academy and is a regular guest lecturer at major film festivals worldwide. |
RED Workshop for Digital Natives
The Pula Film Festival in cooperation with the international companies RED and MYTHERAPY is organizing RED WORKSHOP FOR DIGITAL NATIVES, the film workshop for children, for the third consecutive year.
Some of the greatest film makers started their careers as early as in their childhood days. Their imagination was their main work tool and as the years went by they were getting more and more successful with the world's cutting edge technology available at their reach! Today those people would like to dedicate their time and attention to you and introduce you to the greatest achievements in the film industry, since the film is just one big adventure! This year you get the opportunity to be a part of the story!
Red workshop is a creative workshop developed in cooperation of the Pula film festival and Dado Valentic, founder of Mytherapy studio, a leading company for digital mastering from UK, and with support of the companies Red Digital Cinema and Adobe.
The main goal of the workshop is to introduce the youth to the latest achievements in the film industry and digital technologies in a way to discover prospect future stars of digital cinematography. With expertly guidance the workshop participants will write and produce their short film and shoot it using 6K RED DRAGON cameras, edit it in REDucation post production studio and finally watch their work on a big screen. All that at the same level of experience as a professional film director!
The camp is a seven days class in English as a major language and will host participants age 12 to 16.
THE PROGRAM
The program is divided into practice and educational part, with special lectures organised in cooperation with the leading film professionals. All camp participants will have a unique opportunity to use the most modern cameras and learn step by step everything related to production and post production processes in a way Hollywood professionals do.
The children will shoot their own film by the same 5k RED DRAGON cameras. Using the advanced filming tools and screening their work, the camp participants will get to know the film industry cutting edge technologies, as in all the segments of film and TV industry, in front and behind the cameras, including:
• Creative writing
• Directing
• Acting
• Cinematography
• Costume and make up
• Editing
• VFX , Colour grading
• Sound
APPLICATIONS
Date and venue: 16.-23 July, Circolo - Italian Community.
The Red Camp workshop participants short films premier will be held on 24th of July in the INK - Istrian National Theatre.
REGISTRATION FEE:
600,00 HRK for participants from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
For participants from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia: 5th till 29th of June 2015.
APPLICATION FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM CROATIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND SERBIA
More on registration and workshop at: nerma@pulafilmfestival.hr or at +385(0)98 1855045
Applications for international participants are now closed.
DADO VALENTIĆ (MYTHERAPY STUDIO)
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 Dado Valentic is an award winning colour grading artist with over 17 years of industry experience. Dado is one of the leading developers in the area of colour science for digital film cameras. He created Mytherapy's Colour Science a unique approach to processing of digital images and a film stock emulation technology. He is also an instructor for the International Colourist Academy and REDUCATION and is a regular speaker on major industry events.
Dado Valentic has worked on over 30 feature films and numerous commercials. He is best known for his work on ‘Absolutely Anything’ directed by Terry Jones and starring Simon Pegg, ‘A Hundred Streets’ starring Idris Elba, ‘Total Recall’, ‘Mr Nice’, ‘Sherlock Holmes’ by Guy Richie, ‘Dough’ starring Jonathan Pryce and ‘Blackwood’ by Adam Wimpenny.
Some of commended productions that Dado has worked on include:
● TV Commercial of the Year at the British Television Advertising Awards for TMobile’s ‘Life’s for Sharing’,
● Cannes Golden Lion for Philips Saneo
● BAFTA for best Specialist Factual Programme for ‘Flying with Monsters 3D’,
● The Grand Prix in the Film category at Cannes Lion for Nike’s ‘Write the Future
Dado is the founder of Mytherapy, a creative studio for digital colour correction and motion picture retouching. In 2014 the company expanded to the US making partnership with Versatile studio - creating Versatile Colour powered by Mytherapy in NYC.
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Professor Balthazar’s Adventure Laboratory
This summer the already traditional animated film workshop “Professor Balthazar’s Adventure Laboratory” will open its door to a new generation of young animated film fans. All youngsters aged 7 to 12 looking for new things, experiments and exciting film ventures are welcome to join the workshop.
Applications for participation at the 11th Professor Balthazar's Adventure Laboratory will be published on June 5, 2015.
PROGRAMME
As part of the theoretical section, the participants will learn about animated film production techniques. Through introductory lectures on animation and production basics the participants will learn how to develop the story, the script, how to create characters and their personalities. One section is dedicated to classical animation and simple and exciting exercises aimed at understanding the basic principles and rules of animation such as squash & stretch. The participants will have the opportunity to see fragments of some of the best professional and amateur animated films. The practical section comprises making and realization of animated films (jingles) with the help of the mentor. The participants will use a combination of CGI and Cut-Out animation. The elements and the basis for short films have already been prepared and through their work and ideas, the participants will impact their final composition, production and post-production. Sound segments will be incorporated as well and the participants will learn something about sound recording and editing and about how to integrate music in the final product in the most practical way. The emphasis is on independent production, technical solutions and tricks used to realize projects professionally. The date and the place of the festival premiere of the short animated films produced by the participants will be announced subsequently.
INSTRUCTORS
 Manuel Šumberac was born in 1988 in Pula. In 2007 he graduated from the Graphic Design Department of the Pula’s School of Applied Arts and Design. The same year he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Animated Films and New Media. In 2013 he received an MA degree in Animated Film and New Media. During his studies he received a number of best student recognitions. He has made four animated films: Escargot (2010), The Oars (together with Zdenko Bašić, 2011), In the Shadow (2011), and Mechanical Heart (2013) as well as three animated music videos for Croatian musician Gibonni. His film Escargot earned him the second prize at the 42nd Croatian Film and Video Revue and the 1st prize at the Balkans Beyond Borders festival. In 2010 his animated music video Žeđam earned him the Porin music award for best video. He works as illustrator as well. |
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 Vibor Juhas was born in 1982 in Pula. He is an illustrator, animator, musician and filmmaker. He is the author of several music videos for bands from Pula and the surrounding places. In 2011 he completed his first short film No Way Out. In 2012, in collaboration with the Monteparadiso Collective, he made his full-length documentary Monteparadiso 20 which premiered at Pula and then travelled to various festivals in Croatia and the surrounding countries. He illustrated the children’s book Strahosmijeh and the picture book Ponoć u Parku 52, as well as several short comic books. He is currently working on a new animated film and an interactive picture book. He works as a designer at the Pula festival of books and authors Book Fair(y) in Istria. |
