Hyviä uutisia doktsekeistä
Jos Suomessa dokumenteilla on mennyt ennen tulossa olevaa takatalvea hyvin, niin huonosti ei mene Tsekeissäkään. Päinvastoin.
On this blog you have often met the sentence ”East Beats West” referring to this blogger´s enthusiasm for original documentaries from Eastern Europe. The central point for spreading knowledge about the situation, and for stimulating the sector through festivals, workshops, training sessions and brilliant website is the IDF (Institute of Documentary Film) in Prague. IDF has released this press release about ”Czech Documentary Film in 2010. It includes an overview of viewer numbers for Czech Television, cinema attendance, festival awards, funding suppport from the State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography, and Czech TV. But also some well argumented worries for the future. I think documentarians in many other countries will nod affirmingly when you read the pro’s and con’s:
Czech documentary film in 2010:
16 Czech documentaries released in cinemas
Highest cinema attendance for documentary film: Katka – 117,000 filmgoers
Documentary funding from the State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography: CZK 33 million granted to 39 projects
Czech Television allocated CZK 157 million in external and internal costs to 786 projects
Highest viewer numbers for documentary programme on Czech Television's channel 1, ČT1: 13. komnata Kateřiny Kornové - 1,250,000 viewers
Highest viewer numbers for documentary programme on Czech Television's channel 2, ČT2: Marital Etudes 20 Years Later - Mirka and Antonín - 504,000 viewers
Prague, February 9, 2011 – Czech documentary film did fairly well in 2010. As in the previous year, sixteen documentaries were released in cinemas, yet according to the Association of Film Distributors, documentary films attracted over 160,000 filmgoers, i.e., nearly three times as many compared to 2009.
