18-01-2016

WEMW kicks off and reveals LAST STOP TRIESTE and FIRST CUT LAB selected projects

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    Trieste, January 18th, 2016 – 37 different countries, 150 international decision makers and more than 300 registered participants: these are the figures of the sixth edition of When East Meets West, the Trieste based co-production forum starting on Sunday 24th of January with a special focus on Spain, Portugal and Latin America. After revealing all the projects selected for the pitching, When East Meets West announces the final line up of the two parallel initiatives dedicated to films in post-production stage.

    After the great success of the first edition, Last Stop Trieste - the work in progress section run together with the Trieste Film Festival - will present again this year 4 creative documentaries to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors. The 4 selected rough cuts, all from Eastern European countries, have been selected in partnership with BDC Discoveries by Balkan Documentary Center, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, Ex-Oriente Film and Baltic Sea Docs. An international jury composed by Hanka Kastelicova (HBO Europe), Catherine Le Clef (CAT&Docs), Leena Pasanen (Dok Liepzig) and Claudia Schreiner (MDR) will deliver the HBO Europe Award to the most compelling film. Furthermore, this year LST will feature 3 guest projects from Italy, Spain and Brazil thanks to the collaboration with Doc/it, REC - Festival Internacional de Cine de Tarragona and DOCSP.

    First Cut Lab will give room to long feature fiction films in editing phase, where 3 selected producer/director teams from Bulgaria, Poland and Czech Republic will receive specialized feedback from ten international experts and tailor-made advice from a consulting editor. The main goal of the lab is to foster artistic, sales and festival potential of the completed films.

    Alongside the co-production forum and the two side events, When East Meets West will feature a rich programme including the EAVE live stream session “The Disorderly Digital Marketplace”, the MAIA Workshops master class focusing on the legal aspects of co-production between Europe and Latin America, and #FEEDback, a think tank platform organized in collaboration with Transilvania IFF and Connecting Cottbus and aimed at enhancing the cross-border cooperation between Eastern European countries.

    The 7 documentaries presented at Last Stop Trieste and the 3 long feature fiction films chosen for First Cut Lab are:

    LAST STOP TRIESTE PROJECTS

    A TWO WAY MIRROR
    Director: Katarina Zrinka Matijevic
    Producer: Nenad Puhovski
    FACTUM, CROATIA

    SEE YOU IN CHECHNYA
    Director: Alexander Kvatashidze
    Producer: Eero Talvistu
    LOKOKINA STUDIO, GEORGIA

    THE BEAST IS STILL ALIVE
    Director: Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva
    Producer: Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva
    ACTIVIST38 LTD, BULGARIA

    WHY DRAGAN GATHERED HIS BAND
    Director: Nikola Spasic
    Producer: Milanka Gvoic
    INKUBATOR REZON, SERBIA

    GUEST PROJECTS

    DON’T STOP
    Director: Aida Torrent
    Producer: Albert Baquero
    CAMILLE ZONCA PRODUCCIONS, SPAIN

    GLASS UNDER MY SKIN
    Director: Moara Passoni
    Producer: Tiago Pavan
    BUSCA VIDA, BRAZIL

    THE BLACK SHEEP
    Director: Antonio Martino
    Producer: Serena Gramizzi
    BO FILM, ITALY


    FIRST CUT LAB PROJECTS

    SKOKAN
    Director: Petr Vaclav
    Producer: Jan Macola
    MIMESIS Czech Republic

    THE ENDLESS GARDEN
    Director: Galin Stoev
    Producer: Martichka Bozhilova
    AGITPROP Bulgaria

    WILD ROSES
    Director: Anna Jadowskai
    Producer: Iza Igel, Roman Jarosz
    ALTEREGO PICTURES Poland


    FCL EXPERTS & TEAM 2015

    Amra Baksic Camo SCCA/PRO.BA
    Violeta Bava BAFICI
    Matthieu Darras TORINOFILMLAB
    Guillaume De Seille ARIZONA FILMS
    Fernando Epstein MUTANTE CINE
    Sandro Fiorin FIGA FILMS
    Konstantinos Kontovrakis HERETIC
    Vanja Kaludjercic CINÉMA DU RÉEL
    Benjamin Mirguet MÔMERADE
    Paolo Moretti VISIONS DU RÉEL
    Alessandro Raja FESTIVAL SCOPE
    Alext Traila WEMW consultant
    Meinolf Zurhorst ZDF

    WEMW is organized by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund together with the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, Maia workshops, Creative Europe Desk Italy MEDIA, Eurimages and with the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme, Direzione Generale per il Cinema – MiBACT, CEI (Central European Initiative), Confartigianato Udine and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.