Five new Polish animated series qualified for Cartoon Forum Polska. The 22^nd edition of this event will be held in Sopot on September 13-16, 2011.

Cartoon Forum, taking place in Poland for the first time in the event's history, will present 66 projects to a group of 700 experts from the animated film industry. Considered to be the best place to show European animated series, Cartoon Forum Polska will serve as a promotional platform for Polish animated films.

This year Poland ranks fourth in terms of the number of presented projects - after France, the United Kingdom, and Spain, that will present 21, 14, and 11 projects respectively. The list of Polish projects includes the following pictures: Agata (produced by Serafiński Studio and TV Studio Filmów Animowanych); Basia (produced by Grupa Smacznego); Casparade (produced by Film Produkcja); Pamiętnik Florki (produced by Anima-Pol); and Pluszaki rozrabiaki (produced by Filmograf, Egmont Polska, and Studio Miniatur Filmowych).

In addition to screening these projects, Cartoon Forum Polska will also host Cartoon d'Or 2011, the European award for best short animated film of the year. Paths of Hate by Polish director Damian Nenow is one of six nominated films. Paths of Hate, produced by Warsaw-based Platige Image, received the award for best international short animated film at Mundos Digitales in La Coruña (Spain), and qualified for screening at international film festivals in Annecy and Edinburgh.

This year's edition of Cartoon Forum is particularly interesting due to the significant increase in production budgets of presented projects. The total budgets of qualified films amount to over 214.5 million euros, marking a 30% increase compared to last year. The number of produced films grew by 25%. This year saw the production of a total of 467 hours of animated films.

This year's leader in terms of the number of presented projects is once again France, with 21 projects. The United Kingdom and Spain are in second and third place respectively, having doubled the number of presented projects since last year (14 and 11 respectively). Cartoon Forum will screen film projects from 16 other European countries, which indicates an increasing role in the animated film industry across the whole continent.

Cartoon Forum, known for successfully fostering presented animated film projects into production, is an event organized annually since 1990 by the European Association of Animation Film to encourage production and distribution of European animated series. This will be the second time the event is hosted by a new EU member state; last year's event was held in Hungary.

Cartoon Forum, established in 1990 to increase co-production and distribution of European animated films for television and new media, has helped 450 projects to receive financing amounting to a total of over 1.5 billion euros.

Key partner organizations of Cartoon Forum Polska include the MEDIA programme, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Polish Film Institute, and the City of Sopot authorities.

The list of selected projects is available online: www.cartoon-media.eu/FORUM/selected.

Further details about Cartoon Forum Polska available at: www.cartoon-media.eu.

How does a talented actor become a star? How can an agent promote an actor's professional career and best advise him or her in an ever changing European film landscape? The work of talent agencies will be discussed by young stars and agents from various European countries at a workshop event to be hosted by European Film Promotion (EFP) in cooperation with Filmfest Hamburg on 4 October from 17.00 - 19.00.

The panel will feature three European actors who were presented by EFP at the Berlinale as "Shooting Stars - Europe's best young actors": Alexander Fehling (German Shooting Star 2011, Goethe!, If Not Us, Who), Dorka Gryllus (Hungarian Shooting Star 2005, Soul Kitchen, Irina Palm) and Anamaria Marinca (Romanian Shooting Star 2008, Storm, Boogie). In addition, we will be welcoming the Berlin-based talent agent Bernhard Hoestermann, the Danish talentagent and manager Anne Lindberg and the Berlin-based casting director Anja Dihrberg onto the panel.

European Film Promotion is a Hamburg-based network with members from 32 European countries, which promotes European cinema and its talents around the globe. The promotion programmes of EFP (incl. "Shooting Stars") are supported financially by the MEDIA Programme of the EU.

The event "Don't call us - we'll call you!" is free of charge and will be held in the Studio Hamburg Lounge (at the Abaton/Festival Centre).

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Information on the panelists:

Alexander Fehling - Shooting Star Germany 2011

After his role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Alexander Fehling appeared in Philipp Stölzl's film Goethe! and Andres Veiel's If Not Us, Who. He has just returned from the shoot in Canada of Philipp Stölzl's international co-production The Expatriate. His film project The River Used To Be A Man (Jan Zabeil) is currently touring through international film festivals.

Dorka Gryllus - Shooting Star Hungary 2005

The Hungarian Dorka Gryllus has been living in Berlin for a number of years and has appeared in numerous German-language feature films and TV movies (Tatort, Fremde Heimat, Schicksalsjahre). After her role in Sam Garbarski's Irina Palm, she also played in Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen and Wolfgang Murnberger's The Boneman.

Anamaria Marinca - Shooting Star Romania 2008

The Romanian actress lives in London and became known to international audiences through Cristian Mungiu's prize-winning drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. After her award-winning performance in Boogie by Radu Muntean she had a leading role in Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm.

Bernhard Hoestermann - talent agent - Germany
Bernhard Hoestermann has been arranging and supervising film and theatre engagements in his "Agency for Actors" since 1990 for such actors as Alexander Fehling, Jessica Schwarz and Robert Stadlober. He is a founding member of the "Association of Agencies for Film, Television & Theatre".

Anne Lindberg - talent agent/manager - Denmark

The Danish talent agent and manager Anne Lindberg represents some of the most well-known Scandinavian actors (incl. Nikolaj Lie Kaas from Denmark, David Dencik from Sweden) through "Lindberg Management". The agency is based in Copenhagen and works on both a national and international level.

Anja Dihrberg - Casting-Director - Germany

Anja Dihrberg worked as a director at theatres in Berlin, Vienna, and elsewhere before she moved into the film and television industry. She has been working as a freelance casting director since 1997 and cast for many successful German and international feature films, including Jud Süss (Oskar Roehler), Goethe! (Philipp Stölzl) und Chicken with Plums (Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud).

Further information: www.shooting-stars.eu, www.efp-online.com

Contact EFP:

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EFP is financially supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and its member organisations. Promotional and PR activities are also funded by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image animée (CNC) and private partners. The event takes place in cooperation with Filmfest Hamburg. The Hamburg office is financially supported by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Hamburg.

WARSAW: Nominations for the second edtion of the FNE Visegrad Prix for best fiction film coproduction from a Visegard country have been announced. The films are all screening in the Jameson CineFest – Miskolc International Film Festival 2011 (17-25 September) official programme. The final selection will be made by the festival’s main jury and announced at the festival’s closing ceremony.

The Prix is an initiative of Film New Europe and backed by the International Visegrad Fund (www.visegradfund.org) The prize is being awarded to recognize the artistic achievements of filmmakers in the Visegrad countries and to encourage cultural co-operation between partners within Visegrad countries and partners in other European countries of the European Union as well as internationally. The competitive prize is organized together with the support of Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival (www.cinefest.hu) in Hungary, International Bratislava Film Festival (www.iffbratislava.sk) in Slovakia, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (www.dokument-festival.cz) in the Czech Republic and Era New Horizons International Film Festival (www.enh.pl) in Poland. The winner will receive 1000 Euros cash prize along with 5000 Euros of publicity on FNE throughout the year and promotion at other participating film festivals. A further Prix for best documentary coproduction film will be awarded at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (25-30 October 2011).

FNE Visegrad Prix Nominations for best fiction coproduction from a Visegard country.

Jameson CineFest – Miskolc International Film Festival 2011

Visiting Hours directed by Adrian Sitaru

Production Co: 4 Proof Film (Romania) www.4prooffilm.ro

Coproduction: Cor Leonis Films (www.corleonisfilms.hu), HI Film Productions (www.hifilm.ro)

The Other Side of Sleep directed by Rebecca Daly

Production Co: Fastnet Films (Ireland)

Coproduction: KMH Films (Hungary) www.kmhfilm.com, Rinkel Film (Netherlands)

Sales: Memento Films International

The Lost Town of Switez directed by

Produced by Human Ark (www.human-ark.com) Poland

Coproduced by: Se-Ma-For Produkcja Filmowa (www.se-ma-for.com) Poland, Archangel Film Group (Switzerland), Denis Friedman Productions (France), Telewizja Polska S A (www.tvp.pl) Poland

Supported by Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl), CNC, Poitou-Charente Region, National Film Board of Canada

Esterhazy directed by Izabela Plucinska

Produced by Donten & Lacroix (www.dontenlacroix.eu)

Coproduced by: Clay Traces (Germany), Telewizja Polska S A (www.tvp.pl) Poland

Backed by the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (www.medienboard.de), BKM (www.deutsche-kultur-international.de), MEDIA programme (ec.europa.eu)

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For information about:

Film New Europe www.filmneweurope.com

Michal Klimkiewicz Tel+4822 556 54 78

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The European broadcasting festival Prix Europa 2011 announces this year’s nominees. The category of feature-length television documentary presents also two successful Czech documentaries Katka, made by Helena Třeštíková, and Coal in the Soul filmed by the directing couple Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provazník. Prix Europa 2011 takes place in October 22 – 29 in Berlin.

Senior executives and marketing chiefs of Europe’s cable tv industry will be heading to Malta on September 22-23 to attend EuroSummit’11, the annual gathering of the industry’s marketing leaders organised by CTAM Europe. Among the speakers are top managers from Microsoft, UPC Broadband, Virgin Media, Samsung, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting Europe, Convergys, Eurosport, Sundance Channel, Telenet, Comcast, Zon TV, Chello Media and many more, with moderators including leading media commentator Ray Snoddy and BBC business and travel presenter Aaron Heslehurst.

Day 1.

CTAM Europe Chairman, Chris Winkelmolen will open EuroSummit’11, and introduce the Day 1 keynote speaker, Doron Hacmon, MD, Products and Online Media at UPC Broadband, who has an unusual take on consumer marketing with his presentation entitled “ What’s love got to do with it?”.

Following sessions include

*Connected TV: Marketing the ‘New Paradigm’

*Social media and the future of business, media and communications

*TV Everywhere: What will it take to deliver on its potential?

*Brand building in a fragmented world

*Building a powerful 21^st century brand

*Your customers: you hear them, but are you really listening?

*New platforms mean new ad revenue opportunities. Are we ready to grab them?

*Shifting focus: how cable can win in the SoHo market.

*Funny, yes, but will it sell?

The day ends with the 2011 Creative Awards Program (CAP)Ceremony, where the gold, silver and bronze winners will be announced for the best marketing campaigns in 2011 that have built or sustained strong brands. The ceremony will be followed by the EuroSummit party.

Day 2.

For early risers there will be a Breakfast session focusing on 2 topics:

“Cable Goes Green?” and “ Audit Your Way To Success! “

In the opening session, entitled “Safe “ is the new “Sorry”, top media commentator Ray Snoddy will interview Phyllis Harris, Microsoft’s General Manager for Communications and Media, and Michelle Nowak, Global Head and Director of Strategy and Solutions for Cable at Convergys.

Following sessions are

*The CEO Forum

*Sales 2.0 – the right environment makes the sale

*CAP 2011: Best in show- the winners explain how they did it.

Full details of every session and the speakers are on the EuroSummit’11 web site,

www.eurosummit11.com

About CTAM Europe

CTAM Europe is the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing and is a non-profit, non-commercial, professional membership organization, dedicated to driving marketing excellence in the cable industry. As “cable's growth engine" CTAM Europe's mission is to be the premier provider of marketing education, information and networking opportunities to individuals who work in the European cable industry. CTAM Europe's membership represents more than 25 leading companies including cable operators, programmers and service companies that support the industry. The organization is affiliated with CTAM in North America, which began in 1976 and now has more than 5,500 members worldwide. For more information, please visit our web site at www.ctameurope.com.

Press contact Gerry Buckland

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The list is ready: the competition program of 8th Jameson CineFest is complete. We can say that this year’s program, all the 14 movies, is much stronger than last year’s, moreover, it is going to be the strongest Hungarian festival competition program ever. Our aim is unchanged: to create the best international film festival in Hungary – without any compromises.

We regard the US line important: you will be able to watch the best indie oversea films in Miskolc and also find Sundance awarded movies like the special crime drama Animal Kingdom (Main Prize, 2010) directed by the Australian David Michôd, in which we can follow up how a gangster family falls apart. Martha Marcy May Marlene, a movie which appeared in Cannes and was awarded for best direction at Sundance, will be screened one month earlier than its US premiere as an unconventional suspense: the paranoiac title hero escapes from a sect were she has spent long years, however, it is no sure whether a traumatized person is welcomed in a “normal” society. Two British films are included in the section: Harry Brown with the starring of the Oscar winner Michael Caine, telling a classical revenge story; and, as no Jameson CineFest can lack sci-fi movies, Attack the Block set in London will surely be a titbit for the genre’s fans, just like Sala samobójców/Suicide Room, the first polish cyber-drama.

Karl Markovics’s first direction, Breathing/Atmen, which can be compared mostly to the works of the Dardenne brothers, will also be presented in Miskolc: this film has been awarded in Sarajevo and it turned out to be the official Austrian Oscar-nominee. Two Hungarian co-productions will be in the competition program: Adrian Sitaru’s Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii, which got the award for the Best Direction in Locarno; and The Other Side of Sleep, a drama by the Irish director Rebecca Daly. Even though Fleurs du mal is a French production, its director, David Dusa is of Hungarian origins and so we can regard this work as a little bit of ours, either. The drama Michael is coming straight from this year’s Cannes competition: Markus Schleinzer’s (he is Michael Haneke’s casting director) very strong debuting topic, the portrait of a pedophile, it has divided the critics’ opinion.

We will screen 14 long feature films in competition and 6 out of competition. True to the traditions of the Miskolc International Film Festival, it is going to present only Hungarian premieres. The greatest hit out of competition is Gus Van Sant’s movie Restless, which was the opening film of Cannes’s Un certain regard. We are going to screen it only a few days after its US premiere, and it will be presented exclusively at Jameson CineFest.

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All parties and events strictly require an invitation from the organisers

2011 Regulations

The Film New Europe Visegrad Prix recognizes the fiction and documentary films of the Central European region, promotes mutual cultural understanding and promotes professional co-operations international co-productions.

The Prix is organized by Film New Europe and financed by the Visegrad Fund (www.visegradfund.org)

In the competition entries are selected by the programme committee of participating film festivals from among those films in its main programme and sections of the festival’s official program.The entries must be coproductions produced in a Visegrad country.

Coproductions in which a Visegrad country is a minority coproducer also qualify to compete for the Prix.In selecting entries priority will be given to coproductions between one of the four Visegrad countries and another European country.

Once selected to compete for the FNE Visegrad Prix all films in the selection will be treated equally by the jury and will be evaluated according to the decision of the jury.

The prix will be awarded to one feature film at one participating festival and one documentary film at a different participating festival each year.

The festival programme committee will select between 4 and 8 films for the competition.The main jury of the participating festival will decide the will decide the winning film.

The winning films will be shown where possible at other participating festivals later that same year or the following year provided there are no restrictions on copyright or other prohibitions that would prevent such screenings.

The Prix and the festival do not pay copyright fee for presenting the films.

In 2011 the amount of the Prix will 1000 Euros for best documentary coproduction and 1000 Euros for best fiction coproduction.

The Prix will be presented at the participating festival.The members of the jury must sign a document confirming that they have awarded the FNE Visegrad Prix to the winning film.

The winning films will be promoted on FNE.

Cash Value of the combined prizes in 2011: 2 000 Euros.

Participating festivals 2011: Jameson CineFest- Miskolc International Film Festival (Hungary), Era New Horizons (Poland), Bratislava IFF (Slovakia) Jihlava (Czech Republic)

Fiction presenting festival 2011: Jameson CineFest – Miskolc International Film Festival

Documentary presenting festival 2011: Jihlava IFF

The presentation will be rotated annually between participating festivals.Non-presenting festivals will provide publicity support for the Prix and where possible screen the winning films within limitations of copyright and other possible logistical prohibitions.

Jos Horemans, president of SIGNIS Europe is going to head the international ecumenical jury of 8^th Jameson CineFest. ‘It is a great honour to be the president of the first international ecumenical jury in Hungary’, says Horemans, the leader of the European branche of the catholic world association for media and communication. ‘We are present at the world’s leading festivals and it is a great pleasure for us that in Hungary, at the dynamically developing Miskolc International Film Festival there will be a body of two catholic and two protestant members.’

At the world’s top festivals, these bodies have been granting awards for long decades now. Only few may know but many Hungarian films have also been awarded with the ecumenical jury’s award in Berlin and Cannes and other festivals. Jameson CineFest has prepared with a retrospective film selection to honour the first ecumenical jury in Hungary. The program contains such films as Szerelem (Love), the legendary film by Károly Makk (awarded in 1971, Cannes); Pál Schiffer’s Cséplő Gyuri (Gyuri Cséplő), which is focusing on roma matters and was awarded in 1978 in Locarno; the staggering documentary Száműzöttek (Exiles) by Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay (1991, Montreal) and the excellent but rarely screened Azonosítás (Man with No Name) by László Lugossy (1976, Berlin).

Peter Muszatics

JAMESON CINEFEST - MISKOLCI NEMZETKÖZI FILMFESZTIVÁL
JAMESON CINEFEST - MISKOLC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

2011. szeptember 17-25./September 17-25, 2011

www.cinefest.hu

Telefon (+36) 30 9277726

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