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.
