Upcoming Deadlines

Call for application for: PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE; EMERGING PRODUCERS; BRIDGING THE DRAGON

CALL FOR THE SECOND EDITION OF PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE

SAVE THE DATES: JUNE 10 – 12, 2015

Application deadline: April 10th, 2015

PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE is a development and financing platform organized by Les Arcs European Film Festival and hosted by the Champs-Elysées Film Festival. The event aims at encouraging European professionals to get involved in international coproductions. During this three-day event, 15 international film projects destined for French or European coproduction will be presented to producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers and fund representatives. In addition, the 6 residents of the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation will join the project selection. Participants will benefit from one-to-one pre-scheduled meetings, networking events, as well as seminars taught by leading film industry professionals. During the first edition of Paris Coproduction Village, 550 meetings were organized, while participants from 150 companies (sales agents, distributors and producers) attended the event.

This platform complements the 4th edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival's US-IN-PROGRESS programme, which screens 4 US feature films in late stage of post-production seeking sales representatives. Paris Coproduction Village is supported by the Ile-de-France region and organized in collaboration with our partners Champs-Elysées Film Festival, Cannes - Cinéfondation, Producers’ Network, ACE, EAVE, Europa International, HAF and CPH:LAB.

Brazil will be the guest country of this second edition! In partnership with Cinema do Brasil, Paris Coproduction Village will invite at least 3 Brazilian projects in development and will offer a conference dedicated to the Brazilian film industry.

For further information: www.pariscopro.com#mce_temp_url# 

Registration open for the 4th edition of EMERGING PRODUCERS 

October 28 – November 1, 2015 / 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 30, 2015

EMERGING PRODUCERS is a promotional and educational project which brings together talented documentary film producers from EU countries.

The aim of the project is to introduce an up-and-coming generation of talented European producers to professionals from various fields of the film industry. The project creates a new platform for meetings of film professionals with an emphasis on documentary cinematography. By providing a diverse and creative environment for Emerging Producers as well as an orientation of the film market we hope to increase the potential for the future European co-productions.

The project is organised and curated by Jihlava IDFF and is implemented in cooperation with national MEDIA DESKS. The selection of producers will be announced during the summer 2015.

Selection Criteria

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.

More information at: http://www.dokument-festival.com/industry/emerging-producers

Contact: Jarmila Outratová / Head of Industry Office / jarmila@dokument-festival.cz

Bridging the Dragon

Project Evaluation & Market Placement Labs - Call for applications now open! 

Deadline 24 April 2015

Objectives & Benefits 

The Labs’ programme will select 5 European and 5 Chinese film projects suitable for co-production or clearly showing a link for a collaboration between China and Europe. One Chinese project will be chosen among a pre-selection submitted by FIRST Film Festival as a new Chinese talent discovery. 

Specialised tutors and active professionals in the European and Chinese film industries will coach each duo of participants (director/producer or writer/producer) on the development of their project by: 

•  Defining the core target audience of the project; 
•  Addressing the weak aspects of story structure and providing concrete tools to improve story telling for the targeted foreign country & audience; 
•  Introducing the specific differences in terms of culture, tastes, film industry and market between European countries & mainland China; 
•  Strengthening the project’s potential on the International market with a special focus on the main targeted country/region; 
•  Identifying the unique selling points of the project & enhancing their pitching ability to a foreign professional audience; 
•  Checking the co-production feasibility, cooperation/funding opportunities & defining an international strategy;
•  Empowering a network of relationships among professionals eager to develop co-operations between China & Europe and matching with participants’ profiles. 

Participant Target & Project Status

Creative teams of director & producer OR writer & producer from Europe and China, working on the development of fiction feature film projects (animation included but no documentaries). The team shall submit a treatment (maximum 15 pages) with full development of story structure, characters and locations. 

Programme Structure & Language 

Each of the two Labs will have a similar structure consisting of 2 parts:

• Projectwork (evaluation & advice/guidance on the creative and business aspects)
• Market immersion (after a market overview in the firstdays, participants will then be introduced to the reality of the hosting film industry & market place by attending a specific professional gathering and networking with locals;  i.e. the Chinese market in Shanghai and the European one in Locarno) 

Bridging Visions e.V., Lüneburger Str. 3, 10557 Berlin, Germany 

Labs will alternate plenary lectures and discussions, case study presentations with group work, one-to- one meetings and possibly a final pitching session. The approach is designed as very practical and based on experience sharing, so an active participation of each team is expected. Labs will be run in English and Chinese when necessary (with provided translation). The programme is structured over two main residential modules: 

Deadline for applications: 24 April 2015. Selection Announcement: early May 2015. 

The Programme is run by Bridging the Dragon, an association connecting European and Chinese film professionals. The two Labs have been designed in collaboration with the Torino Film Lab and First - International Film Festival besides the 2 hosting venues & festivals (Shanghai International Film Festival and Festival del film Locarno) and are funded by the Medienboard Berlin- Brandenburg, D'Hive, Italian Ministry of Culture (MIBACT), Netherlands Film Fund and Goethe- Institut China. 
For further details, please contact: 

For European applicants: Catharina Schreckenberg info@bridgingthedragon.com

T: +49 176 358 979 51 

For Chinese applicants: Yingfan Ji dragon_beijing@163.com

T: +86 135 222 10150 

Bridging Visions e.V., Lüneburger Str. 3, 10557 Berlin, Germany 

Page published 30 March 2015.