Arts & Culture Pitch

Directed by: Dennis Harvey, Lars Lovén

Logline: A feature music documentary about contemporary Irish identity, told through a new wave of young traditional musicians and archive material.

Logline : "Hugo in Venice" recounts Hugo Pratt's initiatory journey, starting from the small village of Malamocco, crossing the immensity of the Pacific Ocean, and finally arriving in Switzerland, where his quest becomes esoteric. It is a journey that presents the most spectacular of all human gestures: surpassing oneself.

Directed by: Carlota Nelson

Logline: What brings us together as humans? How do we celebrate life, love, beauty, death? With these questions in mind and her camera in hand, Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero continues to travel the world alone at 72 to capture the strikingly different ways in which humans engage in rituals, festivities and celebrations.

Logline: From the moment of its release, Matrix is a phenomenon of considerable influence, a moment of anthology that turned the history of cinema on its head. Matrix is also the birth certificate of the "bit generation", the kids of the eighties and nineties who are about to be propelled into cyberspace and the new millennium.

Logline: An aspiring Czech filmmaker, Jana Hojdova, embarks on a journey into the mind of cinematographer Robert Richardson, a three-time Oscar winner who has shot some of Hollywood’s most iconic films. As the two form a meaningful bond, Jana discovers his hidden scars and struggles, and learns that friendship and success both come at a price.