01.06.2016, 11.00 – 13.00
MOS 2 (access with passes: INDUSTRY, MEDIA, MARKET)

This is the seventh time Krakow Film Festival hosts a guest country and embraces its cinematography with the special screening and an industry event. The conference promoting Swedish documentary cinematography is a highlight of the „Focus on Sweden” programme. Its idea is to present the most important matters related to Swedish documentary and short film industry, like the way of financing, promoting and producing. Among our guest, we will have representatives of film industry: producers, filmmakers, representatives of film festivals, TV stations, distributors, institution and organisation.

Panelists: Stig Björkman (director), Sara Broos (director, producer), Maja Lindquist (Doc Lounge/Nordisk Panorama), Antonio Russo Merenda (Swedish Film Institute), Sara Rüster (Swedish Film Institue), Lars Säfström (SVT) , Jerzy Śladkowski (director)
Moderated by: Laurence Boyce

STIG BJÖRKMAN Filmmaker and film critic. Studies in architecture in Stockholm, architect in 1964. Since 1960 editor of Swedish film magazine Chaplin, editor in chief in Chaplin between 1964 and 1972. Has collaborated with Swedish daily papers like Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter. Aftonbladet and with foreign film magazines like Cahier du Cinéma and Sight&Sound. Film consultant at Danish Film Institute (1975 1977) teacher in film directing at the Dramatic Institue in Stockholm 1974 75, later guest teacher in DI in different periods. Has translated and subtilted about 300 films from English, Italian, Danish, french and German. Author of short fillms and documentaries, feature films, has published a serise of book on film.

SARA BROOS Swedish director and producer based in Sunne Sweden and Berlin. She makes author driven personal films and runs the production company Broos Film. She has directed and produced short films, video installations and documentaries. She has received several awards as a filmmaker and her first feature length documentary, For You Naked (2012) received The Dragon Award at Gothenburg Film Festival and Best Nordic Documentary at Nordic Docs in Norway. Her documentary Reflections (2016) is screened in competition at Krakow Film Festival. www.broosfilm.com

MAJA LINDQUIST She is the co director of the Nordic documentary screening network Doc Lounge, which distributes new produced international documentaries and produce event based screenings in 19 Nordic cities. Maja is also the program manager for the Nordic Short and Doc film festival, Nordisk Panorama, held in Malmö in September each year. Maja has previously worked for the Swedish cinema organisation Folkets Bio and the European network for independent culture centres Trans Europe Halles.

ANTONIO RUSSO MERENDA is a film producer who studied Law, Film and Literature at the University of Rome. He is a co founder of Hysteria Film, which he has managed for 15 years. In 2012 he also founded Ginestra Film in Stockholm, working together with companies in Scandinavia, Germany, France and Poland. His numerous award winning films include Don Juan, Vodka Factory, Finnish Blood Swedish Heart and Colombianos. Since January 2015 Antonio Russo Merenda is one of the 2 Documentary Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute.

SARA RÜSTER is responsible for the festival distribution of Swedish documentaries and has been at the International department of the Swedish Film Institute since 2003. She has served at various international festival juries and panels.

LARS SÄFRSTRÖM has worked as a filmmaker, film editor and producer for both fiction and documentary. He has also worked as a film critic, with cinema distribution and is co founder of no- commercial film distribution in Sweden. Today he is commissioning editor at the documentary department at SVT in Stockholm.

JERZY ŚLADKOWSKI is a graduate of the University of Toruń (Classical Studies) and the University of Warsaw (Photography, Radio and TV). He was a reporter, TV producer and director until his departure to Sweden in 1982, since when he has been working as a documentary film director. He cooperates with Scandinavian and Polish (TVP) national broadcasters, the Polish Film Institute as well as ZDF and ARTE channels. His filmography includes 40 documentaries. Śladkowski is a laureate of numerous awards, including the IDA Award for Swedish Tango (1999), the Felix Award for Vendetta (1996) and the Golden Dove for The Vodka Factory.