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Baltic States to Jointly Present Themselves in 12 European Film Festivals This Year
The Baltic film institutions renewed the Mutual Cooperation Agreement at Trieste Film Festival. The addendum signed by Edith Sepp, CEO of the Estonian Film Institute, Dita Rietuma, CEO of the Latvian National Film Centre and Rolandas Kvietkauskas, CEO of the Lithuanian Film Centre envisages 12 joint film promotion projects spread…
Small Body wins the 2018 edition of When East Meets West
The Italian project Small Body is the winner of the eighth edition of When East Meets West. The project directed by Laura Samani and produced by Nadia Trevisan (Nefertiti Film) is a rough fairy-tale about Agata and her dangerous journey to bring her stillborn baby back to life, just enough…
Last chance to apply for dok.incubator! Deadline: Wednesday 31st JAN
Sharpen your storytelling and develop your project into a fully-fledged cinematic feature film with the expert guidance of over 20 internationally recognised tutors. Tutors for 2018: Ulla Simonen (FI/MADE) Founder of the Helsinki production company MADE, Ulla is also a tutor, advisor and consultant for documentary and fiction projects. She…
LET’S CEE AWAITS YOUR FILMS. TOGETHER OR APART
Attention to all film talents: Until 31 January 2018, filmmakers will have the chance to apply for the LET’S CEE Short Film Competition 2018. Not only are two main prizes waiting to be won, moreover, ten finalists will receive an invitation to participate in the second edition of the LET’S…
A record number of Czech filmmakers at the East Doc Platform
Czech filmmakers have been involved in the East Doc Platform (March 3 – 9, Prague) in increasingly larger numbers, which is a clear indication of the growing quality of Czech films in the international context. The 7th EDP will present a total of fifty projects from Central and Eastern Europe.…
The most nominations for the Czech Lion awards have been obtained by the films Ice Mother, Barefoot and Milada
The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) has announced the nominations for the 25th anniversary of the annual Czech Lion awards. The academics were choosing from 51 feature films, animated films and documentary features that had been distributed in the year of 2017. The films will be awarded the Czech…
Open now - applications for the second round of Storytek Accelerator!
Storytek is a mentor-driven accelerator fully focusing on audiovisual sector, where deep knowledge of the global film and creative industry mixes with top-notch technology competence. Storytek Accelerator is now accepting applications from creative and media/film-tech entrepreneurs wishing to participate in the 10-week accelerator program starting in March and ending in…
MIDPOINT Feature Launch & Shorts 2018 are Taking Off
The time has finally come for the expanded MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018. On Sunday January 21, the first part of the feature film development platform will take off in Italy during Trieste Film Festival. Participating are 9 projects from Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine.…
ACM Distribution - new call for projects
We would like to remind you that we are launching a new ACM Distribution call for proposals. The deadline to apply is February 28th, 2018. This scheme is designed to support distribution for international co-productions, and was initially open to films that were supported by the Aide aux cinemas du…
Extensive Lithuanian Film Retrospective in Paris Inaugurates Year-Long Celebration of Statehood Restoration Centenary
The Cinémathèque Française in Paris is hosting one of the biggest projects presenting Lithuania’s national cinema, a two-week long film retrospective which opens today. It also marks the launch of a cycle of events in France to celebrate the centenary of the restoration of Lithuania's statehood. The French cinema-going public…
Czech Republic Launches Script Consulting Incubator
The Czech Film Fund offers its national film industry a new ambitious script consulting program, which is organized in cooperation with MIDPOINT. 'Script Consulting Incubator' is the name of the new initiative which aims to heighten the quality of feature film scripts and to support a new generation of Czech…
dok.incubator film ‘A Woman Captured’ at Sundance
The sixth dok.incubator film in the past six years is flying to Sundance competition. Bernadett Tuza-Ritter’s first feature film ‘A Woman Captured’ traces the unbelievable story of Marish, a European woman who has been working as a slave in a Hungarian home for ten years. Starved, beaten, and exhausted, Marish’s…
POLISH DOCUMENTARY FILMS AT FESTIVALS IN JANUARY
Polish documentary films represented by KFF Sales & Promotion will be shown in January at five international film festivals in Europe and America, including Sundance Film Festival. The audience of one of the most important international film events - Sundance Film Festival - on January 19th will have a chance…
Visegrad Film Forum 2018 will shed some light on the magic of cinematography
Coming to Bratislava in April 17-21, with the editor of 12 Monkeys and other cult films Mick Audsley together with an extraordinary programme
3 plus 2 Filmmakers from Poland at Berlinale Talents 2018
Berlinale Talents is very proud to announce the selection of 250 filmmakers - 128 women and 122 men - from 80 countries for the 16th edition of Berlinale Talents. In our most recent press release you’ll find more info about some of the exciting talents, famous alumni such as David…
WEMW announces the new BALTIC AWARD and unveils the final line up of LAST STOP TRIESTE, FIRST CUT LAB and THIS IS IT
Trieste, January 11th, 2018 – The eighth edition of When East Meets West kicks off in 10 days, on January 21st with an exciting double focus on the Nordic countries and South East Europe. After having revealed the pitching forum project selection, WEMW announces its new Baltic Award! Thanks to…
Visegrad Animation Forum announces call for submissions for its 6th edition
The VAF Třeboň (May 1 – 3, 2018, Czech Republic) is the leading pitching event for animated film in the Central and Eastern Europe. As each year, animated projects in development compete in two categories: Short Films (single film less than 20 minutes long) and Series / TV Specials (web…
When East Meets West 2018 selected projects!
21 film projects from 16 countries will be presented at the eight edition of When East Meets West, the Italian co-production forum taking place on January 21-23, 2018 in the frame of the Trieste Film Festival. This year WEMW will bring together more than 400 industry professionals from over 35…
The shooting of the feature film My Last Year as a Loser by the director and screenwriter Urša Menart begins
On Friday, 8 September, the shooting of the feature film debut My Last Year as a Loser by the director and screenwriter Urša Menart began. To the Slovenian film audience, Urša is best known for her documentaries There Once Was a Land of Hardworking People and What about Mojca? which…
Open Call for MIDPOINT Intensive Iceland
It's our pleasure to announce the open call for MIDPOINT Intensive Iceland 2018, which will take place March 10-11 during the Stockfish Film Festival in Reykjavík. Thanks to a new collaboration with the Icelandic Film Centre, Icelandic film professionals will be invited to develop their feature film projects with international…