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Talents and Short Film Market SE #1

29.06-02.07.2023 - Schlanders/Silandro/Solaneres, Italy

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Talents and Short Film Market vol. 8

27-29.11.2023 - Torino, Italy

PANELS + KEYNOTES

Monday 28th 2022 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Animation & XR: an Incorruptible Marriage
Visual artists and animators from all over the world have found an immediate attraction for the extended realities mediums and their innate possibilities of endless expansion of the visual possibilities. The panel will presents some players that have been approaching this combined world: the “traditional” animation production landing (also) on new challenges and opportunities of financing within Europe; the commitment and passion of the animation industry in creating platforms of development that creates networks and connection between art & engineering; the development of the two mediums in a work of art that is also capable of reflecting on accessibility and how to overcome social barriers.

Introductory Keynote: Silvia Sandrone (Creative Europe Desk Italy MEDIA Torino)
Panelists: Fabian Driehorst (Fabian&Fred), Aneta Ozorek (Kaboom Animation Festival), Martina Raponi (Artist)
Moderator: Carla Vulpiani (TSFM, Venice Film Festival)

in collaboration with Creative Europe Desk Italy MEDIA – Torino
Monday 28th 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Fake it till you make it – The how to Production Design
Production design is one of the oldest craftsmanship of cinema. Although it still plays an important role in feature film productions, it might seem that the budget investment is too expensive for short films. However, production design might be fundamental as well for some short film productions, without which some stories could not be told. The panel will address various practical approaches to production design which were used by two directors in their movies – from classical set design, to the use of green screens – in order to discover the narrative opportunities those techniques offered them and the related costs on the budget.

Panelists: Douwe Dijkstra (Director), Thanasis Neofotistos (Director)
Moderator: Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner (Uppsala Kortfilmfestival)
Monday 28th 2022 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
How Much Is Enough? – Fair work in the (short) film festival circuit: a call for action
The issue of fair work spans many industries and it is quite prominent in the cultural sector. The film festival circuit makes no exception. However, an open discussion concerning fair payment of festival workers has been mostly avoided by the industry. One of the reasons is the different labour laws and regulations in place in each country.

This keynote aims to open this long due discussion about fair work in the film festival circuit, especially in the short film one.

The session will start with a presentation by the Forum Õsterreichischer Filmfestivals (FÖFF) on the status quo of fair pay in Austria. Recently the Forum published fair pay guidelines for its members, following an internal survey of the different levels of payment in different festivals for various festival jobs – from leadership to interns. At the same time Austrian funding institutions have started taking on some responsibility for fair wages for cultural work. Yet the situation of precarious festival work in Austria is still far from being resolved, as inflation is starting to destroy the limited gains and many institutions are still heavily underfunded. Against this background the presentation will give insights in the work-in-progress and controversial questions of reaching a binding fair wage policy among festivals with highly different ressources and diverse makeups.

The second part will consist of a moderated discussion between the keynote speaker and three respondents, in order to further discuss the topic and how to effectively reapply the good practice implemented by FÖFF on a transnational scale.

Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Gruber (Forum Österreichischer Filmfestivals)
Respondents: Sanne Jehoul (Glasgow Short Film Festival), Skadi Loist (Universitat Babelsberg), Katja Wiederspahn (Viennale)
Moderator: Anne Gaschütz (Locarno Film Festival, FILMFEST DRESDEN)

in collaboration with Short Film Conference
Tuesday 29th 2022 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Introducing
Conceived in collaboration with Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur as a twin event, in this panel three industry representatives will present themselves and explain the scope of their work. They will introduce brand new or little-known platforms and opportunities that can have an impact on other professionals of the short film circuit. The introduced novelties will be the cash rebate scheme for short films offered by EKOME in Greece, FilmConnector, a brand new distribution platform for both companies and single filmmakers developed by Radiator IP Sales, and the work promoted by the Swiss short film association ProShort aimed at lobbying for a major recognition of the short film industry.

Panelists: Vasiliki Diagouma (EKOME), Ben Vandendaele (Radiator IP Sales), Laura Walde (ProShort)
Moderator: Gabriela Seidel-Hollaender (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur)

in collaboration with Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Wednesday 30th 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Learn to Fly – Film Education and the Short Film Festival Circuit
Film schools and universities teaching filmmaking play an important role in the training of new professionals. Short films are undoubtedly the format alumni are required to develop in order to advance through their academic careers. This implies a massive production of works labelled as “school films” that are often treated as a subgenre – almost detached from the rest of the industry – albeit formally equal to other shorts presented in the circuit. The panel will mainly address the relationship between film education and the festivals – figuring out the existing connections and gaps between the two – and how academic institutions prepare students to face the big leap into the film industry.

Panelists: Siiri Häidma (Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University), Delphine Jeanneret (HEAD Genève), Marcin Malatyński (The Polish National Film School in Lodz)
Moderator: Amos Geva (T-Port)

in collaboration with T-Port
Wednesday 30th 2022 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Short Film Criticism, a new hope?
An article published in 2004 titled The Short Film and Critics: Do They Ever Meet? written by Laurence Boyce for FIPRESCI reports the outcomes of a workshop on Short Film and Criticism held at the 50th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Its reading is a useful insight in order to retrospectively understand the relationship between film criticism and the short form of cinema as it was almost 20 years ago. In the meantime, however, much has changed: paper outlets have lost prominence, while online publications have flourished. Starting from a historical point of view, the panel aims to investigate the impact and influence film criticism has on the short film industry today and vice versa.

Panelists: Laurence Boyce (Cineuropa), Savina Petkova (Talking Shorts), Niels Putman (kortfilm.be)
Moderator: Emilia Mazik (Short Waves Festival)

in collaboration with Talking Shorts
Tuesday 29th 2022 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Weapon of Choice – Short Films as tools for empowering under-represented communities
Since the analog and then digital video revolutions the cost of the means of labour that are necessary to the production of a short film has radically dropped. This has granted people from under-represented communities the access to the short format – the so called audiovisual democratisation. The medium allowed them to tell stories – quite often political and identitarian – from a perspective other than the one of the dominant capitalist based western society. Starting from the personal expertise and experience of the speakers, the panel aims to debate the concept of short films as the ultimate cultural and expressive weapon for under-represented communities in the film industry.

Panelists: Eroll Bilibani (DokuLab), Laurence Richard (Wapikoni), Hoda Taheri (Director)
Moderator: Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner (Uppsala Kortfilmfestival)
Tuesday 29th 2022 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
What is the point of festivals?
It is said that festivals are the exploitation and presentation platform par excellence for short films. But what exactly are festivals? What specifically do they do and what has changed as a result of the pandemic? Has our view perhaps been sharpened in times when gatherings in front of screens were impossible? Katrin Mundt’s keynote gives an overview of the extraordinarily diverse short film festival landscape in Germany. It discusses the different contexts in which short film is presented, and the changing ways in which it finds its audiences. It asks how the work for and collaboration between festivals has been impacted, and in what kind of geography festivals are likely to operate in the future. And finally, how can the structures of financing, organisation and communication be rethought to make festival work more sustainable? The panelists, representing different forms of festivals, contribute to the discussion based on their experiences and invite the audience to join in the discussion about the future and potential of short film festivals.

Keynote Speaker: Katrin Mundt (EMAF)
Respondents: Maike Mia Höhne (Director and Film Curator), Arne Papenhagen (FiSH Film Festival)
Moderator: Anne Gaschütz (Locarno Film Festival, FILMFEST DRESDEN)

in collaboration with AG Kurzfilm – German Short Film Association, part of Country In Focus: Germany
Tuesday 29th 2022 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Where have all the buyers gone?
The acquisition market of short films has changed dramatically in just a few years. Not so long ago, television was the dominant media for showcasing short films to a more general audience, mostly unaware of the genre. Undoubtedly the rise of streaming and vod platforms has broadened the possibilities of showcasing short films, however, at what price? The number of short film buyers actively attending B2B events and markets have noticeably lowered while the number of sales or distributors seems to have increased, thus creating a short circuit in the demand and supply chain. The panel will address this market imbalance by analysing how the role of short film buyers has changed over time.

Panelists: Catherine Colas (ARTE), Inga Diev (OUAT Media), Paola Ruggeri (Mediaset)
Moderator: Emilia Mazik (Short Waves Festival)

Things to know

TSFM vol. 7 features seven panels and two keynotes
All the panels and the keynotes take place at Circolo dei Lettori inside the Sala Grande room
All the panels and the keynotes take place from Monday 28th to Wednesday 30th November 2022

Talents and Short Film Market (TSFM) is organized by A.I.A.C.E. Nazionale and is a member of Torino Film Industry (a network formed together with TorinoFilmLab and Production Days).
TSFM Volumes are co-organized by Italian Trade Agency and the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
TSFM Volumes are realized with the support of Ministry of Culture, Regione Piemonte, Fondazione Cassa Risparmio di Torino, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, Camera di Commercio di Torino, UniFrance.
TSFM Summer Events are co-organized by IDM Südtirol Alto Adige and the support of Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol/Provincia Autonoma Bolzano - Alto Adige/Provinzia Autonoma Bulsan - Südtirol, ZeLIG Film, Bolzano 48h, Basis Vinschgau Venosta.

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