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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces first eight films of the Official Selection – Competition

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the first eight films of the Official Selection – Competition, the premiere competition programme of its 24th edition. The lineup includes the international premiere of Final Report by the Academy-Award-winning Hungarian veteran István Szabó, who has been awarded the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in…
25-09-2020

Netflix, ViacomCBS, ARRI, Indie Sales and many more! Meet our Decision Makers!

It's time to share with you the news who is going to join the upcoming online edition of Kids Kino Industry! Janine Weigold from Netflix, Steffen Kottkamp from ViacomCBS, Moritz Hemminger from ARRI Media International, Eleanor Coleman from Indie Sales and many other Decision Makers have registered so far and…
25-09-2020

Kids Kino.Lab. One month left to submit you project!

Kids Kino.Lab is an international script development programme for film projects and TV series for young audiences. It is dedicated to scriptwriters and producers who are interested in developing their films (live action, animation or documentary) or a TV series. Deadline: October 23rd. More details below. During the workshops, 12…
25-09-2020

Accreditations are open! // Deadline for submissions is Friday!

23 September / What's cooking? Get your accreditation to Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event Script Pool Tallinn announces juries and mentors Final deadline for submissions - you have time until Friday! TIME TO GET YOUR ACCREDITATION! In just two months time, Industry@Talinn &; Baltic Event, taking place 100% online this year, …
23-09-2020

Curse or Blessing. Co-Production In A Changed Environment

FINAL FREE LIVE WEBINAR: CURSE OR BLESSING. CO-PRODUCTION IN A CHANGED ENVIRONMENT There are less than two weeks to go before the start of the 4th edition of Kids Kino Industry, the international co-production forum. This year's edition has been moved to the online world, resulting in the programme being…
21-09-2020

Documentary Competition 36. WFF

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION ***ATTENTION: TICKET PRESALE BEGINS ON OCTOBER 1!*** THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF 36. WFF WILL TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 AT 12.00 NOON IN KULTURALNA, PALACE OF CULTURE – COME JOIN US! Taxidermy and fencing masters, charismatic political leaders, famous prisoners, the legendary recording studio, the pole vault…
21-09-2020

Discoveries continue!

With our festival’s Discoveries we’re travelling further in search of amazing stories and larger-than-life characters. Here are the additional nine titles of the section that leave us in awe of their diversity, and the ability to provoke discussion. Thanks to them we have a chance to embark on journeys that…
20-09-2020

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival saves forests with Single.Earth, a rising Estonian greentech startup

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will invest one euro from every film submission fee collected to combat intensive clear-cuts in Estonia. The platform created by the Estonian startup Single.Earth gives money to forest owners for switching from clear-cutting to alternative forest management methods.
18-09-2020

Special Screenings of 36. WFF Revealed!

In the most „starry” of our sections, we included stories of Czech car mechanics in love with Elvis, outsiders, ex-cons, writers, nuns and window cleaners. We visit them in their natural surroundings and they, although quite reluctantly, open their doors to their fascinating worlds. See these stories on the big…
17-09-2020

Short Films Competition at 36. WFF

SHORT FILMS COMPETITION An exceptionally exciting program of Short Films Competition has been divided into four sets of short, but incredibly rich stories full of emotions, unexpected twists, characteristic characters. Let yourself be surprised by this energetic bomb – a collection of real gems! There are 22 of those! ***ATTENTION:…
16-09-2020

Konrad (Koni) Steinbacher: Recipient of 2020 Badjura Lifetime Achievement Award

Konrad (Koni) Steinbacher was born in 1940 in Zgornje Prebukovje, a village in the Pohorje Hills above Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia. After receiving his first years of schooling in Šmartno na Pohorju and Slovenska Bistrica, he wanted to continue his education where he could show his talent. Teachers advised him to…
16-09-2020

Announcing first Discoveries of 36. WFF!

DISCOVERIES This won’t come as anything new if we mention that each year in our Discoveries section we present absolutely astonishing films. It won’t be any different this year. In our quest for best movies we visit the faraway lands, watch hundreds of titles to pick the most interesting, thought-provoking,…
11-09-2020

A Quantum Leap. Game Tech In Filmmaking

When: Monday, 14th September, 12:00-13:00 Central European Summer Time (watch your time zone) Where: ZOOM Cost: FREE (register here) The long-awaited fusion of CG animation and film production has finally arrived with the use of game engines being adopted by small and large studios alike. It is opening doors into…
11-09-2020

RIGA IFF Announces Films in Festival's Main Competition

This autumn, the seventh Riga International Film Festival will take place 15 – 25 October. One of the most important sections of the festival is the feature film competition. Eight distinct, innovative and artistically challenging films from the Baltic Sea region and the Nordic countries have been selected for the…
11-09-2020

Family Cinema Weekend at 36. WFF

Although most of the screenings during 36th Warsaw Film Festival are intended for adult viewers, we don’t forget about our youngest audiences! The program of Family Cinema Weekend includes films that can’t really be found in multiplexes – films that are really smart, warm, thoughtful, that encourage spending time in…
11-09-2020

Last days to apply for 36. WFF workshops

In the last couple of days we've announced first titles of the official selection of 36. WFF: Best Polish Shorts of 2020, Polish Classics and Family Cinema Weekend. In the coming days, until the end of September, we'll be announcing further titles included in the official selection.
10-09-2020

EnergaCAMERIMAGE Newsletter

LEGEND OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK NEW WAVE, JIŘÍ MENZEL, OUR GUEST, HAS DIED It is with great sadness that we learned about the death of Jiří Menzel, Czech director, screenwriter and actor, two-time guest and friend of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE festival. The winner of two of our prestigious special awards passed away…
10-09-2020

Press accreditation for 23rd FSF now open

Dear members of the media, accreditation is now open for the upcoming edition of the Festival of Slovenian Film, which runs from 6 to 11 October 2020 in Ljubljana. Press is welcome to apply for accreditation by 1 October 2020 via our online form. After this, applications will only be…
09-09-2020

Polish Classics of 36. WFF announced

POLISH CLASSICS In this year’s "Polish classics" section we’ve included titles belonging to different eras, different sensitivities, but above all else – realized by completely different, extraordinary filmmakers. On the big screen we’ll be able to observe moving, timeless roles, fascinating stories which quite rarely appear on the big screen…
09-09-2020

2 weeks to send in you submission!

8 September / What's cooking? Why to submit projects to Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event? Works In Progress welcomes projects across three categories Send in your project for our Co-Production Market Do you have a brilliant film script idea? Scriptwriters! Come and join POWR Baltic Stories Exchange
08-09-2020