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PRE-PRODUCTION DAY MONDAY 12 THMONDAY 12, 14:00 HAU 2THE PITCHJudy Counihan and Eileen Quinn. Workshop. In co-operation with Skillset.Does anybody like pitching their film project to a buyer?Most filmmakers will tell you that it is a part of the job theyhate and fear the most. After nearly twenty years each asproducers in the Film and TV industries, Eileen Quinn andJudy Counihan have devised a workshop to help filmmakersovercome their terror and transform them into professionalsin the art of pitching.The session will take the Talents through the film valuechain, expose them to the thinking and fears all buyers haveand most valuably provide them with the tools to turn theirstories into pitches that will have buyers sitting up in theirchairs. This session is a must for any film maker who wants tobe taken seriously by film industry professionals.MONDAY 12, 14:00 HAU 3, BLACK STAGETHE ABOUT-QUESTIONDavid Wingate. Workshop. In co-operation with SOURCES 2.“What‘s your film about?“ Strange question. Let me tellyou why it‘s strange – offers Script Advisor David Wingateto script writers and documentary directors. It‘s a questionfilmmakers are asked by people outside the filmmakingprocess – film critics, journalists, film academics and so on.And it‘s a question many people believe filmmakers shouldask themselves inside and during the filmmaking process.Wingate proposes that this assumption contains a misunderstandingof how filmmaking takes place. His lecture isboth a philosophical and yet a practical guide – what canyou as a filmmaker do when you get asked this question andhow can you turn the question into something fruitful foryourself, and the others within the filmmaking process.“I WRITE TO UNDERSTAND MY OWN THOUGHTS.“Donal Foreman, Talent from IrelandIn the 2007 Berlinale Competition: Gregory Nava’s BORDERTOWNMONDAY 12, 15:30 HAU 3, BLACK STAGEEX ORIENTE PIXSimone Bitton, Dora Bouchoucha, Ferid Boughedir, Michel Khleifi and IritNeidhart. Moderated by Catherine Buresi and Bärbel Mauch. Discussion. Inco-operation with Euromed Audiovisual II Programme.This panel examines the production chain within the MEDAregion (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco,Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey) in order to geta clear view of the regional possibilities to finance, produceand market films. After discussing the role of local and internationalTV stations as well as state support and privatefunding, the panel will concentrate on local and globaldistribution of films and on perspectives for structuredintra-MEDA region co-operations.MONDAY 12, 17:00 HAU 1WHOSE SIDE IS IT ANYWAY?Gregory Nava, Raoul Peck and Jasmila Žbanić. Moderated by Peter Cowie.How does a film win the hearts of people? How do individualsdecide to love or hate a film? The answer lies in thepower of identification: a deeply private bond growing witha character, two lovers, a family or a set of equal-minded individuals.It’s their side to be taken, right or wrong.In recent years, audiences around the globe seem to haverediscovered the power of cinema as a platform for politicaldebate. Yet, what makes a film political? The panel invitesfilmmakers to discuss the relationship between their storiesand the power of cinema to change the world.46BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS #5