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IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM PRESENT AT STEREOPSIA
The MIT Press publishes a journal called “Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments”. Its Volume 19, Issue 4 of August 2010 featured a pioneering, scientific article by Nonny de la Peña and her 7 co-authors entitled “Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of News”. Nicknamed “The Godmother of…
NOMINATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2017
At the Seville European Film Festival, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions proudly announced the nominations for the 30th European Film Awards. The more than 3,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on 9 December in Berlin. check out…
COCO PROGRAMME 2017 REVEALED!
The 2017 edition of connecting cottbus will introduce coco Work in Progress (WiP) with the new €35,000 coco WiP Award, an in-kind prize sponsored by the German post-production company D-FACTO MOTION.
This is IT WEMW and TSFF launch a work in progress section for Italian majority and minority co-productions
After the great success of the past editions of Last Stop Trieste, work in progress section dedicated to creative documentaries, When East Meets West and Trieste Film Festival expand their initiatives targeting projects in post-production phase and launch This is IT, a new section exclusively dedicated to long feature fiction…
MIDPOINT TV Launch 2018 is about to take off
A new batch of 6 promising TV series projects will participate in the 2018 edition of MIDPOINT TV Launch. Already on Sunday, their 9 month development process begins at a residential workshop in Slovak Republic. 6 projects from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Serbia have been selected following an…
Institute of Documentary Film presented Silver Eye Awards to three remarkable films in Jihlava
The Institute of Documentary Film co-organizes the industry section at the Ji.hlava IDFF. For the ninth time, the Silver Eye Awards were presented in three categories to the best documentary films in the East Silver Market. Film professionals attended the Ex Oriente Film workshop, while audiences enjoyed a unique screening…
CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR WEMW CO-PRODUCTION FORUM: EXTENDED DEADLINE
As a result of the strong interest in the co-production forum, the deadline has been extended to November 7 to allow as many producers as possible to submit their project.The upcoming edition of WEMW (January 21-23, 2018) will launch a new East & West double focus and will bring together…
European Film Promotion at the AFM: FSS granted for 33 films – 16 companies at the EUROPE! UMBRELLA
In a collective action, EFP (European Film Promotion) highlights European cinema at the upcoming American Film Market (November 1 – 8), by granting FILM SALES SUPPORT(FSS) for the promotion and marketing of 33 European films totalling more than €120.000, by running the EUROPE! UMBRELLA for European world sales and production…
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018 – Deadline Tomorrow Thursday Oct 26
The call for MIDPOINT Feature Launch is open – for writers, directors and producers of narrative storytelling. Deadline tomorrow Thursday October 26. Next year's edition has been expanded to become a year-long platform with two residential workshops, a project showcase at Karlovy Vary IFF and a networking spotlight at When…
Support decisions at the 148th Eurimages’ Board of Management meeting
Co-production support - Strasbourg, 25.10.2017 - At its 148th meeting held from 16 to 20 October 2017 in Skopje, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 22 fiction, 7 documentaries and 1 animation film projects for a total amount of €5,598,535.
Four Animation Films and Four Comedies Nominated for the European Film Awards 2017
The European Film Academy proudly announces the four nominations for the award categories EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2017 and EUROPEAN COMEDY 2017. Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2017 are: ETHEL & ERNEST by Roger Mainwood (UK, Luxembourg)LOUISE BY THE SHORE (Louise en hiver) by Jean-François Laguionie (France, Canada)LOVING VINCENT…
dok.incubator workshop calls for ambitious feature docs at the rough‐cut stage
dok.incubator, an international documentary workshop that supports the creative team (director, producer, and editor) with their late-stage documentaries, is searching for original film projects that will have a rough-cut ready by March 2018. The programme is based on individual tutoring for the whole team. Under the supervision of experienced European…
Record Number of European Oscar Entries at EFP's LA Screenings
Putting a spotlight on a record number of 28 European Oscar entries, EFP (European Film Promotion) offers additional screenings of the films in LA for Academy members, journalists, US-distributors and international buyers. With the special support of the EFP member organisations, the event helps the productions to stand out among…
MIDPOINT Feature Launch Announces Winners
Today the script and project development program MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2017 concluded in Písek, Czech Republic, and the winners have been announced. The main development award of 8.000 EUR goes to ZANA by writer/director Antoneta Kastrati and producer Casey Johnson. 19 writers, directors and producers have participated in this year's…
EFA: Five Debut Films Nominated for the European Film Awards 2017
The European Film Academy congratulates the nominees for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2017 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. Nominated are: BLOODY MILK (Petit Paysan) by Hubert Charuel (France)GODLESS (БЕЗБОГ) by…
The shooting of the live-action documentary film Action D.B. by the director Dana Budisavljević begins
Written and directed by: Dana BudisavljevićCo-written by: Jelena PaljanDirector of photography: Jasenko RasolProduction design: Duško Milavec and Ivo HušnjakCostume design: Martina FranićMakeup design: Dušica VuksanovićSound: Julij ZornikProducers: Miljenka Čogelja and Olinka VišticaProduced by: The Hulahop production house from ZagrebCo-produced by: Vlado Bulajić and Lija Pogačnik, the December production house from…
EUROPA DISTRIBUTION OPEN PANEL MIA / ROME FILM FESTIVAL
Everything you always wanted to know about Distribution but were afraid to ask: PIRACY Europa Distribution and MIA continue their joint venture to raise awareness of the role of film distributors, and present the 4th edition of the successful panels on “Everything you always wanted to know about Distribution but…
MIDPOINT TV Launch 2018 announcing project selection
It's a great pleasure to announce the 6 selected projects for the 2018 edition of MIDPOINT TV Launch, the international idea-to-market program for emerging TV series creators. The selected projects and its 15 participants will go through a 9 month development program, which takes their original TV series ideas through…
TWO WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY TO THE WEMW CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
WEMW Coproduction ForumDEADLINE: October 31, 2017The upcoming edition of WEMW (January 21-23, 2018) will launch a new East & West double focus and will bring together over 400 film professionals from more than 30 countries and, in particular, from the 2018 spotlight regions: the Nordic Countries* and South East Europe**.Producers…
EFA Protests Against Dismissal of PFI Director Magdalena Sroka
Open letter to the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
