PRAGUE: Bohdan Sláma's The Ice Mother / Bába z Ledu was selected as Czech Republic’s official entry for an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. This Czech/Slovak/French coproduction was recommended by the Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA).
GDYNIA: Paweł Maślona’s debut feature mixing six stories about ordinary people in extreme situations will premiere at the 42nd Gdynia Film Festival (18-23 September 2017).
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry professionals across Europe. Click here for FNE UNIC EU Cinema Policy Update.
European Film Forum
04/09: European Film Forum in Venice: Speech by EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel – European Commission
The newly appointed Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel shared her perspective on the current and future MEDIA programme.
02/09: The European Film Forum goes to Venice – European Commission
The European Film Forum (EFF) brought together industry representatives and policy makers to explore, on one hand, the industrial and societal effects of virtual reality and, on the other hand, to look ahead to the future of audiovisual policy and support programmes.
Copyright
04/09: EFADs call for a copyright framework to support film education, audiovisual heritage, and a fair, diverse and transparent online marketplace in the 21st century - EFADs
The European Film Agency Directors (EFADs) have launched a paper calling on Europe’s policy makers, the European Commission and leading audio-visual organisations to work together in ensuring a copyright framework is established that is fit for the industry and audiences in the 21st century.
Events
27/09: European Audiovisual Observatory Conference on media convergence - Brussels 29/09: Workshop on the Promotion of European Works in Audiovisual Media Services - Brussels27-28/11: European Film Forum in Tallinn - Estonia
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute received 18.3 m EUR / 78 m PLN from the European Union for the digitalisation and reconstruction of Polish cinema. Polish films are set to be totally digitalised by 2020.
GDYNIA: Loving Vincent, a fully painted animation feature about Van Gogh, directed by painter/director Dorota Kobiela, will be showcased in the main competition of the 42nd Gdynia Film Festival (18-23 September 2017).
With great pleasure we invite you to the Irish Cinema Review which will take place during the 25th edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE.
This year saw the sixth edition of A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY, a workshop for young film critics & journalists. The idea, as always, was to learn from each other through the exchange of experience and to build border-crossing personal networks. Organised by the
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival Wroclaw, the meeting again took place at Fregata in Zagórze Śląskie, Lower Silesia.
A group of ten participants spent the days watching films and discussing them, cinema and cinephilia in general, and life of a film journalist. In between there was cooking and eating together, and networking in a charming old guest house by the Bystrzyckie lake. Expert for this edition was the Austrian critic Magdalena Miedl, a free-lancer for SKIP, Wienerin, Red Bulletin, Salzburger Nachrichten et al.
After an introduction circle on Saturday night, the screening programme kicked off on Sunday with 78/52, an analysis of the shower scene in Hitchcock’s PSYCHO. The Swiss director Alexandre O. Philippe joined the group for an intense and passionate debate before lunch. Next was opera-inspired KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ by Gastón Solnicki from Argentina, followed by a discussion about film criticism as such and what it means to filmmakers. This included not only the film’s director but also his colleagues Hadas Ben Aroyafrom Israel and João Pedro Rodrigues from Portugal. Hadas’s debut film PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ME closed the screening schedule for the day and was followed by a group picture and a big BBQ dinner. Kasia Kolman of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Warsaw was the special guest that evening.
After breakfast on Monday, the group watched João’s THE ORNITHOLOGIST while the director went on a bird-watching walk around the lake before joining for another discussion circle about nature, inspiration and criticism. The final film was Michel Liepke’s sinister black&white drama STRANGE BUT TRUE from Mexico, followed by a lively conversation about political and social reality and the role art can play.
The group was composed of ten people from eight different countries: Andra Petrescu (Romania), Edoardo Becattini (Italy), Franziska Bechtold (Austria), Hugo Emmerzael (the Netherlands), Karl Leontin Beger (Germany), Patrycja Mucha (Poland), Piotr Czerkawski (Poland), Samina Jakobsen (Denmark), Sebastian Smolinski (Poland) and Tiago J. Silva (Portugal).
As a former participant said: "It is not only a weekend of thought provoking discussion of the past, present, and future of film criticism. First and foremost, it provides a unique encounter of like-minded and future friends from all over Europe."
The project was organized by the European Film Academy and New Horizons Association with the support of the Polish Film Institute, the local cultural institutes and the Krzysztof Mętrak competition for young film critics.
If you’re writing your first, second or third feature, LIM is for you.
If you’re ready to accept working within a limited budget in exchange for greater creative freedom, LIM is for you.
If you believe that brainstorming with script consultants and other filmmakers from all around the world, on top of a mountain in Transylvania or in a remote fishing village on Brittany’s coast can strengthen your screenplay, LIM is for you.
LIM – Less is more is an European platform for project development of limited budget feature films founded with the purpose of helping both writers and writer-directors at their 1st, 2nd or 3rd feature film, working on a limited budget feature project (between 100.000 - 500.000 euros), as well as emerging European producers in search of strengthening their ability to follow the script development of feature film projects within the frame of low to micro budget.
In addition to actual script development, the scheme involves meeting potential producers or co-producers and financial partners.
Pierre Hodgson, script consultant in LIM: "One of the things we try to do at LIM is to make sure that the projects are as close as possible to each filmmaker and we impose, and the system imposes on them as little as possible. At the same time, it is our job to ensure that scripts come out of LIM as narratively efficient as possible in order that they preserve their unique quality in the face of a founding system. That is important because it means that the films will stay as different as possible and keep on surprising audiences."
Antoine Le Bos, LIM’s Artistic Director: "Through limitations you dig vertically into a story. Limitation is a tool that focuses a project on what is most essential. That is character, plot, location, style. Without constraints, it is often hard to concentrate on what matters most and find your form."
LIM’s first year involved 16 projects from 15 countries and proved the incredible added value of combining forces to maximize narrative power in the service of creative freedom.
LIM consists of 3 workshops in 3 different European countries between March and October 2018. In the intervals regular deadlines and online sessions insure a process of regular exchange and follow-up over the 9 months period.
More details on the application process for the next edition of LIM – Less is More can be found here: http://www.lim-lessismore.eu/how-to-apply/
Deadline: 30th of October, 2017
Keep track on all LIM’s news and developments:
- Official Website: http://www.lim-lessismore.eu/
- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LimProgramme/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/LimProgramme
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/limprogramme/
Supported by Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, LIM is led by Le Groupe Ouest (France) and developed in partnership with Control N (Romania), Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds – VAF (Belgium), Krakow Festival Office – KBF (Poland) and the Transilvania International Film Festival – TIFF (Romania).
Warsaw Industry Days, this year’s industry activities at the Warsaw Film Festival, will take place 19-21 October 2017 and will be a continuation of our previous efforts in the field - CentEast Market.
The aim of our new project is to promote Polish cinema internationally and to provide distribution opportunities. Warsaw Industry Days creates a great networking platform for sales agents, distributors, festival programmers and producers from all over the world.
PROGRAMME
The programme of Warsaw Industry Days will include projects known form the past, as well as some new exciting events:
1.Pitch&Meet. Warsaw Coproduction Meetings - presentations of film projects to the Polish and international film professionals, as well as an opportunity to exchange ideas during 'one on one' meetings;
2.First Cut Lab - invited experts will watch rough cuts of selected films and suggest editing changes; organised with Polish Film Institute;
3.Doc Lab Poland - presentations of documentaries in various stages of production and post-production, organised by the Ślesicki Foundation;
4.Warsaw Screenings - presentations of the newest Polish films to international sales agents, distributors and festival programmers;
5.Warsaw Works-In-Progress - presentations of selected works-in-progress from Poland, including co-productions (continuation of CentEast Market);
6.Warsaw Next - workshops for young Polish filmmakers;
7.FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project - workshops for young and aspiring journalists and film critics, organised in collaboration with the International Federation of Film Critics (FIRPESCI);
8.Open Workshop "The Art of Film Editing" - an event for everyone interested in editing, organised with Polish Film Editors Association.
ACCREDITATIONS
Accreditations are available for film professionals only. To request your accreditation for Warsaw Industry Days, please register online: link
Deadline: October 1, 2017
CALLS FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
1.Pitch&Meet. Warsaw Coproduction Meetings – 20th -21st October 2017
Submission deadline is 25th September 2017, 12:00 am (CET). Please send your submissions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
More information and submission requirements can be found here .
2.FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project – 13th -22nd October2017
Submission deadline is 15th September 2017. Please send your submissions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
More information and submission requirements can be found here.
Warsaw Industry Days are organised by the Warsaw Film Foundation, and our key partner is the Polish Film Institute. The detailed programme of the Warsaw Industry Days will be announced at the beginning of October 2017.
For more information please visit: link.
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Warsaw Film Foundation WFF, P.O.Box 816, PL-00-950 Warsaw 1, Poland
