Upcoming deadlines
Calls for application for: CONNECTING COTTBUS, HOLLAND FILM MEETING CO-PRODUCTION PLATFORM, CROSSROADS CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
CONNECTING COTTBUS: Save the date and submit your project now
Deadline: 15th July 2014
connecting cottbus, the East-West co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus, is currently accepting project submissions for its 2014 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.
The Deadline for the submissions of projects will be the 15th July 2014. The jury will meet in September 2014 for its selection.The pitching session will be on the 6th November. 12 projects will be invited, a 13th project will be presented as the coco Special Pitch.
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 the website: www.connecting-cottbus.de
HOLLAND FILM MEETING CO-PRODUCTION PLATFORM
Call for applications! Deadline 1st July 2014
The Holland Film Meeting Co-production Platform (formerly the Netherlands Production Platform) is the co-production market of the NFF. Its selection comprises approximately twenty brilliant, entertaining and thought-provoking projects, all ripe for co-production, ready to be presented to some of international cinema's most important and influential financiers, distributors, sales agents and co-producers.
The aim of the HFM Co-pro Platform is to encourage co-production collaboration between the Netherlands and other countries, especially those with a similar production capacity. Only feature-length films suitable for co-production, with a minimum duration of 70 minutes and with local financial support in place, are eligible for HFM Co-pro Platform selection.
The 2014 application is now available here: www.filmfestival.nl
CROSSROADS CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
Application deadline: JULY 31st 2014
CROSSROADS is the Co-Production Forum, organized by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Mediterranean, Balkan and Central European producers with a feature film script are given the chance to meet a new network of financiers, co-producers and leading industry specialists. CROSSROADS introduces producers and directors to a variety of industry professionals from all over the world. The programme is varied and provides the opportunity to meet, formally and informally, distributors, broadcasters, sales agents and consultants. CROSSROADS’ goal is to support the producers of feature-length fiction film projects that contain a link to the Mediterranean and Balkan regions as well as Central Europe. Qualifying features will be produced or co-produced by a country in this area or are movies that contain story elements based in these regions.
Headed by Marie Pierre Macia and together with the CROSSROADS team, we are looking for feature-length fiction film projects that contain a link to the Mediterranean and Balkan region or Central Europe. They should either be produced or co-produced by a country within these regions or contain elements in the story that link them to these regions. Projects should have a producer attached and could be in all stages of pre-production. Our main focus in the selection procedure will be on projects that present a high possibility of being realized, combining this quality with artistic elements.
In this framework, CROSSROADS has come to add an important action in the direction of aiding and promoting local talent. CROSSROADS has a particular focus to countries from the regions with a low production capacity. The constant goal of the project is to scout for new talent in these countries and to provide producers with opportunities to make their work known in a wider market. Through the actions of the Forum, the selected producers are aided in their efforts to promote their projects outside their countries and to network with potential partners. The joint involvement of countries from the Mediterranean, the Balkans and Central Europe signals the start of a new relationship between countries, which, although separated geographically by the Mediterranean, are culturally united through the international language of cinema.
CROSSROADS awards include the main co-production award with Two Thirty Five Inc. offering post-production services (image & sound) and the CNC Development Award of 7.000 euros. The producer of the winning project will also be granted a free accreditation for the Producer’s Network, Cannes Film Festival 2015 session and Sofia Meetings of the Sofia International Film Festival is selecting a project to be presented during their session in March 2015. Also, the MFI Script 2 Film Workshops is awarding a scholarship to one of the projects and Initiative Film (France) is offering its script development services to one Greek project.
For more information please contact: Crossroads Co-production Forum Angeliki Vergou - Coordinator vergou@filmfestival.gr
Page published 27 May 2014.
