Serial Killer: Industry

Industry section of the festival Serial Killer is targeting not just on fans of series and people interested in background and their production but rather professionals within the field, academics and researchers from related fields and students of audiovisual fields of study. Aim is not to just promote the production coming from the region of CEE, but also to support and cultivate it enabling creators from this area to meet, focus on their work, talk about the region they are living in and obstacles they have to overcome, get some new inspiration or know-how from fellow colleagues, network and come up with new ideas based and focused on the region. But we do not want to be mere meeting point, that is why we try to prepare enriching thought-provoking programme, too. Last year, we had three main themes reflecting the situation within the region (but still being part of higher unit - Europe) and organised in total 14 lectures, discussions, panels, case studies and masterclasses within them. This year we have six thematic areas planned within the first version of the Industry conception that again arose from research and interested but uncovered topics within the region. Industry wants to become an agenda setter and open and moderate the debate. Those six areas mentioned are rather broad, that is why we put more specific information and ideas in brackets): Fiction development (dealing e.g. with western concept of showrunners and whether this concept is even present within the region of CEE or debate about whether CEE can become new Scandinavia in terms of quality TV production); Forms and Genres (e.g. political satire or political drama and its status within the region, potential of animated production for adult viewer); Creative Process- Mistakes and Courage (Working conditions, sources of inspiration, what do you miss?, dealing with the concept of striving artist; Mentoring, shadowing and switching from school into practice); New Storytelling (New forms ask for new form of telling the story - interactive forms, Diversity on/off screen focusing on how preferring certain narratives can affect society); New Media, games and new technologies (Public media and its work with new media or data analysis, TV of the Future); Brno - Oslo (focused on both-sided inspiration, know-how and networking). We will try (along with out partners) to find suitable speakers/panellists/lecturers who would enable us to build interesting programme around by being willing to share their experience, knowledge, case studies and know how. We hope we will be able to find representatives for each section planned. http://serialkiller.tv

V4 Borders and Bridges Festival – MAP Poetry

The MAP POETRY or URBAN POETRY event is designed to bring literature to the streets, bringing art to wide public, including non-readers, otherwise not reached by book culture. It comprises of public readings of poetry and literature of contemporary V4 writers on different, site-specific spots and public spaces around the city, all somehow connected to the nations and countries of the invited guest authors, with a special focus on places with a common V4 memory. The individual venues and author readings will be reached by means of interactive maps given to the participants together with the festival brochure. Map Poetry is a kind of genuine literary boardgame with poets, writers, poems to be traced and found, except, that the field here is the city itself. The event will be always accompanied by guest musicians and performers, who will give acoustic street music concerts following each public reading, and interaction with the audience. https://www.facebook.com/events/382979419262566/

Workshop

The Workshop consists of two parts. The first part is a presentation on natural values of the Małe Pieniny (including protected elements of living nature, methods of plant and animal protection, care for specific ecosystems in which protected species live or there is a threat from anthropogenic activity - improper management by agricultural entities, illegal storage of waste, spread of invasive species, climate change as a global phenomenon, pollution of watercourses and water springs). The second part of workshop is a practical part using the experimental station. The experiment will be based on demonstration of water cycle in various conditions of land development. The youths will be able to create an experimental station on their own, under the supervision of an instructor. The first task will be arrangement of the soil layers in containers. The second task will be to reflect various forms of management of the top layer - such as vegetation, roads, wells, residential buildings, parking lots and arable lands. For this purpose, green plants, pebbles and artificial materials will be used. Next, two experiments will be carried out showing how a human being influences the water circulation in his environment by shaping the land development. In the first experiment, pupils will simulate atmospheric precipitation by applying water. The second experience will be to apply the contamination in the form of a food color solution directly to the well. The pupils' task will be to observe the effects of experiments, measure the volume of drained leachate and a discussion combined with drawing conclusions from the experiments. http://www.nppc.sk/index.php/sk/?option=com_content&view=article&id=35