Tallinn Industry Days kicks off with an unprecedented line-up of Asian and North American professionals
Festivals 26-11-2012The top movers from Asian and American independent industry from producers to financiers, festivals and institutions are meeting up in Estonia on 26-28 November to boost their cooperation across continents, Estonia and North Eastern Europe. Multinational hits, Asian project markets, potential of genre biz, and crowd funding are tackled in a two day meet with a unique finance and matching program with local startup and risk capital leaders.
FNE asks Estonian producer and Baltic Event helmer, Riina Sildos about this year’s 11th edition of the event and about the reorganisation of the structures that underpin the Estonian film industry.
BRATISLAVA: Georgian cinema continues to reach beyond its borders with the first ever Days of Georgian Cinema, wrapping today in Bratislava after four days of screening seven Georgian films in Slovakia.
PARIS: Sofia Film Festival helmer and Bulgarian producer, distributor and exhibitor Stefan Kitanov has been awarded this year’s Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Kitanov runs the Dom na Kinoto cinema in Sofia.
TIFF traditionally hosts the international competition of films, including first and second long features of European directors. The Festival considers it utmostly important to present the selection of the films and thus introduce new faces of European cinema, directors that create the cinema of the future.
10 films will be in competition at 13th edition of Tbilisi International Film Festival. The head of the international jury will be the famouse Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. On 8th of December, Closing Gala 2 main prizes will be awarded: Golden Prometheus - for the best film, Silver Prometheus - for the best director.
Only nine more days before European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners will gather to celebrate European cinema at its finest at the 25th European Film Awards in Malta.
Tallinn Black Nights Industry Days Nov 26-27, Nordic Hotel Forum, Estonia offers you for the last week industry accreditation for the amazing price of 55 EUR!
to meet, network, learn and do business with the top film professionals of Europe, North-America and Asia.
This year´s edition of Bratislava IFF (Nov 9-15, 2012, www.iffbratislava.sk) presented new competition section dedicated to Slovak films: MADE IN SLOVAKIA - Feature and Animation Film Competition.
With a little delay, find herewith the information about the awards!
CALL FOR ENTRIES
CYPRUS FILM DAYS 2013
11th International Film Festival
19/4/2013 - 28/4/2013
Call for entries for the International Competition Section “Glocal Images”
Submission of films
The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Rialto Theatre announce that Calls for Entries for the 11th CYPRUS FILM DAYS - International Film Festival 2013, are now open. The festival, which is being held for the 11th time this year, will host for the 3rd consecutive year a separate international competition section entitled “Glocal Images”, in which filmmakers from around the globe and Cyprus are invited to submit their fiction films. The films participating in the competition section will be selected by the festival’s artistic committee: Adonis Florides (Film director), Dr. Costas Constandinides (Academic) and Constantinos Sarkas (Journalist). This year’s festival will take place from the 19th to the 28th of April 2013 in Nicosia and in Limassol as in previous years.
American Film Festival, Wrocław: Hide Your Smiling Faces wins big at the 2nd edition of US in Progress Wrocław
Festivals 19-11-2012US IN PROGRESS is the first industry event in Europe devoted entirely to US-indies and focused on the completion and European distribution of American indie feature films at post-production stage.
