After a week that saw air travel worldwide grounded by the coronavirus pandemic and a powerful earthquake strike the Croatian capital, the organizers of ZagrebDox Pro had something to celebrate on Tuesday, as the annual workshop and pitching competition announced the awards from its first ever online edition.
“After 10 editions of conducting our pitching lab in Zagreb, we were afraid the human interaction, so important in our work, would have been missing,” said workshop mentors Leena Pasanen and Stefano Tealdi. “To our surprise, we did not lose the peer-to-peer and group feedback needed to give strength to the pitch of a project and therefore foster its development.”
Pasanen, who is director of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna and former managing and artistic director of Dok Leipzig, joined director and producer Tealdi to lead a four-day intensive training program for 12 documentary projects in different stages of development and production. The selections,...
“After 10 editions of conducting our pitching lab in Zagreb, we were afraid the human interaction, so important in our work, would have been missing,” said workshop mentors Leena Pasanen and Stefano Tealdi. “To our surprise, we did not lose the peer-to-peer and group feedback needed to give strength to the pitch of a project and therefore foster its development.”
Pasanen, who is director of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna and former managing and artistic director of Dok Leipzig, joined director and producer Tealdi to lead a four-day intensive training program for 12 documentary projects in different stages of development and production. The selections,...
- 3/24/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Producers and filmmakers pitched via pre-made videos.
Hungarian documentary Queen Of Chess has won the HBO Europe award at ZagrebDox Pro, which moved its industry platform online for the first time following the coronavirus outbreak.
Selected from 12 projects, director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter and producers Gabor Harmi and Peter Stern will receive a diploma and €2,000 for project development. Tuza-Ritter’s first feature, A Woman Captured, played in competition at Sundance 2018.
Queen Of Chess centres on the life and the tournaments of Judit Polgar - considered the greatest female chess player of all time - and her sometimes controversial matches against legendary grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
Hungarian documentary Queen Of Chess has won the HBO Europe award at ZagrebDox Pro, which moved its industry platform online for the first time following the coronavirus outbreak.
Selected from 12 projects, director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter and producers Gabor Harmi and Peter Stern will receive a diploma and €2,000 for project development. Tuza-Ritter’s first feature, A Woman Captured, played in competition at Sundance 2018.
Queen Of Chess centres on the life and the tournaments of Judit Polgar - considered the greatest female chess player of all time - and her sometimes controversial matches against legendary grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
- 3/24/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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