LJUBLJANA: The Serbian short film Mud Chronicles by Vuk Palibrk won the ;DASF Audience Award and a prize of 1,000 EUR at the awards ceremony of the 17th edition of Animateka International Animated Film Festival on 6 December 2020. The festival took place in an online format.
This week True Story, a collaborative project between the Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe, speaks to Czech documentary maker Martin Pav, who speaks about his documentary Wolves at the Borders.
GDYNIA: The Hater by Polish director Jan Komasa, a cyber thriller and the follow up to his box office hit feature debut Suicide Room, screens in the main competition of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, taking place online 8 – 12 December 2020.
The grand opening of the 17th edition of Animateka 2020 International Animated Film Festival will happen on Monday 30/11/2020, at 20:00.
After the festival opening, we invite you to our festival platform, to watch a special opening programme of animated shorts selected by this year’s international jury, plus an opening film selected by the festival team. The programme will be available after the opening ceremony.
You can follow the opening on our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/animateka/posts/3164329593672030
Or on the festival platform: https://online.animateka.si/start/play/5fb965c77e42d200b46b0e4b/5fb9661d8dc93811c2c8cf1f
And you can watch the OPENING PROGRAMME here: https://bit.ly/39nEctp=SI
Call for all
Works-in-Progress & Workshops:
EXTENDED DEADLINE!
After closing the call for the Co-production Forum, WEMW offers the last chance to apply to one of the many initiatives included in this special 2021 edition: from the Works-in-Progress for feature fiction films and the Fine-Cut-Session for creative documentaries, to a lab for films in editing phase and a programme for producers aspiring to shift to TV series content.
You still have few more days left to check out all our events and find the one that suits you best!
Tangible Utopias, the pioneering VR project directed by Ioana Mischie, catalyzed by the civic imagination of children celebrates the first international milestones
Press releases 30-11-2020“Tangible Utopias is an exploratory VR experience immersing the viewer as a first person into an Odyssey of potential future city scenarios as envisioned by children around the world, with the purpose of inspiring the future of society. ” (Ioana Mischie, transmedia artist/futurist)
You start watching the trailer and it feels like you are attending a sneak peek into long-term urban futures. From the first sequence you are transposed into an urban mirage that carefully guides you with a lot of imagination in a world you would like to be part of. At the end of the trailer, you find yourself wanting to scout for more. Well, this is just the beginning.
LIVE WEBINAR: “Coping with uncertainty – navigating live-action children’s film releases through pandemic”
Press releases 01-12-2020Join us today during the live webinar “Coping with uncertainty – navigating live-action children’s film releases through pandemic”.
Start: 12:00 CET. ZOOM. You still have time to register!
What if I can’t attend live?
Mondays are busy. We feel you. :)
The webinar will be recorded. Once you have registered, you will get the link to the recording straight to your email box. Although we truly encourage you to join us live, you can always watch our webinar later.
The Kids Kino Industry is co-financed by the Creative Europe-MEDIA, Polish Film Institute and Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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MIDPOINT Cold Open targets independent producers, with a background in feature film producing, aspiring to shift to high-end series content.
You can now apply until this Friday, December 4, 2020, find more information here & access the application from here.
(The program is participant-based, only one producer per company is accepted.)
Film O’Clock International Festival proudly announces its first edition (February 27 - March 3) featuring an innovative concept
Press releases 01-12-2020Film O’Clock International Festival aims to expand the love for cinema and for humankind beyond any borders, and welcomes everyone to its first edition, that will take place between the 27th of February and the 3rd of March 2021. The film selection and the agenda of the festival will soon be announced on the official website: http://foc-iff.com/, and on the Film O'Clock International Festival Facebook page.
The organizers propose an event that aims to be more than a film festival – a real cultural movement that uses the meridian and the time zones as its means to transform the Earth into a cinematic citadel. Lithuania, Romania, Greece, Egypt, and South Africa are the countries on the meridian of 25 degrees east longitude that are participating in the first edition of the festival in 2021. From the Baltic Sea to the southernmost point of Africa, Film O’Clock brings the northern and the southern hemispheres together.
