THURSDAY, MARCH 15
MAIN PROGRAMME
10.00 – 18.30
WORKING SESSIONS with Isabelle Fauvel, Initiative Film (France)
GHS, Executive Lounge, 1st floor
(participants with projects only)
10.00 – 18.30
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING with Licia Eminenti (France)
GHS, Serdica Hall 1, 1st floor
(participants with projects only)
Screening
18.30
A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK, Bulgaria, 2017, 98’, Director Aleksandar Smolianov
Lumiere Lidl Cinema
20.30
DINNER on the occasion of the opening of 15th Sofia Meetings
Hosted by MEDIENBOARD BERLIN-BRANDENBURG, MDM,
FILMFESTIVAL COTTBUS AND CONNECTING COTTBUS
Pod Lipite Restaurant
(by invitation only)
PARALLEL PROGRAMME
12.00 – 17.00
VR HUB SOFIA MEETINGS – VR Screenings
GHS, Sredetz Meeting Room, 2nd floor
14.00 – 16.00
NU BOYANA FILM STUDIOS GUIDED TOUR
Meeting Point: Grand Hotel Sofia
16.00 – 16.45
AUDIENCE! AUDIENCE!
‘Help from the audience. Bulgarian films and their viewers at the beginning of the XXI century.’
With Alexander Donev (Bulgaria)
GHS, Triaditza Hall 1, 1st floor
17.00 – 19.00
HOW TO WRITE A PROJECT
Workshop with Martin Kiselov (Bulgaria)
GHS, Triaditza Hall 1, 1st floor
22.30
AFTER PARTY
IN THE PARK (Former MATTI’D)
(above Lumiere Lidl Cinema)
FRIDAY, MARCH 16
MAIN PROGRAMME
10.00 – 10.40
OPENING OF THE 15th SOFIA MEETINGS and WHO IS WHO
Presentation of all guests and participants of Sofia Meetings
GHS, Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor
10.40 – 11.40
SECOND FILMS PITCHING – 6 projects
GHS, Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor
11.40 – 12.00
COFFEE BREAK
*GHS – Grand Hotel Sofia
12.00 – 13.20
PLUS MINUS ONE PITCHING – 8 projects
GHS, Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor
13.30 – 15.00
LUNCH Hosted by CED MEDIA (Bulgaria)
(by invitation only)
15.00 – 16.20
FIRST FILMS FIRST PITCHING – 8 projects
GHS, Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor
17.00 – 18.00
AUDIENCE! AUDIENCE!
DISTRIBUTION AND FILM FUNDS POLICIES
GHS, Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor
19.00
SOFIA IFF AWARDS CEREMONY
Followed by a screening of The Leisure Seeker, 112’
National Palace of Culture, Hall 1
20.30 – 23.00
DINNER on the occasion of the 15th SofiaMeetings
Hosted by BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER
Festival Center IN THE PARK (Former MATTI’D)
(above Lumiere Lidl Cinema) (by invitation only)
22.00
CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS PARTY
Fabrica 126 (by invitation only)
PARALLEL PROGRAMME
10.00 – 13.30
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING with Licia Eminenti (France)
GHS, Serdica Hall 1, 1st floor
(participants with projects only)
12.00 – 18.00
VR HUB SOFIA MEETINGS – VR Screenings
GHS, Sredetz Meeting Room, 2nd floor
14.00 – 15.30
AWARENESS – RESPONSIBILITY – PROFESSIONALITY
Talk on Casting for Actors and following Q & A session
With the Casting Director Beatrice Kruger (Italy)
GHS, Serdica Hall 1, 1st floor
15.30 – 17.00
CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA DAY
NEW MOMENTS AND EXPERIENCES FROM NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES
With Kamen Balkanski, Head CED MEDIA (Bulgaria)
Mercedes Fernandez, TorinoFilmLab (Italy)
Danijel Hocevar, MIDPOINT (Slovenia)
Stefan Arsenijevic, First Films First (Serbia)
GHS, Serdica Hall 1, 1st floor
17.00 – 17.30
PRESENTATION OF ACE PRODUCERS with Simon Perry (Netherlands)
GHS, Serdica Hall, 1st floor
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
MAIN PROGRAMME
9.30 – 13.30
ONE TO ONE MEETINGS
GHS, Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor
11.00 – 11.30
COFFEE BREAK
13.30 – 14.30
LUNCH (by invitation only)
14.30 – 18.30
ONE TO ONE MEETINGS
GHS, Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor
Screening
18.30
8'19'', Bulgaria, 2018, 90’, Directors Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Luybomir Mladenov, Nadejda Koseva, Theodore Ushev, Vladimir Lyutskanov Lumiere Lidl Cinema
20.30 – 22.00
CLOSING DINNER of the15th SOFIA MEETINGS
Central Army Club
(by invitation only)
22.00
SOFIA MEETINGS AWARD CEREMONY and PARTY
Central Army Club
(by invitation only)
PARALLEL PROGRAMME
9.30 – 12.30
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING with Licia Eminenti (France)
GHS, Triaditza Hall 1, 1st floor
(participants with projects only)
10.30 – 11.30
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGNS: WILL IT WORK FOR YOU?
With Melody Gilbert (USA) & Dumitria Pacicovschi (Italy)
GHS, Serdica Hall, 1st floor
11.45 – 14.00
INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING: DISCUSSING AN INDUSTRY IN MOTION
With Mirka Duijn (Netherlands)
SHORT PRESENTATIONS FROM CREATORS, MAKERS AND SPECIALISTS
GHS, Serdica Hall, 1st floor
12.00 – 18.00
VR HUB SOFIA MEETINGS
VR Screenings
GHS, Sredetz Meeting Room, 2nd floor
14:30 – 15.10
6 REASONS YOUR FIRST VFX SHOW WILL BE A COMPLETE DISASTER
By Nu Boyana FX
Starring Peter Dimitrov & Martin Georgiev (Bulgaria)
GHS, Serdica Hall, 1st floor
15.15 – 16.00
PRESENTATION OF ROMA LAZIO FILM COMMISSION
With Luciano Sovena (Italy)
GHS, Serdica Hall, 1st floor
16.00 – 17.30
PROFESSION: CASTING DIRECTOR
Talk on Casting for Producers and Directors and following Q & A session
With the Casting Director Beatrice Kruger (Italy)
GHS, Serdica Hall, 1st floor
SUNDAY, MARCH 18
10.00 – 12.00
NU BOYANA FILM STUDIOS GUIDED TOUR
Meeting Point: Grand Hotel Sofia
Screening
20.30
OCCUPATION 1968, Bulgaria-Germany-Hungary-Poland-Russia, 2018, 120’
Directors Stephan Komandarev, Marie Elisa Scheidt, Linda Dombrovszsky, Magdalena Szymków, Evdokia Moskvina Lumiere Lidl Cinema
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 14-18
FIRST FILMS FIRST WORKSHOP
GHS (closed event, participants only)
EUROPA CINEMAS SEMINAR
G8 Cinema
(closed event, participants only)
EUROPA DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP
GHS, Sofia Club, Ground floor
(closed event, participants only)
THURSDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 15-17
10.00 – 19.00
VIDEO SCREENINGS
Video Library
GHS, Room 104, 1st floor
SUNDAY, MARCH 18
10.00 – 14.00
VIDEO SCREENINGS
Video Library
GHS, Room 104, 1st floor
Sofia Meetings presents the following Awards:
We are very happy to announce our new partner CineLab Romania. Cinelab Romania will present an Award for one of the projects in the main selection. The Award consists of 25 000 Euro in postproduction services.
Nu Boyana Film Studios ’ Danny Lerner Award - Grand Prix for Best Project. The leading European film studio will back up two of the projects this year, each with aprize of 50,000 Euro in services and 5 000 Euro in cash during the production of the project.
CineLab - 25 000 Euro in post production lab services (without VFX & Sound).
Focusfox Studio Award equal to 10,000 Euro in post-production services.
East West Filmdistribution Award – script consultancy with Steven Goldsmith, an Irish-American script doctor and writer (equal of 5,000 Euro).
Young Producer Award – YAPIMLAB will invite one producer for a week of project consultancy in Istanbul or Antalya, during International Antalya Film Festival, and offer network possibilities within Turkish industry (equal of 5,000 Euro).
Producers Network (Cannes Market) will award two accreditations for Producers Network at Cannes Market 2018.
Crossroads will select and present one of the projects from Sofia Meetings.
Mediterranean Film Institutewill award a scholarship to one of the projects from Sofia Meetings to participate in MFI Script 2 Film Workshops.
