SARAJEVO: Projects from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the Ukraine are among the ten documentary projects selected for Docu Talents from the East, which will be introduced at the Sarajevo Film Festival, during CineLink Industry Days on 18 August 2019.
RIGA: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia and the Human Resources Ministry of Hungary have signed a cultural cooperation programme for 2019-2021. The programme includes the cinema.
From Tallinn with updates: Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event opens Works In Progress submission and announces first Music Meets Film speaker!
Festivals 02-08-2019- Works In Progress opens submissions.
- Music Meets Film announces first speaker.
- Script Pool winner gets TIFF gala screening.
- Project submission deadlines reminder.
- Accreditation discount.
Starting from today we are accepting project submissions for Works In Progress showcases. As we will launch the Just Film Works In Progress, there will be a special session of children's and youth film projects. Just Film is the largest sub-festival of Black Nights taking place during the main festival, that will be celebrating its19th consecutive year with approximately 50 children's and youth feature films screened
Some of last year's projects have already been experiencing international success as Dogs Don't Wear Pants (Finland) was selected for Quinzaine des Realisateurs and Karlovy Vary and Days of the Whale (Colombia) landed at SXSW.
Project submission deadline: 15 September, 2019.
SCRIPT POOL WINNER HEADS TO TIFF
Great news from Canada! The winner of the 2017 edition of Script Pool Tallinn, Shonali Bose has finished her film The Sky Is Pink that she co-wrote with Nilesh Maniyar who was presenting the project in Tallinn (the two also co-directed and wrote Margharita With A Straw, best actress award at Black Nights FF in 2014). The Sky Is Pink will have its world premiere as a gala screening at the Toronto International Film Festival this September!
A friendly reminder that Script Pool 2019 submission is currently open.
MUSIC MEETS FILM'S FIRST SPEAKER: RICHARD HARVEY
British composer and production company West One Music co-founder Richard Harvey is a BAFTA winner, a respected orchestral conductor and a virtuoso performer on a wide range of Western and ethnic instruments. He became involved in composing for film and television in the 1970s and has scored over 80 television and film projects to date, from British television series, documentaries and feature-length TV films, to major Hollywood titles.
At Music Meets Film 2019, running from the 25th until the 27th of Nov, Harvey shares his insights into his composition realm using historic and ethnic instruments in film music, about scoring trends and the direction of film music in the future.
WATCH RICHARD DISCUSS THE SOUND OF THE MANDOLA
PROJECT SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Script Pool Tallinn - 2 September. Submit HERE!
Baltic Event Co-Production Market - 2 September. Submit HERE!
POWR Baltic Stories Exchange - 2 September. Submit HERE!
Get the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event accreditation at a discount price - 125 EUR - before the 16th of September!
The Festival + Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event accreditation is reserved exclusively for film industry professionals and is valid for the festival period, from the 15th of November until the 1st of December, 2019. It allows you to get the most out of Tallinn - take part of all the open lectures, pitchings, the audiovisual conference European Film Forum Tallinn, workshops and events of Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event and to see up to 40 films in the programme of Black Nights.
The tenth edition of New Horizons Studio+ took place July 27 – 30 during the 19th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 25 – August 4).
Organized by the New Horizons Association and Creative Europe Desk Poland, it consisted of workshops and lectures on various aspects related to the project promotion and development.
New Horizons Studio+ selects European director-producer pairs who are developing their first or second feature film. 10 emerging talents from Poland and 10 from Denmark, Austria, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia took part in the programme under the supervision of the following experts: David Pope (London Film Academy), sales agent Hédi Zardi – CEO of Luxbox, Michael Arnon (EAVE) representing Wolf Consultants, Aranka Matits (EAVE) from Featurette and Mathias Noschis from Alphapanda.
The New Horizons Studio+ program was completed with a meeting with the special guest Sten-Kristian Saluveer who gave a lecture “Virtual Reality & Beyond”, which was a part of Creativity Talks organized by the British Council.
The participants took part in the pitching contest. The jury selecting the best project and pitch (composed of Hédi Zardi, Michael Arnon, David Pope as well as Creative Europe Desk Poland, New Horizons Association, London Film Academy and Ale kino+ television channel representatives) decided to give two main awards and a special mention.
How is Katia? (directed by Christina Tynkevych and produced by Olha Matat) received the New Horizons Association / London Film Academy Main Award. The award is project consultation sponsored by London Film Academy.
Jury statement: For its complex characters and a journey that leads them to grow and surpass their moral limits, an ethically grounded yet relatable, convincing story we want to see brought to the screen.
Horia (directed by Ana-Maria Comănescu and produced by Carla Fotea) received Ale kino+ Television Channel Award, which is the Letter of Intent for TV distribution.
Jury statement: An affectionate and clear pitch of a story that speaks to a chapter in everyone's life when you have to win your own heart.
The Quiet Migration (directed by Malene Choi Jensen and produced by Maria Møller Kjeldgaard) received a Special Mention.
Jury statement: Salute the beauty of an artistic gesture based in a sincere personal background mixed with a unique cinematic poetry, It’s a strong promise of a beautiful film.
Congratulations to the winners and thank to all the participants and partners: EAVE, London Film Academy, Ale kino+, British Council, Romanian Institute of Culture, Netherlands Embassy in Warsaw and Austrian Cultural Forum, as well as media partners: Film & TV Kamera, Film Pro and Film New Europe.
TBILISI: Dito Tsintsadze's Shindisi has been selected as Georgia’s entry for the 92nd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ award in the best international feature film category.
BUCHAREST: Cable and broadband operator Liberty Global has wrapped up the sale of operations in Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany to Vodafone.
VALLETTA: The first edition of Summer Cinema, a film caravan around Malta and Gozo organised by the Film Grain Foundation, will start on 2 August 2019. Five classic films including Kolya directed by Jan Sverak (produced by Biograf Jan Sverak) will be screened in open-air every Friday until 6 September 2019.
PAPHOS: Hollywood producers who visited Paphos recently declared to be interested in the possibility of a film studio being built in this city of Cyprus.
East Silver Caravan titles My Unknown Soldier (by Anna Kryvenko), Home Games (by Alisa Kovalenko), How Big Is the Galaxy? (by Ksenia Elyan), My Father Is My Mother's Brother (by Vadym Ilkov) and King Skate (by Šimon Šafránek) have been successfully screened at various international film festivals recently.
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The Lithuanian Film Week, the most extensive presentation project of Lithuanian cinema in Poland over the last few years, kicked off Friday night in Warsaw’s Iluzjon cinema. The occasion crowns the year-long series of events celebrating Lithuanian cinema and the centenary of Lithuanian statehood. The opening of the Lithuanian Film Week invited members of Poland’s cultural community, film lovers and representatives of foreign diplomatic missions residing in Warsaw to see Mindaugas Survila’s celebrated documentary The Ancient Woods. The guests were greeted by the Lithuanian Minister of Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson.
“The Lithuanian Film Week has enriched the cultural exchange between our countries celebrating centenaries of their statehood restoration. This anniversary gave us a good sense that we share not just historical, but also very strong cultural ties. I am sincerely happy about this continuous and developing partnership between Lithuanian and Polish filmmakers and film industries, about active cooperation with Wajda School, about the restoration of Lithuanian film classics with the help of Polish specialists,” Minister Ruokytė-Jonsson said.
The week-long retrospective of over thirty Lithuanian films is a result of strategic cooperation of the Lithuanian Film Centre, Embassy of Lithuania in Poland and the Polish National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA). The programme is curated by the film critic Sonata Žalneravičiūtė whose selection spans six decades, between 1959 and today. The film programme is accompanied by a special publication in Polish.
The programme focuses on classic fiction films and documentaries, animation for children and adults as well as internationally acclaimed titles of more recent vintage, including a number of Lithuanian-Polish co-productions: Šarūnas Bartas’ Frost, Eglė Vertelytė’s Miracle, Andrius Blaževičius’ The Saint, Kristijonas Vildžiūnas’ Back to Your Arms, etc.
Rasa Rimickaitė, Cultural Attaché of Lithuania in Poland, says: “We are able to present great Lithuanian films thanks to successful cooperation between the Lithuanian Film Centre and the Polish National Film Archive. After the Lithuanian Film Week in Warsaw, we are taking Lithuanian cinema to other cities across Poland, since many cultural institutions have already expressed their enthusiasm to show Lithuanian films in their respective cities.”
Polish audiences will also meet guests from Lithuania: filmmakers Arūnas Matelis and Mindaugas Survila, the programme’s curator Sonata Žalneravičiūtė, the actor Andrius Bialobžeskis, the screenwriter Teklė Kavtaradzė. Each of them will speak about various movements and periods in Lithuanian cinema.
The Lithuanian Film Week is a continuous project launched in 2015 and aimed at bringing closer Lithuanian and Polish film industries. It has fostered film and talent exchanges in film festivals of Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdynia and Warsaw.
THE LITHUANIAN FILM WEEK PROGRAMME
2018 11 23–29, Cinema Iluzjon, Warsaw
Classic documentary films
Time Passes Through the City („Laikas eina per miestą“), dir. Almantas Grikevičius, 1966
The Dreams of Centenarians („Šimtamečių godos“), dir. Robertas Verba, 1969
A Trip Across Misty Meadows („Kelionė ūkų lankomis“), dir. Henrikas Šablevičius, 1973
No Foe Can Scare Us („Mums nebaisūs jokie priešai“), dir. Edmundas Zubavičius, 1978
Baltic Way („Baltijos kelias“), dir. Audrius Stonys, Arūnas Matelis, 1990
Earth of the Blind („Neregių žemė“), dir. Audrius Stonys, 1992
Classic feature films
Adam Wants to Be a Man („Adomas nori būti žmogumi“), dir. Vytautas Žalakevičius, 1959
Nobody Wanted to Die („Niekas nenorėjo mirti“), dir. Vytautas Žalakevičius, 1966
Feelings („Jausmai“), dir. Algirdas Dausa, Almantas Grikevičius, 1968
The Beauty („Gražuolė“), dir. Arūnas Žebriūnas, 1969
Flight Over the Atlantic („Skrydis per Atlantą“), dir. Raimondas Vabalas, 1983
Children from the Hotel “America” („Vaikai iš „Amerikos“ viešbučio“), dir. Raimundas Banionis, 1990
New documentary films
The Ancient Woods („Sengirė“), dir. Mindaugas Survila, 2017 | Opening film
What We Leave Behind („Močiute, Guten Tag!“), dir. Jūratė Samulionytė, Vilma Samulionytė, 2017
Wonderful Losers: A Different World („Nuostabieji lūzeriai. Kita planeta“), dir. Arūnas Matelis, 2017
New short documentary films
The River („Upė“), dir. Rimantas Gruodis, Julija Gruodienė, 2009
I Am Not from Here („Aš čia tik svečias“), dir. Giedrė Žickytė, Maite Alberdi, 2016
Dead Ears („Šaltos ausys“), dir. Linas Mikuta, 2016
New feature films
Back to Your Arms („Kai apkabinsiu tave“), dir. Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, 2010
Vanishing Waves („Aurora“), dir. Kristina Buožytė, 2012
Together For Ever („Amžinai kartu“), dir. Lina Lužytė, 2016
The Saint („Šventasis“), dir. Andrius Blaževičius, 2016
Miracle („Stebuklas“), dir. Eglė Vertelytė, 2017
Frost („Šerkšnas“), dir. Šarūnas Bartas, 2017
Animated films for children
Laima Determines the Destiny („Taip Laima lėmė“), dir. Jūratė Leikaitė-Aškinienė, 2011
Woods („Miškas“), dir. Ignas Meilūnas, 2015
Running Lights („Kaukai“), dir. Gediminas Šiaulys, 2017
The Goat Luck – Bad Luck („Ne ožkoje laimė“), dir. Ilja Bereznickas, 2017
Last Stop Is the Moon („Paskutinė stotelė – Mėnulis“), dir. Birutė Sodeikaitė, 2017
Animated films for adults
Grandpa and Grandma („Gyveno senelis ir bobutė“), dir. Giedrė Beinoriūtė, 2007
Independence Day („Nepriklausomybės diena“), dir. Urtė Budinaitė, 2012
Non-Euclidean Geometry („Neeuklidinė geometrija“), dir. Skirmanta Jakaitė, Solveiga Masteikaitė, 2013
The Rap of Lithuanian History („Lietuvos istorijos repas“) / Šventinis bankuchenas, dir. Aistė Papartytė, Andrius Alčiauskas, Lukas Šidlauskas, 2016
Ragnarok („Nuopuolis“), dir. Urtė Oettinger, Johan Oettinger, 2016
Shine („Šviesa“), dir. Gediminas Šiaulys, 2018
