The Baltic Event award ceremony was this year held in Tallinn Teachers’ House in the historic Town Hall Square. Industry@Tallinn, the label under which Baltic Event collaborates with Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Industry Office, brought over 370 film industry professionals to Tallinn on November 16-19. Over five categories, 57 projects were presented and six awards granted among them, with the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in the amount of 20 000 Euros given out for the first time.

The inaugural Eurimages Co-Production Development Awardof €20,000 at the Baltic Event (BE) at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (BNFF) went tonight to Motherland - from writer/director Tomas Vengris and producer Uljana Kim from Lithuania.

The debate on the future of Europe’s film and content industries will kick off tomorrow in Tallinn at the historic Theatre NO99 with the year’s last yet largest edition of the European Film Forum conferences. Titled #Digital Future of Film? the two-day conference programmed by the Black Nights Industry Office and supported by the European Commission, which has also backed 45 films in the festival’s program via its Creative Europe arm.