Submissions are now open for the Storytek accelerator, the first mentor-driven accelerator fully focusing on audiovisual sector, where deep knowledge of the global film and creative industry mixes with top notch technology competence. Estonia, already a world leader in technology innovation with pioneering e-residency and e-governance solutions and home to the renowned Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) is a natural fit for fostering the ecosystem of next generation creatives.

Storytek is designed for companies with cutting edge creative-tech prototypes which are poised to scale. It’s a 10 week intensive, tailor-made bootcamp in Tallinn. Participating companies will graduate with in-depth assessment of their project, custom tools, and a strategic road map with a global network of mentors will sharing their expertise with them. A custom track will be designed for the needs of each business. PÖFF will refer forward thinking creative talent come in and actively work with the Storytek companies to give feedback from the storyteller community - maybe to generate some new companies of their own.

Committed mentors include producer, sales & IP executive Michael Favelle (Odin’s Eye Entertainment), multi-platform producer John Heinsen (Bunnygraph Entrainment), digital business development executive Laura Anne Edwards (TED Resident, Google Labs, NASA), media innovation expert and investor Guido Van Nispen (Raad Von Kultuur),  digital comic book publisher Soyoung Jung (Netcomics), acclaimed branding and design mentor Julius Talvik and others. The legal partner for Storytek is Price Waterhouse Coopers Baltics providing legal and IP training and advisory for the participating teams.

Quote “Storytek is offering uniquely hands-on collaboration between tech and creative communities. We want participating tech companies to leave with practical tools for growing and running their business globally and with real deliverables, and we want the creative community to fully embrace the opportunities technology offers them to scale their audiences,” said Sten Saluveer, Storytek CEO.

Storytek is made possible by Enterprise Estonia and the Black Nights Film Festival, private investment and by a wide range of generous sponsors.

Deadline to apply, 31 August. The programme starts on 25th of September.

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BIAFF festival continues cooperation with European Film Academy (EFA) which was started in 2011 and during BIAFF festival in September 2017 will be presented EFA’s short films program - SHORT MATTERS!

SHORT MATTERS!  is the European Film Academy’s short film tour which brings the short films nominated for the European Film Awards to a series of film festivals across Europe and beyond to give as many audiences as possible the opportunity to watch this panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking.

The screenings  of best European short film from 2017  can now be seen in Batumi (Georgia)   at Batumi International Art-House film Festival (BIAFF)  which will be held during 17-24 September, 2017

SHORT MATTERS! Program at BIAFF 2017 consists of following short films:

1. THE WALL, Samuel Lampaert, Belgium 2015,  8 min.
2. EDMOND, Nina Gantz, UK 2015, 10 min.
3. THE GOODBYE, Clara Roquet, Spain 2015, 15 min.
4. 90 DEGREES NORTH, Detsky Graffam, Germany 2015, 21 min.
5. WE ALL LOVE THE SEA SHORE, Keina Espiñeira, Spain 2016, 18 min
6. IN THE DISTANCE, Germany 2015, 7 min.
7. A MAN RETURNED, Mahdi Fleifel, UK/Lebanon/Denmark/the Netherlands 2015, 30 min.
8. SMALL TALK, Even Hafnor & Lisa Brooke Hansen, Norway 2015, 21 min.
9. I AM NOT FROM HERE, Maite Alberdi & Giedrė Zickytė, Chile/Denmark/Lithuania 2015, 26 min.
10. HOME, Daniel Mulloy, Kosovo/UK 2016, 20 min.
11. THE FULLNESS OF TIME, Manon Coubia, Belgium/France 2016, 14 min.
12. LIMBO, Konstantina Kotzamani, France/Greece 2016, 30 min.
13. AMALIMBO, Juan Pablo Libossart, Sweden/Estonia 201615 min.
14. 9 DAYS – FROM MY WINDOW IN ALEPPO, Thomas Vroege, Floor van der Meulen & Issa Touma, Netherlands/Syria 2015, 13 min.
15. SHOOTING STAR, Lyubo Yonchev, Bulgaria/Italy 2015, fiction, 28 min.

Festival Sponsors – Ministry of Culture of Georgia,  Georgian National Film Center, Ministry of Cultura of Ajara AR,    Hotel Wyndham Batumi

Festival Supporters – British Council, Goethe Institute Georgia, Cinema APOLLO, Hotel Rcheuli, Hotel Batumi Plaza, Tourism Department of Ajara AR,   HQ propaganda,  Tour Company “Wonderland”

Festival Media Partners – Radio Fortuna/Fortuna+, Adjara TV, Publicity Group, www.newswire.ge, Film New Europe, Newspaper BATUMELEBI 

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These grants were announced by the National Film Center of Latvia on 14 August 2017.

It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year's European Film Awards.

Winners of the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival were announced and presented with prizes during the ceremonial gala at New Horizons Cinema. Of the 12 films in the New Horizons International Competition, a jury consisting of Gaston Solnicki, Hadas Ben Aroya, Gustavo Beck and Agnieszka Podsiadlik by unanimous decision awarded the Grand Prix and attendant euro 20 000 prize to the film Western (Germany, Bulgaria, Austria 2017) directed by Valeska Grisebach. "We find it tender, strong and very elegant. It has many layers and it deals with History in a cinematic way which allows it to reach into a very special spectrum of relationships like few other films do" - stated the Jury.

The International Co-Production Forum Regiofund will be held in Katowice from October 4th through 7th, culminating in a pitching session. Call for Projects was extended until August 22nd!

The Forum’s main event is a pitching session for European film projects, as well as one-to-one meetings with industry professionals. The organizers await ambitious projects at advanced development stage (with script already available), and with an international co-production potential. The best pitch will be awarded 6,000 PLN (approx. 1,400 EUR). 

The submission deadline is August 22nd. To submit a project you have to fill in the form which you can find at www.forumregiofund.pl/en. Registration is free of charge.

Many internationally acclaimed projects were developed during the previous editions of the event, among them Loving Vincent, Wooma, and Kajtek Czarodziej. The event was also attended by a few dozen representatives of European regional funds, including most of Polish ones, as well as members of national film institutions from Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries, television broadcasters (TVN, HBO, YLE), and a number of sales agents, distributors and producers.

This year’s Regiofund Forum will be held in Katowice from October 4th through 7th. Its organizer, Silesia Film, is a cultural institution of the Silesian voivodeship which has been also successfully running Silesia Film Commission and Silesian Film Fund for the last couple of years.