{"id":38275,"date":"2021-07-01T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=38275"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:13:05","slug":"producer-on-the-move-katarina-tomkova","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/producer-on-the-move-katarina-tomkova\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer on the Move: Katar\u00edna Tomkov\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year, twenty promising film producers from different European countries have been brought together by the Producers on the Move<\/a> initiative once again. They completed the challenging programme from 17 to 21 May online. In the prestigious selection, Slovakia was represented by Katar\u00edna Tomkov\u00e1, who produced successful films such as Hotel Sunrise<\/a><\/em> (Hotel \u00dasvit<\/em>, dir. M\u00e1ria Rumanov\u00e1, 2016) or Servants<\/a> <\/em>(Slu\u017eobn\u00edci<\/em>, dir. Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd, 2020).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have been following the Producers on the Move programme for several years now, and I appreciate how the organisers connect producers with each other or with the international audiovisual environment while promoting the particular country and projects on which the selected producers work,\u201d <\/em>Katar\u00edna Tomkov\u00e1 tells Film.sk. \u201cI was looking forward to being able to meet the incoming generation of successful professionals and share with them experiences and ideas or discuss the situation in our respective countries,\u201d <\/em>Tomkov\u00e1 adds. After working in film journalism, production and international film promotion since 2004, Katar\u00edna Tomkov\u00e1 launched her own production company kaleidoscope in 2015. She has since (co-)produced a number of acclaimed documentaries as well as Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd\u2019s drama Servants<\/em>, which premiered in Encounters at the 2020 Berlinale. Katar\u00edna is currently in post-production on Peter Kerekes\u2019 feature 107 Mothers<\/a><\/em> (Cenzorka<\/em>) and Juraj Lehotsk\u00fd\u2019s third feature Applause<\/a> <\/em>(Potlesk<\/em>).

\u201cBoth <\/em>Applause and <\/em>107 Mothers are in post-production, which is a challenge itself in the pandemic time. In addition, the films faced their own challenges, which I think both teams managed to overcome successfully,\u201d <\/em>Tomkov\u00e1 elaborates when asked what challenges she had encountered during production of said works. \u201cWith <\/em>107 Mothers, we were dealing with the transformation of the project into a hybrid and the concept that relied on shooting in prison and non-actresses \u2013 which also influenced how director Peter Kerekes and DoP Martin Kollar worked,\u201d <\/em>she describes the transformation of 107 Mothers<\/em> from a documentary into a documentary-fiction narrative. The filmmakers visited dozens of prisons in Ukraine during the run-up to the shooting. While preparing the documentary, prisoners and staff did not appear inclined to make conversation. For the fiction film, however, they were keen to contribute absurd stories from prison.

Juraj Lehotsk\u00fd gradually moved from documentary to fiction as well. Director of the successful documentary Blind Loves <\/em>(Slep\u00e9 l\u00e1sky<\/em>, 2008, C.I.C.A.E. Award \u2013 Cannes) made his fiction film debut with Miracle<\/em> (Z\u00e1zrak<\/em>, 2013), followed by Nina<\/a><\/em> (2017), on which Katar\u00edna Tomkov\u00e1 already collaborated. Applause<\/em> is Lehotsk\u00fd\u2019s third fiction film. \u201cThe challenge of <\/em>Applause definitely involved a complicated shoot with an international cast, taking place at the time of the pandemic restrictions which forced both director Juraj Lehotsk\u00fd and executive producer Michaela Jelenek to take further action,\u201d <\/em>Tomkov\u00e1 describes the filming, in which the Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia plays the lead role. The cast involves German actor Sabin Tambrea, Slovak actress Judit B\u00e1rdos and non-actor Vojt\u011bch Zdra\u017eil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Producers on the Move initiative was established in 2000, and almost 450 producers from all over Europe have since participated in the programme which aims to publicise the producers, expand their professional network and present their projects. Slovakia was represented by, for example, Marko \u0160kop, Silvia Pan\u00e1kov\u00e1, Michal Koll\u00e1r, Katar\u00edna Krn\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1, Marek Urban and Peter Bada\u010d. The programme, sponsored by the international organisation European Film Promotion, is connected with the Cannes festival as well as the film market March\u00e9 du Film. As a matter of fact, it was held online for the second year. \u201cIt worked very well last year, and it was important for us to give the participants a clear sense of planning that would not be dependent on how the pandemic situation develops,\u201d <\/em>the shift to an online initiative is addressed bySonja Heinen, European Film Promotion Managing Director. \u201cAnd, who knows, if all goes well and many of the producers on the Move are able to make the journey, we might even have a chance of meeting in person at the festival in Cannes in July,\u201d <\/em>she concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, twenty promising film producers from different European countries have been brought together by the Producers on the Move initiative once again. They completed the challenging programme from 17 to 21 May online. In the prestigious selection, Slovakia was represented by Katar\u00edna Tomkov\u00e1, who produced successful films such as Hotel Sunrise (Hotel \u00dasvit, dir. M\u00e1ria Rumanov\u00e1, 2016) or Servants (Slu\u017eobn\u00edci, dir. Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"kategorie_noviniek":[1965,2042,2036,2037,2145,2144],"festival":[2075],"rok":[2174],"class_list":["post-38275","novinka","type-novinka","status-publish","hentry","kategorie_noviniek-aic","kategorie_noviniek-cannes","kategorie_noviniek-english","kategorie_noviniek-news","kategorie_noviniek-prezentacia-en","kategorie_noviniek-slovenska-kinematografia-na-festivaloch-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novinka\/38275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novinka"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/novinka"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_noviniek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_noviniek?post=38275"},{"taxonomy":"festival","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival?post=38275"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=38275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}