The Other Side of Reality

12.02.2012 - Sophie Fiennes, Victor Kossakovsky, moderated by Sean Farnel

Master documentarians and auteurs of beautifully shot observational films, Victor Kossakovsky and Sophie Fiennes will talk about how wor- king as a documentary filmmaker has enabled them to develop a strong and specific way to tell stories and show reality in ground-breaking ways. The conversation will specifically focus on how documentary filmmakers need to know in advance which story they want to tell, in order to effectively shoot scenes or work with their protagonists. Find out how Kossakovsky and Fiennes have created their working styles and found their distinctive voice in the genre.

Experts of this programme event:

Sophie Fiennes
British documentary filmmaker and producer. She started out working with Peter Greenaway on several of his films, before realizing projects with choreographer Alain Platel and THE PERVERT‘S GUIDE TO CINEMA with philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Her latest film OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW about the artist Anselm Kiefer premiered in Cannes in 2010. Photo: Sacha Maric

Victor Kossakovsky
Russian documentary film director, who had his breakthrough in 1992 with THE BELOVS, which won numerous awards. Further films include PAVEL AND LYALYA, WEDNESDAY 07.09.1961, and HUSH!, which was nominated as Best Documentary at the European Film Awards in 2003 – as was his latest film ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!, which premièred in Venice 2011.

moderated by

Sean Farnel
Independent film consultant specializing in festivals, curation, acquisitions and creative development. Prior to a recently concluded six year stint as director of programming at the Hot Docs festival, he was a staff programmer with the Toronto International Film Festival.

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