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Latvia at Berlinale and the EFM

Latvia participates in two sections of the 63rd Film Festival in Berlin. Aik Karapetian’s feature People Out There was on the market screening. Janis Nords’ feature Mother, I Love You and Ēvalds Lācis’s animation Hedgehogs and the City participates in the official program Generation KPlus.
12-02-2013

"Making The City Public" begins tomorrow

The public programme events of the 13th Istanbul Biennial begin with "Making The City Public" to be held between February 8 and 10. The public programme events aim to examine the ways in which publicness can be reclaimed as an artistic and political tool in the context of global financial…
08-02-2013

The Czech Film Center releases the next volume of short films, Czech Short Films 2013

Prague, 30 January 2013. An evening celebrating the release of the new DVD, Czech Short Films Vol. 4, 2013, which presents the very best of Czech short filmmaking from 2012, will take place on Wednesday 30 January 2013, starting at 20:30 at the bio OKO cinema in Prague.
31-01-2013

Cartoon Movie will gather together more than 700 animation film professionals from 6 to 8 March in Lyon

From 6 to 8 March, Lyon will become the European capital of animation film: more than 700 animated feature film producers, investors, distributors, sales agents and video game companies from all of Europe and beyond will attend the 15th Cartoon Movie to create partnerships and raise financing, thus allowing many…
29-01-2013

Lithuania goes short: Baltic debut in Clermont-Ferrand IFF

“Lithuanian short films must be introduced to the international film industry.” This is the guiding principle of the short film agency “Lithuanian Shorts” that will attend the largest short film festival in Europe, Clermont-Ferrand. During the festival, which is scheduled to take place from February 1-9, Lithuania will be the…
28-01-2013

DOK.Incubator Rough Cut Workshop Is Calling for Participants

IDFA, CPH:DOX, DOK Leipzig, MoMA´s Documentary Fortnight, and even SUNDANCE Festival: those are the festivals where the participating films of the 2012 edition of DOK.Incubator started their road to success. After six months of hard work at editing and distribution, all eight participant projects have gained international recognition. In addition,…
28-01-2013

Dominga Sotomayor and Katarzyna Klimkiewicz launch a crowdfunding campaign for their short film!

Acclaimed young, female directors, Dominga Sotomayor and Katarzyna Klimkiewicz launched an Indiegogo campaign to finance their mutual project – a short film called The Time Before. They hope to raise 10.000 EUR of the missing funding until 1st March 2013. The 2012 Rotterdam Tiger Award-winner (Sotomayor) and the 2010 European…
28-01-2013

GOEAST FILM FESTIVAL PRESS ACCREDITATION 2013

goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film is offering free accreditation to members of the reporting press. We cordially invite you to attend the 13th edition of goEast festival in Wiesbaden from 10 to 16 April, and we would be delighted if your medium was to grant coverage…
25-01-2013

Press release - FIlm "EPIC"

Film and Music Entertainment begin shooting EPIC – a major International co-production between the UK, Germany, Russia and Georgia. Principal Photography begins in Georgian Capital Tbilisi last week. EPIC was developed by the British Film Institute (London), and is supported by the HessenInvestFilm Fund (Frankfurt), Metra Films and the French-German…
25-01-2013

Peacefulfish and partners 2013 Berlinale Information Sessions

Media financing consultancy peacefulfish and partners Just Temptation, TWIST, and Audiovisual SGR invite you to our 2013 Berlinale Information Sessions on: MEDIA PRODUCTION GUARANTEE FUND (MPGF)MEDIA-Programme fund for producers seeking production loans for film & TV projectsMonica Carretero, fund manager (Audiovisual SGR)www.audiovisualsgr-mgf.eu JUST TEMPTATION (JT)Pan-European film music company based in…
25-01-2013

EAST DOC PLATFORM 2013

East Doc Platform | Prague | March 4 – 10, 2013East European Forum, Doc Launch, East Silver Videolibrary,Project Market
25-01-2013

WEMW Development Award for best project goes to ANISHOARA by Weydemann Bros

German project wins third edition of Trieste co-production forum Trieste, January 22, 2013 – ANISHOARA, the story of a 14-year-old girl from Moldavia suspended between childhood and adolescence is the winner of the third edition of When East Meets West.
23-01-2013

Two US in Progress Wrocław films to screen at the Berlinale

Following the selection of three US in Progress films to Sundance, Berlin follows suit with a world one premiere and one European premiere. US in Progress is the first industry event in Europe devoted entirely to US-indies and focused on the completion and European distribution of American indie feature films…
18-01-2013

MAIA Workshops 2013 at its flying start: call open

Maia announces the 3 residential workshops of 2013 edition. The application deadline for the complete 3-workshop package is set at February 28. Workshop 1 - Creative aspects of development Italy, May 27 - 31 Application deadline April 19 Workshop 2 - Legal & Financial Issues Slovakia, June 17 - 21…
16-01-2013

2013 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS LAUNCHES FOR CLOSING THE GAP: EQUITY INVESTMENT TRAINING COURSE

Seeking funding for your film or TV project? Interested in pitch training with equity investors? Want to learn how to close your project’s budget gap? Closing The Gap is a training course for film and TV producers run by creative industries financing consultancy peacefulfish (Berlin/London/Brussels) in association with the pan-European…
15-01-2013

Bulgaria takes over European Audiovisual Observatory Presidency in 2013

The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has announced that Bulgaria will take over its annually rotating Presidency for 2013. Bulgaria is represented in the Observatory’s Executive Council by Irina Kanousheva, responsible for International Relations, Festivals and Promotion at the Bulgarian National Film Center.
10-01-2013

AS SOON AS APOCALYPSE ENDS THE BUSHO CAROUSEL ROLLS ON

Although we promise it to be done by the beginning of December each year, we always finalize it by the middle due to the plenty tasks, but finally we're pleased to announce that the registration for the BuSho 2013 will be open by just one week before the end of…
10-01-2013

YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD 2013: Call for Submissions

The European Film Academy Young Audience Award, first introduced in 2012 on occasion of the 25th European Film Awards, will be presented this year in the framework of a Young Audience Film Day on Sunday, 5 May.
08-01-2013

Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2013: The Sorrow of Parting Is Both Gruesome and Beautiful

With six full-length fictional, three documentary and two medium-long fictional films, new German directorial talents are making a strong showing with distinctive works in Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2013. Their films revolve around exploring the past, natural catastrophes, starting a family, separations – around love and lost. “Parting, for instance, from…
07-01-2013

TWO CLOSING THE GAP PROJECTS WIN EQUITY PITCH PRIZES IN PALMA DE MALLORCA

The latest edition of peacefulfish’s Closing The Gap: Equity Investment for 360° Content training course culminated in a pitch workshop with equity investors during the Mallorca Film Week in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The Closing The Gap producers pitched their film and television projects to a panel of European investors…
04-01-2013