WARSAW: Fifteen films will vie in the international competition of the 34th Warsaw International Film Festival, which will take place from 12 to 21 October 2018.
The following grants were announced by the Film Centre of Montenegro in September 2018.
PODGORICA: The Film Centre of Montenegro distributed 762,000 EUR to 22 projects as feature film, documentary and short film production grants, as well as script development and project development grants.
SKOPJE: The Macedonian Film Agency signed a one-year partnership with the training programme Less Is More and will organise the Pre-Writing Workshop for the local film professionals. It is the first workshop of this kind that will be organised in Macedonia.
INDIE SALES PICKS UP “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”, A TIMELY ROMANIAN DRAMA INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS
Press releases 26-09-2018Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Gabi Virginia Şarga and Cătălin Rotaru first feature film, “Thou Shalt not Kill”. The director duo is known for their short film 4.15 PM The End of the World which was selected in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Thou Shalt Not Kill is set for a World Premiere at the upcoming Warsaw Film Festival’s 1st and 2nd competition
On 26th of September, the Macedonian Film Agency within the framework of the 39th International Cinematographers' Film Festival “Manaki Brothers” in Bitola announced the one-year partnership with Less Is More – a training programme that was created by Le Groupe Ouest (France). The aim of the program is to help film professionals in the integration of the realization of films with a limited budget from the very beginning, that is, the development of the project.
Within this training program, a number of activities will be realized as part of this partnership, and as a particularly important one, is the organization of the workshop for local film professionals entitled "Pre-Writing Workshop".
The goal of the workshop is to collect the ideas for films from all participants, reinforcing and directing them to make great future film projects even before they enter the process of development. The workshop will introduce the participants to the knowledge of how budget constraints may cause creativity. This is the first workshop of this kind that will be organized in Macedonia and is intended solely for the Macedonian film professionals who will acquire the knowledge of internationally renowned script doctors.
The young film professionals that were present have expressed interest in the workshop and because of this we expect that a new film wave of more creative, more original and communicative projects will be born, which is our strategic goal.
More about this training program can be found on the following link: https://lim-lessismore.eu/
FNE TV spoke to Serbian film director and LUX Prix finalist Mila Turajlić about her new doc The Other Side of Everything, which has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 LUX Prize this year, and the importance of the LUX Prix for cultural diversity in European film.
WARSAW: Eleven projects from nine countries have been selected for the 13th edition of ScripTeast, which will be inaugurated by a session in Poland (30 September-6 October 2018), followed by sessions during the Berlinale and Cannes Film Festival 2019.
RIGA: Thirteen projects have been selected for the annual Riga International Film Festival's pitching FORUM for children and youth film projects, which will take place 18-19 October 2018.
The annual Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) pitching FORUM for children's and youth film projects will take place from October 18-19 in the Latvian capital Riga.
