15 Young by Young
Think Big! Is what young Latvian producer and director Ilona Bicevska is doing. For a couple of years she has been pitching a project that I have praised on this site with a simple Bravo! Now the potential directors have been invited to come to Latvia, to Sigulda 50 kilometers from Riga, from where I write these words. A development workshop goes on, discussions, clips are being watched, coffee is being drunk – and harder stuff as well.
The project will consist of 15 films, each of them 15 minutes long, to be made by 15 different directors from the 15 ex-Soviet republics. They can then be put together in whatever way the broadcasters want, A representative from arte is present to listen and comment on the pitches. 5×45 minutes it could be or one long version. Or a webdoc series. Many platforms are possible. To be finished 20 years after the collapse of the USSR and/or the independence of the ex-Soviet republics. Run from the country of Juris Podnieks, Ivars Sleckis and Herz Frank. Bravo!
The photo is from a small pilot that Bicevska made for the series.
