aCCOMPANYING PROGRAMME

Hubert Best: Rights Clearance in Archival Material, seminar

This year the Documentary Film Festival (FDF) will tackle the theory of legal issues governing the use of archival materials, substantiated by practical examples from films featured at the Festival. The entire scope of archival sources (music, films, newspapers, TV shows, and advertisements) for all visual media (cinema, TV, mobile telephony and the Internet) will be covered.

On the invitation of MEDIA Desk Slovenia, a lecture will be given by Hubert Best, a recognised expert in international copyright law specialising in new media, particularly the exploitation of audiovisual and music contents in online and mobile environments. He is an authority on conflict of law and multi-jurisdiction issues and a partner of Best & Soames, a London-based law firm dealing with the full range of legal problems encountered in the swiftly changing digital media landscape, and practises as a solicitor in London and as an EU advocate through the Stockholm firm ENN.

Hubert Best has for several years been advising on legal issues in the cross-border use of copyright archive footage, including the acquisition, preservation and exploitation of old and new contents through all media. He has represented international organisations before the Directorate of the European Commission for Information Society and Media, and the Directorate of the European Commission for Competition. He advises clients based in many parts of the world, including the USA, EU, China and Australia.

He is a member of the FOCAL International Executive Council, a member of the BLACA Executive Council, Chairman of the Philharmonia Orchestra Finance Committee, and a trustee of the London Chamber Orchestra.

Our guest will also be Héléna Fantl, a representative of the Archidoc training programme, which is supported by MEDIA.

 
28 March, Lili Novy Club
From 10.00 h to 18.00 h

On Film Portrayals of the Working Class Exampled by the Documentaries Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind by John Gianvito and An Injury to One by Travis Wilkerson

A round table discussion addressing the Death of a Worker thematic section.

A new, double issue of the Kino! newspaper has recently been published, which on this occasion shall focus on the topic of documentary film, presenting new (fresh, different, biased, intimate) views of verified themes and unveiling first views of overlooked, obscure, breaking or recurring themes. The presentation of the latest issue will be accompanied by a discussion on the sense of present-day debates on the renascence of documentary film and on the creative engagement of the new documentary. We shall attempt to answer the ancient question why documentary film directors persist in their attempts at changing the world or why people change the world by persisting in the creation of documentaries.

Panel: Jurij Meden, Andrej Šprah, Nil Baskar, Maja Krajnc.

1 April at 16.00 h, Kosovel Hall