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Roundtable:

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Documentary Fiction vs.

 

 

Fictional Documentary 

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2nd Russian Film Festival in London
4 pm, 25 Sept 2008, Apollo West End

 

The roundtable is organised by Academia Rossica as part of the 2nd Russian Film Festival in London and will address the merging tendencies of fictional and documentary aspects in contemporary documentary filmmaking.

 

Documentary and fiction in film have always co-existed in a fascinating symbiosis often feeding off and inspiring one another. The tradition of documenting ‘real life' via the means of a moving image has played an important if not an essential role in Soviet and Russian cultural, social and political history. Documentary cinema has been used for both state propaganda and aesthetic self-expression; and often the two opposing purposes were paradoxically combined in one work. Throughout Russian cinematic history and still today, documentary and fiction, politic and poetics, continue to complement each other, provoking and inspiring filmmakers and scholars.

Leading Russian and British filmmakers and experts will present their point of view on the subject based on their own experience and work.

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Speakers include:

Ron Peck

Independent Filmmaker
Ron Peck started making films after studying at the London Film School. He made the first feature film about London’s gayworld, NIGHTHAWKS, largely with non-professional actors, in 1978.

Patrick Hazard

Director of London International Documentary Film Festival
Patrick Hazard is the Director of PocketVisions and of LIDF. He trained as an anthropologist at University College London and has carried out research in Turin and Barcelona.

Vladimir Kozlov

Director, 'Rock Monologue'
Born in 1956, Minsk. Vladimir studied history at the Belarus State University. He then completed a course for assistant and second unit directors at VGIK (Moscow).

Vitalii Mansky

Director, 'Virginity'
He was born in Lvov in 1963 and graduated from the filmmaking school VGIK in 1990. His career in documentary films took off in 1999, when he became the writer and presenter of the Russian television show 'Real Cinema'.

Teresa Cherfas

Freelance producer
Teresa Cherfas is a freelance television and radio producer who specialises in historical and contemporary documentaries about Russia and the former Soviet Union.

George Carey

Documentary maker
George Carey has been making documentaries for over twenty years. He started as a news journalist in the BBC, where he created Newsnight before moving on to become Editor of Panorama.

Jeremy Hicks

Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London
He is the author of 'Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film', and various articles on Russian and Soviet film, literature and journalism.

Sean Martin

Writer and filmmaker
He is the director of the forthcoming feature film, Folie à Deux, and Lanterna Magicka, a documentary about the Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas and early cinema.

Patrick Forbes

Director of TV series about Russia, 'Oligarchs'
Patrick is one of Britain's leading documentary film makers, with a particular commitment to quality of image and depth of analysis - his series on the National Trust won both critical acclaim and the Bafta for best factual series, and gave BBC4 its highest ever audience.

Ben Lewis

Independent documentary filmmaker
Among his credits are “The King of Communism: the pomp and pageantry Nicolae Ceausescu”, which won a Grierson Award in 2002, and “Hammer and Tickle: the Communist Joke Book”, which was premiered at the New York Tribeca Film Festival 2006 and won best documentary at the Zurich Film Festival in the same year.