{"id":1877,"date":"2014-11-18T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dimitrakouzi.wordpress.com\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2014-11-18T18:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:43:19","slug":"always-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/18\/always-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Together at IDFA 2014 Competition for First Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interview with the Czech director Eva Tomanov\u00e1, whose feature-length documentary Always Together<\/em><\/a>, selected for IDFA 2014 Competition for First Appearance<\/a>, premieres on November 20, 2014 in Amsterdam. Always Together <\/em>is produced by Ji\u0159\u00ed Kone\u010dn\u00fd (Endorfilm).<\/p>\n

\"Plakat_always_together.\"<\/p>\n

This is your first film, and it is already feature-length and in competition at IDFA. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Why did you switch from journalism to filmmaking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interesting stories have accompanied my entire professional life. I love them. I collect them. It\u2019s not a radical change \u2013 rather, it\u2019s an evolutionary step.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to know how to tell the story; minutes don\u2019t count so much. I \u2018ve directed many TV projects, documentaries, reporting (comparable to 60 minutes) before.<\/p>\n

Journalism is a way of life; to me it is above all about curiosity. I also think I have a nose for interesting topics; I need to look at a subject from many different angles. I know how to make people talk to me. The arts, also, have enriched my whole life \u2013 drawing, sculpture, photography.<\/p>\n

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Director: Eva Tomanov\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How did you meet this family?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another family that I helped as a journalist at the time introduced me. The man was very suspicious about me in the beginning. I remember standing behind the fence, being interviewed by him \u2013 he did not even invite me in.<\/p>\n

Then, some weeks later, he expressed a wish to meet me again. He needed some help with the social welfare office. They did not like it that his children did not go to school.<\/p>\n

\"ditko01_zuby_cisteni\"<\/a><\/p>\n

How was your experience with the DOK.Incubator workshop<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DOK.Incubator was a great experience for me. I received very profound feedback from both sides, tutors and participants, which is always needed. The variety of nations and different points of view are another big advantage, and they all were so supportive. I believe it made me look differently at this and any other films that I might possibly make.
\nTo be more specific, Sigrid Dyekj\u00e6r<\/a> gave me many dramaturgical ideas even before shooting. I met her through my work at the very first DOK.Incubator workshop. And the editor\u00a0Per K. Kirkegaard<\/a>\u00a0(Armadillo<\/a>) sort of reshaped my gaze and made it more relaxed, not so informative, and to let the characters speak for themselves.
\nAnother important thing about this workshop is that you actually work with the whole team<\/a>, the editor and the producer, and you develop the film together. Jiri has turned out to be a great help. Without him and without DOK.Incubator I would hardly have made it to IDFA.<\/p>\n

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An interview with the Czech director Eva Tomanov\u00e1, whose feature-length documentary Always Together, selected for IDFA 2014 Competition for First Appearance, premieres on November 20, 2014 in Amsterdam. Always Together is produced by Ji\u0159\u00ed Kone\u010dn\u00fd (Endorfilm). This is your first film, and it is already feature-length and in competition at IDFA. Why did you switch … Continue reading Always Together at IDFA 2014 Competition for First Appearance<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,10,14],"tags":[82,98],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-festivals","category-interviews","category-people","tag-documentaries","tag-dok-incubator"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eMeT-uh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}