These are the animated films production and development grants for 2017 announced by the Estonian Film Institute on 22 September 2017.

 

Due to big interest in Pitch & Meet Project among film professionals, we would like to invite Polish majority co-productions to present their projects to international film professionals at Warsaw Industry Days. Please note that presented majority co-production film projects will not be considered for the Pitch & Meet Award.

New submission deadline is 29th September 2017(Friday), 12:00 am (CET). Please send your submissions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The Pitch & Meet presentations will be held on 20th and 21st October 2017 in Warsaw. The jury of Pitch & Meet Project will present the best full length feature film project an award endowed with 100 000 € (payable in Polish Zloty). The winning project must be submitted to the Minority Co-Production Schemeoperated by the Polish Film Institute. Please note that it is required to have a Polish co-producer.

Polish Film Institute reserves the right to make a selection of film projects that will be invited to Pitch & Meet presentation sessions.

For more information please visit: link.

 

Here are the official candidates from the CEE countries for an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences 90th ‘Oscar’ nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film. This year Macedonia decided not to send any film to the Oscars.

 

25th Camerimage Film Festival will once again run its filmmaking advisory program Talent Demo. This initiative is addressed primarily to students of film and art schools as well as independent filmmakers who will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to present their projects to film industry experts: cinematographers, directors, producers, distributors, talent agents, etc.

Talent Demo participants will be selected based on their applications. Those invited to the program will have an opportunity to present their projects to industry professionals and discuss their career path with them.

Last year, our Talent Demo board of experts was composed of the following acclaimed professionals: MICHAEL APTED (director), ROBERT ARAKELIAN (talent agent), MIKE FIGGIS (writer, director), JACQUELINE B. FROST (cinematographer), DOROTA CHAMCZYK (producer, director), OLIVER STAPLETON (cinematographer), JOS STELLING (director). 

 The panel of experts for this year’s instalment of Talent Demo will be selected after careful analysis of all successful applications and announced on a later date.

Deadline for submissions: 30 October 2017. 

Talent Demo session will be held during Camerimage Festival. 

Download documents from our website: www.camerimage.pl 

Please direct all inquiries to Agnieszka Maciesowicz This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

 

The third edition of Cartoon Springboard will take place in Halle, Germany, from 14 to 16 November 2017. It will be an excellent opportunity for the young talents of European animation schools (final year students or if you have graduated within the last 5 years) to attend our extraordinary pitching event for young talents. You will meet a panel of experts from the audiovisual world and listen to their advice ad recommendations.
The toolbox, the programme of the event and the list of experts are on the Cartoon website. We have selected 24 animation programmes this year.

Special offer for participants from Eastern Europe
If you are a citizen of one of the following countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Republic of Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia & Ukraine), you should apply for a scholarship !
> There is no registration fee, and accommodation (3 nights) & travel expenses (up to 200€) are offered to the successful applicants.

Applicants will have to:
> Fill in and send us the scholarship form (with a motivation letter and a CV) by 6 October at the latest. Should you be selected, you will benefit from the special discount for New Media countries (see hereabove).

 

 

In less than two months, in Bydgoszcz, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE will celebrate its 25th anniversary. For this special edition, which will be held between 11th and 18th November 2017, the organizers are assembling a wide variety of attractions and surprises. It will enable us to reminisce the way the Festival has developed from its humble beginnings in Toruń to its current rank of a prestigious international film event. It will also allow us to ponder over the path for the following years. One of such special events will be a unique exhibition, the first one in Europe, of the artistic endeavors of David Lynch, a distinguished film and television auteur and a prolific creator working in different areas of art and culture, as well as Camerimage’s longtime friend. David Lynch will be the honorary guest of the Festival’s 25th edition and will attend the SILENCE AND DYNAMISMexhibition grand opening on November 12th in the Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” in Toruń.

David Lynch is one of the most beloved modern filmmakers, while his films kindle the imagination of people from all over the world. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where, at the age of twenty, he started to create his first animated short films, ultimately igniting a passionate lifelong romance with film. He astonished the world with his feature debut Eraserhead, next came The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Dr., and Inland Empire. For his work as film director, screenwriter and producer he was nominated to four Academy Awards®, won Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, and was honored with two César Awards, among many others. In 2000, he came to Poland for the first time to accept the Camerimage Award to Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity. Since then, David Lynch  has visited the festival a number of times, presenting not only his films but also paintings, photographs and lithographs.

The exhibition of David Lynch's artistic explorations will definitely be an intriguing event. His work is diverse even within the area of filmmaking: he created feature and experimental films, TV series, videoarts, commercials, and music videos. But David Lynch is also a brilliant painter, graphic artist, photographer, as well as music composer and performer. The exhibition, which the Camerimage 2017 organizers cordially invite you to, will be the biggest presentation of David Lynch's artistic output to date. In the Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” in Toruń (approx. 40km from Bydgoszcz, where Camerimage takes place), the Festival organizers will present around 400 of Lynch's works: from his earliest sketching explorations from 1950s, through his painting/film inspirations from 1960s to his latest works from 2017.

Marek Żydowicz, the director of Camerimage, is the exhibition’s curator, while the event will be coordinated by the Tumult Foundation, Camerimage organizer, and the Centre of Contemporary Arts “Znaki Czasu” in Toruń, with the help of the World Art Foundation, which, incidentally, was co-founded by David Lynchhimself. The exhibition is co-financed by the City of Toruń and the Polish Film Institute. 

It will be open until 18th February 2018. This retrospective demonstration of David Lynch’s creations – including pieces from both the artist’s personal collection and American, French and German art galleries – will include oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, photographs, music pieces, commercials, short films, and music videos.

Bydgoszcz, Opera Nova, Multikino, MCK – Kino Orzeł, The Gymnasium - Film Workshop Centre, 11th to 18th November 2017. Remember these dates and join us in celebration of 25 years of Camerimage!