KRAKOW: Submissions for CEDOC MARKET (Central European Documentary Market), formerly known as DOC LAB POLAND Co-Production Market, are open until 31 March 2020. The market will be held in Krakow on 4-5 June 2020.
At this time of global health crisis, our thoughts go to the victims of the COVID-19 and we express our solidarity with all of those who are fighting the disease.
PARIS: The Festival de Cannes has announced that the festival will not be held 12 to 23 May 2020 as scheduled, due to the Corona Virus crisis. Several options are being considered in order to preserve its running, the main one being a simple postponement, until the end of June-beginning of July 2020.
Resulting in the state emergency declared by the Estonian government, the 15th Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival is currently postponed or may take place online.
The One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, whose organisers decided to interrupt the festival on Wednesday, 10 March, in order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, will make its films available to viewers online. In cooperation with the DAFilms.cz online cinema, the festival will present the selected films from all of the festival’s categories which were scheduled to be screened during the remaining days of the festival. From Thursday, 12 March to Tuesday, 17 March, viewers will be able to watch the available documentaries on the dafilms.com and oneworld.cz websites from the comfort of their homes. On Friday, 13 March, the world premiere of the film Dog Love by Linda Kallistová Jablonská will be exclusively available online. The individual films are available for watching online for CZK 59 per film.
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the decision of the WHO to declare a pandemic and safety measures implemented by the Czech Republic as well as many other European states, we have to postpone our activities planned for April and early May.
Call for the CEDOC Market is still open and you can apply with your brand new projects in development and early production stage until March 31st!
Press releases 19-03-2020Though we are very worried about the Covid-19 situation, we are not slowing down with the CEDOC Co-production Market preparations! We are working really hard to organize it in the best possible way, corresponding with the changing reality and bearing in mind the safety of all as our priority.
Creative documentaries from the region of Central and Eastern Europe are welcome to apply for free to East Silver Market 2020!
Application deadlines:
Submission deadline for films produced in 2019: March 31, 2020
Submission deadline for films produced in 2020: May 31, 2020
Submission deadline for projects in rough cut stage: July 31, 2020
The application is valid for the 24rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
How to apply: Submit your documentary via our online ENTRY FORM
(Applying is free of charge)
Find all the details here.
We are looking forward to your films!
East Silver Market – a support for producers and distributors
Each year, about 300 films from more than 29 countries are included in the market. The 17th edition of the East Silver Market takes place at the 24rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 27 – November 1, 2020, Jihlava, Czech Republic.
Silver Eye Award – a prestigious prize for the best docs
Picking the nominees from 2020 East Silver Market submissions, East Silver international jury awards the best documentary films with the Silver Eye Award worth EUR 2 500.
East Silver database – an essential referral spot for docs
Easy-to-navigate online database at eastsilver.net presents the most recent Central and Eastern European documentary production.
Online streaming for professionals – a year-long access to titles
Easy-to-navigate online streaming at streaming.eastsilver.net allows producers to make their titles available to festival selectors, distributors, TV buyers and other film professionals.
East Silver Caravan – a supporting tool for documentary screenings at festivals
East Silver Caravan promotes Central and Eastern European documentary films at important international film festivals and markets.
The organizers of the Zlín Film Festival are moving this year's event to September 4-10, 2020. They have made this decision based on the coronavirus pandemic. The 60th anniversary of the oldest and largest film festival for children and youth was originally scheduled to take place during its traditional period of the turn of May and June, namely May 29 to June 6, 2020. However, the organizers consider the September term to be more realistic. “It is to our extreme sorrow that this year children will not be able to celebrate both this festival and approaching end of the school year at our festival due to our postponing it. Instead of celebrating the end of the school year with children, we plan to welcome the beginning of the next one with them,” said Festival President Čestmír Vančura. More information you can find at www.zlinfest.cz/en.
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The change of date will also affect the Clapperboard Salon
The Clapperboard Tour 2020 was set to start this week in Prague, which has been suspended for obvious reasons. “We are currently discussing an alternative date and form of the entire project, but we can now promise that this year's complete collection of clapperboards will soon be available at www.salonfilmovychklapek.cz,” said Markéta Pášmová, Member of the Board of Directors of the FILMTALENT Zlín Foundation. More information you can find at www.salonfilmovychklapek.cz.
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Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) welcomes submissions to its four competition programmes: the RIGA IFF Feature Film Competition and three SHORT RIGA competitions – the international and national short film competitions, and the Baltic Music Video Competition (BMV). The festival's competitions are especially opportune for debuting directors seeing that RIGA IFF juries include a considerable number of programme organisers for other international film festivals. The seventh edition of RIGA IFF will take place October 15 to 25, 2020.
