Upcoming Deadlines May 2012

Calls for application

connecting cottbus

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Deadline for submission: July 15

connecting cottbus, the East-West Co-production Market at the FilmFestival Cottbus, is currently accepting project submissions for its 2012 pitching session. Furthermore, producers, sales agents and other industry representatives interested in East-West projects are invited to participate without projects.

Until 15th July 2012, 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 8th and 9th November 2012. 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 www.connecting-cottbus.de

Documentary Makers: Apply for UnionDocs Collaborative 2012 in Brooklyn. International visa & residency options

The UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB) is a one-year program for a select group of 12 emerging media artists from the US and abroad. Based in one of NYC’s most exciting neighborhoods, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, UnionDocs offers a platform for exploring contemporary approaches to the documentary arts and a process for developing a collaborative project. The program consists of weekly production meetings, seminars, screenings and other public programs, along with regular masterclasses and critiques with visiting artists.

Key benefits include:

- Dynamic interaction among a network of talented peers.

- Direct exchange with visiting artists and industry experts.

- A structured environment for research and experimentation.

- Mentoring on the production of original work and regular group critique.

- Exhibition opportunities for the year's collaborative project.

The CoLAB represents a new and alternative fellowship model, offering residency and visa support for six participants coming from abroad and an equal number of spots for local, non-resident participants. It is designed to be affordable and, although participants are asked to make the UDC their primary creative focus, the schedule does accommodate full-time or freelance work. Rather than applying with a project proposal or rough cut, all participants are selected on the basis of previous work and enter the program at square one, open to discovery and fresh connections. The CoLAB has presenting original work at premiere venues such as MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, the Harvard Film Archive, the Visible Evidence Conference, Camden International Film Festival, Hot Docs, and Direktorenhaus, Berlin, among other venues. We expect a very competitive group of applicants, representing some of the most exciting emerging talents in documentary.

http://www.uniondocs.org/uniondocs-collaborative/

Call for Entries: CINEKID 2012

INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION:

Submit your new feature film for our prestigious International Film Competition and compete for the Cinekid Lion and € 15.000 Euro. Our international competition programme will consist of 15 children’s films. To qualify for selection we would like to receive a DVD with English subtitles and the filled out entry form. www.cinekid.nl/professionals/entries/about

DEADLINE: 1ST OF JULY 2012

JUNIOR CO-PRODUCTION MARKET:

Submit your project in development for our international Junior Coproduction Market. This can be a film, television or cross media project. The cross media project needs to have a film or television component. You will pitch your project in pre-selected one-on-one meetings to key financiers in the children’s media industry. This includes sales agents, distributors, commissioning editors, producers, funding bodies, branding companies, entertainment companies, etc. Your project will need to have a minimum of 10% financing already in place.For further details, please visit www.cinekid.nl/professionals/coproductionmarkets

DEADLINE: 1ST OF JULY 2012

THE SCREENINGCLUB:

Submit your finished production(s) for our international ScreeningClub. The ScreeningClub is Cinekid’s digital screening facility that provides a sheltered environment where key buyers from over 18 countries, including festival programmers, sales agents and distributors screen over 250 titles with English subtitles for possible acquisition or programming. You can send in a short or feature film, television series, youth documentaries, animation and live-action, etc. The production has to be finished in 2011/ 2012 and include English subtitles.For further details, please visit: www.cinekid.nl/professionals/sscreeningclub

DEADLINE: 1ST OF SEPTEMBER 2012

The 26th edition of Cinekid, the film, television and new media festival for children will take place in Amsterdam from: 17 – 26 October 2012

Cinekid for Professionals will take place from: 23 – 26 October 2012

For any further information, don’t hesitate to contact us or visit our website: www.cinekid.nl

Fingal Film Festival 2013

Fingal Film Festival 2013 will bring together the Fingal community with National and International Film makers to celebrate the art and business of film making.
Fingal Film Festival 2013 will represent a new wave of Independent filmmakers and will offer a unique opportunity for Fingal Film Makers to interact with one another and with International Film Makers. We as an organisation are passionate about exposing the films and documentaries that people make in Fingal. We should be proud of our filmmakers and inspire them to screen their work at the Fingal Film Festival.

Fingal Film Festival 2013 will offer workshops, seminars, master classes with critically acclaimed producers, directors, writers and actors.
Fingal Film Festival 2013 will see the introduction of a Youth Festival with various workshops and sponsorship programmes. A Heritage and Cultural section for film makers in Fingal will also be included.

Fingal Film Festival 2013 will screen selected Independent Feature, documentary, short and animated films every day over the course of the festival.
For more information, please check out our website at www.fingalfilmfest.com and Like us on Facebook!

EAST SILVER 2012 / CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

East Silver is a documentary market specialized in East and Central European documentary film. Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe.

Submission Deadline is July 31, 2012.

The 9th edition of the East Silver Market will take place at the 16th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in October 23 – 28, 2012, Jihlava, Czech Republic. East Silver Market is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film; the main partner of the project is Jihlava IDFF.

This call is open for completed documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe produced after January 1, 2011, that were not previously submitted to East Silver market.

Submission is also valid for the 16th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival programme pre-selection as well as for Doc Alliance Films VoD pre-selection.

Submit your documentary films via our online entry form: http://www.eastsilver.net/en/east-silver/entry-form/

Please send 2 DVD screeners with English subtitles or English voice-over, with trailer and any additional press and promo materials to:

East Silver, Skolska 12, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic

We are looking forward to your films!

Zdenek Blaha

info@eastsilver.net

Tel: +420 224 214 858

GSM: +420 775 602 555

EAST SILVER Market

Institute of Documentary Film

Skolska 12110 01 Prague 1

Czech Republic