Co-production support - Strasbourg, 17.12.2018 - At its 153rd meeting held from 10 to 13 December 2018 in Tbilisi, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 11 fiction and 1 documentary film projects for a total amount of €3,188,000.
WARSAW: Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski is among the nine titles shortlisted for the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award. The nominations for the 91st Oscars will be unveiled on 22 January 2019 and the ceremony will be held on 24 February 2019.
SEVILLE: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War won awards for best European film, director, scriptwriter, actress and editor at the 31st European Film Awards. The European animated feature film award went to Polish majority coproduction Another Day of Life by Raul de la Fuente and Damian Nenow, at the gala organised by the European Film Academy in Seville, Spain on 15 December 2018.
It's a great pleasure to announce the selected 9 feature-length projects and 2 script consultant trainees for the 2019 edition of MIDPOINT Feature Launch.
We can´t wait to welcome projects and participants from Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine already in January 2019, when the first workshop of the program starts in Trieste, Italy!
Trieste - December 14, 2018 – 22 film projects from 14 countries will be presented at the ninth edition of When East Meets West, the Italian co-production forum taking place on January 20-22, 2019 in the frame of the Trieste Film Festival. This year WEMW will bring together more than 450 industry professionals from over 35 countries, particularly from the 2019 East & West spotlight territories: Central Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine) and Benelux (Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands).
The 22 projects in development - 11 long feature documentaries and 11 fiction features - were selected out of 299 submissions from 49 different countries. The final selection will include several debut features such as Methusalem by Floor van der Meulen (9 Days - From My Window in Aleppo, Best European Short Film Award at the 29th European Film Awards) and Victim by Michal Blasko (Atlantis, 2003, premiered at Cinéfondation competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival) but also upcoming films by Vuk Ršumović (Best Film at Venice Critics' Week 2014 with No One's Child) and Federica Di Giacomo (Liberami, Best Film at Venice Orizzonti 2016). “Once again we would like to thank all applicants who shared their stories with us. And now, like in all past editions, we will do our best to carefully help our selected projects to find the right partners amongst all our invited guests”, remarks Alessandro Gropplero, head of WEMW.
Along with the Film Center Serbia Development Award (cash prize of 5.000 EUR), the EAVE European Producers Workshop scholarship, the Cannes Producers Network Prize and the Flow Postproduction Award (15.000 EUR in post-production facilities), all fiction projects will compete for one brand new prize: the Pop Up Film Residency Award, a 3-week residency with the guidance of international mentors. Finally, we are pleased to continue the partnership with EWA so to offer once again the European Women’s Audiovisual Network Award, a cash prize for the best female director.
In addition to the 22 projects selected for the pitching forum, WEMW will invite two additional guest projects previously presented at Baltic Event and DOCSP Brazil.
Together with the showcase of projects in development, the programme of When East Meets West 2019 will include the work in progress section for documentaries Last Stop Trieste, the workshop for long feature fiction films in editing phase First Cut Lab, the work in progress section for films produced or co-produced by Italian companies This is IT and a rich programme dedicated to the co-production opportunities with the 2019 spotlight territories. It is still possible to request an online accreditation to participate in the coproduction forum and all detailed info about the programme and confirmed participants are on www.wemw.it
The 22 projects selected for WEMW 2019 are:
ALL-IN by Volkan Uce – Cassette for timescapes (Belgium)
BIGGER THAN TRAUMA by Vedrana Pribačić – Metar60 & Slavica Film (Croatia)
BLACK SALT by Marjoleine Boonstra – Volya Films (Netherlands)
BROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner – nutprodukce (Czech Republic)
DANIELS INFERNO by Egil Håskjold Larsen – Yellow Log (Norway)
HER/HIS by Anna Kazejak – Lava Films (Poland)
LE PARADIS C'EST ICI by Giovanni Troilo – Bright Frame (Italy)
LIVING by Vuk Ršumović – BaBoon Production, Art&Popcorn (Serbia)
METHUSALEM by Floor van der Meulen – Keplerfilm (Netherlands)
NAFSI AFRICA by Nika Šaravanja – Playtime films (Belgium)
ONE OF US by Ergys Meta – Erafilm (Albania)
PRISON MAMA by Attila Till – Laokoon Filmgroup (Hungary)
PURE UNKNOWN by Mattia Colombo – Jump Cut (Italy)
THE LAST NOMAD by Petar Glomazić – Cut-Up (Montenegro)
THE MIRACLE by Bartłomiej Żmuda – Projekcja Identyfikacja (Poland)
THE PALACE by Federica Di Giacomo – Dugong (Italy)
THE SILENT TREATMENT by Caroline Strubbe – Minds Meet (Belgium)
THE ZIMOV HYPOTHESIS by Denis Sneg – Ethnofund (Russia)
VICTIM by Michal Blasko – nutprodukcia (Slovakia)
WHAT WILL THE TITLE BE? by Kata Oláh – Makabor Studio (Hungary)
WHO DO YOU LOVE THE MOST, BABY? by Tonia Noyabrova – ESSE Production House (Ukraine)
YEAR OF A WIDOW by Veronika Liskova – Artcam Films (Czech Republic)
The 2 guest projects are:
MY GRANDPA MADE PORN by Julio Adamor – Oka Comunicações (Brazil)
(N)OSTALGIA by Vicki Thornton – a_BAHN (Luxembourg)
WEMW is organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival in collaboration with EAVE, Maia Workshops, Creative Europe Desk Italy, EURIMAGES and the support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MiBAC - Direzione Generale per il Cinema, CEI - Central European Initiative and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The 2019 East & West focus is in cooperation and with the support of all Central Eastern European and Benelux national funds.
TRIESTE: A total of 22 projects from 14 countries have been selected for the 9th edition of When East Meets West, the Italian coproduction forum taking place on 20-22 January 2019 within the Trieste Film Festival.
BELGRADE: The German/Serbian coproduction I Was at Home, but / Ich war zuhause, aber by acclaimed German director Angela Schanelec was selected for the Competition of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February 2019).
Slovenian documentary The Last Ice Hunters, which captures the vanishing world of the Inuit communities of Eastern Greenland, got two awards at the Autrans International Mountain Film Festival.
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian parliament has approved an increase in tax incentives from 20 to 30% starting 1 January 2019 as the legislation has been renewed for the next five years.
European and international authors and performers' organisations from all sectors urge Member States to support the much-needed Article -14 providing for fair and proportionate remuneration for authors and performers in the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
Proposed by the European Parliament and backed by a large majority of its members on 12 September, the opening provision in Chapter 3 sets a fundamental guiding principle for the remuneration of authors and performers, which should be fair and proportionate to the potential and actual value of the transferred or licensed rights.
Capital and business in the cultural and creative industries have long enjoyed a dominant position over authors and creators, who are grossly underpaid for their work and can barely sustain a decent living as freelancers or employees. The overall regulatory environment does not adequately protect them, as the weakest party, it mostly supports the industry.
The core value of the copyright licensing system relies on the creativity of authors and performers. Their remuneration should therefore be at the heart of the industries’ business model and not be considered merely as an adjustment variable.
This is what the European Parliament’s Article -14 aims to acknowledge: that authors and performers must get a fair share of the revenues generated by their work. In light of the unbalanced bargaining position of most authors and performers when discussing their terms and conditions of engagement, various mechanisms exist today to warrant their proportionate remuneration across cultural and creative sectors worldwide. The proportionate remuneration of authors and performers and the principle asserting it must encompass all such mechanisms. Art -14 therefore clarifies that, in addition to implementing the principle of fair and proportionate remuneration in contracts, Member States may provide for additional mechanisms, such as collective bargaining agreements, collective rights management or statutory remuneration mechanisms, to collectively protect authors and performers and address the specificities of each sector and category of creators.
Establishing common remuneration rules mitigates the potential volume of litigation and provides legal security and economic predictability for the cultural and creative industries. Ensuring a level-playing field for European authors and performers is also paramount as global content producers are emerging on the European market. It is therefore a future-proof solution both for Europe’s authors and performers and for the industries as a whole, particularly in the online environment.
As strong supporters of the Parliament’s proposal, we reiterate our calls on EU institutions to safeguard Article -14 and caution against the adoption of any legislation that would marginalise authors and performers or deprive them of a fair and proportionate share of the revenue generated by their work.
It is now up to the Council and Member States to actually deliver on previous general statements in favour of authors and performers. It is time to agree, in the trilogue negotiations, on an Article -14 that will strengthen Europe’s creative community and its cultural wealth in the digital era.
Association of European Performers’ Organisations, Xavier Blanc, General Secretary
International Council of Music Creators, Eddie Schwartz, President
International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, Gadi Oron, Director General
European Federation of Journalists, Ricardo Gutierrez, General Secretary
European Visual Artists, Carola Streul, Secretary General
Federation of European Film Directors, Pauline Durand-Vialle, Chief Executive
International Federation of Actors, Dominick Luquer, General Secretary
International Federation of Musicians, Benoît Machuel, General Secretary
Federation of Screenwriters in Europe, David Kavanagh, Executive Officer
International Federation of Journalists, Anthony Bellanger, General Secretary
International Artists Organisation, Nacho Garcia Vega, President
UNI MEI, Johannes Studinger, Head of UNI MEI
Society of Audiovisual Authors, Cécile Despringre, Executive Director
Writers & Directors Worldwide, Horacio Maldonado, President
