When East Meets West (Wemw), is the co-production forum of January’s Trieste Film Festival in Italy.
Fresh projects from Czeck director Barbora Chalupová, Greece’s Asimina Proedrou and Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza are among the 18 features to be showcased at When East Meets West (Wemw), the Italian co-production forum of the Trieste Film Festival, taking place from January 21-24.
First-time feature directors Anna Llargués Lala Aliyeva, and Leo Černic will also be presenting projects at what will be the 14th edition of Wemw, to some 500 industry professionals.
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“This year, we received an exceptional number of submissions,...
Fresh projects from Czeck director Barbora Chalupová, Greece’s Asimina Proedrou and Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza are among the 18 features to be showcased at When East Meets West (Wemw), the Italian co-production forum of the Trieste Film Festival, taking place from January 21-24.
First-time feature directors Anna Llargués Lala Aliyeva, and Leo Černic will also be presenting projects at what will be the 14th edition of Wemw, to some 500 industry professionals.
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“This year, we received an exceptional number of submissions,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
It may be tough to watch, but this Czech documentary about grooming and social-media sex predators is a worthwhile, well-made investigation into an urgent issue
This is a disturbing, deeply upsetting Czech documentary about the threat of online child abuse. It is not something I would normally choose to watch and it left me feeling sick to the stomach. But it is an important film on an urgent issue and perhaps should be required viewing for parents.
The set-up is like a reality TV or tabloid gotcha. Film-makers Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák cast three young-looking actors to play 12-year-old girls. For 10 days in bedrooms built in a studio, the “girls” live chat and message men on sites such as Facebook and Skype, where they are groomed, coerced and blackmailed. The women work to a code of conduct: they’re not allowed to make approaches, only to respond to messages...
This is a disturbing, deeply upsetting Czech documentary about the threat of online child abuse. It is not something I would normally choose to watch and it left me feeling sick to the stomach. But it is an important film on an urgent issue and perhaps should be required viewing for parents.
The set-up is like a reality TV or tabloid gotcha. Film-makers Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák cast three young-looking actors to play 12-year-old girls. For 10 days in bedrooms built in a studio, the “girls” live chat and message men on sites such as Facebook and Skype, where they are groomed, coerced and blackmailed. The women work to a code of conduct: they’re not allowed to make approaches, only to respond to messages...
- 1/31/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Mobile phones and internet technology are so ubiquitous these days that it's easy not to give them a second thought, even when they're in the hands of a child - but this documentary from Czech directors Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák comes as a sharp reminder that not all the worlds they open windows to are benign.
Even the bald facts presented via intertitles at the start of the film, which note that 41 per cent of children say they have received pornographic images online from someone, every other child chats with strangers and one in five would not refuse a meet-up, may come as a shock to some. These may be specifically Czech figures, but it's fair to assume that the picture is broadly similar in many developed countries and, in the UK, for example, in 2019, the Home Office estimated there were 80,000 people who presented a...
Even the bald facts presented via intertitles at the start of the film, which note that 41 per cent of children say they have received pornographic images online from someone, every other child chats with strangers and one in five would not refuse a meet-up, may come as a shock to some. These may be specifically Czech figures, but it's fair to assume that the picture is broadly similar in many developed countries and, in the UK, for example, in 2019, the Home Office estimated there were 80,000 people who presented a...
- 6/30/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
We take a closer look at the five upcoming Czech documentary projects that were presented during the Czech Docs… Coming Soon industry event within the East Doc Platform programme. Five upcoming Czech documentary projects were presented during the Czech Docs… Coming Soon industry event within the East Doc Platform programme. The event was organised in cooperation with the Czech Audiovisual Producers’ Association for an audience of film-festival representatives, sales agents and distributors. Here, we take a closer look at the aforementioned projects. [img 129835] Pavla Klimešová and Martina Štrunc during the pitch for The Law of Love The Law of Love - Barbora ChalupováThe producers from outfit Silk Films, Pavla Klimešová and Martina Štrunc, introduced the first solo feature-length directorial outing by emerging filmmaker Barbora Chalupová, The Law of Love. Chalupová was a co-director of the domestic 2020 box-office hit Caught in the Net (see the news). The producers described...
Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák's film about online predators dominated the domestic box office last year, becoming the first documentary to do so. The year 2020 will go down in history as an annus horribilis for many industries, including the movie theatres. Owing to measures brought in to battle the spread of the coronavirus, theatres shut down and distribution plans were altered several times, with premieres postponed until the following year. While the local box office in the Czech Republic cratered by 65% compared to the previous year (see the news), the lack of US imports actually benefited domestic productions. Theatres in the Czech Republic were closed down from 13 March-10 May and again from 12 October until the end of 2020. A domestic documentary about online predators directed by Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák, Caught in the Net, rocketed to the top of the domestic box office (see the...
The Czech film set an admissions record for a documentary in its native territory.
Austria-based sales agent Autlook Filmsales has recorded a string of key deals on Czech box office hit Caught In The Net.
The feature documentary has sold to Japan (Hark), South Korea (Boan), Norway (Tour De Force), the Netherlands (Cinema Delicatessen), Hungary (All-Dox Kft), Lithuania (Inconvenient Films), Poland (Media4Fun), Austria (Filmladen), Germany (Filmwelt) and Switzerland (Ascot Elite).
Negotiations are underway for further European territories including Italy, Denmark and Finland.
Caught In The Net is written and directed by Czech filmmakers Barbora Chalupová and Vit Klusák. The...
Austria-based sales agent Autlook Filmsales has recorded a string of key deals on Czech box office hit Caught In The Net.
The feature documentary has sold to Japan (Hark), South Korea (Boan), Norway (Tour De Force), the Netherlands (Cinema Delicatessen), Hungary (All-Dox Kft), Lithuania (Inconvenient Films), Poland (Media4Fun), Austria (Filmladen), Germany (Filmwelt) and Switzerland (Ascot Elite).
Negotiations are underway for further European territories including Italy, Denmark and Finland.
Caught In The Net is written and directed by Czech filmmakers Barbora Chalupová and Vit Klusák. The...
- 10/19/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Other winners at the Sarajevo-based TV documentary festival include Caught in the Net by Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová, Neighbours by Nerminka Erić, and Dino Mustafić's Transforming Tomorrow. The third edition of Ajb Doc, a Sarajevo-based festival dedicated to TV documentaries and organised by Al Jazeera Balkans, wrapped last night with Molly Stuart's Objector (USA) winning the Main Award. The film tells the story of a 19-year-old Jewish girl who refuses to do her military service, bravely opposing the Israeli ideology and system. A Special Mention went to Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová's Caught in the Net (Czech Republic/Slovakia), which world-premiered at Prague One World and reveals how online child abuse has become a widespread threat. In the Ajb Screening Selection, the Best Film Award went to Bosnian filmmaker Nerminka Erić's short Neighbours, about the inhabitants of eastern Bosnia and western Serbia who, three decades after their own war,...
The Al Jazeera Balkans Film Festival, dedicated to TV documentaries, will take place 11-15 September online and on location in Sarajevo. Ajb Doc Film Festival, organised by TV broadcaster Al Jazeera Balkans, in cooperation with Al Jazeera Media Network (Ajmn) and Al Jazeera Media Institute, is set to take place for the third time from 11-15 September, on locations in Sarajevo and online at www.online.ajbdoc.ba. The competition programme will present 12 documentaries adapted for TV broadcasting, while six regional films will be screened in the Ajb Screening programme and soon thereafter broadcast on Ajb television. Another three famous international titles in the Last Minute Cinema section complete the programme. The competition line-up includes Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová's Czech box office hit Caught in the Net (Czech Republic/Slovakia), Jonas Bruun's Nordisk Panorama audience award winner Humanity on Trial (Denmark), Eva Mulvad's Toronto entry Love Child...
The documentary about online predators has helped the Czech box office to reawaken after local cinemas started reopening with restrictions in place. The shuttering of cinemas following the Covid-19 outbreak disrupted the theatrical run of the Czech documentary Caught in the Net (co-produced by Slovakia) in domestic cinemas. Directed by Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák, the doc captures the unsavoury details of the online abuse of minors and became the talk of the town during its crowdfunding and pre-premiere promo campaigns. After the original premiere on 27 February, it took only seven days for Caught in the Net to become the most-visited Czech documentary at the local box office, dethroning the movie that had occupied the number-one spot for years, Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek. In late April, Chalupová and Klusák’s film had a dry run for its big-screen comeback, as Caught in...
Czechia was among the first countries in Europe to close schools because of the Covid-19 outbreak on the 10th of March, 2020. I learned the news of this in a patched-up boutique cinema in the basement of an otherwise run-down functionalist Prague office building from the 1930s called, somewhat disturbingly, “House of Joy,” as a voice on the mic was excusing the education minister’s absence at the press conference held after a screening of Caught in the Net. The new documentary by Czech directors Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák about child abuse on the internet was screened here in a remixed version intended for children below the age of 15, while its restricted access, much darker uncut counterpart had already been making rounds in cinemas, reaching a little short of 180,000 ticket sales within the first 7 days. This not only made it the most successful Czech documentary of all time, but gave...
- 4/22/2020
- MUBI
The digital version of Cph:dox will see six competition sections judged over the internet, Danish films made available, and parts of Cph:market, Cph:forum, Cph:conference and Cph:lab moved online. Cph:dox (originally set to unspool from 18-29 March) has become the latest festival to succumb to Covid-19, the virus that has now been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation. Rather than choosing to postpone or cancel the event, the festival is working at high speed on a digital alternative to both the festival and the industry activities it had been organising. The plan is to have the six competition programmes judged online by the appointed juries, and covered by Danish and international film critics, with Cineuropa intending to provide extensive coverage. The European titles in the main competition are Jerzy Sladkowski’s Bitter Love (Sweden/Finland/Poland), set on a Russian cruise ship; Vit Klusák and Barbora Chalupová’s Caught in the Net.
Feature doc about online sexual predators has broken records in the Czech Republic and prompted police investigations.
Aerofilms’ Caught In The Net, a crowdfunded feature documentary about online sexual predators has broken box-office records in its native Czech Republic, outperforming Hollywood blockbusters and also prompting police investigations.
It sold 115,000 tickets during its opening weekend, larger than the openings of Joker (103,167) or Fast & Furious 8 (113,460). It has easily surpassed the previous local record for a documentary in the Czech Republic which was held by 2008’s Citizen Havel, also released by Aerofilms, which sold around 60,000 tickets.
Caught In The Net has...
Aerofilms’ Caught In The Net, a crowdfunded feature documentary about online sexual predators has broken box-office records in its native Czech Republic, outperforming Hollywood blockbusters and also prompting police investigations.
It sold 115,000 tickets during its opening weekend, larger than the openings of Joker (103,167) or Fast & Furious 8 (113,460). It has easily surpassed the previous local record for a documentary in the Czech Republic which was held by 2008’s Citizen Havel, also released by Aerofilms, which sold around 60,000 tickets.
Caught In The Net has...
- 3/6/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
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