During the Cannes Film Festival, 20 emerging producers from across Europe took part in European Film Promotion’s promotion and networking platform Producers on the Move. They had been selected by the 37 national film institutes that are members of Efp. Variety invited them to pitch their projects to our readers, which we present below.
Gentian Koçi, Albania
Project: “Cold Sun” (in development)
Director: Gentian Koçi
As he attempts to rebuild his life in his hometown after being freed from jail after serving a 25-year sentence for killing his wife, a man in his fifties falls in love with a woman in her forties and gradually realizes that this love is going to be his true prison.
Julie Esparbes, Belgium
Project: “The Dance of the Foxes”
Director: Valéry Carnoy
A coming-of-age story, about a 17-year-old boxer who, following an accident, will have to reinvent himself in a more sensitive way. Valéry Carnoy...
Gentian Koçi, Albania
Project: “Cold Sun” (in development)
Director: Gentian Koçi
As he attempts to rebuild his life in his hometown after being freed from jail after serving a 25-year sentence for killing his wife, a man in his fifties falls in love with a woman in her forties and gradually realizes that this love is going to be his true prison.
Julie Esparbes, Belgium
Project: “The Dance of the Foxes”
Director: Valéry Carnoy
A coming-of-age story, about a 17-year-old boxer who, following an accident, will have to reinvent himself in a more sensitive way. Valéry Carnoy...
- 5/30/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty emerging producers from across Europe have been selected to take part in European Film Promotion’s promotion and networking platform Producers on the Move before and during the Cannes Film Festival.
The producers who were selected for the program from nominations submitted by Efp’s member organizations are Gentian Koçi (Albania), David Bohun (Austria), Julie Esparbes (Belgium), Vanya Rainova (Bulgaria), Miljenka Čogelja (Croatia), Stelana Kliris (Cyprus), Alice Tabery (Czech Republic), Emile Hertling Péronard (Denmark), Emilia Haukka (Finland), Silvana Santamaria (Germany), Vicky Miha (Greece), Júlia Berkes (Hungary), Kathryn Kennedy (Ireland), Valon Bajgora (Kosovo), Dominiks Jarmakovičs (Latvia), Erik Glijnis (The Netherlands), Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Norway), Radu Stancu (Romania), Juraj Krasnohorský (Slovak Republic), and Julia Gebauer (Sweden).
They will take part in a tailor-made program to foster international co-productions, increase the exchange of experiences, and help create new professional networks. The pre-festival online program, which started yesterday and runs until May 4, includes 1:1 speed meetings,...
The producers who were selected for the program from nominations submitted by Efp’s member organizations are Gentian Koçi (Albania), David Bohun (Austria), Julie Esparbes (Belgium), Vanya Rainova (Bulgaria), Miljenka Čogelja (Croatia), Stelana Kliris (Cyprus), Alice Tabery (Czech Republic), Emile Hertling Péronard (Denmark), Emilia Haukka (Finland), Silvana Santamaria (Germany), Vicky Miha (Greece), Júlia Berkes (Hungary), Kathryn Kennedy (Ireland), Valon Bajgora (Kosovo), Dominiks Jarmakovičs (Latvia), Erik Glijnis (The Netherlands), Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Norway), Radu Stancu (Romania), Juraj Krasnohorský (Slovak Republic), and Julia Gebauer (Sweden).
They will take part in a tailor-made program to foster international co-productions, increase the exchange of experiences, and help create new professional networks. The pre-festival online program, which started yesterday and runs until May 4, includes 1:1 speed meetings,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
European Film Promotion (Efp) has unveiled its 2023 Producers on the Move, the 20 up-and-coming film producers from 20 European countries picked to take part in the Efp’s networking event at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
The list of 2023 Producers on the Move includes Gentian Koçi (Albania), David Bohun (Austria), Julie Esparbes (Belgium), Vanya Rainova (Bulgaria), Miljenka Čogelja (Croatia), Stelana Kliris (Cyprus), Alice Tabery (Czech Republic), Emile Hertling Péronard (Denmark), Emilia Haukka (Finland), Silvana Santamaria (Germany), Vicky Miha (Greece), Júlia Berkes (Hungary), Kathryn Kennedy (Ireland), Valon Bajgora (Kosovo*), Dominiks Jarmakovičs (The Netherlands), Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Norway), Radu Stancu (Romania), Juraj Krasnohorský (Slovak Republic) and Julia Gebauer (Sweden).
The group will take part in a tailor-made program that runs May 18-22 during the festival intended to improve collaboration and foster international co-productions, between European film professionals. To help kick-start the effort, the Efp has begun a series of pre-festival events, including one-on-one speed meetings,...
The list of 2023 Producers on the Move includes Gentian Koçi (Albania), David Bohun (Austria), Julie Esparbes (Belgium), Vanya Rainova (Bulgaria), Miljenka Čogelja (Croatia), Stelana Kliris (Cyprus), Alice Tabery (Czech Republic), Emile Hertling Péronard (Denmark), Emilia Haukka (Finland), Silvana Santamaria (Germany), Vicky Miha (Greece), Júlia Berkes (Hungary), Kathryn Kennedy (Ireland), Valon Bajgora (Kosovo*), Dominiks Jarmakovičs (The Netherlands), Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Norway), Radu Stancu (Romania), Juraj Krasnohorský (Slovak Republic) and Julia Gebauer (Sweden).
The group will take part in a tailor-made program that runs May 18-22 during the festival intended to improve collaboration and foster international co-productions, between European film professionals. To help kick-start the effort, the Efp has begun a series of pre-festival events, including one-on-one speed meetings,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlinale and Locarno prize winners also among this year’s cohort.
The producers of Cannes titles Lost In The Night and The (Ex)perience Of Love are among those selected for European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Producers On The Move programme, which promotes rising talent and fosters international co-productions.
The 20 producers have already begun a pre-festival online programme (May 2-4), which includes speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. They will then meet during the Cannes Film Festival from May 18-22, taking part in a programme that will include case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign. More than half of the selection are women.
The producers of Cannes titles Lost In The Night and The (Ex)perience Of Love are among those selected for European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Producers On The Move programme, which promotes rising talent and fosters international co-productions.
The 20 producers have already begun a pre-festival online programme (May 2-4), which includes speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. They will then meet during the Cannes Film Festival from May 18-22, taking part in a programme that will include case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign. More than half of the selection are women.
- 5/3/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
White Plastic Sky
With an earlier track record that includes Sundance short Les Conquerants in ’12 and Clermont-Ferrand’s Leftover ’16, Hungarian filmmaker tandem Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó moved into features with White Plastic Sky – an animated film described as a dystopian eco-fantasy. There’ll be 2D and 3D and rotoscoping involved but what is uber cool is that the filmmakers got help from geologists, botanists and meteorologists to write the screenplay. A young couple living in a barren, post-apocalyptic Budapest in the year 2121, struggle for food and life. This is a co-production between Hungarian Salto Films (Orsolya Sipos and József Fülöp) and Slovakian Artichoke (Juraj Krasnohorsky).…...
With an earlier track record that includes Sundance short Les Conquerants in ’12 and Clermont-Ferrand’s Leftover ’16, Hungarian filmmaker tandem Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó moved into features with White Plastic Sky – an animated film described as a dystopian eco-fantasy. There’ll be 2D and 3D and rotoscoping involved but what is uber cool is that the filmmakers got help from geologists, botanists and meteorologists to write the screenplay. A young couple living in a barren, post-apocalyptic Budapest in the year 2121, struggle for food and life. This is a co-production between Hungarian Salto Films (Orsolya Sipos and József Fülöp) and Slovakian Artichoke (Juraj Krasnohorsky).…...
- 1/6/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Films Boutique has boarded “White Plastic Sky,” the animated feature debut of Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó, the duo behind the critically successful shorts “Les Conquerants” and “Leftover.”
A dystopian eco-fantasy, “White Plastic Sky” is set in a near future, where the last humans live in an artificial dome with a very high price for survival: At the age of 50, they are implanted with a special seed turning them into a tree that will provide oxygen and food for the community. A young man, Stefan, supports this system until the day his wife Nora gives her life up for voluntary implantation. Driven by his love, Stefan decides to break the rules of this society in order to save her.
The project combines 2D and 3D and used a rotoscoping technique allowing the animators to trace over live action footage to create animation frames. Although the animated feature is filled with fantasy,...
A dystopian eco-fantasy, “White Plastic Sky” is set in a near future, where the last humans live in an artificial dome with a very high price for survival: At the age of 50, they are implanted with a special seed turning them into a tree that will provide oxygen and food for the community. A young man, Stefan, supports this system until the day his wife Nora gives her life up for voluntary implantation. Driven by his love, Stefan decides to break the rules of this society in order to save her.
The project combines 2D and 3D and used a rotoscoping technique allowing the animators to trace over live action footage to create animation frames. Although the animated feature is filled with fantasy,...
- 6/15/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Projects from director Woo Ming Jin and producer Anthony Chen among titles.
Full Circle Lab Philippines, the Southeast Asian project and talent development programme, has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming fourth edition, including new features by Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin and Singapore producer Anthony Chen.
The labs, led by Tatino Films’ Matthieu Darras and Izabela Igel and co-organised by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp), will comprise 12 projects in development, three films in post-production, eight emerging producers and three story editors.
More than 40 participants and 12 mentors from 15 different countries are expected to participate in the in-person workshop,...
Full Circle Lab Philippines, the Southeast Asian project and talent development programme, has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming fourth edition, including new features by Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin and Singapore producer Anthony Chen.
The labs, led by Tatino Films’ Matthieu Darras and Izabela Igel and co-organised by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp), will comprise 12 projects in development, three films in post-production, eight emerging producers and three story editors.
More than 40 participants and 12 mentors from 15 different countries are expected to participate in the in-person workshop,...
- 4/1/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Pop Up Film Residency, a mentorship program founded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras and Slovak producer Juraj Krasnohorsky, will be the exclusive and creative partner of Munich Film Up!, a new initiative by Munich’s University of Film and Television in partnership with the Munich Intl. Festival of Film Schools and the Munich Film Festival.
The eight-month mentoring program and residency will support six promising young filmmakers from around the world as they make the transition from film school into the industry. The inaugural lab will kick off this November at the 40th anniversary of the Munich Intl. Festival of Film Schools and will wrap at the Munich Film Festival in June 2022.
Co-Director Elena Diesbach, head of international at the University of Film and Television (Hff Munich), described the new initiative as a “cultural incubator” that will help the esteemed film school strengthen ties with the city...
The eight-month mentoring program and residency will support six promising young filmmakers from around the world as they make the transition from film school into the industry. The inaugural lab will kick off this November at the 40th anniversary of the Munich Intl. Festival of Film Schools and will wrap at the Munich Film Festival in June 2022.
Co-Director Elena Diesbach, head of international at the University of Film and Television (Hff Munich), described the new initiative as a “cultural incubator” that will help the esteemed film school strengthen ties with the city...
- 7/12/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Project development initiative has opened up to projects from the wider Southeast Asian region.
Full Circle Lab, a project development programme backed by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp), has announced the 20 projects selected for this year’s edition, which will take place online September 15-29.
The initiative, which is co-headed by Matthieu Darras and Izabela Igel, will be preceded by the Film Industry Conference (September 11-15), which will also be held online and open to a larger audience. Full Circle Lab was initially scheduled to take place in Manila in April, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Full Circle Lab, a project development programme backed by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp), has announced the 20 projects selected for this year’s edition, which will take place online September 15-29.
The initiative, which is co-headed by Matthieu Darras and Izabela Igel, will be preceded by the Film Industry Conference (September 11-15), which will also be held online and open to a larger audience. Full Circle Lab was initially scheduled to take place in Manila in April, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 coronavirus.
- 8/27/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Four new hosts from the Nordic countries and the Baltics are joining the film residency network and are raring to welcome the new participants. “By filmmakers, for filmmakers”: this is how the Pop Up Film Residency, which was launched last year by French film activist Matthieu Darras and Slovak producer Juraj Krasnohorsky, is described. The Pop Up Film Residency offers a tailor-made mentorship programme to its resident (as each host only mentors one at a time) during a three-week period, and it unfolds in various locations. The resident of each session is selected by a network of partners, among them the Cannes Critics’ Week, Trieste’s When East Meets West and the Doha Film Institute. Experienced film-industry professionals become the hosts of each Pop Up Film Residency. At the beginning, the main location was Bratislava, but soon after the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, a network of hosts was created, all of.
Cannes–The Pop Up Film Residency, a mentorship program launched this year by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras and Slovak producer Juraj Krasnohorsky, has announced three new residents, four new hosts, and two new creative partners for 2019.
Based in Bratislava, the program offers a three-week residency in Slovakia each month, along with a series of international residencies throughout the year with a growing network of partners, including Cannes Critics’ Week, Eave and the Doha Film Institute.
“The big difference between this residency and other support schemes for talents is that it’s really tailor-made,” said Darras. “Once we really get an understanding of the person, the project, we actually find the good residency.”
A former Cannes Critics’ Week programmer, Darras described the Pop Up Film Residency as a “passion project” designed to offer mentorship on an intimate scale. “I have 20 years of experience running labs, where I usually have programs with 20, 25 projects,...
Based in Bratislava, the program offers a three-week residency in Slovakia each month, along with a series of international residencies throughout the year with a growing network of partners, including Cannes Critics’ Week, Eave and the Doha Film Institute.
“The big difference between this residency and other support schemes for talents is that it’s really tailor-made,” said Darras. “Once we really get an understanding of the person, the project, we actually find the good residency.”
A former Cannes Critics’ Week programmer, Darras described the Pop Up Film Residency as a “passion project” designed to offer mentorship on an intimate scale. “I have 20 years of experience running labs, where I usually have programs with 20, 25 projects,...
- 5/23/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Matthiu Darras says Babak Jalali is among the first filmmakers who will participate.
UK-based Iranian filmmaker Babak Jalali, whose credits include Land and Radio Dreams, is one of the first filmmakers selected for Matthieu Darras’ new international Pop Up Film Residency. The initiative is being unveiled at the When East Meets West co-production forum in Trieste this week.
The Pop Up Film Residency aims to combine a traditional artist’s residency with the practical elements of a film workshop.
Jalali will participate in one of the three-week residencies in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava later this year. He will work...
UK-based Iranian filmmaker Babak Jalali, whose credits include Land and Radio Dreams, is one of the first filmmakers selected for Matthieu Darras’ new international Pop Up Film Residency. The initiative is being unveiled at the When East Meets West co-production forum in Trieste this week.
The Pop Up Film Residency aims to combine a traditional artist’s residency with the practical elements of a film workshop.
Jalali will participate in one of the three-week residencies in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava later this year. He will work...
- 1/23/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Annecy, France — The time involved in building a brand, traditional relationship with broadcasters’ disruption by VOD platforms, and a need to implement marketing strategies at an early stage of production were some of the pivotal points discussed at Mifa panel “Building Brands: The Road to Success,” an event organized by Creative Europe Media Program as a European Film Forum (Eff), in partnership with Annecy Festival’s Mifa Market.
On May 3, the European Commission adopted a new proposal for the next Media Program which will run 2021-27. E.U. programs for all different sectors are set up in seven-year terms. At the Annecy event, deputy head of unit of audiovisual industry and media support programs Martin Dawson said that the proposal implies “a significant strengthening of the Creative Europe Media Program with new priorities, and with additional funding.”
The amount for financing, culture and creative sectors that the European Commission proposes...
On May 3, the European Commission adopted a new proposal for the next Media Program which will run 2021-27. E.U. programs for all different sectors are set up in seven-year terms. At the Annecy event, deputy head of unit of audiovisual industry and media support programs Martin Dawson said that the proposal implies “a significant strengthening of the Creative Europe Media Program with new priorities, and with additional funding.”
The amount for financing, culture and creative sectors that the European Commission proposes...
- 6/16/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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