Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

THREE DAYS LEFT FOR INDUSTRY@TALLINN & BALTIC EVENT EARLY BIRD ACCREDITATION PRICE

Taking place from 26 until 30 Nov this year, one of the biggest film industry platforms in Northern Europe has opened early bird accreditation for the Festival + Industry Badge, that gives you access to all public industry events and up to 40 films in the Black Nights Film Festival's programme.

All regular elements of the event, such as the works in progress showcases, co-production market, script development and panel sessions, are set to be continued in 2018, with some getting a significant upgrades that will be announced in the upcoming months. The topics, lineups of speakers and projects will be announced during September and October.

INDUSTRY@TALLINN & BALTIC EVENT PROJECTS FLY HIGH

Wondering where have all our projects gone? Here are some of the recent highlights of our past projects.

Karolvy Vary is about to kick off with our last year's International Work In Progress participant Crystal Swan opening the East of West competition and the Baltic Event Co-Production Market 2012 entry Breathing Into Marble screening also in the same programme.

Suleiman Mountain has been developed in Baltic Event's B'EST EAVE script development in 2014 and the Co-Production Market in 2015 and was presented at the International Works In Progress in 2017. The film premiered at Toronto IFF and has seen a nice festival run that includes a main prize at the Pingyao Film Festival. Read more in Variety!

The 2013 Co-production Market and 2016 International Works In Progress entry When The Trees Fall premiered at the Berlinale this year, gaining a favorable review in THR and an interview in Variety.

The most expensive Estonian film ever made, a co-production with Ireland, the UK and Belgium with Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds and other top actors voicing characters, the feature-legnth animation Captain Morten and the Spider Queen was at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market in 2012 and presented in the Works In Progress last year. The film received a favorable review in Cineuropa after its premiere in Animafest Zagreb. Germany's Sola Media holds international rights.

BALTIC EVENT OPENS FIRST SUBMISSIONS

BALTIC EVENT CO-PRODUCTION MARKET
The Co-Production Market, running from 27 until 30 Nov, presenting the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in the amount of 20 000 Euros, provides a perfect opportunity to find financiers, co-producers and sales agents for your project during an intensive two days of pre-arranged one-on-one meetings. Projects from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine, plus projects from Italy, our 2018 Focus Country, are eligible for submission. Projects from other countries looking for co-production partners or service providers in these countries are also accepted. 

POWR BALTIC STORIES EXCHANGE

POWR (26-30 Nov) trains writers to deliver a good pitch and find a producer at the public project presentation as well as get industry feedback through pre-arranged POWR Meetings with carefully selected Baltic Event participants. Six screenplays in the early stages of development from the Nordic and Baltic countries as well as Italy, BE Focus Country, will be selected. The workshop is organised by Baltic Event in collaboration with the region’s Creative Europe MEDIA Desks and TorinoFilmLab.