Educational program

SPECIAL EVENTS

DANUBIAN SCREENWRITTING WORKSHOP

28 August – 1 September, Ruzicka’s House

Danubian Screenwriting Workshop at VFF has been held since 2009. Its mentor is Croatian Dramatist and Scriptwriter Mrs. Irena Krcelic, co-founder of screenwriting workshop “Palunko” in 2002, under the Croatian Film Club Association. “Palunko” screenwriting program is celebrating tenth anniversary. Danube screenwriting workshop is a five-day free of charge workshop.

The workshop gives upcoming screenwriters an opportunity to work intensively on the development of their short feature film scripts. The writers receive support of the mentor also as a support of various film professionals attending the festival. The workshop is held in a safe environment that encourages both innovation and creative risk-taking. Every year around 20th June we announce the workshop contest through various media (newspapers, press releases, VFF website). The applicants have to write their own story on any given subject . This year we are introducing advanced workshop for those who have already completed the script for a short story which will be developed further with a mentor at the workshop.

Mrs Krcelic chooses top five applicants with a particular talent for writing to participate during the festival and develop their own screenplays. A basic criterion on choosing participants is the quality and a particular originality of their story. Besides writing all day and developing their ideas into real scenarios, participants watch movies from the festival program, talk with film professionals who present their films at VFF and by that, they establish a unique film experience par excellence.

FESTIVAL WORKSHOP- FROM IDEA TO REALIZATION

28 August- 1 September 2013 Croatian Home Vukovar

This year’s Festival workshop goes under the name “From idea to realization” and is intended for young filmmakers who are interested in the area of film and television directing and production. In the five-day workshop students will learn how to work on making idea to a specific story. They will learn how to write directorial conceptions, developments and synopses, also how from producer’s side to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the project, how to research fonds, study the market, create a marketing plan and a plan for distribution of the project. By using these elements they will make a production project and develop the skills of its presentation in director-producer form.

Best production project made will be selected later by the festival organizers and realized during the workshop on the 8th Vukovar Film Festival, in 2014.

During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to see the various production plans and its film realization. They will talk to the lecturers of the workshop about their experiences and learn about festivals, markets and pitching forums across Europe.

Workshop 'From idea to realization' is free for all participants with provided accommodation and food during five day’s course. The workshop is open to all young people interested in film and television, and was arranged in co-operation with the participants of Cinema Club Vukovar.

Workshop leaders are students of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb: Marko Dugonjić, student FTV directing and Mija Matasović, productions student . They are members of MMC Studio of creative ideas Gunja where they work for many years.

FILM COPYRIGHT WORKSHOP- 'LEGAL ASPECTS OF FILM PRODUCTION'

28th August to 29th August 2013 (Wednesday, Thursday) from 10 to 12 h, Hotel Lav, Bauer hall

Lecturer: Stribor Jurcic - A copyright specialist

This expert workshop adjusted to the participants of educational programs and festival is focused on the detection of specific COPYRIGHT and other legal issues (real and personal rights, trademark, etc.) to which the authors, performers or producers face in their film projects, but is intended for everyone who is interested in this very intriguing topic, rarely heard of and discussed.

Pegasus approach to the development of audiovisual and other copyright activity is specific and unique in Croatia, and beyond, since experts of Pegaz’s educational copyright and legal team may be only those with general legal qualification, but also those that have practical experience of copyright and - is particularly important - rich authoring experience.

Leader of the workshop is an author of scenarios for feature films, numerous art solutions, live & TV formats and literary works that he creatively connects with its basis copyright area - music. All that copyright, intellectual and educational experience finally rounds up and connects in the copyright law literature that fills a huge void that has existed in this aspect for many years.

Insight into the results of these creative and legal scope, the participants of this workshop will be free to get through two-hour interactive meetings enriched with numerous live music, film and visual examples during Vukovar Film Festival weekend. This expert workshop, organized in slavonian spite - without the support of HAVC , the Ministry of Culture, etc., for the different kinds of artists involved in film production - primarily authors – writers of a film stories, templates and adapted literary works, directors, filmmakers, authors of film music, cameramens, photographers, film journalists and critics, as well as actors, singers, dancers and other performers, and entrepreneurs - whether they participate in the production of audiovisual works as producers, distributors, investors, sponsors, managers of marketing campaigns, etc., or are simply users of audiovisual works.

Copyright agency Pegasus for years, as the only one in Croatia, systematically supports film activity - as the legal representative of the production, as well as authoring support, as a producer, or a combination of it all ...

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR CREATING VISUAL IDENTITIES

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31 August – 1 September 2013 Croatian Home Vukovar

From 11 until 13h

Educational workshop for creating visual identities of the film characters is introduced for the first time at Vukovar film festival in 2013. Time scheduled for this workshop is two days and it is led by Mrs Slavica Snur, a professional film make-up artist with an extensive track record of working in many films (national and international). The goal of this workshop is for everyone interested in the art of film to learn how and in what way to visually create film characters. First there is a scenario with default characters, which the participants, with the help of creative teams, will finally create. Among others, those are masks and costumes. Mask and costume design are one of the tools that provide an authentic look for an actor. That include tracking through the film of the different circumstances, emotions, situations, etc. The workshop will be open to public and it will be free of charge.

ANIMATED FILM WORKSHOP STOP ANIMATION

28 August – 1 September 2013 Ruzicka’s House

Animated Film Workshop STOP ANIMATION for the youngest we’re introducing for the first time in 2013. It will be held by Croatian film directors and scriptwriters Mr Ivan Salaj and Mr Zvonimir Rumbolt. The main objective of the workshop is to introduce children (ages 7-12 years) to the basics of Filmmaking and the film elements in general, but also to gain practical knowledge needed to create animated films with the help of accessible resources, like digital camera and basic editing software on the PC. The workshop will last for six days in blocks of four hours. It is envisaged to have two leaders who would work in parallel with two groups of children at a maximum of 20 participants. In cooperation with the city of Vukovar we will inform teachers in all primary schools in Vukovar to share the programme of the workshop with children and their parents. The workshop will be free of charge.

PRESENTATION-INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OBERHAUSEN

30 August 2013, 10h, Hotel Lav, Bauer Hall

Short film is still the prime source of innovation for the art of film - the experimental field in which future cinematic vocabularies first crystallize. Today its diversity of forms, themes and approaches across the globe is greater than ever. The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has been part of this highly charged field for over 50 years now, as a catalyst and a showcase for contemporary developments, a forum for what are often heated discussions, a discoverer of new trends and talent, and not least as one of the most important short film institutions anywhere in the world. 

In this programme Reinhard W. Wolf,  presents a selection of short films, which comprises a diversified variety of genre and style. All films have participated recently in the international and german competitions of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival.