UK MEDIA Team e-bulletin
8 October 2009

News

 

UK

 

EFA honours Ken Loach

Ken Loach is to be presented with the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding and dedicated body of work, which includes the critically acclaimed Kes and Riff-Raff. read more

 

MEDIA Desk UK partners up with Power to the Pixel

Power to the Pixel's Cross-Media Film Forum has become the leading event in the UK film industry calendar for creators to connect with key digital innovators: pioneers who are developing new models... read more

 

Tell No One producer to deliver keynote speech at Production Finance Market

Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, co-founder of EuropaCorp with partner Luc Besson, will be making a rare public appearance at the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM), an event dedicated to uniting producers and... read more

 

Cartoon Tribute for Cake Entertainment

The 2009 edition of Cartoon Forum took place in Rogaland, Norway from 22-25 September. Around 700 professionals attended from 28 different countries, and 61 new projects were pitched to broadcasters,... read more

 

 

Europe

 

MEDIA Calls open: €45 million available

After the European Parliament's summer recess the MEDIA Programme has opened five Calls for Proposals to support Europe's audiovisual industries, with a total of €45 million available for European companies.... read more

 

MEDIA International 2009 results announced

The European Commission has awarded €5 million of funding to strengthen cultural and commercial relations between Europe's film industry and filmmakers in non-European countries. This funding will enable European audiovisual... read more

 

MEDIA Mundus Information Day at the International Rome Film Festival

MEDIA Desk Italia and MEDIA Antenna Torino invite all audiovisual professionals to attend an Information Day on the MEDIA Mundus programme which aims to encourage audiovisual global co-operation. read more

 

Play for Free games seminar

On 19 November 2009 MEDIA Desk Denmark and Denmark's National Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment (DADIU) will hold their fifth annual seminar in Copenhagen. This year's seminar is entitled Play... read more

 

World Cinema Forum at Rome International Film Festival

Europe and the Middle East will be the focus of the fourth World Forum on Strategy and Finance for Cinema taking place in Rome on 17 October 2009 during the... read more

 

EU enlargement - funding available for awareness raising projects

The European Commission's Directorate General for Enlargement has launched a Call for Proposals to fund projects that will raise awareness of topics relating to EU enlargement. The proposed projects should... read more

 


 

Funding

 

Open MEDIA Calls for Proposals

 

Producer's support

Development - Single Project - next deadline: 27 November 2009
Single Project Development funding is aimed at companies which have produced at least one previous project which has been distributed recently, and which now wish to invest in the development of another project. Which... read more

 

Development - Interactive Projects - next deadline: 27 November 2009
Interactive Projects Development funding is aimed at companies that have produced at least one previous interactive project which has been distributed recently, and that now wish to invest in the... read more

 

Development - Slate Funding - next deadline: 27 November 2009
Slate Funding is aimed at medium-sized companies which have experience at an international level and the financial capacity to contemplate and support the simultaneous development of several projects.   Which companies... read more

 

TV Broadcasting - next deadline: 27 November 2009
The TV Broadcasting scheme aims to help European independent production companies produce a television programme (in principle not intended for theatrical release) with at least three European broadcasters attached.   Which... read more

 

i2i Audiovisual - next deadline: 5 February 2010
The i2i Audiovisual scheme supports production companies that bear the costs of bank financing and/or associated insurance and completion bonds. It offers a grant to cover up to 50% of... read more

 

 

Distribution

Selective Scheme - next deadline: 1 December 2009
This scheme is designed to facilitate the transnational distribution of European films. It aims to encourage distributors to release films that might be a challenge were they to be supported by market forces alone. As... read more

 

 

Promotion

Audiovisual Festivals - next deadline: 27 November 2009
This scheme is designed to support film festivals that programme at least 70% European content, and can be used towards costs such as subtitling, translation, catalogue printing and travel costs for professionals accompanying a... read more

 

Access to Markets - next deadline: 7 December 2009
This scheme supports organisations that propose events and activities (including computer-based information tools) designed to promote European audiovisual works and facilitate access to markets for European professionals. The first deadline... read more

 


 

Networking

 

News

 

Berlinale Co-Production Market call for submissions

Experienced producers are invited to submit new projects to the seventh Berlinale Co-Production Market taking place from 14-16 February 2010. The submission deadline is 29 October 2009. read more

 

Sonja Heinen, head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, at the 2009 event

 

Forthcoming events

 

Lisbon Docs (EDN)
19-24 October 2009 Lisbon, Portugal
East European Forum
27 October - 2 November 2009 Jihlava, Czech Republic
Sheffield MeetMarket
4-8 November 2009 Sheffield, United Kingdom
Seville Festival of European Cinema
6-14 November 2009 Seville, Spain
Festival Europen du film court de Brest
7 - 15 November 2009 Brest, France
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
12 November - 6 December 2009 Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
13-22 November 2009 Thessaloniki, Greece
Oulu International Children's Film Festival
16-22 November 2009 Oulu, Finland
Muestra de Cine Europeo Ciudad de Segovia
18-24 November 2009 Segovia, Spain
Gijon International Film Festival
19-28 November 2009 Gijon, Spain
International Film Festival Etiuda and Anima
27 November - 4 December 2009 Krakow, Poland
International Film Festival Bratislava
27 November - 4 December 2009 Bratislava, Slovakia
Camerimage - International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography
28 November - 5 December 2009 Lodz, Poland
Platforma Video9
3-6 December 2009 Athens, Greece
Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People
5-12 December 2009 Pyrgos, Greece
European Film Awards
12 December 2009 Ruhr Metropolis, Germany

 

View the full networking calendar on our website

 

 


 

Training

 

News

 

Deadline extension for the EAVE 2010 European Producer Workshop

15 October is the new deadline to apply to participate in the EAVE Producer Workshops which take place in three seven-day workshops across Europe. read more

 

Europe meets Africa: Babylon International open for applications

Babylon International is a major new initiative funded by MEDIA International and the Nigerian Film Corporation, and giving European filmmakers the opportunity to work with African colleagues on script and story development, production... read more

 

Maia Workshops 2010 - deadline approaching

Maia Workshops, organised by Fabula Film , is an advanced training programme for emerging producers which aims to provide them with the fundamental creative and managerial skills needed to steer... read more

 

DigiTraining Plus: European Cinemas and New Technologies

MEDIA Salles training course DigiTraining Plus: European Cinemas Experiencing New Technologies enters its seventh year. It will take place from 17-21 February 2010 in Helsinki, with a programme of lectures and... read more

 

 

Forthcoming courses

 

 

Animation

Cartoon Feature 2009 - deadline: 9 October 2009
20-22 October 2009, Malaga, Spain
This course will explore the design, financing and distribution of animated features across all media. Using case studies and recent films, a panel of experts will present new business models... read more

 

Management, finance and legal aspects

EAVE: Film Marketing Workshop - deadline: 30 October 2009
3-6 December 2009, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The workshop is a thorough exploration of film marketing methods. It focuses particularly on cost-effective ways to market projects, pitching, legal issues, working with sales agents, distributors, publicists, photographers, designers,... read more

 

New technologies

FOCAL: Digital Production Challenge - deadline: 30 October 2009
3-5 December 2009, Zurich, Switzerland
This three-day workshop will give producers, executive producers and production managers the methods and tools to choose the best digital production workflow for their feature film projects, and to optimise... read more

 

Project development

EURODOC 2010 - deadline: 30 November 2009
March-September 2010, Various EU locations
EURODOC is a training programme specifically designed for co-producing creative documentaries at the international level. Producing documentaries requires increasingly more funding which is difficult to find on a national level... read more
EKRAN 2010 - deadline: 15 November 2009
Various dates and sessions, Warsaw, Poland
EKRAN is a unique opportunity for producers to develop their project using the most cost-effective and creative methods. EKRAN offers participants a production component prepared in close collaboration with EAVE;... read more

 

Scriptwriting

éQuinoxe Screenwriters’ Workshops - deadline: 12 November 2009
Spring 2010, Various EU countries
An international jury will select ten talented screenwriters to participate in a one-week workshop, where they will have one-to-one discussions with ten advisors from all over the world - internationally... read more
Script&Pitch Workshops / Script&Pitch Workshops International 2010 - deadline: 15 December 2009
Various dates throughout 2010, Various EU locations
Script&Pitch is an advanced development course for European scriptwriters and story editors. The programme runs for ten months, and can accommodate 20 participants from all over the world (15 scriptwriters... read more

 

Internships

Nipkow Programm 2009 - deadline: 30 November 2009
Thoughout 2009 and 2010, Berlin, Germany
The Nipkow Programm provides professional training to promising participants from across Europe in order to develop their business skills, thereby supporting and improving the quality of European co-production.  Nipkow is... read more

 

View the full training calendar on our website

 

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