APPLY NOW FOR SCHOLARSHIP !

The fifth edition of Cartoon Springboard will take place in Valencia, Spain, from 30 September to 2 October 2019. It will be an excellent opportunity for the young talents of European animation schools to improve their animation project by pitching it in front of a panel of experts from the audiovisual world.

Have you graduated within the last 5 years or are you about to graduate this summer/fall (students in their last year)? Let's present your animation project to experts who will help you to improve it
The submission of the projects is now fully running with a deadline coming soon: 25th August 2019. The projects which can be submitted are: TV series, TV specials, feature films, cross-media projects. To submit a project at Cartoon Springboard, you must be a young talent from European animation school and must have graduated within the last 5 years.

No project or not eligible but interested in attending ?
Cartoon Springboard is also open to all professionals who want to improve their knowledge about how to pitch a project. This is also a great opportunity to meet other professionals (producers, broadcasters, games...) from all over Europe.

Special offer for participants from low audiovisual production countries
If you are a citizen of one of the following countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,  Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia & Ukraine), you can apply for a scholarship in order to attend the event (with or without a project).
There is no registration fee, accommodation (3 nights) and travel expenses (up to 200€) are offered to the successful applicants. 

Applicants will have to:
1/ For those who want to pitch their project:
> Submit their project by 25th August at the latest specifying their country of origin (nationality) through our online form (My Cartoon > My Projects > Cartoon Springboard > Submit a new project).
> Fill in and send us the scholarship form by Friday 30th August

2/ For those who want to attend without pitching any project:
> Fill in and send us the scholarship form by Friday 30th August at the latest, together with a motivation letter and CV.
Note: Should your project be accepted by the Springboard Selection committee (on 30th August), your scholarship request will automatically be validated.

The applications can be sent directly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

www.cartoon-media.eu - www.facebook.com/CARTOON.eu

The 5th edition of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency has selected its participants

The 5th edition of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency, which will take place between 2–10 September 2019, at Port Cetate, Romania, has selected its participants from a total of 119 applications received from 44 countries.

The 8 participants, coming from 6 countries, were selected by co-founders Andreea Borțun and Bryn Chainey:

Ori Aharon (Israel/Romania) - OSHER

Phyllis Grae Grande (Philippines) - Everybody Leaves

Tess Martin (USA) - Tracing Rita

Alexandru Mavrodineanu (Romania) - A serious man

Kerstin Neuwirth (Austria) - ABITANTI

Jayisha Patel (UK) - When Ash Falls

Diana Voinea (Romania) - Chronicle of a disappearance 

Jack Wake-Walker (UK) - Scarlett123

During the nine-day retreat they will develop their first or second feature-length screenplays at Port Cultural Cetate, a serene place on the Danube. Besides dedicated writing time, Pustnik also offers participants the opportunity of meeting established European filmmakers who will provide feedback on their projects. The guests confirmed this year are Soudade Kadaan (director), Bianca Oana (producer), Laurence Coriat (screenwriter), Marie Dubas (producer) and Len Rowles (producer). 

Marie Dubas started producing short films in 2008 in several production companies before founding Deuxième Ligne Films in 2014 in Normandy. She is an EAVE 2013 graduate and has taken part in the TorinoFilmLab script & pitch program in 2009 as a script-editor trainee. He production company, Deuxième Ligne aims at focusing on French and international emerging talents. It has co-produced John Trengove's first feature film THE WOUND (South Africa) (Sundance 2016, Berlinale Panorama 2017) and recently finished Teona Mitevska's fifth feature GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIJA (Macedonia), winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Berlinale 2019.

Len Rowles runs her own production label Humdinger Films, which has produced BAFTA and Student Oscar-nominated shorts. She is also a part of Protagonist Pictures’ team, an international finance, production and sales company which has a proven track record in outstanding films and commercial successes. Based in the UK, the company handles films from around the world, always maintaining a strong focus on filmmakers with exceptional vision and storytelling skills.

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The residents and invited filmmakers will participate in various activities such as roundtable discussions, masterclasses, and one-on-one talks. Furthermore, a panel of local professionals will also provide an overview of co-production opportunities in Romania. 

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About Pustnik:

Pustnik is the first international screenwriters residency to take place in Romania. It aims to create an environment dedicated to clarity of thought, away from modern pressures. Pustnik is also a growing network of film professionals and a community whose aim is to ease and encourage collaboration across the international cinema industry.

For more information:

www.pustnik.com

www.facebook.com/pustnik

Laura Musat  – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Pustnik is organized by TETA

TETA is an NGO founded in June 2006 and its main purpose is developing cultural activities and events to promote an alternative education for all participants enrolled in its projects and at the same time to offer a cultural revival to the communities in which the events take place. TETA is also producing films and theatre performances. 

Cultural Project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund, Romanian Cultural Institute, Romanian Filmmakers’ Union (UCIN)

Partners: French Institute Romania, British Council Romania, CinEd

Media partners: Film New Europe, TV5 Monde Romania, Films in Frame, Sub25, Liternet, The Institute, IQAds, Smark, Aarc.ro, Tananana

Projects selected for 2019 edition of Polish Days

New films of Maciej Pieprzyca, Jan Komasa, Jagoda Szelc, Anna Jadowska and Leszek Dawid at this year’s biggest industry event in Poland. 

The 2019 edition of Polish Days will take place July 30 - August 1 during the 19th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 25 - August 4, 2018).

This year's event will feature 5 completed films, 8 as part of a presentation of works in progress and 10 projects in development. Congratulations to all!

Full list of selected projects:

Completed films:

Bird Talk (Xawery Żuławski) Taste of Pho (Mariko Saga), Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa), Interior (Marek Lechki), Marygoround (Daria Woszek)

Works-in-progress:

Cranley Gardens (Rafał Kapeliński), Najmro (Mateusz Rakowicz), Tonia (Marcin Bortkiewicz), Broad Peak (Leszek Dawid), Escape to the Silver Globe (Kuba Mikurda), Ikar. Legenda Mietka Kosza(Maciej Pieprzyca), Apples (Christos Nikou), Sunburned (Carolina Hellsgård)

Pitchings

Let it Be (Łukasz Grzegorzek), Delicate Balance of Terror (Jagoda Szelc), More (Bartłomiej Żmuda), Other People (Aleksandra Terpińska),  A Time of Gods (Piotr Stasik), Wet Monday (Justyna Mytnik), We Will Be Fine (Sylwester Jakimow), Mira (Anna Jadowska), God of Internet (Joanna Satanowska), The Great Match (Filip Syczyński) 

Over 200 professionals from Poland and abroad have already confirmed their participation, including programmers from numerous international festivals, sales agents, distributors and film producers.

As part of the event, industry representatives from around the world attend closed screenings to learn about the latest Polish films at every stage of production: they watch completed films and fragments at the post-production stage, and they also listen to pitchings about projects in production. Polish Days is an excellent opportunity for producers and filmmakers to promote their projects and to find foreign partners. During the selection process, the organizers choose the most interesting films currently being made in the Polish market. Projects presented in past years included, among others, Dolce Fine Giornata, Monument, Silent Night, Panic Attack!, The Fastest, Spoor or The Last Family. 

Organized since 2013 in cooperation with the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the most important industry event at the New Horizons International Film Festival.

Polish Days is co-organized by the Polish Film Institute. Event partners include EAVE, Coloroffon, the Wrocław Film Commission, the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, the Łódź Film Commission, the Krakow Film Commission, the Podkarpackie Film Commission, Silesia Film Commission, Warmia - Masuria Film Fund, DI Factory, British Council and Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The Screen International also partners with Polish Days starting this year and will grant its award.

Media partners include Film Pro, Film New Europe and Film & TV Kamera.

For all those who woke up late and missed the deadline of the 30th June, good news: there are still a few places available to attend the next 4-day European VoD Meetings in Venice, during the Venice Film Festival. The extended deadline is until July 14th ! There are also a very limited number of scholarships available, thanks to the support of the MEDIA programme, and some rebates available thanks to our partners, such as EAVE with a 200€ rebate for its members.

For the first time EuroVoD is organizing a VoD Market Day in Venice on September 3rd on San Servolo Island. A full day centered around the current VoD landscape with, in the morning, conferences on trends, evolution and tech innovation that will open to people. A VoD Market and networking event will take place in the afternoon. Participants to the European VoD Meetings will automatically attend and announcements will be made soon on how to sign up for this unique event. For more information, contact us:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Our next General Assembly will take place in Venice, on San Servolo island, on September 6th, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, following the European VoD Meetings. EuroVoD members willing to attend have to confirm their presence to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY

Advisory Committee

Call for application

04/07: Call for proposals: Preparatory Action "Cinemas as Innovation Hubs for Local Communities" – European Commission

The Commission is launching a 2M € call for proposals to create innovative cultural hubs around cinema theatres, notably in areas where there is limited cinema and cultural infrastructure.

EU Geo-Blocking Regulation

27/06: Digital Single Market: Survey shows Europeans are well aware of rules against unjustified geo-blocking – European Commission

Seven months after new rules against unjustified geo-blocking began to apply, general consumer awareness of the new rules against restrictions for online shopping and cross-border sales is already high.

EU Top Jobs

03/07: EU Top jobs: Class of 2019 biographies – The Parliament Magazine

The European Council discussed and agreed on nominations for the EU's top jobs at the Special European Council on 30 June, 1 and 2 July 2019 in Brussels. The European Council elected Charles Michel as the new President of the European Council and proposed Ursula von der Leyen as candidate for the President of the European Commission.

European Parliament

03/07: The new European Parliament Vice-Presidents – European Parliament

All 14 European Parliament Vice-Presidents were elected in three rounds of voting for a two-and-a-half-year term. Eleven Vice-Presidents were elected in the first ballot, two in the second and the remaining one by a relative majority in the third.

04/07: Full members of the Culture and Education Committee announced – European Parliament

MEPs approved the size of all Parliament’s committees and subcommittees. The Committee on Culture and Education will consist of 31 MEPs.

04/07: EP Quaestors elected, Parliament Bureau complete – European Parliament

The five new Quaestors for the first two and a half years of the 9th legislative term were elected by acclamation in Strasbourg.

02/07: Parliament starts new term with seven political groups – European Parliament

Ever since the results of the European elections have been in, newly-elected MEPs have been organising themselves into political groups, which bring together representatives from different EU countries based on their political affinities. MEPs have formed seven political group.

Creative Europe Media

/07: Creative Europe MEDIA publishes an overview of good gender practices – EAO Newsletter

During the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, the European Commission, represented by Creative Europe MEDIA, launched the first edition of “Women on the Move” day, unveiling a brochure summarising gender-equality good practices followed by the EU’s audiovisual industry and policymakers.

Events

10 July: CULT, JURI, ITRE, IMCO Committees’ constitutive meetings, Brussels
15-18 July: Second European Parliament Plenary, Strasbourg
16 July: European Parliament vote on Commission Presidency, Strasbourg
10-11 September: Finnish Presidency conference - Creation, innovation and promotion – competitiveness of European audiovisual industry, Helsinki
25-26 September: EUIPO Observatory PLenary Meeting, Alicante
September/October: Hearings of candidate Commissioners
October/November: Election of new European Commission
1 November: European Commission comes into office

Kids Kino.Lab development programme – call for applications is now open!

You can now submit your project for Kids Kino.Lab workshops! 

Kids Kino.Lab ​ it's an international development programme for ​film projects​ and ​TV series​ for young audience. It is dedicated to script writers and producers who are interested in developing their film (​live action, animation or documentary​) or a TV series from a concept to a highly advanced script stage and initial production assumptions. For submissions we invite filmmakers from ​Belgium​, ​Czech Republic​, ​Greece​ and ​Poland​. 

Submission deadline: 30th of September. 

Former Kids Film.Pro goes international as Kids Kino.Lab 

The project started as Kids Film.Pro in 2014 and was limited just to Polish projects. This year’s edition will turn into an international workshop under a new name: Kids Kino.Lab and it includes partnership countries. We are happy to introduce our partners: 

• International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino!, Poznań, Poland 
• JE.F Festival, Antwerp, Belgium 
• Zlin Film Festival, Zlin, Czech Republic 
• Athens International Children’s Film Festival, Athens, Greece 

Kids Kino.Lab works with ​12 teams ​(scriptwriter and producer) including ​4 series and 8 feature films​ on participants ideas. Our goal is to develop the script form short synopsis (budget, financing and promotion plan). 

Schedule 

This years edition of Kids Kino.Lab will consist of ​4 stationary workshop​ sessions and at least 3 on-line sessions.​ The workshops will be conducted in English only on the following months: 

• November/December 2019, Poznań, International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! 
• March 2020, Antwerp, JEF festival
• May 2020, Zlin, Zlin Film Festival
• August 2020, Athens, Athens International Children’s Film Festival
• Selected projects will be presented at the ​Warsaw Kids Film Forum ​2020 – an international co-production forum, which is an industry part of​ ​Kids Film Festival​.

Rules 

• This year we accept projects from our partnership countries: ​Czech Republic, Belgium, Greece​ and ​Poland​. 
• We do accept both feature films and tv series projects in all the categories: animations/ documentaries/ live-actions.
• No​ short films and tv specials are accepted. 
• Workshops will be leaded ​just in English​. 
• The cost of the programme is ​1600 EUR per team​. 
• As the organizer we cover the accommodation and food for participants. 
• The travel costs are on the participant’s side. 
• The workshops is aimed for teams: ​producer + scriptwriter​. 

Our experts 

Kirsten Bonnen Rask​ – feature films script Tutor. 

Kirsten is an experienced script consultant in all formats – shorts, features, TV series, and documentaries for adults as well as for children. 

​Armin Prediger​ – series script Tutor. 

Armin has worked in the film industry for 25 years, 18 of those as a writer, head writer and script editor in live-action and animation. 

​Ronald Kruschak​ – producer’s Tutor. 

Germany-based producer, writer and tutor/lecturer with a track record of twenty years of filmmaking focusing on Family Entertainment. 

Philip LaZebnik​ – feature films script Tutor. 

Philip is a screenwriter, writer of plays and a screenwriting consultant. Originally associated with Disney Studios and Dream Works. His screenwriting credits include Mulan and Pocahontas for Disney, and The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado for DreamWorks, among many others.

10th edition of New Horizons Studio+ will take place on 27th -30th July during 19th New Horizons International Film Festival (25th July - 4th August).

New Horizons Studio+, organized by the New Horizons Association and Creative Europe Desk Poland is a training programme for directors and producers developing their first or second feature film. It involves four days of workshops and lectures on various aspects related to the promotion and development of projects. 

This year we selected 10 director-producer duets, including 5 projects from Poland and 5 from Austria, Denmark, Romania, Ukraine and Serbia.

This year's lineup of lecturers includes the following outstanding experts:  David Pope (London Film Academy), sales agent Hédi Zardi – CEO of Luxbox, Michael Arnon (EAVE) representing Wolf Consultants, Aranka Matits (EAVE) from Featurette and Mathias Noschis from Alphapanda.

Partners of the event are: EAVE- one of the leading professional training, project development and networking organization in Europe, the organizer of the EAVE Producers Workshop and the EAVE Marketing Workshop; London Film Academy, Ale kino+, British Council, Romanian Institute of Culture, Netherlands Embassy in Warsaw and Austrian Cultural Forum.

Media partners include Ale kino+, Film & TV Kamera, Film Pro and Film New Europe.

Below is a full list of selected participants and projects. Heartfelt congratulations to everyone!

Pray for Peace, Train for War
dir. Agnieszka Elbanowska / prod. Bartek Gliński (Poland)

Prime Time 
dir. Jakub Piątek / prod. Jakub Razowski (Poland)

Other Life 
dir. Damian Kocur / prod. Magdalena Kamińska (Poland)

The Root Crown
dir. Katarzyna Gondek /prod. Paweł Kosuń (Poland)

More 
dir. Bartłomiej Żmuda / prod. Przemysław Miękinia (Poland)

Swimming Pool  (Austria)
dir. Filip Antoni Malinowski / prod. Jürgen Karasek 

The Quiet Migration  (Denmark)
dir. Malene Choi Jensen / prod. Maria Møller Kjeldgaard

How is Katia? (Ukraine) 
dir. Christina Tynkevych / prod. Olha Matat 

Summer Nights, Morning Haze (Serbia)
dir. Svetislav Dragomirović / prod. Nevena Savić 

Horia (Romania)
dir. Ana-Maria Comanescu / prod. Carla Fotea

The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a non-specialized festival with three competitive categories, took place from June 28th to July 6th this year. It was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a.s., with Jiří Bartoška as president of the festival and Karel Och as an artistic director. The 55th Karlovy Vary IFF will be held from July 3rd to July 11th 2020. On July 6th 2019, the festival’s juries presented awards for the best films at the closing ceremony of the 54th Karlovy Vary IFF.

OFFICIAL SELECTION – COMPETITION

GRAND JURY

Štěpán Hulík, Czech Republic

Annemarie Jacir, State of Palestine

Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine

Angeliki Papoulia, Greece

Charles Tesson, France

GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE (25 000 USD)

The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.

The Father / Bashtata

Directed by: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

Bulgaria, Greece, 2019  

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (15 000 USD)

The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.  

Lara / Lara

Directed by: Jan-Ole Gerster

Germany, 2019  

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD  

Tim Mielants for the film Patrick / De Patrick

Belgium, 2019

BEST ACTRESS AWARD 

Corinna Harfouch for her role in the film Lara / Lara

Directed by: Jan-Ole Gerster

Germany, 2019

BEST ACTOR AWARD 

Milan Ondrík for his role in the film Let There Be Light / Nech je svetlo

Directed by: Marko Škop Slovak Republic,

Czech Republic, 2019  

SPECIAL JURY MENTION  

The August Virgin / La virgen de agosto

Directed by: Jonás Trueba

Spain, 2019  

SPECIAL JURY MENTION  

Promissing new talent Antonia Giesen for her role in the film The Man of the Future / El hombre del futuro

Directed by: Felipe Ríos Chile,

Argentina, 2019

The full final press release is available here.