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Call for application for: Berlinale Co-Production Market; When East Meets West; FictionLab; One World 2016

Berlinale Co-Production Market

Call for Entries until October 21, 2015 

Until October 21, experienced producers from around the world may submit new feature film projects to the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2016. The projects should be suitable for international co-production, have either already secured 30% of the financing or at least the production funding from the home country, and be budgeted between one and twenty million euros.

As in the previous two years, the budget minimum has been waived for projects from Greece, Spain and Portugal, in order to support producers from these countries to participate in the international market in spite of the difficult financing conditions at home.By December, approximately 25 feature film projects will be selected from the entries for the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Additionally, three projects are currently being developed by the filmmakers Ella Manzheeva, Fernando Eimbcke and Daniel Borgman as part of the Berlinale Residency. Another ten projects will be presented at the “Talent Project Market” in cooperation with Berlinale Talents.

At the 13th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16, 2016), the team will again organise for the selected projects over 1000 targeted one-on-one meetings with potential co-producers, financiers, world sales agents, distributors, as well as representatives of TV channels and funding bodies. Participants looking for projects in which to become involved as co-producers may apply as from November 2015.

Over 200 feature films selected for previous Berlinale Co-Production Markets have been realised to date, i.e., nearly 50% of the projects have been made into films.Five earlier projects from four different continents that were successfully realised as co-productions played at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival: Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories by Phan Dang Di, Zurich by Sacha Polak and The Boda Boda Thieves by the collective Yes! That's Us, Why Me? by Tudor Giurgiu and Absence by Chico Teixeira. The Here After by Magnus von Horn and Embrace of the Serpent by Ciro Guerra, which were also completed this year, played in Cannes, while Frenzy by Emin Alper and The Memory of Water by Matías Bize recently premiered in Venice.

This summer, German audiences had the opportunity to watch a few of the fruits of the Berlinale Co-Production Market in the cinemas: Zurich (Die getäuschte Frau) by Sacha Polak, Las Insoladas - Sonnenstiche by Gustavo Taretto and Coconut Hero by Florian Cossen opened in July resp. August, and September 24 sees the theatrical release of Am Ende ein Fest (The Farewell Party) by Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is part of the European Film Market.The main partners of the Berlinale Co-Production Market have been the MDM - Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung since 2004, and Creative Europe - MEDIA, a programme of the European Union since 2005.Application forms and general guidelines for submitting projects for 2016 may be found at www.efm-berlinale.de

Call for Submissions FictionLab by Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Deadline for candidatures: September 30

In order to increase its main goal of promoting Piedmont as an excellent location for film and TV productions, Film Commission Torino Piemonte decides to create a new exclusive Lab for TV fiction writing: the FictionLab. 

FictionLab is an annual programme aimed at developing innovative and high profile TV fiction projects to be shot in Piedmonte. 

FictionLab is realized with the support of Rai Fiction and Sky, in sponsorship with APT Associazione Produttori Televisivi and ANICA that will assign a prize.FictionLab benefits from the partnerships with 100autori, Scuola Holden, TorinoFilmLab and Writers Guild Italia. 

FictionLab is addressed to adult professional and non-professional scriptwriters, living in Italy, or with Italian nationality living abroad, or with foreign nationalities presenting their idea together with at least another Italian author. 

Candidates must present an innovative TV Fiction project to be developed in Piedmont, in Italian language and following the guidelines described here below. The selected projects will benefit from a constant tutoring made by professional scriptwriters and will participate to three intensive week-long workshops.

FictionLab intends to incentivize the dialogue between participants and industry professionals involved in TV series’ production - that is producers and broadcasters -, arranging pitching sessions where projects can be presented and discussed. 

Who can apply

The participation to the lab is totally free and open to everybody (according to the guidelines described here below). Each author must own all the project’s rights and start all protective proceedings on his own. Film Commission Torino Piemonte won’t take on responsibility in case of legal arguments.

Participation is open to adult professional and non-professional scriptwriters, living in Italy, or with Italian nationality living abroad, or with foreign nationalities presenting their idea together with at least another Italian author. 

Each participant can submit just one project, individually or in group (each group can have a maximum of 3 members); in any case any participant cannot submit more than one project, otherwise all the submitted projects will be rejected. All the concepts must be unpublished. Projects that have already been candidate for the first edition of FictionLab, cannot be candidate again. If the project is presented by a group of authors, it’s necessary to specify who will be the referent for communications. 

Submissions

Candidates have to send a concept for a TV series in Italian language, at least 8 episodes of 50min. each, without any genre, tone or content restriction. Candidates must submit their candidatures within September 30th at Midnight, following the guidelines described on the website www.fctp.it/fictionlab.

WEMW CALL FOR ENTRIES

We are looking for 20 outstanding projects in development. APPLY NOW! DEADLINE: NOV 5, 2015

WEMW co-production forum will bring together over 300 producers, decision makers, financiers, and will select 20 projects in development from Eastern Europe*, Italy and – only for the 2016 edition – Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

ELIGIBLE PROJECTS

We are looking for long feature films (fiction and documentaries) in development stage suitable for international co-production. WEMW 2016 will select 20 projects:from Eastern Europe (preferably with a connection either with Italy or one of the 2016 spotlight countries), Italy (preferably with a connection either with Eastern Europe or one of the 2016 spotlight countries), Spain, Portugal and Latin America (preferably with a connection either with Italy or Eastern Europe).

SUBMISSION

Please note: the deadline for submitting a project is NOVEMBER 5, 2015.

In order to submit your application and the required material, you need to create your own account and fill in the online form following this linkAll applications must include:complete online application formapprox. 5 – 8 page treatment / exposé in Englishfinancing planteaser of the project or previous works of the director. The application has to be finalized and submitted with all the required documents by NOVEMBER 5, 2015

SELECTION 

The WEMW international selection committee will evaluate the potential of the treatment, international dimension of the project, directors’ profile, producers’ CV and company track record. Selected projects will be announced in mid-December and producers will be invited to Trieste.AWARDSWEMW Development Award – prize of 2.500 EUR delivered by the WEMW international juryEAVE scholarship – for the EAVE European Producers Workshop 2016Flow Postproduction Award – new prize of 10.000 EUR in post-production facilities TRL Espresso – automatic selection for New Cinema Network co-production market and for the Film London PFM in October 2016 (prize for feature-length projects with at least 20-30% finance in place and budgeted at over €1m)

For any further information: www.wemw.it

Submit your film to One World 2016! 18th EDITION

March 7 – 16, 2016, Prague and next 33 towns around Czech Republic

FILM SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 15, 2015

We would like to invite you to submit your films to the 18th edition of the festival. One World has grown over the years to become the largest human rights film festival in the world. It is one of the leading cultural events in Prague and the Czech Republic.

Formats considered to the program:

- Feature or mid-length documentaries (minimum length is 40 minutes)

- Short documentaries and animated films for children (no experimental films)

Outstanding documentaries on social, political, environmental and media issues are chosen based on the quality of the filmmaking and the power of their stories. Please, fill in the on-line form with online links for previewing or kindly send us a DVD preview / screener to the address: One World / People in Need, Safarikova 24, Prague 2, 120 00, Czech Republic until November 15, 2015.

ON-LINE SUBMISSION FORM at: http://www.oneworld.cz/festival/news/779-submit-your-film-to-one-world-2016.htm#sthash.eCKjiJOZ.dpuf

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