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Southeast European Film Festival, Los Angeles (SEEfest) is a competition festival which educates about the cultural diversity of Southeast Europe and fosters cultural exchange through its annual presentations of films from the countries of the Balkans and Caucasus. Categories: Feature films, narrative documentaries, short fiction and short docs as well as short animation. Submissions are typically opened from mid-September to mid-February. SEEfest is week-long event and takes place annually at the end of April-beginning of May, in Los Angeles, CA. Awards are given in all categories by juries of Hollywood professionals. For more info, please visit https://seefilmla.org/.
14th South East European Film Festival: May 1-8, 2019 in West Hollywood & Beverly Hills
The 14th edition of SEEfest, running May 1-8, 2019, features 56 films from 18 countries, including 13 narrative features, 7 documentary features, 6 shorts programs, a Sci-Fi side-bar with 2 features and a shorts program, and a Business of Film Conference about data in the film industry. This year the festival will explore theme of cinematic audacity by drawing attention to South East European ...
Don’t miss the boat! We have extended our early bird deadline to Dec 15. Take advantage of the lowest rates and submit your film for 2016 Festival. And plan your trip to Los Angeles – we are adding more industry programs for visiting filmmakers, and young cineastes!
Films from and about South East Europe qualify. Deadlines:
Early bird, discounted rates for early submissions: December 15, 2015
Regular deadline: January 15, 2016
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If you love beautiful things and you want to be moved, you must see PINA, the documentary by Wim Wenders.
It captures some of the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch’s 40 dances, using 3-D technology that draws you into the dance in a way that’s never been filmed before. And it’s earthy! Where else have you seen dancers ooze into actual dirt, fling themselves into water and rock, burst through woods in spring, or dance a lonely arabesque on a concrete island surrounded...
Calling all cineastes! There's a film series starting tonight from a part of the world that's had an huge influence on South East Europe, so I wanted to alert you. It's being put on by the UCLA Center for European and
Eurasian Studies. The first film is tonight:
Date: Tues., Jan. 17, 2011
Time: 6:30pm
Place: UCLA, 11630F
Charles E. Young Research Library
Park: Structure 3
(off Sunset)
Walk south past Melnitz Hall and the Broad Art...
We looked for a partner who loves movies, cherishes those
great old ones and has an ear for contemporary tastes as well. We hope you'll
like them too: Metropolis Books. From now on every time you look for a book and
make a purchase at this cool online store, you will be supporting SEE FEST too.
So, don't forget to mention our name!! Metropolis has suggested a few titles by
authors from South East Europe for your reading pleasure:
The Tiger's Wife is Tea
Obreht's debut novel...
Here’s a great opportunity for documentary filmmakers. The
Sundance Documentary Fund supports documentary films from around the world that
focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice,
civil liberties, and critical issues of our time. The fund wants to encourage
the diverse exchange of ideas crucial to developing an open society, raise
public consciousness about human rights abuses and restrictions of civil
liberties, and foster an ongoing dialogu...
Happy New Year! To start out the New Year right, how
about a free public lecture at UCLA on the achievements of the modern Baltic
States? It’s perfect for you South East Europe fans out there.
“The Baltic States 20 Years After Independence:
Achievements and Disappointments,” a public lecture by Prof. Mark Kramer of
Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, will be
held:
Thursday Jan. 12, 2012
12noon – 2pm (sandwi...
Hot Docs, the Toronto
Documentary Film Festival, is focusing on SEE countries for the 2012 Festival,
and the deadline is just a month away—Jan. 13, 2012. Filmmakers with
documentaries from or about Albania, Austria, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cypress, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro,
Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey should apply. Submit your docs (any
topic, any length), postmarked by 1/13/12, to:
Hot
Docs Canadian International Do...
Come see the 2010
Croatian feature, “Mother of Asphalt” directed by Dalibor
Matanić and starring Marija Škaričić, winner of the 2011 Golden FIPA Award from
France’s Biarritz
International Festival for this performance. (Two of her other performances, “Fraulein”
in 2006 and “A Wonderful Night in Split” in 2004, were also awarded Best
Actress Awards from the Sarajevo Film Festival.)
The
story: It's
almost Christmas time when Mare, recently laid off, leaves...
For those of you lucky enough to catch “Once Upon A Time
in Anatolia” at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles this week, this was a
beautiful film – beautifully shot, well acted – that left you pondering the
film long after it was over. It unspooled gently, letting you seep into the
high, windy, seer landscape and the lives thrown together by an investigation:
the prosecutor, the doctor, the chief of police, and many others, being led
about the countryside by a handcu...
These two films got
big audience responses last week at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.
“Pina,” a 3-D documentary
about the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch, starts with her
re-envisioning of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” as a thrilling discovery of
female sexuality. The film jumps—you cannot gently segue away from “Rite”—into
other dances she choreographed, along with brief interviews with her dancers.
When Wenders voices that this is no...
Here's another great opportunity to see films from South
East Europe in Los Angeles. And it's free! Today (and later this week too) you
can see two SEE films at the AFI Film Festival:
-- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkey/Bosnia) is
Turkey’s official submission for the Foreign Language Oscar, today at 1:30pm at
the Egyptian, and Nov. 10 at 3:45pm at the Chinese. Details: http://ticketing.afi.com/eng/detail.aspx?ID=8196
-- The Forgiveness of Blood (USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy)...
Hello folks! I’m back from a couple trips out of town
(family stuff, without my computer) so I could not blog for a while. But now
that I’m back in town, I can catch the second half of the AFI Festival in Los
Angeles, which runs through Nov. 10. Screenings are free! – though of course
you still need a ticket, available at http://www.afi.com/AFIFEST/.
For more on AFI, check out today’s article in the LA
Times, “Finding Passion for Film,” featuring an interview with...
SEE FEST filmmakers: Did you know that Germany is one of
the biggest financial partners of South East European filmmakers? Or that
Germans are some of the main distributors of SEE films?
Find out how you too can get German film funds for your
next project, and all the ways that these funds can impact international
production, in:
Co-Producer Germany: How to Get Your Film
Funded
Sat. Oct 29th
at 12:30pm
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
5750 Wilshi...
Mark your calendars! One of SEE FEST’s most important
partners is screening new films from Germany and we want you to come!
From October 26 -
30, 2011, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles presents the 5th annual German Currents Film Festival,
showcasing the best of new German cinema. Screenings will be held at the
Egyptian Theatre, the Aero Theatre and the Goethe-Institut L.A.
Opening night,
Wed. Oct 26 at 7:30pm, don’t miss “Almanya”, directed by Jas...
Are you a filmmaker whose movie (feature, documentary, animated or short) is thematically tied to South East Europe? SEE Fest invites you to submit your film for the 2012 festival. Films from first-time directors qualify for the Best First Feature Film Award! Please mail the screener to our address at:
SEE FEST - Attn. Programming
7119 W. Sunset Blvd., Suite 306
Los Angeles, CA 90046
U.S.A.
SEE Fest 2012 dates: May 3-7, 2012
Submission Dead...
More good news for the South East European film community! CINEMA KOMUNISTO, a documentary about the Yugoslav movie industry, has just won the 2011 Gold Hugo Award for Best Documentary at Chicago International Film Festival. The doc's tagline is " When reality has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves?"
Mila Turajlić, the film’s director, had the honor of having her first feature doc in the internationa...
Another win for the South East European film community!
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, a US/Albanian film was awarded the Silver Hugo for
Best Screenplay at the Chicago International. Writers Joshua Marston and
Andamion Murataj won the award for their lovingly crafted story that takes us
on an intimate journey through the fate of families that are ruled by the laws
of honor and vengeance. The writers lay out for the audience the complexity of
human relations and make us reconsider our...
Calling all documentarians! Funding proposals will be
accepted from Nov. 1 to Dec. 2, 2011 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's
Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program. It supports the production and
distribution of social-issue documentary films made by experienced filmmakers
based in the U.S. with a track record of completing
feature-length films that have been broadcast nationally and internationally.
Projects must address significant social cha...
One of the most useful elements of SEE FEST is its Business
Conference, headed last year by Honorary Chair Ron Yerxa (producer of Little Miss Sunshine and Cold Mountain, among others). The event
last May gave filmmakers great insights into:
-- How to access
and structure financing for international productions
-- How to develop Hollywood and European financing for co-productions
-- Local
governmental incentives for filmmakers
-- The role Hollywood-based Eas...
For those who didn’t see the 2011 South East European
Film Festival (SEE FEST) last May, I thought I’d recap a few of my favorite
films. Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody
Allen was a humorous and moving 2009 documentary about the Halilović family’s move from caravans into a
permanent apartment, and the daughter Laura’s intent on being a filmmaker
rather than getting married at 18, as her mother and relatives expected. Halilović’s family had lived in caravans in Italy sin...
Occasionally funding opportunities come by my desk which
I like to post, in case anyone out there can take advantage of them. Here’s
one.
The American Council of Learned Societies has launched a
competition for fellowships for the academic year 2012. These are intended to
fund research related to the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary,
Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Ro...
The last week of the Slovenian Film Retrospective at the
Hammer Museum in September was as memorable as the first, which I wrote about
in two previous blog posts.
I was unfortunately not able to see the next two films in
the series, Dance in the Rain, an
enigmatic love story that (to quote the program) “masterfully weighs whether
life’s plateaus are cause for disillusion or hope,” and Sand Castle, a “tour-de-force of absurdist, physical comedy [that]
subtly ...
More about “Slovenia Begs to Differ,” a unique
retrospective of Slovenian films, 1945-present, that played in September at the
Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. It was curated by Vera Mijojlic, artistic
director of the South East European Film Festival (SEE FEST) and Shannon
Kelley, head of public programs at UCLA’s Film and Television Archive, with
special thanks to Nerina T. Kocjancic of the Slovenian Film Center.
My second Slovenian film experience feat...
Los Angeles was recently treated to “Slovenia Begs to Differ,” a unique
retrospective of Slovenian films, 1945-present.
The film series took place over three weekends in September 2011 at the Hammer Museum’s 295-seat Billy Wilder Theater, which was consistently full or 2/3 full every night. Many film aficionados showed up to see films shown from archival 35mm prints. The films were curated by Vera Mijojlic, artistic director of the South East European Film Festival, and Shannon Kel...
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