Industry events
2022

↘ 22/10 [11:00]
@Kunsthal Charlottenborg

(PANEL)

How do we keep our flames burning bright in the filmmaking process, so that our stories and voices don't get extinguished? This panel discussion will feature filmmakers from this or previous year's programs talking about how they make cinema that is decidedly queer. From raising money to the final cut, hear how they have preserved the queer in their filmmaking.

Only available for those with industry accreditation.

PANELISTS

Tone Ottilie (she/her) is a 26 year old writer and director based in Copenhagen. She has made multiple short films centred around queerness and identity and has been selected to Berlinale and won best short at OUTFEST and other LGBTQ-festivals. She loves to work with young audiences and is passionate about better and broader representation in LGBTQ stories.
Mahx Capacity (they/them) is one of the Founders and the current Creative Director of AORTA films. They are a white, fat, trans, non-binary taurean pleasure prince, obsessed with wielding queer porn as a tool for destabilizing pleasure, fierce vulnerability, and complex humanity. Mahx’s work with AORTA has won awards in the US, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria. You can find them in Brooklyn, deepening their BDSM practice, and contemplating what strangers look like when they come.

Alex Chrysallou (they/them) is a cultural manager, curator and performer, working in film, performance and festival production since 2007. They operate between Berlin and Athens. Apart from their decade-long collaboration with FYTA (ORFEAS2021), they have been a long-time collaborator of Berlin based producer Jürgen Brüning and visual artist Shu Lea Cheang. They have co-curated festivals such as Sound Acts, Athens Outview, Gender Fest and worked at the Porn Film Festival Berlin for more than a decade.

Rodrigo de Oliveira (he/him) is a Brazilian director, writer and editor. He began his career as a film critic and started making films in 2011 with his first feature film, "The Vulgar Hours". Two more features and three shorts later, he released "The First Fallen" in 2021, winning awards in three different continents and showing the film in over 40 festivals all over the world. 

Moderator: Kate Krosschell (she/her), MIX CPH Vice Festival Director.

↘ 22/10 [12:45]
@Kunsthal Charlottenborg

(TALK)

You have finally finished your film and now what? This talk will give you practical and theoretical knowledge on how to create a successful festival strategy. Learn how to create clear goals for your project, what to avoid, what to prioritize and what to consider before submitting your work to film festivals across the world.

Only available for those with industry accreditation.

PRESENTER:

Slava Doytcheva (she/her) (b.1988, Sofia) began her journey in cinema as a teenage actor with lauded performances in Bulgarian features.

Soon after, she did a MA in Filmmaking at the London Film School and delved straight into her own stories.

Slava’s work is an intimate search of spirituality lost and family bonds severed, navigating the crossroads of queer life in Bulgaria. Her last two shorts have received numerous awards and screened in over 60 festivals such as Sarajevo, Uppsala, Glasgow, Riga and Huesca.

Alumna of the Berlinale Short Film Station, Sarajevo Talents, Locarno Filmmaker’s Academy and winner of the European Short Pitch 2019.

↘ 22/10 [16:00]
@Cinemateket

(NETWORKING)

Join us for our networking event, where you can talk at a series of stations about different stages of the filmmaking process. Receive or offer experiences, knowledge, tips and valuable insights. Grab a drink while you’re at it and get social!

↘ 22/10 [19:30]
@Cinemateket

(QUIZ)

Get ready to NERD OUT! Bring your film buff friends and reach into the crevices of your brain to retrieve that nerdy knowledge of LGBTQIA+ film. This isn't your neighbourhood pub quiz, so why would we go easy on you with the questions?

↘ 23/10 [11:00]
@Kunsthal Charlottenborg

(TALK)

In 'Dear To Me' (2020), director Monica Tedja explores the tensions of black and white morality, hear from Monica in this talk about proposing a conversation around these complexities, ranging from religion to the non-binary identity. The movie will be screened before the talk, including a Q&A session with the audience.

Only available for those with industry accreditation.

PRESENTER:

Monica Vanesa Tedja (she/they) is based between Berlin and Jakarta, and is a Chinese-Indonesian filmmaker whose films pose questions around minority identity issues through intimate character work, with equal parts humour and pathos.

↘ 23/10 [12:45]
@Kunsthal Charlottenborg

(PANEL)

Scooch over, actors and directors: this panel will spotlight behind-the-scenes contributors to creating queer cinema. Join us in discussing the making of a film, its design and styling, and everything post-production to understand the various roles that ensure incorporating the queer view from all angles.

Only available for those with industry accreditation.

PANELISTS:

Zuum Hiperlinque (they/them) is a filmmaker and performer based in São Paulo, Brazil. Focused on experimental art, queer and community projects, they were the cinematographer of features such as 7 Prisoners (2021) and Socrates (2018). Since 2019 they are part of EdiyPorn, a deviant porn collective, working as producer, director, editor and cinematographer. Participant of the Berlinale Talents 2021.

Alexandros Drosos (he/him) has frequently appeared as a soloist and composer in Greece, Germany, France and the UK and is the recipient of the Darryl Runswick (2009) and the John Halford (2011) composition prizes. He has repeatedly collaborated with conceptual performance duo FYTA and their queer music label FYTINI. He’s a member of the creative team in FYTA’s video-opera ORFEAS2021 (2021), where he worked as transcriber, composer, performer, sound editor and mixing engineer.

Sandra Klass (she/her) is a colorist who has lived and worked in Thailand, South Africa, Russia, Germany, Norway and Denmark. She is currently based in Copenhagen as a freelancer for short and long format films. Her colourist credits include the Cannes Palme D’Or winner The Square, The Untamed, which won the Venice Silver Lion for Best Direction and Compartment No.6 which won at Cannes Grand Prix.

Maria Grazia Goya (she/her) is a cinematographer and artist born in Ecuador and currently based in Barcelona. She has worked on several feature length and short films across Latin America, Scandinavia and the Caribbean. Her work has been shown at international film festivals around the world.

Moderator: Andrea Coloma (she/her), MIX CPH Festival Director

↘ 23/10 [14:45]
@Kunsthal Charlottenborg

(PITCH PRESENTATION)

Queering the Pitch aims to encourage aspiring and established filmmakers to create queer cinema that pushes and explores what queer filmmaking is. The competition is open to short fiction, documentary, or web series pilots with relevant LGBTQIA+ themes and subject matter. We invite everyone with a pertinent idea or script to submit it for consideration.