PRO OTOK 2024

Events for film professionals and others interested in the film’s journey from idea to screen and beyond.

Green Transition in Culture: A focus on young audiences

Presentation and workshop in collaboration with Motovila/CED Slovenia.

This is the fourth year that Motovila / CED Slovenia and Kino Otok are collaborating in public discussions about sustainable environmental practices in culture and cinema. The keynote speaker and workshop trainer is Claudia Ziegenfuß of Kijufi, a Berlin-based NGO coordinating the drafting of Sustainability and Social Awareness Charter for Young Film Audiences as part of the Young4Film European Film Festival Network.

The presentation and workshop will be in English and are for representatives of film festivals and cinemas, film educators, primary and secondary school teachers, and other interested participants engaged in cultural and film education or young audiences. Admission is free, but please book your spot by 5 June 2024 here.

Good practice examples in arthouse exhibition

A public meeting of the Slovenian Art Cinema Association (AKMS)

At their public meeting, AKMS members will highlight examples of good practice from the association of 28 cinemas.
The event will be in Slovenian. Free admission.

Found Image: A programme of Premio Cesare Zavattini shorts and presentation of UnArchive festival and the Audiovisual Archive of the Labour and Democratic Movement (Aamod)

Gabriele Ragonesi presents Premio Cesare Zavattini, the UnArchive festival and the Audiovisual Archive of the Labour and Democratic Movement (Aamod), all dedicated to found footage films and the creative use of archive material. The event will be in English.

Found Image: A programme of shorts and panel discussion with found footage filmmakers

Found images find different ways to live new lives in new films, acquiring fresh meanings and raising various political, social, and aesthetic issues and interesting questions. The one thing old images turned new films have in common is reinterpretation – the gaze of the filmmaker imbuing the images with new meanings that speak to their current reality. Join us for a panel discussion on the creative challenges of using found footage with filmmakers from the festival lineup. The event will be in English.

The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion with the following film professionals: Emilija Gašić, Laura Samani, Bill Morrison, Neil Young in Davorin Marc.

Short scene at Isola Cinema: Short film case studies with Matjaž Ivanišin and Nika Jurman

Presentation and discussion

‘Short Scene’ is an intensive 6-month workshop to learn about the theory and practice of screenwriting, develop one’s idea, and write a screenplay for a short film. Now in its ninth edition, this is the second time the workshop is organised by the Directors’ Guild of Slovenia in collaboration with the Slovenian Film Centre and in partnership with the Society for short film promotion Kraken. For more information, see dsr.si. Free admission.

Found Image: A programme of shorts and masterclass by Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison is a NY-based independent filmmaker who often uses found, archival footage, combined with new original music, to explore the aesthetic and narrative effects of the decay of analogue film stock. His latest work Incident (2023) may be untypical for his creative expression in that it is constructed from the surveillance footage of the body-worn police and street security cameras. The event will be in English.