“The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility”: Espreso TV to broadcast the lecture delivered to Odesa students
Already on October 13 at 6:10 p.m., the premiere of the televised version of the lecture by the well-known journalist and publicist Vitaliy Portnykov will take place. Its title is “The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility.” The rerun will be on October 19.
As a reminder, the lecture was held on September 23 at the I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University. As part of the implementation of the project, Odesa became the first city in which Vitaliy Portnykov met with students. Next, on October 12, the well-known publicist will go to Ostrog, where a lecture will be held as part of the project in the Assembly Hall of the NU “Ostroh Academy”. In addition, lectures will be held in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia and Kyiv.
The project “The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility” is supported by the Media Development Fund of the US Embassy in Ukraine. The organizing partner of the first lecture was the Faculty of Journalism, Advertising and Publishing of I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University. The media partner of the project is “Espreso” TV channel.
Cannes award winner on filming the teaser for “Vincenz”
Polish director Jan Kidawa-Blonski spoke live on the Espreso TV channel about the pre-production project of the film “Vincenz” with the support of UKF.
Cinematographer Jan Kidava-Blonsky is a laureate of the Cannes Film Festival, namely the Fipressi Award for the film “Rose”. He is also a laureate of the most prestigious Polish award Golden Eagles for the film “Stars”. The feature film “Vincenz” is an upcoming large-scale biopic of Polish-Ukrainian production, the life story of the “Homer” of Hutsul Region, the author of the Hutsul epic “On the High Uplands”, Stanisław Vincenz, a writer and philosopher.
A lecture in “The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility” project was held in Odesa
On Monday, September 23, within the framework of the project “The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility”, an open lecture by Ukrainian journalist and publicist Vitaliy Portnykov was held for students of I. I. Mechnikov Odesa National University.
The main goal of the lectures is to increase the quality, objectivity, non-involvement of media content and, as a result, to increase the level of critical thinking and objectivity of assessments of information and events by Ukrainians. Society should be well informed about events in the country and the world, and the information received should be as honest, fair as possible, without distortion of information. Public trust should be a priority in the work of the media.
A television version will be made on the basis of the lecture, which will be shown on the air of the media partner of the project – the Espreso TV channel.
The next lecture will be held in Ostrog, Rivne region. In addition, events are planned in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia and Kyiv.
The event was organized by the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” with the support of the Media Development Fund of the US Embassy in Ukraine. The Faculty of Journalism, Advertising and Publishing of Odesa State University named after I. I. Mechnikov acted as an organizational partner. The media partner of the event is Espreso TV channel.
NGO Demforum continues the preparation and organization of the exhibition of the Japanese artist Noriko Yanagisawa
As part of preparations for the exhibition, working meetings of representatives of Ferrexpo and NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” were held with representatives of the Taras Shevchenko National Museum and the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine.
During the meeting with the representatives of the museum, the concept of the exhibition and organizational issues were discussed. The subject of the works to be exhibited is people in the tragedy of the nuclear accident.
As part of the meeting with representatives of the Embassy of Japan: Mr. Hoshino Yuichi, second secretary and Kyryll Yarosyk, employee of the culture department, it was agreed on the further support of the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine, and the importance of international relations and support of culture and cultural figures not only in Ukraine, but also in the world was discussed. During the meeting, Mr. Masahiro Watanabe, a representative of the Japanese Ferrexpo office, noted that Ukraine and Japan experienced similar disasters in their time, so it is important to hold this exhibition and show the Ukrainian audience the point of view of foreign figures, which will contribute to the union of the two cultures.
We will remind that the exhibition of the artist’s works, which will be timed to the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, is planned for the end of April 2020.
Also, during the exhibition, workshops will be held for all those who are interested in the techniques used by Noriko Yanagisawa. They will be of interest to everyone, not only the artist, but also connoisseurs of interesting techniques, because Ms. Noriko’s representative works are copper-plastic prints, paintings drawn using Chinese ink, charcoal, stone pigment, combined in collage, etc.
We inform you that the exhibition will be held at the Taras Shevchenko National Museum at the end of April and will continue until the end of May 2020.
The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility
The non-governmental organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” begins the implementation of the project “The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility” with the support of the Media Development Fund of the US Embassy in Ukraine.
The main idea of the project is to hold a series of televised lectures for journalists of regional and national mass media, students of “Journalism” faculties, bloggers and active public figures, etc. Thanks to the developed video recordings of the lectures, the audience of the project, in addition to the participants of the lectures themselves, will also be viewers of Espreso TV, users of the YouTube channel, Facebook and other media resources.
The main goal of the lectures is to increase the quality, objectivity, non-involvement of media content and, as a result, to increase the level of critical thinking and objectivity of assessments of information and events by Ukrainians. Society should be well informed about events in the country and the world, and the information received should be as honest, fair as possible, without distortion of information. Public trust should be a priority in the work of the media.
The lectures will be held in 6 cities of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Dnipro, Ostrog, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Kyiv), and the lecturer will be the well-known Ukrainian journalist and publicist Vitaliy Portnykov.
The pilot lecture of the project can be viewed below:
First casting call for the “Pre-production of the feature film ‘Vincenz’” project
On September 9, the first casting of actors for the project “Pre-production of the feature film ‘Vincenz’” took place with grant support from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation! #ЗаПидтримкиУКФ
During the day, dozens of talented actors auditioned – the casting participants played scenes from the film and the teaser and talked about themselves on camera.
After the director approves the project, some of them will already be invited to perform the main and secondary roles in the teaser of the feature film “Vincenz” – and later will take part in the filming of the full-length film.
The next casting is planned for September 13.
Presentation of the project “Pre-production of the feature film ‘Vincenz’”
The coordinator of the project “Pre-production of the feature film “Vincenz” Maria Gurska – manager of the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” presented the pre-production project of the film “Vincenz” at the Festival of Ideas, which took place from August 24 to 26 in Odesa.
We will remind you that in 2018, the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” initiated and organized the creation of the script for the film “Vincenz”, the authors of which were Natalya Vorozhbyt and Maksym Kurochkin. The project was made possible thanks to the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. #ЗаПидтримкиУКФ
The presentation of the pre-production took place within the framework of the report on the Vincenz projects in Ukraine. Maria Gurska told those present at the seminar about the figure of the writer, philosopher and humanist Stanisław Vincenz, emphasized the importance of his popularization for the Polish-Ukrainian dialogue, new opportunities for the development of the Ukrainian Carpathians and the European prospects of Ukraine. The coordinator of the project reported that the result of the pre-production of the film “Vincenz” will be, in particular, professional casting and the creation of a teaser for the film, which will increase the chances of the project in the search for financing and co-production partnership.
Pre-production of the feature film “Vincenz”
The non-governmental organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” successfully passed all stages of the competition of the program “Strengthening the power of the Ukrainian audiovisual sector” and signed a grant agreement with the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation for the project “Pre-production of the feature film ‘Vincenz’” #For Support UKF
The project involves the development of an individual presentation package for a feature film (logline, director’s, producer’s vision, teaser, storyboard, explanation of the director, producer and production designer, sketch of scenery, casting of actors, list of locations, etc.).
In 2018 #For Support UKF the script of the film was created (the authors are well-known Ukrainian screenwriters Nataliya Vorozhbyt and Maksym Kurochkin).
After the pre-production stage, we plan to start shooting a full-length feature film about Stanisław Vincenz. The film will spread the ideas of intercultural dialogue, tolerance and humanism, as well as contribute to the establishment of Polish-Ukrainian dialogue and the implementation of Ukraine’s European course.
Over the past few years, the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” has been paying attention to the legacy of Stanisław Vincenz as part of its strategic activities. The popularization of the figure of Stanisław Vincenz as a “promoter” of Hutsul Oblast and Ukraine in the world is, in our opinion, a significant factor in the development of the Ukrainian Carpathians as a destination for travel, business and investment, as well as a positive perception of Ukraine by the countries of the European Commonwealth – in particular, Ukraine’s closest neighbors – the countries of the Carpathian Euroregion – Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, etc. The humanistic ideas of Stanisław Vincenz can be a guide for modern Europeans – after all, Vincenz knew and witnessed how people of different nationalities can harmoniously coexist side by side, he considered tolerance and tolerance of “otherness” to be the main value, which is extremely relevant in the modern world.
More than 30 cities of Ukraine joined the all-Ukrainian action “Language unites”
On July 16, 2019, the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as a State Language” adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on April 25, 2019 will enter into force. On this occasion, an all-Ukrainian action called “Language unites” will be held in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Odesa, Mariupol and many other cities of Ukraine.
The event aims to show our opponents from the aggressor country and other countries that Ukrainians are capable of protecting their language. Famous Ukrainian performers, writers, poets, public figures will take the stage in 30 cities of the country to once again confirm the importance of the adopted Law and its historical significance.
The main stage of the “Language unites” action will be located in Lviv on the square near the Shevchenko monument. The organizer of the concert is the public organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum”. The event will start at 19:30 and last until 23:00. Famous artists in Ukraine and abroad will take part in it: Taras Chubai and the group “Crying of Jeremiah”, the vocal formation “Picardiiska Tertsia”, Oksana Muha, Maria Burmaka, Solomiya Chubai with the groups “Djalapita” and “Rockoko”, Ivan Navi, the group “WSZYSTKO”.
The repertoire of the concert consists of the best Ukrainian songs. It will feature songs by composers Yaroslav Barnych, Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Mykola Mozgovoi, Anatoliy Gorchynskyi, Igor Poklad, Kyril Stetsenko, Viktor Morozov, Taras Chubai based on poems by Vasyl Simonenko, Bohdan Vesolovskyi, Pavel Tychyna, Yurk Izdrik, Serhiy Zhadan, Ivan Malkovych, Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, Marianna Kiyanovska.
The event will be televised by three national TV channels: “Channel 5”, “Pryamiy”, “Espreso”.
Via Carpatia Diary: Day Three
The Via Carpatia Forum has ended in the Carpathian Verkhovyna.
Yesterday, the guests of the event were able to join the traditional Hutsul holiday – the Polony summer. Details – in the plot of the Espreso TV channel.
