INVITATION FOR FAMU TO THE EUROPEAN EDITING MASTERCLASS

Dear FAMU students,

The Editing Department warmly invites you to participate in the program of the European Editing Masterclass workshop, which will take place from January 15 to 19, 2024. The open part of the workshop for the entire faculty will be held at the FAMU projection room in the Lažanský Palace building.

This educational workshop is aimed at training future film editors - 24 students of bachelor and master study programs of film editing departments of four prestigious European Art Universities: 

Lodz Film School / Szkoła Filmowa w Łodzi, Polska 
(FAMU) Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění, Česko
(VŠMU) Vysoká škola múzických umení v Bratislave, Slovensko 
(RITCS) Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound, Belgium

The workshop program consists of practical editing exercises, screenings, and analytical discussions on student films presented by each university. The lecturers are prominent figures in European editing, including the renowned Jarosław Kamiński (Lodz Film School), rector Milenia Fiedler (Lodz Film School), our teachers Ivo Trajkov and Tomáš Doruška, as well as Maroš Šlapeta and Roman Kelemen from VŠMU, Lai Kin (RITCS), and dean Patrick Geeraerts (RITCS). Detailed information about the lecturers can be found below.

This part of the program is open to the entire FAMU community and will be conducted in English:

15/1 18:00 – 20:00 I. screening of student films (CZ, SK) - introduction, discussion
16/1 19:00 – 21:00 II. screening of student films (BE, PL) - introduction, discussion
17/1 18:00 – 20:30 case study: Danger Zone (dir. V. Drygas), Q&A Milenia Fiedler - editor
19/1 10:00 – 12:00 presentation of workshop results, 4 x 30 min, and evaluations

Admission is free, and registration is not required.

We look forward to seeing you there.

LECTURERS  
 

Ivo Trajkov / FAMU, Czechia

Ivo Trajkov is a director, producer, film editor, screenwriter and story editor. He was born in Skopje, Macedonia and graduated from FAMU in Prague. His filmography as a director/screenwriter includes 8 feature-length films for which he received numerous awards. Three of his feature films were Macedonia's nominee for the best foreign-language film for Academy Awards. As a producer Ivo Trajkov was involved in more than 120 episodes of a critically acclaimed documentary series “Unexplained Deaths”. He wrote several scripts for different directors and works as story editor and editing supervisor for more than 30 films every year. Ivo Trajkov is the guarantor of the editing department of FAMU.

Tomáš Doruška / FAMU, Czechia

Head of Editing department and Montage at FAMU. Editor, director and producer. 
As an editor, he has participated in about 50 projects: feature films, animations and documentaries (Radhošť, Ebb&Tide, Cardiopolitika, Planet Czechia and Planet Prague, How Big Is the Galaxy?, Colorful dream). Tomáš has taught at a variety of Universities, editing workshops and AnimaDoc courses.

Jarosław Kamiński /  Lodz Film School, Poland

Polish film editor, graduate from the Department of Editing at the Film Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague.
Since 1992 professor of editing at the Lodz Film School, Poland.
He is a founding member of the Polish Association of Editors and a member of numerous prestigious associations: European Film Academy, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Polish Film Academy, Czech Film and Telesion Academy. 
In 2018 was named the EFA’s European Editor of the Year for his work on Cold War.
The films he has worked on have won a number of international prizes, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Ida).

Milenia Fiedler / Lodz Film School, Poland

Film editor. Co-author of nearly 250 feature and documentary films, TV series and plays.
For more than 20 years, she has been a lecturer at the Polish National Film School in Lodz, the Editing Faculty at the Film and TV Directing Department, serving as the Head of the Editing Faculty from 2016-2020, and now as the Rector of the entire School from 2020.
In her professional career, she has worked with, among others, Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Marczewski, Janusz Majewski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Filip Bajon, Urszula Antoniak or Mariusz Treliński. 
In 1989, she graduated from FAMU Editing.
She is a two-time winner of the editing award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. She was three-time nominated and received an Eagle, an award from the Polish Film Academy.
She is a member of the Polish Association of Editors (PSM) and the Polish Film Academy (PAF) as well as the European Film Academy (EFA).

Maroš Šlapeta / VŠMU, Slovakia

Editor, script editor, tutor, producer. As an editor, he co-operated on numerous awarded and commercially successful feature and documentary films (Služobníci; Koza; Children; Hrana; My Zdes; The Border; Made in Ash; Visible World; Thanks, Fine; The Great Thaw). He is a favored TV commercial editor. He’s a member of the Slovak Film and Television Academy and European Film Academy and he is the co-owner of the Punkchart Films production company.

Roman Kelemen / VŠMU, Slovakia

Freelance filmmaker from Slovakia. His love for film grew at Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture at Masaryk university in Czech republic. After three years, he decided to transform his theoretical knowledge into practical at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where he graduated in the Editing department. Currently he is working as a freelancer on a various film and documentary projectsand finished his postgraduate studies at Academy of Performing Arts.

Lai Kin / RITCS, Belgium 

Born in Belgium yet her Chinese roots gave her the benefit of growing up with the Western and Chinese traditional culture. With a passion for arts and film, Lai Kin studied animation film at the RITCS, the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound in Brussels. As an animation artist she worked for Les Triplettes de Belleville, The Little Polar Bear and other international movies and series. Lai Kin directed the short films Sweet Dumplings and The Astronaut to express her childhood emotions in telling stories who are rooted in the secluded Chinese community. She received funding from the Flemish Film Fund to write the feature length scripts Silk Man and Wan Kou 49. As former head of International Relations at RITCS, she knows the school from the inside out. Currently she teaches artistic research in the bachelor and mentors the editing and directing students in creating their own authorship.

Patrick Geeraerts / RITCS, Belgium

Studied Audiovisual Techniques at the RITCS in Brussels, graduating in 1985. He graduated as Master in Audiovisual Arts at the RITCS in 2010, majoring in Documentary Directing. In 1989, he started his career as video-editor for ITN news and Channel4News. The real breakthrough as an editor came through collaboration with the production house Woestijnvis. TV-shows like De Mol, De Laatste Show, In de Gloria and Man bijt Hond used his talents. Since 2000 het started teaching Editing at the RITCS. Became head of the Editing department and from 2016 until now he is the Head of programme for the Bachelor and Master of Audiovisual Arts.

The event is taking place with financial support from the European Union.