We are happy that tx-reverse 360° will be shown at Sundance Film Festival 2020 / New Frontier (Park City, USA), 23 January to 2 February 2020. So far the film has received 53 invitations to film festivals and won 8 international film awards!
Back in the 1990s, Martin Reinhart invented a film technique called "tx-transform", which exchanges the time (t) and space axis (x) in a film. Normally, each individual film frame represents the entire space, but only a brief moment of time (1/24 second). In the case of tx-transformed films, however, the opposite is true: each film frame shows the entire time, but only a tiny part of the space – in cuts along the horizontal spatial axis, the left part of the image thus becomes the "before", the right part the "after".
20 years after Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich used this film technique for the first time in a short film ("tx-transform", 1998), they again deal with the question of which previously unseen world arises when space and time are interchanged, aptly in a cinema and at full 360°: at the Babylon Kino in Berlin they filmed with the OmniCam-360 about 135 actors and calculated the short film "tx-reverse" from this material.
tx-reverse 360°
Concept and direction Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich
Music and sound design Siegfried Friedrich
Film distribution Sixpack Film/Aug & Ohr
Distribution 360° VR Lemonade Films
ZENICA: CineStar, the largest multiplex cinema chain in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region, has opened its fifth multiplex in the city of Zenica on 17 December 2019.
On 17 December 2019, CineStar Cinema chain in Bosnia and Herzegovina is richer by another site which was opened in the city of Zenica, in Central Bosnia.
ZAGREB: American media mogul and founder of E! Larry Namer is currently in Zagreb, where an episode of the documentary series Explore the World has recently been filmed.
The call for the exclusive one-year training program CIRCLE will be announced by 20 January 2020. We are looking for up to 10 female filmmakers (directors and/or producers) with a strong documentary project in any stage of production (from development to rough cut) who are seeking further support to upgrade their professional skills, develop films with leading experts and bring them to the wider professional audience
Wrapping up things during December 2019 is just a thing one does, it is in our bones. Ideas, conclusions and plans are in the very core of the final days of a year and in the CIRCLE’s project book they are noted with ambitious flavor.
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, program for documentary filmmakers and producers who are developing internationally potential projects, is concluding its vibrant sophomore year with an optimistic look towards the next endeavors. Launched in 2018, CIRCLE is training initiative with the main goal of empowering women who work in the film industry through the development of their own projects, as well as through polishing of their professional skills. Introducing them to the current tendencies and tools, as well as providing them with insights in market positioning and networking are some of the pieces of a puzzle called contemporary film-making.
Biljana Tutorov, producer, director and founder of CIRCLE:
“CIRCLE is a filmmakers initiative born out of craving to have a platform where we can in confidence exchange about our projects, helped daily by carefully chosen experts in order to assume our desires as filmmakers and to work together towards the excellence. We are offten too impressed by the industry expectations and forget that we are artists who think through our films. This space of solidarity is something I missed in my early development.“
The program runs in three modules and during 2019 the participants were director and producer Alina Gorlova (Between Two Wars, Ukraine), director and producer Andrea Gautier (Celluloid Nymphs, Spain), director Anđelka Vujinović (4 Goodnight Stories, Serbia), director Anna Savchenko, (72 Hours, Belarus), director Asia Dér (I Haven’t Died, Hungary), director Charlie Cauchi (Big Silver, Malta), director Federica Martino (Woolman, Italy), director Joanna Janikowska (Comrades, Poland) and finally director Lee Nechushtan (Two Sisters, Israel). They had a chance to to work intensively with numerous experts from film industry.
Alina Gorlova (Between Two Wars, Ukraine)
“I think it's very unique workshop, because I was feeling individual approach to each project. Sometimes you have to protect your film during such programs, but CIRCLE creates this space of trust where you could share your doubts and fears with tutors and participants.“
Since the whole idea of CIRCE is to promote and equip individual female authors for their careers, the list of professionals responsible for the the transfer of knowledge has to be from the top tier. And in 2019 it was pretty much stellar. It all started with the first module in Podgorica (Montenegro) with Rada Šešić, director and selector of The Competition Programme - Documentaries at Sarajevo Film Festival and member of selection teams of IDFA Amsterdam and IFFR Rotterdam; director of the DOK Co-Pro Market, DOK Leipzig’s Brigid O'Shea; scriptwriter and story editor Simona Nobile who is MEDIA, Eurimages and MIBACT consultant and EWA representative. Along them the first module was organized with the input from Tamara Kotevska, co-director of film Honeyland, this year's triple winner at Sundance Film Festival; Goran Dević, director of numerous awarded films, professor at Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb and producer, distributor and director of Liburnia Film festival Oliver Sertić.
The second module in Novi Sad was especially productive with Joana Solecka, marketing expert and a great connoisseur of everything that we call "audience design"; film editor and documentary script consultant Phil Jandaly; Aleksandar Govedarica - sales agent for Syndicado, one of the leading documentary distribution companies; Jelena Mišeljić - producer, programmer and professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje; Ivana Mladenović (Serbia, Romania) - director of the award-winning films Soldiers. Story from Ferentari and Ivana The Terrible, which won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno in 2019 and has been analyzed through a case study; Maša Marković - Cinelink Coordinator and Selector of "Dealing With the Past" program at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Anna Savchenko, (72 Hours, Belarus)
“CIRCLE workshop has been crucial for me and my film project since its my first feature length and getting into the environment of unique expertise in documentary, but at the same time very open, friendly and encouraging, helped me to understand better which path to choose to continue development and enter production of the film, build up a great network with other participants, tutors and film professionals during the workshop sessions and our delegation in Dok Leipzig Co-production market.”
The year-long process of CIRCLE concluded at DOK Leipzig where all the participants had a chance to impress their colleagues at the 15th DOK Co-Pro Market. EWA – the European Women’s Audiovisual Network has awarded the EWA Development Prize for the best project by filmmakers in the Circle Women Dok Accelerator. Their decision was to split the award to two projects. The financial support went to Between Two Wars by Alina Gorlova and Anna Savchenko received mentorship support to further development of her project 72 Hours for a whole year.
Of course it has to finish with the awards – it is December after all. Preparations for the third CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator are underway and during the January it will all start again: discovering the uncut film gems brought to surface by talented and diligent women film-makers from Europe.
The program is organized by the production company Wake Up Films from Novi Sad in cooperation with UnderhillFest from Podgorica, DOK Leipzig Festival, European Women's Audiovisual Network (EWA), MEDIA Desk Serbia, MEDIA Desk of Montenegro and with the support of the Film Center of Montenegro, Serbian Film Center, City of Novi Sad and the The Petrović Njegoš Foundation.
More about CIRCLE:
PRAGUE: The Czech/Slovak/Ukrainian coproduction The Painted Bird by Václav Marhoul has been sold by Celluloid Dreams to the Canadian distributor Northern Banner Releasing. The Painted Bird is shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the International Feature Film category.
KYIV: The Ukraine is launching a cash rebate for foreign film productions starting 2020. Feature films, documentaries and animated films can apply, as well as TV feature films or animated series, commercials and music videos. Under the scheme foreign productions will be able to get back up to 25% of the qualified costs for producing films in the Ukraine, and an additional 5% if they pass the cultural test on Ukrainian subjects.
TALLINN: Tanel Toom’s debut feature Truth And Justice, shortlisted for the 92nd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ award in the best international feature film category, has been acquired by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique.
TRIESTE: Ten long documentary and 12 feature film projects have been selected out of a record number of applications (338) for the Co-Production Forum of the 10th edition of When East Meets West (WEMW). The industry section of the Trieste Film Festival (17-23 January 2020) will be held from 19 to 21 January 2020.
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST
(Trieste, January 19-21, 2020)
Trieste - December 20, 2019 – 22 film projects from 17 countries will be presented at the special 10th anniversary edition of When East Meets West, the Italian Co-Production Forum taking place from January 19-21, 2020 in the frame of the Trieste Film Festival. This year WEMW will bring together more than 500 industry professionals from over 40 countries, particularly from the 2020 East & West spotlight territories: Hungary, Moldova and Romania and Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
The 22 projects in development - 10 long feature documentaries and 12 fiction features - were selected out of 338 submissions from 55 different countries. The final selection will include several debut features such as Double Happiness by Sebastian Mihailescu (Old Luxurious Flat Located In An Ultra-Central, Desirable Neighborhood, Locarno Film Festival 2016) and Larry by Szilárd Bernáth (Pay Day, Clermont-Ferrand 2016) but also upcoming films by Ann-Kristin Reyels (Berlinale Forum 2012 with Formentera), Lieven Corthouts (Little Heaven, IDFA 2011) and Elina Psykou (The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas, Berlinale Forum 2013). Furthermore, thanks to the brand new cooperation with IFFR's CineMart the WEMW final line-up will also feature the Bulgarian title Women Do Cry and directors Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (Cat in the Wall, Locarno Film Festival 2019) will have the chance to present their upcoming project in these different but complementary events to further enhance its market opportunities.
“The record number of applications received this year shows once more the great drive of so many filmmakers from all over the world and we are proud to celebrate 10 years of WEMW with the beautiful stories they will share. This is going to be a special edition because we are also expanding our network of partners to offer a tailor made follow-up to our selected projects: we are very happy to launch the new collaboration with IFFR's CineMart and we are also making the first steps to launch a new partnership in Cannes with the Marché du Film.”, remarks Alessandro Gropplero, head of WEMW.
Also this year all 22 projects will compete for the Film Center Serbia Development Award, the EAVE European Producers Workshop scholarship, the Cannes Producers Network Prize and the Flow Postproduction Award. Moreover, all selected fiction projects will compete for the Pop Up Film Residency Award, whereas all female directors will be eligible for the EWA Network Best Woman Director Award.
In addition to the 22 projects selected for the pitching forum, WEMW will invite two additional guest projects previously presented at DOCMONTEVIDEO and DOCSP Brazil.
Together with the Co-Production Forum, the programme of WEMW 2020 will be as rich as ever and include all its now established side events: the fine cut section for creative documentaries Last Stop Trieste, the workshop for long feature fiction films in editing phase First Cut Lab and the work in progress section for films produced or co-produced by Italian companies This is IT. But there will also be room for some new fresh initiatives, such as the TV series mini lab MIDPOINT Cold Open, the project showcase of short films developed at MIDPOINT Shorts and the international Work-in-Progress presentation of the First Cut + curated portfolio of 8 fiction features.
It is still possible to request an online accreditation to participate in the coproduction forum. All detailed information about the programme and the confirmed participants are on www.wemw.it
The 22 projects selected for WEMW 2020 are:
1970 by Darko Lungulov - Papa Films (Serbia)
A SAD AND VULGAR LONER by Efthymia Zymvragaki, Xavier Domènech - Grismedio (Spain)
BLIND PIT by Federico Schiavi, Giorgio Bianchi - Nacne (Italy)
DOUBLE HAPPINESS by Sebastian Mihailescu - Microfilm (Romania)
ELECTING MISS SANTA by Raisa Razmerita - Niste Filme (Moldova)
GIRLS & GODS by Verena Soltiz, Arash T. Riahi - Golden Girls Filmproduktion (Austria)
IRENE'S WORLD by Mery Aghakhanyan - Hoshkee Film (Armenia)
LARRY by Szilárd Bernáth - Focusfox Studio (Hungary)
LILI by Sylwia Rosak - Haka Films (Poland)
NOT A WORD by Hanna Slak - Volte (Germany)
ORDINARY FAILURES by Cristina Groșan - Xova Film (Czech Republic)
SANDBAG DAM by Čejen Černić - Kinorama (Croatia)
STRANDZHA by Pepa Hristova - Fünferfilm (Germany)
STRAY BODIES by Elina Psykou - Contrast Film (Switzerland)
THE LAST MISFITS BY THE GOLDEN RIVER by Juho-Pekka Tanskanen - Danish Bear Productions (Finland)
THE MAN WITHOUT GUILT by Ivan Gergolet - Transmedia production (Italy)
THE MONKEY AND THE GIRL by Ann-Kristin Reyels - Unafilm (Germany)
THE WHITE CLUB by Michele Pennetta - Beauvoir Films (Switzerland)
THIS IS MY MOMENT by Lieven Corthouts - Cassette for timescapes (Belgium)
TOO CLOSE by Botond Pusok - Luna Film (Romania)
VALLEY OF MONUMENTS by Srdan Vuletic - Artikulacija Film (Montenegro)
WOMEN DO CRY by Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova - Activist38 (Bulgaria)
The 2 guest projects are:
AMAZON, A NEW MINAMATA? by Jorge Bodansky – Ocean Films (Brazil)
MOTOCYCLE by Gastón Sahajdacny – Ana Apontes (Argentina)
