RIGA: Riga IFF will stream worldwide a concert created especially for its opening night on 15 October 2020. The festival runs through 25 October, and the opening night event is an example of the ways festivals are trying to reach the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BRATISLAVA: Slovak Production designer Valerián Stražovec has died in Canada at 87. He was nominated twice for the Emmys for his work on The Muppets: A Celebration of Thirty Years and Muppets Tonight, receiving an Emmy Award for the latter.
BUCHAREST: Romania will re-open cinemas, theatres and indoor restaurants on 1 September 2020, while maintaining a state of alert.
WARSAW: Dorota Kobiela's The Peasants has been acquired by the Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales. The film is produced by the same animation studio, BreakThru Films behind Loving Vincent, which Kobiela directed together with Hugh Welchman. The film is already in production for the FNE production profile Click HERE.
WARSAW: Applications are open for the 5th edition of the Kids Kino.Lab script development programme. The deadline is 23 October 2020.
Industry @Tallinn & Baltic Event goes online! It's time to submit your projects!
Festivals 26-08-202025 August / What's cooking?
- Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2020 takes place online!
- Submissions are open for Works in Progress
- Baltic Event Co-Production Market waits for your project!
- Send in your script for TV series or feature film for Script Pool 2020
- POWR Baltic Stories Exchange calls for participants
INDUSTRY@TALLINN&BALTIC EVENT TAKES PLACE ONLINE!
Keeping our guests safe and sound is a top priority for us, so we have decided to move the Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event 2020 program entirely online. For the last week in November, global film industry representatives will be invited to apply for access to all events, project pitches and films regardless of their geographical location.
READ MORE ABOUT THE ONLINE PROGRAM
CALL FOR PROJECTS: WORKS IN PROGRESS
We are happy to invite producers and directors to apply for Works in Progress presentations with full-length fiction film projects that will be in production or post-production by the end of November. As Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event takes place online this year, the presentations will take place in online sessions, in three categories: Just Film Works in Progress (children and youth film projects), Baltic Event Works in Progress (Baltic and Finnish projects) and International Works in Progress. The final date to submit your project is September, 21, 2020.
SEND YOUR SUBMISSION FOR THE BALTIC EVENT CO-PRODUCTION MARKET
Northern Europe's largest international co-production market eagerly awaits your project submission! As well as presenting the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in the amount of 20 000 Euros, the Baltic Event Co-Production Market provides a perfect opportunity to find financiers, co-producers and sales agents for your project. The deadline for submitting projects is September 21, 2020.
DO YOU HAVE A BRILLIANT FILM SCRIPT IDEA?
If you have a great idea for a film of TV series script, our international script competition Script Pool Tallinn would love to hear about it. 6 film scripts and 6 TV series scripts will be chosen for the final contest, including preparatory workshops, meeting with the international jury, and public pitching. The deadline for submissions is September 21, 2020.
READ MORE ABOUT SCRIPT POOL SUBMISSIONS
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS TO POWR BALTIC STORIES EXCHANGE IS OPEN
POWR Baltic Stories Exchange is looking for film projects in the early stages of development and which are actively seeking producers. The workshop aims to give mainly Nordic and Baltic scriptwriters the opportunity to present their projects and writing talent in an informal and international forum during the largest regional film market in Northern Europe.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE POWR SUBMISSIONS
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Kids Kino.Lab, script development programme, opens the call for submission. Are you ready to submit your project? The deadline is October 23rd.
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.
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).
The shooting of the feature Grandpa Goes South by the director Vinci Vogue Anžlovar begins
Press releases 26-08-2020The shooting of the feature Grandpa Goes South by the director Vinci Vogue Anžlovar started on Friday, 21 August. All of us still remember Grandma Goes South (1991), in which the director sent the protagonist, played by Majolika Šuklje, to the seaside.
Grandpa Goes South - 2020
The film Grandpa Goes South is a story about life, expectations, and the search for meaning. It is a tale about friendship. Vlado kidnaps his best friend Boris from the hospital because he refuses to come to terms with the fact that Boris is dying. Boris and Vlado, both musicians, have known each other for many years, as they played together in a jazz orchestra. Vlado decides to take Boris to Serbia and reunite him with Neda, a woman that has been the focus of his unfulfilled love for many years and with whom he lost touch with years ago due to unfortunate circumstances. At first, everything goes according to the plan – until they cross paths with a Gypsy woman called Esma. From then on, life takes a different turn.
The 24th edition of Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries begins this week, taking place mostly in an online form from 29 August to 6 September. Baltic Sea Docs is the most important documentary training and pitching event in the Baltic countries, bringing together filmmakers from the wider Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe and Caucasus region.
POLITICS
Public consultations launched by the European Commission.
The European Commission has launched three public consultations with regards to The Digital Services Act Package, the Impact Assessment for a possible New Competition Tool and the Community Competition Law. The CICAE is participating in them to make sure that the arthouse cinemas have a voice and that the small and medium sized businesses ran by exhibitors are taken into account in the discussions that will shape important aspects of the EU economy of the upcoming years.
European Funding for Cinemas
Venues of the network Europa Cinemas will receive at the beginning of 2021 a financial support dedicated to help compensate the losses due to forced closure during the pandemic. The amount of the financial support will be proportional to the number of weeks of closure of the venues.
ARTHOUSE INDUSTRY CURRENT ISSUES
AMC - Universal: Market power against diversity
The AMC - Universal deal, whereby the cinema chain accepts a 17-day cinema window in order to then participate in PremiumVoD revenues, is also about market power concentration. Christian Bräuer expresses his concern, because just like Uber, Amazon and Co., this deal is about crowding out the economically operating competition in order to be able to dictate its own terms. The concern here is for the smaller medium-sized cinemas, which will have ever greater problems with supplies and will no longer have a chance as copycats. But also the smaller distribution colleagues, whose access to the screens is also becoming increasingly restricted.
Even in the USA, there is now a political danger that entire industries will tend to monopolize. It is more important now that we in Europe define clear rules for the market and its access. The appeal is therefore made to politicians, film funders, but also the antitrust authorities in Europe and in each country to observe current developments and, where necessary, to take countermeasures.
