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!
FNE Podcast: Festivals in Crisis: Barbara Orlicz-Szczypuła Head of Programming Krakow Film Festival
Poland 22-06-2020Barbara shares with us the reasons why the Krakow Film Festival's team decided to take the festival online this year and the results of the online event. She tells us how the experience of taking the festival online has changed her approach and why she believes that in the future many film festivals will be hybrid events with more online screenings and events for those who cannot attend in person.
TALLINN: Ivo Felt is coproducing for Estonia’s Allfilm the British/Estonian Burial, to be shot in Estonia in the autumn of 2020. The cast includes Diana Rigg and Tom Felton.
NICOSIA: The 15th Cyprus International Film Festival is accepting applications for its 2020 edition. Both short and full length films are eligible.
WARSAW: The Polish company New Europe Film Sales has sold the Polsih/Swedish coproduction Sweat to ARP in France.
PRODUCTION: Romanian Writer/Director Ioana Mischie in production with TANGIBLE UTOPIAS, a groundbreaking virtual reality world
Press releases 15-06-2020- the meditative virtual reality experience brings to life an Odyssey of future cities as inspired by the visions of children worldwide with the goal to inspire societal development for the very long term.
- the most recent virtual reality project is selected for Cannes XR, the global program for immersive entertainment, that will take place in between the 22nd and the 26th of June 2020 in an online setting
- artistic virtual reality worlds of this kind along with their international recognition open up a new field of artistic creation in Eastern Europe, with the potential to fuel up and revitalize the post-pandemic industry in unprecedented manners. Having a modular design, the project is designed as an ongoing piece, combining pioneering processes of cinematic and computer-generated creation.
