Upcoming Deadlines August 2012
European Producers Workshop 2013 - APPLY NOW!
European Producers Workshop 2013 - APPLY NOW!
Deadline for applications: October 1, 2012
Train, develop, network. A year long programme focussed on three intensive weeks featuring professional development through working on the development of fiction and documentary projects. WORKSHOP 1 in Luxembourg (LU), 11-18 MARCH 2013
Who is it for?
EAVE is aimed at producers, both fiction and documentary, who are already working in the film and television industries who wish to begin to operate on a European wide basis by increasing their knowledge of producing and co-producing in Europe and by building up a pan European professional network. We also welcome applications from associated branches of the industry – e.g. commissioning, funding, legal and finance, festivals & markets, media administration. Each year fifty participants are selected from most of the EU countries and beyond and take part in three one-week long workshops.
How does it work?
Half the participants attend the course with projects and it is an excellent means of development through intense focus on the project with colleagues and experts throughout the year. Most participants attending with a project also bring their writer for the first two weeks which enables producer and writer to benefit together from one-to-one sessions with script experts.
During the first two workshops, in March and June, participants work within groups led by experienced producers and with several experts on script analysis, development and production financing, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching, packaging and more. In the third week in October, 40-50 Decision Makers (commissioning editors, national and regional media funds, sales agents, etc.) join the participants to discuss the projects, companies and careers of the participants, a process which offers unusual access to Europe's Decision Makers. EAVE graduates join a unique network of active European producers which forms one of the backbones of the industry. Furthermore, EAVE participants and members benefit from our partnerships with the leading European film festivals and markets where EAVE facilitates graduate participation.
Timeline
The interviews with all candidates will take place in autumn 2012 and the selection will be announced in December 2012. The 3 workshops take place during March 11 - 18 in Luxembourg (LU), June 12 - 19 in Turku (FI) and October/November in Vienna (AT) 2013.
Baltic Event, Call For Entries - three weeks left!
Deadline of the Baltic Event Co-Production Market: September 15, 2012
The 2012 edition of Baltic Event, the largest regional film market in North-Eastern Europe, will take place on November 26-28 during Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. First introduced in 2002, it has highlighted an amazing array of feature film projects, many of which have to date premiered and enjoyed successful runs in the festival circuit, cinemas, and television.
The market brings together project representatives with potential financiers and decision makers from the international film industry in a series of efficient one-on-one meetings while also providing the opportunity to become acquainted with the other aspects of the local film industry – the works-in-progress from the Baltics and Finland, the young and successful producers from the region, and touching base with the producers, sales agents, distributors, film institutions, and festivals, who have made Baltic Event a regular stopping point on their festival circuit.
12 feature film projects will be selected for Baltic Event Co-Production Market. This year, another 10 will be presented in Baltic Bridge East by West programme – 5 from Western Europe and 5 from the CIS countries and Georgia. This year’s focus country is Kazakhstan, which has a high quality film industry and has already participated as a co-production partner in a number of European films. POWR Baltic Stories Exchange, the presentation and networking platform for Baltic and Nordic scriptwriters, presents 8 projects in 2012.
Baltic Event Co-Production Market Project Criteri
- full-length feature film intended for theatrical release
- suitable for an international co-production
- national support in place
- completed screenplay
- projects from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Media country Croatia, and non-EU countries Russia and Ukraine are accepted
Additional information, requested materials, and rules and regulations can be found on the website.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at balticevent@poff.ee, in case you have any questions.
The submission deadline is September 15, 2012.
The selection will be announced by November 1, 2012.
NISI MASA – European Network For Young Cinema
Call for Projects for its 7th edition of EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH.
Deadline September 30, before midnight!
EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH is an initiative aimed at promoting European co-production of short films. It combines a scriptwriting workshop in residency, an online session and a Coproduction Forum, bringing together scriptwriters and industry professionals from all over Europe.
EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH 2013 will consist of two main events:
- Scriptwriting Workshop: 8th to 13rd January 2013 in Zagreb (Croatia)
- The Coproduction Forum: 1st to 3rd March in Luxembourg City (Luxembourg)
NISI MASA is calling for projects from writers, directors and producers (aged between 18-35 years old) with international short film projects in development. Your nationality or country of residence should be one of the member countries of the MEDIA Programme (European Union + Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland). European Short Pitch will also select up to 3 projects from non-member countries of the MEDIA Programme where NISI MASA has a member organisation: Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia and Ukraine.
If you have any questions or would like further promotional materials, feel free to contact us: europeanshortpitch@nisimasa.com
Berlinale Talent Campus
The application deadline is the 20th of September 2012.
ELIGIBILITY and QUALIFICATION
We are looking for the most talented and ambitious up-and-coming filmmakers, distributors and film critics, who are (disregarding their age) in the first years of their professional career. Film students who are about to graduate or taking part in post-graduate programmes can apply, but should have realised outstanding achievements already. All master classes, panel discussions, workshops and hands-on programmes are in English. Therefore an advanced knowledge of the English language is a basic condition for participation. Furthermore, applicants have to fulfil the following criteria:
For filmmakers: You are working in one of these areas: screenwriting, producing, directing, cinematography, acting, editing, sound design, film score composing, animation, art direction, production design.
You have worked with a credit in one of the afore-mentioned disciplines on at least one short film that was awarded a prize, OR you worked as such on a film that screened at an international film festival, OR you have worked on a film of at least 60 minutes in length.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
1) General application - obligatory for all applicants of the Berlinale Talent Campus #11
2) Hands-on training programmes application - applicants have the opportunity to fill in an additional application for one of the hands-on training programmes related to their field of work. The hands-on training programmes application is an additional application. The general application has to be completed and submitted first before applying for one of the hands-on programmes. Applicants can only apply for one of the hands-on training programmes.
Berlinale Talent Campus alumni can apply to join the Campus again if they want to take part in either Talent Project Market, Doc Station, Script Station or Short Film Station — but only if they have not participated already in previous years in the same hands-on training programme they now wish to apply for.
The hands-on training programmes of the Berlinale Talent Campus include:
- the Talent Project Market for collaborating producers and directors
- the Doc Station for documentary filmmakers
- the Script Station for scriptwriters
- the Short Film Station for writers/directors
- the Sound Studio for sound designers and score composers
- the Campus Studio for directors, producers, cinematographers, and editors involved in post-production stage
- the Talent Actors Stage for actors
- the Talent Press for film critics
FOR CAMPUS ALUMNI
Alumni of the Berlinale Talent Campus are invited to apply for the Doc Station, Script Station and Short Film Station as well as for the Talent Project Market and Talent Press.
All other hands-on training programmes are for participants applying for the first time only:
If you have any questions regarding the Berlinale Talent Campus and its affiliated programmes, please do not hesitate to contact us at campus@berlinale.de
Festival de Cinéma des Arcs: Call for projects 2012
Deadline of submission: September 21
Eligibility criteria:
* You are a European Producer and you are producing a feature film (fiction, animation or documentary) in development or in post-production initiated in Europe (minimum length: 75 minutes).
* the director is European and has already directed films (feature films or awarded / distinguished short films)
* 25% of the financement is already secured
* your are looking for European coproducers
* you are looking for presales, sales agent, or other financing sources in Europe (Tax Credit, Tax Shelter, European Regional Funds)
* producer(s) must be looking for additionnal sources of financing and/or coproducer(s)
An already confirmed support (in development or in production) from a European regional fund will be a plus.
http://www.lesarcs-filmfest.com/2012/home/
CPH:FORUM 2012: open for entries
Deadline: September 1
CPH:FORUM is a three-day international financing event that takes place during CPH:DOX on November 7 - 9. CPH:FORUM is dedicated to help facilitate the development and financing of creative and visually strong film projects, and brings together key European and international financiers, industry professionals and producers intent on discovering the latest independent and innovative works in development from documentary filmmakers, fiction filmmakers and visual artists.
CPH:FORUM explores new, untested ways of breaking down conventional notions of genre and connects people from the worlds of non-fiction, fiction and visual art, with the aim of initiating new dialogues, opening up new windows and enabling new production and financing models. An exclusive maximum of 30 projects will be selected for participation. The selected projects will be presented to an excellent line-up of major international funds, sales agents, buyers, distributors, broadcasters, online platforms, festivals, museums and other film and art institutions in order to create an exclusive and diversified meeting and networking place across the landscape of fiction, documentary and visual art. CPH:FORUM has a natural emphasis on the Nordic and European scene, but strongly encourages filmmakers, producers and artists worldwide to submit upcoming film projects in development / production for consideration. Submissions to CPH:FORUM are subject to a small administration fee of 15 EUR per project. For more information on CPH:FORUM visit the website: http://cphdox.dk/d/a2.lasso?d=2009304&l=3 or contact Head of Industry, Daniella Eversby.
Power to the Pixel (PttP) presents The Cross-Media Forum
16 – 19 October 2012 NFT1, BFI Southbank, London
PttP’s 6th annual Cross-Media Forum, held in association with the 56th BFI London Film Festival, will hear from some of the most influential and innovative people working across film, TV, advertising, publishing, interactive and games from around the world.
16 October - Conference
An impressive line-up of leading international digital experts and award-winning creatives including Sean Stewart (USA), lead writer and founder of Emmy-nominated Fourth Wall Studios; interactive film maker and producer for Caviar Films Peter De Maegd (BEL); NFB Canada's Head of Digital Content & Strategy whose multi-award-winning projects include Bear 71, Loc Dao (CAN) who will showcase the company's latest interactive projects; digital rights and licensing expert, Wendy Bernfeld (NETH) (Former CEO at Canal + International Acquisitions) who will discuss new digital licensing opportunities.
17 October - The Pixel Pitch competition
Part of PttP’s Pixel Market - the only event in the world dedicated to financing cross-media projects - The Pixel Pitch is an incredible opportunity to find out what kinds of projects commissioners and top-level executives are looking to fund, and how best to approach them.Eight trailblazing teams will pitch their ideas to an auspicious jury, competing for the prestigious £6,000 ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize.
This year’s jury panel includes head of Channel 4’s multi-platform commissioning team Louise Brown (UK); McCann Erickson’s chief insights and innovation officer Wayne Fletcher (USA/UK); senior production and development executive for the BFI Film Fund, Lizzie Francke (UK); executive director at the Tribeca Film Institute, Beth Janson (USA); head of web, new writing & transmedia at France Télévisions, Boris Razon (FR); director of Wallimage CrossMedia & chairman of Cine-Regio, Philippe Reynaert (BEL).
The jury will give direct feedback to contestants, offering the audience an opportunity to find out what ideas turn them on and the kinds of partnerships they’re looking to form in the future.
Tickets and Registration:
http://powertothepixel.com/events-and-training/pttp-events/london-forum-2012/register
For more info contact:
+44 (0)20 7535 6720
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