On Sunday, June 7th, the 60th Krakow Film Festival finished with the screenings of the awarded films; it’s the first film festival in Poland that happened entirely online and ended in the Kino Pod Baranami cinema in Krakow! During the 8 festival days we organised 230 screenings and showed 172 latest documentary, animated and short films from all over the world, which were watched by the audience of over 40 000 people!
Which Regions are Under-Represented in Programming of Film Festivals and Why?
In the time of growing concern over gender and racial equality in the film industry we have decided to bring attention to the programming selection process of film festivals with regards to balance of the world regions. Let us explore the specifics of programming of documentary film festivals in different national contexts and discuss if it is possible to achieve a wider diversity of films across the world. Where are the boundaries between the purely curatorial approach emphasizing artistic forms of films and the focus on capturing the variety of current movements in world cinema? What should the filmmakers do in order to have their films screened at film festivals outside their cultural milieu?
With speakers Álvaro Arroba, Programmer, Bafici, Argentina; Emilie Bujès, Festival Director, Visions du Réel, Switzerland; Wanling Chen, Programmer, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan; Asako Fujioka, Board member and former Programmer, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan; Veton Nurkollari, Artistic Director, DokuFest, Kosovo; Thom Powers, Artistic Director of DOC NYC, USA, & documentary Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada. Moderated by Marek Hovorka, Festival Director & Jarmila Outratová, Head of Industry, Ji.hlava IDFF, Czech Republic.
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Festivals 23-06-2020BLACK NIGHTS AT THE MARCHE
The Estonian Film Institute, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, North Star Film Alliance and Estonia's regional film funds are all taking part in the Cannes Virtual Market via the virtual Estonian pavilion.
The programme is as follows:
22-23 of June – Estonian Film Institute
24th of June – North Star Film Alliance
25th of June – Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
26th of June – Film Estonia Cash Rebate & regional film funds (Tartu, Viru, Estonian Islands)
ESTONIA IN THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
For all the registered users at the Marche du Film we recommend checking out The Hollywood Reporter's weekly edition available at the Press Rack. You can find out about our current activities in an advertorial we did with the North Star Film Alliance, Viru Film Fund and Tartu Film Fund. Wishing you an eventful market!
SUBMISSION SALE!
Tallinn Black Nights FF's sub-festival for children and youth films – Just Film – is currently having a summer sale in Film Freeway.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JUST FILM AND SUBMIT
THE MOON IS MORE THAN FULL NOW
Great news from the states as Los Angeles-based Synergetic Distribution has acquired the US and Canadian rights for When the Moon Was Full, the Iranian drama-thriller that had its international premiere in the Official Selection - Competition of the 23rd Black Nights and won the festival's Audience Award.
CALL FOR PROJECTS
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event have opened the submission for the Baltic Event Co-Production Market, the largest international co-production market in Northern Europe, and Script Pool Tallinn, the international script competition for film, TV and drama series scripts.
SUBMISSION IS HAPPENING
Submissions for the 24th of edition of Black Nights and its sub-festivals are in full swing.
Submit here:
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - 13th until 29th of November
Youth and children's film festival Just Film - 13th until 29th of November
Short film and animation film festival PÖFF Shorts - 17th until the 25th of November
JOB OFFERINGS
As the festival is growing, we are on the lookout for new people for the following roles:
- Head of Marketing (Estonian language skills required);
- Coordinator of Marketing (Estonian language skills required)
- Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Marketing Coordinator (English language skills required).
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BRATISLAVA: The Slovak/Czech media company Film Europe is screening a programme of films under the title Black Lives Matter at its Prague venue Edison Filmhub through 1 July 2020.
FNE Podcast: SOFA School of Film Advancement: Nikolaj Nikitin and Oliver Baumgarten Speak to Julaine Schulze about Creative Financing
Region 24-06-2020SOFA helmers Nikolaj Nikitin and Oliver Baumgarten talk to Juliane Schulze about creativity in financial strategies, which was the focus of the second SOFA TALKS podcast of SOFA - School of Film Advancement. She talks about the pros and cons of planning projects in public private partnerships and searching for an investor during a crisis. This podcast is part of eVilnius, the Lithuanian SOFA workshop 2020, which took place from 15 to 19 June online this year. The project is supported by German Federal Foreign Office, the Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the EU, the Lithuanian Film Centre, Fundacja Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej and the Polish Film Institute.
Female Directors from Estonia, Georgia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia Selected for CIRCLE Women’s Docs Accelerator
Region 23-06-2020CANNES: Female directors from Estonia, Georgia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia are participating in the 2020 CIRCLE – Women’s Docs Accelerator. The third edition of the event was launched on 15 June and runs through 3 July.
VALLETTA: The 2020 edition of the Valletta Film Festival (VFF), Malta’s first feature-length film festival aiming to showcase high-quality international works to local audiences, has been cancelled this year due to a lack of public funding. The news aroused controversy within the arts community in the European Union’s smallest member state.
VALLETTA: Over 73 percent of Malta’s population watched television during the month of March 2020, according to the island’s Broadcasting Authority. The number represents an increase of nearly 10 percent over 2019 figures.
On Sunday, June 7th, the 60th Krakow Film Festival finished with the screenings of the awarded films; it’s the first film festival in Poland that happened entirely online and ended in the Kino Pod Baranami cinema in Krakow! During the 8 festival days we organised 230 screenings and showed 172 latest documentary, animated and short films from all over the world, which were watched by the audience of over 40 000 people!
