The children’s film Block 5, directed by Klemen Dvornik, has been selected for the official programme of the Locarno Kids Screenings section of this year’s International Film Festival in Locarno. The festival will take place from 7 to 17 August. The official Locarno Kids Screenings section, featuring the new Slovenian children’s film, has been running since 2017.
The following grants for feature film, documentary, docudrama and fiction documentary projects were announced by the Provincial Government of Vojvodina through the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities on 2 July 2024.
POTSDAM: The Erich Pommer Institute (EPI) has great news for you. Due to postponed dates, you can still register till 23 September 2024 for its seven-day workshop Play, Promote, Publish – Marketing Strategies for the Games Industry .
Submissions are still open for the 26th edition of East-West co-production market connecting cottbus. Taking place during FilmFestival Cottbus on 6-8 November 2024, coco will present 13 projects in development (cocoPITCH) and 6 works in progress (cocoWIP).
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We have great news for you! Due to postponed dates, you can still register for our 7-day workshop Play, Promote, Publish – Marketing Strategies for the Games Industry until September 23.
Winners announced for the workshop & pitching forum: ‘Let’s pitch some shorts!’
Press releases 11-07-2024The project ‘Dandelion’ by screenwriter Cassi Camilleri was the best project of the pitching forum and awarded a financial award in the amount of 3,000 EUR. The project ‘Apollon Club’ by Kruno Trninić (screenwriter, director) and Maja Gros (producer) was awarded a financial award in the amount of 1,500 EUR under the auspices of OFF Pro Film Market / Sarajevo Youth Film Festival. The project ‘Punishment’ by Mile Božičević (screenwriter, director) was awarded with festival / distribution strategies on behalf of Sayonara Film while ‘Just One Thing’ by Daria Stilin (screenwriter, director) was awarded by direct participation in the Baltic Pitching Forum, ‘The Oak Tree’ by Kyriakos Ghikas (screenwriter, director) and producer Marina Danezi was awarded with consulting services on pitching presentation on behalf of European Short Pitch, and 'The Commandments of Line 18' by Alexander Marcel Hövel (screenwriter, director) was awarded by direct participation as part of the Sunny Shorts Film Market / Hvar FF.
Romania Speeds Up Reimbursements to International Productions Shot within Cash Rebate Scheme
Romania 09-07-2024BUCHAREST: Romanian Minister of Culture Raluca Turcan has announced that all the international projects shot in Romania under the cash rebate scheme in 2018, 2019 and 2020 will be settled in the next two months. Four of them will be reimbursed till 22 July 2024.
MESTIA: Seventeen films including four world premieres will screen in the main competition of the Svaneti International Film Festival DALI, which will be held in Mestia, Georgia 15 - 21 July 2024.
TALLINN: A total of 245 hours of the film archives in the National Archives of Estonia were digitalised by the end of 2023.
POTSDAM: Over 70 international film professionals travelled to Potsdam on 3 July 2024 for the 24th edition of German Films Previews, an annual three-day event organised by German Films since 2001.
