When East Meets West kicks off and reveals the 7 projects selected in the new sections LAST STOP TRIESTE e FIRST CUT LAB
Festivals 16-01-2015Trieste, January 16th, 2015 – 30 different countries, 150 international decision makers, more than 300 registered participants: these are the figures of the fifth edition of When East Meets West, the co-production forum for Eastern and Western Europe starting on Monday 19th of January in Trieste. Along with 22 projects in development selected for the pitching, out of the record number of 285 submissions, When East Meets West launches two new initiatives dedicated to film in post-production stage.
The Summer of Sangaile by the Lithuanian director Alantė Kavaitė to be screened in the main programme of Berlinale Panorama. The film will have its European premiere in Berlin while its World Premiere is a couple of days ahead in Sundance.
At the upcoming East Doc Platform, the following 18 projects in various stages of production will be presented by their producers to East European professionals and important decision makers from all over the world within the prearranged one-on-one meetings at Project Market. They will be joined by the 7 projects selected for Doc Tank as well.
BERLIN: Polish minority coproduction The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills and a Slovak/Czech coproduction Goat/Koza have been selected for the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival running from 5 to 15 February 2015.
ZAGREB: Croatian Audiovisual Centre approved funding for projects of Miloš Radović, Runar Runarsson and Eva Cvijanović.
The following grants were announces by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre on 13 January 2015.
BUDAPEST: Ridley Scott is currently shooting The Martian in Hungary. The film stars Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels and Sean Bean.
New programme for film student directors at Karlovy Vary
WARSAW: Body by Malgorzata Szumowska, member of this year’s European Shooting Stars jury and director of In the Name of produced by MD4, has been selected for the Official Competition of the 65th Berlin Film Festival running from 5 to 15 February 2014.
PRAGUE: The Czech State Cinematography Fund has issued a call for submissions for its incentives scheme with a deadline on 30 January. The approximate budget is 17.6 m EUR /500 m CZK.