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Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event unveil Script Pool Tallinn and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange projects
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event announce projects for the second edition of the script competition Script Pool Tallinn and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange international forum that runs for the 11th time this year.
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event reveal 2018 Works In Progress titles
19 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 28. This year’s edition will take place from November 26–30.
The shooting of the feature Half-Sister by the director Damjan Kozole begins
On Saturday, 27 October, the director Damjan Kozole began shooting his new feature film Half-Sister in Ljubljana. The screenplay, written by Kozole, Urša Menart and Ognjen Sviličić, focuses on two estranged half-sisters from Izola, whom the circumstances force to live together in a small apartment in Ljubljana. Starring Urša Menart…
Slovak line-up at 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF & 61st DOK Leipzig
Slovak documentary is not dead! We are pleased to present the Slovak line-up at two prestigious festivals celebrating documentary films: 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF and 61st DOK Leipzig! Every year, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival organisers show a selection of extraordinary creative documentaries, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe. The 22nd…
Polish creative documentary DIAGNOSIS goes to IDFA // First Appearance Competition.
DIAGNOSIS, a film about the subconscious of a city, directed by Ewa Podgórska, has been selected to the Competition during one of the biggest and most prestigious documentary film festivals in the world IDFA. The producer of the film is Małgorzata Wabińska (Entertain Pictures). A full-length documentary DIAGNOSIS directed by…
Oscar winners and the newest technologies at the Film Spring Workshop in Krakow, Poland.
Neil Corbould, a two-time Oscar winner to teach special effect and Ewa Puszczyńska, an Oscar winner for Ida to give a lecture on film debut - The Film Spring Workshop is taking place in Krakow, Poland. The Film Spring Workshop, international, professional film training, has just started. For 10 days,…
Czech Film Fund Announced Support for 8 Minority Co-productions and 6 Animated Films Totaling €923,000
Czech Film Fund Announced Support of 8 Minority Co-productions and 6 Animated Films Totaling €923,000 On October 9, the Czech Film Fund announced support for minority co-productions with the sum of CZK 20 million (€ 769,230). From the total amount of 25 projects that applied for support, 14 projects were…
What´s Slovak in Warsaw?
Three Slovak and co-production films will vie for the Warsaw Grand Prix at 34th Warsaw Film Festival (October 12 – 21, 2018). Check out the line-up! The Band (d. Ladislav Kaboš), documentary about the birth of the Romani band Lomnické Čháve will compete in Documentary Comepetition along withCircus Rwanda (d.…
Warsaw as a meeting place for the European film industry related to children's and family cinema. Over 200 guests from 25 countries around the world - the Warsaw Kids Film Forum in numbers
At the end of September, another edition of the Warsaw Kids Film Forum twas held. It is a trade event accompanying the Kids Film Festival. The rich program of the event and the representation of various sectors of the film industry both from the country and from around the world…
Moving Docs Expands Online with ‘Home Cinema’ VOD Channel
With its recently launched video-on-demand channel, Moving Docs Home Cinema now gives viewers around the world the opportunity to get instant access to a selection of critically acclaimed documentaries that are hard to find otherwise. Moving Docs is the very first pan-European distribution network for documentaries, powered by 20 screening…
DAFilms.com presents: Retrospective of Jonas Mekas
“My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.”
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MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia & Ukraine). To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON…
ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum announces 2018 programme
Three masterclasses, three 3-day workshops, pitching for stop motion shorts with 15 projects in the final, numerous presentations, LAIKA recruitment, animation breakfasts with special guests, presentations about stop motion animation in games and commercials, and one-to-one meetings will take place during the 3rd edition of ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum in…
Oettinger, Randall, Kijek/Adamski join the line-up of ANIMARKT
Johan Oettinger, Chris Randall, and Polish creative duo Kijek/Adamski are the key speakers of ANIMARKT Talks conference (October, 12th) – a part of ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. ANIMARKT Talks is a one-day conference and a great opportunity to learn more about the animation market. Last year the main subject of…
CEE Animation Workshop Opens a Call for Filmmakers from Low Production Capacity Countries
CEE Animation Workshop is a year-long programme of training, project development and networking for producers and their creative teams, focusing on animated or hybrid projects of all lengths and types (shorts, features, series). The aim is to provide tutoring in the field of content development, starting with script consultancy, as…
Film Centre of Montenegro supports 22 Projects
Pursuant to the second competition announced for the cinematographic works production co-financing, the Film Centre of Montenegro will, at the proposal of the Council, support the total of 22 projects in different categories: screenplay development, project development, feature and short documentary films, as well as feature and short feature films…
Polish National Film Festival is Gdynia to be the first national festival signing the Gender Quality pledge
Women in Film – an informal Polish organization gathering over 3000 women working in the film industry – organized a conference entitled “50:50 by 2020” on Friday, 21 September 2018 during the Gdynia Film Festival. Following the inspiring example of fellow women from all over the world and declarations signed…
INDIE SALES PICKS UP “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”, A TIMELY ROMANIAN DRAMA INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS
Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Gabi Virginia Şarga and Cătălin Rotaru first feature film, “Thou Shalt not Kill”. The director duo is known for their short film 4.15 PM The End of the World which was selected in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Thou Shalt…
THE MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY ANNOUNCED THE PARTNERSHIP WITH “LESS IS MORE”
On 26th of September, the Macedonian Film Agency within the framework of the 39th International Cinematographers' Film Festival “Manaki Brothers” in Bitola announced the one-year partnership with Less Is More – a training programme that was created by Le Groupe Ouest (France). The aim of the program is to help…
11 projects from 9 countries selected to 13 edition of ScripTeast.
Each year Independent Film Foundation, organizer of ScripTeast, receives a a great number of projects, coming from all of the countries of the region and representing very high quality, spectrum of film genres and interesting subjects. The organizers would like to thank all the writers for their interest in the…
