IFFR Pro Dialogues 2023
The Pro Hub brings the whole film industry community at the festival together. The team presents a programme of IFFR Pro Dialogues, where specially invited guests from diverse backgrounds across the film community discuss pressing issues. Topics will cater towards the interests of emerging filmmakers, curators, programmers and experienced professionals. A special focus will be on distribution and exhibition strategies for films without a sales agent. See the programme below.
Short films, big issues
Filmmakers, programmers and distributors discuss how short films can tackle existential issues and why it is vitally important that they are made.
Film festival redux – what film festivals can do for filmmakers
How can filmmakers make the most of the disruption the last few years has caused the film festival sector?
Distribution potential – exploring your possibilities
Sales agents, strategists and filmmakers share alternative ways for non-mainstream films to find the recognition they deserve.
IFFR Pro Central Dialogue: Creative power, creative partners – balancing co-production dynamics
Highlights from the Reality Check symposium, followed by a conversation on the complexities and challenges of working with multiple partners on a co-production and its impact on the creative process.
Reframing desire, reclaiming the story – queer cinema’s playful & radical imagination
Filmmakers, festival programmers and sales agents discuss the themes and formal sensibilities in the work they make, curate and represent.
Green filmmaking and co-production – a contradiction or an opportunity?
The tools for change towards a future-proof sustainable industry are presented through an exchange of experiences and practices.
Minds on marketing – innovate your approach
The panel will share experiences, tips and tricks to maximise the appeal of your film internationally.
Preserving the preserved – film archives in perilous times
An examination of the challenges faced by archivists and artists/filmmakers engaged in the practice of preservation, access and appropriation.
Pro Hub
The Pro Hub enhances the experience of filmmakers in the selection at IFFR.
