CALL FOR PROJECTS: B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST
Call for applications
B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST
CALL FOR PROJECTS
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 feature film projects from the European Union (5 participants) and the CIS countries, Ukraine and Georgia (5 participants).
B’EST consists of two workshops, which will take place on September 10-14 in St. Petersburg within the framework of St. Petersburg Northern Sea Film Forum and November 24-28 in Tallinn, within the framework of Baltic Event, where one of the participant projects will be awarded by the P.O.V. development fund. The workshop will offer the selected participants:
- 5-day 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 decision-makers and potential co-production partners in St. Petersburg, Russia
- online sessions with the producers and tutors concerning the development of the scripts and the projects during the 2-month gap between the workshops
- 2-day follow-up session regarding the development of the projects and the final preparation for pitching at Baltic Event
- presentation of the projects at Baltic Event and meetings with potential financiers, co-producers, sales agents, and distributors
Target group:
- experienced feature film producers and representatives of audiovisual industry wishing to work on an international scale and create long-term creative and business relationships between Western and Eastern Europe
- interested producers should apply with a feature film project in development stage
Project criteria :
- full-length feature film with potential for theatrical distribution
- suitable for an international co-production and looking for co-producers
- preferably national support in place
- projects from the European Union and Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldavia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are accepted
- projects should have a link to the other region (thematic, cultural, technical) and the producer should be motivated to work with / in the other region
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 15, 2014.
The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by the end of July 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
Page published 5 May 2014. Updated 28 May 2014.
