Hit The Road Distributors Panel
Filmer Forge presents: Hit The Road, a training session on international distribution.
Peter is a Slovakian-born film curator and distributor based in Ireland for the past seventeen years, with a background in art history and philosophy.
He is the curator at IndieCork Film festival focusing on international shorts and international features. He is also the co-creator and director of Visegrad Film Festival since 2016, which currently features as a guest programme at IndieCork Film Festival.
Peter is the co-director and manager of Green Ray Film Agency, a festival distribution agency, where he focuses on short film distribution. Previously Peter was the founder and curator of the very popular indie cinema club The Deja View Cineclub at Camden Palace. Peter is a regular contributor and participant on international juries and film events.
Vítězslav joined the team of Czech Film Center in 2017. He graduated from Film and Audiovisual Culture Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. During his studies he worked at the Czech Television as an assistant dramaturge.
Since 2010, he worked for several film festivals including Karlovy Vary IFF or Ji.hlava IDFF. As a journalist, he has contributed to various Czech outlets and he is currently writing for Cinepur magazine. He is also a member of programming team of One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague.
At the CFC, Vítězslav is responsible for promotion of Czech documentary and short films abroad and consults festival strategies of upcoming films as well. In addition, he prepares the annual Czech Shorts Films collection and takes care of the presentation of Czech cinema at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market.
Mark Brennan is a filmmaker based in the UK, working on short films since 2014.
After successfully taking his first short film, Tea For Two, on to the film festival circuit, he later co-founded the Exit 6 Film Festival in 2015. This year, Exit 6 celebrates its 10th anniversary, having since become a BIFA-qualifying festival in 2023 and a mainstay on the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals list on FilmFreeway.
He is also a Festival Strategist & Liaison at the internationally renowned Festival Formula, an agency specialising in festival strategy for short films, for whom he has previously represented at festivals such as Clermont Ferrand, HollyShorts, Indy Shorts, Aesthetica, Bolton International Film Festival, and IN THE PALACE Short Film Festival.
