WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

Trieste Cross-border Meeting

January, 19-21 2011

It will start tomorrow, Wednesday 19, and will last until January 21WHEN EAST MEETS WEST, the co-production event organized by theFriuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, ANTENNA MEDIA TORINO, MEDIA DESK ITALIA, and under the patronage of EURIMAGES.

The aim is to encourage the cooperation between Eastern European countries and Italy and one other Western European country in focus: after the 2010 successful pilot edition (focused on Spain) in the 2011 edition the Western selected country will be France.

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will bring together producers, film funds representatives, commissioning editor, sales agents and film experts from both regions.

Amongst the companies/institutions which already confirmed their presence:

ARTE (France), RAI 3 (Italy), HRT (Croatia), RTV SLOVENIJA (Slovenia), EASTWEST DISTRIBUTION (Austria) FILM EUROPE (Czech Republic), COPRODUCTION OFFICE (France), SOUL FOOD (Serbia), SLOVENIAN FILM FUND (Slovenia), CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE (Croatia), NATIONAL FILM CENTER (Bulgaria), FILM CENTER SERBIA (Serbia), SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE (Slovakia), GEORGIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER (Georgia), MACEDONIAN FILM FUND (Macedonia), CNC (France) REGION PACA (France)

The programme will include the Pitching of 16 projects in development - selected amongst 92 applications from 18 countries - and a three-day Film Forum designed to investigate both Eastern and Western audiovisual panorama through round tables, presentations and case studies.

More infos on the page dedicated to WEMW on www.triestefilmfestival.it

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST