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22 projects selected for the 10th edition of the Trieste Co-Production Forum
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST(Trieste, January 19-21, 2020) Trieste - December 20, 2019 – 22 film projects from 17 countries will be presented at the special 10th anniversary edition of When East Meets West, the Italian Co-Production Forum taking place from January 19-21, 2020 in the frame of the Trieste Film…
dok.incubator traces at Sundance Film Festival
dok.incubator is delighted to announce another 3 films developed in dok.incubator workshop are now competing in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival! In the last 8 years of the workshop 12 films have already been selected for Sundance.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival sets new records
Wrapping last Sunday, the 23rd edition of Black Nights saw the festival break several of its records as the attendance had reached 90 000 already a day before the end, while the global potential media audience rose by over 900 million people and the number of accredited guests and industry…
Olivia Bell Management signed Estonian actress at Black Nights Film festival
At Black Nights Stars initiative, part of Industy@Tallinn &; Baltic Event and Black Nights Film festival, talent agent Robin Hudson signed Estonian actress Ingrid Margus to London-based Olivia Bell Management. Black Nights Stars is a programme for six young actors on the verge of their international carrier designed to build…
Awards of the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Asian cinema emerges victorious at the Award Ceremony of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with the Grand Prix going to Japanese Kontora and the Best Director award to Filippino filmmaker Jun Robles Jana for Kalel (15). In the festival’s premiere competition programme, the Official Selection - Competition Japanese film…
The winners of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Awards announced
Yesterday Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event rewarded the best projects after a week full of presentations, networking, screenings, meetings and panel discussions attracting more than 600 guests from 54 different countries. Marge Liiske, the Head of Industry@Tallinn and Baltic event said that it has been exciting five days of masterclasses, discussions,…
Award winners of Just Film Works in Progress and Script Pool TV revealed
Yesterday evening Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic event announced the first winners of this year’s industry awards: Just Film Works in Progress Award and Script Pool TV Award. Just Film Works in Progress is a newly introduced category at Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event Works in Progress focusing on children and youth film…
First titles of the anniversary 60 th Krakow Film Festival
The Krakow Film Foundation, the organiser of the 60th Krakow Film Festival, announces the first titles of the next year’s anniversary programme! As it is the case every year, the top film-makers from all over the world come to Krakow to present their latest productions. In the international documentary film…
Tallinn Black Nights and Vialog test audience and filmmakers engagement application
For the 23rd edition, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has teamed up with software developing company Vialog to test an audience engagement application on the festival's website, creating a unique channel for the audience to communicate with filmmakers directly. Becoming the first A-category festival to test this kind of…
PÖFF Shorts announced winners for 2019
At the PÖFF Shorts award ceremony held on Saturday November 23 in Tallinn's Club Hollywood, the winners of the Black Night Film Festival's short film and animation sub-festival PÖFF Shorts were announced. For the first time, the joint jury of PÖFF Shorts put forth a candidate to the European Film…
Winners of 13th Five Flavours AFF announced
Grand Prix of the New Asian Cinema competition was awarded to "Balloon" directed by Pema Tseden. Special Mention went to "And Your Bird Can Sing" by Sho Miyake. People's Jury consisted of Robert Jarosz, Igor Kierkosz, Irena Kołtun, Basia Majchrowicz, Aleksander Młyński, Łukasz Mizerski, Paweł Mizgalewicz, Marta Pęcak, Maja Soś,…
Black Nights unleashes the Rebels section, announces the Lifetime Achievement Award laureate and the series lineup and opens the festival with a bang!
BLACK NIGHTS KICK-OFF And we're off! The 23rd Black Nights Film Festival has officially begun.Over 250 films in 4 different cities and 4 competition programs - Official Selection, First Feature Competition, Baltic Film Competition, Rebels with a Cause Competition. Yesterday's Opening Ceremony kicked off with opening film Adam and the…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival honours actress Rea Lest at the festival’s Opening Ceremony
The 23rd edition of the Black Nights Film Festival was opened yesterday at the Alexela Concert Hall with actress Rea Lest honoured with the Bruno O’ya award. At last night’s Opening Ceremony’s spectacular multimedia show, directed once again by Ingmar Jõela, crossed stage acting, dance acts and live filmmaking, paying…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the full programme
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has released its full lineup, adding two world and three international premieres, raising the total film count of the main festival to 200. Together with its two sub-festivals, youth and children’s film festival Just Film and short and animation film festival PÖFF Shorts, Black Nights…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces members of its seven juries
The 23rd edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will see six International and one jury, comprised of only Estonians, overseeing various sections of the festival. The jury of the Official Selection will evaluate the 21 films in the programme, handing out following prizes: Grand Prix for the Best…
connecting cottbus: AWARD WINNERS 2019
While the 21st edition of connecting cottbus (6-8 Nov 2019) continues with further matchmaking and networking events, tonight the East-West co-production market at FilmFestival Cottbus announced the award winners out ofitsselection of 13 cocoPITCH and 6 cocoWIP projects. The coco Best Pitch Awardgoes to the best public presentation of a…
PÖFF brings together film industry professionals and young local talent
On the 26th of November, as a result of the collaboration between PÖFF, Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event and the European Film Academy (EFA), film industry professionals will meet with young local designers, creatives, and promising film actors of the future. PÖFF BlackWalk, the exclusive gala of young talent, has been…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival to honour director Andrei Konchalovsky with the Lifetime Achievement Award
At the 23rd edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky will be presented with one of the festival’s two Lifetime Achievement Awards. The festival will also screen two of his films: the Northern European premiere of his latest film Il Peccato (Sin) and House of…
BLACK NIGHTS OFFICIAL SELECTION LINEUP
The Official Selection - Competition, the coat-of-arms of an A-category film festival!The selection of #PÖFF23 Official Selection is diverse, in terms of genre, topics and geography, covering five continents, with films from Northern And Southern America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Eight of the films will be having the world, nine…
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event reveal 2019 Works In Progress titles
18 films in production or post-production looking for sales agents or festivals for international premieres will be presented at the Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event Work in Progress sessions on November the 26 and 27th. Both the Baltic Event, showcasing Baltic and Finnish projects, as well as International Works in Progress,…
