Docudays UA Industry Platform #DOCU/PRO promotes Ukrainian documentary films, develops its film industry, and establishes contacts with international experts in the documentary world. For 2021, the online #Docudays UA# (26 March – 4 April 2021) will feature many activities as part of its DOCU/PRO programme, including talks, meetings, workshops, and a presentation of Ukrainian documentaries.

DOCU/PRO Insutry Programme

• Ukrainian Doc Preview
  On 29 March, a showcase of Ukrainian feature-length documentaries at the stage of production/post-production will be presented to world festival programmers, representatives of international funds, sales companies and broadcasters. The selected projects are:
  • Expedition 49 (dir. Alisa Kovalenko; prod. Stephane Siohan, Valery Kalmykov, Oleksiy Kobelev, Tomasz Morawski)
  • Florian’s Witnesses (dir. Oleksiy Radynski; prod. Lyuba Knorozok)
  • Pryvoz. Tales of a Market (dir. Eva Neymann; prod. Gennady Kofman, Olha Beskhmelnytsina)
  • Fragments of Ice (dir. Maria Stoianova; prod. Alina Gorlova, Maksym Nakonechnyi)
  • Fragile Memory (dir. Ihor Ivanko; prod. Mariia Ponomarova, Oleksandra Bratyshchenko, Peter Kerekes, Ihor Ivanko)
• Meet Professionals
  Industry pass holders are able to sign up for individual consultations with festival representatives, sales agents, experienced producers, representatives of Ukrainian and global film foundations. #IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Visions du Réel, #GOEAST, #Docaviv, #Karlovy Vary#, #CAT&Docs, #Heretic, #Outreach, #Lightdox and many others will be present.
• Docu/Pro Talks
  Learn from the experts, as questions like How to find a common ground with a sales agent? How to designate targeting groups for a project? How to build a mutually beneficial coproduction? How to create a soundtrack for a film? How to pitch a project and stay alive? are addressed.
  • Joanna Solecka – film marketing & social media strategist
  • Mikael Opstrup – producer and specialist in international project development
  • Anna Stylińska – documentary filmmaker and in-dependent producer
  • Nainita Desai, Jo Ranger – composers
  • Liselot Verbrugge – expert in sales and acquisitions
  • Olena Siyatovska – Ukrainian director
  • Adam Ślesicki – producer and head of Doc Lab Poland
• VR Doc Lab
  Enhancing the toolset of documentary cinema by mastering the creation of VR films for the first time, focused on the main stages of VR cinema production: VR storytelling, technical means, and tools for making a VR film, producing, funding, pro- motion and distribution of VR films.

Find more information on DOCU/PRO including its full schedule – HERE