These few numbers give a glimpse of Magyar Cartoon Forum that will take place from 14-17 September 2010 in Sopron (Hungary).

62 projects of animation series for TV or cross-media will be pitched in order to speed-up their financing and strengthen their distribution, representing a total budget of 160 million EUR.

The full programme with the pitching sessions schedule and the list of restaurants is now online, as well as the list of attending buyers.

Registration (still open)
List of buyers
Programme (PDF)

DEADLINE FOR SHORT FILM SUBMISSIONS: 9th October,2010

The festival is a short film competition that aims to create a global awareness to the emigration problems and all cinemamakers and cinema fans to transfer their “Intercultural Dialogue and Immigration” themed films to big screen. Festival will include seminars, panels, film screenings and workshops. In the competition section fiction, animation, documentary, and experimental short films with the “Intercultural Dialogue and Immigration” theme will compete and the directors will be supported with various awards.

This festival is a project of the non-profit organization connected to Junior Chamber International, “Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs” Istanbul branch which is accepted as a constituent organization by other federations including Council of Europe and Euro Chambers as well as United Nation. JCI, being established in 1910, is the world’s 3rd biggest non-governmental organization with more than 200,000 members in 124 countries.

JCI ‹stanbul Crossroads International Short Film Competition and Festival is accepted to be supporting and making a contribution to the presentation of Turkey by Ministry of Culture and has been selected “World’s Most Successful Public Relations Program” and “Europe’s Most Successful Publication” in JCI 2007 World Congress.

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Each of the chosen 14 films are remarkable. Oscar nominated, award winning in Cannes, Venice and Berlin. Films of outstanding calibre making their Hungarian premiere at their festival competition screenings. These films will make it worth their while for all film lovers to come to Jameson CineFest – many of these movies will not be screened elsewhere in Hungary.

Among the 14 films in competition will be the Oscar nominated American film Frozen River from a first-time director, the Oscar winning independent film Precious, a dark and sexy flick from Eastern Europe about shopping cerntre addicted teenage girls (Mall Girls), an incredibly strong drug-drama from Bulgaria (Eastern Plays), the Venice Best Direction winning Iranian film (Women without Men), the Cannes FIPRESCI award winning Hungarian film Adrienn Pal, another Canners winner, The Father of my Children, inspired by the suicide of Humbert Balsan, the producer of many fine European arthouse films.

Also, Miskolc will host the Hungarian premiere of You Don’t Know, Jack the HBO picture that was nominated for 15 Emmy Awards, starring Al Pacino.

Audiences of the Open Eye series will also see many Hungarian premieres.

The the festival’s new CineClassics series will include feature films like Zoltan Korda’s rarely seen Brit film The Four Feathers and a few of Michael Curtiz’s and Alexander Korda’s early films from Vienna, like Medarus, that have never been screened in Hungary and that will be shown with the live music accompaniment of the Budapest Bar band.

Here is the full list.

Location: Jihlava, Czech Republic

Duration: 7 days

Participants: Approx. 24 filmmakers – 12 producers and 12 directors representing their film projects. At the East European Forum, 10 – 12 selected projects and another 14 projects from the year-long workshop Ex Oriente Film – also organized by IDF – are included in the pitch sessions.

Panel: Approx. 35 commissioning editors as well as sales agents, distributors, fund and VOD representatives participate in the Forum, either as panel members or observers.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 3, 2010
More info: www.dokweb.net/en/east-european-forum

To fill out the application form, please go to here!

Deadline: September 3, 2010
Forum Workshop: October 21 – 24, 2010
Doc Presentations and Feedback Round Tables: October 25 – 26, 2010

Industry Networking Programme for Participants: October 27 – 30, 2010

For more information, please visit: www.DOKweb.net

After filmmaking explorations of Paris, Istanbul, Kars and Budapest, the NISI MASA Visions Of workshop is back… this time in Prague, taking place from 22nd to 29th of August 2010.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Aged 18-26, from France, Italy, Spain, Austria and the Czech Republic

ACTIVITIES

The concept of the workshop is to invite young filmmakers from five different countries to investigate the city of Prague and attend some general presentations. There will be 4 people in each group. After having selected the content and the story together, the groups will shoot and edit their short movies. They will be supported by 2 professional tutors.

Download the Application Form!

More info: Nisi Masa online

The finalists for the Cartoon d’Or 2010 were chosen among 29 shortlisted films that received an award over the past year at one of Europe’s most prestigious animation festivals. Competition for the Cartoon d’Or is limited to winners of awards from one of these partner festivals.

The jury composed of directors Joanna Quinn (UK) and Géza M. Tóth (Hungary), and producer Valérie Schermann (France), have nominated the following films

“A Family Portrait”, Joseph Pierce, UK (4′ 40”)
“Krokodill”, Kaspar Jancis, Estonia (17′)
“Logorama”, H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain), France (16′ 5”)
“Sinna Mann”, Anita Killi, Norway (20′)
“The Tale of Little Puppetboy”, Johannes Nyholm, Sweden (18′)

The winner will be announced in Sopron, Hungary, on 17th September 2010 during Magyar Cartoon Forum, the platform to boost the co-production and distribution of European animation for television. The directors of each nominated short will present his or her film to an auditorium of important players in European animation, providing them an opportunity to strengthen their ties with the industry.

The winner will receive a trophy together with a financial aid of 10,000 EUR, thanks to the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.

In 2009, Irish director David O’Reilly won the Cartoon d’Or award for his innovative short film “Please Say Something”.

More info: www.cartoon-media.eu

Besides Bal (Honey), winner of this year’s Golden Bear, three audience favourites will be shown from the Panorama, Forum and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections. Festival Director Dieter Kosslick will open the Summer Berlinale, and heads of the Berlinale sections Wieland Speck, Christoph Terhechte and Linda Söffker as well as programme manager Thomas Hailer will present the films.

For more information, go to www.freiluftkino-berlin.de

The Festival is a strictly non-profitable event. Its main aim is promotion of open social
dialogue, respect to human rights and dignity, strengthening supremacy of law in the Ukraine.
Program

Organizers will concentrate equally on both artistic merit and human rights content. Acceptance
or rejection films is totally depend upon the artistic and topical value of the films. The Festival
has both competitive and non-competitive programs.

For Art Competition and Human Rights Competition – only films completed after 1st January
2010 may be submitted to the selection.

For Non-Competitive Program – the Festival does not limit the term of production and release of
film. The main condition is that a film must not be demonstrated in Ukraine earlier.

Please, do not offer films produced for order of organizations or projects. Films that serve as
vehicles of political or social propaganda, promote interests of public campaigns, lobbying
factions or business companies, films that are principally instructive or didactic will be rejected
immediately.

Participation in other festivals will not preclude documentary films from participation in
Docudays UA.

There are two competitive categories: Art Competition and Human Rights Competition.

The Non-Competitive Program is composed of retrospectives and thematic categories.
The Festival will present:
- Best films of New Documentary language
- Best films on human rights protection
- Special projects
- Documentary Co-production
- Workshop
- Master classes delivered by leading experts in documentary

More info: www.docudays.org.ua

Hanoi-Warsaw won a screenplay competition for young talents. The co-producers were Mastershot Studio, 1.2 Film Association, Polish Filmmakers Association and the Andrzej Munk Studio “The Young and Film”.

Hanoi-Warsaw won the Special Jury Prize in the Young Cinema Competition on the 34th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, and the actress, Thu Ha Mai (Mai Anh) received the honorable mention. The film was also presented at festivals in the Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, “Go Short” International Short Film Festival in Nijmegen, Next International Short Film Festival in Bucharest, River Film Festival in Padua, and at the 50th Krakow Film Festival.

The film tells the story of a young Vietnamese girl, Mai Anh, who illegally crosses the Polish border. The woman has to reach Warsaw, where her fiancé waits for her. Travel across Poland is full of humiliation and violence.

Kino Polska Television is one of the most popular movie channels in Poland, focusing on the promotion of Polish cinema. It is available on all digital platforms and in most of cable operators with household coverage over 7 millions.

(www.filmneweurope.com)