TV Launch 2020 Call for Development Executive Participants Deadline Postponed: February 10, 2020
Press releases 04-02-2020Want to become a commissioning editor?
We are here to help and guide you on this exciting journey!
Within the TV Launch program, we train 3 attending development executive participants.
They are being prepared for their future role of commissioning editors or heads of development on real, existing series projects (developed within the project part of the program), acquiring skills needed for developing a diverse range of projects.
Development executive participants will be mentored by a wide variety of tutors, e.g. Gabor Krigler (HU), former Creative Executive at HBO Hungary (Golden Life), Maggie Murphy (US), an Executive Producer (Veronica Mars, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, Houdini & Doyle), Sullivan Le Postec (FR), writer and creator (Les Engagés) or Steve Matthews, VP Executive Producer, Drama Development at HBO Europe (Wasteland, Golden Life, Umbre, Success, Love/Hate, The Borgias).
Together with the projects, the participants will present themselves within the Season Finale platform in Tallinn, Estonia, during Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event.
WHO CAN APPLY
Individual participants, who may, but not necessarily have to, be connected to a broadcaster.
APPLICATION MATERIALS
/ biography and filmography
/ motivation letter
/ brief analysis of the television industry in the applicant's respective country
DATES AND VENUES
Workshop 1/ Czech Republic: April 23 – 30, 2020
Workshop 2/ TBA: Summer 2020
Workshop 3/ Estonia (within Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event): November 2020
If you would like to know more about the real experience of development executive training, read an interview with Zuzana Ferenczova and Martynas Mendelis, who represent the first generation of our development executive training graduates.
For more information about the program and access to the application, click here.
MIDPOINT TV Launch 2020 is realized with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Czech Film Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. It is presented in cooperation with Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event, HBO Europe, Marseille Web Fest, Serial Eyes, NEM Zagreb, C21 Media, Series Mania, CANNESERIES Institute, Seriencamp, MIA TV Market, MediaXchange, Meeting Point Vilnius and the Audiovisual Producers' Association. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
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Pollywood by Paweł Ferdek will accompany the opening ceremony of the 60th Krakow Film Festival
Festivals 04-02-2020A film journey in search of the roots of the Dream Factory will open the anniversary 60th Krakow Film Festival.
The premiere of the film “Pollywood” by Paweł Ferdek will accompany the opening ceremony of the anniversary 60th Krakow Film Festival. It is a personal journey to America, which the director made in the footsteps of the Eastern European founders of Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn, Luis B. Mayer and the Warner brothers. The ceremony with the participation of the filmmakers is held on the 31st of May.
Pollywood, dir. Paweł Ferdek
– It was here in Poland that it all began, the title of the film by Paweł Ferdek seems to suggest. So how not to start the anniversary celebrations with the return to the sources of the cinema, following in the footsteps of our ancestors, emphasises Krzysztof Gierat, the Director of the Festival. It was in Krakow where the first film screening was held on the territory of Poland, it was in Sucha near Krakow where Billy Wilder was born, and it was here where the first film school started operating and it was here where the first film festival in Poland was established. And our people also built Hollywood!
The 59th Krakow Film Festival will take place on May 31 – June 7, 2020
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VILNIUS: The documentary The Earth Is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk, which received the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, has been picked up by the French CAT&Docs.
Serbian Director Ognjen Glavonić and Hungarian Animation Filmmaker Réka Bucsi in Berlinale Juries
Serbia 05-02-2020BELGRADE: Serbian director and writer Ognjen Glavonić will be one of the three members of the GWFF Best First Feature Award Jury, while Hungarian animation filmmaker Réka Bucsi will sit in the Berlinale Shorts International Jury at the 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (20 February-1 March 2020).
The eighth edition of the annual gathering of globally renowned companies that make TV and film industry history
29th January 2020 – New Europe Market, the biggest CEE region event specialised for the development of the TV industry, is back in Dubrovnik. For the eighth consecutive year the leading media and TV experts from Europe and the rest of the world will gather in Croatia. Under the slogan “The TV market with a view”, from June 8th to 11th 2020 NEM Dubrovnik will once again host numerous global companies at the Dubrovnik Palace Hotel: leading free-to air (FTA) and pay-TV channels, cable and satellite operators, IPTV, production, distribution and tech companies, domestic and international media, marketing and media agencies and numerous other experts with ties to the TV industry.
NEM Dubrovnik covers trends in global and local production, the competitiveness of the region through co-production (which implies bigger budgets), digital content development, relations between on-demand platforms and TV channels, as well the role of advertising in the TV industry, the fight against piracy in the region, and high prices of sports content like the broadcasts of football matches and tournaments.
Why is NEM Dubrovnik important to the CEE?
One of key segments of each NEM Dubrovnik is the NEM Showroom where new content by renowned production and distribution companies such as BBC Worldwide, Freemantle, Lionsgate and Global Agency are showcased. This is NEM’s way of informing European production companies with the Croatian and regional scene, setting up the terrain for new opportunities and deals. It was at NEM Dubrovnik that the Croatian series The Paper made a global distribution deal through Israel’s Keshet International.
NEM has for years had the support of leading global media industry companies, prominent and award-winning decision makers from the TV world such as BBC Studios, CBS Studios International, Disney, NBC Universal International Networks, Warner Bros., Fremantle, Sony Pictures Television, FOX Networks Group, MGM, ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Viacom International Studios, Global Agency, Viasat World, yes Studios, Eutelsat, NBC Universal, LG, ZDF, BETA Film, HRT, Nova TV, RTL and other global and local media companies. In view of the expanding role that telecoms have in the TV industry, Deutsche Telekom, Telekom Austria Group, A1 and Hrvatski Telekom have supported NEM throughout the years.
Among the prominent producers who visited NEM Dubrovnik are Tom Fontana, creator of the series Oz and Borgias, The Simpsons producer Bonita Pietila, Silent Witness creator Nigel McCrery, Peter Nadermann, one of the pioneers of the Nordic-noir genre and producer of the Millennium Trilogy (e.g. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), and Lars Lundström, the producer of one of the most famous Scandinavian series Humans. Kim Moses, the producer who worked with Netflix, NBC, CW and YouTube, was also one of the noted guests, with the Ghost Whisperer being one of her more successful projects.
NEM Dubrovnik hosted famous actors and actresses such as Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, Michael Weatherly, Alan Cumming and Tim Daly, who showcased their new projects.
For more information on NEM Dubrovnik, First Minute accreditation prices and available accommodation please see the NEM Dubrovnik official web-site.
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ABOUT NEW EUROPE MARKET:
New Europe Market (NEM) is the biggest TV industry event in CEE region, focused on its development, newest trends, opening new business opportunities and improving audiovisual industry in Croatia.
Under the claim „TV Market with a view“, NEM Dubrovnik gathers numerous media and TV experts from Europe and the world since 2013.
First edition of NEM Zagreb was organized at the end of 2019, claiming it is „All about content creation“. Along with business opportunities and exchanging ideas, NEM Zagreb is also a platform for creative writers who want to prosper in the TV industry and collaborate with leaders in the industry.
For many years, the project is supported by numerous global TV and media industry, and world of telecoms: BBC Worldwide / BBC Studios, CBS Studios International, Disney, Warner Bros, Fremantle, Sony Pictures Television, FOX Network Group, MGM, ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Viacom International Studios, Global Agency, Viasat World, yes Studios, Eutelsat, NBC Universal, Deutsche Telekom, Telekom Austria Group, LG, ZDF, BETA Film, HRT and many others.
NEM Dubrovnik and NEM Zagreb is organized by Mediavision, full service partner for positioning TV content on the CEE market.
TV Launch 2020 Call for Development Executive Participants Deadline: January 31, 2020
Press releases 28-01-2020The residential, 8-month training program TV Launch is intended not only to series development, but focuses also on the education of future commissioning editors.
Development Executive Training
The development process that 9 series projects of TV Launch program go through is used as a platform to train 3 attending development executive participants, who will be trained for their future role of commissioning editors or heads of development on real, existing series projects, acquiring skills needed for developing a diverse range of projects.
The participants will be assigned to groups and will work closely with the projects in their group, following all sessions of the program and also participating actively in the online consultations in between the residential workshops.
Together with the projects, the participants will present themselves within the Season Finale platform in Tallinn, Estonia, during Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event.
DATES AND VENUES
Workshop 1/ Czech Republic: April 23 – 30, 2020
Workshop 2/ Bosnia and Herzegovina (within FF Sarajevo): August 2020
Workshop 3/ Estonia (within Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event): November 2020
WHO CAN APPLY
Individual participants, who may, but not necessarily have to, be connected to a broadcaster.
If you would like to know more about the real experience of development executive training, read an interview with Zuzana Ferenczova and Martynas Mendelis, who represent the first generation of our development executive training graduates.
For more information about the program and access to the application, click here. Please note that many further questions can be answered within our FAQ section!
MIDPOINT TV Launch 2020 is realized with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Czech Film Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. It is presented in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival – CineLink Industry Days, Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event, HBO Europe, Marseille Web Fest, Serial Eyes, NEM Zagreb, C21 Media, Series Mania, CANNESERIES Institute, Seriencamp, MIA TV Market, MediaXchange, Meeting Point Vilnius and the Audiovisual Producers' Association. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
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Czech Film Fund / Czech Film Center proudly present another collection of the best of Czech short films. The collection contains 12 brand new or festival-approved fiction, documentary and animated shorts produced in 2019 and 2020 - such as: the student Oscar winner and Academy Award nominee Daughter (Annecy IAFF 2019, Toronto IFF 2019, Sundance FF 2020), The Kite (Berlinale 2019, Annecy IAFF 2019), SH_T HAPPENS (Venice IFF 2019, Sundance FF 2019), Playing (KVIFF 2019, San Sebastian IFF 2019) or Leaf (Berlinale 2020).
The collection can be found HERE on our website. You can watch each film by clicking on "Film Preview", up on registration. The collection is inteded for film professionals only.
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere in Generation Kplus at Berlinale 2019
- Young Audience Award at Annecy IAFF 2019
- International Animated Short Competition at Cinekid 2019
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere in Future Frames at KVIFF 2019
- Nest Film Students at San Sebastian IFF
DAUGHTER
Czech Republic 2019 / 15 min
Directed by: Daria Kashcheeva
Produced by: Zuzana Roháčová / FAMU
Co-produced by: MAUR film
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere at Annecy IAFF 2019
- Cristal for a Graduation Film at Annecy IAFF 2019
- Junior Jury Award for a Graduation Film at Annecy IAFF 2019
- Short Cuts at Toronto IFF 2019
- Student Academy Award 2019 in category International Schools: Animation
- Academy Award nomination in category Animated Short Film
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation at Sundance FF 2020
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere at Venice IFF 2019
- Short films at Sundance FF 2020
LEAF
CZ 2020 / 6 min
Directed by: Aliona Baranova
Produced by: Lukáš Gregor / UTB ve Zlíně
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere in Generation Kplus at Berlinale 2020
FORGET ME NOT
CZ 2019 / 7 min
Directed by: Adéla Križovenská
Produced by: Ondřej Šejnoha / FAMU
THERE'S NO SHOOTING IN KYIV
CZ 2020 / 30 min
Directed by: Jakub Šedý
Produced by: Jan Macola / Mimesis Film
ABOUT-HAIR
CZ 2019 / 17 min
Directed by: Josefina Lubojacki
Produced by: Ondřej Šejnoha, Adam Ligas / FAMU
DON'T BE A PUSSY
CZ 2019 / 20 min
Directed by: Jakub Jirásek
Produced by: Ondřej Šejnoha / FAMU
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- International Animated Short Competition at Cinekid 2019
DEBT
CZ 2019 / 14 min
Directed by: Ondřej Novák
Produced by: Dagmar Sedláčková / MasterFilm
Czech Film Center operates as a division of the Czech Film Fund
Three Czech animated shorts will be screened at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020. SH_T HAPPENS by Dávid Štumpf and Michaela Mihályi will compete in International Competition, The Kite by Martin Smatana and The Concrete Jungle by Marie Urbánková will please spectators in Young Audience section.
Czech films at Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2020
SH_T HAPPENS
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France 2019 / 13 min
Directed by: Dávid Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi
Produced by: Peter Badač / BFILM.cz (CZ)
Co-produced by: BFILM (SK), Bagan Films (FR), FAMU (CZ) ... (full crew)
An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.
SCREENINGS
SAT 02/01 | 22:15 | Genova
SUN 02/02 | 15:00 | Agnès Varda
MON 02/03 | 16:00 | Cocteau
TUE 02/04 | 20:15 | Genova
WED 02/05 | 18:00 | Genova
THU 02/06 | 18:00 | Cocteau
FRI 02/07 | 11:00 | Vian
SAT 02/08 | 13:00 | Hospital
FESTIVALS
Alexandra Gabrižová / BFILM
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THE CONCRETE JUNGLE
YOUNG AUDIENCE
Czech Republic 2019 / 7 min
Directed by: Marie Urbánková
Produced by: Mária Môťovská / UMPRUM (CZ)
Co-produced by: MAUR film (CZ)
A little boy runs away from his room and his homework into a colourful and noisy jungle, full of gorillas and crocodiles. Children’s fantasy has no boundaries and between the room and the jungle there are no concrete obstacles or unbeatable distances. Magical objects are within reach.
SCREENINGS
SAT 02/01 | 14:00 | Petit Vélo
SUN 02/02 | 10:00 | Jaude 1
SUN 02/02 | 14:00 | Rio
FRI 02/07 | 17:00 | Capitole 1
SAT 02/08 | 10:00 | Petit Vélo
FESTIVALS
Alexandra Hroncová / FAMU
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+420 724 753 713
THE KITE
YOUNG AUDIENCE
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland 2019 / 13 min
Directed by: Martin Smatana
Produced by: Peter Badač / BFILM.cz (CZ)
Co-produced by: BFILM (SK), FAMU (CZ), CeTA (PL) ... (full crew)
The Kite deals with the topic of death in a metaphorical and symbolic way. Through the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa, the film shows that none of us is here forever and all living creatures must die, but at the same time it reminds us that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.
SCREENINGS
SAT 02/01 | 16:00 | Conchon
SUN 02/02 | 14:00 | Petit Vélo
MON 02/03 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
TUE 02/04 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
WED 02/05 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
WED 02/05 | 14:00 | Jaude 1
THU 02/06 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
FRI 02/07 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
FRI 02/07 | 19:30 | Stade nautique
SAT 02/08 | 14:00 | Petite Vélo
SUN 02/09 | 14:00 | Rio
FESTIVALS
Alexandra Gabrižová / BFILM
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+421 948 505 304
Czech Film Center in Clermont-Ferrand
Vítězslav Chovanec - Festival Relations - Docs & Shorts
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3 - 6 February, 2020
Dear Professional,
As you know the MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Republic of Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia & Ukraine).
To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON MASTERS. The next Cartoon Business will be held in Gran Canaria (Spain) from 24th to 26th March 2020.
CARTOON will cover hotel (3 nights from 24th to 27th March) and meals, and refund up to a maximum of 200 EUR for transportation expenses.
Cartoon Business is a top-level seminar focusing on the new generation models of financing and revenues brought about by the changes in the production and distribution markets. You can already consult the list and profiles of international speakers. The detailed programme will be updated soon.
For further information on scholarship, please consult this page.
In order to apply for a scholarship, please return us by 16th February 2020 this form together with a motivation letter and a curriculum.
You may directly address your application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kind regards,
Julie LIAMIN
Cartoon Masters
ZagrebDox's upcoming edition takes place at CineStar Zagreb – Branimir Mingle Mall, 15-22 March
Press releases 03-02-2020The International Documentary Film festival ZagrebDox has been for years transforming Zagreb into a vortex of recent documentary film production thus enabling audience a direct insight into impressive, daring stories and fates of colourful individuals from the farthest corners of the world.
The same goes for this year, only with new dates and a new venue. The 16th ZagrebDox takes place from 15 to 22 March at CineStar Zagreb – Branimir Mingle Mall. Throughout eight days all the visitors will get a chance to attend film screenings and reveal up-to-date creative preoccupations, consider a series of burning social issues and take part in a dialogue and meetings with filmmakers live, thus divulging and conveying the impressions of the tales told.
The 16th ZagrebDox festival will screen over a hundred feature and short documentaries from all over the world and host many local and international filmmakers.
*The Cave
ZagrebDox’s film programme includes titles honoured at festivals around the world and as many as three of this year’s Oscar nominees: The Cave by Feras Fayyad, For Sama by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, and Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re A Girl) by Carol Dysinger. All of these documentaries examine life and survival options in war-torn Middle East zones, sharing strong female protagonists whose actions and work cross the boundaries imposed on them by socio-religious-political circumstances. For more information, click here.
*Sea of Shadows
One of the new programme sections is Eco Dox, featuring four documentaries that in different ways point to the consequences of the global environmental crisis such as endangered animal species, air pollution, soil pollution, but also illustrate examples of innovative models of survival in areas struck by the crisis.
National Geographic’s thrilling documentary Sea of Shadows by the acclaimed Austrian director and cinematographer Richard Ladkani speaks about the disaster threatening the Baja California waters, today home to only 15 vaquita porpoises. Hollywood’s ardent eco-fighter Leonardo Di Caprio is the producer of this title, the audience award winner at Sundance, and the film confirmed the director’s status of a ‘docu-thriller’ master.
The Chinese city of Lengfang, haplessly crowned one of the worst air pollution cities in the world, is the scene of Smog Town by Chinese director Meng Han, and the documentary You Think the Earth is a Dead Thing by the French artist, director and photographer Florence Lazar speaks about the issue that befell the population on the Caribbean island of Martinique. In the film When Tomatoes Met Wagner by Mariana Economou, two Greek farmers set out on an unusual endeavour: with the help of Richard Wagner’s classical compositions, which they believe stimulate the growth of fruits, they grow tomatoes from authentic seed kept for hundreds of years. As the official Greek Oscar candidate, this film is one of the rare documentaries running in the best international film category.
Several titles from other sections of this year’s ZagrebDox also focus on environmental issues in different ways: in regional competition we will be watching films about the possibility to achieve a harmonious coexistence with nature: Then Comes the Evening by Maja Novaković, Siddharta by Damiano Giacomelli and Lorenzo Raponi and Acasa, My Home by Radu Ciorniciuc.
For more information, click here.
