Saturday, May 10 | 3:00 p.m. | The State Ethnographic Museum
Round table consultations are an intimate networking format where participants sit down with experts to discuss a selected industry topic. It's a great opportunity to ask questions, get practical advice, and share your own experiences. These informal meetings foster knowledge exchange and help build valuable connections. Each session lasts one hour, allowing for in-depth small-group conversations.
Marek Hovorka (Ji.hlava IDFF) – Explore Ji.hlava’s industry initiatives, including the Emerging Producers program, and get answers to all your questions about this renowned festival.
Marek Hovorka has always been interested in current cultural issues. In 1996 and 1997 he organized and hosted discussions with various representatives of Czech cultural landscape. In 1997 he founded Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, which is the biggest festival of its kind in Central and Estern Europe, accompanying with the East Silver market for documentaries from East European region. The main festival motto is “Thinking through film!”.
JIDFF is a member of Doc Alliance - partnership of seven key European documentary film festivals (CPH:DOX Copenhagen, Docs Against Gravity Warsaw, DocLisboa, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Visions du réel Nyon). The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to support the diversity of feature documentaries. Doc Alliance is also a provider of DAFilms - an online platform for the distribution of documentary and experimental films.
Since the launch of the festival Marek Hovorka has held the post of its director. He is also a member of advisory board of revue of documentary films called “do” and monthly magazine “dok.revue”. He was invited to several international juries at different festivals (e.g. Visions du Réel Nyon, FID Marseille, It´s all true Sao Paolo, Cinema Verite Tehran, Taiwan Docs, Doku.fest Munich or Cracow IFF).
He graduated documentary film studies at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts (FAMU Prague). His filmography includes 5 short or middle-length films.
Passholders only
IMPORTANT: Registration is required and the number of seats for each session is limited. Registration via book.mdag.pl starting from May 8.
