Peer to Peer Talks
DOCA regularly hosts Peer to Peer talks for film professionals and film enthusiasts with to share professional knowledge. These meetings provide a space for sharing knowledge and experience, building connections, and navigating professional challenges.
Developing an Auteur Voice Through Editing
Speaker: Kasha Boniecka
April 28, 19:00, Frontline Georgia
The masterclass traced a path from first steps, through encounters and collaborative projects, to working with different film forms: from archival material, through personal cinema driven by voice-over, to observational documentary.
It is a personal reflection on building one’s own path, as well as on collaborating with creators from different countries and cultures - and on finding a shared language.
Filming Those We Love
Speaker: Johanna Bernhardson
April 21, 19:00, At the Design Institute
Swedish director Johanna Bernhardson spoke about creating personal documentaries and the complexities of filming those we love. Through a case study of her film, The Andersson Brothers, she shared her experience working with personal archives and navigating family dynamics during production.
Documentary Film Form and Curatorial Practices
Speaker: Laura van Halsema
29 September, 19:00, Kutaisi
On September 29 at the Documentary Industry Day at the Kutaisi Short Film Festival, DOCA hosted a talk with Laura van Halsema.
Laura spoke about her long-standing observations in film programming. The discussion touched upon the ethical principles in filmmaking and programming, the evolution of film form and subjects over time, current trends, and the unique challenges that come with the film programming experience.
Curatorial Research in World Film Archives: Discovering Georgian Cinema
Speaker: Susan Ostoby
May 29, 18:00Frontline Club, 62 Lado Asatiani St.
Susan Ostoby is currently working on a retrospective of contemporary Georgian cinema at BAMPFA. At a DOCA “Peer To Peer” event, she will discuss both this project and the research she conducted in 2014–2015 for the retrospective “Discovering Georgian Cinema,” which was jointly presented by BAMPFA and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Early Georgian Soviet Cinema and Models of Femininity
Speaker: Salome Tsopurashvili
April 17, 18:00Goethe-Institut, 16 Zandukeli St.
This summer, Bloomsbury will publish a book by Georgian author Salome Tsopurashvili titled From Victimhood to Empowerment. The book analyzes the representation of women in Georgian Soviet films of the 1920s.
At the event, the author will speak about the content of the book, the writing process, and her sources of inspiration.
In Search of a New Language
Speakers: Tatia Dvali – anthropologist/gender researcher, and Rezi Gvaramadze – architect, artist, member of the Materialhunters collective
March 27, 18:00Frontline Club, 62 Lado Asatiani St.
What does it mean to think in a “new language” in everyday life saturated with images and information? Which images matter today, and how should we reflect on meaning, words, and visual representations in the current reality?
The event will feature two speakers who will establish a theoretical framework for the discussion. The second part will be a moderated discussion, offering everyone the opportunity to share their thoughts and engage in collective reflection.
Censorship in Cinema
A talk by Gogi Gvakharia
Moderated by Salome Asatiani
24 ივნისი, 2024
DOCA invited renowned film critic and journalist Gogi Gvakharia to talk about his collection of essays, Censorship in Cinema.
Georgia's government plans to legalise censorship. A new bill, which intends "to protect family values", in fact is a way to control over art and creative expression.
In 2021 Indigo Publication and Ilia State University published a collection of essays Censorship in Cinema, written by art critic, Radio Free Europe / Radio Freedom journalist Gogi Gvakharia. The book bring together cases censorship from the past. However, the book gains value on the backdrop of the discussed bill on protection of family values.
Creative Editing
A talk by Jacopo Quadri
Moderated by Rati Oneli
April 26, 2024
Jacopo Quadri (Milan, 1964) is an award-winning Italian editor. He is a long-time collaborator of Gianfranco Rossi having edited his Below Sea Level, Fuocoammare (Berlinale's Golden Bear) and Sacro GRA (Venice Film Festival Prize Winner). Jacopo has also collaborated with Bernando Bertolucci and was an editor of The Dreamers and Io e Te.