Friday, May 9 | 10:00 a.m. | The State Ethnographic Museum
(1-on-1 meetings at 13:30-17:00)
Progress Pitching Session + Mette Hoffmann Meyer Keynote speech
An event dedicated to visually interesting, creative documentary projects with international potential. It is an excellent chance to discover films which are looking for international co-production or distribution opportunities in their different phases, from concept to post-production. Selected finalists will present their projects to leading Polish and international film industry representatives: producers, investors, sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. The pitching aims to leverage the festival guests’ expertise and create a place where world-class projects are born.
Admission with Industry/Media accreditations or by email request at industry@againstgravity.pl
English language event
Organizser: Against Gravity
Partners: CANAL+ Poland, Polish Filmmakers Association, SMAKJAM, SoundMind, Institute of Documentary Film, CPH:DOX, EAVE, IMS, Visioni dal Mondo
Moderator: Martijn te Pas
Projects:
ALWAYS FAR AWAY, dir. Roman Ďuriš, prod. Richard Šimeček
BECOMING CHRISTINE GRANVILLE, dir. Sylwia Rosak, prod. Justyna Kluczewska & Maciek Ostatek
CLOSURE, dir. Michał Marczak, prod. Monika Braid
BEAVERS, dir. Paweł Hejbudzk, prod. Natalia Grzegorzek
HOW TO BURY A HOLE, dir. Piotr Jasiński, prod. Małgorzata Prociak, Radim Procházka, Michael Kalb
LESSONS FROM "CHEMISTRY", dir. Magda Grudniewska, prod. Karol Zagórski & Pauline Tran van Lieu
LOVE LETTERS, dir. Paweł Ziemilski, prod. MX35 (Paweł Ziemilski, Mateusz Wajda, Alicja Gancarz)
MISSING IN ACTION, dir. Marharyta Melnychuk & Kateryna Holovko, prod. Aliona Kachkan - projekt prezentowany na CPH: FORUM - Change
NAVA MAMA, dir. Ana Vijdea, prod. Ana Gheorghe, Ana Vijdea
YOUTH, dir. Daria Zhuravel, prod. Anastasiia Zakhilko
The pitching prizes are funded by the event partners:
CANAL+ Polska – €3,000
Polish Filmmakers Association (Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich) – 10,000 PLN
SMAKJAM – Color correction service worth 15,000 PLN
SOUNDMIND – Sound post-production service worth 10,000 PLN
VISIONI INCONTRA Award – an accreditation and participation in the Visioni dal Mondo pitching session in Milan.
Tutors:
Kim Christiansen - Executive Producer - Documentaries & Co-productions, DR Sales, Denmark
Master's degree in Film and Law from the University of Copenhagen. Worked with international documentary (selling, buying, commissioning, and co-prod.) for the last +20 years. Previous Head of Sales at TV 2 WORLD and Head of Industry at CPH:DOX (2012 & 2013)Selected work on following international productions: The Mole - Last Men in Aleppo (OSCAR nominated 2018) – Cold Case Hammarskjöld - Armadillo - India's Daughter - Pervert Park -– DEMOCRATS - The Red Chapel - Putin’s Kiss - Blood in the Mobile - Dark Side of Chocolate - Queen of Versailles - Ai Weiwei the Fake Case - The Why Poverty Series.
Currently: Overseeing all our documentary films for the international market, mainly from independent producers from the Nordic region, but also fromthe US, UK, Germany, etc,. as well as helping the producers with getting their films financed. DR Sales is the sales department of the Danish Broadcasting Corp. It is Scandinavia’s largest international distributor, specialized in social and political contemporary documentaries and present at all major television markets and festivals. DR Sales also handles film projects in production in close collaboration with independent producers eligible for international co-productions and pre-sales.
Martijn te Pas
Martijn te Pas studied Psychology, English, and Film & Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. From 2000 to 2019, he was a Senior Programmer at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). He also served as an advisor for the IDFA Bertha Fund and evaluated projects for the IDFA Forum. Between 2000 and 2020, Martijn traveled to numerous film festivals as a guest or jury member. He was a Documentary Advisor for the Dutch Mediafund (now the NPO Fund) from 2007 to 2013. In 2019, Martijn moved from Amsterdam to Stockholm, and in 2020, he served as a Guest Documentary Programmer at Nordisk Panorama. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Programmer and Festival Advisor for MIRAGE, a new hybrid/documentary festival in Oslo. In April 2020, Martijn founded e u R O P E doconsultancy, which is aimed at directors and producers, offering tailored SWOT analysis of films in both development and editing stages. He also provides expert advice on curation, festival strategies, and distribution.
Martijn is an advisor for Eurimages, gives pitch trainings, and worked for SFI Talent to Watch in 2023 and has been a programme advisor for Sheffield DocFest since 2022. He also served as a peer reviewer for the BFI in the UK in 2024 and is an alumnus of EAVE and Sources 2. Occasionally, he writes reviews and interviews filmmakers for Business Doc Europe
The pitching session will open with the keynote speech by Mette Hoffmann Meyer: An Unpredictable World
How do we tell stories when the world and the contexts of the stories are changing so fast?
How do we fight disinformation and fake news?
How do our [platforms/media/organizations] become the place to go when we want to understand the world we live in - as it is?
Mette Hoffmann Meyer - multi-award-winning executive producer, former Head of Docs at Danish TV, and once called a maverick by RealScreen - will give her unfiltered thoughts as our Keynote Speaker.
