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It is produced by Marta Romanova-Jekabsane of Riga-based Kultfilma.
Escape Net, the second feature project by Latvian director Dzintars Dreibergs won the top prize at the Sofia Meetings co-production market in Bulgaria on Sunday.
The project is based on a true story set in Soviet-era Riga about a young woman who joins a basketball team in the hope it will allow her to travel abroad and meet her brother.
According to producer Marta Romanova-Jekabsane of Riga-based Kultfilma,around 70 of the film’s € 1.5m budget is in place and she is looking to bring other co-producers onboard to close the financing.
Escape Net, the second feature project by Latvian director Dzintars Dreibergs won the top prize at the Sofia Meetings co-production market in Bulgaria on Sunday.
The project is based on a true story set in Soviet-era Riga about a young woman who joins a basketball team in the hope it will allow her to travel abroad and meet her brother.
According to producer Marta Romanova-Jekabsane of Riga-based Kultfilma,around 70 of the film’s € 1.5m budget is in place and she is looking to bring other co-producers onboard to close the financing.
- 6/13/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Filmmakers from across Europe to take part in pilot forum.
The European Genre Forum (Nov 24-28), a new creative camp for film talent, is to be piloted during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30).
A total of 16 filmmakers with projects in development will take part in panels on sales, promotion and festival strategy, a storytelling workshop, a business development workshop, networking events, one-to-one meetings and a pitching session for on-going projects.
The directing and producing talents include:
Seth Ickerman (Spain)Helen Lõhmus & Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)Talal Selhami (France)Aleksi Hyvärinen, Misha Jaari and Vesa Virtanen (Finland)Nevio Marasovic and Vanja Vascarac (Croatia)Tea Korolija (Serbia)Aik Karpetian (Latvia)
The pilot forum is organized in partnership with Night Visions Film Festival (Helsinki), Zagreb Fantastic Ff (Zagreb) and Screen Division Consultancy (Paris).
The European Genre Forum (Nov 24-28), a new creative camp for film talent, is to be piloted during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30).
A total of 16 filmmakers with projects in development will take part in panels on sales, promotion and festival strategy, a storytelling workshop, a business development workshop, networking events, one-to-one meetings and a pitching session for on-going projects.
The directing and producing talents include:
Seth Ickerman (Spain)Helen Lõhmus & Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)Talal Selhami (France)Aleksi Hyvärinen, Misha Jaari and Vesa Virtanen (Finland)Nevio Marasovic and Vanja Vascarac (Croatia)Tea Korolija (Serbia)Aik Karpetian (Latvia)
The pilot forum is organized in partnership with Night Visions Film Festival (Helsinki), Zagreb Fantastic Ff (Zagreb) and Screen Division Consultancy (Paris).
- 11/12/2014
- ScreenDaily
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