Connecting Cottbus 2011 - Call for entries open!
Call for entries
Connecting Cottbus 20113 - 4 November 2011
Save the date, come and pitch it! Call for entries open!
EAVE would like to inform you that Connecting Cottbus, the East - West Co-production Market at the Film Festival Cottbus, is currently accepting project submissions for its 2011 pitching session. Producers, sales agents and other industry representatives interested in East-West projects are invited to participate without projects.
Until 15th July 2011, producers can apply with a fiction feature project that shows the potential for an East-West co-production. Please find further information, regulations and the application forms on the website www.connecting-cottbus.de
Connecting Cottbus will be held in Cottbus on 3rd and 4th November 2011. 13 selected projects will be presented to the industry audience. The event includes a pitching preparation training for the selected projects, the public pitching session followed by Q&A, One2One meetings as well as panel discussions and workshops addressing and discussing current challenges, changes and chances of the European film industry and its market.
Furthermore, the Film Festival Cottbus (www.filmfestivalcottbus.de) offers the opportunity to discover new films from Eastern Europe. Producers, sales agents, distributors, commissioning editors and financiers interested in participating as a guest or an expert without project are welcomed to reserve their place by sending an e-mail or by forwarding the completed application form by 1st October 2011.
Please check the website www.connecting-cottbus.de for further information. If you have any questions, please don´t hesitate to contact:
Bernd Buder - Director
Dietmar Haiduk Project Manager
d.haiduk@connecting-cottbus.de
Martina Bleis - Advisor
Funding Partners: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
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