The VAF Třeboň (May 1 – 3, 2018, Czech Republic) is the leading pitching event for animated film in the Central and Eastern Europe. As each year, animated projects in development compete in two categories: Short Films (single film less than 20 minutes long) and Series / TV Specials (web and TV series of any format and single films over 20 min.). Within the pitching preparation, the participants will get a unique opportunity for in-depth consultation with experienced film professionals on their story concept, project development, financial plan, market or festival strategy, possible coproduction workflow separation etc.

The winners in both categories receive a traditional financial support of EUR 2,000 for further development. Besides this, the winning TV Series project gains direct access to Cartoon Forum 2018. The collaboration between the VAF and the world respected association CARTOON is extending. For the first time, a pitch for animated feature films will be organized. In this pilot edition, five VAF board members will choose the best project from their country (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia). After being pitched to different European distributors, 1:1 meetings with key representatives of the animation industry will be followed. The most promising project shall automatically advance to Cartoon Movie (Bordeaux, France).

Thanks to the cooperation with the workshop Animation Sans Frontiers (ASF), one selected director or producer will receive a scholarship in amount of EUR 1,000. Tim Leborgne, project leader of ASF will follow the pitches in both categories and choose the winner. The Sound Post-production Award will be also announced. The price worth EUR 1,000 will receive the best short film and will cover the sound postproduction including studio and sound engineer for 5 days. This award is offered by Polish studio of Piotr Kubiak.

Submissions will remain open until 31st January 2018.

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The VAF Třeboň 2018 is not only a pitching competition. It is the place where you can meet all the animated film industry not only from CEE. More than 150 film professionals – including producers, broadcasters, festival experts, sales agents, distributors, fund representatives and others – come to discuss visions, financing opportunities or strategies for further development. In addition, there will be a particular
emphasis to networking possibilities. The base of the well-functioning animated market is a very good knowledge of the co-production partner.

 

The VAF Třeboň 2018 is held jointly with ANIFILM – International Festival of Animated Film (May 1 – 6, 2018, Czech Republic). It also cooperates with Cartoon Forum and is supported by Creative Europe MEDIA, the Czech State Cinematography Fund and co-financed by state funds and professional organizations from the Czech Republic (ASAF, Association of Czech Animation Film), Hungary (MOME ANIM, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest ), Poland (SPPA, Polish Animation Producers Association), Slovakia (APAF, Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers) and Slovenia (:D´SAF!, Slovenian Animated Film Association).

 

 

The programme of the 29th Trieste Film Festival is online on website www.triestefilmfestival.it.

Born on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall (the “0” edition is dated back to 1987), the Trieste Film Festival – now directed by Fabio Grosoli and Nicoletta Romeo – is the first and most important Italian event dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema, which has continued for 30 years to be a favoured observatory of cinematography and lesser known authors – for the Italian public, and more generally for ‘‘westerners’’. More than just a festival, it is a bridge that connects the different latitudes of European cinema, discovering early the names and trends that will impose themselves on an international scale in the future. 

 

 

Being the first film festival of the year has its advantages: for example being the first able to celebrate an anniversary as important as the 50th of 1968. At the 29thTrieste Film Festival, from the 19th until the 28th of January, the homage begins with the poster, which reinvents a 1962 photo by Mario Magajna from the set of Senilità (Careless). ‘’The gamble – explains Max Mestroni of Claimax, who for years has handled the  image of the festival – was using a black and white photo and transforming the background of Piazza Unità into a lysergic ‘’wonderland’’, which retains the spirit of a year full of energy and colour’’.

The heart of the ’68 celebrations will be REBELS 68. EAST ‘N’ WEST REVOLUTION, a retrospective that, loyal to the spirit of the Trieste Film Festival, will examine this crucial year from the second half of the 1900s from two sides: the West, with authors such as Godard, Roeg and Bertolucci, and the East with names such asPintilie, Dezső, Nĕmec and Žilnik. This is without forgetting titles and personalities who, from Bellocchio to Makavejev to Garrel – have pioneered and have been wholly inspired by ’68, prolonging its spirit into years to come.

‘’The idea – explain the directors of the TsFF, Fabrizio Grosoli and Nicoletta Romeo – is to track down authors and cinematographers with unusual contact points, and the spirit of a period completely characterised by an exceptional creativity from East to West with its thematic and stylistic assonances’’.

‘’A brief, electrifying period of total revolution’’, add Mariuccia Ciotta and Roberto Silvestri, curators of the ‘’Western’’ part of the retrospective: ‘’In cinema, everything should be subverted: the language, the hierarchical production methods, the concept of professionalism, the awards, the reception and the historical method, should all be considered, completely and eternally. A film should not still be the marvellous chirping of a nightingale in a golden cage, but the end of every cage. It is the possibility for anyone  to take a camera in hand without asking permission and to film other possible worlds’’.

Born on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall (the “0” edition is dated back to 1987), the Trieste Film Festival – now directed by Fabio Grosoli and Nicoletta Romeo – is the first and most important Italian event dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema, which has continued for 30 years to be a favoured observatory of cinematography and lesser known authors – for the Italian public, and more generally for ‘‘westerners’’. More than just a festival, it is a bridge that connects the different latitudes of European cinema, discovering early the names and trends that will impose themselves on an international scale in the future.