Festival Identity 2020

Participants of Festival Identity 2020

Cintia Gil / Sheffield Doc Fest / United Kingdom
Cecilia Barrionuevo / Cine de Mar del Plata Film Festival / Argentina
Katarzyna Wilk / Krakow FF / Poland
Barbara Orlicz-Szczypuła / Krakow FF/ Poland
Peter Gašparík / 4 živly / Slovakia
Alessandro Gropplero / FVG Audiovisual Fund / Italy
Aleksandra Ławska / Short Waves Festival / Poland
Anna Golon / Short Waves Festival / Poland
Tomáš Poštulka / One World IHFF / Czech Republic
Tanja Hladnik / Isola Cinema / Croatia
Zorko Sirotić / Diversions International Short Film Festival /Croatia
Christine Camdessus / FIPADOC / France
Martichka Bozhilova / AGITPROP / Bulgaria
Monika Lošťáková / Febiofest / Slovakia
Liliya Kucheva / In the Palace FF / Bulgaria
Veronika Janatková / DokuBaku / Azerbaijan
Ondřej Kazík / AFO / Czech Republic
Tereza Šimíková / CPH:DOX / Denmark
Maša Marković / Sarajevo Film Festival CineLink Industry Days / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Patrizia Mancini / Sunny Side of the Doc / France
Gennady Kofman / DocuDays / Ukraine
Volia Chajkouskaya / Northern Lights Nordic Baltic Film Festival / Belarus
Maja Malus Azhdari / International Documentary Film Festival Dokudoc / Slovenia
Raluca Iacob / Astra Film Festival / Romania
Krzysztof Sienkiewicz / Zubroffka IFF / Poland
Ileana Stanculescu / CineDoc Tbilisi / Georgia
Artchil Khetagouri / CineDoc Tbilisi / Georgia
Mariam Chutkerashvili / CineDoc Tbilisi / Georgia
Szymon Stemplewski / Short Waves Festival / Poland
Carlo Migotto / Lago Film Festival / Italy
Artur Liebhart / Docs Against Gravity Film Festival / Poland
Viviana Carlet / Lago Film Festival / Italy
Mara Prohaska / Beldocs / Serbia
Olga Lany / Krakow FF / Poland
Francesco Giai Via / Torino Film Lab / Italy
Raffaela Saba / Carbonia Film Festival / Italy
James Calver / Independent Cinema Office / United Kingdom
Victoria Leshchenko / DocuDays / Ukraine
Yuliia Kovalenko / DocuDays / Ukraine
Ana Cerar / International Film Festival Kino Otok - Isola Cinema / Slovenia

Main topics of the Festival Identity 2020:

1) Film Festival’s Code of ethics and its funding - What moral and ethical dilemmas do film festivals face when securing funding? What is the responsibility of festivals when partnering with funders backed by political, economical or environmental resources? Should film festivals be the ones to set norms and change paradigm?

2) Models of Hybrid Film Festivals – The pandemic turned the world upside down and film festivals, too, had to adapt to the new reality. Major events went online, were cancelled or postponed. Others found a different path, reinvented themselves, and new festival formats are emerging. Will the pandemic change film festivals forever, for worse or better, and what are the lessons learned?

3) What is beyond the film realm? – Apart from audiovisual experience, film festivals have much wider implications – opening important discussions, educating, encouraging and activating people. Do film festivals reflect on this broader role and impact they have? Should film festival actively work towards positive social change?

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Festival HUB 2020

Festival HUB has been annually presenting selected international film festivals, institutions, and programs. This event was held as part of the Festival Identity - a traditional meetup of film festival representatives at the Ji.hlava IDFF.

Festival visitors had a unique opportunity to see a showcase of world film festivals presented in the PechaKucha style.