Trieste, January 16th, 2017 – Everything is set for the seventh edition of When East Meets West starting on Sunday, January 22,nd with a new East & West double focus on the Baltic countries and France. After having revealed the pitching forum project selection, WEMW announces the final line up of the two side sections for films in post-production stage.

Following the great success of the first two editions, Last Stop Trieste, the work in progress section run together with the Trieste Film Festival, will present 5 creative documentaries to an exclusive panel of 40 international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors. The LST international jury composed by Rudy Buttignol (Knowledge Network), Catherine Le Clef (CAT&Docs) and Claudia Schreiner (MDR) will deliver the HBO Europe Award, a cash prize of 2.000 EUR, and the Flow Digital Cinema Award, a full digital cinema package sponsored by Flow Postproduction.

First Cut Lab, the workshop for films in editing phase, has selected 3 long feature fiction films from Estonia, Slovenia and Ukraine with the main goal of fostering their artistic, sales and festival potential. To this aim, the producer/director teams invited to the lab will receive tailor-made advices from a consulting editor and ten international experts.

Alongside the pitching forum and the two side sections, WEMW will feature a rich programme including the “WEMW Coproduction Day” organized in cooperation with the Creative Europe Desks from France, Italy and the Baltic States; EAVE will lead the session “Shake up in the Digital Marketplace”, a plenary for film producers who can no longer question whether to distribute their films on the internet but only how; furthermore, the panel “How to Attract New Funding Players”, in cooperation with the French Embassy in Italy, will tackle the possibility to re-think the European funding model; finally, thanks to the partnership with the European Women’s Audiovisual Network, WEMW will host the session “Women in the European Film Industry - Success Stories and Challenges”.

Within the extensive network of 2017 partners, WEMW is pleased to announce the brand new partnership with Festival Scope Pro, the B2B platform for film professionals where it is possible to find the complete WEMW project selection and the directors' previous works.

The 5 documentaries presented at Last Stop Trieste and the 3 long feature fiction films chosen for First Cut Lab are:

 

LAST STOP TRIESTE PROJECTS ABOUT STOPS, RUNS AND BANANAS  Director: Arūnas Matelis Producer: Algimantė Matelienė  Company: NOMINUM Country: Lithuania COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Director: Pietro Jona, Stefano Cravero Producer: Enrica Capra Company: GRAFFITI DOC Country: Italy IN PRAISE OF NOTHING Director: Boris Mitic Producer: Boris Mitic Company: DRIBBLING PICTURES Country: Serbia, Croatia THE RUNNERS Director: Łukasz Borowski Producer: Zuzanna Krol Company: WAJDA STUDIO Country: Poland ULTRA Director: Balázs Simonyi Producer: László Józsa, Bálazs Simonyi Company: SPEAK EASY PROJECT Country: Hungary, Greece

FIRST CUT LAB PROJECTS SCANDINAVIAN SILENCE Director: Martti Helde Producer: Elina Litvinova Company: THREE BROTHERS Country: Estonia STORIES FROM THE CHESTNUT WOODS Director: Gregor Božic Producer: Marina Gumzi Company: NOSOROGI Country: Slovenia WHEN THE TREES FALL Director: Marysia Nikitiuk Producers: Igor Savychenko, Roman Klympush Company: DIRECTORY FILMS Country: Ukraine FCL EXPERTS & TEAM 2017 Amra Baksic Camo SCCA/PRO.BA Paolo Benzi OKTA FILM Delphyne Besse URBAN DISTRIBUTION Matthieu Darras TORINOFILMLAB Didar Domeheri MANEKI FILMS Joanna Lapinska TRANSATLANTYK FESTIVAL Benjamin Mirguet MÔMERADE Thomas Pibarot LE PACTE Giovanni Pompili KINO PRODUZIONI Riina Sildos AMRION Marie-Pierre Valle WILD BUNCH Alex Traila EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL Meinolf Zurhorst ZDF

 

WEMW is organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fund together with the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, Maia Workshops, Creative Europe Desk Italy, EURIMAGES, and the support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MiBACT - Direzione Generale per il Cinema, CEI - Central European Initiative and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The 2017 focus is realized thanks to the support of CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, Estonian Film Institute, Lithuanian Film Centre and National Film Centre of Latvia, and the cooperation of the Creative Europe Desks of Estonia, France, Latvia and Lithuania.