EAVE January News 2016
- EAVE project THE LONGEST SUMMER ON EARTH receives production support
In Development / Pre-production January 2016 - THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT in production
In Production January 2016 - 3 EAVE projects in post-production
In Post-Production January 2016 - 7 Oscar Nominations for EAVE producers
Nominations January 2016 - Golden Globe Award for ROOM
Awards January 2016 - ROOM in British cinemas
In cinema and on TV January 2016 - EAVE projects BROTHERS and THE HERE AFTER in festivals around the world
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EAVE project THE LONGEST SUMMER ON EARTH receives production support
- COPS by Stefan Lukacs, producer: EAVE graduate Arash T. Riahi is in development. The project deals with the use of police power and the effects of "warrior-mentality" in police work. It connects perfectly to Lukacs’ previous short film VOID, which is included to the official trainee programme of the Austrian police.
www.goldengirls.at
- EAVE project THE LONGEST SUMMER ON EARTH by Masa Neskovic, producers: EAVE graduates Natasa Damnjanovic, Zdenka Gold received production financing in Serbia. Shooting is planned for summer. The plot: The story of a couple and the story of a city intertwine in a constant struggle between choices and destiny.
www.dartfilm.com
- EAVE project WAJIB by Annemarie Jacir, producer: EAVE graduate Ossama Bawardi took home the Dubai Film Connection Nod Award. This is yet another win for the project, which also scooped The Asian Pacific Screen Awards Academy Film Fund Grant and the Tribeca Film Institute Development Grant earlier this month.
THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT in production
- THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT by Tarik Saleh, producers: EAVE graduate Kristina Aberg, EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen is shooting. The drama inspired by true events is based on Saleh’s original script. Set against the backdrop of the Egyptian Revolution, the thriller features police officer Ahmed Noredin who investigates the murder of a woman. But what initially seems to be a killing of a prostitute turns into a more complex case involving the very elite of Egypt.
3 EAVE projects in post-production
- EAVE project ALI, THE GOAT AND IBRAHIM by Sherif El Bendary, producer: EAVE graduate Hossam Elouan finished shooting. The film tells the story of Ali, a young man who believes his late girlfriend’s soul has been reincarnated in a goat, which he travels with to the coast and meets a depressed engineer named Ibrahim as they trek across Egypt together. Support for post-production comes from CNC in France, Knightworks Paris for VFX, and Titra Paris for a French subtitled copy.
- EAVE project THE SECRET INGREDIENT by Gjorce Stavreski, prodcuer: EAVE graduate Emilija Cockova is in post-production. The plot: A young man is on a quest to save his ill father with the help of one secret ingredient. Gjorce Stavreski's feature film debut, supported by the Macedonian Film Agency has already won a few national and international awards: Nomination for VFF Highlight Pitch Award at Berlin Film Festival, EAVE award at Trieste Film Festival and the Award Best script in the script corner of ICFF “Manaki Brothers” in Bitola.
- TIES THAT BIND project A YELLOW BIRD by K. Rajagopal, producer: TTB graduate Jeremy Chua is in post-production. Next step is Paris to do colouring and sound mix in February.
https://www.facebook.com/jrmychua/about
7 Oscar Nominations for EAVE producers
- AVE MARIA by Basil Khalil, producers: EAVE graduates Roshanak Behesht Nedjad and Helge Albers is nominated for the Best Short Film Academy Award at the Oscars.
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen is nominated for Best Documentary.
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney earned four nominations in the categories Best Film, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adaptation of a Screenplay.
- EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT by Ciro Guerra, co-produced by PUENTES graduate Raul Bravo is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
Nominated for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) are the following films by EAVE graduates:
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney is nominated for Best Adaptation of a Screenplay, as well as Leading Actress and EE Rising Star.
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney, co-producers: EAVE graduate Léontine Petit and EAVE graduate Derk-Jan Warrink for Outstanding British Film
- TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE graduate Marie Kjelsson for Best Film not in the English language
http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016
- JE SUIS MORT MAIS J’AI DES AMIS by Stéphane and Guillaume Malandrin, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart nominated for Best Film, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Set, Best Costumes, Best Editing.
- LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael, producers: EAVE graduate Paul Thiltges and EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator David Grumbach nominated for Best Film, Best Script, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor; Most Promising Actor and Actress, Best Image, Best Sound, Best Music.
- TOUS LES CHATS SONT GRIS by Savina Dellicour, producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno nominated for Best Film, Best First Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Most Promising Actress, Best Set, Best Costumes, Best Editing.
- PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, producer: EAVE graduate Benoît Roland, co-producers: EAVE graduates Bernard Michaux, Sander Verdonk is nominated for Best Film, Best First Feature Film, Best Script, Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actor, Best Picture.
- BRABANÇONNE by Vincent Bal, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum and EAVE graduate and Head of Studies Jani Thiltges is nominated for Best Flemish Film.
- THE ARDENNES by Robin Pront, producers: EAVE graduates Peter Bouckaert is nominated for Best Flemish Film.
- SONG OF THE SEA by Tomm Moore, co-producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc is nominated for Best Co-production.
- THE WAKHAN FRONT by Clément Cogitore, co-producer: Ties That Bind graduate Valerie Bournonville is nominated for Best Co-production.
- WASTELAND by Pieter Van Hees, producer: Film Finance Forum graduate Carolien Vergote is nominated for Best Flemish Film.
Golden Globe Award for ROOM
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
- EAVE Project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-producer: EAVE graduate Sophie Erbs won three Guldbagges – Sweden’s national film prize – during the awards ceremony at Stockholm’s Cirkus, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.
- FLOCKING by Beata Gardeler, producers: EAVE graduates Annika Hellström and Agneta Fagerström Olsson also won three Guldbagges – Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Musical Score.
- UNDERDOG by Ronnie Sandahl, producer: EAVE graduate Annika Hellström was awarded Best Newcomer.
- A MAN NAMED OVE, produced by EAVE graduate Niklas Wikström Nicastro scooped the Audience Award, Best Actor and Best Make-up!
Several awards for EAVE graduates at the Co-production Forum of When East Meets West at Trieste:
- The WEMW development award goes to THE MAN OF THE HOUSE, producer: EAVE graduate Giovanni Pompili
- The Postproduction award is for FOAM AT THE MOUTH by Janis Nords, producer B'EST graduate Alise Gelze
- The EAVE scholarship went to the producer of Sonja Prosenc’s HISTORY OF LOVE, Rok Secen
- EAVE participant Asli Filiz and PUENTES participant Agnieszka Dziecic win the Marche du Film surprise award (badge for the Producers Network)
- London Film Market / MIA award goes to HISTORY OF LOVE by Sonja Prosenc, producer: EAVE participant Rok Secen
- HISTORY OF LOVE by Sonja Prosenc, producer: EAVE participant Rok Secen also received support from RE-ACT Co-Development Funding Scheme
- MARZIA, MY FRIEND by Kirsi Mattila, producer: EAVE participant Elina Pohjola has won the prize for Best international film about Afghanistan at the Afghan Documentary Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.facebook.com/Afghandocumentaryfilmfestival/
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen was awarded Best Foreign Language Film of 2015 by the London Film Critics Circle.
- RAMS (HRÚTUR) by Grimur Hákornason, co-produced by EAVE graduate Ditte Milsted won the FIPRESCI Prize for the Best Actor of the Year in a Foreign Language Film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
- ONE OF US by Stephan Richter, producer: EAVE graduate Arash T. Riahi won the Max Ophüls Award at the Max-Ophüls Filmfestival.
- GIRLS DON’T FLY Monika Grassl, producer: EAVE graduate Arek Gielnik received the Award for Best Documentary.
- SCHROTTEN by Max Zähle, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker won the Audience Award.
- ONE OF US by Stephan Richter, producer: EAVE graduate Arash T. Riahi won the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Austrian Film Awards.
- CASANOVA VARIATIONS by Michael Sturminger, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu won the award for Best Editing.
www.oesterreichische-filmakademie.at
- SCHMITKE by Stepan Altrichter, producer: EAVE graduate Susann Schimk won the RWE Award - Discovery of the Year at the Czech Film Critics’ Awards.
ROOM in British cinemas
In cinema
In German Cinemas:
- AUS DEM ABSEITS von Simon Brückner, producer: EAVE graduate Susann Schimk is in German theaters from January 12.
http://www.missingfilms.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=203%3Aaus-dem-abseits-&catid
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, executive producer: EAVE graduate Sigve Endresen. German start: January 7
- IRAQI ODYSSEY, produced and directed by Interchange graduate Samir. German start: January 14.
- THE PRESIDENT by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, producer: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator David Grumbach, EAVE graduate Vladimer Katchamara. German release: January 14.
- DAS WETTER IN GESCHLOSSENEN RÄUMEN by Isabelle Stever, producer: EAVE graduate Ingmar Trost. German start: January 28.
In French Cinemas:
- I AM THE PEOPLE by Anna Roussillon, producer: Ties That Bind participant Karim Aituna. French release: Janaury 13.
www.hautlesmainsproductions.fr
- TOTO AND HIS SISTERS by Alexander Nanau, producer: EAVE graduate Marcian Lazar. French release: January 6.
- BANG GANG by Eva Husson, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri. French start: January 20.
In Belgian Cinemas:
- PROBLEMSKI HOTEL by Manu Riche, producer: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin. Belgian release: January 13.
- BANG GANG by Eva Husson, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri. Belgium Start: January 27.
- LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS by Joachim Lafosse, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart. Belgium Start: Janaury 27.
In Austrian Cinemas:
- ONE OF US by Stephan Richter, producer: EAVE graduate Arash T. Riahi was screened in Austrian cinemas on January 23 and 24.
In British Cinemas:
- LAST HIJACK by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting, producers: EAVE graduates Nicky Gogan and Verona Meier. UK start: January 8.
lasthijack.com/doc/Last_Hijack_PressBook_web.pdf
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney. UK start: January 15.
- THE VISIT by Michael Madsen, producer: EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller. UK release: January 22.
- WE COME AS FRIENDS by Hubert Sauper, producer: EAVE graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder. UK release: January 29.
In Dutch Cinemas:
- TOUS LES CHATS SONT GRIS by Savina Dellicour, producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno. Dutch release: January 29.
- PROBLEMSKI HOTEL by Manu Riche, producer: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin. Dutch release: January 28.
On TV
- SCHÖNEFELD BOULEVARD by Sylke Enders, producer: EAVE graduate Susann Schimk is on German TV on Janaury 7.
http://www.credofilm.de/de/schonefeld-boulevard-de/
- GEHEIMNISVOLLE ORTE - EISENHÜTTENSTADT by Lutz Pehnert, producer: EAVE graduate Susann Schimk on German TV on Janaury 12.
http://www.credofilm.de/de/eisenhuttenstadt-de/
- DIE HÜTER DER TUNDRA by René Harder, producer: EAVE graduate Martin Ortmanns was shown on Arte on January 20.
EAVE projects BROTHERS and THE HERE AFTER in festivals around the world
Palm Springs International Film Festival (January 1 – 11)
- 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
- REMEMBER by Atom Egoyan, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jens Meurer
- AFERIM! by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny
- ARABIAN NIGHTS TRILOGY by Miguel Gomes, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
- BABAI by Visar Morina, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards
- BRABANÇONNE by Vincent Bal, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum and EAVE graduate and Head of Studies Jani Thiltges
- EAVE project WHY ME? by EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu, produced by EAVE graduate Oana Giurgiu, co-producer EAVE graduate Emoke Vagasi
- EAVE project THE JUDGMENT, producer: EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev
- EROTICA, EXOTICA, ETC. by Evangelia Kranioti, producer: EAVE graduate Charlotte Vincent
- FULL CONTACT by David Verbeek, producers: EAVE graduates Leontine Petit, Sinisha Juricic
- Interchange project 3000 NIGHTS by Mai Masri, producer: EAVE graduate Tunje Berns
- IRAQI ODYSSEY, produced and directed by Interchange graduate Samir
- LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael, producers: EAVE graduate Paul Thiltges and EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator David Grumbach
- LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY by Károly Ujj Mészáros co-producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, executive producer: EAVE graduate Sigve Endresen
- NEON BULL by Gabriel Mascaro, producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot
- ONE FLOOR BELOW by Radu Muntean, co-producer: EAVE graduate Oana Kelemen
- OUR EVERYDAY LIFE by Ines Tanovic, producer: EAVE graduate Zdenka Gold
- PAULINA by Santiago Mitre, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri
- PARADISE TRIPS by Raf Reyntjens, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Peter De Maegd
- RAMS (HRÚTUR) by Grimur Hákornason, co-produced by EAVE graduate Ditte Milsted
- ROAD TO LA PAZ by Francisco Varone, producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juarez Allen
- SWORN VIRGIN by Laura Bispuri, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler
- THE FENCER by Klaus Härö, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho
- THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic and EAVE graduate Petra Vidmar
- THE TREASURE by Corneliu Porumboiu, producer: EAVE graduate Marcela Ursu
- EAVE project INTERRUPTION by Yorgos Zois, producers: EAVE gtraduates Maria Dandraki, Sinisa Juricic
Pune International Film Festival, India (January 14 - 21)
- DÉGRADÉ producers and directors: Interchange graduates Arab & Tarzan Nasser
- DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS by Stina Werenfels, producers: Interchange graduate Samir and EAVE graduate Karin Koch
- RAMS (HRÚTUR) by Grimur Hákornason, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ditte Milsted
Ramdam Film Festival Tournai (January 18 – 26)
- BANG GANG by Eva Husson, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri
- KEEPER by Guillaume Senez, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen
Tromso International Film Festival (January 18 – 24)
- HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK by Sonja Heiss, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
- KEEPER by Guillaume Senez, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
- LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY by Károly Ujj Mészáros co-producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, executive producer: EAVE graduate Sigve Endresen
- NEON BULL by Gabriel Mascaro, producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot
- RAMS (HRÚTUR) by Grimur Hákornason, co-produced by EAVE graduate Ditte Milsted
- THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE by Alanté Kavaité, producers: EAVE graduates Zivile Gallego, Marleen Slot and EAVE+ graduate Antoine Simkine
- THE TREASURE by Corneliu Porumboiu, producer: EAVE graduate Marcela Ursu
Trieste Film Festival (January 22 - 30)
- 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
- AFERIM! by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny
- BABAI by Visar Morina, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards
- BOX by Florin Serban, producer: EAVE Marketing Workshop graduate Jonas Katzenstein
- CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM by Ilinca Calugareanu, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean Gorgan
- DAWN by Laila Pakalnina, co-producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron
- EAVE project BROTHERS by Wojciech Staron, producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron
- EAVE project WHY ME? by EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu, produced by EAVE graduate Oana Giurgiu, co-producer EAVE graduate Emoke Vagasi
- MASTER AND TATYANA by Giedre Zickyte, producer: EAVE graduate Dagne Vildziunaite
- ONE FLOOR BELOW by Radu Muntean, co-producer: EAVE graduate Oana Kelemen
- SENZA DI VOI (WITHOUT YOU) by Chiara Cremaschi, producer: EAVE graduate Pascaline Saillant
- THE LESSON by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, producer: EAVE graduate Magdelena Ilieva
- THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic and EAVE graduate Petra Vidmar
- THE RED SPIDER by Marcin Koszalka, co-producer: EAVE graduate Michal Kollar
- THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE by Alanté Kavaité, producers: EAVE graduates Zivile Gallego, Marleen Slot and EAVE+ graduate Antoine Simkine
- THE TREASURE by Corneliu Porumboiu, producer: EAVE graduate Marcela Ursu
- THE WEDNESDAY CHILD by Lili Horvath, producer: Film Finance Forum and Film Marketing Workshop graduate Károly Fehér
- THE WORLD IS MINE (LUMEA E A MEA) by Nicolae Constantin Tanase, producer: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu
- TOTO AND HIS SISTERS by Alexander Nanau, producer: EAVE graduate Marcian Lazar
- UNDER THE SUN by Vitaly Mansky, co-producer: EAVE graduate Simone Baumann
- VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL by Pol Cruchten, co-producer: EAVE graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
When East Meets West Co-Production Forum
- PUENTES project 1989 by Sebastian Barriuso and Rodrigo Barriuso, producer: EAVE graduate Sebastian Barriuso
- EAVE project AT THE SIDE OF THE MOON, by Tudor Giurgiu, producer: EAVE graduate Bogdan Craciun
- FOAM AT THE MOUTH by Janis Nords, producer B'EST graduate Alise Gelze
- FOR WOMEN ONLY by Ayfer Ergün, producer: EAVE graduate Cihan Asli Filiz
- FUGUE, directed and produced by EAVE graduate Artemio Benki
- HER JOB by Nikos Haralabopoulos, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Dandraki
- STANCES AND STATUES by Ireneusz Grzyb, producer: Puentes graduate Agneszka Dziedzic
- PUENTES project DOLORES by Gonzalo Tobal, producer: Puentes graduate Benjamin Domenech
- EAVE Project SOUR SPRINGS by Kumjana Novakova producer: EAVE graduate Guillermo Carreras-Candi
Last Stop Trieste
- SEE YOU IN CHECHNYA by Alexander Kvatashidze, co-producer: EAVE graduate Melanie Andernach
- THE BEAST IS STILL ALIVE, produced and directed by Mina Mileva & EAVE graduate Vesela Kazakova
First Cut Lab
- SKOKAN by Petr Vaclav, producer: EAVE graduate Jan Macola
- WILD ROSES by Anna Jadowska, producer: EAVE graduate Izabela Igel
ITALY/BRAZIL CO-DEVELOPMENT FUND
- THE MAN OF THE HOUSE, producer: EAVE graduate Giovanni Pompili
EAVE network members attending WEMW:
PUENTES Sebastian Barriuso, Creative Artisans Media / Benjamin Domenech, Rei Cine / Santiago Gallelli, Rei Cine / Alexander Dumreicher Ivanceanu, Amour Fou Vienna / Amra Baksic Camo, Scca/pro.ba / Vesela Kazakova, Activist38 / Sebastian Barriuso, Creative Artisans Media / Ankica Juric Tilic, Kinorama / Artemio Benki, Film Distribution Artcam / Jan Macola, Mimesis Film / Dorina Oarga, Eventival / Riina Sildos, Amrion OÜ / Eero Talvistu, Exitfilm / Guillaume De Seille, Arizona Films Distribution / Jean Des Forets, Petit Film / Sergio Garcia De Leaniz, Eurimages / Heino Deckert , Deckert Distribution Gmbh / Anna Katchko, Tandem Production / Nikolaj Nikitin, SOFA - School of Film Agents / Maria Drandaki, Homemade Films / Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Heretic / Julianna Ugrin, Éclipse Film / Linda Beath, Ideal Filmworks Italia / Enrica Capra, GraffitiDoc / Alessandro Gropplero, When East Meets West / Giovanni Pompili, Kino Produzioni / Stefano Tealdi, Stefilm International S.r.l. / Nadia Trevisan, Nefertiti Film s.r.l. / Flaminio Zadra, Dorje Film / Aija Berzina, Tasse Film / Alise Gelze, Tasse Film / Marion Guth, A-bahn / Bernard Michaux, Samsa Film / Paul Thiltges, Paul Thiltges Distributions Sarl / Tina Trapp, EAVE / Jani Thiltges, EAVE/ Samsa Film / Agnieszka Dziedzic, Koi Studio / Izabela Igel, Alter Ego Pictures Sp. Z O.O. / Joanna Zielinska, Big Wave Films / Anamaria Antoci, 4 Proof Film / Bogdan Craciun, Libra Film Production / Tudor Giurgiu, Romanian Film Promotion / Alex Traila, Steppenwolf Film / Miroslav Mogorovic, Soul Food Distribution / Miha ?ernec, Staragara / Marina Gumzi, Nosorogi / Danijel Hocevar, Vertigo / Jozko Rutar, Slovenian Film Centre / Ida Weiss, Bela Film Ltd; Ida Weiss / Guillermo Carreras-Candi, Atzucac Films / Carmen Comadrán, Corrales Tierravoz Docs / Maria Zamora, Avalon Distribucion Audiovisual / Cihan Asli Filiz, Bir Film / Gülin Ustun, Istanbul Film Festival / Fernando Epstein, Mutante Cine / Kasia Karwan
Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers (January 22 - 31)
- BABAI by Visar Morina, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards
- BADEN BADEN by Rachel Lang, executive producer: EAVE graduate Valerie Bournonville
- EAVE project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-producer: EAVE graduate Sophie Erbs
- KEEPER by Guillaume Senez, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
- PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, producer: EAVE graduate Benoît Roland, co-producers: EAVE graduates Bernard Michaux, Sander Verdonk
- THE WEDNESDAY CHILD by Lili Horvath, producer: Film Finance Forum and Film Marketing Workshop graduate Károly Fehér
Black Movie Festival Geneva (January 22 - 31)
- EAVE project WHY ME? by EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu, produced by EAVE graduate Oana Giurgiu, co-producer EAVE graduate Emoke Vagasi
- FRENZY by Emin Alper, producer: EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen
- I AM THE PEOPLE by Anna Roussillon, producer: Ties That Bind graduate Karim Aituna
- MOTHERLAND by Senem Tüzen, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova
- NECKTIE YOUTH by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, producer: EAVE graduate Elias Ribeiro
- NEON BULL by Gabriel Mascaro, producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney, co-producers: EAVE graduate Léontine Petit and EAVE graduate Derk-Jan Warrink
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken (January 19 - 25)
- ENG NEI ZÄIT by Christophe Wagner, associate producer: EAVE graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges
- GESTRANDET by Lisei Caspers, producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel
- GIRLS DON’T FLY Monika Grassl, producer: EAVE graduate Arek Gielnik
- KORIDA by Sinisa Vidovic, producer: EAVE graduate Arash T. Riahi
- MANCHE HATTEN KROKODILE by Christian Hornung, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker
- ONE OF US by Stephan Richter, producer: EAVE graduate Arash T. Riahi
- SCHROTTEN by Max Zähle, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker
- SEX & CRIME by Paul Florian Müller, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Weydemann
Solothurner Filmtage (January 21 - 28)
- ABOVE AND BELOW by Nicolas Steiner, producer: EAVE graduate Helge Albers
- DER PREIS DER WAHRHEIT by Vera Freitag, producer: Interchange graduate Samir
- GO HOME by Jihane Chouaib, producer: Interchange graduate Samir
- HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK by Sonja Heiss, producer EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
- KEEPER by Guillaume Senez, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
- LE MIRACLE DE TEKIR by Ruxandra Zenide, producer: EAVE graduate Daniel Burlac
- MIRAGE D’AMOUR, produced and directed by EAVE graduate Hubert Toint
- OFFSHORE by EAVE graduate Werner Schweizer, producer: Interchange graduate Samir
- POLDER by Samuel Schwarz and Julian M. Grünthal, producer: EAVE graduate Karin Koch
- THE GIANTS by Bouli Lanners, producers: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart & EAVE graduate and Head of Studies Jani Thiltges
- VERDACHT by Sabine Boss, producer: EAVE graduate Karin Koch
Sundance Film Festival (January 21 – 31)
- A GOOD WIFE by Mirjana Karanovic producers: EAVE graduates Snežana Penev and Sinisa Juricic
- BELGICA by Felix van Groeningen producers: EAVE graduates Laurette Schillings and Frans van Gestel
- BELLADONNA by Dubravka Turic, producer: EAVE graduate Zdenka Gold
- HALAL LOVE by Assad Fouladkar, producer: EAVE graduate Verona Meier
- KIKI by Sara Jordenö & Twiggy Pucci Garçon, producer: EAVE graduate Annika Rogell
- LOVE & FRIENDSHIP by Whit Stillman, producer: EAVE graduate Katie Holly, co-producer: EAVE graduate Raymond van der Kaaij
- KIKI by Sara Jordenö & Twiggy Pucci Garçon, producer: EAVE graduate Annika Rogell
- MAMMAL by Rebecca Daly, producers: EAVE graduates Gilles Chanial, Macdara Kelleher, Reinier Selen
- MI AMIGA DEL PARQUE by Ana Katz producer: EAVE graduate Agustina Chiarino
- MORRIS FROM AMERICA by Chad Hartigan, producers: EAVE graduates Martin Heisler and Arek Gielnik
- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by Alejandro Fernandez Almendras, co-producer: EAVE graduate Guillaume de Seille
- RAMS (HRÚTUR) by Grimur Hákornason, co-produced by EAVE graduate Ditte Milsted
- SING STREET by John Carney, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Niland
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney, co-producers: EAVE graduate Léontine Petit and EAVE graduate Derk-Jan Warrink
- VIVA by Paddy Breathnatch, producers: EAVE graduates Robert Walpole, Rebecca O’Flannagan
- WE ARE X by Stephen Kijak, producer: EAVE graduate Natasha Dack
- WILD by Nicolette Krebitz, producer: EAVE graduate Matthias Krause
Göteborg International Film Festival (January 29 – February 8)
- ARABIAN NIGHTS TRILOGY by Miguel Gomes, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
- BABAI by Visar Morina, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards
- DAWN by Laila Pakalnina, co-producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron
- EVA DOESN’T SLEEP by Pablo Agüero, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Dumoulin
- DEN UNGE ZLATAN by Magnus Gertten, producer: EAVE graduate Margarete Jangård
- LAND AND SHADE (LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA) by César Augusto Acevedo, producer: PUENTES graduate Diana Bustamante, co-producer: EAVE graduate Laurette Schillings
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
- MASTER AND TATYANA by Giedre Zickyte, producer: EAVE graduate Dagne Vildziunaite
- MAMMAL by Rebecca Daly, producers: EAVE graduates Gilles Chanial, Macdara Kelleher, Reinier Selen
- PAULINA by Santiago Mitre, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri
- THE ARDENNES by Robin Pront, producers: EAVE graduates Peter Bouckaert
International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 26 - February 6)
- 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
- ARABIAN NIGHTS TRILOGY by Miguel Gomes, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
- BANG GANG by Eva Husson, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri
- BRAND NEW-U by Simon Pummell, co-producers: EAVE graduates Reinier Selen, Conor Barry
- B`EST project BROTHER DEJAN by Bakur Bakuradze, producer: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic
- CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM by Ilinca Calugareanu, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean Gorgan
- EAVE Project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-producer: EAVE graduate Sophie Erbs
- FULL CONTACT by David Verbeek, producers: EAVE graduates Leontine Petit, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Sinisha Juricic
- HALAL LOVE by Assad Fouladkar, producer: EAVE graduate Verona Meier
- KEEPER by Guillaume Senez, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
- A LUZ INCIDENTE by Ariel Rotter, producer: EAVE graduate Clément Duboin
- LOVE & FRIENDSHIP by Whit Stillman, producer: EAVE graduate Katie Holly, co-producer: EAVE graduate Raymond van der Kaaij
- LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS by Joachim Lafosse, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- MAMMAL by Rebecca Daly, producers: EAVE graduates Gilles Chanial, Macdara Kelleher, Reinier Selen
- MEMORIES OF THE WIND by Özcan ALPER, co-producer: EAVE graduate Guillaume de Seille
- MY GOOD HANS by Alexander Mindadze, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert
- NEON BULL by Gabriel Mascaro, producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot
- PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, producers: Sander Verdonk, Bernard Michaux
- PROBLEMSKI HOTEL by Manu Riche, producer: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
- THE ARDENNES by Robin Pront, producers: EAVE graduates Peter Bouckaert
- THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic and EAVE graduate Petra Vidmar
Bright Future
- BODKIN RAS by Kaweh Modiri, producer: EAVE graduate Raymond Van De Kaaij
- OUT OF LOVE by Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, producer: EAVE graduate Laurette Schillings
- PACIFICO by Fernanda Romandía, producer: PUENTES graduate Jaime Romandia
- MOTHER by Vlado Skafar, producer: EAVE graduate Frenk Celarc
Hivos Tiger Awards Competition
- ALL STILL ORBIT by Dane Komljen & James Lattimer, producer: EAVE graduate Natasa Damnjanovic
- HISTORY'S FUTURE by Fiona Tan, producer: EAVE graduate Floor Onrust
- LA ULTIMA TIERRA by Pablo Lamar, producer: EAVE on Demand graduate Dominga Sotomayor
- OSCURO ANIMAL by Felipe Guerrero, producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juárez Allen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost, Vicky Miha
CineMart
- BLOODY MARY by Guido van Driel, producer: EAVE graduate Floor Onrust
- EAVE project BIRDS OF PASSAGE by Ciro Guerra, producer: PUENTES graduate Katrin Pors
- IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
- OVER THE CITY by Emir Baigazin, producer: EAVE Marketing Workshop graduate Jonas Katzenstein
- POMPEI by John Shank, producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno
- RAFAEL by Ben Sombogaart, producer: EAVE graduate Reinier Selen
- THE ANNOUNCEMENT by Mahmut Fazil Coskun, producer: EAVE+ graduate Borislav Chouchkov
- THE DEVIL OUTSIDE by Andrew Hulme, producer: EAVE graduate Christine Alderson
- THE LAST HAREM by Maryam Keshavarz, producer: EAVE graduate Antonin Dedet
- THE NOTEBOOKS by Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, producer: Interchange graduate Myriam Sassine
- WILD PRINCESS by Ester Martin Bergsmark, producer: EAVE graduate Annika Rogell
APPLY NOW FOR EAVE+ - new edition, new dates!
EAVE+ for experienced producers from Europe and the rest of the world moves its dates to April!
Apply now for the next edition of EAVE+! 12-15 experienced producers and 6 high-profile industry experts will gather during 4 days to discuss their company structures, management practices and new business models.
EAVE+ will take place during April 13-17, 2016 at the hotel Ecluse in Luxembourg.
Applications are open for independent producers with a solid track record and international experience from Europe and the rest of the world until January 29, 2016.
TIES THAT BIND – ASIA / EUROPE CO-PRODUCTION WORKSHOP - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The call for applications for the eight edition of TIES THAT BIND – Asia / Europe Co-Production Workshop is now open until February 8, 2016.
TIES THAT BIND is the most relevant and successful training programme for developing European-Asian co-production. It is targeted at European & Asian producers with projects, 10 of which will be selected for the workshop. We also welcome applications of other European professionals interested in working with Asia (sales agents, financiers, distributors, festival programmers, co-production market representatives) or European producers without project. 5 of them will be selected to be an active part of the group.
The 15 selected participants will attend 2 workshops. Workshop 1 will take place from April 26 – 30, 2016 (TBC) within the framework of the Udine Far East Film Festival (April 22 – 30, 2016) in Italy. Workshop 2 will be organised at the end of November/early December 2016 in Singapore during the SAFF - Southeast Asian Film Financing Forum in partnership with the Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association (SAAVA).
Upcoming Deadline
The Pixel Lab 2016 is now open for applications!
DEADLINE TO APPLY: THURSDAY 24 MARCH, 18.00 GMT!
With storytelling at it’s core, The Pixel Lab is the ultimate workshop for anyone wanting to strengthen their ability to engage with audiences and utilise virtual and augmented reality formats, interactivity and cross platform approaches to build their IP and media brand.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For professionals working in film, broadcast, advertising, art, publishing, games and online, The Pixel Lab will equip you with the skills needed to create, finance and distribute stories in today’s media climate. Spanning four months, we select up to 20 producers to attend with a project and 20 media professionals to attend without. The Pixel Lab is open to a producers, commissioners, financiers, distributors, writers, directors, games & interactive designers and artists with a strong track record in their chosen field from any media sector.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Workshop One, 25 June – 1 July
The Highlands & Islands, Scotland, UK
In a 6-day intensive residential week, all participants head to the beautiful Kingsmills Hotel in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. Working in pairs with a focus on projects, participants will undertake a series of workshops, group work sessions, case study analysis and 1-2-1 meetings with leading media experts and practitioners around the following subjects:
- Developing stories across multiple platforms
- Marketing & distribution strategies dedicated to exploring new platforms, increasing revenue & strengthening business-to-consumer relationships
- Enhancing audience engagementUser-centric design
- Innovative online tools and services
- Analysis and deconstruction of international interactive project case studies
- Legal and digital rights issues surrounding development, production and financing
- Project packaging, planning and presentation
The residential week closes with The Pixel Lab Open day where participants present their projects to the group before engaging in an afternoon of networking with industry guests from the region and abroad.
Workshop Two, July – September
Distance Mentoring
During the summer, producers attending with a project receive distance mentoring from Sean Coleman, Projects Director at Power to the Pixel. Producers will gain invaluable advice and insight into developing sustainable finance strategies, effective distribution models and building brands.
Workshop Three, 10 – 13 October
London, United Kingdom
In the final section of The Pixel Lab, producers attending with a project will present their work to the international media industry at Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum. Participants will present their projects to an international jury of commissioners, financiers, distributors and funders. One project will be awarded The Pixel Lab prize. Producers are also invited to attend a series of 1-2-1 business meetings with potential co-production partners, funds and platforms at Power to the Pixel’s leading finance market, The Pixel Market.Companies in attendance last year included: Arts Council England; BBC; Bell Fund; BFI Film Fund; Brazilian TV Producers; British Council; Canada Media Fund; CBBC; Channel 4; CNC; Creative Europe; Creative Industries KTN; DFI; Dogwoof; ZDF; Google UK; Harmony Institute; IFP; IMCINE; INCAA; Kickstarter; McCann; Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg; National Theatre; Nexus Productions; NZ on Air; Penguin Random House; RioFilme; Screen Australia; SODEC; The Guardian; The Space; The Walt Disney Company; Tribeca Film Institute; United Nationals; V&A Museum; Wallimage Creative; Wellcome Trust; YouTube; and ZDF.Each project participant will also receive free accreditation to The Conference (11 October) and The Pixel Market Finance Forum (12 October) plus access to the many networking events during Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum.Head to the applications page for full details and to complete an online application form.
DOK.Incubator: Applications are now opened!
DEADLINE comes 22nd February
Five–month long mentorship by internationally experienced tutors. Develop your film from the rough-cut stage to the release and test new ideas to tell your story. Focus the film’s topic and sharpen the storytelling, get a wider perspective to see the film in the international market and concrete tools to approach effectively future audience.
How the workshop works:The teams of the selected films spend 5 months working in the editing room. The complete teams of director – producer – editor attend the whole program of all the 3 workshop sessions. The editing mentors work with the participants continuously to develop the storytelling, to focus the topic, and find new ways to tell their stories. The production mentors help the producers to deal with the financing, team management and distribution. Marketing tutors follow the teams to position the film, to target their audience, and attract it. Distribution tutors build with the participants a sophisticated strategy how to break into the market.
DOK.Incubator opens gates to a testing audience among experienced festival representatives and sales agents for the participants to design and test an effective tailor-made distribution strategy.
1st Session: May 2nd – 7th – Trest (Czech Republic)
2nd Session: July 4th – 10th – Banska Stiavnica (Slovakia)
3rd Session: September 12th – 19th – Malmö (Sweden)
* Between the 1st and the 2nd workshop (from mid May – June), please, book your editor’s time for 4 – 6 weeks (June 20th you’re submitting a new version of the cut for the tutors)
* Between the 2nd and 3rd workshop you’re closing the cut, editing the trailer and preparing the distribution/marketing package
* FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE, CHECK: www.dokincubator.net
28th GALWAY FILM FLEADH
Call for Entries – Feature Films
The deadline is Friday 25th March at 5pm
The Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland’s leading film festival, is now accepting feature submissions for the 2016 edition of the festival, which will run from 5th - 10th July.In 2015, the Film Fleadh screened 18 World Premieres as well as countless European and Irish Premieres, many of which have gone on to secure distribution or be picked up for further international outings. Films screened at the Fleadh frequently follow on to Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, Tribeca, Venice and London.
The Fleadh is an Oscar-Qualifying festival for Shorts (Animation & Drama). It also platforms excellence in filmmaking with retrospectives, public interviews, tributes and masterclasses from some of the world’s best filmmaking talent (Saoirse Ronan, John C. Reilly, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Pete Docter & Jonas Rivera, Fionnula Flanagan, Josh Olson,Zachary Quinto, Will Forte, Martin Sheen, Stephen Daldry, Michael Fassbender, Ronald Harwood, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Hampton, Peter O'Toole, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Robert Towne, Paul Schrader, Mira Nair, Abbas Kiarostami, Paolo Taviani and many more).
Alongside the festival, the Fair – Ireland and the UK’s only film market, co-ordinates pre-scheduled meetings between filmmakers and invited Film Financiers, Distributors and Major Producers, allowing new talent to be discovered and long term partnerships to be made.
The Galway Film Fair’s unique selling points:
- Transatlantic Bridge
- Intimate and informal atmosphere
- Privileged access to the world’s leading financiers
- Showcasing new European and International cinema to leading Film Buyers, Distributors and Festival Programmers
“The Galway Film Fleadh is unlike any other Irish film festival. It packs in films,masterclasses, seminars, business meetings and gossip.” (Screen International)
“The Fleadh thankfully remains the most unpretentious and friendliest film gathering.” (The Guardian)
The Galway Film Fleadh accepts Feature films, Documentary and Animation. Screening at an earlier film festival will not preclude selection, although priority will be given to Irish, European and World Premieres. The audience selects awards for Best International First Feature, Best International Feature and Best International Feature Documentary, Best Irish First Feature, Best Irish Feature, Best Irish Feature Documentary while awards for Human Rights Cinema and The Bingham Ray New Talent Award are awarded by a Jury of Industry Professionals.
The earlybird deadline for feature entries is Friday 26th February at 5pm. The entry fee is €30. The regular deadline is Friday 25th March at 5pm, the fee for which is €40.To view the full list of rules and regulations and to submit a film to the Galway Film Fleadh, please go to our website: http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/index.php/submissions/
FrameWork 2016: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
DEADLINE: February 15, 2016
TARGET PARTICIPANTS: creative teams of writer, director and producer from all over the world, working together on 1st or 2nd fiction feature films projects. FrameWork focuses on projects at an advanced stage of development.
FrameWork projects will have the chance to compete for the TFL World Production Awards and the Audience Award, the TFL Awards supporting the production process (see Funding).
DURATION: 2 residential workshops and the TFL Meeting Event in November 2016.
FEE: 2.000 Euro (per team of 2 people). Scholarships may be assigned by merit.
About FrameWork
FrameWork supports emerging talents with individually tailored tools for development, financing and marketing. 9 creative teams – composed of writer, director and producer – are selected to enter the programme, which lasts from May to November 2016. FrameWork focuses both on artistic & creative aspects and on production strategies through 2 residential workshops. Close dialogue and individual meetings will help participants to define their project’s aims and needs, in order to strengthen its strong points and resources. Intense script and project development enhance the projects in reaching the production stage. TorinoFilmLab will support each team to realize the most suitable production strategy.
Participants will have the chance to meet various guest trainers, experts in the main areas of filmmaking: script, directing, image, sound, post-production, etc.
These different approaches help participants to view their project from many angles, raising awareness on its potential and thus defining a consistent working plan. The diversity of trainers guarantees a tailored and updated method, so to fit the diversities and specificities of each project at best.
FrameWork foresees the public presentation of all projects in front of hundreds of industry professionals during the TFL Meeting Event in November 2016, during the Torino Film Festival. On this occasion an international Jury will award some projects with a number of TFL World Production Awards. In addition, the attending industry professionals will assign an Audience Award. For further details on TorinoFilmLab's support to production visit the pages dedicated to Funding.
Who can apply?
FrameWork is dedicated to creative teams of writer, director and producer from all over the world, developing a 1st or 2nd fiction feature film project.
For more information please contact: greta.fornari@torinofilmlab.it
Singapore Media Academy MASTERCLASS: Co Producing for the International Market
This is a highly intensive and interactive 3-day masterclass. Participants will be be immersed in hands on learning in the Creative, Production, Legal/Marketing and Distribution of co producing film projects for the international market. Guest Speakers will discuss real projects to better illustrate strategies and opportunities.
Day 1 – Development and Creative
- Introduction and overview locating Singapore in the paradigm shift of new technologies and distribution models which are how motion pictures and content is created, distributed and sold
- Co producing treaties with Singapore – Ireland, China, Australia and others, and how they work
- Looking for partners through Festivals and Labs
- What projects work best for co productions?
- Visual storytelling across language
- Finding material - How to find and/or develop scripts for the international marketplace. Art or genre?
Day 2 – Legal and Production
- Financing films and co production needsWhere to shoot and how the budget breaks down
- Attaching talent that works in the international market
- Where does Hollywood fit into the co production or co partnership model?
- ‘Partnerships exercises” to experience the challenges and benefits of co production
- Film Industry Intellectual Property Laws
- What rights do individuals have over their creations and their images?
Day 3
- How to navigate the global financing structures and working with legal, accounting and creatives
- Analysis of film co production project in detail
- Creation of co production plans using participants' own projects
- How to make the legal and creative partnerships work
- Use of Social Media Marketing, identify core fans to create your audience
- Demo of current co production to clarify successful working models
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This highly interactive masterclass is optimal for Media Professional, Writer, Director, Producer or Executive with at least 1 year of professional experience and who wants to produce and create content for the international market.
For more information please visit: http://www.mediaacademy.sg/faq/professional-development
SOFA School of Film Agents - Call for Proposals
A unique training initiative is looking for young film culture managers! Submit your project until 5th of May 2016
WHAT WE DO
In its fourth edition Sofa–School of Film Agents invites eight young professionals for an intense workshop to Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016.
We don’t aim to educate film directors or producers. We support film initiators and catalysers with unique project ideas in cinema promotion.
Eight selected participants will be trained in various creative fashions, to reach local and international cinema-goers, and given the opportunity to make ties beyond borders. With the help of experienced lecturers you will receive a tailor-made coaching which enables you to realise your dream project efficiently. Our workshop connects you with decision-makers and high-level professionals in film industry. The rest is up to you!
Sofa–School of Film Agents is scheduled from 19–28 August 2016. All lectures are provided free of charge. We are glad to fund your accommodation and much more. You’re only asked to take care of your travel costs to Poland and back. If you do not find a way to get your travels financed, you may apply for a Sofa scholarship.
All participants are coached on-the-scene by Oliver Baumgarten (journalist, programme director), Ewa Puszczyn?ska (producer, Ida) and Nikolaj Nikitin (film curator, head of Sofa– School of Film Agents). Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick acts as godfather for Sofa– School of Film Agents and assembles international film professionals. Among last edition’s experts were Marion Do?ring (European Film Academy), Karel Och (Karlovy Vary IFF), Roberto Olla (Eurimages), Peter Rommel (Rommel Film), Renate Rose (European Film Promotion) and Katriel Schory (Israel Film Fund).
WHO WE LOOK FOR
young film lovers with previous experience in film (studies, business etc.) from Central or Eastern Europe / Central Asia / republics of Caucasus / Greece / Germany planning to establish a film festival, film fund, film commission /promotion, a project in digital distribution, a cinema theater, film museum/archive, film association, a project connected to copyright law, a print or online film magazine, VoD-platform, a training initiative or another creative project in the field of film culture management
HOW TO BE PART OF IT
If we drummed up your interest, submit the following documents (in English) to Nikolaj Nikitin, nikolaj@joinsofa.org: max. two pages of project description: what’s your project idea about? What’s your motivation? Where will the project be located and why? Tell us about your objectives and tell us what’s so new and unique about your project! Why it is you who can make it?a one-pager on the budget–not necessarily worked out, just some ideas about costs and how to finance your projecta professional biography and background info on how you got involved working in film
Don’t sit on your couch: join Sofa from 19–28 August 2016!
Cross Channel Film Lab Apply for CCFL Training 2016
Deadline 1 March 2016
Find the space and support you need to:
- Hone your story idea with expert consultancy and specialist support.
- Explore how technical input in development and production generates more creative, cost-effective and engaging cinema.
- Be inspired by an innovative community of filmmakers and technicians from across Europe.
- Obtain the skills, knowledge and extended networks you need to successfully utilise VFX and/or Stereo 3D technologies in your feature film.
CCFL Training will offer two training schemes:
The core programme – a six month programme running from June to December 2016 which includes residential workshops in the UK and France, virtual consultancy, and access to the online programme. The call for applications opened on 14 January. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2016.
Dates:
1st residential workshop in Falmouth (UK), four days from 6 – 10 June 2016
2nd residential workshop in Brignogan-Plages and Plounéour-Trez (France), four days from 14 – 17 November 2016
Two virtual consultancy sessions with a script consultant in between the two workshopsThe online programme – a series of online sessions in September and November/December 2016.
The call for applications will open in May 2016. The call for applications to the CCFL Training 2016 core programme opened on 14 January.
You may also be interested in these short films about the projects that went through the Cross Channel Film Lab in 2013 and 2014 – the VFX Films and the Stereo 3D Films.
What’s it all about?
Visual effects and Stereo 3D are more commonly associated with high budget films, but there is potential to do so much more, and we want to help you get there.So our new training programme, CCFL Training 2016, is designed to help filmmakers working with visual effects and Stereo 3D transform their projects using cutting-edge technology. Supported by Creative Europe, CCFL Training focuses on the development of low to medium budget feature films utilising VFX and Stereo 3D technologies to enhance storytelling and reach new audiences.
A core programme will offer 20 filmmakerswith early stage feature film projects the chance to engage in a mix of residential workshops and online seminars, masterclasses and specialist consultancy, and learn more about the intersection of visual technology and screenwriting. A further group of filmmakers will be offered the chance to participate in CCFL Training’s online programme.
Take part in a mix of seminars, masterclasses and workshops, and learn from key experts in the fields of emerging visual technology and screenwriting. Build connections with innovative filmmakers from across Europe. Benefit from virtual consultancy sessions with tech and story consultants. Access the CCFL Training archive and online sessions to deepen the learning and extend your networks.
Leave with a stronger story, a clearer vision, and the knowledge and networks you need to make your film happen.
Why the Cross Channel Film Lab?
The Cross Channel Film Lab aims to develop specialist skills and increase capacity in the fields of narrative, Stereo 3D and VFX. To do this, we are fostering new partnerships across Europe and providing inspiration and education in the use of VFX and Stereo 3D at lower budgets. This new CCFL Training programme offers a unique opportunity to share and advance the learning from the Lab’s development activity with the European filmmaking community. Sessions will focus on the knowledge and infrastructure required for successful low to medium budget films to utilise VFX and Stereo 3D technologies, considering their relationship with narrative, and ways of reaching new audiences.The Cross Channel Film Lab supports brave, original and imaginative use of visual effects and/or Stereo 3D in low to medium budget feature films that will enliven European storytelling and extend the international audience for European cinema.To find out more, browse our FAQs.
EMERGING PRODUCERS 2017 / 5th edition
October 26–30, 2016 / Jihlava IDFF
Producer with a several years’ practice on the local market (i.e. not a student or recent graduate) with a capacity for future professional growth and with ambitions to be active on the European market; At least one realized film (fiction or documentary, mid-length or feature) which has entered theatrical distribution, has been screened at a festival etc.; Previous participations at other workshops is considered an advantage.
Eligible countries: EU Member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK), Switzerland, Island, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, countries of Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia) and Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) and Russia.
The programme is divided into three main parts:
Promotion | Various levels of presentation of EP (Evening Show presentation, Meeting with established European producers, Lunch with festival directors etc.)
Networking |Making quick and easy contact with the VIPs of the documentary film industry community (One-to-One meetings, practical attendance at other industry events etc.)
Navigation | Getting oriented in European film industry and institutions (via master classes, case studies and lectures)
PROMOTION
The programme includes a personal presentation of the producers as well as an official presentation to film professionals and press. The Emerging Producers project is accompanied by a special catalogue including photographs, CVs, motivation texts and basic information concerning each of the producers.
NETWORKING
A fundamental part of the EP programme consists in various forms of informal meetings where people get to know each other and gain easy access to contacts for future international co-operations unlike in official negotiations and e-mail correspondence. However, we are particular about the fact that even the informal meetings have a specific form with a reasonable purpose to fulfil the networking aim.The individual meetings are planned for carefully selected specific circles of professionals. The aim is to help the producers meet all the important persons in the field of audio-vision present at the Industry Programme in the course of the project. For a higher efficiency of the individual meetings, a great emphasis is placed on the seating plan. This will increase the efficiency of the event and will prevent the clustering of people from the same regions who already know each other.
NAVIGATION
In today’s times of rapid technological development and an expanding film market, it is often very hard for a beginning producer to get oriented on the film market and understand how the whole mechanism works. It may take several years for a talented producer to meet the right group of people where he or she can start co-operating, financing and producing his or her films.The Jihlava Industry Programme is conceived so as to represent a real entrance gate to the film industry with a focus on creative documentary film and its forms overlapping with fiction film and various reality TV formats. It also focuses on the essential branches in the field of distribution and film sales with the aim of making the producers’ way to the desired results easier.In today’s times of rapid technological development and an expanding film market, it is often very hard for a beginning producer to get oriented on the film market and understand its mechanisms. The individual parts of the EP programme create an information cluster to help a beginning European producer get oriented on the market.
PLEASE, REGISTER VIA THE EMERGING PRODUCERS FORM AT OUR VISITOR PAGE.
If you do not have an account in our database yet, please, fill in basic identification information at our Visitor Page and select a password. Your registration at our Visitor Page will make further communication with Jihlava IDFF easier and you will be able to use your account in the following years as well. After the registration, you will be able to access the Emerging Producers form: http://vp.eventival.eu/jidff/2016/custom-form/emerging-producers-2016/edit
4th SERIES MANIA EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
April 19-21, 2016 at Forum des Images, Paris, France
CALL FOR TV SERIES PROJECT
15 TV series projects in development from all over Europe and abroad will be selected to be pitched to a panel of 300 potential financial partners: co-producers, international distributors, TV buyers and executives, TV Funds. The pitching sessions will be followed by one-to-one meetings.
Submission
An entry form must be filled out on our website: http://series-mania.fr/en/call-series/ before March, 1st, 2016. The official selection will be announced by mid-March 2016.
Selection criteria
TV series must have been produced in 2015 or 2016
World and international Premieres section: the series must not have been screened in any international festival, taking place before April, 15th 2016. The priority will be given to series that have not yet been broadcast in their country of origin.
International Panorama: the series must not have been broadcast on a French free-access television channel before Series Mania Festival and/or screened in any festival in France taking place before April, 15th 2016.
Selecting Committee
The Forum des Images (Laurence Herszberg, Frédéric Lavigne, Katia Kirby, Charlotte Lainé and Elise Tessarech) handles the festival programming with the collaboration of Marie-Elisabeth Deroche-Miles and François-Pier Pélinard Lambert.
Festival screenings
Premieres section or International Panorama: one or two screening(s) held at the Forum des images and the UGC Les Halles movie-theaters between 15 and 24 April 2016, on free access for the audience. The screening(s) will be presented by a specialist or a representative of the series, and could be followed by a Q&A session.
Video Library: the TV series presented to the audience (except for US TV Series) will be included in the Video Library, on individual TV screens, for the accredited professionals only.
Screening supports
All the series will be screened on High Definition, on its original version with French subtitles for the public audience.
Video Library: the right holders should provide the festival high definition supports (preferably HD files) with English subtitles. The series will also be available online from April 15 to 30, 2016 for the registered industry professionals only participating
Competition and Awards
World and International section: five international members of the jury will reward the best series of this competition.
International Panorama: five bloggers will reward the best series of this section.
Discovery Public Award will be given to the best series considering all the sections (except seasons 2 and the opening and closing series)
French Selection: Three awards will be given by an International Press Jury (composed of five journalists): best series, best actress and best actor
Web-series section: One web series will receive an award from the web-surfers online vote
http://series-mania.fr/en/call-projets/
Submissions for DocsBarcelona Industry Activities 2016 are open.
DocsBarcelona is a market of financing and promotion for documentary industry, a meeting point for professionals from all over the world. It is the perfect place to promote and finance your project to potential financiers and film distributors.
DocsBarcelona Speed Meetings will take place the 26th and 27th of May 2016. 40 projects will have one to one meetings of 15 minutes with financers. The meetings will be arranged previously depending on financers and projects preferences.
If your project has an interactive approach, the Interactive Pitch is the perfect place to present your project in front a selection of financers especially interested in this kind of projects.
To participate find all the information, fees and forms here: http://www.docsbarcelona.com/en/ed-2016/industria-2016/project-submission/
The deadline to submit projects is March 3rd 2016 at 1.00 p.m. (UTC+1).
