Tampere 30th International SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 8.-12.3.2000

TAMPERE FILM MARKET
Tampere Short and Documentary Film Market is aimed at the professionals of the audiovisual field. It is primarily a sales event with a full service structure. The Film Market is part of the Tampere 30th International Short Film Festival.

Market services include an International seminar (March 10) expert services for production companies, producers, distributors and film makers and a mini workshop for tv-scriptwriters (March 9-10).

Tampere Film Market is a specialized market with the focus on Nordic, Eastern European and Baltic productions, production companies, film makers, distributors and other professionals. The purpose of the Market is to support the distribution and market access of films. Participation of the films is free.

Short and Documentary Film Market is organised in partnership with EU MEDIA programme. Other main supporters of the Tampere Short and documentary Film Market are the Nordic Film and TV Fund and the Finnish Ministry of Education.

VENUES

Tampere Hall, Yliopistonkatu 55 (same as the Festival center):
Market service unit, MEDIA booth, stands, individual video units, tv-script workshop, expert services, market screenings.

Culture Center TELAKKA, Tullikamarinaukio 3: Market screenings and NON-STOP screenings from the focus countries (all films max 10 minutes), market screenings (35mm) at the TELAKKA restaurant - open for all.

BUYERS AND DISTRIBUTORS! Look at this!

More than 2000 films from ca 60 countries including:

  • a great variety of Nordic and Eastern European (short and documentary) film productions
  • 15 video units
  • market screenings
  • NON-STOP screenings from the focus countries (all films max 10 minutes!)

TERMS OF PARTICIPATION for the market FILMS

  • short and medium-length fictions (max 60 minutes)
  • all animation and documentary films
  • deadline January 7, 2000

The productions have to be new (made 1998 or after).
NOTICE! All productions sent to the Tampere Film Festival's competition will automatically be in the Film Market selection. BUT send us films just for the market!

 

  Focus Countries

Partners (among others):

  • Russian Asifa - Russian Animation Association
  • Short Film Agency "Metr", Russia
  • VGIK (All Russian Institute of Cinematography)
  • Goskino (The State Committee of the Russian Federation for Cinematography)
  • St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio
  • Latvian National Film Center - F-Seitse (Estonia)
  • Lietuvos Kino Studja (Lithuania)
  • Filmkontakt Nord
  • Swedish Film Institute & Film I Väst
  • Norwegian Filminstitute
  • Danish Film Institute, Baltic Media Center & Statens Filmcentral
  • The Finnish Film Foundation, YLE Export, the Finnish Film Contact, Finnish Media Schools

Special partners of the Film Market

  • Cape Town International Film Festival
  • Murphy’s Cork Film Festival, The Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Film Commission
  • The Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Film Commission
  • The Irish Film Archive

  Market Services

FILMS

  • more than 2000 films on VHS tapes from ca 60 countries
  • video on demand / 15 individual video units for buyers and distributors
  • market catalogue (well indexed); productions, screenings, organisations etc.
  • market screenings;
     1) Hall B -Tampere Hall; (beta & VHS, 100 seats) - free of charge
    2) Studio; (beta, 16mm, 35mm, 170 seats) - FIM 5500/EUR 925; 90 minutes
    3) NON-STOP screenings of focus country SHORTS - TELAKKA Culture Center (free of charge)
    4) TELAKKA, restaurant; (35mm, 120 seats) - open for all

MARKET SCREENINGS 2000 among others:

  • Scandinavian Highlights
  • Best Russian Documentaries
  • Best Baltic Documentaries
  • NON-STOP screenings of focus country productions (all films max 10 minutes!)
  • Best Finnish student films

    Extra screenings:

  • Latest South-African shorts & documentaries
  • Irish shorts & documentaries

STANDS - 15 stands

  • focus country umbrella organisations - free of charge
  • others FIM 2440/EUR 410 (five days)- booking in advance!
  • facilities: video & monitor (table, chairs, shelves)
  • telephone line and internet access (five days: FIM 160/EUR 27, FIM 800/ EUR 135)
  • STAND PARTICIPANTS at FILM MARKET 2000

OTHER SERVICES - bookings and information at the service unit - free of charge!
  • negotiation rooms (videos, secretarial service etc.)
  • interpretation (English, Russian, French, Spanish)
  • secretarial services, arrangements for meetings, bookings etc.
  • consultation and expert services

EU MEDIA PROGRAMME - MEDIA BOOTH
(Tampere Hall; main hall)
  • MEDIA Desk Finland: information, consultation - free of charge
  • MEDIA experts: workshop for tv-scriptwriters FIM 450/EUR 75

 

TRAINING

  International seminar

March 10, 2000; 9.00-17.00
at Culture Center TELAKKA - 3.rd floor

9 - 9.15 Opening of the seminar: Festival Director Pertti Paltila; Tampere Film Festival
9.15 - MEDIA+: European Commission proposal on the implementation of MEDIA Plus Programme: National Consultation with the industry: Strategy planning officer Virve Indrén; Ministry of Education, Finland and Kerstin Degerman; MEDIA Desk Finland
11.45 - 12.45 Lunch
12.45 - 13.45 The successful regional film fund; Film i Väst: Head of Marketing Jessica Glanzelius: Film i Väst, Sweden
13.45 - 14.00 Coffee
14.00 - 15.00 Project experiences from post- socialistic Czechland: Animator Katariina Lillqvist; Camera Cagliostro, Finland
15.00 - 16.00 The ways for producing and distributing Shorts in Russia: Managing Director Anna Pendrakovskaya-Nazarova; Short Film Agency "Metr", Russia
16.00- 17.00 Discussion and questions: Chairperson
20.00 -

Evening event; Culture Center TELAKKA, 2.nd floor.

 
NOTICE! You are also wellcome to PILOTS lecture on Thursday March 9: 10-12.30
Advanced TV Writing Techniques; Mr. Guy Meredith (UK): Tampere Hall/VIP: 3.rd floor

The international seminar and PILOTS mini-workshop for tv-scriptwriters are organised in partnership with EU MEDIA programme.


MINI WORKSHOP for scriptwriters - jointly organised by PILOTS, a MEDIA programme of the European Union and subsidised by MEDIA II, and the MEDIA Desk, Finland.
March 9-10, 2000 (Cost: FIM 450 /EUR 75 - per project)


PILOTS is the most successful training programme for scriptwriters within MEDIA II and benefits from the expertise of top European and American specialists. The experts/tutors at the Tampere workshop will be: Guy Meredith (UK), PILOTS' Head of Studies and Charlotte Lesche (Sweden).

Eligible projects: Long running series, situation comedies, mini-series, TV movies, animation and interactive projects. Project descriptions - 3 to 10 pages in English - are sent to the tutors IN ADVANCE. Minimum information necessary: description of the idea, summary of story and characters (or sample stories in the case of a series) and the programme's target audience.

Contents:. Thursday March 9:10-12.30; Advanced TV Writing Techniques; Mr. Guy Meredith (UK): Tampere Hall/VIP: 3.rd floor. During the course of Thursday afternoon and all day Friday (March 9 and 10) each team will have a 2-hour script analysis session with one of the tutors. Number of teams: 8-10. Application deadline: January 31, 2000.

Contact PILOTS (Ita Roberts) or the MEDIA Desk Finland (Kerstin Degerman) for a registration form. Payments to Tampere Film Market - Bank account: MERITA BANK LTD - FINLAND: 114630-1033445 The first teams to apply and to pay will be selected.
Address: Pilots; Pau Claris 115, 5è, 4ª, E-08009 Barcelona SPAIN - tel.+34-93-487 37 73 - fax. +34-93-487 39 52 - email: PILOTS@intercom.es - web address:http//www.acpilots.com The workshop will be organised in cooperation with MEDIA Desk, Finland.



  Expert Service for counselling - free of charge
bookings from 9 to 21 (Sunday to 14) AT THE SERVICE UNIT during the Film Market.

EXPERTS OF THE FILM MARKET 2000:
Guy Meredith (UK)
Head of studies; PILOTS
Expertice covers:
- scriptwriting (TV, cinema, theatre, radio), story editing
Script nominations: Prix Italia, Prix Futura, the UK Writers Guild Award, Sony Award
PILOTS
Pau Claris 115, 5è, 4ª
E-08009 Barcelona, SPAIN
tel: +34 93 487 3773
fax: +34 93 487 3952
e-mail: PILOTS@intercom.es
http://www.acpilots.com

Charlotte Lesche (Sweden)
Expertice covers: -
scriptwriting, producing, scriptediting
Studies: University of Stockholm (BA Film theory and Literature), professional stills photography and film production
Worked as: scriptwriter, scripteditor & stroryline writer, script consultant (Bille August; Jerusalem)
PILOTS
Pau Claris 115, 5è, 4ª
E-08009 Barcelona, SPAIN
tel: +34 93 487 3773
fax: +34 93 487 3952
e-mail: PILOTS@intercom.es
http://www.acpilots.com

Virve Indrén
Strategy planning officer Expertice covers:
- European Union financing in the audiovisual field
- Comission proposal for the MEDIA Plus Programme
Ministry of Education, Finland
BOX 293, 00171 Helsinki, Finland
Gsm: +358 40 763 1485
Fax: + 32 2 230 8442
Email: virve.indren@minedu.fi
Http:www.minedu.fi

Kerstin Degerman
Expertice covers:
- information, guidance and help concerning MEDIA Programme
- information, guidance and help concerning Finnish financing systems by audiovisual organisations
MEDIA Desk, Finland
Kanavakatu 12
00160 Helsinki, Finland
tel: 09-6220 3013
fax: 09-6220 3070
e-mail: kerstin.degerman@ses.fi

Katariina Lillqvist
Animator Expertise covers:
- scriptwriting, producing, editing, directing, transnational coproductions
- filmmaking in Czech Republic, the power of animation in anti-rasistic education, puppet animation in the old East school
Prizes: TV Award for Short Films -92, honorary prize at Foxdays -92, Special Prize in the National Competition of Tampere Short Film Fest.-92, Krakova -94, Nordisk Panorama -94, Montreal -94, Chicago -95, Main Prize of National Competition of Tampere Short Film Festival -96 Special Prize of Jury of International Competition, Tampere Short Film Fest. -96 The Best Animation in Nordisk Panorama -96 The Silver Bear, Berlin -96 Main Prize ex aequo in the National Competition of Tampere Short Film Fest.-99

Jessica Glanzelius
Head of Marketing Expertise covers:
- distribution (short films & documentaries)
- marketing
Film i Väst
Box 134
46123 Trollhättan, Sweden
tel: +46-520-4909922
gsm: +46-(0)709-526221
fax: +46-420-490901
e-mail: jessica.glanzelius@filmiväst.se

  Deadlines

  • Market films: film information and cassettes - Jan.7, 2000
  • Market screenings: Feb. 11, 2000 - mark your cassettes 'FILM MARKET' (Tampere Hall, TELAKKA)
  • Seminar: Feb. 25, 2000
  • PILOTS Workshop for scriptwriters: Jan. 31, 2000 at PILOTS!
    - project descriptions will be sent directly to PILOTS for analysis!
  • Business plan -doctoring - predevelopped plans to the festival office: Feb. 4, 2000

 

  For further information

Film Market office: tel: +358-3-213 0034
Leeni Terkko: mobile: +358-40-570 8870
Merja Vedenjuoksu: tel: +358-3-223 5015
Marianna Nurmi: fax: +358-3-223 0121
e-mail: filmmarket@tamperefilmfestival.fi
Internet: http://www.tamperefilmfestival.fi/
Mailing address: Box 305, 33101 TAMPERE Finland
Street address: Tullikamarinaukio 2, 33100 TAMPERE Finland

 

 
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