NEW Deadlines - don’t miss them: B`EST & Holland Film Meeting

Calls for application

B'EST - Producers' Workshop - Baltic Bridge East by West

EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 1st, 2015

The call for the 4th 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 September 7-11 in St. Petersburg and November 15-18 in Tallinn, within the framework of Baltic Event, where one of the participants` projects will be awarded by the P.O.V. development fund. 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
• online sessions with the producers and tutors concerning the development of the scripts and the projects during the 2-month gap between the workshops
• 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 other 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
• individuals who wish to participate without projects must present their track record and letter of motivation

Project criteria (only for applicants with projects):

• 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, Belorussia, 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: July 1st, 2015.

The selection will be published by the end of July 2015.

All application forms and requirements can be found here.

Please send all the requested materials to: For applications from the European Union: Riina Sildos balticevent@poff.ee

For applications from the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine: Natalia Drozd drozd@ctb.ru

If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact as at coproduction@poff.ee.

Special for EAVE Producers: HOLLAND FILM MEETING - Call for Applications

EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 1st, 2015

EAVE is delighted to continue its partnership with the HOLLAND FILM MEETING taking place during September 24-27, 2015 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 

Utrecht will again be the key location for the finance of quality independent film. This year the Holland Film Meeting (HFM) celebrates its 28th birthday and will, as in previous years, look to stimulate a high level of co-production activity between many of Europe’s leading representatives from the Dutch, European and global film industry. 

At the HFM Co-production Platform, the core event of the HFM, approximately 20 Dutch and European feature films in development will be introduced to a selected group of top international film industry professionals from the production, finance, sales and distribution sectors. 

EAVE producers from European countries (outside of the Netherlands) have the unique possibility to participate in Holland Film Meeting. Priority will be given to applicants from low production capacity countries. The selected producers will be invited by the festival providing accreditation for the event, 3 nights hotel, travel expenses (economy class) and access to all festival events. 

In order to apply, please send your application to tina@eave.org by June 15, 2015.

Project requirements:

• Only European feature projects suitable for Dutch or European co-production are eligible;  
• Fiction, documentary, animation and transmedia projects with a minimum length of 70 minutes can apply;
• Local financial support must be in place;
• The following material is required: application form, production company profile, director’s and/or scriptwriter’s profile, director’s statement, synopsis, treatment, budget and financial plan, and (if available) director’s previous work. 

Conditions:

• Only completed forms will be taken into consideration;
• Once a project has been selected, a maximum of 2 representatives should be present during the 4 days of the Platform;
• The Holland Film Meeting requires its logo to be included in the credits of the finalized film.The HFM logo shall be sent upon request;
• The application deadline for the HTM Co-production Platform 2015 is Wednesday, July 1st, 2015.

Application Form (download here)

• There is no entry fee for applications;
• Following the assessment of a jury of industry experts, the project selection will be announced by Mid-August 2015.

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions

Page published 16 June 2015. Updated 19 June 2015.