Filmmaking in CEE and in Austria: Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges
Save the date! The upcoming 5th edition of the LET’S CEE Film Festival in Vienna will host its Industry Days on “Filmmaking in CEE and in Austria: Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges“ from 23rd to 24th March. The new two-day event held in English will impress participants with top speakers and an agenda of practical and relevant topics. The participation is free of charge.
Within the framework of this year’s 5th edition of the LET’S CEE Film Festival and in cooperation with Film New Europe, the leading networking platform for the film industry in the CEE region, a two-day industry event will be held from 23rd to 24th March, featuring high-class presentations, fascinating case studies and cutting-edge panels delivered by top speakers focussing on the field of film funding and coproductions, but also covering issues such as film distribution, film production and innovation and trends.
The organisers aim to offer the participants a broad agenda of practical, relevant topics and to show them not only the best opportunities of how to get their projects funded and financed in several countries and on EU level, but also to give them an up-to-date overview of what the film industry in Austria and in the CEE region has to offer besides these aspects. Participants will, for example, listen to lectures on how they can improve their chances of getting their feature film or documentary on the screens of a big cinema chain or at an A-Festival, what big film studios nowadays can do for them, how virtual reality is going to change the business in the near future, how to produce a high-class documentary on a par with Hollywood, what a perfect and watertight international coproduction contract looks like and much more. In two top-class panel discussions Austrian and international experts will talk about the future of European film festivals and analyse the prospects of coproductions between western and CEE countries. The closing event of the Industry Days, a Live! Ammunition! Pitching Session hosted by Elliot Grove, Founder and Director of the Raindance FF and the British Independent Film Awards, will give young filmmakers the chance to present their work in front of experienced film professionals.
The highlight of the LET’S CEE Industry Days: Harald E. Trettenbrein, Head of Unit at European Commission EACEA, will deliver a Keynote Address on “Creative Europe MEDIA and How it Can Support European Filmmakers in a Rapidly Changing World“.
Among further speakers and panelists at the networking event are Christof Papousek, CEO of Austria’s biggest Cinema Chain Cineplexx, Stefan Laudyn, Director of the Warsaw FF and Triin Tramberg from the Tallinn Black Nights FF, Walter Köhler, CEO of Terra Mater Factual Studios, Dániel Kresmery from the Korda Studios and Samaya Asgarova from the Azerbaijanfilm Film Studio, Tereza Polachová, Head of Original Production at HBO Europe, Robert Baliński, International Co-Productions Project Manager at the Polish Film Institute, Jelka Stergel from the Slovenian Film Center, Ari Bohrer, Director of Location Austria and Tudor Giurgiu, President of the Romanian Film Promotion and many more.
The detailed programme of the two-day event will be available on 21st February on the new website http://www.letsceefilmfestival.com/lets-cee-industry-days.html. The Event will take place in the Raiffeisen Hall, Stadtpark 9, 1010 Vienna. The participation is free of charge for all accredited guests of the festival (who can visit all screenings and lectures for free, get a discount on master classes etc.). Please send your accreditation request to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or register direcly via https://vp.eventival.eu/letscee/2017.
The Industry Days are organised by the LET’S CEE Film Festival in Vienna in cooperation with Film New Europe. The main supporters of the event are the Austrian Film Institute, Film Support Austria (FISA) and Raiffeisen Bank International.
The 5th Edition of the LET’S CEE Film Festival will take place from 21st to 27th March 2017 presenting more than 140 outstanding feature films, documentaries and shorts from Central and Eastern Europe. Most screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with the respective filmmakers. For more information please visit www.letsceefilmfestival.com. The detailed festival programme incl. screening dates and venues will be available from 1st March 2017.
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