Nearly 40 events, participants from 34 countries, meetings with the most decision-making people in the industry, a chance to work in the American LAIKA studio or a course at the Aardman Academy. The guests include Mike Cooper, Andy Gent, Magda Bieszczak or Melanie Coombs - creators known for their work on the films: "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Rabbit", "Miss Peregrine's Peculiar House", "The Isle of Dogs", "Harvie Krumpet" or "Mary and Max". Łódź will become a world center of stop motion animation for five days starting 6th October.
RIGA IFF Invites You to the Film Programme and Exhibition PIONEERING WOMEN IN FILM
Festivals 08-10-2020
At this year's festival, as part of the project PIONEERING WOMEN IN FILM, the Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF), in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Latvia, the Swedish Institute and the Swedish Film Institute, will pay special attention to the works and significance of female directors in the history of film.
BUCHAREST: Alexander Nanau's acclaimed documentary collective / colectiv will be released in USA theatres and on-demand by Magnolia Pictures and Participant on 20 November 2020. Magnolia Pictures plans to submit the film to the Academy Awards 2021 in the best documentary feature category.
PRAGUE: The CEE Animation Forum presented 28 projects to an international audience in an online edition taking place 6-8 October 2020.
BUCHAREST: Cinemas will close in Bucharest and the Eastern Romanian city of Galați starting on 7 October 2020. Bucharest is also closing theatres, indoor cafés and restaurants. They will re-open when the incidence rate of Coronavirus infections falls below 1.5 for 1,000 citizens for 14 days.
The 17th edition of the international training course "Art Cinema = Action + Management" organised by CICAE took place last month, from 31 August to 6 September, on the island of San Servolo in Venice.
LIMASSOL: The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, which takes place 10 – 16 October 2020, will have a special focus on 50 Short vs COVID-19 Cypriot films, which were made during the virus lock-down and funded by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.
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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces first eight films of the Official Selection – Competition
Festivals 25-09-2020Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the first eight films of the Official Selection – Competition, the premiere competition programme of its 24th edition.
The lineup includes the international premiere of Final Report by the Academy-Award-winning Hungarian veteran István Szabó, who has been awarded the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Six of the announced films are world premieres, as Black Nights welcomes the return of Latvian auteur Laila Pakalnina with In the Mirror; the celebrated Kazakhstan director Adilkhan Yerzhanov with Ulbolysn; the multiple-award-winning Croatian director Dalibor Matanić with The Dawn; veteran Russian scriptwriter and director Georgi Mindadze with Parquet; the up and coming Turkish director Nisan Dağ presenting her second feature When I’m Done Dying and the Portuguese film and TV director Leonardo António with Submission.
Kids Kino.Lab is an international script development programme for film projects and TV series for young audiences. It is dedicated to scriptwriters and producers who are interested in developing their films (live action, animation or documentary) or a TV series.
Deadline: October 23rd.
More details below.
During the workshops, 12 teams (producer + scriptwriter) will be developing their projects from short synopsis to the second draft of the script together with production basics (estimated budget, financing and promotion plan).
Kids Kino.Lab is open to the projects from all the European countries. The workshops will be conducted in English. The cost of the programme is 1600 EURO per team (accommodation and food for participants is provided by the organizer).
Schedule
The workshops consist of four stationery workshop sessions (5 days each) and three online consultations with the lead Tutors. Each session of the workshops takes place during a film festival for children or an industry event.
I session – Synopsis – January 2021 – tbd, Poland.
II session – Treatment – March 2021 – JEF Festival, Antwerp, Belgium.
III session – First draft of the script – May/June 2021 – Zlin Film Festival, Zlin, Czechia.
IV session – Second draft of the script – September 2021 – Kids Kino Industry, Warsaw, Poland.
