Events

Dok.connect in Olomouc

At the end of June 2024 we had an opportunity to participate in the event dedicated to documentary film creators – Dok.connect in Czech Olomouc. In this picturesque town inhabited by around 100,000 people, we spent a few days and saw many great projects, attended interesting lectures and talked with producers and directors about future possibilities for cooperation.

Dok.connect is one of the few events organised as a part of a bigger programme – dok.incubator, which runs for the whole year, supporting film creators and their projects in the postproduction stage. The main aim is the development of full-length documentaries through a series of workshops and meetings, which take place in Czech, Slovakia and Hungary. The program was established in 2012, and over 170 films have participated since then. Many were shown later at international festivals like Sundance, CPH:DOX, Visions du Reel. They were also nominated for Emmy awards or European Film Awards.

During the programme, chosen participants prepare artistic concepts of their films, implement changes in edit cooperating with their tutors and prepare festival strategy. It’s also an opportunity to network with people from the film industry specialized in fields such as festivals, distribution, or sales. All of these actions should prepare the film in the best possible way before the official premiere in 2025.
Participation in the programme is a great chance to promote new films among the representatives of the film industry. Participants at the end of dok.connect take part in the pitchings addressed to festivals and distribution agents. Thanks to this, authors have a chance to get their films to the most prestigious film festivals.

As Multilab – Krakow Technology Park we took part in the coproduction market during which we had many individual meetings. We were talking with producers and directors about possible cooperation with our studio. We had also the possibility to talk about Krakow Technology Park and to share our offer during official presentations for the representatives of the film industry. We keep our fingers crossed for the all projects that we had a chance to see and we hope that in the nearest time, we will be able to see them on the big screen, and that we will show up on the next edition of dok.connect in 2025.

More about dok.connect and their other projects you will find here.

Photos: Petra Zavodna

Krakow Technology Park Partnering with the 64th Krakow Film Festival

At the turn of May and June (May 26 – June 2, 2024), one of Poland’s most significant festivals took place – the 64th Krakow Film Festival. The KFF showcases the best documentary and animated films from around the world. The festival was held in Krakow’s art house cinemas and the Academy of Fine Arts, as well as online across Poland.

This year, the Krakow Technology Park became a partner of the event. Our primary focus was on the KFF Industry section, aimed at professionals in the film industry. As part of the KFF Industry, film project pitchings took place at various stages of production (Docs to Start, Docs to Go, Animated in Poland), along with numerous meetings with documentary and animated film creators from around the world. As KPT Multilab (KPT’s post-production studio), we co-organized and actively participated in the section dedicated to documentary films – Doc Lab Poland and CEDOC. From the productions presented during the pitchings, representatives from KPT Multilab selected the most interesting documentary at an early stage of production and awarded it a prize of 10,000 PLN to be used for masters in our studio. The award went to the project “En Garde” from the MX35 studio, directed by Mateusz Wajda and produced by Paweł Zemilski. It tells the story of a Venezuelan family who has been running a fencing school in Łódź for 20 years and is preparing for the World Championships in this field. The film’s premiere is planned for the second half of 2025.

Representatives from KPT also participated in various networking meetings that took place throughout the festival’s duration. Additionally, on Friday, May 31, the CEDOC fair was held at KPT’s headquarters. These are the only co-production meetings in Poland for documentary producers from around the world seeking Polish and foreign partners for their productions. A very important goal of the fair is to establish relationships and build creative cooperation between European producers. A representative from Multilab also actively participated in the meetings aimed at acquiring new partners. Besides the meetings, invited creators and producers had the opportunity to see the facilities of the Krakow Technology Park, including Multilab with its cinema room and green screen studio.

A summary of the 64th KFF can be seen here.

Photos: Tomasz Korczyński