EAVE News and Upcoming Deadlines April 2012
PUENTES-AUSTRALAB and TIES THAT BIND: the Selection
EAVE News
PUENTES - AUSTRALAB 2012 – the selection!
After the great success of the PUENTES workshops for European and Latin American producers and the AUSTRALAB industry meetings in Valdivia, we are delighted to announce the selection for PUENTES - AUSTRALAB, a new and innovative platform connecting professionals from Europe and Latin America.
PUENTES - AUSTRALAB combines producer training, project development, co-production meetings and distribution opportunities and offers a strong and direct connection between the different agents of the value chain of film production in Europe and Latin America: development, training and access to the markets, encouraging the distribution and circulation of films by bringing together the key players: talents-producers-financiers-sales agents-distributors-cinema owners.
The workshop modules bring together five European and five Latin American producers with their feature projects in development for two workshops in Montevideo, Uruguay, from April 25-29, 2012, and Valdivia, Chile, during the Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, from October 10-14, 2012. After the second session, targeted co-production meetings in Valdivia will be organized around the 10 selected projects following the workshop.
The following producers were selected for PUENTES - AUSTRALAB 2012:
- Maite Alberdi, Escala Humana, Chile; project: La vida sexual de las plantas
- Lina Badenes García, Turanga Films, Spain; project: The Cabin
- Diana Bustamante, Burning Blue, Colombia; project: Violence
- Ana Fernandez-Saiz, Impronta Films, Spain; project: Silent Boy
- Sébastien Hussenot, La Luna Productions, France; project: Blanche La Nuit
- Marianela Illas, Películas Prescindibles, Venezuela; project: Dora's Ballad
- Tomas Leyers, Minds Meet, Belgium; project: Lucifer
- Katrin Pors, Blond Indian Films, Denmark/Colombia; project: The Resistance
- Sandino Saravia Vinay, Malbicho Cine, Uruguay; project: Antes de Ayer
- Juliana Vicente, Preta Pôrte Filmes, Brazil; project: Lily and the Dragonflies
The 10 selected producers will work on the development of their projects under the guidance of top industry professionals from both continents, such as for the first session in Montevideo:
- Sarah Calderón, The Film Agency, Spain
- Verónica Cura, Utópica Cine, Argentina
- Fernando Epstein, Control Z, Uruguay
- Gustavo Fischer, Fischer Abogados, Uruguay
- Jean des Forêts, Petit Film, France
- Christoph Friedel, Pandora Filmproduktions, Germany
- Alan Fountain, EAVE, UK
- Jorge Goldenberg, Script Consultant, Argentina
- Miguel Machalski, Script Consultant, France
- Christa Saredi, World Sales Consultant, Switzerland
The PUENTES - AUSTRALAB workshop will offer in-depth insight into audiovisual market and operating conditions, legal frameworks, financing, sales, distribution and exhibition practices in both continents, it will provide opportunities for networking between the participants and their companies to create medium and long term co-financing and co-production relationships and it will enable the access to a network of producers, markets, festivals and decision makers in both continents.
PUENTES – AUSTRALAB is organised by EAVE in partnership with Mutante Cine and Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, and with the support from MEDIA Mundus.
The first PUENTES – AUSTRALAB workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay, is organised with the kind support of ICAU, EGEDA URUGUAY, URUGUAY XXI, TEATRO SOLÍS, LOCACIONES MONTEVIDEANAS, UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL URUGUAY, AUDIOVISUAL URUGUAY, FILM COMMISION, CÁMARA AUDIOVISUAL DEL URUGUAY.
For more information please contact:
EAVE - Tanika Sajatovic, International Coordinator: tanika@eave.org
MUTANTE CINE – Agustina Chiarino, PUENTES-AUSTRALAB Project Manager for the first workshop in Montevideo: aguchia@yahoo.com
www.eave.org, www.australab.cl
TIES THAT BIND proudly announces the selection for 2012!
We are delighted to announce that TIES THAT BIND Asia-Europe Producers Workshop will feature in 2012 two workshops again: the first one in Udine (Italy) during the Udine Far East Film Festival from April 21-26, 2012 and the second one in Busan (South Korea) during the Busan International Film Festival in parallel to the Asian Project Market from October 7-11, 2012.
The programme brings together five producers with feature projects from Asia and five from Europe. During the two workshops they will work together with top level experts from both continents on script development, co-production between Asia and Europe, financing in the two regions, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching and promotion, and meet with decision makers during both sessions.
The following producers were selected for TIES THAT BIND 2012:
- Guillaume de la Boulaye, Zorba Production, France, project: Red House, director: Jéro Jun
- Fernanda del Nido, Tic Tac Producciones, Spain, project: The Moon in September, director: Jorge Coira
- Gita Fara, Set Film Production, Indonesia, project: The Seen and Unseen, director: Kamila Andini
- Isabelle Glachant, Chinese Shadows, France/Hog Kong, project: A Borrowed Life, director: Kit Hui
- Dave Kim, Rainbow Factory, South Korea, project: The Promise, director: Kim Jho Gwangsoo
- Mari Mukai, Horizon Features, Japan, project: Two by the River (Tentative), director: Kana Tomoko
- Ebba Sinizinger, WILDart Film, Austria, project: Moneyboys, director: Bo Chen
- Paul Smith, Pipedream Pictures, UK, project: Moth, director: John Williams
- Nandita Solomon, Apparat, Malaysia, project: Interchange, director: Dain Iskandar Said
- Pacharin Surawatanapongs, Pop Pictures, Thailand, project: The White Buffalo, director: Aditya Assarat
Among this year's final 10 projects, there are projects from Aditya Assarat, the director of Wonderful Town (Thailand), New Currents Awardee from the Busan International Film Festival and the Tiger Awardee from the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Indonesian director Kamila Andini who has been highly reputed with her debut film The Mirror Never Lies. New projects from Dain Iskandar Said, Malaysian director ofBunohan which received NETPAC Award from the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and also from the renowned producer of Generation Blue, Kim Jho Gwangsoo, are included as well. Isabelle Glachant, the producer of many famous Chinese directors, such as Wang Xiaoshuai and Lou Ye, is participating with a project from Hong Kong's young director, Kit Hui.
The 10 selected producers will work on the development of their projects under the guidance of top industry professionals from both continents. For the first session in Udine the following experts will share their expertise with the Ties that Bind participants among others:
- Jean-Baptiste Babin, Backup Films, France
- Christophe Bruncher, Ties that Bind Head of Studies, France
- Clare Downs, Forever Films, United Kingdom
- Roger Garcia, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong
- Shanty Harmayn-Hofman, Salto Films, Indonesia
- Elise Jalladeau, Charivari Films, France
- Silvia Simonutti, Wild Bunch, France
- Stefano Tealdi, Stefilm, Italy
The first TIES THAT BIND workshop in Udine will offer in-depth insight into audiovisual market and operating conditions, legal frameworks, financing, sales, distribution and exhibition practices in Asia and Europe, it will provide opportunities for networking between the participants and their companies to create medium and long term co-financing and co-production relationships and it will enable the access to a network of producers, markets, festivals and decision makers in both continents.
TIES THAT BIND is organised by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund, EAVE, Udine Far East Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Asian Film Market and Asian Project Market, and supported byMEDIA Mundus.
For more information please contact:
EAVE - Tanika Sajatovic, International Coordinator: tanika@eave.org
FVG Audiovisual Fund – Alessandro Gropplero, International Relations: alessandro@audiovisivofvg.it
www.eave.org, www.tiesthatbind.eu
EAVE Film Finance Forum: participants from 20 countries
The annual EAVE Film Finance Forum takes place in Luxembourg, hotel Novotel Centre during April 19 – 22, in partnership with the Film Fund Luxembourg. We are delighted to welcome in the Grand Duchy 26 producers and industry professionals from 20 different countries.
Thanks to the support of MEDIA Mundus, 8 professionals from outside the EU (coming from Bangladesh, Egypt, Georgia, Russia, South Africa and Venezuela) will participate at the Forum.
The 2012 EAVE Film Finance Forum experts Head of Studies Christian Kmiotek (Executive Job, LU), Nuno Bernardo (beActive Entertainment, PT), Wendy Bernfeld (Rights Stuff BV, NL), Carl Clifton (K5 International, UK), Guillaume de Chalendar (Bank Leumi, UK), Roberto Olla (Eurimages, FR), Alexander Ris (Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, DE), Riina Sildos (Amrion Production, EE), Bernhard Stampfer (K5 Mediagroup GmbH, DE) and Isabella Tessaro (MEDIA Programme, BE) share their expertise in plenary sessions and private tutorials with the EAVE participants.
The plenary sessions cover comprehensively questions of film financing, film economy, consumer behaviour, applications, rights, sales and distribution, bank related issues, revenue and legal aspects.
EAVE expresses special gratitude for the support of EAVE Film Finance Forum to: Film Fund Luxembourg, MEDIA Desk Luxembourg, Equinox Productions, Luxembourg City Tourist Office, Novotel Luxembourg Centre.
Upcoming deadlines
ASFF 2012: THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS!
It’s now only two months until the deadline for The Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2012 (ASFF). Filmmakers from across the world are sending in their entries, and we’ve already assembled an amazing line-up of masterclasses, lectures and networking opportunities! ASFF is a unique film event, showing international short film in 15 iconic locations across the historic city of York from 8-11 November 2012.
ASFF 2012 provides an excellent platform for filmmakers that enables them to connect with new worldwide audiences while interacting with some of the biggest personalities in the film industry today.
The winner will receive £500 among other prizes and screenings at a number of other UK festivals and the runner-up will receive £250. A shortlist of finalists will be included on the ASFF Sampler DVD, which will be distributed with the December 2012 issue of Aesthetica Magazine, an international arts and culture publication. Finalists will also be included in an editorial feature in the magazine, which has a worldwide circulation of over 100,000.
ASFF 2012 Submission Guidelines
- Running times up to 25 mins.
- English language, dubbed in to English or with English subtitles.
- Entries to be submitted on DVD with no regional coding.
- Please include: An entry form with Order Reference Number, Director's name, country of production, running time, and full contact details
- Your film must not be in breach of any copyright, including music or sound contained in your entry.
- Films of any genre are accepted.
Entry is £15 and the deadline for submissions is 31 May 2012.
For further questions, please feel free to contact Helena Culliney via email at helena@aestheticamagazine.com, or by calling 01904 629137.
Page published 27 April 2012.
