Upcoming Deadlines
Call for application for: EP2C; JUNIOR CO-PRODUCTION MARKET; IDFA Bertha Fund Classic; Docu Talents; East Silver Market; EX ORIENTE FILM
EP2C post-production workshop
Application deadline: June 20, 2015
This year EP2C is heading to Luxembourg for its 6th edition. From the 19th to the 23rd of October we will welcome 22 participants who will work closely with some 20 top-level international experts. The workshop is designed for producers with a fiction or documentary project (in advanced development or pre-production), and is open to post-production supervisors. Together, they will be immersed in all technical, financial and artistic challenges of post-production during lectures, group sessions and individual meetings with the tutors.
Participation fees: 900 Euros (including accommodation and meals, not including travel costs)
Scholarships available.
For more information please visit www.ep2c.com or contact us at info@ep2c.com.
CALL FOR ENTRY: JUNIOR CO-PRODUCTION MARKET 2015
Please submit your projects in development for our Junior Co-production Market.
The deadline for submission is: June 15th 2015
The Junior Co-production Market is a 2-day international co-production market that enables funders, broadcasters and professionals to assess new and innovative children's projects across the film, television and cross-media sectors.The dates of the Junior Co-production Market are: October 22nd & 23rd 2015.The deadline to submit your project is June 15th 2015. Your project can be a film, television programme/series or cross media project. You will pitch your project in a public pitch and in pre-arranged one-on-one meetings to key decision-makers within the children’s media industry. These will include financiers, sales agents, distributors, commissioning editors, producers, funding bodies, branding companies, entertainment companies, et cetera. Your project must have a minimum of 10% financing already in place.Please click here to read more about the JCM and here to read our regulations.
You can complete your entry form here.
Call for Entry: IDFA Bertha Fund Classic
Deadline for submission: May 15, 2015
The IDFA Bertha Fund supports documentary filmmakers in and from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe (eligible countries) by offering them financial contributions to develop and realize their projects. The fund is looking for new creative documentary projects from these countries, which can be submitted in the following categories: (1) IBF Classic: Project Development (max. contribution €5,000), and (2) IBF Classic: Production and post-production (max. contribution €17,500).
Applications for documentary festivals are not accepted for the May deadline. Applications for IDFA Bertha Fund Europe are only accepted for the February 2016 deadline.
Regulations
The deadline to submit a project for the second selection round of 2015 is May 15. There are different regulations for every category. For the regulations, the online entry form and submission FAQ please visit our website.
Submit through MyIDFA
In order to submit a project to the IDFA Bertha Fund, you need a MyIDFA user account, for which you can register on the IDFA website. With this account you can then submit entry forms to the IDFA Bertha Fund, as well as to IDFA, Docs for Sale and IDFA Forum. For more information feel free to contact us at idfaberthafund@idfa.nl.
Docu Talents from the East
July 7, 2015 / Karlovy Vary IFF / Czech Republic
Call for submissions: DEADLINE : May 15, 2015
Join us for the 11th edition of Docu Talents from the East 2015 for the chance to present your contribution to the diverse landscape of documentary film! Organized by the Jihlava IDFF, in cooperation with the Karlovy Vary IFF, this event is a remarkable platform for creative, Central and Eastern European documentary projects. This particular occasion aims at exploring twelve selected, feature-length documentaries that are planned for theatrical distribution between August 2015 to July 2016. With each film being in the stages of production or post-production, directors and producers will receive the chance to introduce their respective documentary through a presentation to an audience of film industry members and experts.
More information can be found at: http://www.dokument-festival.com/industry/docu-talents-from-the-east
East Silver Market 2015 - Call for Submissions
12th East Silver Market, Jihlava: Submission deadline: June 30, 2015
East Silver, a documentary market specialized in Eastern and Central European documentary, is open for submissions! Submission deadline: June 30, 2015 Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe.
This call is open for completed documentaries produced/co-produced in the region of Central and Eastern Europe after January 1, 2014. Only films that have not been previously submitted for East Silver market are eligible.
Your submission will be also valid for the 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2015.
In case you didn’t included an online link to your film in the submission form, please send 2 DVD screeners with English subtitles / English voiceover, with trailer and any additional press and promo materials (if available) to: East Silver, Stepanska 14, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic
All the selected films are digitized and made available in a video library to more than 300 guests - buyers, sales, distributors, TV representatives and film festival selectors. While the the whole selection is promoted through East Silver film database at www.DOKweb.net,
East Silver also annually issues a printed catalogue with profiles and basic information about all the films in the market.
Further benefits include online streaming display (accessible to film professionals only), a possibility to receive festival distribution support through East Silver Caravan (reaching over 100 film festivals worldwide), as well as Silver Eye market award given to the best films in three categories (short, mid-length, feature).
APPLY FOR EX ORIENTE FILM 2015!
Submissions for 2015 Ex Oriente Film workshop are open.
EX ORIENTE FILM WORKSHOP DEADLINE IS: June 1, 2015
Submissions are now open for Ex Oriente Film 2015, the year-long international workshop supporting the development and funding of creative documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. At the three workshop sessions taking place in the course of one year, directors and producers develop their projects and funding strategies and benefit from the assistance and valuable advice provided by leading European and US producers, directors, experts and commissioning editors. The Ex Oriente Film training programme culminates with the East European Forum co-production meeting, allowing documentary filmmakers to pitch their projects and to meet with Europe's and North America`s leading commissioning editors, independent producers, distributors, buyers and film fund and festival representatives. In the twelve years of its existence, more than 150 documentary projects from Eastern and Central Europe went through the Ex Oriente Film workshop, including award-winning films from the key European festivals, such as The Domino Effect, Blind Loves, At the Edge of Russia, Rabbit a la Berlin, Village Without Women, Bakhmaro 2015 / 2016 Workshop Timeline:
- 1st Session: July 20 – 25, 2015 (Rijeka, Croatia, in cooperation with REFINERI workshop)
- 2nd Session: October 26 – 31, 2015 (Jihlava, Czech Republic, within Jihlava IDFF)
- 3rd Session & East European Forum: March 7 – 13, 2016 (Prague, Czech Republic, within East Doc Platform and One World IFF)
Projects we look for: Creative feature length (52 ?up) documentary projects in development and production tackling contemporary topics, challenging genre and media boundaries and audience participation. We welcome filmmakers who set out to conduct intense and engaged experiences and to change the way we think about topical issues, audiences, ways of storytelling and the world itself.
Participants: About 12 projects will be selected out of all submissions, which totals 24 participants (director- producer teams) attending the workshop. The workshop is designed primarily for directors and producers from Central and Eastern Europe and/ or for creative documentary projects dealing with stories from Central and Eastern Europe.
Conditions of Participation: Directors and producers participate with their own creative documentary projects. It is required that all workshop sessions be attended by both the director and the producer. Participants must be proficient in English.
Participation Fee: The participation fee is EUR 1,800 per selected project (includes accommodation, coffee breaks and lunches during all the three workshop sessions for 1-2 pers.).
Scholarships: Participants may apply for scholarship to cover part of the participation fee. Applicants must prove that there is no access to scholarship in their own country and that the project is not supported by any development funding.
Page published 24 April 2015. Updated 27 April 2015.
