Sarajevo FF and Directors' Fortnight in Cannes Team Up for Short Film Initiative
Bosnia-Herzegovina 20-08-2018SARAJEVO: Six young filmmakers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia will co-write and co-direct a 10-minute film with a young director from outside the region. The films will premiere on the opening day of Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, as the Sarajevo Film Festival has teamed up with Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and the French company DW on the 2019 edition of short film initiative The Factory.
GORI: The first documentary film summer school organised by the CinéDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival takes place in Gori, Georgia from 18 to 26 August 2018. Twelve filmmakers from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia have been selected.
Emerging Producers 2019 were announced, with Chile as guest country / Ji.hlava introduces financial prizes for the winners in 2018
Three Moscow cinemas will screen eight films by Czech documentary filmmakers Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda from 19 to 23 September 2018, as part of the Czech Dream retrospective.
SEVILLE: Six documentaries from CEE countries are among the 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2018. The EFA Awards ceremony will be held in Seville, Spain on 15 December 2018.
SARAJEVO: Bosnia and Herzegovina has signed a coproduction agreement with France during the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival. The agreement aims at modernising the legal framework for coproductions between the two countries.
LUXEMBOURG: Producers and professionals working in sales, distribution and marketing departments can apply for the EAVE Marketing Workshop (14-18 November 2018) until 14 September 2018.
Deadline for applications: September 14
BUCHAREST: The last leg of Saaho, directed by Sujeeth, is set to be shot on location in Romania. According to DNA India, this contemporary action film will be one of the most expensive Indian films ever made.
KARLOVY VARY: The best project in the MIDPOINT Feature Launch programme will receive a cash prize of 10,000 EUR, starting from 2019. The winner will be announced at the Karlovy Vary IFF.
