Call For Project Submissions - Berlinale Co-Production Market 2016

The Co-Production Market takes place on February 14-16, 2016. This is part of the Berlin International Film Festival which takes place February 11-21, 2016.

Experienced producers from around the world are invited to submit their new feature-length fiction projects with budgets that range from 1 to 20 million Euros (for projects from Greece, Portugal or Spain the budget requirements are waived), with at least 30% of financing (or the local production funding) already in place, for which they are seeking international co-production and financing partners.

Deadline for project submission is October 21, 2015.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is a 3 day service and networking platform designed to bring together producers, financiers, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and funding representatives.

Meetings are organised for selected projects with interested co-producers, partners and financiers. You can also look out for networking meetings, cocktail events, a Producer’s Lounge, Speed Matchings and much more.

At Books at Berlinale 10 selected international books with film potential are presented to international producers and at CoPro Series, ca. 6 hand-picked international drama series projects are pitched in front of potential co-producers and financiers.

Overall more than 200 films have so far found partners at the Co-Production Market.

What are you waiting for?

Submission Form

https://www.efm-berlinale.de/en/copromarket/participation/project_submission/project-submission.php

Queries: Tel: +49-30-25920-517 or email: coproductionmarket@berlinale.net

Article by Fred Felton

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Seminar for Performing Artists, Durban International Film Festival wants your films and Indaba is coming

INVITATION TO A SEMINAR - 7 March 2014 – The Stable Theatre, 

9am – 5pm

Intercultural and multidisciplinary performance in the year 2014.

Is its pursuit in the world of the Performing Arts still a worthwhile or duplicitous exercise? Can it contribute to the principle of “social cohesion”  and as a way to reinforce intercultural dialogue between people and countries/civilizations

You are cordially invited to a Seminar being stage by the HOPES & MEMORIES project - 

an intercultural project funded by the EU incorporating Catalina UnLtd from South Africa, Musique Interdite, Association Musique en Sorbonne & Euroculture en Pays Gentiane from France, Mama Papa from the Czech Republic, Trakt from Slovakia and Zero Ballet from Hungary (www.hopesmemories.org) and the Ethekwini Municipality

DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

The largest of Southern Africa's film festivals and the most important film festival in Africa, DIFF hosts a film competition component and also presents screenings in township areas where cinemas are non-existent.

The festival will consider films completed in 2013 and 2014, and there is no charge for entry. All submissions must be entered via the Eventival online system. In order to submit a film you will need to create a visitor account if you have not already done so in past years. The deadline for all entries, including delivery of screeners, is 28 March 2014 for short films, documentaries and feature fiction films.

The extensive seminar and workshop programme featuring local and international filmmakers and industry professionals includes the 7th Talent Campus Durban (19-23 July) in cooperation with Berlinale Talent Campus, and the 5th Durban FilmMart (19-22 July) in partnership with Durban Film Office, as well as various other streams of programming including Durban Wild Talk Africa and Wavescape.

Specific streams of programming for 2014 will include a focus on 20 years of democracy in South Africa, as well as films that explore architecture in various ways. This latter stream of programming acknowledges the World Congress of Architects which will take place in Durban in 2014, the week after DIFF.

"We look forward to once again receiving a wealth of top quality films from around the globe," says festival manager, Peter Machen. "We also welcome input from and engagement with current and potential partners who support the development of the film industry on the continent. It is through collaboration that we can offer film-makers and the public a festival of brilliant film and a worthwhile industry development programme."

The festival is supported by the National Film and Video Foundation, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism, the City of Durban and other valued funders and partners.

www.durbanfilmfest.co.za eMAIL: diff@ukzn.ac.za

Indaba is Coming

http://www.indaba-southafrica.co.za/

Call for Fillmmakers and Film Critics and we have some poetry

Talent Campus is looking for Filmmakers and Film Critics


Talent Campus Durban is looking for 40 of the most innovative voices of African cinema to take part in the 6th edition of this leading networking and developmental event held at the 34th Durban International Film Festival.

Talent Campus Durban seeks to provide selected participants with an opportunity to meet with international industry professionals and experts in various aspects of the filmmaking business through participations in a 5-day programme of masterclasses, workshops and industry networking events. The continent of Africa is a source of a myriad narratives which offer possibilities to be re-imagined, re-told, overlapped and adapted within numerous contexts. Under this year’s theme of “Memetic Africa”, Talent Campus Durban calls for African filmmakers to participate in this programme and be inspired by stories shaped by varying innovative patterns, ideas, customs, traditions, practices and skills that enforce the legacy of the African film context.

Talent Campus Durban also calls for participants for Talent Press, a mentoring programme for three African film critics in collaboration with FIPRESCI and Goethe Institut, which makes a welcome return in its second year. Talent Press mentors will offer their expertise to guide selected participants in the art of film criticism with access to all the screenings of the 34th Durban International Film Festival. 

The five-day programme also includes the 3rd edition of Doc Station, where three selected documentary projects submitted by accepted talents will be finessed and packaged for presentation within the DOC Circle pitching forum at the 6th Durban FilmMart. Applications for Doc Station are open to selected participants for Talent Campus. Mohamed El Amine Hattou of Algeria was one of the three Doc Station participants in the 5th Talent Campus Durban who, after presenting his project at Doc Circle, also had the invaluable opportunity to meet one-on-one with potential investors. Describing his experience, Hattou says, “Doc Station is a great opportunity to gain in maturity, networking, and dive into a promiscuous and professional African market. After my pitch on Doc Station, I had some positive and interesting feedback on my project. It was also an easy way to know about new funding and co-production opportunities. Durban Talent Campus is a unique way for African filmmakers to connect, meet and share their stories.”

Held in co-operation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, and with support from the German Embassy of South Africa, Goethe Institut of South Africa, and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Talent Campus Durban runs from 19 to 23 July 2013. Apart from the main event in Berlin, Talent Campus partnerships also take place at selected festivals in Buenos Aires, Guadalajara, Tokyo and Sarajevo. Opportunities for participating talents are enhanced through Talent Campus networks and the Berlinale’s global information platform.

Application is open to filmmakers and critics who are resident in Africa. Applicants are encouraged to apply well before the deadline in order to submit their work samples timeously. Application can be done online on www.cca.ukzn.ac.za and applications close on 1 April 2013.

For DIFF and Talent Campus Queries 031 260 1650 / 2506

E-mail both: talentcampusdurban@gmail.com / talent@ukzn.ac.za

(Source - Pansa)



Some Poetry by Timothy Sparks


Mirrors

The tide met the doors of a dream
Shimmering with hope in the world.
At moments, grace like a tides’ stream
Mirrors this dance of her eyes unfurled
As the brave distance of life;
The movement of mirrors into the sea.
Outside the pace of life is dead,
Love brings mere continents together.

Laughter rings the wine
Dancing where music dims in the tongues,
Love wrecks in death’s supine
Sorrow, filling up these wild lungs.

Drink deep of the shores
Of glistened glasses charged in night
From heaven, still the doors
Are closed and lights passing with white
Shells close to the heart, lovely
Dressage across the grey of the deep.  


Timothy Sparks is a Poet and Writer based in Durban.
email - tpwsparks@hotmail.com