TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (MNA) The 8th Cinema Haqiqat International Film Festival will coincide 4th International Documentary Market.The market will be held December 1-4 in the Khial-e-No (Dream Anew) gallery of Saba Cultural Institute with specialist roundtables of Iranian documentary producers, directors, public meeting with veteran producers, and meetings for foreign guests.
The market will also bring together Iranian distributors and producers of documentary films to discuss the place of cinematic documentary films, participation in international festivals, and the ways directors may wield effect on the distribution market.
The public will find opportunity to watch Iranian documentary films including productions of DEFC (DocumentaryandExperimental Film Center) and also of works participating in Cinema Haqiqat secretariat in the Video Library section, to negotiate with foreign producers of documentary film.
The new arrangements make the market section of the Cinema Haqiqat festival very different than few past years. The pavilions have been replaced by roundtables specific for Iranian and foreign directors and producers, not very unlike Cannes Festival Doc Corners to open better space for discussion. The main decorator is Behnam Keivan, director of ShimaGraphic Institute. The changes to the 8th festival were proposed for the first time by DEFC members.
The market section is highly economically important in international festivals; however, in Iranian context, documentaries do not enjoy the market of their foreign counterparts, which renders market of no positive results, depriving Iranian documentary works of their deserved global limelight, since directors would not know much about distribution of their works. This is the real issue of high stakes the special workshop of the festival has focused upon.
By Mehr News Agency
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