Nearly 4000 applications from 141 countries for the Berlinale Talent Campus #9
Composer Michael Nyman to mentor the Score Competition

We have a pleasure to inform that Kino Polska Television has received Hot Bird TV Award.
At the ceremony in Venice the statuette of Gaia has been given to Joanna Rożen - Wojciechowska, Kino Polska TV programming director.

Winners of the 12th Animated Dreams Animation Film Festival Announced

Black Market and Baltic Event provides important industry focus for the 14th Black Nights Film Festival

The 14th Black Nights Film Festival will once again prove to be an important meeting point for industry professionals from across the world interested in discovering the very best projects coming out of North Eastern Europe with the Black Market (for films and projects for North East Europe) and Baltic Event (concentrating on films and projects from the Baltic regions). With the chance for those in the film industry to network (with more than 300 accredited film professionals from 34 countries at the 2009 events alone) and see some of the latest films from one of the most exciting filmmaking regions in the world, it is the biggest film and co-production market in the region


Black Market Industry Screenings (which runs from 1st-4th December) and the Baltic Event Screenings (showcasing films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania between 1st and 2nd December) will introduce 16 new works from the Baltic regions, Finland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Baltics, Russia, Central-Asia and South-Caucus. Filmmakers from these regions will be on hand to present their new films and works-in-progress whilst distributors will present their own line-ups.

In addition, on December 1st, a new business platform Black Market Online will be launched to support the event. A business-to-business environment, the Black Market Online will allow film professionals to watch films online and access additional information including film industry contacts, country overviews about film industries, new coming-soon and lineups and new films from the North East European regions.

This year’s special focus will be on Russian cinema as a special roundtable called Industry Day will be held on December 1st to discuss co-production, financing and film distribution issues in contemporary Russia. Some of the most important figures in the Russian film industry will be in attendance including Dimitry Rudovsky from Art Pictures Group/Art Pictures Media, Dimitri Meskhiev a chief producer from Russian World Studios and Sergei Selyanov from CTB Film Company amongst many others. This will be a golden opportunity to access the top players in one of the most vital film territories in the world

On December 2nd, the Literary Rights Market Books To Films will promote literature for film adaption from the Baltic and Nordic countries, Russia and Eastern Europe. There will be 12 selected books presented whilst the event will be accompanied by lectures on intellectual property rights: please see notes at the end for the full list of titles presented.

The Baltic Event Co-production market will present 12 highlighted projects from the Baltic countries, Scandinavia, Central - Eastern Europe and Russia whilst the new initiative Baltic Event for East will see the presentation of 4 projects from Ukraine and Russia.

The Head of Black Market Tiina Lokk said:

“It’s exciting to welcome so many important figures from the film industry from North East Europe and beyond for the Black Market and Baltic Event. The region is one of the most important and vital hubs for filmmaking and the events are providing a crucial focus for discussion whilst giving the opportunity for important deals and contacts to be made,”

For more information on the Black Market go to http://market.poff.ee/est and for the Baltic Event go to http://be.poff.ee/index.html

The full Black Nights Film Festival programme is now available at www.poff.ee.

Kino Polska Television and PKP InterCity would like to invite to travel across Poland by train with movie carriages where Polish cult comedies will be screened.

Multimedia Festival The Art of Documentary will take place between the 26th of November and 5th of December on the Royal Route in Warsaw. Film tickets only 5zl!

We are pleased to announce that deadline for submitting projects for the sixth edition of Dragon Forum workshops is extended. The ultimate deadline for sending applications and materials concerning participation in Dragon Forum 2011 is Monday, 13th December 2011. »Application form

Special presentation of Dragon Forum 2011 and consutations of the projects will be held during the ART OF THE DOCUMENT multimedia festival in Warsaw on Friday November 26th (Rejs, cinema Kultura) at 18.00. If you wan to consult you project please register via

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8th ScripTeast project in production!

The shooting for the "Vanishing Waves" is taking place in Vilnius, its surroundings and on the Lithuanian coast. The shooting is planed to end in early December 2010. The film is produced by Ieva Norviliene (Tremor, Lithuania) in co-production with Pascal Judelewicz (Acajou Films, France). The main character - Lukas is played by one of most popular Lithuanian young actors Marius Jampolskis, and Aurora is played by Lithuanian artist Jurga Jutaitė.

"Vanishing Waves" (working title "Aurora") is directed by Kristina Buožytė and based on the script written by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper who worked on the project during the 4th edition of ScripTeast - 2009/2010 with Marc Caro (Cesar winner, scriptwriter and director of "Delicatessen", „The City of Lost Children", "Dante 01"; an animator and author of the visual concept for "Vidocq" and "Alien 4") and Jason Resnick (long-term International Sales Director at Universal Pictures and Focus Film, co-operating with governmental film agencies in South America, independent advisor on co-production, sales and financing) and Head of Studies Tom Abrams (award-winning scriptwriter, author of Oscar-nominated "Shoeshine" and "Performance Pieces", professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles).

"Vanishing Waves" is the eighth script that is being produced with ScripTeast support. The other seven already made films started their festival paths and theatrical distribution.

"ScripTeast after four editions so far already has to it's credit eight films done and we know that there are next productions about to start. We keep our fingers crossed for authors of produced projects, but also for those who are preparing for the production. We are very pleased that program which we developed brought so fast very impressive effects. Such extraordinary results would not be possible without the great contribution from our excellent Creative Advisors and support from program partners: Media Program of EU, Polish Film Institute, National Center for Culture in Poland and others." - said Dariusz Jablonski, Artistic Director of ScripTeast and President of the Independent Film Foundation.

ScripTeast was created and is continuously lead from the artistic side by the famous Polish director and producer Dariusz Jablonski, in collaboration with his closest associates, producers: Violetta Kamińska and Izabela Wojcik. Together - beside a wide international production activities through their companies Apple Film and Avocado TV, they created the Independent Film Foundation, which promotes ambitious films and its authors in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.

ScripTeast is organized by the Independent Film Foundation and supported by Media Program of EU, Polish Film Institute, National Center for Culture in Poland, and Apple Film Production, in cooperation with the European Film Academy, the ACE Program, Producers Network, Final Draft, Film New Europe and festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Karlovy Vary.

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Program information
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A collection of 5 Slovak films from the famous period of the Czechoslovak New Wave of 1960s are presented in a special section dedicated to the period with the title: New Wave of Czechoslovakia.

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Prague, November 19, 2010 - Czech cinema will be amply represented at this year's international film festival in Tallinn, Estonia (November 19 - December 5, 2010). Festival guest and this year's Shooting Star, Kryštof Hádek, who will be at the festival to present 3 Seasons in Hell, will also appear at the 23rd European Film Awards in Tallinn on December 4.