LIMASSOL: Natas by Harry Ayiotis won the First Prize for Best Short Film in the national competition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, which concluded on 21 October 2017. The award came with 4,000 EUR in prize money.
WROCLAW: Four Polish projects have been selected to pitch at the 7th edition of US in Progress, which runs 25 - 27 October 2017, as a part of the 8th American Film Festival in Wroclaw, running through 29 October.
The twelfth edition of the FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project will last until the 22nd of October
A group of young and carefully selected critics from Central and Eastern Europe will be covering the festival and industry events, delivering film reviews and interviews for our partners – Cineuropa and FilmNewEurope.
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project involves young film critics, who will be invited to the event and work under the editorial guidance FIPRESCI members Michael Pattison, British journalist working with numerous film and trade outlets like Sight & Sound, Fandor and Vice, along with Carmen Gray – Berlin-based journalist contributing to Dazed & Confused, Screen International and The Guardian. During the festival, they will meet high-profile film professionals, take part in the deliberations of the festival’s FIPRESCI jury and will give a special YOUNG FIPRESCI PRIZE for the best debut from Central and Eastern Europe.
The group of the qualified participants is as follows:
Monika Gimbutaitė, Lithuania
Monika Gimbutaitė, born in 1993 in Lithuania, graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts, Art Theory and History programme. For three and a half years she held the position of a programme coordinator at European Film Forum Scanorama. She is currently working as culture journalist for 15min.lt, the second biggest news website in Lithuania.
Alexander Gabelia, Georgia
Georgian film journalist and activist. He's a political refugee from Abkhazia. Alexander studied History of Cinema and Cinematography at Ilia State University. He writes about cinema and culture in various outlets including Liberali.ge, Aha.ge and on-line magazine Magnettemag. He has collaborated with Tbilisi International Film Festival and Cinedoc Tblisi.
Arman Fatić, Bosnia
Arman Fatić is a Bosnian film critic and journalist, currently based in Slovenia where he is studying Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Maribor. He is a writer for several websites and magazines across like Ziher.hr, Snl.ba and Pulse.rs. His main fields of interest as a film critic are society problems and philosophicaland religious symbolism.
Jakub Wanat, Poland
Film-lover, cinema-goer, festival-fanatic. He is a LUX prize ambassador and a proud member of the Scope100 project. He has contributed to Cineuropa, naEkranie and student magazine Magiel. He was chosen as a Polish representative for the Venice Days jury at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
Mikhail Morkin, Russia
Moscow-based film journalist. He is a chief editor and critic for Kinomania.ru. His work has appeared in The Hollywood Reporter Russia, RussoRosso and Film Sense. He also worked as programmer assistant at 2morrow Film Festival. Born in 1991, he holds a specialist’s degree in Linguistics from MSPU and is currently studying Transmedia Production.
Mina Stanikic, Serbia
Film and theatre critic based in Novi Sad, Serbia. She took up career as a cultural journalist starting in Kultur!Kokoška, slowly becoming focused on film and theatre criticism. Her articles have been published in various cultural magazines, mostly in Serbian language. Mina is alumna of 11th Talents Sarajevo. She also works at the International Short Film Festival Film Front.
Romanita Alexeev, Moldova
Romanița has started her journey in this industry by studying film production and acting at the University of Salford, United Kingdom. Later on, she returned to Moldova where she is directing an online TV series about Moldovan film industry.
23rd Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” is inviting Lithuanian and Lithuanian diaspora filmmakers around the world to submit their fiction, documentary, animation and experimental short and feature length films.
All you need is to:
- register your film using the following link: https://vp.eventival.eu/viff/2018
- read Terms & Condition
- fill out the online submission form
- mail us the online screener to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
You may submit your film till December 1st, 2017. By the 1st of February, 2018, filmmakers of selected films will be notified personally. Due to the high number of applications the festival's programme committee keeps the right to notify only the selected works.
COMPETITIONS EUROPEAN
DEBUT COMPETITION for films from Europe Countries (1st feature film).
Awards presented by an international jury:
- Grand Prix, Sunny statue and 5,000 Euro shared equally by the director and the producer of the winning film;
- Sunny statue for the Best Director and 1000 Euro;
- Sunny statue for the Best Actress and 1000 Euro;
- Sunny statue for the Best Actor and 1000 Euro.
- Special independent prize for the Best Film selected by CICAE members Jury (Art Cinema Award).
SHORT COMPETITION for short films from Eastern and Central Europe Countries.
Award presented by an international jury: Best Short Film Award, Sunny statue and 3,000 Eur for the director of the winning film.
STUDENT FILM COMPETITION for short films created by Lithuanian students studying cinema in Lithuania or Abroad.
Award selected by a national jury: Best Student Film Award, 1,000 EUR for the director of the winning film.
23rd VIFF Kino pavasaris will be held in March 15th – 29th, 2018!
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at:
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It's a great pleasure to announce the 6 selected projects for the 2018 edition of MIDPOINT TV Launch, the international idea-to-market program for emerging TV series creators.
The selected projects and its 15 participants will go through a 9 month development program, which takes their original TV series ideas through an intensive script writing process, and on to meet the international market and decision makers.
First workshop takes place already this coming November in the intimate setting of Banska Stiavnica in Slovakia. Second workshop is held during the film festival Finale Plzen in Czech Republic in April '18, and the final workshop takes the participants to the vibrant film market CineLink during Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The 6 projects come from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Serbia, and they are:
Dropping the Ball – writer Maria Hatzakou, director Alkin Papastathopoulos, producer Amanda Livanou (Greece)
Promotion – writers Eva Pjajcikova & Malgorzata Biedronska (Czech Republic)
THE EVIL GOOD – writerproducer Arne Kohlweyer, writer/producer Eike Goreczka (Germany)
The Mind of Primitive Man – writers Christian Falvey & Ondrej Gabriel, writer/producer Andrea Culkova (Czech Republic)
Transit – writer Domien Huyghe, producer Melissa Dhondt (Belgium)
TURBO – writers Milica Zivanovic & Boris Grgurovic, writer/producer Matthias Nerlich (Serbia)
Tutors
This year, TV Launch's Head of Studies Alan Kingsberg is joined by two new Core Tutors, Gabor Krigler and Maggie Murphy, as well as Guest Tutors Giacomo Durzi, Ben Harris and Steve Matthews for Workshop 1 in November.
Awards
In the end of the 9 month workshop program, the TV Launch awards are handed out. The HBO Europe Award goes to the best project, and the C21 Media Award is handed out to one participating producer.
Read more about the program here, and follow our updates on the participating projects on our website, Facebook and Twitter.
MIDPOINT TV Launch is supported by Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, Czech Film Fund, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, International Visegrad Fund, and presented in collaboration with HBO Europe, Finale Plzen, Sarajevo Film Festival – CineLink Industry Days, CHARACTER – Film Development Association, Serial Eyes, C21 Media, Barrandov Studio & AMU.
MIDPOINT Intensive SK
We are also very pleased to announced the project selection for this year's intensive workshop which takes place in Slovakia this November.
The 3 projects are:
The Owners' Assocation – writer Jiri Havelka & producer Marek Jenicek
Villa Lucia – writer/director/producer Michal Kollar & writer Lukas Sigmund
White Horse – writer Jakub Medvecky & producer Andrej Kolencik
The program is realized in collaboration with CHARACTER – Film Development Association, Slovak Audiovisual Fund and Czech Film Fund.
Slovak Film News: Bloody Lady by Viktor Kubal in Lyon & Slovak national Oscar nomination
Festivals 11-10-2017
Digitally restored classic Bloody Lady at Lumière Festival
The re-release of Viktor Kubal’s Bloody Lady (1980), that was digitized and restored by the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute, will take place at the 9th Lumière Festival. The film will be screened within the section Archival treasures and curiosities, that offers unique restored archive films from all over the world.
Animated film Bloody Lady tells a story of crime and love, inspired by the historical legend of Elizabeth Báthory, the bloody countess of Čachtice. The eternal conflict between good and evil is captured against the backdrop of a romantic love story with comic and tragic elements.
"The Bloody Lady is an example of screen writing mastery and precise dramaturgic composition despite the reduced imagery and limited animation the director Viktor Kubal has the skill to pace suspense and play the audiences emotional strings. Well observed elements of melodrama together with Kubal´s natural affinity for parody turned this film into an original synthesis of the two genres. Inevitably a comparison comes to mind with another master of horror (and it´s parody) Alfred Hitchcock.“ Rudolf Urc
Slovak nomination for the Oscar bid is The Line
The Line by Peter Bebjak continues the successful path that started at Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 where it received the Best Director Award. Since then, it has broken box office records in domestic cinemas and now is trotting the festival circuit.
The Line narrates a story of Adam Krajňák, the head of the family and also boss of a gang of criminals smuggling cigarettes across the Slovak-Ukrainian border. The failure of one of the transports triggers an avalanche of consequences that compels him to question his own boundaries, none of which he had planned on crossing. Until now.
The Line also participates in the European Film Promotion projectScreenings of Oscar® Submitted Films during the American Film Market.
Co-production support - Strasbourg, 25.10.2017 - At its 148th meeting held from 16 to 20 October 2017 in Skopje, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 22 fiction, 7 documentaries and 1 animation film projects for a total amount of €5,598,535.
STRASBOURG: The 148th meeting of the Eurimages Fund decided to support 30 coproductions, consisting of 22 fiction films, 7 documentaries and one animation.
These grants were announced by the Georgian National Film Center in July 2017.
These production grants were announced by the Georgian National Film Center in April 2017.
