“The Day Vladimir Died” is the biggest winner of this year's ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. The project, directed by Fadi Syriani, won four awards in ANIMARKT Pitching. Apart from it, seven more films were awarded. The awards gala ended this year's ANIMARKT edition, which gathered online over half a thousand participants from 34 countries and made it possible to conduct over 260 business talks.

15 projects at the stage of the first script and the outline of the visual concept took part in Pitching.

- I was very impressed with the variety of themes and the dynamic poetics of the final projects - says Markéta Šantrochová, a member of the jury and emphasizes that the online event was organized not only professionally, but also with a great understanding of the participants' needs.

Ultimately, due to the high level of presentations, as many as 8 films were awarded. "The Day Vladimir Died" won 4 awards: a voucher worth PLN 40,000 to be used at CeTA Studio in Wrocław, purchase of a license by Ale kino +, RADIATOR IP SALES distribution award and expert consultation with Marcin Zalewski. This project, directed by Fadi Syriani, tells the story of an inhabitant of Beirut, a regular at funerals looking for his own obituary.

The feature film "Toni & Friends", a Numa Film production directed by Ion Indolean, will have its world premiere at the prestigious Warsaw Film Festival, in the Free Spirit competition section.

The event, at its 36th edition, will take place between October 9-18. A Category A festival, according to the FIAPF classification, the WFF is the most important film event in Poland.

Second edition of this unique MIDPOINT program focused on TV writing is announcing its participants. The program, which runs online through October 14-23, 2020, will be led by two tutors, Ben Harris (UK) and Gabor Krigler (HU). They will help the participants to get acquainted with the structure, hierarchy and processes running in a writers' room.

Running from 6 to 11 October 2020 in Ljubljana, the 23rd Festival of Slovenian Film (FSF) will open on Tuesday, 6 October, with the screenings of the feature documentary Antigone – How Dare We! and the short film Inseparable. The context of this year’s edition and its new features in terms of both programme and organisation, were presented at the press conference before kick-off by the Director of the Slovenian Film Centre, Nataša Bučar, the Director of the 23rd FSF, Jelka Stergel, and the 23rd FSF Project Manager, Tjaša Smrekar.

The media accreditation to the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival aka PÖFF and the audiovisual industry platform Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event is now open! The physical festival takes place from the 13th to the 29th of November in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, while the industry events will happen only online this year.

The accredited foreign press will be granted access to the festival’s programme and industry programme digitally via the Shift72 platform, no matter their geographic location, during the festival time.

On Friday evening at the Kids Kino Industry the awards were presented to the best projects selected to be pitched at the forum. The winners has been announced during online Closing Ceremony.

Kids Kino Industry awards:

• Audiovisual Technology Center (Ceta) – Post Production Award worth PLN 60.000
• Pop Up Film Residency – 3-weeks residency in Bratislava
• M:brane – invitation to pitch at M:brane forum
• EAVE – free participation in Marketing Workshop
• Kids Kino.Lab – free participation in the next edition of the Kids Kino.Lab, script development programme

BRNO/the CR – In response to the newly announced measures against the spread of Covid, the organisers of the 46th year of the EKOFILM international film festival are postponing the film screenings at cinemas to a later date which has yet to be determined. However, part of the promised accompanying program will be available to fans online. The opening debate will still be held and streamed to participants on the internet, including the option of asking questions. The festival opening by Captain Demo will also be prepared, as will the official awards ceremony for this year’s winners.

The projects from all participating countries shared the awards on Friday evening. 

The eighth edition of the Baltic Pitching Forum (BPF), which took place between 8th and 10th October, came to an end this weekend with successes for projects from all the participating countries. After 12 projects – from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland – were pitched to an online audience from across Europe, the Baltic Pitching Forum panel of industry experts and the Baltic Producers’ Jury gave out three main awards.

The 23rd Festival of Slovenian Film closed last night with the awards ceremony to celebrate  the highest creative achievements in Slovenian cinema. Directed by Matej Filipčič and hosted  by Jure Longyka, the event took place in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Union and started with  an address by the Director of the 23rd FSF, Jelka Stergel. The ceremony also saw the  presentation of the Metod Badjura Award for lifetime achievement in cinema to the 2020  laureate, animation filmmaker Koni Steinbacher, and a screening of his latest work, The  Legend of the Happy Hill.

The final deadline to submit an application for the Kids Kino.Lab, script development programme for film projects and TV series for young audiences, is approaching. We wait for the applications until October 23rd.

Submit your project here.

Who are the workshops for?

We are looking for teams: producer + scriptwriter who would like to develop their projects (full-length film or TV series in all the categories: animations/ documentaries/ live-actions).

Kids Kino.Lab is open to the projects from all the European countries.