FNE 2020 AGENDA FOR COPRODUCTION MARKETS, PITCHINGS AND WORK-IN-PROGRESS
FNE 2025 Agenda for Coproduction Markets, Pitchings and Works-in-Progress 08-01-2020JANUARY
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EVENT |
WEBSITE |
DATE |
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EAVE ON DEMAND tailor-made workshop for producers of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
10-12 January 2020 | |
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When East Meets West (WEMW), Trieste Film Festival, Italy |
19-21 January 2020 | |
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WEMW - Co-Production Forum, Trieste Film Festival, Italy |
19-21 January 2020 | |
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WEMW - Last Stop Trieste, Trieste Film Festival, Italy |
19-20 January 2020 | |
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WEMW – First Cut Lab, Trieste Film Festival, Italy |
19-21 January 2020 | |
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WEMW – This Is It, Trieste Film Festival, Italy |
21 January 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT Feature Launch Workshop 1, during the Trieste Film Festival – Eastweek and When East Meets West Co-production Forum, Italy |
www.midpoint-center.eu/programs/197-midpoint-shorts-2019-2020 |
16-22 January 2020 |
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MIDPOINT Shorts, Workshop 2, during the Trieste Film Festival – Eastweek and When East Meets West Co-production Forum, Italy |
www.midpoint-center.eu/programs/197-midpoint-shorts-2019-2020 |
16-22 January 2020 |
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IFFR Pro Days, Rotterdam Film Festival, the Netherlands |
22 January -2 February 2020 (festival dates) | |
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IFFR Pro Hub, Rotterdam Film Festival, the Netherlands |
25-29 January- 2020 | |
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CineMart, Rotterdam Film Festival, Netherlands, the Netherlands |
26-29 January 2020 |
FEBRUARY
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Torino SeriesLab, 2nd residential workshop, Turin, Italy |
6-11 February 2020 | |
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Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, Clermont-Ferrand Short FF, France |
3-6 February 2020 | |
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Euro Connection Co-production platform, during the International Short Film Market in Clermont-Ferrand, France |
4-5 February 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT Editing Room, Workshop 1, Prague, Czech Republic |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/211-midpoint-editing-room-2020 |
10-15 February 2020 |
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Emerging Producers edition 2019 (2nd leg), Berlin, Germany |
17-22 February 2020 | |
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European Film Market, Berlinale, Germany |
20-27 February 2020 | |
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Berlinale Coproduction Market, Berlin, Germany |
22-26 February 2020 | |
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IMZ & Sunny Side of the Doc Pitching Session (+ One-on-One Follow Up Session) during Avant Première, Berlin, Germany |
24 February 2020 | |
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ScripTeast, Berlinale, Germany -Stationary session |
21-24 February 2020 | |
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B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings, Belgrade IFF, Serbia |
28 February-9 March 2020 (festival dates) |
MARCH
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Cartoon Movie, Pitching & co-pro event - feature films, Bordeaux, France |
www.cartoon-media.eu/cartoon-movie-event/cartoon-movie-2020.htm |
3-5 March 2020 |
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Thessaloniki Pitching Forum, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece |
www.filmfestival.gr/en/professionals-b2b/agora-doc-market-en/26385-thessaloniki-pitching-forum |
6-11 March 2020 |
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EAVE European Producers Workshop 1, Luxembourg |
6-13 March 2020 | |
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Agora DocMarket, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece |
www2.filmfestival.gr/en/professionals-b2b/agora-doc-market-en |
7-14 March 2020 |
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Ex-Oriente, Session 3, East Doc Platform, One World International Human Rights Documentary FF, Prague, Czech Republic |
7-13 March 2020 | |
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East Doc Platform, One World International Human Rights Documentary FF, Prague, Czech Republic |
7-13 March 2020 | |
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East Doc Forum, East Doc Platform, One World International Human Rights Documentary FF, Prague, Czech Republic |
7-13 March 2020 (Preparatory workshop) 12 March 2020 (Pitching) | |
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East Dok Market in Prague, East Doc Platform, One World International Human Rights Documentary FF, Czech Republic |
10-11 March 2020 | |
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Docs in Progress,Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece |
www.filmfestival.gr/en/professionals-b2b/agora-doc-market-en/26384-docs-in-progress-en |
11 March 2020 |
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ZAGREBDOX PRO - ZAGREB DOX International Documentary FF, Zagreb, Croatia |
15-20 March 2020 | |
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CEE Animation Workshop, 2nd Workshop, Tallinn, Estonia |
16-21 March 2020 | |
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Torino SeriesLab, 3rd residential workshop, final presentation and meetings, European Project and Talent Forum, Series Mania Forum, Lille, France |
21-27 March 2020 | |
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MIPTV (online) |
28 March-2 April 2020 | |
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New Arrivals, Go Short Campus, International Short FF, Nijmegen, the Netherlands |
31 March-5 April 2020 |
APRIL
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Torino ScriptLab 1st online workshop |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/100-scriptlab-projects-2020 |
16 April-16 May 2020 |
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MIDPOINT Feature Launch Workshop 2 (online) |
www.midpoint-center.eu/programs/196-midpoint-feature-launch-2020 |
April-June 2020 |
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MIDPOINT TV Launch Workshop 1, Breznice, Czech Republic |
23-30 April 2020 | |
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Docs in Progress, Doc Outlook, Visions du Réel IFF, Nyon, Switzerland (online) |
24 April-2 May 2020 (festival dates) | |
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Pitching du Réel: Coproduction Forum, Doc Outlook, Visions du Réel IFF, Nyon, Switzerland (online) |
24 April-2 May 2020 (festival dates) | |
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Rough Cut Lab, Doc Outlook, Visions du Réel IFF, Nyon, Switzerland (online) |
24 April-2 May 2020 (festival dates) | |
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Opening Scenes, Visions du Réel IFF, Nyon, Switzerland (online) |
24 April-2 May 2020 (festival dates) | |
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Immersive and Interactive Formats, Visions du Réel IFF, Nyon, Switzerland (online) |
24 April-2 May 2020 (festival dates) | |
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dok.incubator, Session 1- Rough-Cut (online) |
https://dokincubator.net/1st-workshop-session-2020/#.X8IDvM0zZPY |
30 April-2 May 2020 |
MAY
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Animation Production Days (APD), Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany |
6-8 May 2020 | |
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ScripTeast session and the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award For Best CEE Script - Award Ceremony, in collaboration with Cannes Film Festival (online) |
14-20 May 2020 | |
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Producers on the Move in Cannes, France (online) |
11-15 May 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT Intensive SK 2020 (online) |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/210-midpoint-intensive-sk-2020 |
18-21 May 2020 |
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Speed Meetings, Latin Pitch, Interactive Pitch, Rough Cut Screenings within Docs Barcelona, International Documentary FF, Spain (online) |
19-31 May 2020 | |
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Cartoon Digital (online) |
26-28 May 2020 | |
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Sofia Meetings, Works In Progress, Sofia IFF, Bulgaria (online) |
27-31 May 2020 | |
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TorinoFilmLab Next – Film development (online sessions) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/news/tfl-next/33-tfl-next-film-development |
11-15 May 2020 and 28-29 May 2020 |
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TorinoFilmLab Next – Film development (online sessions) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/news/tfl-next/34-tfl-next-film-development |
18-22 May 2020 and 1-2 June 2020 |
JUNE
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Torino FutureLab (online) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/news/672-featurelab-2020-selection-unveiled |
4 June 2020 |
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TorinoFilmLab Next – Film Development (online sessions) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/news/tfl-next/27-tfl-next-film-development |
8-12 June 2020 and 22-23 June 2020 |
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TorinoFilmLab Next – Film Development (online sessions) |
15-19 June 2020 and 28-29 June 2020 | |
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EAVE Producers Online Module |
8-15 June 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT TV Launch, Workshop 1 (online) |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/195-midpoint-tv-launch-2020 |
10-12 June 2020 |
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International Animation Film Market (MIFA), Annecy Animated FF, France (online) |
16-19 June 2020 | |
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Sunny Side of the Doc, La Rochelle, France (online) |
22-25 June 2020 | |
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Marché du Film (Producers Network, Doc Corner, Industry Workshops), Cannes Film Festival, France (online) |
22-26 June 2020 | |
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IMZ & Sunny Side of the Doc Pitching Session for the winning project, La Rochelle, France |
22-25 June 2020 | |
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1st Ex Oriente Film Session: Find Your Way – Vision, Space and Storytelling |
https://dokweb.net/activities/ex-oriente-film/2020/workshop-1-online |
22-27 June 2020 |
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EAVE On Demand: Shoot the Book, Cannes (France), Online |
24-25 June 2020 | |
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Torino ScriptLab 2nd online workshop |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/100-scriptlab-projects-2020 |
15-26 June 2020 |
JULY
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Sofia Meetings, Second Feature Pitchings and Professional Events (online) |
3-8 July 2020 | |
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Works in Development- Feature Launch, Eastern Promises, Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic (online) |
7 July 2020 | |
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Eurimages Lab Project Award, Eastern Promises, Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic (online) |
www.kviff.com/en/film-professionals/eurimages-lab-project-award |
5-8 July 2020 |
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Docs in Progress, Eastern Promises, Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic (online) |
5-8 July 2020 | |
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Works in Progress, Eastern Promises, Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic (online) |
6 July 2020 | |
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New Horizons Studio +, Wroclaw, Poland (online) |
24-27 July 2020 | |
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ScripTeast, Warsaw, Poland - application deadline |
31 July 2020 | |
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Transilvania Pitch Stop and Transilvania Talent Lab within the Transilvania IFF, Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
21 July-9 August 2020 (festival dates) |
AUGUST
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CineLink Drama, Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina (online) |
15–20 August 2020 | |
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique, Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina (online) |
https://www.cinelinkindustrydays.com/docu-rough-cut-boutique |
16-22 August 2020 |
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CineLink Talks, Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina (online) |
15–20 August 2020 | |
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Avant Premiere, Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina (online) |
15-17 August 2020 | |
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Docu Talents from the East / Ji.hlava IDFF, Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina (online) |
https://www.cinelinkindustrydays.com/docu-talents-from-the-east |
16-22 August 2020 |
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Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch, Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina (online) |
https://www.cinelinkindustrydays.com/talents-sarajevo-pack-pitch |
18–19 August 2020 |
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CineLink Co-production Market, Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina (online) |
https://www.cinelinkindustrydays.com/cinelink-coproduction-market |
18–20 August 2020 |
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dok.incubator, Session 2 – Fine Cut & Distribution (hybrid) |
https://dokincubator.net/2nd-workshop-session-2020/#.X8IEYs0zZPZ |
24 August 2020 |
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Beijing Film Market (online) |
25-28 August 2020 | |
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EAVE Creative Producer Indaba, W1 (online) |
31 August- 11 September 2020 | |
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Torino ScriptLab 3rd online workshop |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/100-scriptlab-projects-2020 |
31 August-11 September 2020 |
SEPTEMBER
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NISI MASA European Short Pitch scriptwriting workshop in residency (online) |
19-25 September 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT TV Launch, Workshop 2, Online |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/195-midpoint-tv-launch-2020 |
7-20 September 2020 |
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TorinoFilmLab Next - Feature Film (two online sessions) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/tfl-extended-2/tfl-next/tfl-next/35-tfl-next-film-development |
7-11 September 2020 and 21-22 September 2020 |
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TorinoFilmLab Next – Film (two online sessions) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/tfl-extended-2/tfl-next/tfl-next/36-tfl-next-film-development |
14-18 September 2020 and 28-29 September 2020 |
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TorinoFilmLab Next – Story editing (two online sessions) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/tfl-extended-2/tfl-next/tfl-next/37-tfl-next-story-editing |
15-17 September 2020 and 29 September-1 October 2020 |
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TorinoFilmLab Next – Audience design (online sessions) |
10-18 September 2020 and 28-29 September 2020 | |
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Co-financing forum of international documentary projects, Baltic Sea Docs, Riga, Latvia (online) |
7-12 September 2020 | |
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Cartoon Forum, Pitching & co-pro event - TV series, Toulouse, France (online) |
http://www.cartoon-media.eu/cartoon-forum/cartoon-forum-2020.htm |
14–17 September 2020 |
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Nordisk Panorama Market, Nordisk Panorama FF, Malmö, Sweden (online) |
18–26 September 2020 | |
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Europe-Latin American Co-production Forum, San Sebastian FF, Spain (online) |
https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2020/the_industry_club/co_production_forum/1/9236/in |
19-21 September 2020 |
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EAVE + in Luxembourg |
22-27 September 2020 | |
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Kids Kino Industry – Producer Meet Producers, Warsaw, Poland (online) |
https://www.kidskinoindustry.pl/program/producer-meets-producers/ |
29 September 2020 |
| Kids Kino Industry – Producers Meet Producers, Warsaw, Poland, One-to-One meetings (online) |
https://www.kidskinoindustry.pl/program/one-to-one-meetings/ |
30 September-2 Octobe2020 |
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Kids Kino Industry –Co-production Speed Dating, Warsaw, Poland (online) |
https://www.kidskinoindustry.pl/program/co-production-speed-dating/ |
1 October 2020 |
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Kids Kino Industry – Consultants' Tables, Warsaw, Poland (online) |
29-30 September 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT Shorts 2020-2021 Preparatory online workshop |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/214-midpoint-shorts-2020-2021 |
28-30 September 2020 |
OCTOBER
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CEE Animation Forum (online) |
6-8 October 2020 | |
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MIPCOM, Cannes, France (online) |
12-16 October 2020 | |
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ScripTeast, Poland session (online) |
October 2020 | |
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Cent East Market (including Warsaw Works-In-Progress, Doc Lab Poland, Warsaw Next and Open Workshop "The Art of Film Editing"), Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland (online) |
15-18 October 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT Writers' Room (online) |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/212-midpoint-writers-room-2020 |
14-23 October 2020 |
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MIDPOINT Shorts, Workshop 1 (online) |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/214-midpoint-shorts-2020-2021 |
18-23 October 2020 |
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EAVE Workshop 2, Galway, Ireland (online) |
19-26 October 2020 | |
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Lisbon Docs, Docslisboa, Lisbon International Documentary FF, Portugal (online) |
22 October - 1 November 2020 | |
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Emerging Producers 2021, (1st leg), Ji.hlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic |
26-30 October 2020 | |
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East Silver Market, Ji.hlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic (online) |
27 October-8 November 2020 | |
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Ex Oriente Film 2nd session: Production and story development, Ji.hlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic (online session) |
https://dokweb.net/activities/ex-oriente-film/2020/workshop-2-online |
19-24 October 2020 |
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Visegrad Accelerator, Ji.hlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic (online) |
27 October-1 November 2020 | |
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DOK CO-PRO Market, Dok Leipzig, Germany |
26 October-1 November 2020 | |
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Conference Fascinations, Ji.hlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic (online) |
28-29 October 2020 | |
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Ji.hlava Academy, Ji.hlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic |
28-31 October 2020 | |
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Festival Identity, Ji.hlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic |
29-30 October 2020 |
NOVEMBER
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EAVE Marketing Workshop, Luxembourg (online) |
9-13 November 2020 | |
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Connecting Cottbus, Cottbus IFF, Germany (online) |
4-6 November 2020 | |
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Agora (including the Crossroads Co-production Forum and Agora Works in Progress) within the Thessaloniki IFF (online) |
6-14 November 2020 | |
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NISI MASA European Short Pitch Coproduction Forum, in collaboration with the Brest European Short Film Festival (online) |
12-15 November 2020 | |
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EAVE Puentes, W1 (online) |
16-30 November 2020 | |
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EAVE Ties That Bind, W1 (online) |
16-26 November 2020 | |
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EAVE On Demand: Russia: Moscow and online |
November 2020 | |
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Dok.incubator, Near Picture Lock, Session 3 (online) |
https://dokincubator.net/3rd-workshop-session-2020/#.X8IFFs0zZP |
16-20 November 2020 |
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Cartoon 360, Cartoon Media |
17-19 November 2020 | |
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Docs for Sale, IDFA (International Documentary FF Amsterdam), the Netherlands (online) |
16-20 November 2020 | |
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IDFA Forum, IDFA ( International Documentary FF Amsterdam), the Netherlands, (online) |
16-20 November 2020 | |
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IDFA DocLab Forum, IDFA (International Documentary FF Amsterdam), the Netherlands, (online) |
16-20 November 2020 | |
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Baltic Event, Tallinn Black Nights FF, Estonia, (online) |
25-27 November 2020 | |
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MIDPOINT Feature Launch 3rd Workshop, Prague (Czech Republic), (online) |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/196-midpoint-feature-launch-2020 |
November 2020 |
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MIDPOINT Intensive CZ (online) |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/215-midpoint-intensive-cz-2020 |
23-25 November 2020 |
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MIDPOINT TV Launch, Workshop 3, in collaboration with the Baltic Event, Tallinn, Estonia (online) |
https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/programs/195-midpoint-tv-launch-2020 |
23-27 November 2020 |
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Ties That Bind, EAVE Asia-Europe Co-Production Workshop, W1 (online) |
16-26 November 2020 and 1-4 December 2020 | |
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Torino ScriptLab 3rd residential workshop at the TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event, Turin, Italy, (online) |
16-21 November 2020 | |
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TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event, (online) |
http://www.torinofilmlab.it/meeting-event/meeting-events/105-meeting-event-2020 |
16-20 November 2020 |
DECEMBER
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CEE Animation Experience within the Animateka International Animated Film Festival (online) |
https://ceeanimation.eu/experience/2020-cee-animation-experience/ |
2 December 2020 |
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EAVE Producers Workshop W3, in Rijeka/Opatija, Croatia (online) |
5-12 December 2020 |
SKOPJE: Willow, the new feature film by the Academy award nominated Macedonian helmer Milcho Manchevski, has been acquired by the French sales agent Reel Suspects.
Serbian/Croatian/French Coproduction In Praise of Nothing Is Most Watched Doc on Mubi in 2019
Serbia 08-01-2020BELGRADE: The documentary In Praise of Nothing (2017) by Serbian director Boris Mitić was the most watched documentary on MUBI in 2019, the platform announced as part of its first annual awards. This ‘feelgood documentary about Nothing' is a Serbian/Croatian/French coproduction, shot in 70 countries, narrated by Iggy Pop and scored by cabaret grandmasters Pascal Comelade and The Tiger Lillies.
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.
