NICOSIA: The Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture allotted 4,484,000 EUR for the production of 10 low budget feature films and two documentaries in 2018-2019 on the recommendation of the Cinema Advisory Committee.

The following grants for 2018-2019 were announced by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture in April 2019.

The Ministry of Education and Culture announces that the responsible Minister for Cinematography, Minister of Education and Culture, approved, for the period 2018-2019, on the recommendation of the Cinema Advisory Committee, the partial financing of the following proposals:

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

wir laden Sie herzlich zum Project Market Pitch im Rahmen des East-West Talent Lab 2019 ein. Fünfzehn ausgewählten Regie- und Produktionstalente aus Mittel- und Osteuropa werden ihre neuen Projektideen präsentieren. Im Fortbildungsprogramm East-West Talent Lab haben die Teilnehmer*innen ihre Präsentationen vorbereitet und bekommen die Möglichkeit sich mit deutschen Produzent*innen zu vernetzen. Die Teilnehmer*innen konkurrieren außerdem um zwei Auszeichnungen: den goEast Development Award (3.500 Euro) und das Renovabis Recherchestipendium für Dokumentarfilmprojekte mit Menschenrechtsthematik (3.500 Euro). Der Project Market Pitch findet am Montag, den 15. April, von 10 Uhr – 13 Uhr im Museum Wiesbaden statt: Museum Wiesbaden Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2 65185 Wiesbaden Im Anhang finden Sie weitere Informationen über die teilnehmenden Projekte. Wir würden uns freuen, Sie beim Project Market Pitch begrüßen zu dürfen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Andrea Wink (Koordination East-West Talent Lab) Antonia Best (Assistentin)

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Dear Madam/Sir,

We cordially invite you to the Project Market Pitch within the East-West Talent Lab 2018. Fifteen selected up-and coming directors and producers from Central and Eastern Europe will present their new project ideas. The training program East-West Talent Lab helps participants to prepare there project presentations as well as network with German producers. Apart from that the participants vie for two prizes: The goEast Development Award (3.500 Euro) and the Renovabis Research Grant for documentaries with a human rights topic. (3.500 Euro)

The Project Market Pitch takes place on Monday, April 15th, from 10.00 am – 1.00 pm at the Museum Wiesbaden:

Museum Wiesbaden

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2

65185 Wiesbaden

Please find attached more information on the participating projects.

We look forward to welcoming you at the Project Market Pitch.

Kind regards, Andrea Wink (Coordinator of the East-West Talent Lab)

Antonia Best (Assistant)

EAST-WEST TALENT LAB

GOEAST DEVELOPMENT AWARD/

RENOVABIS RESEARCH GRANT

Nominated Project Ideas

72 HOURS (Documentary, eligible for Renovabis Research Grant) By producer Volia Chajkouskaya, Belarus

AFTER THE MAGICIAN (Experimental Film) By director Lea Petrikova, Czech Republic

FRAGMENTS OF ICE (Documentary) By director Maria Stoianova, Ukraine

HATICE (Short Film) By director Mumin Baris, Bulgaria

IF SHE LEAVES (Short Film) By director More Raca, Kosovo

KIX (Documentary, eligible for Renovabis Research Grant) By director Dávid Mikulán, Hungary

LANDING (Documentary, eligible for Renovabis Research Grant) By director Ksenia Ciuvaseva, Moldova

REBBELLION (Documentary, eligible for Renovabis Research Grant) By director Keren Chernizon, Poland

SMILING GEORGIA (Short Documentary) By director Luka Beradze, Georgia

THE IMAGE OD IMAGES (Documentary) By director Dmitrii Kalashnikov, Russia

THE MOTHERS' CRUSADE (Documentary, eligible for Renovabis Research Grant) By director Alexander Mihalkovich, Belarus

THE NEW IMPERIUM (Documentary, eligible for Renovabis Research Grant) By director Anna Shishova-Bogolubova, Russia

THE SKY BEYOND THE HILL (Short Film) By director Nadya Todorova, Bulgaria

WHAT WILL THE TITLE BE? (Documentary, eligible for Renovabis Research Grant) By director Borbála Csukás, Hungary

Guest Project

HONEY BUNNY (Fiction Feature, out of competition) By director Igor Jelinovic, Croatia

NICOSIA: The science fiction martial arts film Jiu Jitsu directed by Dimitri Logothetis and starring Nicolas Cage is set to be shot entirely in Cyprus. This is the first international project to be shot in Cyprus, a country that launched cash rebates of up to 35 per cent on qualifying expenditures in 2018.

NEWS FLASH

Yes, it's true, it is already possible to get your accreditation for the 23rd edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event!

The Festival + Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event accreditation is reserved exclusively for film industry professionals and is valid for the festival period, from the 15th of November until the 1st of December, 2019. It allows you to get the most out of Tallinn - take part of all the open lectures, pitchings, the audiovisual conference European Film Forum Tallinn, workshops and events of Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event and to see up to 40 films from the programme of Black Nights.

READ MORE AND APPLY HERE

ESTONIAN FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS

The Little Comrade crew

The 2nd Estonian Film and Television Awards was a blast! We are glad to share the news with you as we've screened so many of the winners at #PÖFF22!

The Best Estonian film award winner of Black Nights, the chronicle of an Estonian adventurer sailing around the world, Ahto. Chasing a Dream won three awards - best documentary, film person of the year - Jaanis Valk (the director of the film) and best editing. The Little Comrade, a family drama set in the Stalinist era, won the awards for best film, best director (Moonika Siimets) and the composer (Tõnu Kõrvits). Fire Lily brought the best actress award to Ingrid Isotamm and Reimo Sagor was named best actor for his role in Take it or Leave it.

CHECK OUT THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS HERE

SAVE THE GRAVE OF GEORGE MÉLIÉS!

The grave of one of the great pioneers of cinema, George Méliès is in disrepair. We at the Black Nights Film Festival, who are also organising the the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, a member of the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals that holds Méliès as its honorary figure, call you out to join us and support the campaign to restore the director's grave in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris and to create a worthy webpage honouring his legacy!

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND HELP

SUBMIT YOUR FILM

Film submission for the 23rd edition of Black Nights and both of our sub-festivals - youth and children's festival Just Film and animation and short film festival PÖFF Shorts is in full swing!

We had over 2400 feature-length and over 4000 short and animation submissions last year. Let's see if we can top this!

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM TO PÖFF
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM TO JUST FILM
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM TO PÖFF SHORTS

LIMASSOL: Nine titles, including a production from Cyprus, will compete in the Glocal Images International Competition section of the Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival, whose 17th edition will take place from 12 to 20 April 2019. Four films will take part in the National Competition section.

MIDPOINT TV Launch is about to take off

The second residential workshop of TV Launch program will be held from April 10 till April 16, 2019 in Pilsen, Czech Republic within Finale Plzen Film Festival.

Six projects of TV seriesthree projects of web series and two development executive participants, altogether 22 fresh talents, are meeting again after the first workshop (November 2018) and a break full of intensive work. Apart from group leaders Maggie MurphyGabor Krigler and Sullivan Le Postec, who are guiding the projects throughout the whole 9-month run of the program, and Steve Matthews, who is mentoring the development executive participants, numerous guest tutors are arriving to Pilsen. 

Danish director, producer and writer Rumle Hammerich (The BridgeTaxaBorgen) will be accompanied by Croatian producer Nebojsa Taraba (The PaperSuccess) and Dutch producer, and financing / distribution expert Marike Muselaers (The TeamOccupiedSthlm Requiem). Financing and distribution of web series will be covered by German writer and producer Kirsten Loose(Stage Fright) and traditionally, the pitching training will be executed by Slovak writer and producer Michaela Sabo.

TV Launch lectures are also opened to industry guests of the Finale Plzen Film Festival. Click here to find out more about the TV Launch Workshop 2 and for the detailed description of the lectures.

TV Launch's partner Serial Eyes call for application

MIDPOINT's long-time partner, the Serial Eyes 9-month residential training program based under Berlin's dffb, focusing on raising a new generation of European TV series writers, will be closing its submissions on April 15, 2019.

Read the interview with the program's Head of Programme, and TV Launch tutor Ben Harris, for a detailed picture of how Serial Eyes works!

MIDPOINT TV Launch is supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Czech Film Fund, the International Visegrad Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and the Audiovisual Producers' Association. It is presented in cooperation with CHARACTER – Film Development Association, the Finale Plzen Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival – CineLink Industry Days, HBO Europe, Serial Eyes, C21 Media, Series Mania, CANNESERIES Institute, MIA TV Market and AMU.

APPLY NOW to Ex Oriente Film 2019 and get tailor-made training for the development of your film with the help of more than 25 world renown film professionals!

East Silver, a documentary market specialized in Eastern and Central European documentary film, is open for submissions! Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. The market takes place during 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 24–29, 2019).

16th East Silver Market, Jihlava – submission deadlines:
Submission deadline for films produced in 2019: May 31, 2019
Submission deadline for projects in rough cut stage: July 31, 2019

How:
 Submit your documentary via our online ENTRY FORM
Your submission will be also valid for the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2019.


We accept online screeners (Vimeo, YouTube etc.), which must be available until September 30, 2019. In case you haven’t included online link to your film in the submission form, please send 2 DVD screeners with English subtitles / English voiceover, with trailer and any additional press and promo materials (if available) to:
Institute of Documentary Film / East Silver, Stepanska 14, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic

We are looking forward to your films!


Contacts:
Zdeněk Blaha / East Silver Manager: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Walter Nagy / East Silver Caravan Coordinator: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Also, if you have a documentary project in development or early production stage, submit it to the international training programme Ex Oriente Film 2019!