B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST
Call for applications
B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST
The call for the 3rd edition of Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST), a producer's workshop organized in cooperation with EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and with the support from Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, is now open for 12 participants - 8 with feature film projects from the European Union (4 participants) and the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine (4 participants), and 4 participants without projects - 3 from the EU and 1 from the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine.
B’EST consists of two workshops, which will take place on November 24-28, 2014, in Tallinn, within the framework of Baltic Event, and in June 2015 in Moscow within the framework of Moscow Business Square. The workshop will offer the selected participants:
- workshop-training, which includes plenaries on the script development process, financing in the Eastern and Western Europe, legal aspects of co-production, marketing strategies, as well as individual meetings with script, pitching and finance/marketing consultants
- meetings with experts, decision-makers and potential co-production partners during Baltic Event in Tallinn, Estonia
- online sessions with the producers and tutors concerning the development of the scripts and the projects during the 6-month gap between the workshops
- follow-up session regarding the development of the projects and the final preparation for pitching at Moscow Business Square
- presentation of the projects at Moscow Business Square and meetings with potential financiers, co-producers, sales agents, and distributors
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 1, 2014.
The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by the end of October 2014.
Please send all the requested materials to:
For applications from the European Union: Riina Sildos, balticevent@poff.ee
For applications from the CIS countries and Georgia: Natalia Drozd, drozd@ctb.ru
http://eave.org/
Page published 27 August 2014.


