WEMW 2027 is about to return to Trieste from 17 to 19 January with a rich programme of activities for a 3-day deep dive into the market’s latest trends. Let’s get ready for this new edition by taking a closer look at the different sections!
LAST STOP TRIESTE
—deadline: October 30
Last Stop Trieste, now in its 13th edition, is a work in progress section for documentary projects in a stage of fine-cut, previously developed or presented in one of our partners platform: Ex-Oriente Film Workshop, BDC Discoveries, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, Baltic Sea Docs, ZagrebDox PRO and When East Meets West.
Selected documentary fine cuts will be given the chance to be screened in Trieste to an exclusive platform of international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors with the aim of enhancing their potential for finding festival premiere, sales agents and broadcasting slots. Along with a short presentation and the screening of the prepared selection of scenes from their fine cuts, all selected teams will participate at the moderated feedback session with hand-picked decision makers attending physically Last Stop Trieste.
All selected docs will be in the running for the Film Centre Montenegro Award, a cash prize of the value of 2.000€.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
__LST has interest in supporting creative documentary projects that have a final duration between 60 minutes and feature length, done with a strong cinematic language and artistic imprint of the director
Projects should be new or recent and there should be a potential international market
No specific themes or styles are preferred
__There are no other specific fixed criteria and each individual project will be considered on its own merits
SUBMISSION
For further details on the guidelines and submission process, please refer to the Last Stop Trieste page.
In order to submit your application and the required materials you need to create your own account and fill in the online form following this link.
The deadline is October 30, 23:59 CET.
THIS IS IT
—deadline: October 30
This Is IT is a work in progress section exclusively dedicated to long feature films and hybrid works with a strong visual and artistic approach produced or co-produced by Italian producers or coming from any of the East & West 2027 spotlight territories: Poland & Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
The selected teams will have the chance to present their works and screen 8′ of their films to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and buyers.
All selected films will compete for the Laser Film Award, consisting in 4 days of colour grading services and 1 DCP for a total value of 10.000€ and the M74 Award, consisting in the creation of “2D Comp” visual digital effects and opening credits, with a value of €10,000.00, including digital artist services.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
__This Is IT has interest in supporting long feature films and hybrid works with a strong cinematic language and artistic imprint of the director
Projects should be new or recent, there should be a potential international market and should be feature films with theatrical potential (minimum length of 70 minutes)
The submitted project can be in different stages of post-production, though highly recommended to be in its early editing phase and still looking for international distribution and festival premiere
__No specific themes or styles are preferred
__There are no other specific fixed criteria and each individual project will be considered on its own merits
SUBMISSION
For further details on the guidelines and submission process, please refer to the This Is IT page.
In order to submit your application and the required materials you need to create your own account and fill in the online form following this link.
The deadline is October 30, 23:59 CET.
CONTACTS
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