Ladies and Gentlemen,
The decision of the Polish government to limit cultural activities due to the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the country is not only justified, but even necessary. Events where a larger number of viewers meet may become the cause of the dynamic spread of the virus. The decision has filled us with pain, but also understanding. At the same time, we appeal to all creators of culture to find strength and survive the necessary restrictions. Only in this way can we prevent the suffering and death of many people.
We hoped and prepared everything necessary for the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival to be held stationary. Despite the pandemic, many outstanding artists confirmed their readiness to come to Toruń for EnergaCAMERIMAGE already last month. We expected Philippe Rousselot, Viggo Mortensen, Johnny Depp, Julian Sands, and Vittorio Storaro. We also invited Ridley Scott, David Lynch, Volker Schlöndorff, Roman Polański, Jerzy Skolimowski, Carlos Saura, Tom Cruise, Kate Winslet, Keanu Reeves, Woody Allen, Agnieszka Holland, Małgorzata Szumowska, Lech Majewski, RZA and many, many others. We expected the arrival of about a thousand cinematographers and film school students from around the world, many representatives of companies producing film equipment and technologies, and fans of the 10th Muse.
VALLETTA: The British production Jet Ski directed by James Nunn is close to wrapping its November 2020 shoot in Malta.
SKOPJE: Academy Award nominee Milcho Manchevski’s Willow / Vrba is the candidate of North Macedonia for the 93rd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the best international feature film category. Manchevski’s sixth feature film was shot in North Macedonia after an absence of nine years and it is a Macedonian/Hungarian/Albanian/Belgian coproduction.
PODGORICA: The family drama Breasts / Grudi directed by Marija Perović will represent Montenegro at the 93rd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards in the best international feature film category. The film is a coproduction between Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia.
TORUŃ: Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s Czech/Irish/Polish/Slovak coproduction Charlatan screens in competition at the 28th EnergaCAMERIMAGE FF, running 14 – 22 November 2020. Holland has also been nominated in the Best Director category of the 2020 European Film Awards.
WARSAW: Kids Kino Lab is accepting applications from young producers, writers and script consultants interested in making films for children. The deadline for the scholarship programme is 24 November 2020.
The 24th edition of the annual Ji.hlava IDFF closed its doors. This year, the festival was unique in that it was held online and attracted more audience than in the previous editions. The festival programme presented 310 films and over 80 discussions with filmmakers. 5933 accreditations were issued for visitors, guests and journalists. The total views of festival films exceeded 56 thousand. “Assuming that in one third of the cases the films were viewed by two people, we have reached almost 75,000 viewers. And in reality, the figures can be even much higher,” says Marek Hovorka, the Festival Director. The festival website registered over 1,300,000 visits during the festival days. Ji.hlava online offered 6 all-day live streams from the Ji.hlava Lighthouse and 20 live discussions of the Inspiration Forum. The online festival took place in partnership with DAFilms.cz – a VOD platform founded 15 years ago by the Ji.hlava IDFF.
10th edition of US in Progress Wrocław 2020 in collaboration with the Polish Film Institute has started!
Festivals 13-11-2020The 10th edition of the US in Progress co-production forum as a part of the 11th edition of the American Film Festival in Wrocław has begun. The event aims to facilitate professional networking among European and Polish film professionals and independent filmmakers from the United States.
Nine American projects in post-production and four Polish projects in the development stage have been selected to participate. Leading Polish sound and image studios provide in-kind awards of post-production service packages for the American projects:
Coloroffon (http://coloroffonfilm.pl/index.php/o-nas/)
Fixafilm (http://www.fixafilm.pl/en/)
Orka (https://orkafilm.pl)
Maciej Zielinski and Soundflower Studio (http://www.polishcomposer.com/)
The Dawn
Three Croatian films to screen in different festival sections of the prestigious festival held in the Estonian capital, this year in hybrid format, 13th – 29th November.
The second instalment of The Sun Trilogy, the fiction feature The Dawn, directed and written by Dalibor Matanić and produced by Kinorama, will have its world premiere in the Official Selection – Competition programme. The film’s crew will also be in attendance at the live-audience screening, scheduled for 27th Nov. The Dawn arrives after the success of The High Sun, also directed and written by Matanić and produced by Ankica Jurić Tilić (Kinorama).
This week True Story, a collaborative project between Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe, presents an interview with documentary maker Maxim Shved, who speaks about his documentary Pure Art.
