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

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WHEN EAST MEETS WEST 2011

Trieste Cross-border Meeting

Deadline: December 3, 2010.

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST is a co-production event organized by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Regional Fund, the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, MEDIA DESK ITALIA, ANTENNA MEDIA TORINO, and under the patronage of EURIMAGES. The aim is to encourage cooperation between Eastern European countries^[1] and Italy and one other Western European country in focus (in the 2011 edition the Western selected country will be France).

After the 2010 successful edition focused on Spain, WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will be held in Trieste from the 19th to the 21st January 2011, and will bring together 14 selected producers with one project in development suitable for co-production between Eastern European countries, Italy and France.

Applicants should be experienced producers who already produced an international co-production and wish to create long term creative and business relationships between East and West. The projects should be feature films or documentaries, preferably with a minimum of 20% of the budget already in place.

All applications must include:

- producer’s CV

- CV of the writer and (if already attached) director

- company profile and track record

- synopsis (1 page maximum)

- approx. 5 – 8 page treatment / exposé in English

- financing plan

All documents must be in English and must be sent via email before December 3, 2010 to udine@fvgfilmcommission.com

The 14 selected producers will have the chance to meet individually a large panel of decision makers and film experts from both regions. One of the attending producers & projects will be awarded a scholarship for the EAVE 2011 European Producers Workshop. WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will also include a two-day Film Forum designed to investigate both the Eastern and Western audiovisual panorama thro

ugh round tables, presentations and case studies.

Amongst the experts who attended the first 2010 edition:

Àngela Bosch CATALAN FILMS & TV (E), Nerina Kocjancic SLOVENIAN FILM FUND (SLO), Sanja Ravlic CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE (HR), Jovan Marjanovic CINELINK (BiH), Mira Staleva SOFIA MEETINGS (BG), Victor Carrera TV3 CATALUNYA (E), Igor Palcic RTV SLOVENIJA (SLO), Hrvoje Juvancic HRT (HR), Lorenzo Hendel RAI TRE (I).

The projects selected will be announced the 16th of December. WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will offer up to 4 nights of accommodation in Trieste and will reimburse the travel expenses to

all 14 producers selected.

^[1] Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

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