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FESTIVALS: I Am Pregnant, in Romania Wins Audience Award at 22nd European Film Festival in Bucharest
Romania 11-06-2018BUCHAREST: Jesús del Cerro’s documentary I Am Pregnant, in Romania / Sunt însărcinată, în România received the Audience Award at the 22nd European Film Festival in Bucharest. The festival, organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute, was attended in Bucharest and seven other Romanian towns by almost 8,700 spectators.
Creative Europe Programme
30/05: EU Budget: Reinforcing Europe’s cultural and creative sectors – European Commission
For the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027, the European Commission is proposing to increase funding for Creative Europe, the programme supporting European cultural and creative sectors and audiovisual works, to €1.85 billion.
30/05: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council establishing the Creative Europe programme (2021 to 2027) – European Commission
The aim of this initiative is to build on the Creative Europe Programme's achievements and scale up
efforts with a view to meeting the objectives set in relation to more recent policy developments.
30/05: Factsheet: Investing in people – Creative Europe 2021-2027 – European Commission
The Creative Europe programme includes a MEDIA strand to support the European audiovisual industry, a CULTURE strand to promote other European cultural and creative sectors, and a CROSS-SECTORAL strand to support actions spanning across the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors.
EU Copyright Directive
01/06: Performers and audiovisual authors plea to the European Parliament – SAA Blog
Joint press release available here.
On 29 May, performers and audiovisual authors from across Europe gathered in Strasbourg to explain in their own words why an unwaivable right to remuneration is urgently needed for them as creators, when their works are being watched on on-demand platforms. The meeting was a last plea to the European Parliament before the vote on the new Copyright Directive on 21 June.
EU Budget
23/05: EU Budget: Commission proposes a budget focused on continuity and delivery – for growth, solidarity, security – European Commission
The Commission proposed the 2019 draft EU Budget of €166 billion in commitments, corresponding to a 3% increase over 2018, investing in a stronger and more resilient European economy and promoting solidarity and security on both sides of the EU's borders.
European Film Forum
28/05: European Film Forum at Annecy – Building Brands: The Road to Success – European Commission
The next European Film Forum will take place during the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. It will look into opportunities for animation studios to build effective marketing and brand strategies.
Events:
11-14 June: CineEurope 2018
11 June: European Film Forum Barcelona
14 June: European Film Forum Annecy
20-21 June: European Parliament Vote - Copyright Directive
ZAGREB: Uspjeh, the first HBO original series for HBO Adria, completed shooting in Zagreb at the end of May 2018.
TRIESTE: Projects from Italy, Croatia and Slovenia were chosen from among 18 applications to the RE-ACT Workshop, which will take place in Trieste 19 – 21 June 2018.
Eleven tutors will head up the 2018 Ex Oriente Film Workshop.
SKOPJE: The Macedonian Film Workers' Association signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Macedonian Film Agency on 6 June 2018, designed to strengthen joint efforts to improve Macedonian film production.
RIGA: The Riga International Film Festival Forum, a pitching and coproduction forum for children’s films, announced a call for entries for its 18 – 19 October 2018 event.
BRUSSELS: FNE territory producers received 17 MEDIA development grants in the spring 2018 round covering animation, documentary and feature films. A total of 59 grants were distributed.
Registration for Warsaw Kids Film Forum 2018 is opened. The 2nd edition of the international pitching forum for films and series for the young spectator will take place on September 26-28, 2018 in Warsaw during the 5th Kids Film Festival.
An Observer is a participant of the Forum who gets access to the three-day programme.
The Observer can take part in:
- the Inspiration Day - a cycle of case studies of the most interesting coproductions for children, modern marketing and cross media strategies (first day of the Forum),
- pitching sessions of 28 projects from Poland and Europe as an observer,
- individual meetings with projects participating in the Pitching and Script Exchange Meeting, as well as guests invited by the organizer. Meetings will open if time slots are available and upon prior acceptance from the requested person.
- the Script Exchange meeting, where scriptwriters and directors will present their projects in search of a producer (Observers-producers will have priority in participating in this event).
- meetings at Consultants’ tables. At the 45-minute meeting with a consultant, the Observer will be able to talk about their idea or scenario at an early stage of development with an experienced industry representative / script consultant.
An Observer will receive a login and password to participant zone at www.warsawkidsff.pl. The site is to be used to register for meetings.
Registration for Observers – Forum participants – is open until 16th of September at www.warsawkidsff.pl. Participation is free of charge. First-come-first service rule applies.
WKFF takes place thanks to co-financing of the Capital City of Warsaw, the Creative Europe MEDIA and the Polish Film Institute. WKFF is partnered by Film Commission Poland, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, Association of Polish Animation Producers, Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce, Kids Regio, Akademie für Kindermedien, EAVE, The Financing Forum for Kids Content and Film New Europe and Script Fiesta.
CONTACT
Katarzyna Janiak
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Maciej Jakubczyk
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