Inclusive actions, work-life-balance, gender parity, fair wages and ecological sustainability. Present societal discourse revolves around forms of diversity, justice and compensation. Artistic and cultural work has always had a significant role in this debate: On the one hand, it is the motor and mirror of social questions and expressions – sometimes with the intend to act as a role-model. On the other, it cannot deprive itself from critical (self-)evaluation: Imbalances are thematized and their corrections worked out. Engaged initiatives, associations and reports of the sector have been making this clear for years: They demand change through union and make their topics visible. They set goals, introduce facts to the debate and define new standards. Fairness has many facets in the film- and media production, it follows the realization of a work from the idea to the marketing. The industry reacted and increasingly connects funding to sustainability and fairness concepts. For the newcomers in the sector it's clear: you want to do right by your own ideals, feel responsibility and thereby connect to the sense that is in one’s work. With this year's theme of Profis Plaudern Praxis XIV, we want to give young creatives the resources to orient in the tense field of an idealistic debate by way of concrete pragmatic conditions and thus learn to position themselves. We want to reflect questions of funding and pay in (low budget) production, discrimination vs. inclusion in the film sector, green producing and sustainability as funding criteria in project conceptualization as well as priority in the tense field of fair production together and show strategies for actions.
Four short lectures will open up different perspectives on the complex tension between passion, idealism and professional constraints. Afterwards, individual queries can be addressed in a moderated panel discussion and one-on-one conversations, taking place at the media project center Offener Kanal in Kassel or via Zoom. Language: English and German
In preparation, we present three short teaser interviews here.
Registrations are possible until November 17 with Anna Bell: bell@kasselerdokfest.de