POTSDAM: The Erich Pommer Institute (EPI) has great news for you. Due to postponed dates, you can still register till 23 September 2024 for its seven-day workshop Play, Promote, Publish – Marketing Strategies for the Games Industry .
Submissions are still open for the 26th edition of East-West co-production market connecting cottbus. Taking place during FilmFestival Cottbus on 6-8 November 2024, coco will present 13 projects in development (cocoPITCH) and 6 works in progress (cocoWIP).
NEW DATES: September 25-26, Online | October 7-11, Berlin | 800 Euro
We have great news for you! Due to postponed dates, you can still register for our 7-day workshop Play, Promote, Publish – Marketing Strategies for the Games Industry until September 23.
Winners announced for the workshop & pitching forum: ‘Let’s pitch some shorts!’
Press releases 11-07-2024The project ‘Dandelion’ by screenwriter Cassi Camilleri was the best project of the pitching forum and awarded a financial award in the amount of 3,000 EUR. The project ‘Apollon Club’ by Kruno Trninić (screenwriter, director) and Maja Gros (producer) was awarded a financial award in the amount of 1,500 EUR under the auspices of OFF Pro Film Market / Sarajevo Youth Film Festival. The project ‘Punishment’ by Mile Božičević (screenwriter, director) was awarded with festival / distribution strategies on behalf of Sayonara Film while ‘Just One Thing’ by Daria Stilin (screenwriter, director) was awarded by direct participation in the Baltic Pitching Forum, ‘The Oak Tree’ by Kyriakos Ghikas (screenwriter, director) and producer Marina Danezi was awarded with consulting services on pitching presentation on behalf of European Short Pitch, and 'The Commandments of Line 18' by Alexander Marcel Hövel (screenwriter, director) was awarded by direct participation as part of the Sunny Shorts Film Market / Hvar FF.
Romania Speeds Up Reimbursements to International Productions Shot within Cash Rebate Scheme
Romania 09-07-2024BUCHAREST: Romanian Minister of Culture Raluca Turcan has announced that all the international projects shot in Romania under the cash rebate scheme in 2018, 2019 and 2020 will be settled in the next two months. Four of them will be reimbursed till 22 July 2024.
MESTIA: Seventeen films including four world premieres will screen in the main competition of the Svaneti International Film Festival DALI, which will be held in Mestia, Georgia 15 - 21 July 2024.
TALLINN: A total of 245 hours of the film archives in the National Archives of Estonia were digitalised by the end of 2023.
POTSDAM: Over 70 international film professionals travelled to Potsdam on 3 July 2024 for the 24th edition of German Films Previews, an annual three-day event organised by German Films since 2001.
The first film award for female screenwriters, film directors and artists, Czech Leonarda, has been established
Press releases 09-07-20245.7. 2024 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic: At a Press Conference on 5 July in the Zander Hall of the Imperial Spa in Karlovy Vary, the 1st Annual Czech Leonarda Film Award is launched for female filmmakers who create scripts for feature and documentary films, animated films, new TV formats and experimental films for cinema, television or the web.
Following last year's successful German Films Previews in Potsdam, German Films invited film buyers to come again to the Brandenburg state capital at the beginning of July. International film buyers from around the globe travelled to Germany on Wednesday, 3 July 2024 for the annual event which celebrated its 24th edition in 2024. The buyers from Australia probably had the furthest journey to take, but guests from Argentina, Mexico, the USA, Taiwan, Israel and Lebanon also came from afar. In addition, there were numerous buyers from Europe, from Spain to Poland and Estonia, and from Turkey through Greece all the way to the UK.
