Synopsis

LET'S CEE Industry Days
Day 2

Friday, 24.3.
8.30am to 4.50pm
Raiffeisen Hall

The participation is free of charge for all accredited festival visitors this year!

Save your seat now! The LET’S CEE Film Festival 2017 in Vienna will host its Industry Days on “Filmmaking in CEE and in Austria: Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges“ from 23rd to 24th March. The new two-day event, held in English, will impress participants with top speakers and an agenda of practical and relevant topics. The participation is free of charge for accredited festival visitors. Please register in time to secure your place. For all those who did not reserve a place or are not on the attendance list, remaining open seats will be given on a first come, first serve basis.

The organisers aim to offer participants a broad agenda of practical, relevant topics and to show them the best opportunities for getting their projects funded and financed in several countries and on EU level and how to find the perfect co-production partner. In addition, participants will also get an up-to-date overview of what the film industry in Austria and in the CEE region has to offer besides these aspects. Participants will, for example, listen to lectures on how to improve their chances of getting their feature film or documentary on the big screen of a cinema chain or at an A-Festival, what big film studios nowadays can do for them, how virtual reality will change the business in the near future, how to produce a high-class documentary on a par with Hollywood, what a perfect and watertight international co-production contract looks like, and much more. In two top-class panel discussions, Austrian and international experts will talk about the future of European film festivals and analyse the prospects of co-productions between western and CEE countries. The closing event of the Industry Days, a Live! Ammunition! Pitching Session hosted by Elliot Grove, Founder and Director of the Raindance FF and the British Independent Film Awards, will give young filmmakers the chance to present their work in front of experienced film professionals.

You can find the accreditation application form here:

https://vp.eventival.eu/letscee/2017

Find more information and the programme:
http://www.letsceefilmfestival.com/lets-cee-industry-days-144.html

Guests

ROBERT BALINSKI

Robert Baliński

Guest Industry Days | Making movies in Poland: An overview of the Polish film industry, film funding, film services and  the legal situation

International Co-Productions Project Manager Polish Film Institute

In Vienna: March 24-25

JELKA STERGEL

Jelka Stergel

Guest Industry Days | Making movies in Slovenia: An overview of the Slovenian film industry, film funding, film services and the legal situation

Head of Promotion and Marketing Slovenian Film Center

In Vienna: March 23-25

SAMAYA ASGAROVA

Samaya Asgarova

Guest Industry Days | Making movies in Azerbaijan: An overview of the Azerbaijani film industry, co-production opportunities, film funding, film services and the legal situation

Head of  International Affairs Azerbaijanfilm Studio

In Vienna: March 22-25

ANAMARIA ANTOCI

Anamaria Antoci
Producer Illegitimate
Guest Industry Days
In Vienna: March 24-26

CHRISTOPH THOKE

Christoph Thoke

Guest Industry Days | Young and not so young screenwriters, producers or filmmakers pitch their movies – feature narratives, as well as documentaries or TV series of any genre – in 2 minutes or less to a panel of industry professionals in front of a live audience

Producer

In Vienna: March 22-25

Antonin Svoboda

Antonin Svoboda

Guest Industry Days | A German/Austrian co-production shot in Romania:  A look behind the curtain of the multiply awarded tragicomedy “Toni Erdmann“

Director, Writer and Producer with coop99 Filmproduktion

Arie Bohrer

Arie Bohrer

Guest Industry Days | The Film Industry Support Austria (FISA) financing programme: How it works, how companies can qualify for support, which films are eligible, what  co-productions should consider and much more

Director of Location Austria

Esther Krausz

Esther Krausz

Guest Industry Days | Creative Europe MEDIA Programme: What are the current funding opportunities for the development   of European films and TV programmes, for the distribution and promotion of European films and for cross-border cooperation?

Expert at Creative Europe Desk MEDIA at the Austrian Film Institute

Wolfgang Knöpfler

Wolfgang Knöpfler

Guest Industry Days | How to produce a high-class documentary which impresses Hollywood and changes the world for the better: A case study of ”The Ivory Game”, a co-production of the Terra Mater Factual Studios, Paul Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way

Producer of ”The Ivory Game” and according to Netflix Executives ”The Jason Bourne of Natural History Filmmaking” 14

Leonhard Reis

Leonhard Reis

Guest Industry Days | That’s what a perfect, watertight international coproduction contract looks like: The legal framework of coproductions and collaborative agreements in the European film business

Copyright Expert and  Independent Attorney in Vienna