Upcoming industry deadlines
Calls for application for: Digital Production Challenge II; MIDPOINT Feature Launch Workshop; Berlinale Co-Production Market
Digital Production Challenge II
Amsterdam: Tuesday 28 November - Friday 1 December 2017
Application Deadline: September 27
Digital Production Challenge II is a residential workshop providing the methods and tools to choose and become familiar with the various digital production and post-production process chains available on the market.
This 3.5-day workshop provides the methods and tools to:
• Be acquainted with the main workflows available on the market
• Best position the production of their feature or documentary films, their videos on the top (OTT) within the digital workflow
• Grasp the means of communication and tasks division between the partners involved, from the director to the postproduction provider
• Understand the importance of digital archiving, the advantages and disadvantages of digital distribution and get ready for new opportunities.
Using a mix of technical presentations and case studies, the Workshop compares and analyses the best digital production and post-production workflows, with a special focus on low and standard budgets.
Participants may submit their own feature/documentary/crossmedia projects in pre-production (from low to high budgets) to be pitched and discussed with experts at the Workshop.
The Workshop also includes in its various discussions challenges dealing with the new digital distribution workflow, from the Digital Source Master (DSM) to the theater, and digital archiving, distribution, exhibition (incl. distributing through Internet Protocol).
In short, the participants will be capable of choosing the most creative and economically suitable solutions for a given film.
Target group: Producers, Directors, DOPs, Line Producers, Production and Post-production managers.
Requirements Professional experience with the production or/and post-production of feature length films (incl. documentaries).
Sophie Bourdon Project Manager: sophie.bourdon@focal-resource.nl
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018
Deadline for Application: October 16, 2017
Unique training platform for emerging film professionals from the region*. The one-year programme features two workshops focusing on project development, financing, and co-production opportunities; plus a brand new presentation platform, and a follow-up session. The target group is: writers, directors, and producers developing their first or second feature film.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Feature Launch Workshop 1 @ EASTWEEK - Trieste FF
Feature Launch Workshop 2 @ MIDPOINT
During two one-week long residential workshops, the teams will work on the creative development of the script as well as on the development, production & promotional aspects of their projects.
Residential workshops consist of group work within small groups of participants, each being led by internationally renowned and experienced script consultant, accompanied with plenary sessions and one-to-one meetings by an international team of experts from different areas of audiovisual industries, in-depth meetings with guest tutors and inspiring master-classes and case studies by renowned filmmakers and other film professionals.
During the first workshop taking place in January 2018 during Trieste Film Festival, within its established Eastweek training initiative, participants will focus on script development, creative and financing strategies as well as pitching skills.
At the second workshop, the participants will continue their work on the script development, but focus also on the marketing and distribution, sales and festival strategies as well as legal aspects and financial issues of their projects and enhance their pitching skills.
Tailor-made online consultations will follow after W1 and W2, according to the need of each project.
Project Showcase with Industry Experts @ KVIFF
After the development process of two residential workshops, all 9 selected projects will be presented at the first edition of the Project Showcase @ KVIFF to a panel of industry decision makers, including funders, sales agents, producers and festival programmers. This event will take place within IFF Karlovy Vary 2018 Industry Days.
Creative teams will be prepared for the final presentation by a pitching trainer within a one-day intensive training preceding instantly the Project Showcase @ KVIFF.
Feature Launch Spotlight @ WEMW (during Trieste FF)
To close the cycle of the one year platform, co-production market When East Meets West will invite to Trieste once again all 2018 selected producers to offer them the chance to have a follow up with their potential artistic and financing partners.
*Eligible countries:
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
Conditioned/limited slots can be appointed to projects coming from outside of the region.
Dates
1. Feature Launch Workshop 1 @ EASTWEEK - Trieste FF - January 20 – 26, 2018
2. Feature Launch Workshop 2 @ MIDPOINT - April/May 2018
3. Project Showcase with Industry experts @ KVIFF- July 2018
4. Feature Launch Spotlight @ WEMW (during Trieste FF) - January 2019
Venues
1. Feature Launch Workshop 1 @ EASTWEEK - Trieste FF / Trieste, Italy
2. Feature Launch Workshop 2 @ MIDPOINT - in collaboration with Film Center Serbia / Serbia
3. Project Showcase with Industry experts @ KVIFF - in collaboration with Karlovy Vary IFF / Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
4. Feature Launch Spotlight @ WEMW - in collaboration with When East Meets West / Trieste, Italy
Who is it for?
/ teams of producer and writers and/or directors
/ projects of first and second feature films
Deadline: October 16, 2017
Fee: / 1st participant / 1500 EUR per participant / 2nd and 3rd participant / 1000 EUR per participant
The fee covers workshop training, online consultations, accommodation and full board subsistence (food) during both workshops and Karlovy Vary IFF showcase. Participants must pay all travel costs.
Berlinale Co-Production Market: Submit Feature Film and Series
Projects Now and Find International Partners
Until October 11, experienced producers from around the world may submit new feature-length film projects in need of co-producers to the 15th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 18 – 21, 2018). The project budget should be between one and 20 million euros, and at least 30% of the financing or local production support should already be in place.
Projects from countries with difficult conditions, where projects are produced with smaller average budgets, are subject to a lower budget rule in order to facilitate easier access to the international market. Once again this year, producers from regions supported by the World Cinema Fund - Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the Caucasus - may submit projects with budgets of approximately 750,000 euros or more. This exception also applies to feature-length projects from Greece, Spain, Portugal and Southeast Europe.
In addition, three promising new “Berlinale Directors” projects will be included in the selection - these are projects by directors who have had films presented at the Berlinale in previous years. These projects also do not need to have the full 30% financing in place to submit, and so can begin finding partners early in their development.
By late December, approximately 25 feature film projects will have been selected from all submissions to the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Another ten projects will be presented at the “Talent Project Market” in cooperation with Berlinale Talents - the submission deadline for this programme is September 4.
The Berlinale Co-Production Market team creates a tailored meeting schedule for each selected project. Around 1,300 individually pre- planned one-on-one meetings with interested potential co-producers, financiers, sales agents, distributors, TV channels and other supporters take place during the market. Producers and financiers looking for co- production projects can apply for participation in November 2017.
In addition to the feature-length film projects, a number of international companies without projects will also be introduced at the Berlinale Co- Production Market “Company Matching” programme. At the pitching events “CoPro Series” and “Books at Berlinale”, participants once again have the opportunity to discover new series projects and novel material for the screen.
Page published 28 August 2017. Updated 29 August 2017.
