Mas y Mas September 2011

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monthly newsletter of NISI MASA

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10 years of nisi masa

Kitchen Party at Courmayeur 2003 (by Lorenzo Barello OR Lasse Lecklin)

Anecdotes Memories Parties People & Places

Brainstorming during the Sodankylä 2002 meeting (photo by Lasse Lecklin)

editorial Forza NISI MASA! As our network is celebrating its 10 years of existence this month, it made perfect sense for Mas Y Mas to ask Nisimasians to share memories of their NISI MASA life. Once in a while, it’s comforting to open the old family album, and the many anecdotes of the following pages serve the same purpose. For sure this is just a foretaste of all the stories that NISI MASA has been generating (one could notice that funnily enough not that many memories directly have to do with cinema…), and the one history of this crazy idea called NISI MASA is still to be written.

Indeed, as anniversary times are the occasion to look back at the past, I am often asked lately to tell about the very first event of all, the act of birth of NISI MASA. Whereas I have a clear personal memory of how it all started, I also know that other founding fathers have been interpreting the prehistoric moments somehow differently. When memories conflict in a positive and creative way to propose alternative stories, the myth is not far away.

I personally believe that for one revolutionary (yes, yes, revolutionary!) idea to come into being, it needs to be already present –even if confusingly- in people’s minds. Then the one person who formulates the idea clearly and loud is just the catalyst enabling the idea to spread fast all over the place. That’s how NISI MASA was born and that’s why so many different young people have enthusiastically made this idea their own since then.

Ten years after, I am convinced that not only the idea has not aged, but that it has become even more relevant, accurate, and… exciting. As we used to shout in the streets of Berlin after a massive demonstration against the war in Iraq (arguably the largest protest in human history to date – this was 2003, February the 15th), “Forza NISI MASA”!

By Matthieu Darras

Mas y Mas is a monthly newsletter published by the association NISI MASA. EDITORIAL STAFF Coordination and Layout Mario Kozina

Contributors to this issue: Maartje Alders, Merli Antsmaa, Pierre-Anthony Canovas, Olivier Croughs, Matthieu Darras, Samo Dekleva, Zsuzsa Elek, Itxaso Elosua, Simone Fenoil, Joanna Gallardo, Davide Giurlando, Hannaleena Hauru, Boromir Ilkov, Mario Kozina, Jude Lister, Valentina Orešić, Atso Parnanen, Julien Pearly, Sebastiano Pucciarelli, Michał Szcześniak, Orlando Verde

NISI MASA (European Office) 99 Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis 75010, Paris, France Tel/Fax: +33 (0)9 60 39 63 38 + 33 (0)6 32 61 70 26 Email europe@nisimasa.com Website www.nisimasa.com

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dossier Photo by Silviu Pavel

They say we live in the times when all the attempts to organize our experiences in a coherent story system have failed. History turned out to be subjective: made of personal stories and experiences. With this in mind, we bring you the subjective history of NISI MASA, reconstructed through the memories of people, anecdotes and feelings, a mosaic open for missing pieces and new rearrangements.

Photo by Valentina Orešić

The Kitchen Party The second jury meeting in Courmayeur was really crazy, from the accomodation to the trips people took to get there. 10 people slept in a 50 m² apartment, while others stayed in a city 35 km away from the meeting. And in order to host everyone in the most comfortable way, the Italian group organized three cars to drive all the participants, and cooked every day for all 20 people in a kitchen with the size of 2 m².

The crazy idea was that we cannot cook always the same stuff!, so we made a different menu for each day. Believe me, that’s a good way to complicate your life! The last day of the meeting we were all completely drunk, and Lorenzo shouted “everybody in the kitchen!”. 20 people Jeanne Moreau managed to compress in 2 m² and I was sitting on the cooker. Not a As videoblogger at the 2009 Rio Film legend, but a true story! We have photo (cover photo, ed.) to prove this Festival, I had a tremendous time folcommon lapse of reason. lowing one of the greatest French acBy Simone Fenoil (Italy) tresses, Jeanne Moreau, when she returned to a slum where fifty years ago she had played in a movie. The visit took place in an art school where the old lady (80) gave advices to young Brazilians. At the end, some students performed an amazing batucada concert. I was so astonished by the music of these smiling musicians and dancers that I forgot to put the record button of my camera on.... until the very last second.

By Pierre-Anthony Canovas (France)

Dancing Attempts Above all, NISI MASA adventures have taken me to the most unexpected places. There are so many highlights, but to take a more exotic one, celebrating the successful 2016 Olympic bid of Rio de Janeiro on Copacabana beach - drinking caipirinhas and making ridiculous attempts at samba dancing with the locals - during the Nisimazine Rio workshop was hard to beat!

By Jude Lister (UK)

You Can Check-Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave!

During the Nisi Masa G.A. in Alba, participants stayed at the famous Roero Hotel. Twice.

Year 2008. After the day of busy meetings, Nisimasians tried to have some fun in the city, but fun was nowhere to be found. But, it couldn’t break our spirit so we had a famous car party on this very parking lot (see above). Imagine night, one white VW Polo with a new stereo system, around 20 Nisimasians and all the wine from the hotel bar. The party was so great that there isn't any picture of it, only blury memories.

Year 2009. The lamp incident. The old lady owner who wasn't happy we were her only guests. The wine stained carpet and yellow curtains from all the smoking. The story about an elephant in the room. Also no pictures available. But at least we have a picture of an empty parking lot of the strangest hotel in Italy. Or, maybe even in Europe.

By Valentina Orešić (Croatia)

My First GA Was A Birthday Party Attending my first General Asssembly Meeting as a formal representative of PIFF Association (Slovenia) in Linz 2010 was one of those things that remain with you and define you personally for the times ahead. Right in the middle of it, sensing I was getting distracted within my own thoughts, a certain Eastern European lobby decided to take the gentle GA gossiping to the next level by spreading rumors that on that day was my birthday and that I was sad because nobody remembered. It was a day like any other to me, except more and more people were asking me if I am coming to the boat ride.

Once the boat set sail I got pulled to a secluded place where I was notified about my fake birthday just before I was dragged into the boat’s dining room. There was a huge cake, all the girls were kissing me and I got a huge red flyswatter so I could vote properly at the plenary meetings. It was in fact one of the loveliest birthdays ever, and it was not even mine. It was ours. Love you Nisimasians.

By Samo Dekleva (Slovenia)

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An Ode of Another Kind to NISI MASA at Ten

Nisi Masa is like a Parisian picnic.

Everyone brings with them what they can...

Occasionally it is not enough...

Sometimes more than expected...

Some arrive late, Others wander in only for a moment, But while the sun starts to set and the open air movie to begin everyone already plans for the next gathering...

Because, Whether the wine spilled on the table is French or foreign some stains are to be celebrated and not removed...

So that they stand out on the otherwise clinical clean surface and add to the selection of colors.

By Atso Pärnänen (Finland)

Penny Lane During the NISI MASA Survive Style Film Forum in Vienna in March 2007 we got really close to the purest form of unexpected friendship... After the long days of discussions and filming, we used to walk at night through the less imperial parts of the city laughing and singing loud.

One of the songs we repeatedly kept singing was Penny Lane by The Beatles, purely because one of the girls of the group was named Penny. It just didn't wear out. We would sing along during the shooting or after dinner.

The last night we ended up in some basement party, when we suddenly recognized the first chords of Penny Lane coming from the DJ-booth. We got overexcited and started laughing and singing out loud... All of us except for Penny, who was almost crying from happiness...

by Orlando Verde (Belgium)

Remembering That Mill 2007. I was 27, moderately depressed, and about to start a Ph.D. at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. I wrote – almost jokingly - a script, Round dance, about a little child viciously killing his own mother with the complicity of his friends. OK. Perhaps I was a bit more than moderately depressed.

Anyway, don’t know how, don’t know why, I was

Simone Fenoil & Hannaleena Hauru

Emerging Friendship

I remember a piano room, a train in Bulgaria, the roof terrace, South Bank, sitting on a yellow couch and drinking vodka in a rose garden. And in all these places I remember an echo of smiling followed by a passing thought of truly being understood by someone. Sorry that I can't explain it more clearly, but the essence of emerging friendships must stay hidden.

By Hannaleena Hauru (Finland)

I Don't Understand But I Agree The catch-phrase I don't understand but I agree, told by dont-remember-who and dont-remember-where & when. But I do remember there were me, Matthieu, Lasse and Simone involved. It stayed as a motto of NISI MASA way of life for few years at the beginning of the network, meaning something like: Maybe I'm not sure of what you're exactly proposing, but I think I like it. You know what a big part linguistic creativity and headaches have always played in our meetings...

By Sebastiano Pucciarelli (Italy)

selected to participate in the European Short Pitch Project. Moulin d’Andé-Céci. From the 29th of January to the 5th of February 2008.

Round dance. Selected. There must have been a mistake, I thought. In my mind, I imagined the finalists as esteemed, sophisticated professionals. Consequently, when they asked me for a photo to put it in the book of project, I sent one where I had – I thought I had – an extremely sophisticated appearance. Fingers on my cheek, half-closed eyes, black sweater.

Something between a bad imitation of Fellini and a constipated silent movie actor.

During the journey I kept on thinking that the NISI MASA group was a strict cinema school, where I should simply listen to the teachers and never talk back. Until I met my tutor, François Pirot. And his glass of wine. And my glass of wine. OK, I thought, this is not a school. This is home.

I stayed with the NISI MASA guys for just a little more than a week, but I discovered I had more

affinities with them than... Well, practically everyone I knew in my everyday life.

After the pitch in Clermont Ferrand a guy, perhaps a producer, came to me, and told me that perhaps he was interested in the script. I’ll call you, he said.

2011. I’m 31, and I’m part of the staff of the cinema division at my University. We’ve just successfully concluded the first edition of our International Short Film Festival, and we’re getting ready for the second one.

The mysterious producer never called me back.

The script is still unproduced.

I still love you all.

By Davide Giurlando (Italy)

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NISI MASA meeting at the Berlinale 2003

by Boromir Ilkov (Bulgaria)

Above: We had a walk in East Berlin. I wanted to make a memory of the people who where there, not the buildings.

Above: It's a snapshot from a crazy midnight. We were going home with the last train and Sebastiano, Simone and Maju all of my friends for life, are on the picture.

Photo by Maartje Alders

Waking Up in a Train When you think of a train journey, particularly the lengthy Trans-Siberian of the Cinetrain project, you get excited and curious. Well that’s why I went there in the first place. I remember watching out of the window that morning wondering where I was, excited and dumbfounded.

With it’s endless number of stops and huge distances, the possibility of waking up in the middle of nowhere is huge, but for some reason you tend to awake when the train pulls into a station. This feeling of waking up in a different place to the one where you fell asleep only hours ago is as amazing as watching the setting sun. It’s a constant discovery, a new beginning to something you left behind, you feel as young as a child with neither a past nor a future in this place.

By Julien Pearly (Scotland)

The Chill-Out Hotel As project manager at NISI MASA, I experienced a lot of good things and some bad moments, which with time became a joke! One of them happened during the NISI MASA general assembly in Istanbul, where we stayed at the so-called Chill-out hotel. The managers were not cool at all. They refused some participants to stay some nights and yelled to one NISI MASA trainee. The cleaning was not made and we got no water during three days. But the funniest thing was that they decided to organize a party for us, which we didn’t attend. Believe me, the organizers were not chilled-out at all.

By Joanna Gallardo (France)

The wonderful life of NISI MASA Sometimes some things seem grand, but untouchable and still something you want. NISI MASA network was this for me. Then I found the courage to contact NISI MASA Estonia, just before they were hosting Istanbul Express project. Since then I have been on the crazy rollercoaster of this network of people with brave and crazy ideas about the film and future. I have found good friends all across Europe. Now it seems that NISI MASA is on a new interesting path and can't wait for the new projects!

By Merli Antsmaa (Estonia)

How to Stand Out in A Crowd in Iran So, you are two young women, brought up in the anything-goes Netherlands, selected to make a daily magazine at a festival in Teheran, Iran, where Islamic dress code is a „must“, even a law. But then, what must you wear exactly not to raise suspicion? A bit of googling on the subject gave so many varied responses and us not being clear on what is the difference between a chador, a burqa and a niqab anyway, we headed to a local headscarf shop at the Dappermarkt, one of Amsterdams more multicultural markets, to ask for advice from the experts. After about half an hour and many ouhs and ahs, why the hell are you

going to Iran, we found ourselves resembling one grey and one slightly brown ghost. Covered from head to toe, with just a hole for the face.

Very much reassured by the lovely Moroccan salesladies, two happy and slightly uneasy costumers left the shop. With outfits in a bag, to be clear. Just for departure, we were informed that a long mens' shirt, and a simple headscarf will do. One female documentary maker went very happily to Afghanistan with her two shiney new chadors.

By Maartje Alders (Netherlands)

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Photo by Itxaso Elosua

Finnish Secret Police After 4 days of repetitive, cardboardian and greyish Finnish university canteen food (for which we were grateful, like lions attacking a carcass in the Savannah) Maartje and I had reached our limit. And so we wailed. We grumbled. We mumbled. We glanced at the gray nuggets on our plate. Then suddenly I received an SMS: This is the Finnish Secret Police. We know you’re complaining about our food. Stop complaining! We are watching you!! Gasps and slight agitation at the table. We glanced around.

Who had sent this?! The following days, the Finnish Secret Police never left our side. They texted. They watched. THEY KNEW! Needless to say, we figured out who the Finnish Secret Police was.... but that will remain a NISI MASA secret.

By Itxaso Elosua (Netherlands) Photo by Itxaso Elosua

Atso preparing for the meeting

Hotel With A Party Button Atso and myself went to Finland to meet with the Turku 2011 organisation to discuss the Cineboat project. At dinner time we got hungry so we decided to head over to the local Finnish burger-joint to get some much needed calories. In the elevator, we noticed a weird button above the numbers for the floors. It had a group of people on it. Speculation immediately ensued and we figured that the button would take the elevator up to a special party floor, where a huge group of people were waiting till the elevator doors opened to start a massive party.

Sadly we never did press the button, although attempts were made.

But, whenever you’re in Turku remember: there’s a hotel with a funky party button, waiting to be pressed.

By Itxaso Elosua (Netherlands)

Fight Club At the end of NISI MASA screen writing workshop in Angers 2006, we decided to go out. We needed a real experience, especially after a week of talking only about scriptwriting. I remember we went to a club somewhere in the dark end of Angers. Almost no lights on the way. And there was a fight just in front of it. As for us, we were quite happy, although they didn't want to let us in the club (eventually, the people from the producers course helped). But, while we were trying to find the solution on how to get in, one of the guys who was fighting asked: What are you laughing about?

Janek from Poland said: We are from NISI MASA. Guy: What?

Janek: NISI MASA? Guy: Are you laughing at me?

Janek: Of course not. NISI MASA is the organisation of film makers.

Guy: Are you shooting just now?

The quarrel had stopped, and the fighting guys started wondering where the camera was. They were smiling at us, looking on the roofs, than again looked at us.

Eventually, we went in, and they stayed outside.

By Michał Szcześniak (Poland)

Maartje Alders & Itxaso in Helsinki

NISI-Flue A word on Matthieu Darras. Because, to be clear, if we are all under some strange influence - the NISI MASA flue - he is probably its portatore.

Since the beginning, I listened to this man making some crazy project and proposals, and everytime I thought: hey, come on, that’s really crazy, it’s too complicated, let’s be realistic. But every year all these crazy projects were realized. Not to mention the crazy people always present in the Board. Look at them: do they seem normal? Our Board is always a crazy one. It also causes addiction. Look at me: twice in the board, 4 years after the first experience. But finally my detox program is finally running properly. I’m writing this on the Alpes, in a refuge, where I will stay for one month, alone, trying to leave this NISI MASA influence.

It’s hard, people!

By Simone Fenoil (Italy)

The Vulcano

The vulcano explosion in Iceland in 2010 prevented 15 producers to attend European Short Pitch. The participants and the organizers got stuck in Bucharest. We decided to enjoy the city for two more days before going back home. For some of us it took 40 hours to go to Finland or Russia by train and boat. Most took the train to Vienna - 17 hours trough the Romanian landscape.

Although there were no beds and no toilet papers, we enjoyed the trip thanks to a Romanian guide. Some Nisimasians shared confidences late in the night. But only the people who were there know about them…

By Joanna Gallardo (France)

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Walking Contradiction > Prize Destruction OK, so you receive an award in an international festival just because the director of the film couldn't come and the organizers discovered that your name appears somewhere in the credits – years ago you did some research for that documentary. OK, so the award consists of a snow globe (we're in Austria, at the Crossing Europe Festival in Linz) + a plaque with very sharp borders, and of course, when you put the two together in a plastic bag, physics just does its job, and you find yourself standing in front of the festival director with a torrent of water and plastic snowflakes pouring over the floor. But let's move from the slapstick gag and try an interpretation: was it just the price to pay for such undeserved

glory (you did so little for that film...) or was it a true crime-and-punishment issue? Maybe it's time for me for a plain confession: the documentary is Videocracy, by Erik Gandini, quite a case in Italy and Europe as it exposes the influence of television in Berlusconi's Italy. And I also confess: at the time I got that award I was – and still am – working for Italian national television. Perhaps I'm becoming a moralist as I'm getting older, but my final understanding of the story is that sometimes the noise of contradiction is so loud that it can easily break a tiny glass...

Sebastiano takes the award...

...and the rest is physics!

By Sebastiano Pucciarelli (Italy)

Photo by Magdalena Fischer

Photo by Maartje Alders

How to Reach the Jet set with A Single Smile?

The Poster Sin 2002, the first NisiMasa script contest. The local teams received the posters which were to be spread all over the country to raise the attention of young script writers of this new phenomenon in European cinema. The package was heavy, because there were around 500 posters in it. What can you do with 500 posters?! You could put a few in the cinemas, some in the universites, a few in bars and we are down maybe 20 posters. Let's send some to friends in other cities! Hmm… We don't really have friends in other cities, but let's send some to the one person we know in another city. Fine, at least 30 posters placed, only 470 to go. Let's postpone this problem a little bit, we'll come up with a good plan soon....

2006, I am moving out of my flat and what do I find neatly tucked under the bookshelf? 470 NISI MASA posters! A surge of guilt and a quick trip to the selective trash container. The memory of the leftover posters still hunts me… Had we placed all of them, I am sure the world would be a better place now.

By Zsuzsa Elek (Hungary)

Getting on the third deck of the ARTE yacht, dancing, eating and drinking for free was such an easy game to play! I almost feel ashamed to even write about it.

Basically, the day before, I was waiting for the Armadillo screening in the Critic's Week theater during the Nisimazine Cannes 2010 workshop. As I was a lonely loner on my lonely seat, I decided to gently start a conversation with the man sitting next to me, just to make the time pass a bit faster. Actually, the guy was nothing less than one of the France Televisions administrators. He proudly gave me his business card while I maliciously gave my false one in return. The next day, I simply showed my (his?) precious card - which I held firmly - to the steward before the footbridge leading to the boat. And then? Free access for myself and the three people accompanying, what else?

By Olivier Croughs (Belgium)

Burglary d'Or There is one unfortunate incident in Cannes 2009 that I think I may never live down. All the others had gone to a screening of the festival closing ceremony, but I was so shattered from the previous days that I decided to take a nap back at our apartment. After about an hour of peaceful dozing I woke up and walked into the kitchen, only to find that we had been burgled. At least two laptops and one photo camera gone... and I hadn't heard a thing! At least one important lesson was learnt though: always, ALWAYS back up your files.

By Jude Lister (UK)

news EUROPEAN SHORT NISIMAZINE SPECIAL: NISIMAZINE TALLINN ORIZZONTI ANNOUNCEMENT PITCH 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT

Four NISI MASA journalist will have a chance to cover the Orizzonti section of the upcoming 68th Venice Film Festival. From September 2nd, be sure to stay tuned on www.nisimazine.eu to read all about the contemporary cutting-edge cinema and auteurs brought to you daily by Matthieu Darras, Jude Lister, Elisabeth Renault Geslin and Eftihia Stefanidi.

Also, shortly after the festival is over, a single online magazine will be published.

Venice Film Festival: www.labiennale.org/en/cinema

European Short Pitch is a scriptwriting and pitching project aiming to support the development of young directors and to get their short films made as European coproductions.

The ESP 2012 edition is planned for the following dates and locations: - Scriptwriting workshop in Luxembourg, January 2-8th - Pitching and coproduction forum in Maribor, March 2-4th Young Europeans aged between 18 and 28 will have a chance to send their scripts. The deadline for submissions is 10th October .

Contact: europeanshortpitch@nisimasa.com

MUNICH FILM SOCIETY SEMINARS

During September Munich Film Society resumes their weekly training courses for film professionals and enthusiasts. Two seminars will be held on the weekend of September 17th-18th: The Dramaturgy of Documentary Film and Script & Continuity, while the following weekend (September 24th/25th ) proceeds with Introduction to Film Analysis and Storytelling in Moving Images. Each seminar will be tutored by professionals, some of them are held in English, while many require a knowledge of German. The program is set until March 2012 so check out their official site for more informations and updates.

Munich Film Society: www.filmseminare.de/termine

NISI MASA Estonia is preparing a Nisimazine workshop that will be held for a week during the upcoming 15th edition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 16th-30th). 16 Nisimasians from Estonia, Finland and Lithuania will have an opportunity to cover the festival and publish their articles daily on the Nisimazine website. The call for the participants will be launched soon!

15th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: 2011.poff.ee/eng

DepicT

CALL FOR ENTRIES

TOTEM AT THE CRITICS WEEK Munich Film Society, NISI MASA member organization from Germany, co-produced the feature film Totem that will be screened as a part of International Critics Week during the 68th Venice International Film Festival, an autonomous section dedicated to debut films. Directed by Jessica Krummacher as her graduation work the film follows a young housemaid who starts working for a middle-class family in the Ruhr area. Compared by the program curators to the cinema of Haneke, Seidl and Pasolini, Totem is a story about family anxieties and a social class in crisis. The film will be screened on September 8th at 2 p.m.

26th International Critics Week: www.sicvenezia.it/

DepicT is Watershed's super-short filmmaking competition as a part of Encounters International Film Festival. It challenges filmmakers on any budget from anywhere in the world to show their stuff in just a minute and a half.

The films are required to be 90 seconds or shorter and completed after Septmeber 2010.

Shortlisted films will get an industry platform at Encounters International Film Festival (November 16th-20th 2011). The deadline si on September 5th.

More info: www.depict.org/competition/

SIXTY SECOND STORIES CALL FOR ENTRIES

Sixty Second Stories is a project aimed at discovering new ways of storytelling and emerging filmmakers from all over the world. The goal is to connect 90 one minute stories in a feature film that will be screened at the Berlinale 2012, before setting off to other international film festivals. The deadline for application is October 3rd .

More info: www.storyfilm.com

agenda ISTANBUL

31 august - 10 september

Nisimazine Special: Orizzonti

EXPRESS

SCREENINGS

Venice

We Are Not Living in A Fucking Hospital, one of the Istanbul Express films, will be screened out of competition during the 10th International Film Students Meeting. Held from September 21-23rd, the meeting is a part of 59th International Film Festival in San Sebastian (September 16-24th). We Are Not Living in A Fucking Hospital is a documentary short directed by Vappu Tuomisto, that deals with the graffiti artists across Europe and their view on urban spaces.

For more info, check out: Aye Aye FF: www.ayeaye-vo.com Istanbul Express continues its ride through Europe, but this time across the screens of various international festivals. This September the films will travel to France and Slovakia. On 6th and 8th of September a selection of 8 films will be screened during the Aye Aye Film Festival in Nancy (France), while during September 9th to 15th the same selection will be screened at Cinematik, International Film Festival in Piešt'any (Slovakia).

25 FPS

5 september

Closing Submissions DepicT 15 september Closing Applications Kino Kabaret Praha

15 september Closing Applications Cinetrain: Russian Winter

www.cinematik.sk/en www.sansebastianfestival.com

17/18 september

Start of Munich Film Society

25 september

Closing Applications

SKENA UP

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Official site: www.25fps.hr

SKENA UP international Students Film and Theater Festival is calling film and theatre students from all around the world to submit their films or theatre performances for the 9th edition of the SKENA UP Festival, which will be held from December 2nd to 9th in Priština, Kosovo. The films can be of any genre (fiction, documentary, animation), but no longer than 30 minutes. Also, they must be produced by film schools, and not before 2010.

Deadline for the application is 25th September.

Official site: www.skenaup.com/

SKENA UP

3 october

Closing Submissions

During the September 20th-25th Zagreb becomes THE place for all the experimental film and video enthusiasts. The seventh edition of the 25 FPS, International Experimental Film and Video Festival will present the best titles of contemporary avantgarde cinema, with thoughtprovoking side programs, esteemed international guests and expanded cinema performances. The entrance for all screenings and performances is free.

Seminars

Sixty Second Stories

5 october

Closing Applications

Berlinale Talent Campus

10 october

Closing Submissions

ESP 2012

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Call for Short Film Projects!

Deadline for application: 30 SEPTEMBER 2011

Session 1: scriptwriting workshop Luxembourg 02-08 January 2012 session 2: pitching & coproduction forum Maribor 02-04 March 2012