December 16th – 21st 2014.

The 3rd and the last session of 2014 edition of REFINERI is coming…
The focuses, methodology and all the processes are individually tailored to selected projects.
Third and final this year’s session of REFINERI platform for the support and development of hybrid AV projects will begin on Wednesday 17th December. In the next five days, until 21st December, participants whose project proposals for the development of hybrid films were selected at the beginning of 2014 and who have already participated in the first and second REFINERI session (in April and July2014) will now work on detailed plans for their films.

Participants – directors and producers – will, through this inspirational reunion, work on the constructive production planning plus they will undertake several “fieldtrips” to some of the potential locations of the shooting (or locations with potential). The session will start with making a short “guerilla” production plan of the indie shoot, and continue in making an audition, in diving into moods sketched in the form of a moodboard (compilation / collage of references to better understand the aesthetics, feel and the atmosphere of the project vision). One of the things on “to do list” is to do the lists of all the important things that must be done before the actual shooting.
The overall goal is a detailed preparation for the main part of production; creating a “project shooting bible” (including a scripted situations / scenes, moodboards, cast / protagonists, locations, sets, props, equipment, crew, production timetable of days, hours and minutes according to dates and locations, storyboard – if necessary etc).
More information on the session is considered as absolutely classified, top secret which in any case cannot be opened to the public.

REFINERI platform is organized by UKUS, held in Rijeka, Croatia with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the City of Rijeka, Foundation Kultura nova and in collaboration with the Art kino Croatia and in partnership with the Institute of Documentary Film from Prague.

ASSOCIATION UKUS (Rijeka, Croatia) and INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF, Prague, Czech Republic) are once again joint to organize a workshop session of original creative documentary film in Rijeka, for a total of 16 projects which were selected in Prague and Rijeka, a few months ago. Association UKUS – a platform for the development and support of hybrid AV projects REFINERI – enabled four hybrid REFINERI projects to participate in July’s session of EX ORIENTE FILM + REFINERI (projects come form Croatia, Slovenia, Russia). IDF, a renowned international educational program for the development of creative documentaries in Central and Eastern Europe Ex Oriente Film, have chosen 12 projects for the workshop (Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Russia, Hungary, Latvia, Germany, Poland, Spain, Iceland).

In addition to professional guidance for directors and producers of projects by 13 tutors – Europe’s leading experts in their fields – Ex Oriente Film + REFINERI also brings a series of extraordinary lectures, screenings and master classes which will be opened to professionals but also to the rest of the audience (look the PROGRAM). Also, the projects that are not part of the workshop will have the opportunity to consul the tutors in several terms.

The main tutors of Ex Oriente Film are Marijke Rawie, a Dutch consultant (ExpertDocs), than the Danish producer and Head of the Study of the European Documentary Network Mikael Opstrup and Czech director and producer Flip Remunda (Hypermarket Film). For the information about all the other tutors, see the TUTORS.

July’s session of Ex Oriente Film + REFINERI is the second of total three REFINERI platform’s sessions in 2014. The first REFINERI session was held in April when the four projects were selected for the July’s session and in July the platform REFINERI joins the Ex Oriente Film workshop. The third and last this year’s REFINERI sessions will be held in November.

The program is carried out with the support of HAVC, City of Rijeka, Kultura NOva Foundation, the MEDIA Programme of the EU, and in collaboration with the Art-kino Croatia and in partnership with the Institute of Documentary Film in Prague.

REFINERI platform supports the development of original hybrid AV projects that cross the boundaries of traditional film practices and merge the cinematography and art with unconventional practices and amateurism. Platform includes a yearlong consulting, mentoring, inspiring and presentation, plus finalization and distribution plan for the projects.
The overall aim is an encouraging of selected projects, provoking dialogue between cinematic forms and genres, explore and create spaces for an unauthorized film forms, as well as an inspiration and an overflow of experiences and ideas when chilling out with some of the prominent authors of modern AV works that cross the boundaries of documentary and feature shapes.
Platform REFINERI is held in Rijeka, Croatia with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the City of Rijeka, Foundation Kultura Nova and the MEDIA Programme of the EU; in collaboration with the Art cinema “Croatia” and in partnership with the Institute of Documentary Film in Prague.
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