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B’EST: TWO WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY!

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B’EST - Producers’ Workshop Baltic Bridge East by West: TWO WEEKS LEFT!

The Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST) is an initiative to be held in 2013 by the organizers of the Baltic Event (Estonia), and RFilms and CTB Film Company (Russia) in cooperation with EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), and with the support from MEDIA Mundus. 

B’EST consists of two workshops, which will take place on September 11-15 in St. Petersburg within the framework of St. Petersburg International Film Festival and November 26-29 in Tallinn, within the framework of Baltic Event. The workshop will bring together 10 producers with feature film projects from the European Union (5 participants) and the CIS countries and Georgia (5 participants) and 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 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, 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 

Special conditions: 

•  participation includes an accreditation fee of 200 Euros 
•  once a project is selected, the producer should be present at both workshops 
•  the programme covers travel and accommodation costs 
•  finalized films must mention their participation at B’EST in the credits 
•  all documents have to be sent in English – the working language of the workshop is English 
•  submission of the project is considered as acceptance of special conditions 

Requested materials for submission: 

•  completed application form (please find the form here) 
•  synopsis (1 page) in English 
•  treatment in English 
•  screenplay in English (first draft) 
•  director’s note on aesthetics and structure (1-2 pages) 
•  biography/filmography of the director 
•  biography/filmography of the producer 
•  production company profile (max. 300 words) 
•  budget outline in English 
•  financing plan
•  motivation letter from the producer

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 15, 2013. 

The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by the end of July 2013. 

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

 

Upcoming Deadlines

connecting cottbus: Save the date and submit your project now

Deadline:  15th July 2013

connecting cottbus, the East-West co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus, is currently accepting project submissions for its 2013 pitching session. Furthermore, producers, sales agents and other industry representatives interested in East-West projects are invited to participate without  projects. Experienced producers can apply with a fiction feature project that either originates from or is related to Eastern Europe and shows potential for an East-West co-production. 

connecting cottbus will be held in Cottbus on 7th and 8th November 2013. 13 selected projects will be presented to the industry audience. The Best Pitch Award of € 1,500 for the best pitch goes to the producer of the awarded project. A jury of three industry representatives will decide on the Post Pitch Award, an in-kind award donated by the German post-production company The Post Republic (value: approx. € 25,000).

connecting cottbus includes a pitching preparation training for the selected projects, the public pitching session, and One2One meetings as well as networking events, panel discussions and workshops addressing and discussing current challenges, changes and chances of the European film industry and its market. 

Please find further information, regulations and the application forms on our website www.connecting-cottbus.de

 

Netherlands Production Platform

Call for applications! Deadline 1st July 2013

At the Netherlands Production Platform (NPP) approximately 20 Dutch and European feature films in development are introduced to a selected group of top international industry professionals from the production, finance, sales and distribution sectors. Feature films suitable for co-production and with local financial support in place, will be considered.

Selection includes travel and accommodation for 3 nights in Utrecht’s luxurious Karel V hotel, covering 2 delegates per project.

Projects must reach us before July 1 2013: www.filmfestival.nl

 

Call for projects for Les Arcs

The deadline for the call for projects has been set for September 27th.

The European Film Festival of Les Arcs (5th edition from December 14th to 21st, 2013) is launching a call for projects for its Coproduction Village (December 14th to 17th) and Work in Progress section.

On these three days, developers of the projects selected (animated, documentary or fiction feature films, undergoing development or in post-production, of European initiative and directed by a European) will be invited to Les Arcs, where they will meet with potential coproducers.

This year, the Festival Focus will be dedicated to ex-Yugoslavia countries (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia).

Applications will be available on the Festival's website: www.lesarcs-filmfest.com

 

Crossroads Co-production Forum: Call for entries 

All submissions must be received by July 31st, 2013

Celebrating its 9th edition, the CROSSROADS Co-production Forum is announcing its call for entries for its next event, which will take place during the 54th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November 2013.

The event’s goal is to support the producers of feature-length fiction film projects from the the Mediterranean, Central and South-eastern Europe regions. Qualifying features should be produced or co-produced by a country in this area or contain story elements from the aforementioned regions. Mediterranean and European producers with a feature film script are given the chance to encounter a new network of financiers, co-producers and leading industry specialists.

Each year the Crossroads Jury gives an award to the best Crossroads film project:a co-production award with the Two Thirty Five company, providing complete image & sound post-production services. The producer of the winning project is also granted a Producer’s Network accreditation for the 2014 Cannes IFF. A second prize will be awarded by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), worth 7000 euros cash.

Sofia Meetings will select a project that will participate in their next session in March 2014 and the MFI (Mediterranean Film Institute) is offering a scholarship to its Script 2 Film Workshop for one of the projects. Also, Initiative Film is offering development consultation to a Greek project of its choice. www.filmfestival.gr/crossroads/index_uk.html

 

Applications are open for The Pixel Market 2013! 

Part of the 7th Cross-Media Forum (15-18 October), The Pixel Market is the only finance market dedicated to getting cross-media projects off the ground.

We'll select 30 projects in total. The criteria are simple:

• Projects must be at an advanced stage of development

• Projects can be any genre, including hybrid

• Stories must use more than one platform - any platform - to engage audiences

Eight of the 30 teams will be chosen as finalists to present their project at The Pixel Pitch competition (16 Oct) in front of a public audience (watch this space for ticket availability). A panel of international experts (see last year's here) will choose the winner of ARTE's 6,000 € International Prize for The Pixel Pitch!

All teams take part in The Pixel Market meetings (17 Oct), a day of bespoke 1-2-1 business meetings with 100+ financiers.  But that's not all - other prizes for 2013 include:

• beActive's Pixel Market Prize for Scripted Content (Fiction)

• Cinekid's Pixel Market Prize for Children’s Content (4-14 year olds)

Past projects include:

• The Spiral (2010, BE) nominated for a Digital Emmy Award 2013

• Lost & Sound (2011, UK) winner Best Female Director, Sheffield DocFest 2012

• Ruby Skye PI: The Haunted Library (2011, CAN) multi- award-winner including Grand Prize, LAWebFest 2013

• Tomorrow We Disappear (2011, USA) featured on IndieWire's '50 Indie Films We Want To See In 2013'

• Everyday Rebellion (2012, AUT) currently in post-productionGet your applications in by Friday 26 July, 18:00 BST!

For more information and to download an application form, head to our website or email us at market@powertothepixel.com with any queries.

 

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