This year, Latvia is sharing a spotlight with neighboring Lithuania and Estonia at the European Film Market, which has dedicated its 2023 Country in Focus Spotlight to the Baltic nations. It’s a sign of the tremendous strides the country has taken to put itself on the world cinema map, with the screen industries both producing more films and TV series than ever before and luring increasingly ambitious international projects to Northeastern Europe.
Here’s a rundown of some of the top Latvian projects in the pipeline that their producers will be pitching in Berlin:
Blue Blood
Director: Juris Kursietis
Producers: White Picture, Stellar Film, Asterisk*
The follow-up to Kursietis’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player “Oleg” is the story of a successful couple whose comfortable life is turned upside-down when the husband is implicated in a massive corruption scandal.
Sales: N/A
Soviet Milk
Director: Ināra Kolmane
Producers: Jānis Juhņēvičs, Marta Romanova-Jēkabsone...
Here’s a rundown of some of the top Latvian projects in the pipeline that their producers will be pitching in Berlin:
Blue Blood
Director: Juris Kursietis
Producers: White Picture, Stellar Film, Asterisk*
The follow-up to Kursietis’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player “Oleg” is the story of a successful couple whose comfortable life is turned upside-down when the husband is implicated in a massive corruption scandal.
Sales: N/A
Soviet Milk
Director: Ināra Kolmane
Producers: Jānis Juhņēvičs, Marta Romanova-Jēkabsone...
- 2/17/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Selection also includes seven projects from Ukrainian production companies.
Projects from Agnieszka Holland, Tomas Vengris and Dzintars Dreibergs are among 24 being pitched at a new co-production forum focusing on filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe at Warsaw’s Heart of Europe international festival from November 15-17.
Holland’s six-part series Emma, is inspired by the true story of Emma Altrichterová, the first female colonel in the Czech Army who embarked on a dangerous mission to save 40 children from advancing German troops during the Second World War.
It is being produced by Jan Maxa, director of content and new media at Czech TV,...
Projects from Agnieszka Holland, Tomas Vengris and Dzintars Dreibergs are among 24 being pitched at a new co-production forum focusing on filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe at Warsaw’s Heart of Europe international festival from November 15-17.
Holland’s six-part series Emma, is inspired by the true story of Emma Altrichterová, the first female colonel in the Czech Army who embarked on a dangerous mission to save 40 children from advancing German troops during the Second World War.
It is being produced by Jan Maxa, director of content and new media at Czech TV,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The 10 producers will receive support in reaching the next level of their careers.
International producers organisation Ace Producers has selected 10 up-and-coming producers from the EU, Norway and UK for the first edition of its Ace Mentoring Programme EU.
They include Clara Jantzen Kreinoe of Denmark’s Snowglobe Film, who has worked on titles including Jeanette Nordahl’s Wildland and Hlynur Palmason’s A White, White Day; and Thomas Lambert of France’s Tomsa Films, co-producer of Laura Samani’s Cannes 2021 Critics’ Week title Small Body.
Scroll down for the full list of producers
Also selected are Krystyna Kantor, who was...
International producers organisation Ace Producers has selected 10 up-and-coming producers from the EU, Norway and UK for the first edition of its Ace Mentoring Programme EU.
They include Clara Jantzen Kreinoe of Denmark’s Snowglobe Film, who has worked on titles including Jeanette Nordahl’s Wildland and Hlynur Palmason’s A White, White Day; and Thomas Lambert of France’s Tomsa Films, co-producer of Laura Samani’s Cannes 2021 Critics’ Week title Small Body.
Scroll down for the full list of producers
Also selected are Krystyna Kantor, who was...
- 4/7/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Warsaw Next workshop for young Polish filmmakers with 70+ participants is organized in cooperation with Sundance TV who hosts a masterclass on 15 October.
The Warsaw Film Festival (October 7–16, 2016) promotes Eastern European cinema as well as world cinema. With over 100 titles, five competitive sections, Fipresci workshops and the ever-expanding industry event CentEast Market, the 32nd edition of the Warsaw Film Festival this year is its largest ever event.
CentEast Market focuses on Eastern European cinema and will present 13 new works-in-progress, new Polish films and workshops for both filmmakers and film critics.
The CentEast Market runs 14–16 October during the final days of the Warsaw Film Festival. Since 2005, the market has provided a meeting space for sales agents, distributors, festival programmers and producers interested in Eastern European cinema.
This year’s CentEast Market will be repeated in Moscow a few days after its October 14 presentation in Warsaw. Peter Bebjak (The Cleaner [+]), Inara Kolmane (Mona...
The Warsaw Film Festival (October 7–16, 2016) promotes Eastern European cinema as well as world cinema. With over 100 titles, five competitive sections, Fipresci workshops and the ever-expanding industry event CentEast Market, the 32nd edition of the Warsaw Film Festival this year is its largest ever event.
CentEast Market focuses on Eastern European cinema and will present 13 new works-in-progress, new Polish films and workshops for both filmmakers and film critics.
The CentEast Market runs 14–16 October during the final days of the Warsaw Film Festival. Since 2005, the market has provided a meeting space for sales agents, distributors, festival programmers and producers interested in Eastern European cinema.
This year’s CentEast Market will be repeated in Moscow a few days after its October 14 presentation in Warsaw. Peter Bebjak (The Cleaner [+]), Inara Kolmane (Mona...
- 10/10/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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