EXCLUSIVE: The Europe-based Pop Up Film Residency mentorship program has unveiled the filmmakers and mentors who will take part in its summer time 2023 version.
The program, which is amongst a number of function improvement initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab creative director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residencies targeted on mentoring filmmakers via the event of a function mission. Darras works along with Polish producers Iza Igel and Marta Lewandowska. This yr the residency shall be mounted in Warsaw and Wroclaw, Poland, from July 4 — 25.
Mentors for the upcoming version embody Polish director Anna Jadowska (Woman On The Roof, Tribeca 2022), Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Pamfir, Cannes 2022), Polish director Aleksandra Terpinska (Other People, Tallinn 2021), Hungarian—Canadian author/director Anita Doron (The Breadwinner, 2017), Script consultants Michaela Sabo and Aleksandra Swierk, and Lithuanian producer Marija Razgute (Slow, Sundance, Karlovy Vary 2023).
Five function administrators will be part of this system, together with Polish filmmaker Katarzyna Trzaska, whose final function, Nauka Latania, screened on the Warsaw Film Festival. She will develop her new function Against the Grain, which tells the story of Gaba, a nail specialist from town of Lodz, whose every day routine circles amongst shoppers within the magnificence salon and her working-class household and pals. Her life turns the wrong way up when she meets Zocha, a radical feminist activist from a rich household who desires to alter the world for the higher.
For the primary time this yr, a mission from Ukraine will be part of the residency. Filmmaker Alina Matochkina will be part of this system with Mother, a function set in Kyiv in 2016. The plot follows Lidia (25), who moved to the capital seven years in the past from a provincial city in jap Ukraine, the place her dad and mom nonetheless stay. She has a extremely complicated relationship together with her mom, they don’t settle for one another’s life-style, talk in numerous languages, and see one another solely on New Year’s Eve. This relationship negatively impacts Lidia’s self-acceptance and self-actualization. She makes use of her data from psychology podcasts to enhance the scenario together with her mom. From a brand new acquaintance, Lidia learns that the important thing to altering the scenario lies not in altering her relationship together with her mom, however in altering her personal angle in direction of her. Now Lidia should reboot her personal system.
The residents are chosen via a community of artistic companions together with the Karlovy Vary IFF’s Eastern Promises Industry Platform within the Czech Republic, the Febiofest Bratislava in Slovakia, the Budapest Debut Film Forum in Hungary, the Platform for Scriptwriters Terrarium in Ukraine, and the New Horizons Film Festival in Poland.
“The Pop Up Film Residency Visegrad will definitely nurture films that capture Central Europe’s zeitgeist, with an appetite for stories that can be violently and funnily satirical, highlighting and mocking the many contradictions and antagonisms of Visegrad countries’ conservative and prejudiced societies,” Darras mentioned. “Prepare for exacerbated generational gaps and plenty of wealth inequality. Christian kitsch vs radical feminism; devoted male strippers and (non)-gay altar boys; plastic surgeries, nail beauty salons, and psychology podcasts. Our emerging filmmakers don’t spare their characters for a second, plunging them into whirlpools of confusing emotions. Does any of it make sense? Can the wild parties be overcome? Let’s hope for pacified closures or maybe not.”
The full record of summer time 2023 tasks:
Katarzyna Trzaska with Against the Grain (Poland)
Producers: Zygizaga Robert Zygmuntowski and Joanna Banach
Synopsis: Against the Grain tells a narrative of Gaba, a nail specialist from town of Lodz, whose every day routine circles amongst shoppers within the magnificence salon and her working-class household and pals. Her life turns the wrong way up when she meets Zocha, a radical feminist activist from a rich household who desires to alter the world for the higher.
Terézia Halamová with The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (Czech Rep./Slovakia)
Producer: Natalia Pavlove
Synopsis: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf particulars the wild journey of Rudo (25) and 4 different male strippers on their annual tour via the Czech Republic by way of Poland and Slovakia. Busy nightly performances are interrupted by the on a regular basis actuality of small cities. Wild events, Christian kitsch, and bottomless drug abuse. Why can’t a person be glad from the second he wakes up till he falls asleep?
Anna Korom with Lady Sunshine (Hungary)
Co-writer: András Soós. Producer: Anna Szijártó
Synopsis: Mária (55), a reclusive beautician, spends all her cash on plastic surgical procedures. She lives and works in a run-down district of Budapest. One day as she seems on a Talent TV present, she reunites with the love of her youth, Kálmán (60). However, he doesn’t recognise her. Desperate to keep away from publicity, she undergoes increasingly surgical procedures, that solely carry her nearer to being revealed.
Alina Matochkina with Mother (Ukraine)
Producer: Eugene Rachkovsky
Synopsis: Kyiv, 2016, Lidia (25) moved to the capital seven years in the past from a provincial city in jap Ukraine, the place her dad and mom nonetheless stay. She has a extremely complicated relationship together with her mom (44), they don’t settle for one another’s life-style, talk in numerous languages, and see one another solely on New Year’s Eve. This relationship negatively impacts Lidia’s self-acceptance and self-actualization. She makes use of her data from psychology podcasts to enhance the scenario together with her mom. From a brand new acquaintance, Lidia learns that the important thing to altering the scenario lies not in altering her relationship together with her mom, however in altering her personal angle in direction of her. Now Lidia should reboot her personal system.
Daniel Rihak with My World Upside Down (Slovakia)
Co-Writers: Peter Gašparík and Ján Štiffel. Producer: Martina Saková
Synopsis: My World Upside Down is a comedy about an altar boy from a small conservative village in Slovakia. Miško (12) wants to resolve an advanced drawback. He desires to be similar to his brother Lukáš (17) – massive, robust and cheap. Yet he’s nonetheless small, naive and secretly in love along with his brother’s girlfriend Linda (16). While attempting to impress her, a misunderstanding occurs and the entire village begins to suppose Miško is homosexual. He tries in useless to do away with the accusation, no person desires to play with him or speak to him. The just one left is Jesus. Will they have the ability to overcome the prejudices collectively?
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