Emerging Producers is a promotional and educational project of the Ji.hlava IDFF, which brings together talented European documentary film producers. Since 2017, following the success of the previous five editions, the programme was extended with an additional four-day meeting in Berlin and producers’ presentation during Berlinale. Slovak Emerging Producer 2020 is Tomáš Krupa.
In 2012, Tomáš Krupa directed and co-produced his feature debut Graduates: Freedom Is Not For Free. In 2013 he established production company HAILSTONE focused on producing independent creative documentaries. Its latest release The Good Death is the result of an international coproduction of Slovakia, France, Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. The documentary had a world premiere at Ji.hlava IDFF 2018 within Between the Seas section focused on best films from Central and Eastern Europe. It has been screened at film festivals all around the world, won several film awards and was theatrically released in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Upcoming film:
We Have to Survive
documentary – in development
Mankind is unlikely to stop the climate change, but it can adapt to new conditions. Dystopian documentary about people from areas in the world that have been hit by a big disaster where life is subject to extremely difficult conditions.
Contact: HAILSTONE, krupa.tom@gmail.com, www.hailstone.sk
Web: www.ep.ji-hlava.com
