16-01-2015

When East Meets West kicks off and reveals the 7 projects selected in the new sections LAST STOP TRIESTE e FIRST CUT LAB

    Trieste, January 16th, 2015 – 30 different countries, 150 international decision makers, more than 300 registered participants: these are the figures of the fifth edition of When East Meets West, the co-production forum for Eastern and Western Europe starting on Monday 19th of January in Trieste. Along with 22 projects in development selected for the pitching, out of the record number of 285 submissions, When East Meets West launches two new initiatives dedicated to film in post-production stage.

    Last Stop Trieste (LST) is a work in progress section for creative documentaries organized in collaboration with the Trieste Film Festival. 4 selected rough cuts will be screened to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors and will compete for the HBO Europe Award, prize of the value of 1.000 EUR delivered by an international jury composed by Catherine Le Clef (CAT&Docs), Leena Pasanen (Dok Liepzig) and Claudia Schreiner (MDR)

    First Cut Lab (FCL) is a programme designed for long feature fiction films in editing phase. 3 selected producer/director teams will receive expert feedback from 10 international experts and tailor-made advice from a consulting editor. The main goal is to foster the artistic, sales and festival potential of the completed films. FCL is coordinated by Matthieu Darras (TorinoFilmLab) and Alex Traila (Transilvania IFF), and for this pilot edition has team up with Flow Post Production, Belgian based one-stop-shop facility that will award a free DCP to all selected projects.

    Alongside these new side events, When East Meets West will dedicate a special focus on the English speaking countries, featuring a rich programme dedicated to co-production opportunities with the UK, Ireland, Canada and the USA. The two day event will include panels, case studies, meetings and, for the first time, the live stream event If you don't put your film on the internet, someone else will, organized thanks to cooperation between EAVE and WEMW and to be broadcast on January 20 at 11 :30 – 13 :00 on www.eave.org.

    The 4 documentaries presented at Last Stop Trieste and the 3 long feature fiction films presented at First Cut Lab are:

     

    LAST STOP TRIESTE PROJECTS

     

    BROTHERS

    Director: Wojciech Staron

    Producer: Malgorzata Staron

    STARON FILM, POLAND

     

    CHILDREN OF THE TRAIN

    Director: Klara Trencsenyi

    Producer: Julianna Ugrin

    ÉCLIPSE FILM, HUNGARY

     

    FOUR PASSPORTS

    Director: Mihajlo Jevtic

    Producer: Natalia Imaz

    PARABELLUM FILM, GERMANY

     

    KARST

    Director: Vladimir Todorovic

    Producer: Adriana Ferrarese

    CERESA FILM, FRANCE

    FIRST CUT LAB PROJECTS

     

    SLEEPING LESSONS

    Director: Rusudan Pirveli

    Producers: Rusudan Pirveli

    FILMODROM, GEORGIA

     

    STRANGE HEAVEN

    Director: Dariusz Gajewski

    Producer: Dariusz Gajewski, Kuba Kosma

    TAK FILM, POLAND

     

    THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD

    Director: Anca M. Lazarescu

    Producers: David Lindner Leporda

    FILMALLEE, GERMANY

    FCL EXPERTS 2015

    Rémi Bonhomme Semaine De La Critique

    Amra Baksic Camo SCCA pro.ba

    Guillaume De Seille Arizona Productions

    Marta Donzelli Vivo film

    Clément Duboin Urban Factory

    Lorenzo Esposito Festival del Film Locarno

    Gabor Greiner Films Boutique

    Vanja Kaludjercic Les Arcs European Film

    FestivaL

    Benjamin Mirguet FCL consulting editor

    Nikitin Nikolai SOFA - School of Film Agents

    Rickard Olsson Picture Tree International

     

     

    Last modified on 18-01-2015