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Workshop for Peace

INSTEAD OF A SYNOPSIS
The film is a repetitive, monotonous, prayer like cry for peace!
It is focused on the eternal dilemma of just how much hatred
the victims should feel and how much revenge they should have, if any at all?
It is a balladic, experimental film for peace. It is not taking sides, it was made with the awarness of the fact that our world has no sides whatsoever.
For all technical, practical, artistic and psychological reasons, I could not imagine a better place to make this film in, than Estonia!

  • Gabriel Dettre
    Director
    PRODUCER He produced for CBS, New York, then moved onto making feature films. He associate produced the award winning feature, ANNA (USA), written by Agnieszka Holland and directed by Jurek Bogayewicz whose leading actress portraying the title role, Sally Kirkland was nominated for an Oscar Award. He also produced MR. UNIVERSE, the Hungarian-USA feature with Mickey Hargitay, Marishka Hargitay, Laszlo Szabo and Kathleen Gati, directed by György Szomjas. (Among other venues, the film was invited to the New Directors, New Films Festival of MOMA New York City. Gabriel Dettre produced CHICO (Hungarian-German-Croatian-Chilean), a feature written and directed by Ibolya Fekete. Among many others, the film won a Best Film Award in Karlovy Vary. In 2015, as a producer, Gabriel Dettre co-produced ZERO, Gyula Nemes' German-Czech-Hungarian co- production feature. (The director won a Best Documentary Award in Karlovy Vary before.) Among others, ZERO was invited into the competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and participated in the Forum section of the Black Nights International Film Festival, Tallinn. In the same year, Mr. v. Dettre co-produced Ibolya Fekete s feature, a German-Hungarian-Bulgarian co-production, entitled MOM AND OTHER LOONIES IN THE FAMILY. DIRECTOR (features) As for his feature projects, Gabriel Dettre's directorial debut was BLACK LIGHTS, WHITE SHADOWS, an American feature film. The film's music score was interpreted by Yo-Yo Ma, the world famous cellist, and it opened at the Montreal Film Festival. To this date, his last US feature was THE DIARY OF THE HURDY-GURDY MAN. (With Oscar nominees and winners, such as Brad Douriff and William Hickey, and with Meatloaf, Kathleen Gati, Wallace Shawn and Ann Meara.) Among many shorter television pieces, Gabriel Dettre also directed the Hungarian features, CLOUD OVER THE GANGES (it won several awards and was selected for two European Academy Awards) and TABLEAU (among others, it was invited to Karlovy Vary and Mar del Plata and won several awards). His most recent film is the experimental feature drama, based upon Sophocles' Antigone. ANTIGONE featured some of the best actors of Hungary, among them – and probably it is a „first” in film-history – the two talented young sisters, Kamilla Fátyol and Hermina Fátyol, in the roles of Antigone and Ismene. ANTIGONE has won an award at the Hungarian Film Week in 2011 and has been invited to many festival. Gabriel Dettre is presently in post-production in Estonia, on an experimental feature consisting of a series of video etudes inspired by 33 poems by famous Estonian poet, Bernard Kangro. His next feature film effort will be an international drama, based on his own writing, entitled SECOND LIFE. The film is in development and will be shot in English, in a multi- national co/production. DIRECTOR (documentaries) In his native Hungary, in Belgium and some other countries (Yemen, The Netherlands, Estonia etc.) he directed many documentaries. THE ACTRESS AND THE DEATH was accoladed in Hungary as the Best Documentary of the Year and was invited to the Nyon Festival, while the DEAD WINGS FLY won two awards at the Porto Film Festival in Portugal. WORKSHOPS, TEACHING Gabriel Dettre has participated in Media Desk Program (Cottbus, Biaritz, Vienna), Sources2 (Graz, Berlin), ScripTeast (Sterdyn, Berlinale, Cannes Int. Film Fest.), Meeting at the Border (Tesin, Poland), Connecting Cottbus, (Germany), the Neighbouring Producers' Meeting (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Cinelink and Talent Campus (Sarajevo, Bosnia), EAVE (Luxemburg, Zagreb, Amsterdam),Galway Fair and Holland Film Festival (Utrecht), Baltic Pitching Forum, (Vilnius, Lithuania). He has taught at several universities (New York University, Szeged University, Hungary, Miskolc University, Hungary, Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn University, Estonia) and has held several workshops internationally (with Media support) on directing, film-acting and screenplay writing. Editing teacher at New York University for 3 semesters, Film history teacher at Miskolc University, Hungary for 4 semesters, Directing teacher at Szeged University, Hungary for 3 semesters, Film Acting teacher for Bárka Theatre, Budapest (workshop for the Maladype Group) Film Acting teacher for an international young actors class (workshop, sponsored by European Media) Screenplay Writing teacher for a European Media workshop (organized by Katapult Film, Hungary) Directing teacher at BFM, Tallinn University, Estonia 2013-2014 Film Acting workshop for Rose Bruford College, London 2014-2015
  • Caryl Churchill and Gabriel Dettre
    Writer
  • BFM University Tallinn, Estonia
    Producer
  • Dana Indane, Joshua Spriggs, Sasha Harrington, Olivia Dean, Sophia Kounoupias, Benjamin Riedel, Aiden Ross, Alice Ritchie, Rebecca Thomas-Baines, Eleanor Matthews, Eliza Redfern, James Francis, Liam C. Smith, Matthew Wright, Gabriel Vivas Martínez, Montana Mascoll,
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    39 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Estonia
  • Country of Filming:
    Estonia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Gabriel Dettre

GABRIEL v. DETTRE
New York, Budapest, Brussels, Tallinn, Berlin,


Imdb (due to having lived in several countries and changing names accordingly, information can be found mostly under Gabor Dettre but also, under variations as Gabor von Dettre, Gabe von Dettre, Gabe Dettre)


mail: gabrieldettre@gmail.com
skype: dettreg
cellphone:
00 372 589 530 53
00 49 176 83321 567

Gabriel v. Dettre, director/writer/producer, lived in New York City for many years, before moving back to his native Budapest. Subsequently, he lived in Brussels for several years, before moving to Berlin. Presently, he is a visiting faculty member at BFM Tallinn (Baltic Film and Media University), teaching film directing.

PRODUCER

He has produced for CBS, New York then moved onto making feature films.

He associate produced the award winning feature, ANNA (USA), written by Agnieszka Holland and directed by Jurek Bogayewicz whose leading actress portraying the title role, Sally Kirkland was nominated for an Oscar Award.

He also produced MR. UNIVERSE, the Hungarian-USA feature with Mickey Hargitay, Marishka Hargitay, Laszlo Szabo and Kathleen Gati, directed by György Szomjas. (Among other venues, the film was invited to the New Directors, New Films Festival of MOMA New York City.

Gabriel Dettre produced CHICO (Hungarian-German-Croatian-Chilean), a feature written and directed by Ibolya Fekete. Among many others, the film won a Best Film Award in Karlovy Vary.

In 2015, as a producer, Gabriel Dettre co-produced ZERO, Gyula Nemes' German-Czech-Hungarian co- production feature. (The director won a Best Documentary Award in Karlovy Vary before.) ZERO is in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and will participate in the Forum section of the Black Nights International Film Festival, Tallinn.

Also, in the same year, he co-produced Ibolya Fekete s feature, a German-Hungarian-Bulgarian co-production, entitled MOM AND OTHER LOONIES IN THE FAMILY.

DIRECTOR (features)

As for his feature projects, Gabriel Dettre's directorial debut was BLACK LIGHTS, WHITE SHADOWS, an American feature film. The film's music score was interpreted by Yo-Yo Ma, the world famous cellist, and it opened at the Montreal Film Festival.

To this date, his last US feature was THE DIARY OF THE HURDY-GURDY MAN. (With Oscar nominees and winners, such as Brad Douriff and William Hickey, and with Meatloaf, Kathleen Gati, Wallace Shawn and Ann Meara.)

Among many shorter television pieces, Gabriel Dettre also directed the Hungarian features, CLOUD OVER THE GANGES (it won several awards and was selected for two European Academy Awards) and TABLEAU (among others, it was invited to Karlovy Vary and Mar del Plata and won several awards).

His most recent film is the experimental feature drama, based upon Sophocles' Antigone. ANTIGONE featured some of the best actors of Hungary, among them – and probably it is a „first” in film-history – the two talented young sisters, Kamilla Fátyol and Hermina Fátyol, in the roles of Antigone and Ismene. ANTIGONE has won an award at the Hungarian Film Week in 2011 and has been invited to many festival.

Gabriel Dettre is presently in post production in Estonia, on a series of video etudes inspired by 33 poems by famous Estonian poet, Bernard Kangro.

His next feature film effort will be an international drama, based on his own writing, entitled SECOND LIFE. The film is in development and will be shot in English, in a multi- national co/production.

DIRECTOR (documentaries)

In his native Hungary, in Belgium and some other countries (Yemen, The Netherlands, Estonia etc.) he directed many documentaries. THE ACTRESS AND THE DEATH was accoladed in Hungary as the Best Documentary of the Year and was invited to the Nyon Festival, while the DEAD WINGS FLY won two awards at the Porto Film Festival in Portugal.

WORKSHOPS, TEACHING

Gabriel Dettre has participated in Media Desk Program (Cottbus, Biaritz, Vienna), Sources2 (Graz, Berlin), ScripTeast (Sterdyn, Berlinale, Cannes Int. Film Fest.), Meeting at the Border (Tesin, Poland), Connecting Cottbus, (Germany), the Neighbouring Producers' Meeting (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Cinelink and Talent Campus (Sarajevo, Bosnia), EAVE (Luxemburg, Zagreb, Amsterdam),Galway Fair and Holland Film Festival (Utrecht), Baltic Pitching Forum, (Vilnius, Lithuania).

He has taught at several universities (New York University, Szeged University, Hungary, Miskolc University, Hungary, Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn University, Estonia) and has held several workshops internationally (with Media support) on directing, film-acting and screenplay writing.

Editing teacher at New York University for 3 semesters,
Film history teacher at Miskolc University, Hungary for 4 semesters,
Directing teacher at Szeged University, Hungary for 3 semesters,
Film Acting teacher for Bárka Theatre, Budapest (workshop for the Maladype Group)
Film Acting teacher for an international young actors class (workshop, sponsored by European Media)
Screenplay Writing teacher for a European Media workshop (organized by Katapult Film, Hungary)
Directing teacher at BFM, Tallinn University, Estonia 2013-2014
Film Acting workshop for Rose Bruford College, London 2014-2015

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THE THOUGHTS OF THE DIRECTOR
For a contemporary filmmaker, there can be nothing more important than promoting peace and attempting to lessen the growing hatred our civilisation has been suffering more and more of!
Instead of blowing out each other s candles we should save all the flames! Our world will be brighter by them!!
Our film is the result of an elating collaboration of close to fifty people coming together from thirteen countries to work on the subject in Estonia.