Upcoming Deadline

Call for application for: PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE; FRONTIÈRES@FANTASIA; GALWAY FILM FLEADH; CROSS VIDEO DAYS; SOFA; Multiple Revenue Stream Training for Future Films.

PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE: SUBMISSION CALL FOR PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT

Deadline: March 31, 2016.

Join us in Paris for 3 days of meetings, conferences and networking with the French Industry

• a selection of 15 projects in development from all over the world
• 150 companies attending
• 500 one-to-one meetings organized 

Focus on Colombia!

This year, we celebrate the Colombian film industry with 3 Colombian projects out of the 15 projects selected and a conference on French-Colombian co-productions, based on several recent case studies. A delegation of Colombian professionals will be part of the event.Paris Coproduction Village is a development and financing platform, organized by Les Arcs European Film Festival team and taking place within the Champs-Elysées Film Festival Industry days. The event aims at encouraging European professionals to get involved in international coproductions.

15 international film projects suitable for French or European coproduction are presented to producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers and fund representatives. In addition, the 6 residents of the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation are joining the projects selection. This platform complements the 5th edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival's Us-in-Progress programme, which screens 5 US feature films in late stage of post-production seeking sales representatives.

Participants benefit from one-to-one pre-scheduled meetings, networking events, as well as seminars taught by leading film industry professionals. Each year, Paris Coproduction Village organize near 600 meetings while participants from 200 companies (producers, sales agents and distributors) are attending the event. 

Submit your project 

Submissions accepted until March 31, 2016

Eligibility criteria

• Feature film projects in development with director and script attached (fiction, animation and documentary) with a minimum length of 70 minutes
• All applications must be submitted by a production company and have secured (or under negotiation) financings from their home territory
• All projects in development must not have any French partners attached when submitted

For more details about the submission process, please contact us at contact@pariscopro.com 

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR FRONTIÈRES@FANTASIA

Submissions are now open until April 13. 

After a highly successful 2015 that saw record levels of attendance, Frontières returns to the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) for its 3rd European edition from March 30 - April 1 2016.

Industry registration for Frontières at BIFFF 2016 is now open (Early bird rate: until February 18) and project submissions are also now open for Frontières@Fantasia 2016 (until April 13). Frontières connects North America with Europe in an environment specifically focused on genre film co-production and financing. After receiving a record number of submissions, Frontières marks its return to the heart of Europe with 20 selected projects from Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. 

Frontières@Brussels 2016 features an extremely strong cross-section of projects from emerging and established filmmakers. Participants include director Can Evrenol (BASKIN), producer Giles Daoust (STARRY EYES), producer Amy Darling (VIOLENT), director Alexandre Philippe (THE PEOPLE VS GEORGE LUCAS, DOC OF THE DEAD) director Aaron Schimberg (GO DOWN DEATH), producer François Cognard (THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS, PAINLESS) executive producer Gil Kenan (MONSTER HOUSE, POLTERGEIST - 2015), director Glenn McQuaid (I SELL THE DEAD) and producers Larry Fessenden and Peter Phok (THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, STAKELAND, THE INNKEEPERS).

Find the Complete Frontières@Brussels 2016 Line-Up here: frontieresmarket.com

Established in 2012 at the Fantasia International Film Festival, Frontières has since developed into a biannual transatlantic circuit between Montreal and Brussels. Frontières is the first market to specifically focus on the co-production and financing of genre films between North America and Europe. Frontières is a collaborative initiative between the Fantasia International Film Festival, the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), and Vision-in-Motion. Frontières is made possible thanks to the generous support of Creative Europe, la Région de Bruxelles Capitale, Visit Brussels, Telefilm Canada, and SODEC.For more information, please visit frontieresmarket.com 
 

 

GALWAY FILM FLEADH 

Call for Entries – Feature Films

Deadline is Friday 25th March.

We are now accepting feature submissions for the 2016 edition of the festival, which will run from 5th  – 10th July.

In 2015, we 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.

We are an Oscar-Qualifying festival for Shorts (Animation & Drama). We platform 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 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, please go to the feature films submission page.

 

CROSS VIDEO DAYS 2016:

Call for projects 2016 open to submissions

Applications are open till Monday, March 21, 2016

All projects under the 4 following categories are welcomed whatever their genre (Documentary, fiction, animation, educational programs...)·        

• Interactive projects (eg. serious games, webdoc, mobile apps ...)·        
• Web linear projects (eg. webseries, web fiction ...)·        
• Immersive projects (eg. virtual or augmented reality project, 360° ...)·        
• Multi-platform projects (eg. cross or transmedia projects ...)

+ For Digital projects including fictional feature length In partnership with Le Marché du Film of Cannes, the 4 best Fictional feature length projects among these 4 categories will have the opportunity to be pitched both in Cannes in May and Paris in June.

On June 10th during an exclusive day for selected producers, all the projects will get one-to-one meetings (30 minutes each) with leading digital commissioners among most emblematic TV, web broadcasters, MCN and funding bodies. Among them Tribeca, POV Digital, Youtube, Sony Pictures, Red Bull Media House, Dailymotion, Rigthster, VICE, Channel 4, BBC, RAI educational, YLE, DR Denmark, ZDF, Arte, France Télévisions, Canal+, RTVE, RTBF, ORF, RTS attended previous editions. 

www.crossvideodays.com

 

Multiple Revenue Stream Training for Future Films 

Call for applications: Multiple Revenue Stream Training for Future Films (MRST4FF) 

Application deadline: March 18, 2016

The European Women's Audiovisual Network is pleased to announce a call for applications from European audiovisual professionals to participate in the second edition of its innovative Multiple Revenue Stream Training Course For Future Films.

The key objective of MRST4FF is to equip European audiovisual professionals with the necessary skills to reach a wide international audience in the context of digital convergence, through an innovative training course designed with experts in online marketing & distribution and new business models for the film industry. 

Background

Promoting and protecting cultural diversity of audiovisual content is one of the goals of EWA. The Network and its members strive to attain greater gender equality in the audiovisual sector for creative roles (producer, director and scriptwriter) and technical crew and to encourage greater reflection on representations of gender identity in audiovisual content. In order to ensure that cultural diversity of content is safeguarded and promoted it is vital that European producers and content creators assimilate a wider range of new business models, marketing skills, branding and crowd-funding knowledge and online distribution skillsets. 

The course “Multiple Revenue Stream Training For Future Films” will encourage producers and content creators to use new technologies and ensure their projects have diverse content. This will in turn help ensure their projects remain competitive in a digital context, which can see more users turning to VOD platforms.

The Course

During the course participants will attend two workshops:

• Workshop one – Pisa, Italy (29 June – 3 July 2016)
• Workshop two – Strasbourg, France (23-27 November 2016)

The training course will accompany producers/content creators with a project and with a desire to exploit new technologies in an innovative and up-to-date manner, through training in social marketing, strategizing, branding and crowd-funding for their projects (Workshop 1), specifically relevant negotiation and pitching in order to acquire the skillsets necessary to secure product placement and other deals which can later feed into the multiple revenue streams, e.g. online distribution of the film and devising strategies for multiple media distribution of their projects (smartphones, VOD, traditional theatrical release, etc.), securing contracts for digital distribution and follow-on marketing support and credible business plans for multiple revenue stream income from projects (Workshop 2).

Trainers & Tutors

The training sessions and online tutoring will be conducted by renowned professionals.Read more information on the first edition of MRST4FF here:

• Barcelona Workshop
• Amsterdam Workshop
• Glasgow Workshop
• You can download here the application form
• You can download here the  regulations 

 

Apply now to participate in SOFA – School of Film Agents

The deadline is 5 May 2016

The workshop initiative will take place in the European Cultural Capital city of Wroclaw, Poland, from 19-28 August 2016

SOFA – School of Film Agents is a workshop initiative that was brought to life by Nikolaj Nikitin. Founded in 2013, the unique workshop offers young “film agents” from Central and Eastern Europe, Germany and Central Asia the opportunity to work together with experts on their projects aimed at the development of their respective regional film cultures and industries.

In addition to this call for submissions, SOFA is pleased to announce an exciting, new opportunity for former workshop participants from Central and Eastern Europe. Thanks to the generous support of the Goethe-Institut, SOFA-Alumni are invited to come to Germany for one month to participate in a creative fellowship as well as to take part in a German language course. By placing former participants in creative fellowships within German film, cultural and media institutions that purposefully reflect the ideas and goals of SOFA-Alumnis’ dream projects, the Goethe-Institut is not only making it possible for these participants to come closer to realising their projects, but to also acquiring invaluable practical, international experiences in their field via cultural exchange. After the overwhelming response to last year’s “Call for Submissions” – with over 100 applications from 25 countries – SOFA is now accepting new applications for 2016 until 6 May 2016.

Applications for 2016 should contain the following information:

• A maximum two-page project description: what is the idea and motivation behind your project? Where exactly will this project take place/be realised? A particular place/location? Tell us about your goals, project objectives, your vision and what makes your project so unique. Tell us exactly why YOU are the right person to make this project come to life.

• One page with information about a prospective budget for the project. Your budget does not need to be calculated down to the very last cent. Rather, please try to communicate an overall estimation of the potential costs involved in the realisation of your project as well as ideas about possible types of funding/potential financial resources for the project.

• A professional biography with background information about how you came to be active in the film industry. Please send your application via email to: nikolaj@joinsofa.org As in previous years, this year’s selected SOFA participants along with workshop experts and lecturers will be announced during the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Great news for this year’s SOFA workshop participants! For the second year in a row, the Goethe-Insitut is offering some extra “added value” to the already well-established SOFA programme: some of SOFA’s former participants will be able to take part in a creative stipendium in a German company of their choice. This opportunity will offer participants the chance to improve and develop the quality of their projects as well as to strengthen their own personal and professional goals.

Applications for SOFA 2016 may be submitted immediately. The deadline is 5 May 2016.

SOFA – School of Film Agents is a joint project of the Filmplus gUG (Cologne) and the Fundacja Filmplus (Warsaw) together with the city of Wroclaw (Breslau) and the Polish Film Institute, funded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, the German (Federal Foreign Office, the International Visegrad Fund, the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the New Horizons Association, the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, EAVE – European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, the Slovak Film Institute, Mozinet, the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary and supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut in Poland (Krakow), Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Moscow and its Head Office in Munich, Germany, as well as the support of the Film Commission Poland and the Wroclaw Film Commission.

Page published 26 February 2016.