Industry day

During two days, Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS will focus on how to develop a successful short film. Together with international and local professionals, we will try to come up with the key ingredients for good quality short. How to make a film that is noticed by the most important festivals, that are critically acclaimed, has audience crossing the borders? The event is divided into five parts - story, innovation, editing, production and distribution, and each part is presented by industry professionals. The second day of Industry Events will be spent in an informal atmosphere. Short Date with my Short is a networking event, organized to bring professionals together - to introduce Latvian filmmakers with European experts, to gather film directors with film producers and sales agents.

13/02

09:30 – 10:00  Registration

10:15 – 10:30 Official introduction

10:30 – 11:30 STORY Mauro Carraro (Italy); Gabrielė Cegialytė (Lithuania) 

11:40 – 12:45 INNOVATION Cory McLeod (USA/Latvia) 

12:45 – 13:30 EDITING Kaspar Kallas (Estonia)

15:00 – 16:50 DISTRIBUTION Rimantė Daugėlaitė (Lithuania); Wouter Jansen (The Netherlands)

17:00 – 18:00 PRODUCTION Ben Vandendaele (Belgium); Thom Palmen (Sweden/Latvia)

18:10 – 19:30 GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Moderator: Laurence Boyce (UK/Estonia)

Participants: Gabrielė Cegialytė, Mauro Carraro, Cory McLeod, Kaspar Kallas, Rimantė Daugėlaitė, Wouter Jansen, Ben Vandendaele, Thom Palmen, Daiga Livčāne, Jānis Putniņš.

Parallel to the activities of the Industry Day on the 13th of February, you will have the chance to see Pērkons Rockumentary VR, dir. Cory McLeod, documentary, USA, 2018, 11 min

14/02

18:00 – 19:30 Short Date with my Short

Experts: Mauro Carraro, Cory McLeod, Kaspar Kallas, Rimantė Daugėlaitė, Wouter Jansen, Ben Vandendaele, Thom Palmen