Upcoming Deadlines
Call for application for: Bridging the Dragon: Cannes Company Meetings; HFM Co-Production Platform; EP2C Post-Production Workshop; IDFA Bertha Fund Classic; Docu Talents from the East; EX ORIENTE Film Workshop
Bridging the Dragon: China Co-Production Day Festival De Cannes 2016
Company Meetings
As China’s ?lm industry rapidly develops, one of the challenges remains the sharing of information between Chinese and interna:onal ?lm producers. For this reason, within the framework of this year’s China Co-Production Day, the Marché du Film and the Sino-European producers' association Bridging the Dragon, with the support of the CNC, will organize company metings between selected international and Chinese ?lm producers.
The meetings will take place on Friday, 13th May 2016 from 2.30 to 5.30pm at the Espace CNC - Gray d'Albion Beach. The producers who would like to attend shall send their application to event@bridgingthedragon.com by the 21st April 2016. The application form can be downloaded at www.bridgingthedragon.com. The selected producers will be announced in late April 2016.
The event will be followed by a networking cocktail.
The HFM Co-Production Platform is open for submissions
Deadline: July 1, 2016
The 29th Holland Film Meeting will be held 22 - 25 September 2016. In its core the Utrecht-based HFM Co-Pro Platform event is one of the key staging posts for the finance of independent European cinema, and generous prizes are on offer to aid the development and/or production of the film.
We are officially open for submissions until July 1st, 2016. The application form is available here.
Every year the HFM selects around twenty film projects in development, suitable for co-production, ready to be presented to many of international cinema's most important and influential financiers, distributors, sales agents, broadcasters and co-producers. Selected participants will benefit from the chance to pitch their projects, receive feedback from leading film professionals, and to have one-on-one meetings within a professional but relaxed atmosphere. For international projects the selection includes travel and accommodation for three nights in Utrecht’s luxurious Hotel Karel V, covering two delegates per project. European feature-length films suitable for co-production, with a minimum duration of 70 minutes, and with local financial support in place (support from a public funding institution, TV, MG or tax shelter), are eligible for selection.
EP2C post-production workshop 2016
Application Deadline: June 2016
Are you a producer or a post-production supervisor looking for a smoother post-production for your feature films (fiction or documentary)
EP2C is a project based workshop, mainly designed for producers and dedicated to post-production management. The workshop is also open to post-production supervisors. During one week, technical, financial and artistic post-production challenges are addressed in lectures, group sessions and individual meetings.
Once a year, the workshop welcomes 22 participants and some 20 international experts specialised in various aspects of post-production and international co-productions.
EP2C was created in 2009 in the firm belief that a well-scheduled, well-budgeted, well-run post-production, apart from saving the producer a lot of work, time, and money, will most of all protect the film from unnecessary artistic compromise.
Producers come with a feature film project (fiction or documentary at development stage) on which they will work with the experts for a week.
Post-production supervisors are assigned to producers' projects. The workshop gives them an opportunity to share experiences and talk about methods used in their countries.This annual itinerant workshop is supported by the Media Programme of the European Union and was created on the initiative of the Belgium production company Entre Chien et Loup (Diana Elbaum & Sébastien Delloye).
For more information please visit www.ep2c.com or contact us at info@ep2c.com.
Call for Entry: IDFA Bertha Fund Classic
Deadline for submission: May 15
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.
For more information feel free to contact us at idfaberthafund@idfa.nl.
Docu Talents from the East
July 5, 20156/ Karlovy Vary IFF / Czech Republic
Call for submissions: DEADLINE : April 30, 2016
Docu Talents from the East 2016 will introduce the most remarkable creative documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe in the stage of production or post-production.
Directors and producers of selected feature-length documentaries will introduce their projects planned for theatrical distribution in the period from August 2016 to July 2017 in eight-minute presentations.
Since 2005, Docu Talents from the East has been a launch pad for a number of documentaries, including Rabbit a la Berlin, Blind Loves, Matchmaking Mayor, The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories, Cooking History, Rene, Fortress, Pipeline, Daniels´s World, Under the Sun or Holy Cow.Docu Talents aims to draw attention of important film professionals, attending the Karlovy Vary IFF, also to some of the best documentary films. We believe that presentation of films from the very initial stages of production or post-production is one of the most efficient tools for their promotion and further success.
Each year, festival advisors, distributors, buyers and local as well as international journalists are invited to attend the event. 12 selected projects will be presented by the director and the producer in eight-minute presentation, including three-minute long trailer. Following the presentation, filmmakers have a chance to meet audiences, festival programmers, distributors and journalists at an informal cocktail party, as well as attend closed consultations with selected film professionals.
Docu Talents from the East will be held within the industry section of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It is organized by Jihlava IDFF and Karlovy Vary IFF.
CONTACT / Jarmila Outratová / Head of Industry Office / jarmila@dokument-festival.cz
http://www.dokument-festival.com/industry/docu-talents-from-the-east
APPLY FOR EX ORIENTE FILM WORKSHOP 2016!
Submissions for 2016 Ex Oriente Film workshop are open.
EX ORIENTE FILM WORKSHOP DEADLINE IS: May 4, 2016
Focus: Development
Open to: 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.
Application deadline: May 4, 2016 (Applying is free of charge, applying is possible through the online application form)
Workshop timeline:
1st Session: June 27 - July 2, 2016 (Split, Croatia)
2nd Session: October 24 - 29, 2016 (Jihlava, Czech Republic, within Jihlava IDFF)
3rd Session: March 6 - 12, 2017 (Prague, Czech Republic, within East Doc Platform and One World IFF)
Participants: The workshop is open for 12 documentary projects represented by director-producer teams who will attend all the workshop sessions. The workshop is designed primarily for directors and producers from Central and Eastern Europe (incl. EU acceding and candidate countries, Post-Soviet states and Russia) and/ or for creative documentary projects dealing with stories from Central and Eastern Europe.
Participation fee: The participation fee is 1,800€ per selected project (includes accommodation, coffee breaks and lunches during all the three workshop sessions for 2 pers.).
Scholarship: Selected participants may apply for a scholarship to cover part of the participation fee and travel costs associated with the workshop. Applicants must prove that there is no access to scholarships in their own country.
Practical requirements: Directors and producers can only 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.
Contacts:
Veronika Lišková / Manager: veronika@dokweb.net
Kristyna Balaban / Coordinator: kbalaban@dokweb.net
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