Upcoming Deadline
Call for application for: The Pixel Lab; DOK.Incubator; GALWAY FILM FLEADH; SERIES MANIA EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION FORUM; FrameWork; Singapore Media Academy; SOFA School of Film Agents; Cross Channel Film Lab; EMERGING PRODUCERS; DocsBarcelona
The Pixel Lab 2016 is now open for applications!
DEADLINE TO APPLY: THURSDAY 24 MARCH, 18.00 GMT!
With storytelling at it’s core, The Pixel Lab is the ultimate workshop for anyone wanting to strengthen their ability to engage with audiences and utilise virtual and augmented reality formats, interactivity and cross platform approaches to build their IP and media brand.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For professionals working in film, broadcast, advertising, art, publishing, games and online, The Pixel Lab will equip you with the skills needed to create, finance and distribute stories in today’s media climate. Spanning four months, we select up to 20 producers to attend with a project and 20 media professionals to attend without. The Pixel Lab is open to a producers, commissioners, financiers, distributors, writers, directors, games & interactive designers and artists with a strong track record in their chosen field from any media sector.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Workshop One, 25 June – 1 July
The Highlands & Islands, Scotland, UK
In a 6-day intensive residential week, all participants head to the beautiful Kingsmills Hotel in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. Working in pairs with a focus on projects, participants will undertake a series of workshops, group work sessions, case study analysis and 1-2-1 meetings with leading media experts and practitioners around the following subjects:
- Developing stories across multiple platforms
- Marketing & distribution strategies dedicated to exploring new platforms, increasing revenue & strengthening business-to-consumer relationships
- Enhancing audience engagementUser-centric design
- Innovative online tools and services
- Analysis and deconstruction of international interactive project case studies
- Legal and digital rights issues surrounding development, production and financing
- Project packaging, planning and presentation
The residential week closes with The Pixel Lab Open day where participants present their projects to the group before engaging in an afternoon of networking with industry guests from the region and abroad.
Workshop Two, July – September
Distance Mentoring
During the summer, producers attending with a project receive distance mentoring from Sean Coleman, Projects Director at Power to the Pixel. Producers will gain invaluable advice and insight into developing sustainable finance strategies, effective distribution models and building brands.
Workshop Three, 10 – 13 October
London, United Kingdom
In the final section of The Pixel Lab, producers attending with a project will present their work to the international media industry at Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum. Participants will present their projects to an international jury of commissioners, financiers, distributors and funders. One project will be awarded The Pixel Lab prize. Producers are also invited to attend a series of 1-2-1 business meetings with potential co-production partners, funds and platforms at Power to the Pixel’s leading finance market, The Pixel Market.Companies in attendance last year included: Arts Council England; BBC; Bell Fund; BFI Film Fund; Brazilian TV Producers; British Council; Canada Media Fund; CBBC; Channel 4; CNC; Creative Europe; Creative Industries KTN; DFI; Dogwoof; ZDF; Google UK; Harmony Institute; IFP; IMCINE; INCAA; Kickstarter; McCann; Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg; National Theatre; Nexus Productions; NZ on Air; Penguin Random House; RioFilme; Screen Australia; SODEC; The Guardian; The Space; The Walt Disney Company; Tribeca Film Institute; United Nationals; V&A Museum; Wallimage Creative; Wellcome Trust; YouTube; and ZDF.Each project participant will also receive free accreditation to The Conference (11 October) and The Pixel Market Finance Forum (12 October) plus access to the many networking events during Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum.Head to the applications page for full details and to complete an online application form.
DOK.Incubator: Applications are now opened!
DEADLINE comes 22nd February
Five–month long mentorship by internationally experienced tutors. Develop your film from the rough-cut stage to the release and test new ideas to tell your story. Focus the film’s topic and sharpen the storytelling, get a wider perspective to see the film in the international market and concrete tools to approach effectively future audience.
How the workshop works:The teams of the selected films spend 5 months working in the editing room. The complete teams of director – producer – editor attend the whole program of all the 3 workshop sessions. The editing mentors work with the participants continuously to develop the storytelling, to focus the topic, and find new ways to tell their stories. The production mentors help the producers to deal with the financing, team management and distribution. Marketing tutors follow the teams to position the film, to target their audience, and attract it. Distribution tutors build with the participants a sophisticated strategy how to break into the market.
DOK.Incubator opens gates to a testing audience among experienced festival representatives and sales agents for the participants to design and test an effective tailor-made distribution strategy.
1st Session: May 2nd – 7th – Trest (Czech Republic)
2nd Session: July 4th – 10th – Banska Stiavnica (Slovakia)
3rd Session: September 12th – 19th – Malmö (Sweden)
* Between the 1st and the 2nd workshop (from mid May – June), please, book your editor’s time for 4 – 6 weeks (June 20th you’re submitting a new version of the cut for the tutors)
* Between the 2nd and 3rd workshop you’re closing the cut, editing the trailer and preparing the distribution/marketing package
* FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE, CHECK: www.dokincubator.net
28th GALWAY FILM FLEADH
Call for Entries – Feature Films
The deadline is Friday 25th March at 5pm
The Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland’s leading film festival, is now accepting feature submissions for the 2016 edition of the festival, which will run from 5th - 10th July.In 2015, the Film Fleadh screened 18 World Premieres as well as countless European and Irish Premieres, many of which have gone on to secure distribution or be picked up for further international outings. Films screened at the Fleadh frequently follow on to Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, Tribeca, Venice and London.
The Fleadh is an Oscar-Qualifying festival for Shorts (Animation & Drama). It also platforms excellence in filmmaking with retrospectives, public interviews, tributes and masterclasses from some of the world’s best filmmaking talent (Saoirse Ronan, John C. Reilly, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Pete Docter & Jonas Rivera, Fionnula Flanagan, Josh Olson,Zachary Quinto, Will Forte, Martin Sheen, Stephen Daldry, Michael Fassbender, Ronald Harwood, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Hampton, Peter O'Toole, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Robert Towne, Paul Schrader, Mira Nair, Abbas Kiarostami, Paolo Taviani and many more).
Alongside the festival, the Fair – Ireland and the UK’s only film market, co-ordinates pre-scheduled meetings between filmmakers and invited Film Financiers, Distributors and Major Producers, allowing new talent to be discovered and long term partnerships to be made.
The Galway Film Fair’s unique selling points:
- Transatlantic Bridge
- Intimate and informal atmosphere
- Privileged access to the world’s leading financiers
- Showcasing new European and International cinema to leading Film Buyers, Distributors and Festival Programmers
“The Galway Film Fleadh is unlike any other Irish film festival. It packs in films,masterclasses, seminars, business meetings and gossip.” (Screen International)
“The Fleadh thankfully remains the most unpretentious and friendliest film gathering.” (The Guardian)
The Galway Film Fleadh accepts Feature films, Documentary and Animation. Screening at an earlier film festival will not preclude selection, although priority will be given to Irish, European and World Premieres. The audience selects awards for Best International First Feature, Best International Feature and Best International Feature Documentary, Best Irish First Feature, Best Irish Feature, Best Irish Feature Documentary while awards for Human Rights Cinema and The Bingham Ray New Talent Award are awarded by a Jury of Industry Professionals.
The earlybird deadline for feature entries is Friday 26th February at 5pm. The entry fee is €30. The regular deadline is Friday 25th March at 5pm, the fee for which is €40.To view the full list of rules and regulations and to submit a film to the Galway Film Fleadh, please go to our website: http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/index.php/submissions/
FrameWork 2016: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
DEADLINE: February 15, 2016
TARGET PARTICIPANTS: creative teams of writer, director and producer from all over the world, working together on 1st or 2nd fiction feature films projects. FrameWork focuses on projects at an advanced stage of development.
FrameWork projects will have the chance to compete for the TFL World Production Awards and the Audience Award, the TFL Awards supporting the production process (see Funding).
DURATION: 2 residential workshops and the TFL Meeting Event in November 2016.
FEE: 2.000 Euro (per team of 2 people). Scholarships may be assigned by merit.
About FrameWork
FrameWork supports emerging talents with individually tailored tools for development, financing and marketing. 9 creative teams – composed of writer, director and producer – are selected to enter the programme, which lasts from May to November 2016. FrameWork focuses both on artistic & creative aspects and on production strategies through 2 residential workshops. Close dialogue and individual meetings will help participants to define their project’s aims and needs, in order to strengthen its strong points and resources. Intense script and project development enhance the projects in reaching the production stage. TorinoFilmLab will support each team to realize the most suitable production strategy.
Participants will have the chance to meet various guest trainers, experts in the main areas of filmmaking: script, directing, image, sound, post-production, etc.
These different approaches help participants to view their project from many angles, raising awareness on its potential and thus defining a consistent working plan. The diversity of trainers guarantees a tailored and updated method, so to fit the diversities and specificities of each project at best.
FrameWork foresees the public presentation of all projects in front of hundreds of industry professionals during the TFL Meeting Event in November 2016, during the Torino Film Festival. On this occasion an international Jury will award some projects with a number of TFL World Production Awards. In addition, the attending industry professionals will assign an Audience Award. For further details on TorinoFilmLab's support to production visit the pages dedicated to Funding.
Who can apply?
FrameWork is dedicated to creative teams of writer, director and producer from all over the world, developing a 1st or 2nd fiction feature film project.
For more information please contact: greta.fornari@torinofilmlab.it
Singapore Media Academy MASTERCLASS: Co Producing for the International Market
This is a highly intensive and interactive 3-day masterclass. Participants will be be immersed in hands on learning in the Creative, Production, Legal/Marketing and Distribution of co producing film projects for the international market. Guest Speakers will discuss real projects to better illustrate strategies and opportunities.
Day 1 – Development and Creative
- Introduction and overview locating Singapore in the paradigm shift of new technologies and distribution models which are how motion pictures and content is created, distributed and sold
- Co producing treaties with Singapore – Ireland, China, Australia and others, and how they work
- Looking for partners through Festivals and Labs
- What projects work best for co productions?
- Visual storytelling across language
- Finding material - How to find and/or develop scripts for the international marketplace. Art or genre?
Day 2 – Legal and Production
- Financing films and co production needsWhere to shoot and how the budget breaks down
- Attaching talent that works in the international market
- Where does Hollywood fit into the co production or co partnership model?
- ‘Partnerships exercises” to experience the challenges and benefits of co production
- Film Industry Intellectual Property Laws
- What rights do individuals have over their creations and their images?
Day 3
- How to navigate the global financing structures and working with legal, accounting and creatives
- Analysis of film co production project in detail
- Creation of co production plans using participants' own projects
- How to make the legal and creative partnerships work
- Use of Social Media Marketing, identify core fans to create your audience
- Demo of current co production to clarify successful working models
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This highly interactive masterclass is optimal for Media Professional, Writer, Director, Producer or Executive with at least 1 year of professional experience and who wants to produce and create content for the international market.
For more information please visit: http://www.mediaacademy.sg/faq/professional-development
SOFA School of Film Agents - Call for Proposals
A unique training initiative is looking for young film culture managers! Submit your project until 5th of May 2016
WHAT WE DO
In its fourth edition Sofa–School of Film Agents invites eight young professionals for an intense workshop to Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016.
We don’t aim to educate film directors or producers. We support film initiators and catalysers with unique project ideas in cinema promotion.
Eight selected participants will be trained in various creative fashions, to reach local and international cinema-goers, and given the opportunity to make ties beyond borders. With the help of experienced lecturers you will receive a tailor-made coaching which enables you to realise your dream project efficiently. Our workshop connects you with decision-makers and high-level professionals in film industry. The rest is up to you!
Sofa–School of Film Agents is scheduled from 19–28 August 2016. All lectures are provided free of charge. We are glad to fund your accommodation and much more. You’re only asked to take care of your travel costs to Poland and back. If you do not find a way to get your travels financed, you may apply for a Sofa scholarship.
All participants are coached on-the-scene by Oliver Baumgarten (journalist, programme director), Ewa Puszczyn?ska (producer, Ida) and Nikolaj Nikitin (film curator, head of Sofa– School of Film Agents). Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick acts as godfather for Sofa– School of Film Agents and assembles international film professionals. Among last edition’s experts were Marion Do?ring (European Film Academy), Karel Och (Karlovy Vary IFF), Roberto Olla (Eurimages), Peter Rommel (Rommel Film), Renate Rose (European Film Promotion) and Katriel Schory (Israel Film Fund).
WHO WE LOOK FOR
young film lovers with previous experience in film (studies, business etc.) from Central or Eastern Europe / Central Asia / republics of Caucasus / Greece / Germany planning to establish a film festival, film fund, film commission /promotion, a project in digital distribution, a cinema theater, film museum/archive, film association, a project connected to copyright law, a print or online film magazine, VoD-platform, a training initiative or another creative project in the field of film culture management
HOW TO BE PART OF IT
If we drummed up your interest, submit the following documents (in English) to Nikolaj Nikitin, nikolaj@joinsofa.org: max. two pages of project description: what’s your project idea about? What’s your motivation? Where will the project be located and why? Tell us about your objectives and tell us what’s so new and unique about your project! Why it is you who can make it?a one-pager on the budget–not necessarily worked out, just some ideas about costs and how to finance your projecta professional biography and background info on how you got involved working in film
Don’t sit on your couch: join Sofa from 19–28 August 2016!
Cross Channel Film Lab Apply for CCFL Training 2016
Deadline 1 March 2016
Find the space and support you need to:
- Hone your story idea with expert consultancy and specialist support.
- Explore how technical input in development and production generates more creative, cost-effective and engaging cinema.
- Be inspired by an innovative community of filmmakers and technicians from across Europe.
- Obtain the skills, knowledge and extended networks you need to successfully utilise VFX and/or Stereo 3D technologies in your feature film.
CCFL Training will offer two training schemes:
The core programme – a six month programme running from June to December 2016 which includes residential workshops in the UK and France, virtual consultancy, and access to the online programme. The call for applications opened on 14 January. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2016.
Dates:
1st residential workshop in Falmouth (UK), four days from 6 – 10 June 2016
2nd residential workshop in Brignogan-Plages and Plounéour-Trez (France), four days from 14 – 17 November 2016
Two virtual consultancy sessions with a script consultant in between the two workshopsThe online programme – a series of online sessions in September and November/December 2016.
The call for applications will open in May 2016. The call for applications to the CCFL Training 2016 core programme opened on 14 January.
You may also be interested in these short films about the projects that went through the Cross Channel Film Lab in 2013 and 2014 – the VFX Films and the Stereo 3D Films.
What’s it all about?
Visual effects and Stereo 3D are more commonly associated with high budget films, but there is potential to do so much more, and we want to help you get there.So our new training programme, CCFL Training 2016, is designed to help filmmakers working with visual effects and Stereo 3D transform their projects using cutting-edge technology. Supported by Creative Europe, CCFL Training focuses on the development of low to medium budget feature films utilising VFX and Stereo 3D technologies to enhance storytelling and reach new audiences.
A core programme will offer 20 filmmakerswith early stage feature film projects the chance to engage in a mix of residential workshops and online seminars, masterclasses and specialist consultancy, and learn more about the intersection of visual technology and screenwriting. A further group of filmmakers will be offered the chance to participate in CCFL Training’s online programme.
Take part in a mix of seminars, masterclasses and workshops, and learn from key experts in the fields of emerging visual technology and screenwriting. Build connections with innovative filmmakers from across Europe. Benefit from virtual consultancy sessions with tech and story consultants. Access the CCFL Training archive and online sessions to deepen the learning and extend your networks.
Leave with a stronger story, a clearer vision, and the knowledge and networks you need to make your film happen.
Why the Cross Channel Film Lab?
The Cross Channel Film Lab aims to develop specialist skills and increase capacity in the fields of narrative, Stereo 3D and VFX. To do this, we are fostering new partnerships across Europe and providing inspiration and education in the use of VFX and Stereo 3D at lower budgets. This new CCFL Training programme offers a unique opportunity to share and advance the learning from the Lab’s development activity with the European filmmaking community. Sessions will focus on the knowledge and infrastructure required for successful low to medium budget films to utilise VFX and Stereo 3D technologies, considering their relationship with narrative, and ways of reaching new audiences.The Cross Channel Film Lab supports brave, original and imaginative use of visual effects and/or Stereo 3D in low to medium budget feature films that will enliven European storytelling and extend the international audience for European cinema.To find out more, browse our FAQs.
EMERGING PRODUCERS 2017 / 5th edition
October 26–30, 2016 / Jihlava IDFF
Producer with a several years’ practice on the local market (i.e. not a student or recent graduate) with a capacity for future professional growth and with ambitions to be active on the European market; At least one realized film (fiction or documentary, mid-length or feature) which has entered theatrical distribution, has been screened at a festival etc.; Previous participations at other workshops is considered an advantage.
Eligible countries: EU Member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK), Switzerland, Island, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, countries of Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia) and Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) and Russia.
The programme is divided into three main parts:
Promotion | Various levels of presentation of EP (Evening Show presentation, Meeting with established European producers, Lunch with festival directors etc.)
Networking |Making quick and easy contact with the VIPs of the documentary film industry community (One-to-One meetings, practical attendance at other industry events etc.)
Navigation | Getting oriented in European film industry and institutions (via master classes, case studies and lectures)
PROMOTION
The programme includes a personal presentation of the producers as well as an official presentation to film professionals and press. The Emerging Producers project is accompanied by a special catalogue including photographs, CVs, motivation texts and basic information concerning each of the producers.
NETWORKING
A fundamental part of the EP programme consists in various forms of informal meetings where people get to know each other and gain easy access to contacts for future international co-operations unlike in official negotiations and e-mail correspondence. However, we are particular about the fact that even the informal meetings have a specific form with a reasonable purpose to fulfil the networking aim.The individual meetings are planned for carefully selected specific circles of professionals. The aim is to help the producers meet all the important persons in the field of audio-vision present at the Industry Programme in the course of the project. For a higher efficiency of the individual meetings, a great emphasis is placed on the seating plan. This will increase the efficiency of the event and will prevent the clustering of people from the same regions who already know each other.
NAVIGATION
In today’s times of rapid technological development and an expanding film market, it is often very hard for a beginning producer to get oriented on the film market and understand how the whole mechanism works. It may take several years for a talented producer to meet the right group of people where he or she can start co-operating, financing and producing his or her films.The Jihlava Industry Programme is conceived so as to represent a real entrance gate to the film industry with a focus on creative documentary film and its forms overlapping with fiction film and various reality TV formats. It also focuses on the essential branches in the field of distribution and film sales with the aim of making the producers’ way to the desired results easier.In today’s times of rapid technological development and an expanding film market, it is often very hard for a beginning producer to get oriented on the film market and understand its mechanisms. The individual parts of the EP programme create an information cluster to help a beginning European producer get oriented on the market.
PLEASE, REGISTER VIA THE EMERGING PRODUCERS FORM AT OUR VISITOR PAGE.
If you do not have an account in our database yet, please, fill in basic identification information at our Visitor Page and select a password. Your registration at our Visitor Page will make further communication with Jihlava IDFF easier and you will be able to use your account in the following years as well. After the registration, you will be able to access the Emerging Producers form: http://vp.eventival.eu/jidff/2016/custom-form/emerging-producers-2016/edit
4th SERIES MANIA EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
April 19-21, 2016 at Forum des Images, Paris, France
CALL FOR TV SERIES PROJECT
15 TV series projects in development from all over Europe and abroad will be selected to be pitched to a panel of 300 potential financial partners: co-producers, international distributors, TV buyers and executives, TV Funds. The pitching sessions will be followed by one-to-one meetings.
Submission
An entry form must be filled out on our website: http://series-mania.fr/en/call-series/ before March, 1st, 2016. The official selection will be announced by mid-March 2016.
Selection criteria
TV series must have been produced in 2015 or 2016
World and international Premieres section: the series must not have been screened in any international festival, taking place before April, 15th 2016. The priority will be given to series that have not yet been broadcast in their country of origin.
International Panorama: the series must not have been broadcast on a French free-access television channel before Series Mania Festival and/or screened in any festival in France taking place before April, 15th 2016.
Selecting Committee
The Forum des Images (Laurence Herszberg, Frédéric Lavigne, Katia Kirby, Charlotte Lainé and Elise Tessarech) handles the festival programming with the collaboration of Marie-Elisabeth Deroche-Miles and François-Pier Pélinard Lambert.
Festival screenings
Premieres section or International Panorama: one or two screening(s) held at the Forum des images and the UGC Les Halles movie-theaters between 15 and 24 April 2016, on free access for the audience. The screening(s) will be presented by a specialist or a representative of the series, and could be followed by a Q&A session.
Video Library: the TV series presented to the audience (except for US TV Series) will be included in the Video Library, on individual TV screens, for the accredited professionals only.
Screening supports
All the series will be screened on High Definition, on its original version with French subtitles for the public audience.
Video Library: the right holders should provide the festival high definition supports (preferably HD files) with English subtitles. The series will also be available online from April 15 to 30, 2016 for the registered industry professionals only participating
Competition and Awards
World and International section: five international members of the jury will reward the best series of this competition.
International Panorama: five bloggers will reward the best series of this section.
Discovery Public Award will be given to the best series considering all the sections (except seasons 2 and the opening and closing series)
French Selection: Three awards will be given by an International Press Jury (composed of five journalists): best series, best actress and best actor
Web-series section: One web series will receive an award from the web-surfers online vote
http://series-mania.fr/en/call-projets/
Submissions for DocsBarcelona Industry Activities 2016 are open.
DocsBarcelona is a market of financing and promotion for documentary industry, a meeting point for professionals from all over the world. It is the perfect place to promote and finance your project to potential financiers and film distributors.
DocsBarcelona Speed Meetings will take place the 26th and 27th of May 2016. 40 projects will have one to one meetings of 15 minutes with financers. The meetings will be arranged previously depending on financers and projects preferences.
If your project has an interactive approach, the Interactive Pitch is the perfect place to present your project in front a selection of financers especially interested in this kind of projects.
To participate find all the information, fees and forms here: http://www.docsbarcelona.com/en/ed-2016/industria-2016/project-submission/
The deadline to submit projects is March 3rd 2016 at 1.00 p.m. (UTC+1).
Page published 27 January 2016. Updated 29 January 2016.
