EAVE News and Upcoming Deadlines December 2011
EAVE Film Marketing Workshop: participants from 18 countries
EAVE news
EAVE Film Marketing Workshop: participants from 18 countries
The annual EAVE Marketing Workshop - an intensive and comprehensive exploration of the marketing process from script to screen - took place in Luxembourg, at hotel Novotel Luxembourg Centre during November 30 - December 4, in partnership with the Film Fund Luxembourg. The EAVE team was delighted to welcome in the Grand Duchy 29 producers and industry professionals from 18 different countries.
The 2011 EAVE Film Marketing Workshop experts Head of Studies Pim Hermeling (Wild Bunch Benelux Distribution, NL), Fraser Bensted (Tokyo, UK), Sarah Calderon (Karma Films, ES), Félize Frappier (MAX FILMS, CA), Dan Light (Glass Eye Ltd, UK), Frans van Gestel (IDTV Film, NL), Barbara van Lombeek (The PR Factory, BE), Joris Van Wijk (JC Van Wijk, NL) and Susan Wendt (TrustNordisk, DK) shared their expertise in interactive plenary sessions and private tutorials with the participants.www.eave.org
INTERCHANGE closes with its second workshop in Dubai
The INTERCHANGE programme organised in partnership between EAVE, Torino Film Lab and the Dubai Film Festival just came to a successful close in Dubai. The 12 selected teams of writers & producers with their projects and 3 Arab script consultants were coached by top level experts such as script consultants Jacques Akchoti, Antoine Le Bos, Nicola Lussardi, EAVE Group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE pitching expert Sibylle Kurz, Titus Kreyenberg, Pascal Diot, Meinolf Zurhorst, Paul Scherzer, and Alaa Karkouti under the guidance of EAVE Head of Studies Alan Fountain. The call for the 2012 edition of INTERCHANGE is already open.
Upcoming deadlines
The call for applications for the EAVE Interchange Programme for 2012 is now OPEN!
Twelve teams of writer/director & producer - with a fiction feature script - will be selected for residential workshops in Torino and Dubai, where participants will polish their projects and hone their editorial skills under expert guidance from top industry tutors.The course is also open to three trainee script consultants from the Arab world.The deadline for entries is 4 March 2012 – and all the eligibility information and further details are available here.
There is no entry fee and travel bursaries are available – what are you waiting for?
CineLink Call for Entries
Co-Production Market is open from 1st of December, 2011.
Deadline for project submissions is 27th of February, 2012.
Sarajevo Film Festival is proud to once again announce the call for entries for filmmakers from Southeast Europe to participate in the CineLink Project Development Workshop. The CineLink project, the backbone of the Sarajevo Film Festival's Industry Section, is a development and financing platform for carefully selected local feature projects destined for European co-production.
With average conversion rate of its selected projects from development to production of over 60% in the past 9 years, CineLink grew into one of the most successful development and financing platforms in Europe. Selection and diversification in development are central to this success, while the focus on local productions with international potential, emerging talent and contemporary cinematic language proved essential to the program's raising profile in the film industry.
Most promising projects from Southeast Europe are selected every year by the selection committee focusing on authentic stories with international potential, emerging talent and modern cinematic language, for a series of tailor-made development workshops culminating in a financing event taking place during the last three days of the Sarajevo Film Festival (from the 11th to the 14th of July, 2012). This event, the CineLink Co-production Market, totals more than 500 participants from all spheres of the film business ready to network, discover talent, co-produce or commission new projects, while creating an annual hub for regional professionals and adding international industry relevance to the Festival.CineLink is open for feature-length fiction film projects with potential for theatrical distribution, created by authors from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and UNMI Kosovo.
Applications must be submitted electronically through the Sarajevo Film Festival's website: http://www.sff.ba/content.php/en/cpm_application?site=industry&set_culture=en
For any further information please do not hesitate to contact Tina Šmalcelj: cinelink@sff.ba
LA FABRIQUE DES CINEMAS DU MONDE
Call for applications
What's La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde programme?
La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde is composed of talented young filmmakers who are working on their first or second feature film, or who have finished a feature film with support from the Fonds Sud Cinéma (Centre National de la Cinématographie et l'Image Animée/Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes/Institut français), the Fonds Images Afrique (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes) or the Fonds Francophone de Production Audiovisuelle du Sud (International Organisation of la Francophonie).
Ten selected directors and their producers will be invited to take part in a professional programme, which has been organised by the Cinémas du Monde Pavilion during the Festival de Cannes to support talented new filmmakers. With their shared desire to support cultural dialogue and diversity, the Pavilion's partners (Institut français, l’Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France – RFI, Monte Carlo Doualiya, France 24 and the French partner channel TV5 Monde – l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and CFI) will contribute resources and expertise to create a unique workspace and networking area with exceptional media coverage.
How to subscribe?
A registration form is online on the website : www.lescinemasdumonde.com
Visions du Réel - Doc Outlook International Market
Call for Applications
About 18 projects will be presented in the presence of professionals including co-producers, commissioning editors, film financiers and distributors and discussed at round tables. We are looking for new or recent projects with theatrical potential and which should be adapted for an international co-production.
To apply with a project for the Pitching du Réel (22-24 April 2012), you will find the registration form with the rules and regulations on: http://www.visionsdureel.ch/docm/co-production/pitching-du-reel/inscription.html
The registration form and the requested material must be sent before the 20th of January 2012.
The film registration for the Media Library Selection, Digital Video Market, is now open. Privileged setting for your film, the Media Library presents new European and international creative documentaries in addition to the 2012 Festival selection. 5500 viewings in 2011!To submit your film to the Media Library you will find the registration form with the rules and regulations on: http://www.visionsdureel.ch/docm/screening/submit-a-film.html
The official registration form and the 2 DVDs of the film must be sent by 10 January 2011 to the following address:
Visions du Réel
Doc Outlook-International Market
Place du Marché 2
CH-1260 Nyon
Switzerland
For the others activities of the DOCM like Docs in Progress, Rough-Cut Lab, Focus Talk and many more please refer to: http://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/market/profil-docm.html
For futher informations do not hesitate to contact the Doc Outlook-International Market team: Gudula Meinzolt, Aimée Papageorgiou, Stéphane Morey
Page published 16 December 2011.
