Industry of Prestige: SIECE IV Program Pre-conference Lecture (11:00 Friday 28 November) András Bálint Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) The Making of the Modernist Canon Welcome and Opening Remarks (13:45) Festival Prestige (14:00) Chair: Šárka Gmiterková Respondent: Constantin Parvulescu Oksana Bulgakowa (Johannes GutenbergUniversität Mainz, Germany) Winners and Losers: The Moscow Festival and Its Canon Balázs Varga (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) Eyes on the Prize: Hungarian Films and the International Film Festival Circuit Marcin Adamczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) The National Film Festival as source of Illusion for Local Cinema: The Case of the Gdynia Film Festival Michał Pabiś-Orzeszyna (Łódź Univrsity, Poland) Fast Cars and High Art: The Camerimage Festival and Peripheral Dialectics of Prestige Keynote 1 (16:30) Chair: Balázs Varga András Bálint Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) The “East-European Touch” and International Recognition in Hungarian Cinema: How to Make an International Career in Hungarian Cinema? Support and Branding Schemes (18:15) Chair: Pavel Skopal Respondent: Balázs Varga Jan Hanzlík (The University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic) Distinction and Authenticity in Film Tourism: The Case of Three Exhibitions for Cinderella Eva Križková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) Day-and-date Release in Slovakia: Creating a Brand or Destroying Cinemas? Mariana Ivanova (Miami University, USA) Financing Prestige Co-[productions: On the Tension between Film as Transnational Product and EU Film Funding Policies Professional Prestige Jakub Mikurda (Film School Łodź, Models of Training in Contemporary Polish Film (09:30 Saturday, 29 November) Chair: Łukasz Biskupski Respondent: Marcin Adamczak Poland) Schools Jana Dudková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) From Director to Producer as the Author of Slovak Cinema between 1989 and 2014 Eva Pjajčíková & Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) “We are not HBO, We are Television”: A Postsocialist Writers’ Room Juliane Scholz (University Leipzig, Germany) Screenwriters, Dramaturges and Production Units in the Former GDR: A Historical Overview on a Complex and Anxious Relationship Keynote 2 (11:15) Chair: Jakub Korda (Palacký University, Czech Republic) Janet McCabe (Birkbeck, University of London) Conversations on Quality TV: A Transnational Dialogue from HBO to Public Service Broadcasting on Producing Culture Canons, Cults, and Awards (14:45) Chair: Michał Pabiś- Orzeszyna Respondent: András Bálint Kovács Zorka Varga (Cineteca of Bologna, Italy) The Balázs Béla Studio and the Hungarian New Wave: The Melting Pot of Art and Freedom Grażyna Świętochowska (University of Gdańsk, Poland) Oscar’s Effect or Winner-Take-All? The Strategy of Condescension as the Main Factor in Awarding Czech and Slovak Cinema in the 1960s Constantin Parvulescu (West University of Timisoara, Romania) The Best Ever Made: How Film Critics Established the High-brow Romanian Film Canon Jonathan Owen (University of Exeter / University of St Andrews, UK) Para-Prestige: The Receptions of Walerian Borowczyk Business Practices and Transnational Strategies (17:00,) Chair: Jan Hanzlík Pavel Skopal (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) … and They Lived Happily Ever After: Coproductions and the Role of Partners´ Trust – sDEFA-Barrandov Fairy-tales in the 1970s and the 1980s, a Case Study) Respondent: Juliane Scholz Šárka Gmiterková (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) In Need of Young Talent: Stars, Starlets, and the Czechoslovak Film Industry in the 1930s Łukasz Biskupski (University of Social Sciences and Humanities SWPS in Warsaw, Poland) In the Shadow of Empires: Business Strategies of Warsaw-based Film Company Sfinks before World War I